Nightwick Abbey - Session 94 - Unprepared and Unpunished For It

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

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Session 94 - 30th of Youngers, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 4)

Poppy (Fighter 4) 

Krupe (Cleric 4)

Thekla (Magician 3) 

Lump (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Assman (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 1)

Downtime in the Village

Ulf has been away from the abbey for some time, but is back now and ready to delve again! He's heard tales of the defeat of Balotis, the Piteous Worm of the Abbey and of how our adventures have caused the architecture of the abbey to rearrange on level 3.

Liminal has spent his downtime researching old tomes for rumors of a magic shield. He has come away with two rumors - first that a magic shield was buried with a figure known as "Great King Death." Second, the other adventuring party has been looking for the treasure store of the wicked demon known as Plutus, which could contain such an item. 

We have already had dealings with Plutus's Flymen underlings on level 4 and know of a Staff of Dispelling in his possession - perhaps there is a shield there as well.

Back Into The Crypts

We decide to go into level 3 this week to continue to map out its new layout. Additionally, if Great King Death was buried in the abbey, it would likely be on level 3.

And so we proceed up to the buried abbey outside of Nightwick Village early in the morning and enter through the graveyard entrance directly onto level 3.

As soon as we enter into Nightwick the outside light behind us disappears instantly - the entrance chamber has long since shifted into the middle of the floor. It's a strict one-way passage for us now.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 91 - “They did in fact get mad at you for kink shaming them."

 Previously, in Nightwick Abbey: Ulf was unable to delve into the horrors of Nightwick last week, but at the Medusa's Head he heart the tales of horror, of how the noble cleric Voorhis fell to the piteous worm Balotis, but the party was able to avenge him by killing the foul beast.

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Session 91 - 18th of Elders, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 5) 

Mechtilde (Fighter 5)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 4)

Poppy (Fighter 3) 

Krupe (Cleric 3)

Thekla (Magician 2) 

Lump (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 1)

Downtime in the Village

This week in downtime, Thekla learned a new spell. Which one was it, Ulf wasn't paying attention. He spent the week getting caught up on the exploits of the last week - noble Voorhis died slaying Balotis - the piteous, radioactive worm that haunted level 2. 

This week, we're going to the other level 2 in the abbey to find the Bleeding Baroness - the other "boss" of level 2 after Balotis.

Boss Hunting

We make it down to the landing of level 2 without incident, stepping out onto the floor in a 30' by 20' room decorated with two columns, carved to depict the Lady of the Church bleeding, with actual, thin blood trickling down the columns.

We go west from here - we don't know where the Baroness is, but we've well explored the eastern part of the level, so west is the obvious choice.

We pass through the room of Law, where we recovered the Shard of God, to the room painted all black (I really need to include more pictures of the map in these posts) and from there, west through a secret door.