Battles in the Dark

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Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Battles in the Dark
GM: Jono
Season: Autumn 800 WK
Night: Someday
Level:

Party

• Silken Human, Female E & E Mage
• Blitzkrieg Human, Male Namer Mage
• Bleyze Elven, Male Fire Mage
• Dramis* Elven, Male Necromancer
• Braegon Human, Male Earth Mage
• Jaundice Elven, Female Fire Mage
• Kern (scribe) Elven, Male Earth Mage
• Razor** Human, Male Fighter
• Turf*** Elven, Male Namer Mage

* Dramis departed early on
** Razor joined us once in Reiger’s Keep
*** Turf joined us post the keep and for the rest

Time on adventure

tbc 826 WK to tbc 826 WK

Employer

someone rich

Mission

Hired to do a job

Pay

Lots

Essential equipment for a sojourn in the Dark Circle (DC)

Courtesy of the SAG, Duke of Carzala and the Church of the Western Kingdom.

Since the Dark circle counts as a dangerous environ the cautious adventurer should have all or at least some of the following essential items.

Waters of Strength (4) – Rank 20

Greater Enchantment Necklaces (2) – Rank 19, two diamond studded necklaces (matching earrings as well for those fashion conscious individuals, quite exquisite – Ed)

Healing Potions – As many as you can carry. We did manage to avail ourselves of extra services and got 2 Heal all damage Potions and 14 excellent 20 points.

A potion of Rank 20 Necrogeny

Mind Cloak Potions (2) – Rank 3

With all these items and more of your own choosing you may have a small chance (akin to a snowballs summer vacation in a local solar flares hangout) of surviving the DC, but before you leave Seagate make sure your estates are in order.

Scribe Notes

1st April 00

Organising for the trials and tribulations ahead WWe all met up in Guild meeting room 66, which I thought a bit suspicious until I saw Silken and Blitzkrieg sitting there discussing some court gossip over whom had done what to whom and why. The stuff of their daily lives but far above myself, a merely working class adventurer who fought day to day to stay ahead of the rabble of society.

II introduced to Blitzkrieg and exchanged pleasantries with Silken (whom I had met on a brief trip to OZ) and took a seat and undertook the same duties with the other party members that followed me in shortly afterwards.

A SAG functionary, a toady little man named Smithe who absolutely fawned over Silken (understandable really, being so beatific and all - Ed) came in and discussed with us the terms and conditions of the mission which was to raise the siege in the dwarven superstition mountains and bring the dwarves back into Seagate.

Both Silken and Blitzkrieg were acknowledged for their devout practices (which ones were not specified – Ed) & high standing with the church, Dramis was noted as being a vassal of the Duke, Bleyze and Jaundice for their fiery reputations and myself for my martial prowess.

2nd April 00, Continued Organising and planning

After undertaking the tedious work of gathering supplies we decided we were ready to depart Seagate. Upon hearing of this news the Church representatives decided they wouldn’t have us just leaving like normal party’s, as with the Dark Circle they needed some open show of opposition and power.

3rd April 00, Time to depart this fair city of light

The day dawned a dull and overcast, there was a large parade through town with us the focus of the fanfare, Silken was positively radiant and looked supremely angelic with even a hint of wings behind her (I always thought she was a busy little bee –Ed), Blitzkrieg on the other had looked the part of Samuelite’s hardened enforcer in his dark robes and a whopping huge Scythe in his hand.

The rest of us were basking in their reflected glory and enjoyed the occasion tremendously and once the parade finished outside of town, away from prying eyes we all slipped of to our pre-arranged rendezvous with some other guild lackeys who held our trappings of war and retribution.

We quickly gathered our supplies and departed Seagate via a secret portal to Dramis’s estates in Brastor to the south. We emerged in his estate’s main house and once we had seen to our mounts feeding and safety we adjourned to Dramis’s safe tower for an evenings repast before the horrors of the coming days. We were interrupted by a knock at the tower door which turned out to be a servant of Dramis’s who begged for his master to take him and several other lackey’s in from the dark and stormy night.

“Sir there are dark forces at work tonight and we saw several dark shapes near your manor graveyard”, to wit Dramis replied “That’s perfectly normal you know – I am a Necromancer they are simply some of my creatures that I control"”

”No sir they are not yours anymore and there are many more than normal, so please may we enter your tower of safety kind sir?” Dramis bade them enter and signalled for us to come and aid him in investigating the foul rumours of his loss of control. “This can’t happen to me in my own home, I’m lord of the manor here and king of my domain”

Silken told him “Pipe down and get real, you’re an adventurer, made rich upon the blood, sweat and toil of others and an exploiter of the working class. This makes you a self important dictatorial tyrant with delusions of grandeur, act like the evil Necromantic conjurer that you are and start doing what we are here for which is to deal to the evil influence of the Dark Circle and Rashak the impotent ”

This tirade had the desired effect and his backbone straightened and became less stooped and he moved outside with the rest of us to do to the dark forces. It turned out that there were about 60 skeletons & zombies in military formation controlled by 2 night gaunt's and a death knight. Being the prepared party that we were, we quickly undertook actions as per our pre arranged battle plans.

Spells to assist us went off as planned and then we took the fight to the undead, I lobbed a few grenades’, methane followed by a Greek fire grenado. This had the desired affect of igniting the methane cloud causing much destruction in the front ranks of the undead. Blitz at this point ran through the front ranks and proceeded to wreak mayhem in their rear.

Silken at the same time had located the evil death knight and was dealing to him using some of her personal Holy water (made even more holy by her tender touch – Ed), and she had the desired effect as when she dealt him a good splatter he disappeared and the remaining Skeletons and Zombies dropped back down to the earth – lifeless so to speak.

Concurrently Bleyze and I after some dazzling pyrotechnics from Jaundice - she breathed fire into the undead front ranks and destroyed around 20 in one instantaneous fireball, we jumped up to the roof of the manor and pursued the 2 departing night gaunt’s. I slew mine in one foul blow and Bleyze destroyed his utterly in a blaze of fire.

After some searching we made the undead ‘safe’ again and retired to the tower to finish our interrupted evening repast and sample some of Dramis’s fine cheese selection before retiring for a brief sleep prior to the grueling day we perceive to be ahead. We decided to undertake a bit of experimentation to see if the rumors about unusual necromantic effects were true. They were so we slept until morning.

4th April 00, The day of the ambush and death.

We left the tower after powering up with all the necessary spells and proceeded on foot towards the last known position of the death knight. We tried to avoid a large pool of water caused by the rain and then saw the ambush that was almost upon us from a near hill, we tunneled into the steep slippery hill and dealt with some undead but during the fight we had a death.

‘Kern was defending the rear of the party as per pre arranged plans and the party was struck with evil spells, most of the party failed to save and suffered some fright effects.

Kern was berserk and valiantly took on 2 of the undead while the rest of the party either cowered in the rear of the tunnel or were dealing with the front undead leaving Kern some 15 feet from the nearest person.

The enemy employed evil magic and caused the ground to disappear under his feet, he fell down the slippery slope and was stunned by the fall. While stunned 3 undead and a Night Gaunt set him upon, they cut off his left hand in a lucky blow and though he fought back well he was seriously injured.

He slew the Night Gaunt with a single blow of his weapon but then a swarm of dark bats came at him and rent him into pieces instantly.

The others tried to save him and Blitzkrieg charged down and killed others but was unable to do so in time.