Episode 1 – Into the WatchTower – Part 2

In the previous Session of Episode 1, the team journey to an outpost about a day North West of Ohte village along a Caravan route. This outpost is very important to the existence and persistence of this trade route. But things were far more than a routine delivery… Part 2!

The team was able to find out what the things that have been happening lately.

[ No Team Journals have been recovered yet ]

The bartender’s son has been missing for 3 days. They found a set of heavier tracks leading away from the outpost as well as another set of 2 people’s lighter tracks heading off in roughly the same direction towards an abandoned watch tower and chapel on a small hill. The team was able to find out that the heavier tracks belonged to <Name Redacted>, one of the Rangers in the region. She notes that she had seen <Bartender’s son – name redacted> and <name redacted> in the forests. She suspected that they might have gone to that old watch tower.

Since our last report, more of these events have unfolded.

Two of the newer team members, Kela and “Jane Doe” arrived at the outpost meeting up with the team. The team had another mission to deliver an important but secret missive to the forward scout encampment for the Idbash [town] militia. (Idbash is another town in the same Kingdom and is about 1 days travel from the outpost.)

To complete that Mission they needed a Ranger so Legless joins that mission. Kela and Legless continue onward to carry out the new mission while Jane Doe joined up with the rest of the team to continue their investigation.

On to the Tower

Our team continued onwards to the tower. As they made their way through dense foliage, the forest opens up to a clear leading up to a hill with a chapel and tower. In the clearing, they found all kinds of odd sights. They found someone’s hidden stash that’d been there for a least a few years. They found an area where victims were killed and skinned as well as another area with a giant cauldron where the bodies were boiled down to their bones and turned into undead skeletons. They dispatched with several patrols by Skeletons from the WatchTower. At times they found their attacks effective but other times they didn’t.

To their surprise, they found an old woman fighting with a skeleton. The team easily dispatched the skeleton. Strangely, they found that the old woman had a magical staff that she used to defend herself and that she was in that forest picking berries that grew there which as an herbalist she could create particularly profitable medicine with.

The team made their way to the chapel’s back entrance that looked like it hadn’t been opened in a very very long time and was overgrown with vines. Those vines, it turned out, were not so friendly and secrete some kind of sweet but acidic alluring scent. They tried to fire bolt the plant but the fire caused billowing clouds of acidic smoke. The team gave up fighting the plant and burst their way into the dark, dark chapel.

The darkness overwhelmed their darkvision and even a torch was barely effective in a short range. Using the Sunlight Orb Jane had, they could light their way to discover horror-play proportions of sleeping giant flying spiders in the rafters and beams of the chapel.

The party moved into the Tower to find it to be a horrible mess. The building and a lot of pieces of what used to be overhead floors, stairs, etc. had all fallen and covered the ground of this tower.

Graive started to climb up a chain heading up the tower since the stairs were broken while Jane finds a concealed door in the floor under the debris. After a lot of very very careful investigation, she found that the door has TWO traps on it, one mechanical and one magical!

What was that?!

Athar flies overhead holding the sunlight orb but the party hears the outer main front door of the chapel close – which is weird because the party explicitly closed it after peeking outside. Realizing that someone’s coming they party prepares for ambush.

Party Readies Action on the Trigger of: An Enemy-looking creature or Skeleton opens and enters the room

• Derasign is right next to the door ready to Shield Bash and knock down the creature.
• Hyde is hidden across the room at the bottom of the stairs ready to cast Dissonant Whispers
• Graive is ready to attack with his Warhammer?
• [ Ataraxia is hidden in the shadows readying a sneak attack ]
• Jane is ready to cast Fire Bolt
• Mirai is on the stairs with her Great Maul charged up with black coloured energy

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