Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...
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Session 95 - 6th of Leftember, 1398
This week's adventurers:
Blossom (Rogue 6)
Mayfly (Magician 5)
Ulf (Magician 4)
Liminal Space (Changeling 4)
Gerung "Floating Disc" (Magician 3)
Poppy (Fighter 4)
Thekla (Magician 3)
Lump (Frogling 2)
Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 1), Spruce
Downtime in the Village
Ulf spends the week researching. He spends 100sp to gain 100xp and hears of rumors that a portal to the very shores of ruined Acheron lies somewhere on level 5. Acheron was an ancient land that summoned and bound devils to their whim.
Liminal Space instead spent the week gormandizing, and was stricken with illness! He is bedridden for a week and permanently loses 1 strength and constitution!
His former hireling turned adventurer, Gerung the Magician, takes his place in our party roster while Liminal recovers.
Thekla starts learning the spell Web from one of the party's spellbooks.
Into the Abbey
The party ranks are a little low this week, so Mayfly hires a mute forester who we name Spruce. We give him an extra suit of devilman chainmail and stick him in the front ranks of our party.
We return to level three, through the graveyard, to the room with the weird sigils from last week. Luckily our path to it has not changed due to the abbey's shifting nature.
Helusch casts Read Magic on the sigils and we learn they are a part of a spell to align the dungeon to Armadeus.
Mayfly consults some of his notes and believes that the Deermen were trying to align the dungeon to a False Master using a similar spell on a floor above and the blind brudders were trying to counter that with this sigil last week.
We don't yet know what effect that would have on the abbey and our delves into it, but it couldn't be anything good.
The sigils resemble an item known as the Crown Called Deceit, a powerful magical object attributed to Armadeus, who, according to legend, uses the crown to see through the eyes of all her supplicants.
