Athasian Intermission Quest Notes 2016-09-17

Last Game

• Last time, we entered the lair of a deranged necromancer who has animated several zombies and skeletons. We’re still exploring that lair.

Corpse Storage

• Found a storage room with gross armored unanimated corpses
• We torched ‘em and it smelled bad

Gruesome Ball

•  Ugly 2.0 goes into the next room and finds three zombies. One is dressed as an erdlu, one as a fancy lady in a dress, and one as a jester. They don’t appear to notice him.
• He retreats to the rest of the group to let them know what he saw. He goes back only to find out that they ‘’’did’’’ notice him and set up an ambush.
• The party slowly advances as  Vesa approaches with the light.
•  Dancin' Dote goes up first and is ambushed again! He is taken down by the zombies.  Ugly 2.0 goes into a rage and rushes in to avenge his dying friend.
•  Camgee nails one zombie lady with an arrow then shreds the Jester with his short swords.
• Suddenly, a booming voice echoes through the chamber, “You DARE to pit yourself against Oreioth?! The LORD of Lance Rock?? Death will be your reward! Then you can SERVE!!”
• This is followed by a rockslide down the top-right corridor, which bruises the knees of  Ugly 2.0,  Vesa and  Camgee.
• Suddenly  Vesa is lit up by glowing magical things knocking her down.
• The party retreats in total disorder,  Ugly 2.0 carrying  Vesa.
• The party rests for the night, luckily unbothered by the random encounters table.

The Double-Defiler

• The next morning, the party returns to the defiler’s cave. We check again for more zombies in the corpse room and dispatch 3 new zombies.
• We then sneak into a new area past where we were shamefully forced to run away, and find a large, well lit room. There are three tables in the center where the defiler’s work is done. He is wearing a hooded robe, facing away from us - but it’s not him! It’s just a zombie!
• We quickly dispatch the zombie, but then a bunch of severed hands start pawing at the party.
• Those are dispatched as well, and  Ugly 2.0 begins to advance on the 4 skeletons that are hiding behind a work bench.
• After exchanging fire for a few rounds, Oreioth reveals himself! He is not undead himself,but he is totally gross.
• Oreioth tries to subvert  Dancin' Dote’s will, but is unsuccessful.
• The party focuses entirely on taking down Oreioth and scores several successful hits against him.  Quay the Lucky lands a heavy blow against Oreioth. The skeletons turn on  Quay the Lucky and take him down.
• After a round of devastating attacks, Oreioth says, “WHAT! ANOTHER PRACTITIONER OF THE ART? JOIN ME GIRL, ABANDON THESE CHUMPS!” and then retreats.  Utaa of the Rains heals  Quay the Lucky to get him back into the fight.
• We refocus our attack on the skeletons, aiming to take them out quickly.
• After taking out the skeletons, we run after the obviously crazy undead defiler. He says, “Can’t you see it? It’s the EYE! It SEES your every move! It SEES your future!! IT SEES YOUR DOOM! Don’t you fear it?? EMBRACE IT!” We continue down the passage.
• The path splits in two.  Dancin' Dote goes down the Eastern (bottom) passage, at which point, Oreioth targets and takes down  Dancin' Dote.  Utaa of the Rains revives him.
• The rest of the party make it to the end of the hall and into a room with a floating eye above a pedestal and curtains all around the walls.  Ugly 2.0 smashes it.
• Oreioth appears from behind the curtain and shoots magical bolts at  Ugly 2.0, taking him down!
•  Utaa of the Rains revives  Ugly 2.0 and the party wails on the defiler again, with  Ugly 2.0 landing the killing blow.

The Loot

• 165 ceramic
• 78 silver
• 4 polished Jet gems (50cp each)
• Food and probably water - Amount TBD
• Long wooden rod with a crystal attached to the top with twine
•  Vesa finds the defiler's spellbook and stows it away (but is noticed by  Camgee and  Quay the Lucky)

(Vesa only) Found a series of horrible vile drawings on human skin (the defiler’s spellbook). The book contains: 
:1st level: False Life, Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Ray of Sickness
:2nd level: Crown of Madness, Misty Step 
:3rd level: Animate Dead, Vampiric Touch

Wand recharging info - 1d6+1 charge regained each day so long as there are still charges remaining. Takes one week to be attuned to user.