Adventure Log #59

THE CHARACTERS

Ross-Rogue
Estryellia-Sorcerer
Garu-Elf Ranger
Tryn-Human Fighter

Recently: The Creature known as Distaria was gravely injured by the forces of good, however the victory was not without great cost. Several of the hero’s of the forces of light have fallen and even the Goddess Chaldiasya did not escape injury. Heroes have been dispatched to the wilds of Sadakadish to retrieve several measures of a liquid known as The Tears of Chaldisaya. The liquid is to be used to cleanse part of the taint left by Distaria. Last time: The characters have arrived at the ancient fortress of Stand Town. In the buried ruins of the city lies their goal.

The fissure in the rock opens up into a proper corridor. Roscoe the Tok takes the lead as they walk through the buried streets. On either side of them are buildings who’s roofs have fallen in with the pressure of the weight from above, the air is hot and dry, there are signs that they party is not the first ones down here. Roscoe rounds a corner as a coal black feline creature lashes out with tentacles at the warrior. Ming Ho enters the fray as well. The others are kept out of the battle by the narrowness of the passage only allowing them an occasional arrow or magic spell into the combat.

After a lot of sweat and blood the creature dies. A resource full Roscoe finds a scroll on the floor uncovered by the battle. Unfortunately the scroll is keyed to priestly magic and therefore unusable to the party. Continuing down the corridors they crawl over several cave-ins and continue heading long the impromptu passageways. The warrior Tryn and sorcerer Estryellia notice that a liquid is falling from above then, they look up just in time to avoid the acidic ooze that is about to pounce on them. The thing splashes amongst the party and reaches it’s pseudo pods towards Trinn.

Almost as if planned a group of skeletons, both human and wolf appear further down the corridor, the party is forced to fight two foes at the same time. The ooze seems to be unphased by the swords and blows rained down upon it, only Estryellias magic seems to have a marked effect on the creature. Ross and Ming move towards the undead with Garu providing an arrow here or there. The skeletons are numerous and the fight is desperate against so many foes. The yellowish blob eventually covers the warrior Trin and he is forced to try to pull off the acid spewing thing off him before it dissolves him. Knowing that it might kill him the Sorcerer uses a bold of power on the thing, feeling that if the bold does kill him it will be a cleaner death than being digested alive.Ming, Ross and Garu are holding well against the horde of undead.

Garu summons up a wolf to aid in their fight. The warriors are doing well but the undead are 4 times their number. When the flash of her spell has dissipated Estryellia sees that although Trin was hurt by the spell the creature was destroyed by it. Burned by eldritch magic and partially consumed Trin draws his weapon and prepares to engage the undead. Prepping a valuable high-level spell the girl Estryellia moves up to where she can see the undead horde further down the hall. With a word, a seed of manna flies from her finger coming to rest further down the corridor where it explodes destroying most of the skeletal beasts. After a few seconds the warriors have dispatched the remaining undead.

The party binds their wounds and continues down the corridor. Oragirm the creature known as Time drags his burden slowly for the adventurers. The silence of the corridor is broken by the unexpected yell from Trin and Garu as tentacles grab them around the feet and pull them into side burrows. The two are pulled into separate small tubes where tenticled beasts begin to try to squeeze the life out of them. Ming dives down the hole that Trin disappeared into while Roscoe follows Garu. After a short fight in very cramped quarters the creatures are dispatched with long knives since there’s little room for anything else. When they all emerge from the tunnels they are all covered in the black ichor that was the tunnel monsters blood and other fluids.

Unfortunaly the monsters savage attack was too much for Trin, who was killed by the beast. Wiping as much of the black gick off the warrior Estryellia says the ritual of the Shining One over Trin and he is returned to life, since it is his first time having the ritual used on him he suffers few ill effects. Roscoe notices that the black juices have left deep marks on is blade. The rest of the party cleans up as well as it can and then continues.