Session 10 - Rolling for the Blood of Christ (recap)

In this session, our party split and delved deeper into the catacombs…

• While Zoyana and Wylder moved ahead with Zoyana’s moonbeam hunting the Red Wizard,
• Pliny and Aegar stayed behind.
  • They heard a scream from above, and remembered Brother Keefe
    • Pliny had as sudden vision of the skeletons rising again and swarming in a pile of bones and claws
    • Aegar had his own vision of Brother Keefe drinking the brew the Luter smade in the laboratory above, and the horrors that might befall the good Brother
  • Before they could make it up the stairs to investigate, Brother Keefe came down the stairs brushing off bone dust. “I’m fine, I took care of it”
• While talking himself through what was going on, Brother Keefe shared:
  • That he is not only a priest of Kelemvor, but he is also a member of the Lords’ Alliance which shares information among the leaders across the world in an attempt to ensure peace.
  • Leosin is a friend of Brother Keefe and a Harper agent, and he sent word about the possiblity of Xandria being a dragon and the request to examine her bones
  • Rath Modar is the leader of the red wizards in exile outside of Thay, and gave a brief overview of red wizards inside Thay.
• The players uncovered a map of the full catacombs beneath the graveyard and discovered the tunnel being dug toward Phlan.
  • In the process, they disturbed the 4 skeletons that were digging at the end of the tunnel.
    • Pliny shattered 3 of the 4 skeletons and killed two skeletons with a single crossbow shot, while
    • Aegar turned the last one to dust with his flail.
    • (Pliny ripped a line of Skelton ash, so now he’s part undead)
• Brother Keefe did not know what could be in Phlan that the skeletons could have been digging toward
• They interrogated the Thayan Knight and found a few key pieces of information, then left him in the tunnel with a pile of furniture keeping him secure (he’d already been kneecapped).
  • The Thayan Knight confirmed that they were looking for the Pool of Radiance, but didn’t know that the pool actually was.
  • Rorreth is the name of the Red Wizard.
  • They had been there a few days, but the Cult had been there before.
  • The Thayan Knight talked about Tiamat returning via the Cult of the Dragon
    • Brother Keefe talked about the Cult of the Dragon being about raising Dracoliches
    • The Knight would rather be on the side of Tiamat if she comes back
• Room 12: Crime Scenes: the walls are carved with scenes of “victims” who committed mass murder or other atrocious crimes in their lives, and their “killers” were their victims in life. Here, the victims were allowed their eternal revenge. This practice fell out of fashion long ago in Phlan, so no new burials have been added here in over a century.
• Room 11: Talking Dead:
  • An inscription in the room read: “A question speak you, and answer will these departed.”
  • Aegar asked about the Pool of Radiance, and found that it was there long before the graveyard and Phlan. It’s a knot in the weave and a place of magic left over from the split of AbirTorril
• Room 10: The Tomb of Sedrair II:

  • A mummified figure in magnificent app arel sits on a throne inlaid with ivory and semiprecious stones. It holds a golden dagger in its right hand and a balance in its left. A crown of gold and tarnished silver seems to float above its head. The whole scene is draped in cobwebs.

  • Aegar successfully helped Pliny discover that the door was just a door, and then saved him from certain death by keeping him from stealing from the crypt

Loot

• A stinkpot from a Kobold (to Pliny)
• Kobolds:
  • Slings & daggers
  • 2GP & a dead rat & some worthless pieces of junk
• Thayan Knight: 45gp
• Cultist: 25gp + vial of poison
• A map of the Valhingen Graveyard Catacombs

Experience Per Character