S04 - Lies and Receipts

Session Summary

Where were we...
1. We had just managed to get downstairs, past a cowardly guard, and found Sir Bryce Landry locked in combat with the mummified remains of Saint Brenna!
Fight!
1. Weela jumps to Bryce's rescue, and attempts to unwrap the mummy of Saint Brenna
  1. This actually helps Saint Brenna free up from her wrappings, as they were a bit constricting, and now she is fully revealed
2. Echo and I attempt our attacks, but we each miss
3. RUDELY ignoring the party, Saint Brenna Glares at Bryce, freezing him to the spot!
  1. Then, with a ferocity heretofore UNSEEN by your intrepid reporter, the corpse freakishly fists the mortified man and punches his person!
4. Argoth does a frost on Saint Brenna! She gets a little chilly.
5. The other knights then showed up, and they flank the revenant saint.
6. Weela, showing spell affinity, smacks Saint Brenna hard TWICE!
7. I creep up behind the mummy to Bryce, and give him a restorative touch
8. Echo attempted to attack the creature, and misses
  1. However, he makes a critical observation; Saint Brenna only attacks those who hit her
9. Saint Brenna lurched over to Weela, got right down in her face, and whispered something horrifying
  1. No escape...
  2. Weela is initially terrified, but some mystical force reveals itself through her, and the undead monster is pushed back, and a glow emanates from her body
  3. However, Saint Brenna still gets a fist in, and completely destroys Weela
10. Argoth unleashes two fire bolts, one of which misses so badly, that Saint Brenna is actually more resistant to attacks from him.
  1. Normally, mummy's are bone dry, but because Saint Brenna is so wet, it doesn't do to much
11. The guards do nothing
12. Bryce, now revived, storms up to Saint Brenna and strikes her down
13. I revive Weela from her temporary torpor
Bryce warns us that touching the corpses could cause them to revivify - FORESHADOWING
1. Is that how Saint Brenna was revived, the touch of a knight? Unclear. Bryce evaded the question.
2. We take a short break, in the tomb, surrounded by corpses. I play for my friends my new composition to ease their minds in this dark place.
  1. Each corpse has two citrine gemstones in their eye sockets, and there is a greatsword with the celestial phrase twilight written on the blade
  2. The temptation proves too much for our Gnome and Glowborn
Weela and Argoth attempt to loot a corpse, and turns out, we should have listened to Bryce when he said don't touch the corpses
1. Fortunately, the skeletons appear a bit rusty from their deep slumber, and struggle to get a good strike in
2. Argoth lands a thunder wave against two of the boner- I mean skeletons
3. Weela attempts to steal another citrine eye, but misses, and instead caves in the skull of the skeleton
  1. I make a mess by throwing holy water everywhere
4. Argoth claps two skellies to death
5. Echo lays to rest the soul of a skeleton with his new holy sword
6. Some more murder happened, but I got distracted by Weela's hot ball
Bryce's boys lock us in, giving us 10 minutes to explore further
1. Bryce himself is not pleased that Weela and Echo disrupted the dead, where Argoth and I did absolutely nothing wrong
  1. He did seem peeved about the holy water though...
2. We move on into the next room, and Bryce attempts to lift the The Scepter of Saint Vitruvio, but is unable to, claiming to hear voices.
  1. Weela swoops in and snaps it up, no problems whatsoever, and she appears to have a conversation with an entity that is not in the room...
3. Bryce says "This is incredible... Knight Captain Theodore Marshall must learn of this!" and seems... happy?
  1. Whatever he truly feels, he hides it well...
As we begin to leave, we are interrupted by The Followers of the Falling Flame
1. They absolutely dis the shit out of Bryce as a false faithful of the flame
2. They ask if we will give The Scepter of Saint Vitruvio to Lucretia Methias
We return to Emberwood, and after the strain of such fighting and wiles, we grow more powerful!