Disturbance in Hollyhead

24th November 2022

## Adventurers Attending

* Sharian Naetris
* Giff
* Karn Ironfist
* Rain

## Mission Notes

As the afternoon rides along uneventfully in the city of Othas Rest.

when the tone of the city suddenly changes with the faster toll of the guild hall high priority alarm bell.

Sharian is Relaxing in the sun up on pick nick hill. when the bells go off. with a fast scrying over the city he quickly rules out anything local and heads off to the guild hall. for adventure.

Karn is Musing through The nearby Central Gardens, in reflective thought over the flower arrangements and statues. when the bells go off he immediately knows its a high priority alert from the guild hall he rushes off knowing some ones in trouble.

Rain Arthur. is busy down by the black smith picking up on the local gossip while making use of some free warmth. when the bells begin her friend says " well you best be off then" perhaps he is getting behind on his work as Rain heads off.

Jiff after his 13th round of toast is having a laydown in his room when the bells begin his eyes scan around to find his armour and hurriedly gets ready.

Reaching the Guild houses Beefington with a big smile on his face Presents the information received from hollyhead.

the message is short. The mayor is requesting Urgent help his daughter has got caught up in an incident, with double the guild rates to rescue her alive. Authorizing immediate use of the teleport monolith to Hollyhead.

The team rushes of and with a few command words Sharian gets the portal open and they step through into Hollyhead.
Suddenly Beset from all sides by whining arguing fighting nobles and guards, With a roaring voice Rain causing a few seconds silence Which Karn Takes advantage off to persuade them to calm down. Getting them to tell what they know. Ellena and the sheriff are both involved now at the girls place of work an antique shop.

reaching the shop they find the girl frozen looking down at the pages of an evil looking book. The sheriff grabbing her shoulder in a stretched awkward pose frozen just like her. trying to break to bond of the book over them almost works but as Rain checks the now fallen victims, There alive but seem soulless.

Quick thinking Karn re-establishes the link with the 2 victims, Rain getting too close and with some energy transferring from him and into the book. deciding that going in is now there best option Karn grabs Sharian and in they both go.

Jiff not wanting to be left out decides what the hell and he joins them inside the book.

Arriving in a pitch dark chamber there eyes adjust and jiff slides his goggles on. Seeing the panicked sheriff in the corner of the room waving his arms asking who's there.

Lighting up a lamp so the poor chap can see, he is relived and glad to see help arrive he tags along staying at the back and out of the players thoughts.

reaching a few dead ends in a row not sure where to go Jiff spots a small hexagonal hole in the wall, Karn and Sharian jerry rig a crank and with a few turn the wall moves out of the way. taking the new path.
Suddenly a headless knight Rides around a corner taking the group by surprise and attacking jiff before fleeing through a wall. Rain becomes annoyed by the time the knight attacked them for a 3rd time and now she keeps an arrow trained on the flanks.

sticking to Sharian's plan of staying left they happen upon a tiny hobbit door. fiddling with the door they hear a deep booming voice of something giant from the other side. Demanding that the team had better be real. bursting the door open showering Sharian in flying splinters seeing the pain and the blood the Giant Yeti is happy to finally have company. Finding out that the yeti was once a small being simular to the party but he had drunk a potion from the nearby rack of potions and then was stuck in this room unable to fit back out through the door. Seeing that he holds a crystal needed to escape the team promise to come back and help him to escape once they find the other hostages.

Continuing north but still sticking to the left through some form of necrotic toxin storage area and into a locked back room. finding some gear and a hidden passage through to a room flooded with the toxins. Spotting a hidden safe in the far corner And flying over on his broom Sharian hovers to give the extremely difficult safe a quick go. Narrowing Cracking the safe To find just 1 single sealed letter. Cracking the seal and opening the ancient looking document.

It is pact magic between 2 people and some dark lord. The owner is Right To hide this so well. but not well enough. Pocketing the document the team continue onwards finding a crank in a wall, turning the crank seemed to move a wall somewhere?? a Few more left turns later they come to a larger corridor outside Giant 20ft high iron Gates to a chapel of some sort.
listening to the voices on the other side for a moment to gauge what is going on. with several prominent voices from both ends of the room and a lot of muffled voices sounds like a congregation of people. getting ready for some ceremony. with there intrigue peeked Jiff Shoves the giant door and it swings half open. several Pews full of Ghasts Looking right at him. With a command from the front to Defend me. The room comes alive with movement towards combat.

with a standoff at the 1 slightly open doorway as the ghasts pile in blocking entry and 4 skeletal archers coming upto view and firing over the top. Deciding to push Jiff mistysteps into the room and can now see the full force there up against or so he thinks. 10 ghasts and a wight in command rushing the doors 4 archers and some kind of evil spell caster trying to turn on some kind of machine.

He also spots the girl Elena tied to a triangular pyramid in the close corner of the room. He Also spots the sheriff tied to a triangular pyramid in the far corner of the room.

Knowing his cover is blown The Fake sheriff Turns back into a Jiangashi and begins to attack the wizards at the back as at the same time the Headless knight Rides in from behind the join him. Rain Angry that they enemy have been so clever Lets out a Psychic rage! Causing almost all ghasts and archers to flee from him as she re balances the odds into her favour.

Sharian Quickly Rips up the Pact hoping the creatures there fighting are so named. Thankfully one of them was and the headless knight shrieks as he sees Sharian tear it up Dissolving into a black cloud that heads straight into the phylactery. With Karn Blowing the last few fearless ghasts to pieces and flying into the room as the Lich caster reanimates Many of the dead foes and the team is outnumbered once more.

The new fodder dose not last long as Sharian Begins his Blade song and with a few flashes from foe to foe he cuts his way into the room Leaving Rain to deal with the Vampire problem outside. Rain hammers on the vampire and yelling out to his comrades if they need help in there.

With a Mysterious eye appearing in the room and looking around as the Devkarin lich continues to try and flee from jiff and reanimating defenders fleeing to a safer corner of the room.

the Vampire forces rain to follow him as the vampire wants the wizard and so rushes into the room peppered with arrows Rain stops him with a few killing Blows.

As a Female Lich Wearing extremely bright colours Dimension doors next to her eye high near the ceiling enters the fray. the eldritch lich stuns jiff who is then bundled to the floor by the last ghast. and with a psychic whisper paralyzes both Rain and Sharian.

Karn Now fighting alone. Thinking he was saved by her the devkarin lich absorbs energy from friend and foe but it wasn't enough as karn bullies his way to him through several opportunity attacks to pin the lich in and after several thunder waves the lich is felled.

With jiff stunned still the Eldrich lich although now alone has no choice but to fight to the death then proceeds to Focus on infecting Karn with a parasite hoping to turn him into her control while paralyzing Rain and Sharian.

Luckily Sharian and rain manage to Stave off the Psychic onslaught and fight on. Her plan Foiled and finally slain withering into a black slug that crawls unrelentingly towards the phylactery.

in the end the team had to deal with 12 ghasts 2 wights 8 skeletal archers 4 ghouls and a devkarin Lich while ambushed by jiangashi and dullahan at the back and a Eldrich lich coming on late.

Tired and wounded the team untie the hostages who are thankful and not sure what's going on however thankfull to be rescued. The team now focus on finding as much loot as possible and further investigate the device and bodies.
Karn disabling the device the lich was using hammer and chisel style, which was being powered by a javelin of lightning he adds to the horde. Picking up the brightly coloured robe the eldrich had been wearing confident the other nasty's are looted as he sees Sharian pluck a medallion of thoughts from the dead devkarin lich.

Continuing on with there staying left policy and breaking down a few doors later they find the main bed chambers with many crypts and a sodden bed and clustered bedroom full of wizardly items.

After many dead ends and left turns the team arrive back at the starting chambers knowing the way back to the yeti from there they make haste to there new friend. Sharian luckily having enough power left to polymorph him into a smaller yeti capable of fitting through the hobbit sized hole in the wall.

Back at the entrance they get the jewels inserted and the circle on the floor releases there souls back to there bodies with a whizz.

With no Body to go back too the Yeti transforms into a spirit of a dwarf who gruffly says thanks very much as he fades off. The poor girl collapsing having been in there hours., she is well enough and is quickly wrapped up and taken by her father with the thanks and confirming the guilds double duty.

With there job done the team heads back to teleport home and report back to Beefington with a Large haul of magic items, Beefington will be most pleased.

## Loot

* Standard Gold and Experience x2 (2 session adventure)
* Lich's tome that casts revivify on death (A), Potion of Lightning Resistance, Medallion of Thoughts - Karn
* Horn of Blasting, Scintillating Rob of Colours - Rain
* Demon Armour, Scroll - Shocking Grasp, Scimitar of Speed - Jiff
* Ring of Shooting Stars, Wand of Fireball - Sharian

## Rumours

* Karn keeps Lich's tome to give to his master - What's he up to?
* Rumour someone should find out where she got this book from are there other such items to be found where it came from?