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4/17/21

Session 29: Wulf Learns The Dangers Of Mishandling A Corpse

by Cali Zendyr

After the combat, we take a look at the boxes against the wall in this room. They hold resources mostly, some empty burlap bags, some salt, some blankets, as well as some potions and money, a journal, and a locked box. In the box is some nonmagical jewelry and a jade ring with a magical aura.
 
The jade ring is a ring of free action, and Jade says that it should go to Wulf. He officially has more jewelry than any of us. Quell keeps the nonmagical jewelry we found because it's shiny.
 
Jade casts detect magic and peers down the tunnel leading out of this room. She only senses the same residual traces she did before, and hears the sound of distant dripping water. We head down the tunnel for about 20 minutes and find some stairs and a door frame. The door is hanging halfway off the hinges. Jade investigates the fungus.
 
The fungus is not actively poisonous but not good to eat. It seems to be the same type of fungus all through this tunnel.
 
We investigate the door. It leads to another cavern. Jade lights a torch. We see bunk beds and stacks of wood, and hear scuttling sounds of things retreating in the shadows from the torch. The air is thick with the scent of rot and decay. We all enter the room. Jade changes the shape of her mask as she walks in, and Wulf is alarmed when he catches up to her.
 
There are about a dozen corpses lined against the far wall. A lot of them have been nibbled on, some of them reduced mostly to bones. The bodies, however, are pretty fresh. They seem to have been killed nearby and dragged in here. Wulf remarks that they all have clothes on, and tells us that he didn't used to wear clothes but Stirk made him, and it was very annoying.
 
Wulf: "are hats clothes?"
Quell: "yes."
Wulf: "are rings clothes?"
Quell: "rings are ornaments."
 
They talk about what technically constitutes a hat or clothes before Quell tells him that we have important things to look at and we get back on track.
 
We start to wonder if whoever killed these people is still around, unless we already killed them in the fight we just had, and Quell pokes around the room. She finds a blanket hung up like a curtain, behind which is a corpse of a venom-blooded woman with her throat slit open and otherwise untouched. She was killed at the same time as the others, but most likely was untouched because of her species.
 
Cali comes and looks at her and tells the group that venom-blooded people are often left untouched by scavengers. They search through the woman's pockets and find nothing interesting. Quell drags her body over with the others and Wulf learns about the dangers of handling a corpse improperly.
 
Quell washes her hands in a barrel of water, because she's a classy urchin, and Wulf climbs up a ladder that leads to a drop off and another tunnel. It seems safe, so we all follow down it. There are words and pictures on the walls down here. Eventually we come to what looks like the bottom of a trap door, and Jade detects no magic on the trap door.
 
Quell and Wulf push the trap door open and we climb up into what looks like an old storeroom. It's dusty and hard to tell where we are. The door out of here is latched from the outside, but Wulf gets the door open. We have a discussion about what our plan is, and Quell casts find object but concludes that the shard is not here.
 
We come across some cells. Quell sends Rabbit to explore, and someone sees him and tells him that he is not a rabbit. They compliment Rabbit's ears and asks him to come back and "bring the lights". The voice sounds like a man, but weak. He speaks in an accented Traders Cant. Someone is crying behind him.
Quell says we should help them, but be cautious. We head inside as quietly as we can. The old man, Bao, was locked up without knowing why, but he talks to ghosts. The woman, Izel, killed a man, but out of self defense. Quell picks the lock to let him free while we talk to them. She fails to pick Izel's lock.
 
Jade hands one of her teeth to Wulf "in case we get separated". He is confused but adds it to his tooth necklace.
We head down the hall with Bao while Wulf stays behind to yank open Izel's door, because it's going to be loud and it's better if we aren't all there. He yanks it completely off the hinges with his hands and teeth.
 
There is an alarmed clatter from upstairs before a voice yells:
 
"What in the forge mother's ass are y'all doing down there?!?!?!"
 
EOS

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  2. Session 2: Sleeping in the Lighthouse
    8/14/19
  3. Session 3: Finding Anaka's Apprentice
    8/21/19
  4. Session 4: Anaka and the Town Feast
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  5. Session 5: Fighting a Ghost in a Clearing
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  6. Session 6: Meeting the Revenant
    10/9/19
  7. Session 7: Tasha Bloodsail and Her Magic Mirror
    10/23/19
  8. Session 8: Killing a Gang
    12/04/19
  9. Session 9: Making Things Right
    1/22/2020
  10. Session 10: Getting Sappy on a Ship
    2/12/2020
  11. Session 11: A Raccoon Named Kama
    3/4/2020
  12. Session 12: Killing Lady Loaka
    4/11/2020
  13. Session 13: Lizards in the Desert
    4/29/2020
  14. Session 14: Jade
    5/20/2020
  15. Session 15: Diving Down a Magical Well
    6/12/2020
  16. Session 16: Himbo Rights
    7/17/2020
  17. Session 17: Liya Takes Our Blood, and Quell Explores Her Backstory
    8/17/2020
  18. Session 18: Nyala, 5-Star Travel Guide
    8/28/2020
  19. Session 19: Haunted Cairns and Rock Spiders
    9/19/2020
  20. Session 20: Stumbling Into Politics
    10/31/2020
  21. Session 21: Wulf Meets His Pup
    11/21/2020
  22. Session 22: Fighting Zombies in the Woods
    12/05/2020
  23. Session 23: Burying A Suicidal Dead Guy
    12/24/2020
  24. Session 24: Hey, Your Husband's Dead... Here's a Steak!! ...It's Not Your Husband... to be Clear...
    1/02/21
  25. Session 25: Ghostie Tirga da Narei Got That Drip
    1/23/21
  26. Session 26: This LEAF is a BOAT?! (oh and also we're being hunted)
    2/6/21
  27. Session 27: Jade Communes With the Fog
    2/27/21
  28. Session 28: Fighting Oozes In An Abandoned House
    3/20/21
  29. Session 29: Wulf Learns The Dangers Of Mishandling A Corpse
    4/17/21
  30. Session 30: Jailbreak
    5/01/21
  31. Session 31: Wanted, Inaccurately
    6/05/21
  32. Session 32: Ghosts and Mammoth Meat
    6/19/21
  33. Session 33: Jade Is A Monster Fucker
    7/10/21
  34. Session 34: Do Seagulls Have Fangs?
    8/07/21
  35. Session 35: Facetime With Tasha (oh, and Jade is a double agent)
    8/21/21
  36. Session 36: Wulf Dreams of Puppy Piles
    9/11/21
  37. Session 37: Wulf & Jade (separately) Bond With Tulan
    9/25/21
  38. Session 38: The Gang Sees A Psychic
    10/09/21
  39. Session 39: Exploring a Ghost Ship
  40. Session 40: Olav is... Not Dead?
    11/13/2021
  41. Session 41: CALI IS NOT POOR OKAY
    12/11/2021
  42. Session 42: Wise Old Egil
    01/15/2022
  43. Session 43: Christmas Morning, Via Egil
    02/05/2022
  44. Session 45: 44 didn't save
    3/12/22
  45. Session 46: fighting a waiver (that means dragon)
    04/03/22
  46. Session 47: Hole-ception, Donut Hole if you will
    4/30/22
  47. Session 48: Scry City, Bitch
    5/14/22
  48. Session 49:
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  49. Session 50: Sink or Wind
  50. Session 51: Scouting Our Meeting Place
    8/27/2022
  51. Session 52: Battle on the Beach
    10/01/22
  52. Session 53: Wulf Sneaks onto a Ship
    10/15/2022
  53. Session 54: Wulf Is Not Allowed Near Windows
    10/29/2022
  54. Session 55: THERES A TROLL (Beast) IN THE DUNGEON (outer fields)
    11/12/22
  55. Session 56:
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  56. Session 57:
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  57. Session 58: Quell is Cali's Imaginary Friend
    01/28/2023
  58. Session 59: SECRET TUNNELLLLLL
    02/11/2023
  59. Session 60: I'm gonna dip you in butter
  60. Session 61: We're Looney, We're Tuney
    04/1/23
  61. Session 62: The Mother Herself Said She's Alive!
    4/8/23
  62. Session 63: Wulf DoorDashes Rats
    6/10/23
  63. Session 64: Are We Dead? Are We On A Boat? Will There Be Meat?
    7/1/23
  64. Session 65: Cali wants the Tea
  65. Session 66:

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