Session 07: Prelude to a Dungeon Delve Report

General Summary

Fleec & Grimmas have met a Count De Sade. He has tasked them to go to a valley in the Central Massif where bandits disappeared. They travelled with a merchant caravan travelling south, and get off east of the valley. They followed an old trail to the woodlands and ran into a brown bear eating a deer it had just killed. They killed it an moved on.
They quickly found an old boulder with a carving in Latin on it, and a stick figure with its arms up and a line running through the upper arms. They passed this into the sloping valley beyond, where Grimmas noticed the lack of wildlife, except for crows, ravens and insects. From there Fleec climbed a tree and spotted a stone building on down the end of the path. He also spotted something hidden in the undergrowth of another tree. Grimmas investigated and found a crucified body of a bandit. Unable to tell how long it had been there due to it being ate by the remaining animals.
Finding a tower they noticed a small wall with a space through it in front of a tower with plant growth on it, it also had graves in front of it. An artificial tunnel had been constructed between the ground floor and caves in it. After they examined the tower they had fought four skeletons, discovered rubbish on the ground floor, old beds falling apart on the 1st floor, two rooms on the second (one with a bed, note books, a gold ring with a feather carved on it), a skeleton on a table on it and books & books, and more note books, written in Latin and an unintelligible language. The roof was pretty much barren with nothing there.
They examined the tunnel and caves. All had artificial magic glowing orbs attached to the ceilings. Primitive paintings were on the walls of two caves, one with standard ancient paintings, and another had both them and what looked like sacrifices on them. They slept in the tower, and both had a strange dream as if something underground was trying to get through & also examine them.
In the morning they cleared a cave-in at the bottom of the caves, and crossed down into a massive cave about 4 miles square or larger, with rents in some of the floor spewing sulphurous gasses and heat up. They examined a building with strange blackish substance in places, that seemed to be a mix of organic & inorganic blended together. They broke a bit off to take to the surface, and be examined. They then went to examine a bit where three beings were sitting on chairs with strange spinal growths can caps bonded them to chairs, and the beings appeared petrified physically. One a Dwarf, one an Elf, and one is a humanoid creature with six tentacles round it's mouth. Circular rows ran round the outside of these chairs, with alcoves for the same creatures (laying on their sides) surrounded them.

Rewards Granted

1000 xp, magic gold ring with feather design carved on it.

Campaign

9th Century Earth Dungeons & Dragons 5e Campaign

Protagonists

Fleec Snow

Chaotic Neutral Half-Elf ()
Rogue/assassin 8

61 / 61 HP

STR
12

DEX
18

CON
16

INT
14

WIS
14

CHA
16

Grimmaz Fyrwin

Neutral Human ()
Fighter 14

144 / 144 HP

STR
18

DEX
18

CON
18

INT
14

WIS
14

CHA
14

Report Date

16 Jul 2021