Skill Challenge to catch Lady Blackmore the Necromancer
- Lyrielle starts running after her parkouring expertly around obstacles (Acrobatics - Success)
- Rusty also gives chase (Athletics - Success) "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Rusty!"
- Osiris casts Sending trying to imitate Henry to trick her into slowing (Deception - Failure)
- Raiàn casts Hypnotic Pattern at LB (Arcana - Success!)
- Theophania makes a disorienting smoke bomb with apothecary herbs and her alchemy kit (Nature - Success!)
- Lyrielle is blinded by Tiff's smoke bomb (Perception - Failure)
- Rusty uses the smoke to sneak around her to cut her off (Stealth - Failure)
FAILED
- The smoke clears and LB is gone.
- Tiff finally catches up to the gang, and she casts Haste on Osiris so she spends the next minute zipping around looking up side streets but doesn't find her.
- Osiris then casts Locate Object on LB's wand again and it seems to be pinging from her house on Winfair Hillock
- She's nearly halfway there when the ping suddenly starts happening from behind her
- She runs back to the bridge and just as she crosses it again it seems like it's behind her again
- She circles around to the base of the bridge and looks under the bridge and just sees someone hiding in the shadows
- She casts Hold Person on LB who succumbs to the spell and then shouts to everyone
- Theophania whips up an Elixir of Flight and then hands it to Rusty (10' flying speed for 10 minutes)
- Rusty pockets the Elixir and dives into the river grabbing LB and dragging her to the bottom of the river
- Osiris in the flailing and grabbing and fight manages to knock the wand out of LB's hand and it floats down river in the current
- Rusty drags her through the river and then just walks up the bank with her, LB is quite defeated at this point
- They tie her up and gag her and the city guard convene to help keep look out
- Tiff ritually casts Detect Magic to check her over and then she also goes through all her pockets and pouches and confiscates all her material components and anything else that could be used to do magic, though she has no active magical items on her at the present
- Tiff lays all the components out and labels them for the guards
- LB's sister and BIL have also been detained, but they seem very confused and can't believe that she would do such a thing
- Tiff has Rusty lift her up and she ungags LB long enough to get a confession that she was trying to take out the Black Bloods, which Captain Swinson witnesses
- Raiàn uses Prestidigitation to dry off Osiris so she doesn't get hypothermia
- Tina is very impressed
- LB is escorted to the Hall of Justice and locked in a holding cell
- Osiris goes to visit Birel in the Rites wing to report
- After all that, Tiff and Tina go to her little workshop area so Tiff can show her her designs
- Raiàn and Lyrielle head back to the Curlywit Boarding House
- Osiris spends some time in the Temple gardens
- Rusty stays at the Hall of Justice to guard LB
- Everyone eventually meets at the boarding house for tea and petit fours
- A pleasant afternoon is had by all
- Later that evening, Lord Blackmore comes to visit his wife in lockup and Rusty is asked to step outside
- Rusty refuses and says that LB's gag is not to be removed unless a magic user who can supervise her is present
- Lord Blackmore is pretty understanding, but Rusty still thinks he's in shock and the gravity of his wife's actions hasn't sunk in yet
- The next morning Osiris checks in with Rusty who spent overnight doing guard duty then she heads over to see Rowan, who says he was going to head over to question LB, and Osiris thinks she and Tiff and maybe Tina to supervise
- Osiris Sends to Lord B to let him know when the interrogation will be happening so that he can hear it himself
- Rusty is given permission to ungag LB and he gives her some water before she is expected to do a lot of talk
- Q&A
- Why did you decide to unleash undead on the city? - Unleashing the undead on the city was an accident. She was only attempting to rout out the Black Bloods and she lost control.
- Why did she want to take out the Black Bloods? - Steal from the Blackmores and have killed their associates at the docks. The Black Bloods were a worse plague than the zombies to her
- She turned the servants because the Black Bloods attacked the Blackmore Estates.
- She had been studying magic for years after she discovered she had some minor natural talent, and she just did what she was good at.
- She bought the grimoires from a trader from the north. He might not have known what he had since they were written in Dwarven and most people can't read it any more
- She discovered the Shadowfell portal thing in the old crypt while looking for sources of body parts
- The current body count from the night of the zombie attacks is around 50, maybe 53, but Birel would know the exact answer - LB looks perhaps a bit contrite at that
- She serves herself. She has no other master.
- She apologizes to her husband as Osiris is about to gag her again and then speaks a magic word and her body seems to catch fire then a blue light seems to stream from her chest and into the ground
- Theophania read the magic and the fire on her body just seemed to have been her self-immolating
- Rowan hasn't ever seen anything like that before either. He takes Lord B back to the Temple for like therapy.
- The group + Tina head down into the sewers and where they get to the hole where they had to repel down to get from the sewers to the ancient catacombs, the floor looks like a black pool of energy like what was leaking out of the portal(?) last time they were here
- Tina asks what it is and is told it's pure necrotic energy, and she has no idea what to do about that
- 2,200 XP ea for 61,790 XP total ea.
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