Feb 14, 2025 3:08 pm
Will spends the downtime securing the room, then taking inventory of the treasure chest.
Mistamere Castle
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Feb 14, 2025 8:06 pm
Boudica shivers and turns around quickly, startled by the feeling.
Rolls
Save vs Spells (15, with a +1 to magic saves from Wisdom) - (1d20)
(17) = 17
Feb 14, 2025 8:46 pm
Boudica could sense the presence of the ghost, even if she couldn't see her. A suffocating pressure pushing against her will, trying to wrest control of her body. Had the ghost succeeded, you have no doubt she would have used your body for some unspeakable dark purpose.
Drgwen - Feel free to describe the mental struggle and how Boudica reacts to the possession attempt. Once the ghost has been rebuked, she is forced to retreat, at least for the time being.
What would the rest of the party want to do? You have a chest full of treasure, and other precious items you picked up. Do you try to put the spirits to rest, or leave with what you've already found?
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Drgwen - Feel free to describe the mental struggle and how Boudica reacts to the possession attempt. Once the ghost has been rebuked, she is forced to retreat, at least for the time being.
What would the rest of the party want to do? You have a chest full of treasure, and other precious items you picked up. Do you try to put the spirits to rest, or leave with what you've already found?
Feb 14, 2025 9:22 pm
Boudica turns and senses a presence stream into her. She falls out of the chair to her knees and screams an old curse of the Faith at the floor, expelling the evil presence from her body. She gasps for air and slowly stands, visibly disturbed. "It... a spirit... it tried to possess me as I finished the dark tale! But by may faith I repelled it. We must be careful, there are dark forces at work here. I feel I must do whatever I can to rid the land of this foul presence."
Feb 14, 2025 10:08 pm
Boudica says, "I'm not sure. But apparently the lady of the castle tried to preserve her husband and children forever by turning them undead, using some foul ritual. So I guess we must descend below and, maybe, find out if she was successful? Oh, and these are love potions, but maybe let's not use them, ok? And these might be useful later..." She takes the blackened knife and bone amulet, and picks up the potions. She is happy to pass any of these to others if they want them; otherwise, she will stow them in her sack.
Feb 15, 2025 8:45 pm
As they are preparing to leave, Boudicca grabs the sapphire ring, and says, "Just in case we can’t make it back here for some reason. And yes, we will split its value! I’m not laying claim to it."
She then tucks it away and follows Will.
She then tucks it away and follows Will.
Feb 15, 2025 10:57 pm
Anton had taken a seat near the chest, and was helping count the coin, but stood and made ready as the others prepared to head to the basement. "Did the Diary give any hint how the spell was enacted?"
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Unsure if the diary contents were read aloud or notFeb 16, 2025 1:48 am
Boudica summarized the contents of the diary, since it took like an hour or two to read.
Feb 16, 2025 9:39 am
You head down to the basement entrance, where an old, rusted metal door stands before you. The key you found unlock it, and the hinges creak loudly as the door swings on its axis. The temperature drops sharply when you begin your descent down the stairs, the air growing colder and colder until it feels like walking through an ice storm.
Then, without warning, a sudden gust of wind blows through the basement, extinguishing your torches and plunging you into pitch darkness.
In that fleeting moment before the light vanishes completely, you catch a glimpse of something unsettling at the foot of the stairs. Several figures, lying motionless on the ground.
There was nothing else of note on the second floor (the children's room were just that, with no treasure or any additional clue to what happened to them). The bodies at the basement look like adventurers, probably dead no more then a week or two.
Then, without warning, a sudden gust of wind blows through the basement, extinguishing your torches and plunging you into pitch darkness.
In that fleeting moment before the light vanishes completely, you catch a glimpse of something unsettling at the foot of the stairs. Several figures, lying motionless on the ground.
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There was nothing else of note on the second floor (the children's room were just that, with no treasure or any additional clue to what happened to them). The bodies at the basement look like adventurers, probably dead no more then a week or two.
Feb 16, 2025 1:28 pm
Anton felt the grip of fear constrict his air way as he resisted the urge to yelp at the loss of light and the dead adventurers bodies. He quickly struggled to get his pack off his shoulders, he had to find his flint and steel, to get the torch relit. His hands rummaged through his pack frantically, when he finally felt the tinderbox he felt some ease, but he still need to get the torch lit, so he yanked it from the pack, opened it up and feeling with only his fingers grabbed the flint and steel from within. He hoped the torch would light again with just the oil on the cloth, but if not he did have his lantern in his pack as well.
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Not sure if there is a magical aspect to this, so don't want to take any liberties, but Anton will attempt to light the torchFeb 16, 2025 2:15 pm
Will stoops low and searches the nearest body for identification, cause of death, or items of interest.
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Feb 17, 2025 1:31 am
When the light goes out, Miyana is immediately on the alert, listening for any sounds that might be indicative of an enemy. Her fingers tremble as she draws back the arrow in her bow.
Feb 17, 2025 2:05 am
Boudica uses her tinderbox to reignite her torch, holding aloft in front of her.
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