Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...
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Session 103 - 12th of December, 1398
This week's adventurers:
Blossom (Rogue 6)
Mayfly (Magician 6)
Sir Uein (Fighter 6)
Ulf (Magician 5)
Liminal Space (Changeling 5)
Krupe (Cleric 5)
Poppy (Fighter 4)
Marguerite (Magician 2)
Zintra (Changeling 1)
Hirelings: Hanslo
Downtime in the Village
A new Changeling joins the party!
Zintra has traveled to Nightwick village to join our party in hopes of finding riches in the abbey.
We decide to welcome the new party member with a jaunt down to level 4.
Into the Abbey
We depart through the Fog-Bound Forest, through the ever coldening weather towards the hill that conceals the Abbey.
As we make to the abbey graveyard entrance, we pass by 9 recently dug graves. A stone urn sits beside a grave, which Liminal takes with him.
We enter into level 3 and make it without incident to level 4.
No Kill Like Overkill
From here, we adventure through the floor to the west.
As we pass through a large room with four columns, a flurry of blades drops from the first column. Poppy nimbly dodges out of the way, but Marguerite is hit - her body chopped in half and decapitated.
R.I.P. to a real one.
Into the Deep
Mayfly gathers up the pieces and we quickly move on.
Blossom checks this column and the next one and finds pressure plates that seemingly grew into the Abbey since we've last been here.
Mayfly and Blossom listen at the door north and hear the sound of a man shouting out in pain(?)
Poppy attempts to force the door open but fails and purple slime spews out and covers Ulf.
We finally get the door open to reveal a 30' by 20' room, on the east wall to our right is a statue of a man with a smile full of sharp teeth.
A rusted statue of a woman is wrapped around him, wherever the two touch, the first statue has rusted as well.
We've been in this room a while back - the lady statue is definitely trapped, and so we don't touch it at all.
New Friends, New Places
A Graverobber from Vulgary (fake Hungary), Pataki, who was once a dung gatherer joins us to take Marguerite's place.
We check the door north from here and only find rolling purple mists beyond it.
Player's Note - this is the DM's way of signaling to us that this area of the dungeon is under construction and to come back later.
We continue on our original path west, past last session's gas trap.
Going south from the gas trap room, we listen at the door.
Liminal Diplomacy
After struggling for a turn, we get the door open to reveal a 30' by 30' room, with entryways west and south that lead into more purple mist. There is another door east.
In the middle of the room is a 10' by 10' metal pillar.
Inside the room are 4 men in plate armor. They wear no visors and we can see their faces are drawn, pale, and bloodless.
"Hello there," Liminal calls out.
The lead figure gestures with a mace, "Who art though?"
"Hi there, I'm Liminal and these are all my friends. We've come here to help you with whatever you're doing."
"And what would that be?" The armored figure is testing Liminal, calling his bluff.
"We're going to kill Balodis" - Liminal takes a stab in the dark.
"Plutus," Mayfly harshly whispers, correcting him
"Plutus!"
This appeases the armored men and we chat a little bit more about their ongoing war with the Flymen of Plutus. We depart amicably as they step into the mists and disappear.
Oh We Goofed Up
Liminal forces the door open and it falls to pieces under his crowbar. Slime bursts forth, coating Mayfly, Liminal, and Zintra.
Beyond the broken door is a 20' by 30' room, lined with various torture devices. In the room are 6 figures encases in burning hot blackened armor.
Before we can act, they shoot streams of blood out of their armor, blinding Poppy, and fall upon us.
Liminal Space, thinking quickly, uses his holy amulet and Turns Undead, destroying the armors.
The abbey shudders as if a house settling, slime drips down on Liminal's head, and we hear a cackling echo through the floor.
What was swirling purple mist to our right is now a door - a new path has opened up!
Back to the Village
We manage to get out of the dungeon, its infernal movements haven't blocked our route out.
We safely return to the village without further encounters We each get 100xp.
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