Session12


 * 3-29-13**
 * Thay Part 3 / Mummies and Portraits of the missing companions**

Our ‘restful night’ is disrupted by waves of undead sent in. Erevin, Kale, Posy, Thorn, Uther, and Kinu decide to stay up through most of the night and defend the room, letting the spell casters sleep to regain their magic.

We wake in the morning and travel together down the hall to another room, covered in sand. A large sarcophagus is in the center of the room with a few coffins partially buried in the sand. Looking over the sarcophagus, Azarius and Wren tell the others that it belonged to a King or a Pharaoh.

Posy and Uther lift the lid of the sarcophagus together. The royal mummy leaps out, and 4 skeletons and 2 mummies join him. He fills the room with his presence, and is terrifying! Mali throws out entangling roots, but Erevin avoids them and bolts from the room in fear. Yuki is trapped in the bramble, panicking in fear. Uther takes the royal mummy head on, while Posy turns around to fight off a skeleton and mummy together. Thorn tumbles through her and helps fight the mummy. Kale protects Wren in the corner, fending off the skeleton coming at them while she casts up her armor. Azarius fights off another mummy, who cuts him deep with his khopesh.

Mali sends in Melloran through the bramble, and Wren sends in a lightning bolt to hit directly on the royal mummy, who leaves Uther to backhand the witch, sending her stumbling back into the hall behind Kale, holding her face and barely still standing. Kale turns to protect her and cuts deeply into the royal mummy. Erevin circles around, coming through the hallway behind Wren, who is still staggering and healing herself up. He sidesteps around her, as she mumbles to kill him, and fires his arrows. Yuki calms down as her comrades fight around her and she unleashes her pure holy light. Posy and Thorn dispatch the mummy that was on her, as Azarius wraps his energy crackling tentacles around the mummy. Uther charges, digging his claws into the royal mummy’s back. They cut us with their curved blades and beat us with their bare hands…so much damage, even Posy is dripping with her own blood. Yuki works tirelessly, keeping everyone standing.

Finally the last of them fall and we are rewarded with vast treasure from the sarcophagus, 5k worth of gold and gems, a magic necklace, a magic circlet, and a magic rod. While the treasure is gathered, Wren uses her healing wand, a gift from Yuki, to heal everyone. She is suddenly weakened and tired as she begins to wither and dry… she and Melloran were effected by Mummy Rot, and will need remove curse and remove disease to be cured. Yuki does her best to stop the effects until they can heal them the next day.

We move on to a hall of statues, moving carefully with Thorn ever watchful for the traps around every corner. He locks a trapdoor in place and gets the next door open. Strange, soul-less landscape paintings are on the wall that Yuki has Thorn cut down for her. Azarius collects some of the lich’s private stash of wine… gag! As the rest slowly approach the doors, the statues around them begin to come to life. We hurry into the room and bar the doors. We are left with two statues that we quickly fight off and ignore the pounding on the doors. (At least until they fall through the trap door into the happy ball pit below, yay!)

Into the next room we find 3 teleportation pads, one of them we recognize as the same symbol as the one on the floor by the stairs we pass. Crowe recognizes another as one they had passed. We decide to try our luck with the unexplored third pad. Going in two by two, we find ourselves in yet another room with paintings, however these appear to be portraits. 4 of them are magical. One seems to be of Bellara’s missing brother, another is very noble looking young woman that Kinu identifies as her missing companion, one is perhaps a wizard, and the other we don’t know. Mali suggests that since it was such a powerful magic that likely trapped these people that we should take the paintings back to a more powerful wizard, like Rosche, to try and get them released. Posy carefully collects them to stow into Wren’s pack, and as she does the one speaks to her. She says her name is Gracie and she asks that Posy bring all of the paintings when the barbarian woman tells her that we are here to help.

Thorn works on opening another door, one we hope that will lead us to the way out… we see a large hall with columns. At the other end a lich-like figure stands in red robes, flesh barely painted over his bones. “So you’re the ones who have come into my estate… Come in. Szass Tam would bid you welcome.”