Belkinus Necro Hunt Session 5: Lost Ones

Thumbnail featuring Avian Cali's initial art of Pierce Bloodstride

### Absolution and Lancel

We started off with  a bang last session with Luna’s sword going a little cray, trying to slam itself into a wall. We found out later that the room next to Luna's, room six, was Mirth’s room. She was concerned what the hell [they were] doing in there, initially thinking maybe [they were] working on something that maybe attracted metal, but we’ll come back on that later, because…

While Luna, Mirth, and Enoch were trying to investigate what the hell happened with her sword, Nathaniel and Renee were staging a wager to see if Renee could figure out who Lancel is. Y’all remember Lancel? Y’know, Nathaniel’s dragonborn son? Apparently a wager was made in which if Renee could not figure out that Lancel is Nathaniel’s son, she has to give up being an investigator and the intern gets to wear Nathaniel’s hat; a fate worse than death indeed.

### Bloodstride and Thorne

We found out Lancel had found a necromancy book with more notes from Kara Miharian, which I believe this one was the one that had details of black veins and a few different spells as well as what kind corpses were good to raise and which ones were not.

Juliana gave a lovely motivational speech to Enoch after Luna basically pushed him to go have breakfast with her. All of that was ruined when Bloodstride showed up to attack the town, or we thought to attack the town, but he was really just recruiting. Then Thorne showed up! Y’all remember Thorne, the [one] that the Viscount warned us out being like “Don’t approach them, they’re dangerous, have these banishment crystals they might hold [them] for a bit but not for long. They showed up, and started wrecking house and it was fine until they decided to kill Renee, we assume because Renee accidentally hit them with a *shatter*.

### The Protectors

After the fight Bloodstride, after nearly killing Nathaniel, noped out of there, all of two other necromancers got away, the rest were killed by Thorne, and then we found out Mirth was kidnapped because in that commotion the Protectors came which are a weird mercenary group that really don’t act like good swords for hire, they more intimidate people into hiring their protective skills. They came, took Mirth, and when we went after them we found out Mirth had been practicing necromancy. Not for any nefarious means that we could find, but they have been practicing necromancy. We managed to trade a fake fancy dagger, because of Renee’s magic, for Mirth, but that illusion’s going to run out in eight hours so we might have to deal with that later.

So we headed back, Nathaniel had a very emotional talk with Mirth, and we thought things were going to be okay. They were more or less let off the hook with a slap on the wrist and “do better.” Luna had some weird echo dad shit, Renee saw someone watching her through a window, and then Nathaniel and his son went to try and investigate Mirth’s room only for Lancel to get thrown across the hall and Mirth to walk away into a portal with Bloodstride.

## Banana Fact

This session's banana fact was: *A banana is, once picked, good for two to five days before it will ripen and go black and corrode from the inside. Or, you can store it in the fridge for five to seven. And if you cut it, it will go bad almost immediately, unless you store it in the fridge, in which case it will last for about two to three days anyway.*