Bok's Test: A Test of Mettle

10th April 2023

## Adventurers Attending

* Bok
* John Cartwright
* Horatio Hammerfell
* Bane Lyons - Played by Morv

## Mission Notes

As evening falls and the rain drums on the chapel roof, Bok hears a knock on the door. On opening, the priest of Kelemvor is met by a tall, slightly stooped and grey bearded figure who asks after the god. Taking the stranger in out of the rain, Bok sits and talks, explaining about Kelemvor, his history and godhood, how he takes people calmly across the vital divide between life and death.

After an hour the man asks Bok to accompany him to the door which the priest does and then watches the man walk purposefully across the graveyard. As the figure walk through the rain and mist, he seems to slowly change, forming four legs and becoming what seems, in the gloom and mist, to be a huge black panther. Approaching the entrance to a family crypt, the Blackwood Tomb.

Hurrying to the tomb Bok is met, close to the entrance by two fellow guild members: the heavily armed giff, Horatio and a haggard wizard usually called John. And leaning against the entrance to the crypt is a hooded figure in armour, sword at his side, a stranger to the Guild members and, indeed, to the world itself.

Venturing into the tomb Bok and his new aides encounter three skeletal figures sat beneath an inscription about their life. It seems that Horatio and John, had experienced dreams that linked to these inscriptions, but this didn’t release the revenant whose vengeance was based on hate not misunderstanding.

A door reveals itself and, passing through the door Bok and his friends find themselves in a strange, mist-riddled place. In the middle of a glade through dark woods, a woman weeps over a casket. On approaching the woman, eyes dark from tears, thrusts a scroll at Bok. “Save my child “, she screams, “make my baby live.” Bok’s wisdom prevails as he tries to calm the woman, explain that death is not to be feared that when our time is come, it is our time. The child in the casket, dead from what the woman calls the ‘hot fever’, is gone, there is no saving.

Everything changes as the woman transforms into a grim, white shade and the child to a biting monster. Doing battle against these shades Bok and his friends are triumphant. But not without scars.

Bok continues along the path through the grey and misty woods towards a strange white, marble tower. Before the tower stands a priestly figure, who welcomes Bok and invites him to believe that death is for the powerful to enjoy and that eternity is not a lie. Rejecting this heresy Bok calls on the dark priest to reject his dark attachment. The sky darkens and the spectral warriors defending the evil priest attack. As the wizard, John, near embraces death, Horatio’s rain of bullets brings down the priest of Myrkul and Bok enters the strange marble tower.

As Bok enters the tower, the strange accomplice walks up to the crystal throne within the room. His appearance transforms into the figure of Kelamvor: “Bok, do you trust me to be who I appear to be?” Bok recognises his God and his authority. The avatar of Kelemvor rewards Bok with the sword that hovered, seemingly unsupported, above the strange crystal throne. “Take this with my blessing, you have served me well”.

## Loot

* Standard Session Xp & Gold
* Bok's sword: The Acolyte of Kelemvor - *+1 sword when used by a cleric or paladin of Kelemvor. Otherwise just a magic sword. When laid on a recently deceased body the sword has the effect of the Gentle Repose spell. 1/day the sword's wielder (if they are a cleric or paladin of Kelemvor) may, on a successful hit, smite the target (2d8)*