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Lesley moves to deny Blue the flank, prompting White to look back at Blue as if to ask “what now?” just before her gun goes off, though the round just barely misses.
Blue writhes as the wave of energy eats him from the inside out and he crumbles to dust. White looks even more panicky even as the holy energy burns him, too.
The Shadows
Conditions: Netherworld, Dim light or Bright depending on location of wayfinders and light spells. BLESS
BOLD May Act
Bramblespine
Olaf
Melania
Black Molly
White
Qigiq
Lesley
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Bramblespine stares at White,
but he stares back bravely, though it’s clear that he’s just barely keeping it together.
Then the witch’s darts find their mark, though, tearing through the shadowborn’s body with ease.
Olaf blasts the slayer with holy energy, burning him to ash.
Melania and the Cap’n team up to shred the body, though there’s little left of it.
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With everyone healed up, you proceed south into the next room. Bramblespine continues making their map, and Qigiq leads the way down the passage and into a small room. Debris fills this area. The scars of a battle long past mar the walls, both from physical weapons and magical attacks.
The incomplete notes are the first portion of Alystair Caskwater’s journal. He seems to have been a self-styled monster hunter and warrior. His name has been lost to history and is unfamiliar to even the most scholarly PC. The writings detail Alystair’s plan to travel with his retinue to the Netherworld to take on a mage native to that plane who was suspected of weakening the barrier between planes and attacking some rich patron on the Isle of Kortos centuries ago.
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Bramblespine muses over over the book found by BlackMolly and SilverBeard "Caskwater... not a name that's familiar but it looks like they had a plan to confront a mage from the Netherworld that was attempting to weaken the barriers, probably some foul undead invasion plan or the like. It also looks like they had a rich patron, although I'm not seeing details on them. Maybe we'll find more of the journal if we keep looking."
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You move down the hall and find a strange room to the left.
The smell of rotting offal and blood fills this room. A spout of blood flows from the north wall into the pit below. The pit is half full, blood and offal making a viscous, stinking stew. A carving on the eastern wall depicts a giant figure raising a massive stone from the sea and an island with it. The carving also shows a reflection beneath that raised island of a shadowy land emerging as well, as if reflected in the sea, only the lack of the giant figure and the massive stone indicates this is more than a reflection being depicted.
Both Olaf and Bramblespine immediately urge caution. There is clearly something very evil and very strange here. It seems that perhaps this room had been used as part of a ritual or something, and there are still dangerous occult energies lingering here. It would perhaps be best not to approach this hazard too closely.
Although they both can attest to the apparent efficacy of stopping up the spout, they are also both sure that approaching closely enough to do so would trigger the dangerous energies before one could even get to the spout.