Session 31: Ellonia's Rejects

General Summary

• The Lads searched Galerion's Cabin, finding 1CP under a green rug and 2GP in the eye sockets of a wolf pelt rug. • Cosmo commanded his cosmic giant centipedes to search the cabin, but they found nothing and were disbanded by Cosmo in disgust. • Hettle searched the bedroom and found a trapdoor underneath the bed, informing the rest of the Lads before they descended. • The basement was a single room with fancy yet bare shelves along the walls holding three expensive art objects and coins totalling 70GP, 140SP, and 280CP. • They also find a magic necklace that Cosmo inspects and deduces to be a Periapt of proof against poison, so he keeps it on. • In the back of the room is an ornate stone bed built into the floor, which Glen breaks to reveal a hidden compartment containing a Galerion's spellbook. • Glen takes the book before Cosmo borrows it from him to inspect its contents briefly. • Between many journal entries, the spellbook contains spells from Galerion's time at Crown Academy and for reanimating and possessing the dead. • As thanks for helping her, Melula gives the Lads Torthir's Dragon Slayer Greataxe and help from Melula if they ever find themselves in Flostrum. • Melula buries the bodies that remain while the Lads return to Belsnik to receive their 1000GP reward. • They go to Laddy's and explain everything about their necromantic encounter, but when they mention the Bonemancer, Laddy appears very upset. • Laddy returns with Horace Grimm and they briefly tell the story of their old adventuring party, Ellonia's Rejects, in which Horace's late wife was also a member. • They explain how when they encountered the Bonemancer, he killed their three other members before the mines collapsed and the Bonemancer was thought dead too. • Horace vows to join The Lads in defeating the Bonemancer, and the party buys equipment and prepares for whatever lies in the dungeon. • The Lads slept that night in the tavern, and they left with Horace for the Mines the next morning heading east through the forest. • Along the way, they first encounter three tigers stalking the Lads in the bushes, but Cosmo and Hettle scare them away with a fiery display. • After that, seven blood hawks circle above the Lads and begin to dive; one of them is decapitated by Cosmo with a Star Whip before four surround him. • Lambert skewers one with his pike, Glen casts Spirit Guardians to kill three of them and wound the other two, then Cosmo and Hettle finish them off. • After some uneventful travel, the Lads passed by a small cabin with three commoners minding their business and avoided interacting with them. • They reached a point where Horace was uncertain of where to go next before a glowing blue butterfly appeared and led the way. • The Lads reached a small, green mountainous area and could see flashing lights in the distance along the north edge of the hills. • Once there, the butterfly disappeared around a tree and the Lads find the entrance to the Mines of Grailstein. • The cave entrance and a sign posted out front are adorned with strings of flashing lights, both white and colourful; the sign reads, "Abandon all hope, all ye who enter!"

Report Date

09 May 2024