Tombs of Scoria: Episode 61

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== Synopsis ==
The party, having escaped the Death Knight, heads to town to retrieve their supplies only to find them missing, with sled tracks leading away. As Tyrael and Imrik scout from the rooftops, Montem spots an ever-burning log in a house, while Imrik investigates the decrepit Temple of Martha and finds ominous papers about a looming darkness and letters detailing a blight. In town, they encounter skeletal warriors and blood knights. Amidst intense combat, they manage to retrieve their supplies but face a formidable Death Knight. Despite their efforts, including powerful spells and physical confrontations, they suffer heavy injuries and are forced to retreat, with Imrik polymorphed into a larva.
==Recap==
=== 22nd April 1513 (Day 16) ===
Having escaped from the Black Knight the previous night, the party heads towards town to get their things. Johnny says that they sometimes fought Bansheees during the day, but he doesn't know anyone that returned alive from a death knight. Upon seeing the warehouse, they notice sled tracks in the snow. Their supplies have been taken. 
Tyrael and Imrik climb the rooftops and scout ahead as they head through town in search of their supplies. Montem calls out an ever-burning log in one of the houses. In the middle of the Town square is the Temple of Martha. 
Imrik checks it out, the temple looks decrepit and burned, with stains on the walls, finds nothing salvageable. In the rooms of the preacher, the bed seems stuck to the wall, the Wand of doesn't work.
He finds some papers and reads through them. The few first pages are a strange sermon about upcoming darkness, decay, and burning heat.
There are a few personalized letters from a noble lady in the north. Letters talk about the blight, nymphs that are no longer there, the grand canals are not functioning, crops are failing. There is a mention of a queen or paladin: "If only her highness, her grace, Athena, were here to help us now ", and reference to the threat of 'minions'. Imrik grabs some books off the bookshelf. In the next room, there is a crying specter in robes, he pleads for something but Imrik doesn't understand. 
There are sledmarks going to the keep, and 6 skeletal warriors, 3 on each side. Imrik approaches the keep and shouts for the paladin, saying they are here for Velthara, Anton approaches and shows the amulet. Nothing changes. They head towards the keep, once they get closer the skeletons fire without warning. 
Combat start: Skeletons vs the Brothers. 
Imrik casts , but he can't fly. 
Tyrael races towards the portcullis with 3 skeleton spearmen behind the gate, he kills one skeleton and takes a hit. Imrik shoots the skeletons, but his piercing attacks don't do a lot of damage.
Imrik is the times, drops a skeleton, Tyrael almost kills one blood night. Anton finishes it off. Imrik takes one more hit. 
Jack tries to open the portcullis but is hit by a bloodknight. 
Imrik fires off a on skeletal archers, killing them. Tyrael climbs the wall but gives up. Anton kills the last blood knight, Tyrael helps Jack lift the portcullis. They go inside heal themselves. 
They run ahead to the other side of the portcullis, Jack is the only one hit by spearmen, but cannot lift the gate. They move back, and Tyrael climbs the wall.
Combat pause.
Tyrael drops the rope and they climb up. They can see skeletons and their supplies. Archers notice them.
Combat continues
Imrik drops the skeletal archers on their side. Other archers miss. 
Tyrael and Imrik trade blows with the archers. Blood knights go into the building.
All but 3 archers are down. Blood knights come up the staircase. Jack almost drops 1 blood knight in one blow, Anton finishes it off. 
Jack takes a huge hit, he obliterates the knight. Anton attacks with Spear of Rohana, stunning the knights. Jack smashes them to pieces. They drop the rest of the archers.
Combat end.
They head to the courtyard to reclaim their supplies. Jack pulls one sled out, the knights in the portcullis drop Jack, Anton drags him out and Imrik stabilises him. 
Anton gets Lord Kohn, Braengaeng and Vash. Imrik calls for Athena, suggests a parley, no answer. They pull out the one cart, put magical items on it. Imrik recasts , no effect, he casts on Tyrael. Anton gives him his circlet, but Tyrael doesn't want to wear it, so he gives him the Periapt of Wound Closure. 
Enlarged Tyrael prepares rope and climbs up one tower. As he starts to loop the rope around, a large sheet of ice drops over them, doing 9 damage. The knight has moved. They all drink the potions, Anton's doesn't work. Tyrael drinks an anti-magic potion.
Combat start: McGary brother(s) vs The Death Knight
Tyrael waits for the ice to drop and runs through with his Cloak of the Cheetah and jumps directly to the knight. The Death Knight has a symbol of Martha on her armor. Tyrael misses twice. The Death Knight drops a hemisphere of ice, blocking 2 of them in. Tyrael hits once for 9 damage.
Death Knight and Tyrael exchange blows. The knight is hit once. Imrik goes in.
Death Knight casts , breaking Enlarge and all potions on Tyrael, dispelling the sphere in the process. Tyrael jumps next to the Knight and gets hit, then hits her for 26 damage and once more for 14 damage.
Imrik runs in and misses. The Death Knight stuns Tyrael with Power Word Stun. She recedes into the castle. 
Imrik uses a polymorph potion. He turns into a larva and is stuck in this form. 
Anton pockets Imrik and climbs towards Tyrael. A fireball bursts into Tyrael for 37 damage. 
Anton sets Imrik down and runs towards the knight saying "Your fight is not with him, it's with me. I am Velthara's chosen. Come down here and fight me!" The Knight doesn't respond. He's stuck and can't enter the castle. Imrik tries to change form, no effect.
Tyrael's stun wears off and they flee back.
Combat end. Nobody is dead. Imrik is a larva.
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