Bringing Down The Evil Cult (Session 41)

Summary

They started this session in the room where they'd killed the priest casting a Spiritual Hammer spell at them. They moved North out of that room and then East to the door further down the hallway. Oglesby checked the door and then opened it. Inside he saw a couple of people in a sanctuary with pews. He backed away from the door. The priests inside the room started shouting that there were intruders. Audra moved in. Sairalinde' encouraging her to attack the evil priests. She did that, attacking and hitting the one furthest from the door. Both priest cast Ray of Enfeeblement at her and reduced her strength, weakening her to the point where should couldn't even stand in the heavy armor that she wore.

Kipp entered the room and attacked the priest closest to the door while Pyreece attacked the other one. The one on Pyreece cast a Blindness spell at her. She tried to hit him again but not being able to see him cost her the hit. Elenor cast a Web spell over the only entrance to the room, a hall in the back. If the priests had someone coming to help them, it would have come from there. The rest moved into the room. They took down the two priests quickly and turned their attention to the back of the room. After a few minutes the Enfeeblement wore off and Audra was able to get up and fight again.

A flask of flaming oil was thrown into the Web spell and burned it away. Behind that came 6 shambling undead. Oglesby and Kipp took up positions in each forward corner hoping to be able to get behind them while Ragamuffin Brandy and Audra took up positions behind some pews and waited for them to arrive. The six poured in, Ragamuffin Brandy and Audra took on a couple straight away. One attacked Oglesby while another attacked Kipp. Two others were still moving down the hall behind the chamber. Pyreece, though blind, could hear Elenor was beside her. She had cast an invisibility on her to protect her and told her to stay down and quiet. Pyreece still asked her what was happening to which Elenor replied, "Undead are attacking!". Pyreece's response was, point me at them.

Behind the undead, a single Half-orc and two priests came into view. Elenor pointed Pyreece at the undead and then moved into position to cast a fireball. She cast the fireball seriously hurting the Half-orc and the priests and even a couple of the undead. Pyreece raised her holy symbol and used her ability to turn undead, affecting the two closest Ghast. They fled the room, each getting hit one last time as they turned to flee. The Half-orc moved into the room attacking Audra. She made short work of him because Elenor had already softened him up. Kipp, Brandy, Oglesby and Elenor made short work of the rest of the Ghasts and the two priests. Brandy moved down to see if she could see the two Ghasts that had been turned but found an empty room with several exits.

The party made it's way down to that room, Elenor serving as Pyreece's service animal. They chose to approach the open hallway first. Oglesby moved down the passageway and found a lit room with a table where sat food and drink. The room also had shelves with books, with wine, and other food and supplies. There were a couple of exits. Oglesby began drinking the wine, any wine he could find. Ragamuffin Brandy made it into the room and looked down the open hallway leading West out of the room. She didn't see anyone initially. She turned and stopped Oglesby from drinking to the point of becoming useless. Audra finished checking the tunnel and found it turned south and ended at a closed door.

They searched the room more thoroughly and found some books on religion and such. Pyreece asked them to collect the books. One book was on the deity Tharizdun and one was on Iuz. She'd never heard of either of them and thought this would be a great help in learning about this new land they were in, whenever she could see to read again of course. There was a door in the Eastern wall of the room. Oglesby opened the door and snuck in. There were 5 priests sleeping in beds in that room. They were discussing whether to attack, sneak in and kill them in their sleep, or draw them out, when Ragamuffin Brandy skipped into the room called out for her mother. The priest slowly woke and seeing this little girl there, they were confused. She acted scared and ran out of the room. The rest of the party, surprised, positioned themselves to receive their victims and waited.

They didn't have to wait long before a couple of the priests exited the room, surprised to see the party which promptly killed them. Three of the remining priests withdrew into the shadows of their room. Kipp, Audra, and Ragamuffin Brandy charged in and attacked them. Elenor kept Pyreece nearby and moved into the room as well. They finished off the priests pretty quickly. They searched the room finding a bunch of personal items in chests at the foot of the beds. After they finished searching the room, they moved back out to the room with the food on the table and then North to the chamber they'd passed through to get there. There was a closed door next to the tunnel they'd gone down first. Well, actually, it was pulled to but not closed.

They opened the door and peered in, seeing a darkened room with ladder descending into a pit. The chamber smelled foul. They heard some shambling again. A short time later, the two Ghasts that had been turned appeared and attacked. The party made short work of them. They chose to stay out of the room and just closed the door on it. On the East wall of the outer room, was a cell door made with bars. There was darkness beyond. They moved over to check it and found the Brady kids. All but Peter. They were locked in and shackled to the walls. Oglesby picked the locks to get in and they explained to the kids that they were safe now. The kids questioned that, sure that at any moment the Half-orc would reappear and their hell would start over again. Elenor and Pyreece assured them that the Half-orc was dead. That a slew of priests, including the Nimwae, were also dead.

The children were obviously hungry so they invited them to the table with all of the food and set them to eating. In talking with them, they found out there was still some Necromancer, Xandras, somewhere in here. They would have to go deal with him next. They party told the kids to stay there and got the key to the cell and gave it to them. They told them that should anyone return, run to the cell and lock themselves in. That should keep them safe until they return. They will return as soon as they are done with this Xandras. The party set off North again.

That is where this session ended.

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Exp: 2483 + 248 = 2731

Audra and Brandy leveled up to level 6