Adventure Log #25

Adventure Log #25 (Wilderness)
Aki-Professional killer
Finn-Bard
Estryellia-Mage
Serrif-Fighter with an “evil” twin
Scalla-Mage
Ulysses-Rogue
Ember


The group travels for six day but finds nothing. On the morning of the sixth day then enter a clearing and see a village. There is a debate about what Jkenna Jun told them, whether they were suppose to avoid any villages they found or not to cross the river. After some discussion they decide that villages are okay but they shouldn’t cross the river (on the other side of the village).

As they get closer they see bodies lying in the fields. When they are examined they turn out to be sheesh. Estryellia, who grew up in Sadakadish says that she’s never heard of sheesh on this continent. Ulysses determines after examining the bodies that they were all killed by a bolt of fire to the chest, he removes several pieces of charred arrows from the corpses. As they approach the village they see that it has been ransacked. They are hailed from one of the tallest buildings and told to stay where they are. A group of peasants emerges from the village led by a young man in padded armor. The man welcomes the party to the village of Mountain Vale and introduces himself as Johna of the Harkers. He says that for the past several weeks demon things (sheesh) have been attacking the village.

Recently they staged an attack that left the village in ruins. He and a few of his kind (Harkers) have been defending the village and will soon be escorting the villagers elsewhere. Johna mentions that approximately 30 of the villagers have been carried off to party unknown, he asks their help in recovering them. With some reservations the party decides to help, mentioning the fact that they have to get back to Sylvia’s Rest in a week.

Johna tells the party that his order was helped several years ago by the villagers and he is returning the favor, unfortunaly his kinsmen have been killed and so he is alone or he would go. The party heads off into the forest looking for the kidnapped villagers. They hear distant drumming and later on they find several sheesh statues (carved out of excrement) After a tense night in the forest they approach a hill with some worn stones atop it and a mine that has been recently dug into the side of it.

The party can’t decide exactly what to do. Serif, Estryellia and Ember are for staying outside while Aki, Fin and Ulysses want to go inside and take a look around. They compromise, the three will go in for 10 minutes and then come back and report what they’ve found. Inside they find a huge room full of digging implements as well as scattered war gear. Moving deeper they follow a corridor that splits. The smaller path has an ancient gate closing it. Beyond the gate they find a series of cells with villagers locked in them.

After freeing the people Aki is attacked by the creatures in the farthest cell, a group of undead who are handily dispatched by Aki’s spells. Back on the surface they tell the others what they saw and that there are still 15 missing villagers or so. This time the entire party heads inside. They notice that just beyond the cells in the one hall way was a small corridor Serrif and Fin go to investigate and get turned to stone for their efforts. When the rest of the group moves up the basilisks crawl into the privies to escape. After unstoning the two the party pushes deeper. They turn around and head down the other passage going by several empty cells on their way. Two creatures that look like zombies step out of the shadows and unfortunately Fin, Ulysses and Ember are caught at the head of the party. The creatures seem to put up a hard fight for zombies and Aki try’s to turn them to no avail. As she gets closer to them Estryellia notices that they’re not zombies at all but flesh golems. Ulysses and Ember get knocked out and when Serif gets to the melee it’s decided in short work. After healing those who took damage the party continues down the corridor. They come to a flight of steps going down. At the bottom of the steps they find a large room with several passages lead off from it. The party decides that without Scala and Lilly to back them up they have taken too much damage to continue so they head to the surface.