SKILL CHALLENGE TO SURVIVE THE NIGHT / SAVE TOWNSPEOPLE (5 before 3)
- Rusty uses Athletics to barricade the windows and doors with furniture (Success)
- Raiàn Persuades Magnus not to help (Success)
- Theophania sees some townspeople running from zombies, so she pulls out her Skywrite machine sand makes the clouds above the Curlywit Boardinghouse glow to attract their attention (Arcana - Success)
- Osiris runs out the door Rusty wrenches open for the townspeople, who make it inside before getting bitten, and Osiris tries to Sacred Flame them off the building (Religion - Fail) and the zombies swarm her
- Lyrielle Sneaks out a window and up the alley a little ways, then throws a dart at a flower pot to break it (Fail) The zombies do not notice and continue mauling Osiris
- Rusty runs out the door charging the zombies while screaming with glowing red eyes (Intimidation - Success) The zombies are taken aback enough for his to grab her and pull her back inside
- Raiàn hears glass breaking upstairs, so she runs up there and sees a spider-zombie climbing through a broken window, so she casts Magic Missile (Arcana - Success) and knocks him back out the window
- They board up the damaged window
- The halflings live a few blocks up, and a zombie broke into the house where they were taking shelter, so they ran
- Callie gives them a stiff drink each (on the house)
- They halflings tell the group that the undead problem started a little after sundown
- Osiris can't piece together exactly what time the glowing would have started on the alter, and Theophania can't help since she was asleep when the glowing started
- Tiff keeps plinking zombies out the window with her limitless ammunition
- Osiris helps keep watch and she notices over time that they seem to have similar features in that they all seem to have been created by the same crazed individual or group of people
- By the time the sun rises, they have a small group of survivors (5 halflings and a gnome)
- One of the halflings and the gnome claim to have been at a bar drinking when the zombies starting attacking, but Osiris gets the feeling they might have been looting houses
- None of the refugees are interested in coming to the temple with the group, so they leave them in the barricaded boardinghouse with Magnus having been given permission to use fireball again
- The streets are quiet, but there are bodies both of zombies and townspeople and a good bit of property damage
- As they cross the Golden Bridge and head to the temple, the paths that lead into the normally open courtyard are heavily guarded, mostly with city watch
- Rusty has to show their badge to get past
- There is a little damage to the courtyard area, but the Temple itself seems unharmed
- They head straight to Rowan's office, and as they are walking up to the front door, they are directed to a side door instead as the sanctuary is very full of refugees (maybe 1,000)
- Rowan is very surprised to hear their report about the altar and the leak of necrotic energies
- Rowan says that the zombies came out of the sewers and the river and gravesites starting not long after sunset
- The older parts of the city (docks district) were hit the hardest as well as many areas with "dens of ill repute", though the newer "nicer" parts of town also have damage but that may have been from looters rather than creatures, and one of the estates on Winfair Hillock caught fire
- Rowan doesn't know what to do about the pool of necrotic energy, so he directs them to Birel
- Birel looks exhausted and is directing many acolytes to organize all the incoming bodies
- They ask to speak to Birel in his office, and then give Birel the same spiel they gave to Rowan
- Birel thinks that it was a good-thing, or at least more good than bad, that the tendrils, altar, and skull were destroyed as it probably made the zombie outbreak that happened possible or easier
- Tiff offers to write a letter to Great Aunt Thessalie's friend who is a professor in one of the elven cities in the Niannan Freelands (Sharai), but Osiris says that she met her once and can
- Birel also reports no undead rose from the catacombs under temple itself
- Rusty reports to the commander in charge of the security at the temple
- Then he goes Norman to requisition a new weapon since his greatsword is now an instrument that will create undead, and "that seems counterproductive at best"
- After very efficiently filling out the five pages of forms Norman requests for him, Norman brings him what is clearly a Dwarven-made great axe that Norman says was found when the area under the temple was excavated
- Osiris and Tiff head to the archive to research the Shadowfell and links thereto
- The Temple doesn't have a lot about the Shadowfell itself, but there are some history books that talk about this area that mention some cults that existed in the area and there is a cult who worshipped Takhisis, so they are probably the ones who created the altar
- Tiff falls asleep at the research table (they've been awake for like 30-32 hours at this point), so Rusty and Osiris take her to her room
- Rusty is very excited about his axe because he has vague memories of not being allowed one and given the sword instead.
- Long rest at the temple
- The group wakes up in the earlier evening and dresses in their nicest clothes
- Right before they head to the Winfair Hillock, Osiris Sends to Sharai, "This is Osiris, friend of Thessalie. There is gate to the Shadowfell beneath Mistverge. Can you please come to the Temple and advise or help?"
- She receives, "I'm not really that kind of wizard. So not sure I can be of much help. I can try though. Can be there in three days."
- As they start up the road towards the Winfair Hillow, a man walks out of an alley, sidles up the group, and starts walking with them.
- Jimmy says, "We need to talk."
- 2,000 XP ea for 41,290 XP total XP
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