Session 8 - Into the Crypts (recap)

In this session, our party escaped some poisoned gas and survived the zombie apocalypse…

  • Brother Keefe, priest of Kelemvor, led the party to the well kept Valhingen Graveyard and to the crypt of Xandria.
  • The crypt is a nicely appointed stone and marble building, with walls carved and painted with various scenes showing a lovely human woman in different locales
  • After Brother Keefe pried open the lid of the sarcophagus, three things happened:
    • The party realized that many of the bones were draconic in nature and that at least half the bones were missing.
    • When Brother Keefe leaned over, the party saw that he was wearing a pendant bearing the image of a white rabbit.
    • A few moments after the lid was moved, a scraping sound echoed through the crypt, the door closed and sealed, and a hissing sound made the party aware that some kind of gas was entering the crypt.
  • Aegar made quick use of his mental notes, and the party placed the five gems into the five appropriate spots in the walls, matching color to dragon type.
    • As the last gem was inserted, the hissing and gas stopped, the crypt door unsealed, and the sarcophagus slid away, revealing a stairway down into the darkness.
  • The party descended into the darkness, with Brother Keefe staying behind.
  • Aegar opened his awareness with Divine Sense and detected undead to the East and West, as well as noticed the secret door to the east and the Honor Guard.
  • Zoyana, wanting to test whether the skeletons through the secret door to the east were active, tossed a rock through the secret door and into the other room. Nothing happened.
  • The party continued around and peeked into another chamber, that had been set up as a small laboratory on the other side of a second secret door, and then continued to a third secret door.
  • Zoyana tossed another rock into the room, this time awakening the 4 dead bodies.
  • A long fight with the dragon-ish zombies ensued, with Aegar blocking the passage to the secret door and using his breath weapon to fry all 4 zombies.
  • Wylder blasted and Pliny did what Pliny does.
  • Near the end, Zoyana, wildshaped into a bear, took necrotic damage from the secret door trying to kill the last remaining zombie.
  • Aegar joined her, taking necrotic damage as well, and they realized that the pile of gold was actually a pile of painted wooden coins.
  • The other party members stayed on the other side of the secret door, and the session ended.