~ SESSION 7 > SESSION 8 – (BRIEF RECAP) ~
Welcome back my friends!
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When last we met, the party were sat inside the tavern of the Rising Sun, enjoying what little time they had to themselves.
Suddenly, Dorian and Cornan departed from the town, their reasons kept to themselves.
However, just at the moment they exited the tavern, two newcomers entered it.
Arthas – no longer feeling well and able to hold his stomach, proceeded to vomit into his soup bowl, and embarrassingly darted out of the tavern in the hopes of finding a healer, but in the process of this he almost barreled into an unsuspecting Levi Ladron, who had only just arrived at the establishment, and was curious as to what the hell was going on.
What the Hell indeed…
Levi spoke with Ogden – the bartender, and sat down to enjoy a tall cup of wine, as another newcomer followed shortly behind him, and sat nearby, it was the fighter known only as Jack.
Just as they finished chatting and supping their drinks, Lyra introduced herself, and threw a pitcher of water over her head randomly, instead of using her magical means to cleanse herself.
After a while of ice breaking, the three of them agreed that working together to investigate the tunnels beneath the cathedral was the best course of action, and so they joined up as a party.
Meanwhile, Arthas stumbled his way to the river in the dark of night, accidentally fell off the bridge and into the cold water below, drenching himself, whilst Jack followed behind him keeping a good distance. Unaware to Arthas, he was watching the old knight trip over himself as he made his way to the Witches hut on the edge of town.
To Arthas’s surprise though, no answer came as a result of him banging on the door repeatedly — calling out loud for Adria to help him.
Giving up with that plan, the only thing he could do was to quaff the rejuvenation potion on his belt that Lyra had handed to him, back in the depths of the cathedral.
The potion did it’s job instantly, curing all ailments and healing the sickly Arthas, and soon both the fighters were headed back to the tavern, chatting along the way to get to know a bit about each other.
Whilst this was happening, Lyra was busy attuning herself to the ring she had earned from Pepin, and Levi had taken a shine to a certain adventurers log book, which when read had vague information about demonic encounters and entities from within the dungeon like halls of the cathedral underbelly.
Finally, Jack and Arthas made it back to the tavern doorway, just as the others there were finishing up, and once they were all together… it was time to be off once more.
Soon, the party headed towards the cathedral, where they descended together down to the third level.
Upon entering the third level of the crypts, Arthas led the party to the locked chest they left behind.
Levi tried his best to disarm a trap connected to the chest, but failed to do so.
Jack stepped up and impatiently struck the lid of the chest, splitting in half and triggering said trap, but luckily it wasn’t anything too devastating for him… as a bolt of ice struck his torso.
Quickly taking what they had found, Arthas led them all to another room just down the passageway they traveled to reach the first room with the chest inside it.
There, Levi worked his magic, and sprung open the locked door, and the party funneled into the new room, to see several stone coffins, two large angelic statues, a long dusty bench, and another wooden chest off to the far side of the room.
Drawn to the possibility of loot held within, both Jack and Levi once more eagerly tried to open the chest up between them, and triggered a frost nova trap whilst investigating which hit them both, but missed Arthas and Lyra.
However, that wasn’t to be all of their problems, because at the very moment they opened the chest and moved to see what was inside, the coffin lids slid open, and from each sarcophagus, a tall red bone skeleton quickly formed, and stepped down to attack them all with fiery enchanted swords… The ambush that waited them all…. had been sprung.
Battle was forced upon them, but through combined Sorcery, Might, and Skill with blades, the party managed to weather the attacks from the skeletons, and with a bit of a struggle, finally laid low their enemy.
After the battle, a quick search of the chest revealed a mundane piece of leather armour, nothing special at all… However, the rest of the room proved far more fruitful in the party’s findings.
From there – the party took a moment to rest up, and rethink their course of action.
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The Present Scene:
The battle between the undead fiends, and the party, is recently over.
Levi, Arthas and Lyra are ready to press on at a moments notice, however, Jack wants to sit tight for a moment on the nearby bench, and tells the others he will catch up to them.
It’s here my friends, where we begin our next session of … Adventure in Sanctuary.
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