S - Session 004

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Kokabiel & Maleilei retuned from the Lotus Temple back to the Most Icy Cantina in Meridian on Sethrophos. They located a merchant in the plaza, happy to be rid of the Body Snatchers, who gave them good prices when they sold all the loot that taken from the aforementioned dead Body Snatchers. They prepared to return back to the Ork Vales, speaking to Freddy about the fact that Mal was going to be losing her magic weapon - and he offered to let her take Nightblood, but she was uninterested, as He is a bit of a responsibility. In conversation with "The Queen of the Slums," it became apparent that the dwarves are greatly swindling them on the price of these black lotuses. Ko & Mal get lots of different ideas on prices, but they range anywhere from the thousands of Gold, to the millions... always way more than what the dwarves were going to give them for them. The Queen tells them she was planning the robbery they did, and they botched it. She wants 30,000 gp from them to repay the debt, or they can do that much work for her.
They decided to skip town.
After leaving the Most Icy they were able to meet back up with THF Jones who took them back to the Ork Vales since they don’t know the way. About three days into the trip they were camping on the road and the Great Storm that had caused Maleilei to shipwreck on Meridian in the first place had finally gotten far enough inland that it was raging across the continent. This was odd because a storm should not be able to be that big... it should have blown out when it hit land... and it didn’t. Something magical and dangerous was true about the Great Storm. When they checked it out, they determined that it would be blowing in a very dangerous way for over a week. Without knowing what to do and having no way to save themselves, they ran into the woods, and found a ruined temple to take shelter in. Deciding they were still not going to make it, THF called in a favor from a Kayal fairy noble of The Raven Queen named Grawathin(Name? Ben has the exact name) by using a feather token. Ko & Mal were able to speak with the Fae. He agreed to protect them by putting a Globe of Invulnerability over the summoning circle that they had found in the ruins, Gave them a Hero's Feast, and semi-animated the five statues standing at the points of the pentacle so they could help defend if in case anything happened. 
Something happened. 
About four days into the rainfall the rain changed into a putrid necrotic rain that caused all of the bodies in the local cemetery to raise as zombies. They ringed up around and surrounded the area where Mal & Ko & the 3 axebeaks were hiding... and waited patiently, for days, outside in the rain, until the globe of vulnerability dropped.
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