The Circle of Death, Session 1: Before the Storm

General Summary

Our Cast of Characters

• Jack Solomon, a human warlock of Celestial origin, played by Ben
• Syril Lambslaughter, a wood elf ranger, played by Brandon
• Thorin Tidebreaker, a goliath cleric of the tempest, played by Paul
• Urethræ Klytorius-Gunt, a dwarf storm herald barbarian, played by Alicia

Things That Happened

• Our heroes began their literary existence as prisoners of a death cult called The Circle of the Last Step. They all had different reasons to be held there, ranging from random kidnappings to being former members that fell out of favor. The point is, they're all dirty and gross and tired at this point from having done a lot of digging.
• Today, the party was chosen for especially hard labor. Which sucks, because they had been planning their escape. You see, the cult is to have some sort of weird ritual, so there's going to be very few guards in a few days.
• Anyway, while digging out a new tunnel, Gunt found a skull. Then a skeleton. Which had a magic necklace. Thorin used Detect Magic to identify it as... magic. Specifically, some sort of anti-necromantic abjuration magic. The skeleton had a weird symbol on it, a specific lightning bolt, certainly religious and Thorin had seen it before on an old dwarf.
• They kept the necklace, turned in the skeleton, and the cult rewarded the gang with the next few days off, extra food, and better blankets. The rest of the prisoners were made to keep digging even harder. And they hate the party now as a result. At any rate, they traded some of the good new food to Jerry (a Halfling prisoner) in exchange for a favor later. And also an old man called Grandfather because that's just polite.
• They identified the necklace as being able to kill any undead, once. That's neat! Also, Thorin and Jack had the same bizarre dream about lightning and a laughing skull.
• So naturally, the next day the party talked to Bill and Ted, fellow prisoners. They managed to get Bill and Ted to stop hating them by handing over a couple of their old, shittier blankets. The two bros explained that the prisoners had dug up a whole lot of skeletons and sword hilts and stuff, like an old battlefield or some shit.
• With that, the group planned out their escape, to be carried out next time...

Rewards Granted

• 50 XP each
• The Amulet of Death's Vengeance
• One favor from Jerry

Missions/Quests Completed

• The End of the Beginning: Plot out the escape from prison
• Death Becomes Us: Discovered a Very Important Corpse :tm:

Character(s) interacted with

• Briggs, a dickish guard
• Jonesy, a cooler guard
• Bill and Ted, prisoners
• Jerry, prisoner
• Grandfather, prisoner

Report Date

14 Apr 2022