Session #3

Previously: Gordon dies, Solas followed dara to consol her over the death of her father, a funeral is set for the next day.

THE NEXT MORNING

The adventurers eagerly plan the funeral of their fallen friend Gordon. Some of the Zaryk goes into the forest to gather flowers and return with blue and purple arrangements. The party sees old man frecky . it seems he will be speaking at the funeral. Velen and Rocktar will perform with the assistance of…______? Tairn speaks first giving a moving speech. when the party is asked if anyone would like to speak next an unknown human man with a staff walks up to the stage. “I know not of this man called Gordon, but I know of his loving family and friends” Vellen says a few words and the group is moved knowing that Gordon would have wanted them to enjoy him in death as they did in life. The atmosphere seems to brighten a bit.

As the party continues to mingle the man who mentioned Gordons family seems to catch the parties attention. Selidar feeling suspicious tries to jedi mind trick him to figure out why he seems to care about Gordon seemingly without knowing him. As they probe futher the man seems very suspicious and the party begins to think he might be some kind of James bond character. He continues to assert that he is simply a scholar looking for magical items and other scholarly pursuits. He had heard reports of great evils in a place called Redberry. The man seems very clumsy and continuously hits his leg on things. *que the suspicious music*. The party determines that his name is Aldrick and he is from some kind of ministry although he doesn’t want to explain any further.

Aldrick- supposed scholar. Sketchy but seems non-threatening. His staff seems magical. Probs a wizord like harry potter but old and much more suspicious looking. So really nothing like harry potter. Is good friends with a ship captain and agrees to arrange some kind of boat trip, asks the party to help defend from a great evil in exchange.

Zaryk becomes drunk at the party and the group learns of a nearby town named Fallowvein where the citizens are known to act strangely and wear only black. The town is on the way to the town of Frimi that the group is heading towards.

The party decides to go sleepy night-night but late at night something screams. The party immediately get up and wake up Aldrick. Aldrick seems to know what’s going on assuming it’s Ghouls. Soooo susp my man.

Outside the front of the inn it seems Judith (looking particularly thic in her nightgown according to Selidar) is being attacked by a ghoul (OH NOESS!) Zaryk seeing this hits it with a PHAT fireball. That’ll teach em. Except it doesn’t die. So Rocktar realizing that there’s got to be more of these comes to the rescue and like the Pikachu he is, casts thunderwave. The ghouls seem to line up in a row on their way to the party from a few streets down like kindergarteners on their first fire drill and Selidar seeing the perfect shot sherlock holmes style fires off Aganazzar's Scorcher aka the death laser 5 thousand. Unfortunately he doesn’t see Rocktar directly in his line of fire and although he does manage to fry 2 of the ghouls Rocktar starts to look a bit….crispy. Seeing this Velen decides its time to brush up on some healing magic and after mumbling a few words Roktar glows with a mysterious light and seems to feel a bit better, he also casts an illusion to divert an incoming ghoul while Judith high tails it out of there and gets back into the inn. Vistra manages a quick heal boost and Zaryk does some monk justu to smack another dead man walking.

He shoots off a a SWEET ice beam down the nearest alley and the ghouls are popping like flies. Saddly Judith decides to book it out of the inn and runs straight into a lone ghoul. Luckily Zaryk is on this and Mario wall jumps his way to the shambling undead spearing it though the chest with his katana. He whispers to it through it’s shrieking “you’re MINE…” the ghoul could not respond but I’m sure if it was capable of independent thought it would be feeling majorly creeped out. As it was the Ghoul decided it would be a good idea to turn away from Judith/zombie bait in favor of the dude who just stabbed him in the back. Velen shoots a crossbow bolt at one of the beast’s eye balls and Judith proceeds to scream and run around like a chicken with its head cut off. Very elegant Judith 10/10 damseling, 3/10 distress. Only one ghoul remains as it faces off against vistra rocktar yells “IM LOVIN IT” and smashes his lute in it’s face. Interestingly just as he’s swinging his lute it transforms into a lance shape. Oddly enough it still looks playable. the lute whistles through the air and the ghoul dies.

Beck looks like he was stuck in his house the whole time and looks like he was cut by the ghoul. Vistra casts protection from evil on his wound and his pain is eased. Sadly Frecki is found shortly afterwards dead on the ground. They burn the bodies and hunt for some lasagna while selidar gets tended to by Judith. WINK.

Feel free to give them a round of applause for their great feats…. … …you hear only crickets. It is in fact still 2 am. Go to bed ya heroic insomniacs.