Session #2

The adventurers awaken after having defeated some pirates and for whatever reason they decide to stay together in order to help the local village amed Black Heights which has been plagued nightly by...zombies? They often seem satisfied enough by occasional sacrifices. Mayor Hathennon tells us there has been no word from the neighboring village of Frimi for months and the villagers are in dire straits. Frecki, both frail and old soiled himself baring witness to the frightening appearance of the party, offered himself as sacrifice. The King who ‘Crawls’ followers give life offerings/sacrifices to an evil god who is said to live on an alternate plane of existence, maybe he controls the abominations.

Beck Hathennon - seems like a decent dude, has a wife and daughter, seems to be in charge Dead pirate captain captain calico and crew would wreck havoc in the town Dara- Offered to work the tavern for the sake of our adventurers and the village with Yokai. Yokai- Who reportedly witnessed Captain Calico’s murder, witnessed the left over pirates sail away with the captains ship. He who shall not be named/The King that Crawl’s legend is that if said his proper name aloud are dragged down for eternal imprisonment. Sends horrors/abominations from the south mines once a night to kill towns people, Occurances have been prominent since 6 months and have dwindled the villages numbers. Corpses- may be controlled by HWSNBN ^ they come from their sister town “Frimi” in the south South west of the Black Heights lies The Watch; a known abandoned war mine. Black Heights’ 5 greatest fighters went out 4 days ago to the west to scout and gather resources in the mountains. Good fighters? Will they be recruit-able? Before departing Zaryk is sure to grab some leftover jerky he was able to find in the tavern kitchen only to find that Velen’s sleight of hand got the better of him… this time. The jerky now remains in Velen’s posession.

On the road to Frimi the adventurers try to trick a troll to sneak by the troll bridge. Velen attempts to distract him with a minor illusionary goat! This works for a brief moment but they only manage to make it half way before the troll realizes the ruse and comes to attack them. Among the chaos Zaryk uses his persuasive ways to trick Velen into throwing his jerky at the troll. Zaryk quickly scoops it up off the ground with a sly grin upon his face(5 second rule intact). Vistra finishes him off with a trident to the gut and he dies falling over the side of the bridge believing that Velen’s fake goat is real. Ack the Troll- Ack only want goat. Feels cheated. Much sad. Shiny goat nice. Am sad no goat. Gordon- Comes from far west, the troll had been keeping him here for days. Gordon is friends with Beck Hathennon. He seems grateful for the adventurers help, goes on to say that he is one of the 5 scouts that got sent on the expedition. He communicates his hunger and hasn’t eaten for days. For a meal he agrees to help the party (Now deceased, along with wife. His daughter is to live on orphaned. Gordon tells the adventurers that his fellow watch scouts were trapped in a cave 2 days out. He started heading back to town to get help but was stopped by the troll. He informs them of an underground river leading into the cave that might help and says he can lead them to the caved in area. Finding that the cave had indeed caved in heavily in the main entrance. The party uses the waterfall nearby to sneak into the cave.

While doing so they hear the word “apples” from somewhere nearby and its coming from Velen? Dulcimer is eventually identified as a strong magical object by party. Entering the cave they encounter a lanky blue cave creature about the side of a person and a great basilisk. Ettercap- Spider shroom…spider shroom. Does whatever a spider shroom does. :D Gordon with his precision shot an arrow at slaying the vile creature. Gordon then stops being able to feel his legs as grey stone begins overtaking him. Big Snek basilisk- Vistra distracts it for several minutes and then redirects to Zaryk. The great big girl wraps herself around him like the white girl from mean girls when she thinks she owns that one guy. This whole time Velen’s been healing up a storm. Saving lives left right and center but your mans can’t seem to help Gordon’s stone skin condition. Vistra does the stabby thing. Basi-babe aint having a good time with all of the parties attacks. Selidar chucks flaming death at the poor snek and this saddens her. Among Gordons panic and almost fully petrifying he somehow finds the will to break free of the spell and lets us all know you shouldn’t look at the snek while drop kickin her in the face for her transgressions.

“FOR TARN!!” vengeance is sweet….buuut not sweet enough to overlook the swift death awaiting Gordon. With its dying breath the basilisks strong jaws clamp tightly against his neck immediately turning him limp. Zaryk decides he’s had enough death and demise and stabs the snek repeatedly ending it forever. It dies and Zaryk continues stabbing away. After the fight the group split up to search the cave for treasure. Some stay behind to give their condolences and offers of money are made in respects. The word “apple” is heard again but ignored. The group finds some sweet sweet turtle arm bracers. Supposedly magical but needs attunement. Zaryk secretly pockets some money and gives Vistra some gold as thanks for helping him out. They start heading back with what’s left of Black Height’s scouting party. The group finds out from the group that the town of Frimi has become a center for the mindless abominations. The houses that line the town have been converted into make shift prisons for creatures.

Taryn- Leader of The Watch scouts Josh- member of The Watch, saved by party, explains about the king that crawls Silvas Lookswift- member of the watch saved by party, fairly quiet, following orders Dan- member of the watch killed by falling rocks in the initial rock slide. Gordon- Slain at The Watch by a basilisk, time well spent with the adventurers. The next day at sundown they hold a wake for the fallen people. Dan, Gordon, and even maybe the dead pirates? Zaryk asks Yokai if he could make some jerky from the basilisk meat. Yokai hesitantly agrees. Dana runs off when she finds out that Gordon, her father is dead. Silva’s goes after her. Again the word “apple” is heard coming from the direction of Velen. Zaryk notices that Velen’s engraved dulcimer might be a mimic. Upon further inspection the dulcimer opens slightly revealing its abyssal looking core and says…”apple”. Medetashi medetashi. (All is well that ends well)