Torment and a trip to Waterdeep

General Summary

• Marpenoth 5, 1491 DR (Year of the Scarlet Witch)

Awakening under a makeshift canopy, Danu and Owen recount a tale from beyond the pale. They speak of waking under shrouds in a cold stone building, called the "Mortuary," and meeting a half-elven man who told them they were dead. The man, who didn't give his name, said he'd washed and prepared their bodies not an hour before.
He was clearly distressed about two talking corpses that weren't talking an hour ago.
He did notice a strange black mark on the inside of both Danu and Owen's right wrists, a rune of unkown origin. The half-elf says the mark was not there when he prepared their bodies.
As the man fretted and told them he'd clearly gone barmy from hanging around some people called the Dustmen, he sat down, opened a book, and as the cover of the book hit the table, Danu and Owen awoke in camp, clearly not dead, but still marked with the rune.

• Marpenoth 6, 1491 DR

Nell visits the temple in Red Larch, the Allfaiths Shrine, and speaks to Brother Dorn, a cleric of Oghma. He tells her about Sigil, The City of Doors, and that the mark is called a torment rune and that her friends somehow ended up there when they were briefly on deaths door.
Nell is told her question may find answers in Waterdeep, "The City of Splendors," to the west along the Sword Coast.

Brother Dorn

• Male Tethyrian | Neutral | Cleric of Oghma 5

Report Date

16 May 2025