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Questing

Prologue Episode

Characters involved: Allonia Zapadri (Helen), Sulevi Llyr (Daniel), Waldthear Polmando (Sarah), Gelthien Bracir (Matt), Darly Hunt (Brandy), Ryx Hunt (Trav)

Scene opens with a brilliant flash of light... Sulevi saves the party from mummies.

Everyone is in a skull-encrusted room that was previously inhabited also by mummies. Sulevi informs the party that she is out of summons and Gelthien heals himself. Sulevi heals the rest of the party as much as she is able. Sulevi attempts to discern their next action and has a vision of deers roaming free on a pasture. Thinking danger is past, she boldly pushes ahead.

The party moves into another room, quickly dispatches of skeletons but then two mummies bust through the door. Some of the party cowers in fear upon seeing the mummies, others push forward. The brave fighter Darly receives the chilling mummy's touch with mummy rot. After dispatching the foes and healing a bit, the party pushes on only to run into two more skeletons and a Mummy Lord!

It is a brutal battle, but the party narrowly manages to crush their foes. They continue on through the skull-encrusted rooms, listening for any signs of further undead foes. After another couple of rooms, they easily dispatch some more skeletons.

Upon entering another room, they see a locked door. Allonia walks up to it and says, "Behold my key of the skies. There, I've done it. Can I leave now?" She then presses her sheath against a spot in the door and it opens.

A rush of mind magic washes over them and they move forward towards an ominous staircase.

Upon descending the staircase, they see a trap door and listen to an incriminating conversation: a man and a woman discussing an assassination of the keepers of the twin tomes.

Gelthien whispers in response, "The Tomes! I knew they still existed, but no one believed me. I hoped I was wrong..."

The woman then asks the man why he sent his elites, waiting to strike, right above her... clearly she somehow knows the party is here!

The party tentatively opens the trap door and peers downward into it. They see a harp with a dwarven man's image on it and a woman talking into it. The woman (Flywen) beckons them to come down and they do so, though Ryx is reluctant.

Flywen questions as to why they have come- do they seek the artifact or to kill her?

As the party searches for an answer, a monstrous centipede appears and destroys the staircase- their only means of escape! The centipede slams the party with a flame strike. Allonia tumbles and dodges but everyone else is looking pretty rough. The attack on the vicious, humongous centipede has begun!

Darly points to Flywen and declares that the must disperse of the source of the evil- the witch Flywen.

Gelthien begins to perform his famous comedy routine in attempt to distract the enemy. Sulevi looks distracted and gazes over the centipede towards Flywen before declaring dreamily, "My dream! This is it- I see it all so clearly. I'm meant to do this. My flight, her screams, the end... There's no way back now, I know this."

The attack continues and the centipede once again lunges for Waldthear. As soon as a blade from the centipede touches Waldthear's toes, he disappears!

Ryx has a flash of inspiration and calls out to his sister, "Darly! Let's get this girl across!" Darly remembers when they were kids and how she and Ryx would help Spry into trees by throwing him into the air.

Gelthien performs again for Flywen to fascinate her but does not succeed. The battle continues in earnest with everyone slashing into the huge centipede. The wounded centipede blunders around but continues to attack. Gelthien staggers as he receives a nasty bite from the monster.

Flywen then emits a deadly flamestrike, squarely hitting the hapless Gelthien. The comedic legend bursts into flames; his charred body crumples to the floor lifeless. Allonia screams in agony as she watches the death of her beloved friend. Allonia joins her friend in death soon after as the centipede crunches into the halfling's body, severing her in half.

Their plan now coming to fruition, Ryx and Darly huddle in a corner with Sulevi. Flywen screams as Sulevi is hurled across the lava by Ryx and Darly. The anti-magic aura fades and the levitating platform flies into the lava as it tips with Sulevi's inertia. Flywen is unable to save herself and dies instantly with Sulevi as they tumble into the unbearably hot molten rock.

The centipede attacks Ryx and he falls down, incapacitated. Darly searches for a way to save herself and her brother. She makes a desperate attempt to save herself and her brother by trying to jump into a shadow and use her abilities but the brutal centipede continues to smack her down until she can take no more and succumbs to the cold caress of death. With his last breath of life, Ryx deeply regrets bringing his talented sister into this situation and mourns her loss as the platform and all the structure of the building crumbles into the lava. Whatever secret the place held is lost forever.

The Vision

 Nora is struck by a vision of all of the above, and at the end she sees in one of the windows of the inn a figure appear out of nowhere and fall to the ground. From her sudden vision, she knows precisely what it is. She runs into the inn.

Waldthear appears in his room, having just teleported from the harrowing experience at the skull-encrusted caverns. He is at the brink of death. There is a lady in the room as well though she is unconscious and looks quite ill. With jagged breath he says to her, "Landa, my beloved, I hope you can hear me. The bone keep still exists and they will find it again."

 Nora darts up to the room and hears the man's last words as she enters. She panics a little about the situation but tries to do whatever she can to help. Her healing spells fail on the dead man and she shouts in frustration and panic. A person in the next room comes by to see what  Nora's yelling is about and that is how  Nora and  Book meet.

GAME ADJOURNED

Final GM message

Sorry everyone died!

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