- The large muscular, blue-skinned creature has six legs and fangs as well as a stubby tail.
BATTLE WITH A FROST BULL (?)
- Osiris casts Aura of Vitality then runs along the graveyard wall so that there's a bush between her and the FB
- The (HUGE) FB breathes cold on everyone except Osiris for 50 (or 25) cold dmg
- Theophania runs the opposite direction from Osiris to spread the group out against future breath weapons then she casts Ray of Sickness on it, but most of the poisonous ichor splashes off its hide (8 poison dmg, not Poisoned)
- Rusty runs up to the edge of the pit that the FB is standing in and leaps into it and slashes into it with his new battleaxe for 14 slashing dmg
- Lyrielle runs closer to the FB and then throws a dart at it for 6 piercing dmg
- Raiàn casts Fireball just behind the FB for 60 fire dmg (This enrages it so much, it auto-recharges its breath weapon)
- Osiris moves up to the bush separating her from the FB, uses her AoV to give Rusty 8 HP, then she casts Sacred Flame on the FB for 11 radiant dmg
- FB breaths cold again this time on Rusty, Osiris, and Raiàn for 49 (or 24) cold dmg
- Theophania shoots off a quick crossbow bolt at the FB (5 piercing dmg) as she runs towards Raiàn then she casts Healing Word on them for 6 HP
- Rusty extra enraged by Raiàn fainting he slams his ax into the FB for 35 slashing dmg despite his creaking joints reacting to the cold aura around the beast
- Lyrielle hops into the pit next to the FB and smacks it for 12 bludgeoning dmg then she bonus action Disengages and climbs back out of the pit and get back away
- Raiàn stands up and then casts another Fireball for 35 fire dmg and after the explosion there is no beast, but it is raining meat
- Raiàn grabs a chunk and takes a bite, but it tastes so bad she immediately spits it back out
- "I'm mostly carnivorous, but in polite company I eat petit fours."
- Osiris quickly sends the rest of the healing energy from her aura spell into mostly Raiàn, but a little for everyone
- Tiff starts casting Detect Magic as a ritual while Rusty starts scanning the ground for signs of the Lady Necromancer, and he finds an area near the pit with the grave marker where something had clearly been inscribed
- Once her spell is done, Tiff can see all the chunks of meat glowing with the oily black necromantic energies and the remnants of the summoning circle have some lingering specks of the same energy
- Osiris finds some of the biggest chunks and anything that looks like part of the head and casts Sacred Flame on those bits
- Tiff continues walking around a bit, and she finds another summoning circle where grooves have been cut into the earth and some sort of dark sand(?) has been poured into the groove
- While Tiff is recasting Detect Magic, Osiris messes up a little bit of the circle
- Tiff says this circle doesn't appear to have been activated at all, so she pulls a collapsible shovel out of her Bag of Holding and hands it to Rusty who completely destroys the circle
- From the graveyard, they head to the Docks Market and start asking at the shops Lady B was known to frequent and start asking around for her with Raiàn charming the merchants
- First they talk with a purveyor of paints and inks, they look at the paints and things Lady B usually buys
- Then they stop at a food cart the paint purveyor says he's seen her and that food cart merchant says he thought she bought a fish hand pie off of him just yesterday
- From there they go to the Merchant's Guild Offices and find out that most of the ladies from the Winfair Hillock flock to Madame Verona as a modiste.
- On the way to the modiste, Raiàn finds an urchin (Thomas) who Henry knocked over so he saw her buy her fish pie and then saw Lady B buy some herbs from the grumpy old man over there then she headed off to the NE (which is in the general area of the graveyard / arena)
- Raiàn pays Thomas 2 SP to keep an eye out for Lady B and to send word either to Osiris at the Temple or them at the Curlywit boardinghouse if she's spotted with the promise of more work if he can do this for her
- Theophania gives him a black dragon scale our of her pack
- Lady Verona lives in a house closer to the hillock, so they head that direction, but as they are passing the temple, someone waves to Osiris and tells her that Birel is looking for her because she has a visitor.
- So Osiris and Theophania head into the Temple and Raiàn, Rusty, and Lyrielle continues onto the modiste
- In Birel's office there is a very thin, tall, goth-looking woman who Sharai was sent (Tinalia "Tina" Hassara), she is a student who has specialized in Conjuration magic
- She and Tiff get along swimmingly
- Meanwhile chez modiste, Verona has heard of Raiàn, so they are invited in and some chit chat is had
- Lady B was there for a fitting four days ago for a new dress to impress all the other aristocrats at a party that was supposed to have happened the night of the zombie attack, but that party didn't happen because zombies
- Raiàn manages to get out of her that Lady B sometimes mentioned that she occasionally mentioned a city guard named Nathan when R asks about any dalliances Lady B might have had
- Right as they are leaving the modiste, Tina, Tiff, and a very exasperated Osiris show up
- More chit chat is had as they walk back to the Temple, so Osiris is not relieved
- They head to the Hall of Justice to talk to Captain Swinson about Nathan
- Tiff gives a very fast explanation to Captain Swinson, and it's a lot to process because she hadn't yet heard that Lady B is the necromancer
- Nathan is currently on watch in the neighborhood of the prison, but he's only been with the guard for about six months
- Tiff has the idea that Lady B might have a Hat of Disguise because she is KNOWN FOR HER HATS, so she could be anyone
- She and Tina start in on the theories at a thousand miles a minute
- Raiàn and Osiris arrange with the Capt to have a BOLO for Lady B and extra patrols on the surface above the area with the pool of necromantic energy
- Tina is given a badge, and Capt Swinson is let in on their plan to stake out at the cemetery by the arena since they had to kill the FB there this morning
- They leave
- 2,500 XP ea for 51,590 XP total ea.
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