Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 22

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==Synopsis==
After level-ups, the Party go into Father Hinton's crypt. The party break in and head inside. The party bypass all the traps and make it to the sarcophagus. Grau finds a mural of forest gnomes he knows from his forgotten being captured by Father Hinton.
==Recap==
===Experience===
Renatus
* 12,025 exp
* Level up to level 6
* +8 HP (22 Max HP)
* 15 Points Move Silently/15 Points Open Locks
Arachis
 12,925 exp 
 Level up to level 5 
 +4 HP (19 Max HP) 
 Learned: , 
 Failed: 
Auguste
* 12,495 + 10% = 13,744.5 exp (24,305 exp total)
* Level up to level 5
* +7 HP (31 Max HP)
* Glaive Weapon Master
Grau
* 5,725 exp (16,550 exp total)
* Level up to level 5
* +3 HP (29 Max HP)
Stacy (NPC Squire)
* Becomes a Level 1 Fighter
===Back together===
November 21, 1523. The party reconvince back in the town of Swampside. They are talking about the number of their followers. Stacy (The Squire), the 2 Laborers, and the 4 former Fetters Hot Springs Solders. The party need to make payments but they are broke. Renatus takes a loan to cover the current costs, but more payments are needed at the start of December.
Arachis fails again.
Grau and Auguste explain the tomb of Father Hinton they want to break inside. That Grau was directed there by the Goddess Nadinis. Hopefully there is money inside the tomb.
===Return to the Tomb===
December 2, 1523. The party arrive back at Father Hinton's tomb 5 hours outside of the village of Sundem. The tomb is now unguarded.
The followers set up camp as the party look at the tomb. Arachis casts at the entrance, revealing a on the door. The Moon Rune is of Ponos and symbol of a pair of doors ajar with an axe above, a symbol Arachis can't recognise that is a flat-panel, below them all is a a left arrow.
Arachis gets one of the former Fetters Hot Springs guards to touch the door while thinking of Ponos, but nothing happens.
Renatus does a walk around of the burial mound. He figures at sunset the sun would perfectly shine on the entrance of the tomb. At the equinox the sun would be in the perfect position. 
Grau, in Human form, casts for the first time. He makes a hole in the door with the spell. Before heads inside Renatus checks for traps and finds a trap connected with the doors opening. Renatus disarms the trap. It is an axe trap above the door, which seems to be what the moon runes were hinting at.
Grau casts on Auguste's Glaive, then Auguste craws in the hole first. The party follow afterwards.
===Inside the Tomb===
The party are in a dark corridor. Auguste leads the way. Renatus tries to use a wall sconce to see if it reveals a secret but nothing occurs.
The next trap the party encounter is a pit hidden by an illusion of normal floor. The party walk around the pit and continue. 
The party get to the end of the corridor and it spits in 2 directions. Renatus detects a trap on the floor at the intersection. A pressure-plate trap. The party believe this was also a warning from the moon runes. They decide to turn left, like the moon runes suggested.
The party come to a door. August opens the door and heads inside first. He seems the room with the sarcophagus. There is a font of water on one wall. Some comfortable seating, a desk and a chair and a treasure chest. There are murals on the walls. The others come into the room.
Arachis casts and detects 10 magical potions on the shelves. Auguste puts them in the Bag of Holding. (Labelled as 2 Healing, 2 Poison, 4 pain suppression, 2 neutralise poison).
Grau is drawn to one of the murals, the one of the western wall. The mural shows a grove of trees that Grau recognises. In the mural there are trees being cut down, forest gnome doors in the trees, some cages, a human cleric of Ponos shown leading the destruction of the grove. Forest gnomes are being captured and put in the cages. Grau is certain it is a real place and he has been there. He feels a familiar connection with the forest gnomes. It feels like his family is being capture and taken away. Grau has the memory of the forest gnomes being treated badly and interrogated. Grau is overwhelmed and cries. Arachis comforts Grau.
Grau becomes very angry, but stops himself from destroying anything.
Grau, looking at the mural, turns into Gnome form. He compares his reflection with the images of the gnomes. 
The party open the sarcophagus. Inside is the mummified body of Father Hinton. Grau prays for guidance.
Auguste opens the treasure chest. It is full of 5000 silver coins, with a note:
: For the cost of repairs. Thieves will face the wrath of Ponos in the afterlife.
The threat of the curse scares the party. Renatus is against taking the coins, but Auguste is fine doing so.
Arachis is worried the mummified body will animate. Auguste pokes the dead cleric with his glaive. Auguste finds there are 5 gems wrapped within the mummy bandages, as well as an expensive amulet of Ponos. Auguste takes amulet and the gems and carries the body out of the tomb and dumps it outside.
The party then start to loot what they can the tomb. There are many high quality items here. Renatus chooses 2 of the hirelings to take the cursed chest. Auguste however helps with the cursed chest.
There is also books, an expensive rug, gold, silver, candelabras, jars of spices & salt, and the torture tools. The gems are 2 violet, 1 bands of red/white, one is translucent apple green, the last is Turquoise.
===Looting===
Auguste sends Stacy into the nearby village of Sundem to buy a cart and bring it back. Everyone loads up the cart.
Auguste entirely unwraps the mummy. The party then take the body half an hour deeper in the woods to let nature take it. They end up in a meadow near a creek. Grau gives a prayer to Nadinis and feels her presence. Grau feels at peace.
The party return to the tomb. Grau seals up the tomb with , but added a Symbol of Nadinis.
The party and their follows leave with their loaded cart. 
===Visiting Autumn===
December 7, 1523. The party arrive at Autumn's Tower. She is out in her garden when the party arrive. Grau speaks with Autumn about what he discovered in Father Hinton's tomb. Autumn claims to know nothing about this event.
Autumn tells what she knows of Father Hinton. He worked for the Bannerless Army before they were the Army of Voraci or the Voraci Empire. That he was an interrogator and torturer. 
But she suspects this event took place in I' Yaara Oryn, but warns that I' Yaara Oryn has becomes cursed and is patrolled by flying undead in chariots. Autumn calls forest gnomes inconsequential creatures. She doesn't know where any surviving forest gnomes would have fled.
Auguste asks how Autumn knows Lady Zarrah, and Autumn just says she know of one-another, but aren't friends. Arachis brings up the fireflies, and Autumn deflects.
Autumn gives Arachis some advice about being a kept wizard verse being a free wizard. To be truly free be further outside of civilization.
Autumn goes back to talking with Grau. She says Grau is one of her only friends, and is here if he needs anything. 
Arachis checks the amulet of Ponos from Father Hinton and finds it is non-magical.
===Grau's Gnome Form Mystery===
That night Grau realises he is still in gnome form. It seems he slept as a gnome and didn't revert into a bear.
Grau wonders if this has been happening ever since he found the mural in the tomb.
Grau does a test. He turns into a bear, and is able to turn back into a gnome. Grau goes back to bear and finds he cannot go back to gnome again. He was only able to turn into a gnome once per day before.
Grau tests with Orc form, and is only able to turn into an Orc one time.
Grau does more tests and finds that he can only sleep in Gnome Form, and not Human or Orc.
===Back to Swampside===
The party get back to swampside. Renatus pays off his debts.
It is now December and the party have more bills to pay. The party pay up their bills until January 1.
Arachis wishes to go back to Sigris Shadowhand's Tomb and try to learn three level 3 spells from the walls of the secret chamber. 
Arachis asks Grau to make him a darkness stone, by casting the reverse of on a stone.
Auguste sells the stolen goods for 597 silver 5 copper. He keeps the Amulet of Ponos hidden for now to sell far away. The gems are not sold.
==Experience==
No experience given for the events of this episode.
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