Session 61: The Lady's Ward

General Summary

13th Tormale
  In the aftermath of the chaos in Demon's Square, the party studied the bodies of the aggressive infected. They were indeed infected with the same thing that they had encountered in the vaults, but these ones were far further along, they're entire bodies engulfed in metallic, wood-like material and razor sharp spines breaking from their skin.
  Upon returning to their manor house in the Upper City, they found it near torn apart, a bloodied and exhausted Fisherman collapsed on the stairs. Several hooded bodies lay about the entrance hall, crushed and eviscerated by stone and earth. The Fisherman told them that a group had broken into the manor early that morning when they had all been at the Trial, and not been expecting anyone to be there. The Fisherman had managed to fend them off before they broke further in or hurt anyone, killing or injuring all but one — a mage with incredible abjuration skills and who's wards he had been unable to pierce. The party figured it could only have been Lady Eleanore.
  Following the tracks of one of the injured intruders, the party tracked down to the Lower City and the chapel gardens, where Rhain notified them of a heavily warded crypt entrance he could see below the ground.