Session 8 - 3/4/24

Previous session ended with fighting and killing spiders, then ghosts. I got possessed again - I really need to stay away from ghosts...I almost lost my own life trying to shake it off.
 
We stopped to rest but I'm completely spent...Velvet offered me a potion and Chael healed me though. I was sure to thank them...both of them.
 
We packed back up and moved to the next room to find MORE GHOSTS?! But these ones didnt attack...they just kept working the forge. Harper couldnt keep his hands to himself though and the ghosts caught him trying to lift a blade. Somehow he managed to talk his way out of it.
 
Chael then offered a weapon, and incredibly, they tempered it. He left another weapon for them as a tip. Curious?
 
There was a room past the smith ghosts, I managed to sneak past them somehow [He did not] and entered a room with sarcophagi. There was a body with a large emerald orb, but when someone tried to lift it, the body animated! It looked like some kind of zombie, and boy did it hit like a donkey cart. Two other armors came to life to assist it, but when we finally felled the zombie, the armors blessedly came to a stop. We managed to find a necklace and some boots.
 
Boots of Elvenkind
Periapt of Health
Eye of Detection
 
Harper took an interest in the the Eye of Detection...but all of a sudden, perhaps in some fit of madness...we watched him gouge his own eye out and remove it...screaming in pain all the while as he did it. I thought one of those ghosts got him, but it was something else. I recognize what this horrid thing is. Demon Hunter fanatics would use a similar artifact to let them see beyond the Material Plane to do their work.
 
We all needed to sleep after that.
 
Our room was secluded well enough so we went unharrassed, but more goblins took the time to move into the nearby rooms and had to be cleared out again. There was quite a feast left behind too - no doubt they would've found some way to ruin it.
 
As we advanced, I think we found what we'd call the Goblin King. He was like that other dangerous warrior...only more decorated, and more dangerous. It took everything I had not to succumb to his blows...how do they become so powerful? With all of us, we managed to best him...and to the victor, the spoils.
 
Well made longsword
A shield with the symbol of a dove - Relentless Bulwark (Cleric or Paladin only)
The King's embellished armor, though damaged.
 
Since the shield was meant to be used by Paladins, I traded it to Chael, who gave me a regular shield in turn. It will serve better in his hands.