Divine Lojack #MoreTentacles - December 23, 2022

 - Osiris surfaces in the Material Plane, Rusty is no where to be seen

- There is a kerfuffle about the missing Rusty

- Osiris Sends to Rusty, "Where are you? Are you alive? I thought you would be back with our friends. Please don't tell me you're dead."

- Meanwhile, Rusty wakes up under a cloudless blue sky surrounded by sand being nearly blinded by the sun, "Not dead. I think I'm on the  right plane. I think I'm in a desert. Lots of sand. No clouds. Bright sun. Let you know."

- "How is he gonna let me know?" LOL.

- Raiàn says that he might be in the desert where she's from, which a long way away, but there are other deserts in the world

- Theophania takes charge and assigns Lyrielle the job of parkouring back to the city guard (Dunkin McCloud) who showed up to check on them because they've been gone for THREE DAYS, tells Osiris to commune with Mishakal and see if she can get some information about Rusty's location, and then Raiàn, Tina, and she will work on closing the portal

- Osiris gets an answer! She sees the entirety of the Material Plane like a globe spinning in space and she starts zooming in on the northern continent and it moves further and further west past the mountains into the desert (west of Rhoanor and north of old Laufburg in the middle of the desert)

- Raiàn, Lyrielle, and Dunkin see a tentacle pierce the surface of the "liquid"

- Lyrielle dashes across the surface of the "lake" and jumps onto the rope Dunkin has lowered from the level above

NOT MORE TENTACLES!! (BATTLE)

- Theophania casts Flaming Sphere next to the Tentacle monster and deals 17 fire dmg to it

- The Tentacle Monster moves away from the ball of fire and then grabs Lyrielle in a tentacle and yanks her towards it

- Raiàn throws a fireball and deals 26 fire dmg to the TM

- The Beholder Guy surfaces and moves closer to the group protecting Tina and shoots Tiff and her boots magic is suppressed

- Lyrielle breaks free of the tentacle holding her, then takes Patient Defense, and moves back towards the entry to prevent the monsters from getting up into the city

- A dog-looking creature that has pointy spider feet instead of paw surfaces (Spider Dog) runs up to Tiff and stabs her twice for a total of 18 piercing dmg

- Dunkin McCloud slides down the rope and ends up waist deep in the "lake" has a moment of shock and then shoots his shortbow at the TM, but he misses twice

- A SECOND SPIDER-DOG APPEARS and then runs over and stabs Tiff twice for a total of 13 piercing dmg

- Osiris pulls out her shield interposing herself between Tina and SD2 and she casts Greater Invisibility on Tina

- End of round: The lake of inky darkness shrinks by about 5' from the far edge

- Tiff graze the BG with her FS for 6 fire dmg then she takes the Dodge action

- TM tentacle grabs Lyrielle and Dunkin and pulls them both 25' towards him then moves to them 10' and bites Dunkin for 20 piercing dmg

- Raiàn takes a step to the side and then casts another Fireball on the BG and both SDs (12 fire dmg to the BG and 25 fire to the SDs)

- BG moves closer to the group around Tina by 15' then shoots an unaffected Osiris with something

- Lyrielle whacks the TM biting Dunkin for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then misses punching it then kicks it for 9 bludgeoning dmg, but it manages not to be Stunned

- SD3 appears and runs over to Lyrielle stabs her for a total of 13 piercing dmg

- SD1 stabs Tiff once for 7 piercing dmg

- Dunkin takes a deep breath (bonus Fighting Spirit) and swings four times for a total of 68 slashing dmg (2 crits, 1 miss, 1 hit) and he cleaves it in half! then he moves around Lyrielle to be adjacent to SD3

- SD4 (Ack! FOUR!) appears and moves over to Lyrielle and Dunkin and stabs Dunkin for 4 piercing dmg

- SD3 crits on Dunkin for 12 piercing dmg

- Osiris averts her gaze from the Beholder and she casts Spiritual Weapon and hits SD2 for 8 force dmg then she casts Word of Radiance on the same critter for 9 radiant dmg

- End of the round: Half the large chambers is no longer portal

- Theophania pulls her Flaming Sphere 30' straight towards her and grazes SD1 for 6 fire dmg then she casts Cure Wounds on herself for 17 HP healed

- Raiàn casts Fireball in the same place as her last one getting BG and SD1 for 30 fire dmg

- An enraged BG shoots Tiff and she falls over, then he shoots Osiris and she is Paralyzed for 1 min, then it shoots Raiàn for 10 necrotic dmg then it moves back away from the FS

- Lyrielle whacks SD3 for 7 bludgeoning dmg then punches it for 7 bludgeoning dmg then misses with her kick

- Dunkin moves to flank SD3 with Lyrielle (SD4 misses the OA) and then misses his first attack then slashes into it for 12 slashing dmg

- SD3 misses Lyrielle twice

- SD4 stabs Lyrielle for 6 piercing dmg and then again for 6 piercing dmg

- Osiris is Paralyzed 

- SD5 and SD6 appear

- End of Round: The entire large chamber is no longer in the portal lake.

- Tiff moves her FS and grazes SD6 for 7 fire dmg then she stands up and casts Lesser Restoration on Osiris who is no longer Paralyzed!

- Raiàn casts (you guessed it) Fireball 10' to the left of BG and deals 33 fire dmg to BG and SD5 and 16 on SD6

- BG shoots Tiff for 8 necrotic dmg, then miss her on its second shot, then misses her again

- Lyrielle whacks SD3 for 11 bludgeoning dmg then punches it for 7 bludgeoning dmg and it is dead!

- SD5 and SD6 runs up to Tiff and she is stabbed for 16 total dmg by the two of them

- Dunkin confirms with Lyrielle if she's got SD4 and when she agrees, he turns, pulling out his shortbow and shoots BG for 5 piercing dmg then misses his second shot

- SD4 stabs Lyrielle for 5 piercing then crits for 14 piercing dmg 

- Osiris casts Cure Wounds on Tiff for 20 HP healed then she Spiritual Weapons SD6 for 8 force dmg

- End of the Round: The portal shrinks to only be about 5' in diameter in the center of the small chamber.

- Tiff moves her FS and rams SD6 solidly for 18 fire dmg and he is incinerated! She pulls a little handaxe off her belt and swings it into SD5 for 6 slashing dmg

- Raiàn moves forward and slightly to the right and then casts Cone of Cold across the whole of the small chamber getting BG and SD5 for 20 cold dmg and there are two frozen statues!

- Lyrielle uses her self-heal for 30 HP then Disengages and runs towards her friends

- Dunkin moves over to SD4 an crits for 26 slashing dmg then he misses 

- SD4 misses Dunkin twice

- Osiris Misty Steps 30' next to the Beholder ice sculptor then she she casts Toll the Dead on SD4 for 13 necrotic dmg and she kills it! She then drops Greater Invisibility and we can all see Tina!

END OF BATTLE

Beholder and SD5 ice sculptures 

- Now that we can see Tina, she is obviously concentrating very hard on something, and that goes on for another 12-18 seconds, and then the portal swirls out of existence.

- There's a quick but fairly thorough description of the events that lead up to them being in this underground chamber fighting TMs and BGs (Tiff gets inspiration.)

- Osiris explains about how Rusty ended up on the other side of the continent

- Dunkin is flabbergasted.

-3,000 XP ea for 67,000 XP total ea.

Oops, All Tentacles - December 16, 2022

 - Theophania gives a healing potion to Tina and casts Spider Climb on her as well, and she and Lyrielle (who can also walk on walls because D.M.S.) head down to check out the source of the necrotic energy

- Lyrielle gets to a point where the tunnel is too smooth for her to continue on with Tina, so Tina goes on by herself down the tunnel

- Lyrielle yells to check on her, and after only 10-15 minutes so comes back and says mostly this tunnel is full of the necrotic ooze, and it doesn't seem to continue past the room where the altar was (described to her by Tiff and Osiris)

- Lyrielle and Tina come back and a discussion is had

- Osiris tries shooting the viscous necrotic liquid with Sacred Flame and a tiny little bit of it is destroyed, but then it flowed right back into the hole left by the cantrip

- Tiff then casts Spider Climb on Rusty and he ferries everyone through the tunnel, with Tina and Tiff together as the first trip

- Tina's hand accidentally touches the goo, and it tingles unpleasantly.

- There's a tunnel directly across that has bare stone only 15' or so from the edge of the necrotic liquid

- Rusty jogs back and gets Osiris and makes that trip no problem

- Rusty drops Raiàn into the good halfway through, and it tingles, but doesn't necessarily hurt, and she floats right on the surface

- Raiàn uses Misty Step to get out of the goo, and Rusty drops into the liquid after yelling for her, and because of his density, he sinks until submerged, but when he comes up the environment is changed (looks decayed) and his friends are gone when he swims over to the area he was dropping off his friends

- Osiris and Tiff and Tina call and call for Rusty, and he's not there

- Osiris sends a "Where are you?" message and he says that he thinks the goo is a portal and he fell through because he thought Raiàn fell in

- Rusty sees some kind of movement as he's going to dive back into to see if he can get back to his friends

- Rusty sees a creature that seems to be made entire of tentacles and a creepy mouth that seems to be watching the vibrations of the liquid, probably caused by him falling in and then swimming out?

- The troop who made it across yell to Lyrielle and she manages to D.M.S. her way across the wall / surface of the water

- Rusty can see the ripples of Lyrielle running across the surface, but he doesn't know that's what it is because he's never seen her run across liquids. The tentacle monster seems like it's trying to grab the thing causing the ripples, but there's nothing there yet.

- Tina does some more examination and says she thinks this goo has dissolved the barrier between the planes

- Osiris jumps into the liquid, and surfaces in the decayed mirror world and immediately starts calling for Rusty and he can see the monster can hear her too

- On the ceiling, still spider climbing, Rusty starts heading for Osiris to try to head off the monster, which is easy to do because it's moving slowly and quietly to stalk the new prey in its lake

- Osiris climbs out of the liquid and then jumps back in again and she's back with Tiff, Tina, and Lyrielle

- Tina walks into the liquid does a little somersault, and she's gone and then she almost immediately comes back, so Tiff says they should go look for Rusty since Osiris couldn't find him and she jumps in

- Osiris jumps back in too

- They look around and see nothing. No Rusty and definitely not a tentacle monster

- Tina is popping back and forth erratically showing Raiàn and Lyrielle how to flip back and forth

- Lyrielle goes in

- Raiàn also finally joins the troop

- Lyrielle sees a floating head with tentacle stalks coming off it talking towards them

- She calls the women's attention to it, and so they finally see it

- Osiris finally looks around and sees Rusty clinging to the wall and a giant tentacle monster behind him

BATTLE IN THE UPSIDEDOWN

- Osiris casts Aura of Vitality

- Beholder Guy shoots an eye laser at Lyrielle and she dodges, then it shoots at Osiris and she dodges, and then it shoots a ray at Raiàn which hits for 26 fire dmg

- Raiàn casts Cone of Cold behind her and the BG takes 20 cold dmg

- Tentacle Monster1 flings out a tentacle and Grapples Raiàn then it does the some thing to Lyrielle then it does the same thing to Tina and then it pulls all three to its main body and bites Lyrielle for 23 piercing dmg

- Lyrielle wriggles but does not break free

- TM2 tentacle grabs Rusty, yanks him to it, and then bites him for 20 piercing dmg

- Rusty Rages, then misses hitting the tentacle holding him twice

- Tina panics and casts Magic Missile at TM1 that's holding her for 9 force dmg

- Tiff casts Melf's Acid Arrow on TM1 for 27 acid dmg

- Osiris uses her AoV to heal Raiàn for 11 HP, then she casts Sacred Flame on TM1 

- BG shoots Osiris for 8 necrotic dmg, then misses Tiff with a ray, then hits Lyrielle and her speed is halved

- Raiàn Misty Steps out of the tentacles then casts Firebolt on TM1 but misses

- TM1 misses Osiris and Raiàn with tentacles then bites Tina for 25 piercing dmg, then it takes 8 acid dmg from the melting Arrow

- Lyrielle wriggles out of the tentacle then she Disengages and dives into the good

- TM2 misses Tiff then bites Rusty for 10 piercing dmg

- Rusty cannot wriggle out of the tentacle grappling him

- Tina uses Benign Transposition to teleport out of the grapple and the nopes out through the good

- Tiff casts Melf's Acid Arrow on TM2 for 20 acid dmg then at Osiris's insistence she dives into the goo

- Osiris delays her turn for now

- BG shoots a beam at Raiàn but she dodges then shoots Osiris and pushes her back 10' and her feet is halved then it shoots Raiàn for 17 fire dmg

- Raiàn dives at Osiris's insistence into the goo

- Osiris takes a big calming breath, wishes Rusty luck, casts Banishment on him so that he poofs, then she dives into the goo

- 2,210 XP ea for 64,000 XP total ea.

How to Catch a Necromancer* (*Maybe) - December 2, 2022

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.

Now Gentle Repose That Bitch - November 18, 2022

 - Tiff spends a bit of time assuaging Tina to make sure she doesn't go into shock after having her ass handed to her in her first ever battle - That hot tea is coming in handy now.

- Osiris picks up Henry's body and sits him up against a headstone and consults her friends about what she might need to ask him

- Tiff then spends a moment to mix up a Transformation Elixir for Osiris who makes herself look like Lord Blackmore and everybody else backs off

- Osiris then casts Speak with dead on Henry

     - "Where have you and Juliana been hiding?" - We have been here.

    - "Has it only been you with Juliana or have there been other that I should be looking for?" - They were expecting Nathan.

     - "Who is Nathan?" - You know her brother-in-law.

     - "Was she casting something in the mausoleum?" - Yes.

     - "Where do your family in the city live?" - My sister lives outside the farmer's gate

- Lyrielle watches all this stuff happen from the roof of the mausoleum (DMS - Wall Walk)

- A short rest is had 

- Tina does some calisthenics as her version of a rest, which somehow annoys Osiris (again)

- Rusty carries Henry and they troupe back to the Temple

- A city guard stops them to ask them why they are carrying a body through town, they're explanation is above his pay grade / he doesn't have time for this

- Raiàn and Lyrielle head back to the Curlywit Boarding House

- They drop Henry off at the Rite wing, but there's nobody working because it's stupid o'clock in the morning and leave HP Birel a note

- A LONG REST IS HAD (First one in like four sessions)

- Mid-way through the next morning

- Osiris who wakes up first as always, so she hunts around the Temple and finds a font of holy water in the worship area that she can use to Scry, so she goes to try to wake up Tiff, who resists the waking up hard, so Tina and Osiris go instead

- "You might want to be less... you, for a little bit." - Osiris to Tina

- Osiris and Birel chat about Henry and have a general check-in about Lady Blackmore, the frost bull, etc.

- Tiff eventually shows up with a giant mug of tea (looks almost like a bucket in her hands)

- They head to Rowan's office to get permission to use the font, which she gives readily

- They head to the nave where the font is Osiris casts Scry on Lady Blackmore using the map / bird illusion canvas, but LB blocks the spell

- Tiff, Rusty, Osiris, and Rusty head to the Curlywit Boarding House where Lyrielle drops directly in front of them from from an awning

- Tina is introduced to Magnus, which might be a bad idea, but only time will tell

- Osiris Sends to Lord Blackmore, "Osiris here. Henry has fallen. Juliana escaped and we are looking for her. We need to know where Nathan lives. Or need to meet."

- He responds, "Sad to hear about Henry. Nathan lives near the halfling market. You must think Juliana is with her sister. Please be kind to her."

- Much discussion is had about what steps to take next and in what order

- They decide to go to the Groundswallow General Store to ask Tiff's parents if they know Nathan, and then maybe use Locate Object on LB's spell focus (wand)

- Vera G doesn't know Nathan, so they head back to the foot of the bridge, she takes Tiff's Elixir of Swiftness, and runs around with her Locate Object spell until she gets a ping in a blue house on the river NW of the Butterbeer Brewery.

- Osiris returns to the group and points out the building in question from the far side of the river

- Osiris Sends to Capt Swinson, "Osiris here. We have located the necromancer and need you to come with arresting backup to the west side of the halfling market near the river."

- The only response is, "On the way."

- They post up in the halfling market to watch the house, Tiff shows Tina around the market, Osiris lurks in the shadows, Lyrielle climbs something, Raiàn sits at a café on the river, Rusty becomes a bridge troll while they wait

- No one comes or goes in the meantime

- 30-45 minutes later a contingent of 10 guards shows up with the Captain

- They go up to the house, and Captain Swinson knocks and a woman who is not Juliana answers

- Juliana is in, and they are invited in

- Rusty waits at the back door. He tests the back door, and it doesn't seem to be locked.

- When JB sees the group enter the house, she immediately teleports (Dimension Door?) and materializes near the bridge which Rusty observes, so he whistles and gives chase

 

- 2,200 XP total ea. for 59,590 XP total ea.

The Penultimate Necromancer Battle #ShineThatTurd - November 11, 2022

 BATTLE AGAINST LADY BLACKMORE AND HENRY

- Rusty Rages and moves to Henry and chops him for 56 slashing dmg

- Lady Blackmore casts a spell that creates a fog and three zombies rise up from the graves

- Raiàn casts Fireball centered just behind H for 26 fire dmg, though LB only takes 13 and Rusty takes 6 fire dmg

- H raises his sword up and it starts to glow and then hits Rusty for 31 psychic and 26 (13) slashing dmg then he slices again for 22 (11) slashing dmg

- Lyrielle sneaks up to H and smacks him with her stick for 8 bludgeoning dmg and steadies herself into a defensive stance

- Zombie1 claws Osiris for 10 slashing dmg and then misses her

- Tina confirms that LB is the necromancer they are looking for with Tiff casts Fireball killing all three zombies and hurting LB for 30 fire dmg and H for 15, but also gets Rusty then gets yelled at by Tiff not to hit her friends with spells

- Osiris casts Cure Wounds on herself for 24 HP then drinks the Elixir of Flight Tiff gave her and flies up 10'.

- Tiff runs to Rusty and heals him for 18 HP then runs back 15' 

The fog expands and three more zombies appear

 

- Rusty slices into Henry for 47 slashing dmg

- LB casts a lightning spell of some sort (Chain Lightning) on Rusty that then arcs out and hits Osiris, Tina, and Raiàn (42 / 21 lightning dmg)

- Raiàn walks to within 10' of H and then breaths lightning at them for 9 lightning dmg (4 for H)

- H makes his sword glow again and then slices into Rusty for 11 psychic and 19 (9) slashing dmg then misses

- Lyrielle smacks H for 9 bludgeoning then she punches him for 7 bludgeoning dmg and knocking him prone then she kicks him for 9 bludgeoning dmg

- Z1 moves to Tina and misses twice

- Tina casts Magic Missile at 2nd level on Z1 for 14 force dmg

- Z2 moves to flank Rusty with H then misses twice

- Osiris casts Healing Word (4th level) on Rusty for 19 HP then she casts Sacred Flame on H for 14 radiant dmg and he DIES then she flies back 10'

- Z3 moves to flank Tina and claws her for 12 slashing dmg total

- Tiff casts Melf's Acid Arrow on LB for 13 acid dmg and she disappears in a poof of inky blackness, and Tiff is pretty sure that she teleported in some fashion but probably not a super long-distance teleport then she yells to Tina, "See if you can do something about the fog!"

The fog expands and two more zombies (4 and 5) appear

- Rusty turns and slices into Z2 for 23 slashing dmg and then obliterates it with 29 slashing dmg then moves to flank Z1 with Tina

- Z4 moves to flank Rusty and then claws him for 8 (4) slashing and then 7 (3) slashing dmg

- Raiàn moves forward to see into the open door of the mausoleum and she doesn't see any movement in there, but she still casts Fireball into the open door and fire shoots out of the door and the clerestory windows. Ashes fly everywhere and she walks the rest of the way up to the door

- Z5 moves up to Raiàn misses her then claws her for 7 slashing dmg and then she reacts with Telekinetic Reprisal and it takes 11 force dmg and then he is pushed 10' away

- Lyrielle moves to flank with Tina then smacks Z3 for 13 bludgeoning then she kicks it for 7 bludgeoning dmg

- Z1 claws Tina for 7 slashing dmg then again for 6 slashing dmg

- Tina casts Gust of Wind through the fog and it begins to disperse

- Osiris lands and runs over to the middle of the fray and Turns Undead and Z4 is now turned and then she casts Healing Word on Tina for 10 HP

- Z3 claws Tina for 4 slashing and then again for 6

- Tiff moves back next to Tina and Cures her Wounds for 7 HP

The fog is dispersed.

- Rusty slices Z1 in half and then moves to flank Z3 with Tiff but misses

- Z4 runs away into the city

- Raiàn casts Wither and Bloom on Z5 for 4 (8) necrotic dmg and Rusty gets 9 HP

- Z5 moves to flank Rusty and claws him for 11 slashing dmg then again for 7 slashing dmg

- Lyrielle smacks Z3 for 7 bludgeoning dmg and it collapses and then she moves to flank Z5 and punches it for 9 bludgeoning dmg and that one also collapses

END OF BATTLE

- The mausoleum is on fire, or at least the door is, and anything inside the room

- There is an area where LB was setting up some sort of spell thing, but it's destroyed now

- It's too destroyed for Tiff to figure out what kind of spell they were casting 

- Rusty picks up Henry's sword 

- There are no stairs or other doors out of the mausoleum

- Osiris uses her fly speed to fly up a few tens of feet, but she can't see anything useful like where LB went

- Tina does not really like fighting, or at least she doesn't like getting hit

- 3,500 XP ea for 57,390 XP total ea

Trying to Make Double Agents #HalloweenPotLuck - October 28, 2022

 - From the docks market as they are walking to the Temple, the group realizes that it's only been a month since they fought their first blob together, but it does feel like it's been longer because so much has happened. Thanks for the reminder, Tina!

- While they are resting at the Temple, there's a roll of thunder and it starts to rain

- Osiris checks and the weather pattern seems to be a normal storm coming from in the west

- She waits to see if there's any lightning, but it just ripples through the clouds

- Theophania crafts a thermos and fill it with hot tea for the long, cold, rainy, overnight stakeout. 

- The group, including Tina, head to the cemetery (because that's how Sharai got her experience)

- "People like that used to bother me more, but then Ms Sharai taught me that some people are just bitches." This is because Osiris gave her a one word answer to the question, "So you work at the Temple?" and then left her in the dust.

- When Osiris gets to the cemetery (ahead of everybody) she casts Leomund's Tiny Hut so they can wait in the "not rain". She sets it close enough to the destroyed circle that they can watch it without it being super obvious

- Tina and Tiff sit in the Hut and chat and Osiris slowly (or not so slowly) loses her mind

- Osiris convinces Tiff (finally) to take Tina to see where the summoning circle was before Rusty destroyed it

- The nearest headstone marker says that it is a bear of some sort

- Raiàn does a bit of a patrol staying within sight of the hut

- Tiff and Tina return to the hut, much to Osiris's dismay

- Raiàn looks for but doesn't find any graves marked for any kind of dragonkind

- Tina and Lyrielle settle down to Trance, so Tiff also settles down to rest

- Osiris sees a couple of figures (short, maybe 48-54" tall max), and they are maybe 100' from the Hut

- The figures go over to a grave area and start doing something

- Raiàn who was still walking around creeps closer to them and sees that they seem to be trying to draw another circle, but the rain and mud is making it difficult. They look like tweens or early teenage humans.

- Raiàn walks right up to both of them and puts her arms around their shoulders and asks what they are up to.

- Tiff, Tina, Lyrielle, and Rusty walk up to the boys as well. They are Jeff and Dave and they are drawing "circles", but won't say why.

- Tiff looks over what they were drawing and sees a few similarities to the other necromantic summoning circles, so she asks Lyrielle and Rusty to hold them while she goes through their pockets

- She finds a drawing and hands it to Tina who says this wouldn't summon or conjure anything. All of the runes are gibberish

- Tiff also finds a pouch with 5 GP

- They are urchins. "Independent"

- Rusty Intimidates them into telling him that a "lady" gave them the paper and the GP to draw circles 

- They said that the lady was wearing a fancy hat, but they don't know her name

- She found them in the neighborhood of the Strongwall Prison

- Rusty and Osiris (who abandoned the Hut after a while) insist that they get a walking tour of the city to see all the circles they've drawn so far.

- "What's a carrot?"

- The next circle is slightly better drawn, and Tina says that MAYBE you could add some lines and marks to make it actually do something (because as drawn it does nothing)

- Another Tiny Hut is cast (as a ritual) so that they can pull out Tiff's maps and have the boys point out all the places they were drawing circle and all the locations they point to are in the east half of the city

- There's one just outside of the Trader's Gate, there's this one near the Arena, there's a cemetery just outside the Farmer's Gate, and Tiff knows that there's another cemetery near the prison, and it's one of the very few inside the city walls, and the "lady" specifically told them NOT to go there.

- Rusty pays the urchins 10 GP for being helpful and then tries to convince them to turn double agent and report to Birel at the Temple if she hits them up, and they scamper off with no promises made

- The group heads to the the one cemetery the boys were told not to go to, and on the way there, it finally stops raining

- The cemetery has constructed terrace levels and a mausoleum in the center. There's some kind of greenish light coming from the mausoleum.

- Tiff ritually casts Detect Magic, but in the time it takes for her to do that, Osiris starts looking for circles that Lady B might have drawn herself.

- Lyrielle sneaks around to see if there's another entrance or exit to the mausoleum

- Rusty and Raiàn is watching the door

- Tina is distracting and causes Osiris to make noise, and Henry comes out of the mausoleum and announces the presence of the group

 

- 2,300 XP ea for 53,890 XP total ea.

Raiàn used Fireball. It's Super Effective! #PetitFoursinPoliteCompany - October 14, 2022

  - 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.