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12/05/2020

Session 22: Fighting Zombies in the Woods

by Cali Zendyr

Quell kills one of the wights with her thunder, and after some time we manage to kill the mummy and the other wight. The only thing on the mummy’s body was the broken mask he had on. We find some good arrows on the wights though, and a necklace with four larger beads on it that has a divine healing magic aura on it. Jade identifies the necklace as a necklace of prayer beads. We also find 240gp.
 
Quell dispells the fire with the necromancy magic so nothing else comes undead after we leave. We take a short rest there, and then head off again. On the road, we come across an old grave marker that someone tried to make visible again, but left halfway through. It’s in the old tongue, and Jade can make out something about a “priestess mother” and a name, Eyat. The area seems otherwise undisturbed.
 
Wulf smells the gravestone. He can smell dirt and bugs. It is very informative. Quell draws her lady’s symbol in chalk on the top of the grave, and then we head onward.
 
On the trees, Cali and Quell start to notice markings. We then come across the first live tree we’ve seen in awhile. There are two arrows recently scratched into the bark. The way we’re going has a skull underneath it, and the other direction has an attempt to scratch a skull into the tree but it’s been crossed out, almost like they put it on the wrong side. We go ahead anyway.
 
We come across another warning carved in another tree, and although a bit more cautiously, we continue on anyway.
 
We come up to a fence made of overgrowth, like vines and stuff, and Jade detects a shit ton of necromancy magic on it. Cali lends Quell the ring of x ray vision so she can thunderstep the two of them past it, and Jade takes Wulf on the other side with dimension door. Wulf is flustered because he has to hold her hand. They are both oblivious to this feeling.
 
Past the fence, we appear in a clearing full of twisted trees and a hut. Many undead figures begin to approach us, until a hooded figure tells them to “hold”.
 
Her face is half elven woman, half skull. She lowers her hood as Jade approaches to investigate. She says her name is Ivoril. She speaks in traders cant, and sometimes repeats phrases as if she’d forgotten she said it. She switches back and forth between she and I, and twice when asked about it, she quite menacingly repeats “there is only I”.
 
The other voice that occasionally interjected what she was saying, starts to yell “run, RUN!!” while Ivoril is talking. It sounds like the same vocal chords but used differently, as if there are two souls in this one body. And then after finding out that we were not in fact merchants bringing her salt, Ivoril ends up threatening us.
Quell: “I do not see any life here.”
Ivoril: “Well soon enough, you won’t have enough life in you to notice either.”
 
Wulf FINALLY is allowed to attack, and we all roll initiative.
 
EOS

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  2. Session 2: Sleeping in the Lighthouse
    8/14/19
  3. Session 3: Finding Anaka's Apprentice
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  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
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  7. Session 7: Tasha Bloodsail and Her Magic Mirror
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  8. Session 8: Killing a Gang
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  9. Session 9: Making Things Right
    1/22/2020
  10. Session 10: Getting Sappy on a Ship
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  11. Session 11: A Raccoon Named Kama
    3/4/2020
  12. Session 12: Killing Lady Loaka
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  13. Session 13: Lizards in the Desert
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  14. Session 14: Jade
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  15. Session 15: Diving Down a Magical Well
    6/12/2020
  16. Session 16: Himbo Rights
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  17. Session 17: Liya Takes Our Blood, and Quell Explores Her Backstory
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  18. Session 18: Nyala, 5-Star Travel Guide
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  19. Session 19: Haunted Cairns and Rock Spiders
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  20. Session 20: Stumbling Into Politics
    10/31/2020
  21. Session 21: Wulf Meets His Pup
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  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
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  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
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  28. Session 28: Fighting Oozes In An Abandoned House
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  29. Session 29: Wulf Learns The Dangers Of Mishandling A Corpse
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  30. Session 30: Jailbreak
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  31. Session 31: Wanted, Inaccurately
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  32. Session 32: Ghosts and Mammoth Meat
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  33. Session 33: Jade Is A Monster Fucker
    7/10/21
  34. Session 34: Do Seagulls Have Fangs?
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  35. Session 35: Facetime With Tasha (oh, and Jade is a double agent)
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  36. Session 36: Wulf Dreams of Puppy Piles
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  37. Session 37: Wulf & Jade (separately) Bond With Tulan
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  38. Session 38: The Gang Sees A Psychic
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  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
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  43. Session 43: Christmas Morning, Via Egil
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  44. Session 45: 44 didn't save
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  45. Session 46: fighting a waiver (that means dragon)
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  46. Session 47: Hole-ception, Donut Hole if you will
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  47. Session 48: Scry City, Bitch
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  48. Session 49:
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  49. Session 50: Sink or Wind
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  51. Session 52: Battle on the Beach
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  52. Session 53: Wulf Sneaks onto a Ship
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  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
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