TNoW - Session Six

Session #6 (14/02/1995) (07:00) NZDT.

**Location: Underground (Big Tent) Festival.**

Hemnon/Kieln/Nirn/Renoa/Raoul.

**Session Overview.**

The Party continues exploring the underground. They meet the “Butcher of Thay” and Kieln gains Truesight after a small communion with...something. Nirn dispels a spoopy magic circle. The party battles the “Butcher of Thay” using wild magic surges. Scuffins goes home. Nirn, Hemnon and Renoa fight 5 mages and Nirn and Hemnon roll deathsaves. Hemnon is saved by a necklace from Scruffins. Scruffins faints and we take her back to the Black Dog Inn.

**Notable Events:**

* The party explores the underground hallways discovering many traps and one caved in dead end. Nirn puts on the clown costume she took from the straw doll after the “performance” upstairs.
* The Party meets creatures who have used magic to look like their companions and are surprised upon being attacked by them.
* Nirn is teleported via a trap to a room with a very large magical circle on the ground with more crystal-like beasts in the center. There are strange women with almost familiar looking facial tattoos surrounding the circle. One of them opens an exit for Nirn and speaks to her in the Quori dialect “Hurry up now.” Nirn heads to the exit and just before the doors close behind her, she casts “Dispel Magic” on the circle - making the “women” hostile. Nirn then runs.
* A booming disembodied voice echoes down the hallways seemingly in response to the parties actions and sometimes in response: “You will thank me, between the screams.” “Those who stand behind you will share your fate.” “The Barons are not your masters, fear is.” “You belong in a grave.” Raoul angers the voice and is teleported to a room with many crystal-like beats and one large hulking figure. “The pain is a gift. You will fall so far.”
* Raoul discovers that the crystal-beats weaknees seems to be fire, while Hemnon attempts to placate the voice, deciding to “thank” it.
* Scruffins  breaks down the door to the room that Raoul is in to help him, unfortunately she is the target of a wild magic burst and is teleported somewhere. Raoul attempts to leave the room and the party learns that the hulking figures name is “The Butcher of Thay.”
* Meanwhile, Kieln has turned on Hemnon and Renoa, attacking them due to the influence of the mask he is wearing. Renoa attempts to rip the mask off of Kielns face but in unsuccessful.
* Kieln has a strange vision whilst under the influence of the mask, hearing a voice speaking to him: “You can now see the truth - You know what it is you must do - I wonder if you will be strong enough - Please be the hero of Thay.” Kieln gains Truesight and can now see flowing scripture on the hallway walls. This scripture seems familiar to him, from an ancient civilization that was buried under the Thunderpeaks.
* Kieln, Renoa and Hemnon arrive at the room with the Butcher to help Raoul. The party realizes that after defeating some of the crystal-like beasts, a wild magic surge affects the person who killed it. Hemnon uses these wild magic surges to defeat the Butcher and the crystal-beasts - now without a leader they seem to wander.
* Nirn catches up with the party and tells them of the circle. Nirn, Renoa and Hemnon decide to go back to investigate. During the fight with the strange “women” - Nirn and Hemnon are knocked down and roll death saving throws. Nirn succeeds and is stabilized, awakening while Hemnon fails and is in critical condition. Renoa is left to fight all 5 of the women. Nirn tries all of the healing options she has available after noticing that Hemnons heart is still very faintly beating. Nirn puts him on her back and rushes upstairs, attempting to contact Scruffins through the sending stone to inform her about what happened and ask for aid.
* The party arrives back at the fairground, Nirn asks Sweets if there’s any help he can provide. Sweets tells her that he can bring Hemnon back but with a different body. Before Nirn can decide, Scruffins appears using her blink rune and places a necklace on Hemon, which allows him to reroll his death saving throws. Hemnon is now stable, seeing a familiar moth as he returns. Scruffins dead faints and the party takes her back to the Black Dog Inn, after Nirn thanks Sweets.

**Notable Characters Met:**

* The Butcher of Thay - Deceased.

**Notable Characters Heard of:**