Game Log 2020-07-07

he Tribe spent an entire week planning out how to finish this mighty Heroic battle with Haster and down this worthy foe.  Discussions were had about how tactically to revivify Vaulk; whether we put up a wall of bodies to protect Vimak and Vaulk, or try to end the fight early to have time to still revivify him, and many other options were discussed.  Additionally, the Tribe discussed how to maximize their damage and put this Haster down permanently.

With that, the fight began, Arkenite took his shots and…. Haster died in round 1 to the first attacker.

Before dying Haster, made a quick statement looking at Arkenite, at peace almost, alluding to the champion rising again.

Quickly the Tribe began to rush to Vaulk imploring Vimak to revivify Vaulk.  To that Vimak cast Cure Wounds.  Aghast the Tribe begged Vimak to please revivify Vaulk before time ran out, and again Vimak cast cure wounds, and the 60 second timer expired, along with Vaulk….

The Tribe was stunned, and quickly began to barrage Vimak with questions on why he didn’t revivify Vaulk and what happened.  Vimak then told the group that Sarenrae, when he had resurrected Vaulk previous, had stripped the power of resurrection from him, when she granted him that boon.  He reminded the Tribe of them seeing his ephemeral wings burned away when Vaulk was previously resurrected.  Stunned the Tribe was around the corpses unsure of what to do, when a blue mote shot out of Vaulk’s body directly into Arkenite.

Some members of the Tribe went towards Vaulk to try to comfort his body, his corpse, and Me started growling, not allowing anyone to come close to Vaulk’s body.

Entropy, furious stabbed his rapier through Hasters neck, and began to saw his head off, angerly, while the Tribe slowly turned to watch Haster’s body turn to smoke, tornado around Ashe and Ashe started to lose his god-damned mind.  Ashe started convulsing, his eyes going beady and red, and he brought his hands up around his head screaming.  Slowly, Ashe gained control of himself, and shook off the death of Haster without gaining another corruption point.

The Tribe was stunned by this, on top of the death of Vaulk, and most of the Tribe was sitting in the battle chamber unable to really make sense of what happened here.  Entropy, unable to handle the situation called out to Allyria asking her if she wanted to help him raid Haster’s rooms, as Entropy needed to kill or steal something to take his mind off this disaster.  Entropy and Allyria found a chest in Haster’s room containing, 5,000 gold, an array of Ermine trimmed clothes, and a bolt of copper cloth.  Additionally, they found some misc notes on the nightstand, a whistle and an adorable puppy bed.  They took all of these items and went back to the rest of the Tribe with these items, with Allyria and then Evresh working to convince Entropy not to blow the whistle until they knew more about the item.

While walking back through the room, the group has convinced Me to let them load Vaulk onto her massive Polar Bear back, and that they were ready to return to the Anakatholi.  While walking back through the room, Entropy screamed out at the gibbering mouther and unleashed two Eldritch Blasts at the rotting corpse, and the Tribe left the caves, catching up to Edhror on the hill overlooking the caves they left him at, and downtrodden they returned to the Anakatholi camp.

Upon arrival, the horrors of the day had Not concluded.  The spirit barrier was down, and the Anakatholi were a mess.  The Tribe rushed towards Hadriel to find out what happened and if the Anakatholi were ok.  They found a weakened Hadriel in his tent, who told Vimak that the spirts of the ancestors have left the barrier, that something had happened at the cemetery that Vimak has previously worked at, to release the spirits and let them move on.  Vimak, distraught rushed with Ashe off the cemetery before remembering it was near midnight now, and the cemetery was hours away, and turning around heading back to the Tribe in the camp.

The Tribe then met some new residents of the Anakatholi camp, a goliath named Grog Strongjaw and 5 riflemen from the north, sent at Evresh’s request from Whitestone.  Entropy, not fully trusting Arkenite, seeing another goliath here, gave the rag pile to Grog to throw to create a resting place (again) for Vaulk, and he complied, throwing the blankets creating the largest fort yet seen from the blanket pile.  The Tribe then brought Vaulk’s corpse into this fort, thinking this would be a peaceful resting place for Vaulk, instead finding the largest pillow bar / brothel this side of Emon.

At that point, the session ended, with the Tribe broken and lost and questions arising about who is holding out what information.