9 Kythorn

* Tavok leads the players to an altar surrounded by three statues holding large bowls of blood that each have a decomposing arm in it.
* The altar is for the Demon Lord Doresain, and states:
	+ Blood Oath of Doresain
	+ *"A drop for devotion*
	+ *A cup for fealty*
	+ *A bowl for ascension"*

* Doros interprets this as:
	+ Drinking a drop of blood or eating a mouthful of flesh will grant a blessing
	+ Drinking a cup or eating an arm will make you a Harbinger of Doresain
	+ Drinking a whole bowl or eating an entire body will make you a ghoul
* Tez’ri cuts herself and drips blood on to the altar
* The blood is sucked into the altar and the bowls bubble as if there was blood added
* Threefist and Dar try to destroy one of the statues and Tez’ri unsheathes her weapons to try and stop them; at the same time, Muse is trying to eat an arm and Doros uses Mage hand to stop him.
* The barbarians succeed in slightly moving the statue and blood spills everywhere; Muse grabs the arm out of that bowl and takes a bite.
* Three Ghouls, two Ghasts and a Maurezhi crawl out of the ground, though are not immediately hostile; Muse feels unbearably hungry
* Tez’ri tells the enemies that she is touched by Doresain and the party will remove themselves without bloodshed, Muse tells the enemies that he is trying to swear fealty and Tez’ri is trying to stop him. This is all spoken in Abyssal
* The enemies become hostile and prepare to attack the party
* Tez’ri takes her Tankard of Sobriety and drinks a full cup of blood, and orders the Ghouls to halt in abyssal
* Tez’ri becomes gaunt, as if her body had been sucked dry, and her eyes begin to glow green.
* The Ghouls become passive and prepare to dodge attacks
* The Ghasts and Maurezhi move on Threefist and attack him
* Muse sticks his whole face into a bowl of blood and begins to drink
* Tez’ri tells the enemies that they will leave peacefully if they stop attacking the party, and orders the Ghouls to stand in the corner, all in abyssal
* Doros casts Fireball on the remaining enemies and Muse, shaping the spell around Travok, Dar, and Threefist.
* The enemies are slain in combat with the party, and Muse is knocked unconscious by Threefist as he was continuing to consume past one cup of blood
* Muse is now gaunt with glowing green eyes as well
* The party discusses where to go from here, they decide to destroy the altar
* Tez’ri orders the ghouls to return to Doresain, speaking in abyssal, and they burrow into the ground again
* Tez’ri and Muse’s alignments have changed to Chaotic Evil
* The party destroy the altar, except for Tez’ri who wants no part in it, and Muse who is unconscious
* No change is detected when the altar is destroyed
* The party continues away until Muse wakes
* Tez’ri attempts to control Muse but senses that he is simply another harbinger and not a ghoul
* The party takes a short rest and Threefist asks Muse why he would do such a thing, he responds that he was just so hungry (though does not explain why he bit into it in the first place)
* Travok continues to lead until he stops and screams for exactly nine minutes, and the party can’t make him stop
* After nine minutes, Travok stops and says he saw nightmares all around him, but carries on leading
* The party continues until they find many trees cleared and a camp with 20-foot wood walls surrounding it.
* The party sneaks up to the encampment and begin scouting around the camp, Toby flies over it
* Muse hears the Gnolls talking about going out to find and eat the intruders in the forest (the party)
* Muse shouts from the South side of the camp, “My friend said he say them to the East two days ago,” in Gnoll
* The Gnolls hear this and begin to leave the camp from the North, South, and West, as there is no exit on the Eastern side.
* Doros casts Fireball and kills the majority of the Gnolls
* Muse charms one of the leader Gnolls
* Tez’ri sneaks in and attempts to free some of the human slalves
* The remaining party members begin to pick off the remaining enemies
* Three ghouls burrow out of the ground, though Muse and Tez’ri do not sense any ghouls nearby
* The party kills the rest of the enemies
* Tez’ri frees some slaves by picking the locks on their chains, Dar cuts the chains off the rest
* Muse and Tez’ri note that the Ghouls were marked by Yeenoghu, and deduce that they can only control Doresain’s Ghouls
* The party agrees to take the slaves with them, and the slaves tell the party of a pool of corrupted water that the Gnolls have been using as a portal to delve to obtain slaves
* The party spends the night in safety in the Gnoll camp
* As the party is heading back Tez’ri and Muse stop
* Tez’ri is stuck in her thoughts and becomes paralyzed, standing still, until Threefist slaps her and she returns to her normal mind
* Muse falls unconscious, and no one can wake him for a couple hours
* The party then make it back to the council with no further issues
* The party is awarded with 250 GP and 12 Delverite
* Muse and Tez'ri receive a message stating that they are now Harbingers of Doresain and that they can recruit Ghouls to defend their strongholds