Last Session 44>> into this session 45 ((recap))
We rejoined our brave few inside of the Rogue Monastery, having battled their way through the outer cloister, they now face off against a small group of corrupted Rogue sisters… and since we played last session, the party have opted to be forever known as… “Ophi’s Bodyguards”
The battle commences almost instantly, and doesn’t last for too long either – the bodyguards being more than capable of dealing with a handful of enemies… dispatch the Rogues quickly and efficiently.
After the battle, some provided healing is needed by a few of the party, yet nothing is too severe… Scarlett, opts instead however to go ahead and find the entrance to the main building, and she does just that. Wasting no time, she slams open the doors with a mighty kick, revealing to her the dark, empty, and eerie foyer area, of the Rogue Barracks.
One by one, the party funnel into the room and survey their surroundings, several barrels line the walls here, and are seemingly scattered throughout this large open room at random.
Baxter, now curious to know what’s inside of these barrels, decides to investigate a few, but with no visible external notes or markings to help him identify the barrels, he is left unable to ascertain if they hold anything inside of them or not.
Meanwhile, sounds of muffled screams of pain, and an odd chattering sound could be heard echoing through the otherwise silent building, the sounds were clearly coming from much further in, but the words only made sense to anyone from the burning hell’s… as this was a form of demonic speech… which was unheard of by the party at this point.
However, some more words were also heard, these were soothing and encouraging, seemingly from out of nowhere yet again, they entered the minds of the adventurers, filling them with hope and a sense of renewed vigor… they felt more powerful than they had ever done.
After the moment passed… Scarlett began looking about the room, she sees an unopened door to try leading towards the north exit, and wasting no time of course, she heads towards it and opens it up, only to find on the other side of the doorway, a group of Devil Kin lead by a couple of their Shamans.
In an instant, Scarlett trains her crossbows, and fires her shots, taking out a good handful of them in close succession.
The Shaman quickly try to revive any of their fallen soldiers, but Scarlett isn’t allowing them to succeed, and kills another of the Devil Kin, the moment he stands up again.
The rest of the party head into this room now, and cut down their foes with powerful hits, deadly shots and spells.
After the battle… the party spread out a little, Ophi uses one of her keys and opens up a chest off to one side of the room, claims a good handful of various potions from it, then heads through a door to the north, and finds herself in one of the Rogues dorms, where she manages to find a scroll of identify hidden inside a dusty folklore tome, which was just left on the almost empty book shelves.
Meanwhile, Baxter and Rhyker head in a western direction, and find another door which lead to a smaller, but occupied dorms, they find two Devil kin soldiers waiting for them inside the room, blood covering the walls and beds in there, but no dead bodies… Quickly, they both finish off the stragglers, and search the room, but there’s nothing there of use, and so they leave to join the others again.
Ophi and Zrin start to investigate the large room now, which holds a makeshift well within one corner of it, whilst Scarlett moves towards the eastern door, which leads into yet another dorm-like area, where she follows a bloody footprint path to a group of Death Clan goat demons, which lingered around the corner from her… They gave chase as Scarlett decided to retreat after being spotted.
Scarlett flees back to the rest of the party as fast as possible, but she is being followed by the three now angry Goat-men… The sound of their breathing as their pace quickens, could be heard, as the enemies closed in on Scarletts position.
Cleverly she warned the party, and they had enough time to get ready for the fight.
The battle inevitably starts, and Scarlett deals some good damage, but Zrin falls to the shap axe blades wielded by the demons.
Ophi, retaliates and blasts them with raw powerful COLD magic, which tears the Goats apart with little to no trouble.
She also creates a Warmth globe, which pulses out healing out to Zrin, which manages to heal him enough to stabilise him.
The battle comes to a halt soon after that, and needless to say, the fight goes in the favour of the party.
Moving on swiftly, the party head through the room with the now dead Goat-men, Ophi moves to where they sprung the attack on Scarlett, and finds a few gold pieces in a small side table near the beds, meanwhile, Scarlett heads forward and scouts out the passageway, which has yet more groups of enemies awaiting to ambush the party.
Which is where we pick up this session… lets roll some initiative!
Act One: Episode 45 – Walk Softly, Bring A Werebear!
