Game Log 2020-10-22

The battle continues with Gray casting some mental barrage “Tasha’s wind whip” and twinned it!  Somehow his use of meta magic activated some of his items and he teleported across part of the map, and other amazing things happened!  Vimak took this time to unleash the mythical bacon spirits around himself, and the tide begins to turn for the Tribe.

Entropy again uses the forked tongue Rapier, and hears in his mind that “This soul is Marked for Another”.  Slightly befuddled by this, Me casts blight on a Zombie rotting its corpse away, and Allyria fades off into memories…  Memories of, a white plateau, that Hodwsorth took her to, and there a moon, and near it, above the treeline, a skeleton zombie dragon, flying towards her breathing out frozen poison death, and Allyria passes out.  Zel, seeing the panic in Evresh’s eyes at this, rushes to try to raise Allyria, to no avail, she remains out.

With that, again a noise behind the house, a whistle and suddenly brackish gray water shoots out and up and over some members of the Tribe, including Entropy who now has half movement from the lung filling nasty water.  Coughing and recovering the Tribe looks, as a massive Zombie comes around the corner of the house “Bolduc” barreling down on Emmaline, and again Entropy hears from his sword, that “He cannot be ours”.  Me drops a lightning storm on this new combatant, and he appears to absorb? The lightning, as it flashes in his eyes, and Ash turns, noticing that this was the Bosun from his old cursed ship, and Gray quickly casts slow on the battlefield, changing the entire course of the battle.

Back to Allyria’s vision, she sees Icey stairs leading up a mountain, as she climbs up towards… something.  Returning to our world, the zombie’s continue their onslaught with Me and Evresh getting afflicted with Blue Rot as well, and Boduc emanating some aura or annihilation at everyone around him, inflicting pain and terror in anyone near or who looks at him.  Arkenite makes quick work of two of the other Zombie’s as Ash and Entropy circle in on Boduc trying to steal the whistle from around his neck, with both failing, and Vimak turning undead, causing all but one of the undead to flee.

Returning to Allyria’s vision, she has climbed up the icey stairs to a door, that slowly opens, revealing a smiling Cheshire cat like visage, and as she wakes, she continues to see this image overlaid on the world and the battle.

The next session began with Boduc Frightened from Vimak’s Turn undead and Wolf sniffing the air, and whimpering that there is more smell of death all around.  Almost as soon as wolf smelled this, there is a bellow behind the house and 5 new zombies climb out of the water, attacking 5 others who were climbing out as well.  Five of these zombies appear (fresher?) not as sad as the others, and one of these is Addie.  These are the cursed zombie pirates, the more “sea” looking ones are the ones who sold themselves into this hell.

Of course, Addie bellows out “Maps”, and the battle continues with the new groups of zombies fighting each other.  The Tribe thinking they had the upper land now, look on in horror as the green death skull rose over the north part of the island and cast fireball on Boduc, hurting many members of the Tribe and breaking Boduc’s fear.  Vimak, sending the battle was turning sour, cast mass healing word on the party, and as the healing powers settled in, a gap in the clouds came from above, and snow? Flower petals rained down and Artemis herself drops in wearing black cloth with a yellow embroided rose on her back and wrapped wrists.  She landed in a three point super hero landing, and went to town on Boduc to accursed.  So.. Artemis is a monk now??!

Entropy again makes a grab at the necklace on Boduc’s neck, feeling cold sucking to his soul, the cold of lonlieness, despair, loss, and snatched the necklace away, running off out of Boduc’s range.  Arkenite turns and nonchalantly banishes the death skull, while Allyria, back awake and with us Drops a moonbeam on Boduc.  Boduc seeing this and Addie on shore, hisses at Addie, turns and runs off the island into the water, disappearing below the waves.  And again Entropy hears his sword say something completely normal… “Find me a worthy target, find one soon…”, while to conclude the night Arkenite again pulls out the Glaive to go torture Addie some more.

The Battle continues with Addie staring at Ash, and as his eyes glance over Entropy, Entropy hears “Deceiver” and a cloud rushes to Ash, entering with his breathe and Ash falls to the ground unconscious.  Addie continues his attack on Arkenite, who decided to grapple Addie instead of torture him this time, so…. Growth?

Zombies circle in on Ash, and as the Tribe works to take down Addie, Ash is downed and killed with a few quick hits from the zombies.  As the Tribe continues the fight, hoping they can reach Ash in time, the death skull returns and drops another fireball on the party, severely injuring many members of the Tribe.

Artemis, nimbly flies over trees, logs, rocks etc to rush up and meet the Skull.  She quickly dispatched the skull, and a mysterious red ribbon seemed to fall to the ground from the skull.  As Artemis was working, Gray and Emmaline inside the shack were unlocking the chest and locating the Relic.

When they returned, Me was mauling random Zombies and Evresh was rushing over to try to heal Ash, when with a thunk, Arkenite killed Addie.  As the life? Left Addie’s zombie corpse some essence of something zoomed across the battlefield and into Ash himself.

The zombies dispatched, Ash Dead, and the battle finished the Tribe looked to Vimak to raise Ash from the dead one more time, and as Vimak reached towards Ash through the Relic he felt, some essence of evil upon Ash.  Not knowing what this meant, Vimak proceeded with the Revivify spell, and as it took hold Ash came back to life growing massive wings with downy black feathers up and down them.  Revivify complete Vimak felt… a mass a undead around, and from the Relic a slight cracking, as if the Relic cannot be used too much or it would break.

Emmaline rushes to Vimak and bear hugs him, and the Tribe thinks how they can get off the island before more undead show up.  Ash is still down unconscious, winged, but unable to help pilot the boat.  To this dilemma Gray looks at the group and offered his, particular set of talents.  This is when the horrors began, Gray started to break? His bones and mold his body around, forming his body into an exact duplicate of Ash’s sleeping form, to the Tribe’s horror.  As a positive note, this did allow Gray to pilot the ship back, and with that The Tribe sailed back to Stilben, to see where the adventure would take them next.