Party: Wenceslas, Claudia De La Quinne, The Captain, Vholanthus Sumquaes, Daisy Dandeigh Deveraux
The group approaches the broken gate of the Elfhame. The Captain, ever the first into the breach, puts his hand through the gate, triggering a reaction from the undead dwellers on the streets. With an amount of horror, the party witnesses the undead falling apart into limbs, heads and torsos... right before these become a tidal wave of flesh and bone that seeks to crush all living things in and around the Elfhame.
Thinking on his feet, the Captain spies a spiral staircase on the outside of a traveler's inn and dashes for it, calling his friends to follow. Vholantus turns into an owl and frees Daisy who was grabbed by a massive bat. Daisy and Wenceslas chase after the Captain and together the group sees the undead deluge smash through the gate and spill out onto the killing grounds in front of the gate.
Knowing discretion to be the better part of valor, the group sticks to the rooftops and avoids the streets entirely up to the point where the buildings give way to an open marketplace.
Three massive toads are seated in front of two cauldrons, one gold and one silver. They ask for tribute.
Wenceslas puts his fae flowers into the golden cauldron. Vholanthus imparts the same with his familiar.
The Captain puts the name of a fallen friend into the silver cauldron, while Claudia parts with a dagger and Daisy throws in a ritually blessed crossbow bolt. This seems to appease the toads and with a flash of insight the party realizes a fundamental truth about the Elfhame. It is built around a story.
For Dunscaith, this lay is as follows:
"Three arbiters judge those who worship the mortal and immortal world, where balance is kept in Golden and Silver Cauldrons."
Passing the test, the group moves on to a spiral staircase that brings them into the heart of the Elfhame. A space in the realm between where magic flows unhampered. A single individual awaits them, silver arm gleaming with runes that shift in and out of the top layer.
As the group approaches, the being known as the Lord of Life reveals himself and brandishes his wicked scythe at the intruders in his deathless realm.
Using the flowing streams of power all around them, Wenceslas and Vholanthus restrain the spellcasting of Nechtan, allowing Daisy, Claudia and the Captain to eliminate the undead knights summoned to protect the Lord of Life, whittling away at his defenses until Wenceslas manages to blast the soul out of the corrupted guardian and binds it into a gold and silver lily at the heart of Dunscaith.
Now, standing in a nexus of power, the party is left without foes, only a single rune-encrusted silver arm remaining on the floor... and the voice of Scorchwyn echoing approval in the mind of his believers.
Thinking on his feet, the Captain spies a spiral staircase on the outside of a traveler's inn and dashes for it, calling his friends to follow. Vholantus turns into an owl and frees Daisy who was grabbed by a massive bat. Daisy and Wenceslas chase after the Captain and together the group sees the undead deluge smash through the gate and spill out onto the killing grounds in front of the gate.
Knowing discretion to be the better part of valor, the group sticks to the rooftops and avoids the streets entirely up to the point where the buildings give way to an open marketplace.
Three massive toads are seated in front of two cauldrons, one gold and one silver. They ask for tribute.
Wenceslas puts his fae flowers into the golden cauldron. Vholanthus imparts the same with his familiar.
The Captain puts the name of a fallen friend into the silver cauldron, while Claudia parts with a dagger and Daisy throws in a ritually blessed crossbow bolt. This seems to appease the toads and with a flash of insight the party realizes a fundamental truth about the Elfhame. It is built around a story.
For Dunscaith, this lay is as follows:
"Three arbiters judge those who worship the mortal and immortal world, where balance is kept in Golden and Silver Cauldrons."
Passing the test, the group moves on to a spiral staircase that brings them into the heart of the Elfhame. A space in the realm between where magic flows unhampered. A single individual awaits them, silver arm gleaming with runes that shift in and out of the top layer.
As the group approaches, the being known as the Lord of Life reveals himself and brandishes his wicked scythe at the intruders in his deathless realm.
Using the flowing streams of power all around them, Wenceslas and Vholanthus restrain the spellcasting of Nechtan, allowing Daisy, Claudia and the Captain to eliminate the undead knights summoned to protect the Lord of Life, whittling away at his defenses until Wenceslas manages to blast the soul out of the corrupted guardian and binds it into a gold and silver lily at the heart of Dunscaith.
Now, standing in a nexus of power, the party is left without foes, only a single rune-encrusted silver arm remaining on the floor... and the voice of Scorchwyn echoing approval in the mind of his believers.
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