Mefighter beta team eleventh session notes

Filth Fever

• The morning after the fight with the were-rat couple and their pets, the group travels on.
• By the middle of the next day, Uhanimara is falling ill with filth fever.
• Uhanimara begins recovering the next day, but Gub falls seriously ill. The group decides to take shelter and wait for a return to health.
• The next day, Thurmin falls ill. Gub worsens.
• Thurmin recovers quickly, while Gub continues to be wracked by illness.
• Eventually, under serious care and the use of Drem's Lesser Restoration spell, Gub recovers. The group carries on.

Just A Boaring Encounter

• The forest thins out as the group discovers the impact crater made by a Stariron strike approximately one year earlier. The surrounding forest has been knocked over and burnt.
• The group notes that the timing of the strike and the onset of the plague are suspiciously close together, although Byll points out it may be coincidence.
• The Stariron itself has been removed and dragged away, likely to Draglet.
• Byll scouts ahead as the land opens up, covered in scrub and very young trees. He returns to ask if Thurmin still has the Hide from Undead spell, as he has discovered something unusual.
• He leads the group in the direction of an undead Boar standing in the middle of a field. The group notes this is the first undead animal they have encountered; the plague does not seem to have affected any others.
• Thurmin is suspicious because while Byll is acting surprised, Thurmin senses that Byll not only expected to find this, he was in fact hunting for it. While protecting the group with Hide from Undead, Thurmin whispers to them all that Byll knew this boar would be there. Byll overhears, but does nothing.
• The group fans out around the Boar and approaches. However, the Boar smells Drem's approach from upwind despite the fact that the spell should mask that.
• Drem is charged and seriously gored by the boar. Brunner and Uhanimara close in to help with combat, and Byll eventually drops the boar with a bolt to the head.
• The group finds a collar on the boar, bearing the name "Breakfast". Byll notes that it was Neven's riding boar.
• Drem takes the boar's collar to pass along to Neven as a keepsake.

Bolts from the Dark

• The group makes camp as Byll continues to search the area; he thinks Neven is close.
• The group hears a dog howling and barking and decides to investigate. Uhanimara sends out Veem to try to locate the dog, and the group follows those directions.
• A still is spotted in a tree in the general vicinity of where the dog can be found. The still is vile smelling, but the group believes it and the dog means Neven is near and that they should stay close.
• Drem is able to call the dog, and after the group talks to it and mentions Neven's name, the dog shape changes into Neven.
• Neven expresses gratitude that someone has come, and that wherever he has travelled recently, large numbers of servitors appear. Eventually things were bad enough that he just hid.
• Neven professes no knowledge of anyone named Byll.
• Neven is then shot by Byll who is hiding in a nearby set of bushes. Neven collapses to the ground. The group attempts to talk Byll out of his ambush while healing Neven. Byll threatens everyone and continues his attack.
• Thurmin and Drem frantically apply healing while Brunner attempts to act as a "dwarven shield" to Neven. Gub and Uhanimara attempt to engage a hasted Byll who is moving from bush to bush, disappearing each time.
• Despite their best efforts, Byll is able to fire several more bolts into Neven, who has clearly been poisoned by the all of the bolts. Neven dies under the horrific effects of the poison.
• Uhanimara uses a Light and Burning Hands spells to illuminate/remove cover for Byll, forcing him to keep moving.
• Byll engages the group, appearing and disappearing while moving quickly about the battlefield. Gub is able to hit him with some arrows which have the bleed effect. Uhanimara drops a Web over his position.
• Byll disengages briefly while the group fans out in an attempt to find him.
• After a few rounds hide and seek with Byll, Thurmin uses his Antagonize feat to draw Byll out. An enraged Byll springs from hiding and shoots Thurmin twice.
• Brunner and Uhanimara are right next to where Byll was hiding. Uhaminara is able to stun Byll and use Burning Hands while Brunner attacks and Gub shoots more arrows. Drem charges towards Byll's position.
• A badly wounded Byll attempts to move back into concealment, and while successful temporarily, the bleed effect from Gub's arrows allows the group to find him.
• Byll is attacked from several sides, and finally falls to a volley of arrows from Gub. He bleeds out and dies. Thurmin is upset that he will not get to put Byll to the question.
• The group strips Byll's corpse and examines Neven's backpack. In the backpack they find one vial containing a vile green liquid. Two others were smashed to pieces when Brunner threw himself over Neven's body to protect him, and Brunner's armour has dried goo on it.
• Without his hat, Byll is revealed to be a gnome.

XP and Treasure

• +500 to the group for surviving Filth Fever
• +50 to both Thurmin and Drem for acting as doctors during the Filth Fever outbreak.
• +1200 for putting Breakfast down.
• +50 to Drem for taking Breakfast's collar as a keepsake for Neven.
• +300 for keeping Neven alive for three rounds under Byll's attack.
• +2500 for Kill Byll.

• Hat of Disguise
• +1 Studded Leather (slick, shadow, magic spikes of adamantine), size small
• Heavy Repeating Crossbow, size small
• Cloak of resistance +1
• Ring of Sustenance
• Everwand of Detect Magic (3 times/day)
• 2 vials of anti-toxin