Tombs of Scoria: Episode 45

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== Synopsis ==
The party uncovers a cache of valuable coins but no magical items, leading them to suspect Scoria's trade with a woman named Senegal, who sells services to dragons. Through divination and scrying, they track down Senegal's last known activities and a series of mysterious letters connected to their mother and a priest discussing marriage and Imrik's love interest. They discover a necromancer's lair, filled with undead and traps, including a workshop where they encounter and combat more undead. Their exploration leads them to an apparition of their father, revealing a swarm of undead and spellcasters, hinting at deeper and darker secrets awaiting them.
==Recap==
=== 2nd December, 1512 ===
Loot: 
*5k Mythril 
*10k platinum
*11k gold
*11k silver
*8k copper
Not a single potion or magic item. No hidden enclaves or secret magic. Tyrael thinks Scoria has traded with Abraxia. Imrik recognises the face on Mythril coins, it's of Queen Mini, all of the coins are old. They spend the night in the lair. 
=== 3rd December ===
Anton casts :
Who did you trade your magical items.
*To a woman who sells her services to dragons. 
What is the woman's name.
*
How can we contact Senegal
*She advertised her services to me
When was the last trade
*3 fortnights after the last blood moon
Who told you McGary's are coming
*I know not the names of my minions, they mean nothing to me
Why did you trade your items to Senegal
*Because of you
They teleport back and forth to gather the loot. They halt Abraxia's head to the center of Burklin. Anton holds a speech about Velthara, he reveals that he has marked one of them for Death for doubting him. Anton trades 5k platinum for gold in GNoME.
== Experience ==
100k exp total
==Recap==
=== 4th-12th December, 1512 ===
Downtime for rest and gathering information.
Imrik learns over 9 days.
's apprentice, Apollo, followed the priest that delivered letters to their mother. Deep in the woods, near Blackwood March, skeletons are guarding an area. Tyrael's followers also went into the woods, found a way around the skeletons, and discovered a mine.
The brothers also follow up on the Senegal leads and learn the last solar eclipse was in February.
Imrik uses Project Self to ask Balurion about Senegal. The woman came by her lair 20 years ago, and she hasn't seen her since. Balurion thinks it's a stretch Scoria had her hand in this. Imrik offers a trade, coins for magic items, Balurion needs a month to decide. Senegal is a pale woman with jet black hair, speaking in both Solum and Eridonian.
=== 13th-15th December, 1512 ===
They decide to deal with the necromancer. Mother tells them that the priest is visiting her regularly, talks of marriage with Lady of Suulwikk and discuss Imrik's love interest, Shelly Tuulwikk.
Anton casts , asking if they will fare well if they take this journey:
*The bait is laid, the trap is set, the encounter with your future will be met.
They intercept the letter their mother prepared for the priest and remember it.
=== 16th December, 1512 ===
The letters are exchanged, Imrik follows the Priest to the house. The sun sets, a tall slender woman leaves the house. The guards know her.
Imrik tries to scry on the letter multiple times. The letter is still in the pocket that night.
=== 17th December, 1512 ===
By noon the next day, the letter is scryed to be in some type of office. On the table, are older letters from their mother, letters from others that are unclear, and a map of Wikkthronrarenta. The map is marked with places the McGarys often visit including their house, Tyrael's safehouse, the castle, and stable.
Brothers set a ruse and tell the mother they are going to Goldhill, and go to Fen Den instead, Imrik continues scrying and , there is a creature in the bed that emanates a faint magical aura.
Imrik naps. Anton casts and . They teleport to the scried room with their candle.
The place reeks of rotting bodies. Imrik casts for a necromancer. Anton smashes the head of the dead body on the bed. Nothing of interest in the room. Tyrael hears a distant beating sound through the door. Tyrael breaks open the door and kill the zombie holding it. Imrik's scrying eyes see an apparition of their father.
They go to the room Imrik seen, apparition does nothing. Tyrael senses a dragon a few miles away. Eyeballs come back, not all of them, they've come across a workshop, one of the eyes had been hit in the darkness, no necromancer.
When they reach the workshop, Anton casts Turn undead and undead flee. Anton drops the spell and they kill the undead, but they've made a ruckus. 6 skeletons continue working on the workshop. Anton kills them too.
Brothers continue exploring, Tyrael sets of a bell trap. They find a room with humans tied to crosses, and ask them a few questions and promise to free them later. Kralfort tries to convince Tyrael to slay the dragon nearby. 
Tyrael hears a sound of a room full of undead. They open the door, Imrik casts , Anton Turns Undead and they batter the remainder of the zombies. The room leads nowhere and they go back to the apparition. 
Anton casts and goes to talk to the apparition. The voice of their father 'greets' them. The walls fall around them and the swarm of undead, and undead spellcasters are revealed. 
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