Nin’s Revenge

2nd June 2023

## Adventurers Attending

* Sharian Naetris
* Grrder
* Tas
* Bearhugger
* Aloissius Bellum; Dragon Slayer
* Bosu

## Mission Notes

The group, bar Grrder met up and decided to go for a bite to eat. Towards the end of the meal a wave of exhaustion passed over them as the world turned black. They fell unconscious as they felt translocated to a yet unknown location.

Grrder, pottering around the forge began to question whether setting Nin and her son up in an abandoned house in town was a good idea. She did swear revenge on the guild after Aloi killed her son (briefly) after all.

Walking to the aforementioned house, Grrder knocks on the door as the setting sun cast violent shadows across the street. The unlocked door creaked open, with no response from inside the building. Grrder stepped forward into the pitch black, feeling much the same as the others felt when they were transported.

Awakening in the pitch black, feeling the effects of exhaustion, Tas looked though the eyes of Lil Pomp, who’s sight could penetrate the darkness. Bosu was crouched in a corner, shaking from his fear of darkness. Unpin awakening full Bearhugger produced fire to light the room. What would normally have produced a bright light only dimly lit the room. Upon illuminating the interior, a group of spectral ghosts rose from the floor who were quickly dispatched.

Seeing three doors the adventures chose one and proceeded though. Facing them was a fireplace, with a rather macabre portrait of Nin, sat in a throne of bone wearing a skeletal crown affixed with an amethyst. In her hand was Alois decapitated head, an Opal shoved in his mouth. The others lay dead at her feet, each holding a different gem stone.

On investigating the fireplace Bosu found a partially burned piece of a runic dictionary. Using this they deciphered an engraving below the image reading “Death”.

They detected magic behind the fireplace, attempting several ways to open the secret alcove including feeding it blood by writing open and death on it with Bosu’s cut finger. Eventually the party realised that the different gems could be used to spell out death. Pressing a diamond, emerald, amethyst and thomsonite (the only gem I could find that began with th). The team were engulfed with fire as the empty fire place sprang to life. Eventually they realised that with the other gems, Opal, emerald and Nuummite they could spell open. This revealed the alcove behind in which a engraved cat skull sat on a plinth. Although apprehensive about pick it up, they did. There was no trap.

Heading back the way they came they entered another room. As soon as all of them were inside the floor disappeared and they plummeted down. And kept falling. They quickly worked out that the fall seemed endless, reasoning that they were actually suspended on air, with the feeling of falling being some form of magical effect. They again tried multiple ways out of this endless fall, until one of them decided to light a torch, dropping it to the ground. This revealed that the floor was in fact just out of reach the whole time, and as soon as the torch hit the floor they fell a short distance reaching the bottom.

Finding two chests in the room the team seemed naturally wary of approaching for fear of traps. Finding a key on the first chest, they eventually opened it, finding it over flowing with keys. The second chest had a multitude of locks, after trying a process of elimination to no avail Bosu transformed him self into a small spider, entering the second chest though a lock. Finding a rat skull inside, similarly engraved to the cat, he looked for any internal mechanisms.

Finding non he crawled back out of the chest. In a fit of annoyance, or a flash of inspiration, Aloi emptied the first chest of keys, finding yet another lock at the bottom he used the skeletal key, which opened the second chest allowing them to retrieve the skull. The team moved forward, finding a locked door with more runes to one side spelling “held short.”

After fiddling round with the skulls trying to use them to open the door by holding them shortly(?). The group decided they had missed something in the 3rd door in the 1st room. Heading back they Entered the final room they had access to.

Upon entering they found a wall to wall mirror. They watched in horror as their reflections decayed in front of them, becoming shambling zombies. On the other side of the mirror was a plinth with yet another skull, a conjoined snake head. Bosu went up to the mirror, as his zombie reflection copied his movements. Attempting to pass his hand though the mirror his hand met the desiccated flesh of his reflection. Tas quickly worked out that as the skull it’s self had no presence in this room, there would be nothing to impede it passing to this side. She mimicked picking up the skull, her zombie self copying the action, allowing her dead self to pass the relic though the mirror to herself.

Going back to the room with the locked rune door, Tas had had time to work out that Held Short was an anagram for threshold. Aloi on discovering the runes could be moved spelled it out, opening the door.

They then encountered a seemingly endless staircase. Which Bosu and Aloi decided in a fit of brilliance to walk I. Opposite directions while the rest of the party stayed put. Upon reaching the bottom of the staircase Aloi found himself at the top, while Bosu looped round back to the group. After everyone transversed the staircase they entered the first room of the upper floor.

Aloi became very attached to a chaise lounge and preceded to sit down. As the others progressed though the room a gibbering mouther fell from the ceiling. This was easily dealt with, Tas using her eldritch blasts to push it to a corner where everyone was outside of its area of effect, then Aloi just chucking two lighting javelins at it, decimating it before it could make a move.

In the final room they found a black altar. Engraved in abyssal was the name Azarios. Placing the skulls in depressions on the altar the team successfully dispelled what ever curse was on the place, releasing a shadow demon in the process. Ravien decided to talk it into leaving, offering to hunt down Nin who had bound it to the altar to power her spell. Aloi decided to load his crossbow. After a brief fight where the demon decided to flee the adventures descended to the first floor. In the first room a trapdoor had opened leading to a roughly hewn basement and tunnel leading out of town. Finding far more goblin foot prints than they expected they decided that the tracks where too old to follow and went back to the pub to finish their meal.

## Rumours

* Will Grrder ever learn to not take on stays who vow vengeance on the guild.
* Will Nin return for more vengeance?