Session 44: Heroes are in a Sticky Situation Report
General Summary
Grimmaz & Willhelm attack and proceed to kill the three Slaanesh Champions. The champions get a few hits in but doesn't do enough to stop these heroes.
After the fight, Willhelm robs the bodies getting 4 silver coins and notices the armour of the champions are melded to their bodies. Grimmaz decided to take a look behind the door the champions came through. Spotting strange carvings on the wall of an antechamber he noticed an altar in the middle of the chamber. Each corner had a female-like humanoid carved onto it with pincers in place of hands pointing towards the other corners, and birds legs from the knees down. Grimmaz proceeded to try smashing it with his hand axes doing a little damage. Willhelm then proceeded with a Thunderclap spell to break the marble altar. Cracks appeared and a purple gas started to escape. Willhelm sent Gaston in to the gas and it traumatised him.
Afterwards they made their way over to a mounted sword hanging on a wall with a picture like frame round it, and a chest below it on the floor. Examining the chest the lock is off to one side and a trap is wired into it. Willhelm persuades Grimmaz to open the unlocked chest and gets a face full of purple gas. So far the gas has given visions of powerful hidden figures and the screams of pain of Elves but Grimmaz easily overcomes the effects. They find a purple rug inside with an old journal on top of it. Willhelm takes these.
Grimmaz reaches for the sword removing it and sets off the trap built into the frame. Able to shrug off the purple gas with no ill effects he carries on and feels the sword has a certain sentience within it, offering power to those that wield. Purple handled with golden chased pommel and guard, it has a blade with Sylvan down it's spine. Willhelm takes an interest in it.
Both leave and before they do a bounty hunter has slipped in to the area and spying on them. Hidden well out of sight he follows them back to Eschbach and spies further on them hearing in passing that Charlemagne has been made Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by the Pope. The latter is due to pass through Eschbach the following day.
At the same time they ragtag group of Grimmaz, Willhelm, Kulug Jocki and the Burgeaters meet up at the local church alongside Father Tossil & Alfre. There Grimmaz & Willhelm swap items and Willhelm starts playing around with the sword hearing the terrible sentience in it talk to him offering unearthly power to him if he accepts the gift of a vague figure.
Grimmaz & Father Tossil look at the journal and it is the journal of the missing Wood Elf. There is a note near the end saying he was on a long ship that sailed to the centre of the Baltic Sea and nine slaves were bound & thrown overboard to raise the island of Baltia. They made it to the island but only some made it back out.
Willhelm is still playing with the sword and Alfre doesn't like to translate the Sylvan script. When she does it reads as a name & title: Bloodlicker the Soul Stealer. Willhelm then gets Quatson over and stabs him with it, disintegrating him completely. Willhelm tries to get Quatson back but the entity in the blade tells him that the latter's soul has now been ate and tasted awful. Willhelm at this point hands over the blade to Grimmaz & goes off to get a new familiar. Grimmaz gets Father Tossil & the two monks with a linen sheet, some leather straps, and paper / ink / brush combo. They wrap the sword up as it has an extremely bad reaction to being near the church, and wrap it up in the linen sheet painting religious texts onto each layer they wrap the sword in before tying it with the leather straps, and sealing it with wax. They attach parchment to it with further religious texts to it before taking it into the church.
From there they are waiting now for Charlemagne and then set off to eventually find Baltia at last.
Grimmaz Fyrwin
Neutral Human ()
Fighter 14
Fighter 14
144 / 144 HP
STR
18
18
DEX
18
18
CON
18
18
INT
14
14
WIS
14
14
CHA
14
14
Report Date
10 Feb 2023
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