Session 16 · The Borderlands

Nethelen 21, Mityaradras

Brisk, Clear, Strong Winds

We head to the market to buy iron rations (-1GP ea). Taliesin buys 3 Comfrey (-30GP), and looks for horsetail but is unable to find any. We leave the cart and horse at The Travelers Inn and head out to the Corrupted Dome. With our steeds, we make good speed and get to the dome by the afternoon.

We decided to rename the corrupted dome "The buried temple".

Nethelen 22, Ammonadras

Chilly, Clear, Strong Winds

We go into the dungeon and after hearing nothing at the door, enter the room right in front of the entrance.

We enter into a large room which extends up to the top of the dome and find a statue of a sorcerer priest in it. All the walls are covered in glazed brick veneer which is peeling off of a collapsed section, exposing splotchy ocher stone behind. The floors are fire brick embedded in asphalt mortar. As we look about the room, the door in the north east corner opens and five goblins rush in. Uthman commands them in their own tongue, and they immediately become subservient. They tell him that their kin have been recently slain and they ask Uthman for justice and revenge. Uthman introduces himself as "Lord Uthman" and in return is given the name of one of them: Abudemio. Uthman asks them where their slain kin were, and the point to the door they came back from. He asks a couple more questions before motioning to Aurelia to commence attacking them. Uthman crushes Abudemio, and Taliesin drops three with blinding flash, before rushing in and finishing off the last one with his blade.

25XP 5 XP ea Killing goblins 2.7 XP 0 XP ea Gold from goblins 27sp

We listen at the door and hear the beating of wings. We retreat to a safe distance, and wait to see if something comes through. Nothing does, so Titania opens the door. Four small creatures that look across between a bat and an owl. Valorian reacts quickly and drops one with a dart. Aurelia follows quickly with an arrow, dropping another and Taliesin steps forward and cleaves through the remaining two.

24XP 4 XP ea

We step through the door into the hallway extending straight and also to the right. We go straight, then into the door on the right. Aurelia listens at the door and hears nothing. Titania opens the door. There is a statute of Bel, the slaughter prince, the god of rage, violence and war. An fanged demonic figure with six arms, each bearing a curved sword. It seems to be an old arena - a place of worship for a god of battle. We continue down and around the hallway, and find the body of a goblin with three striges sucking it's blood. Titania and Aurelia recoil at the sight, while Taliesin charges down the hallway and cleaves two of them in half, and Uthman finishes off the last one.

3SP from the goblin 0.3 XP 0 XP ea Gold from goblin 18XP 3 XP ea Killing striges

The goblin appears to have been killed with weapons, and the striges seemed to have been eating it's congealed blood. We continue down the hallway, having wrapped around

We encounter two fearsome creatures 7.5ft tall with reddish brown fur - Gnoll. Taliesin immediately charges forwards and delivers a savage blow, which is followed up by another brutal blow from Titania which drops the first before spinning into the second, dropping it with a single blow.

40XP 8 XP ea Killing gnolls 13GP from the gnolls 13 XP 2 XP ea Gold from gnolls

We listen at the lower left door, but hear nothing. We open it to find two stripped goblin corpses. The are bloated and decaying, and have been decapitated. Further in we find 10 butchered goblins and looted cots. As we continue to explore the temple, we find more dead goblins with signs of torture, and evidence of ransacking and searching. We begin systematically clearing the rooms. Most of them contain nothing of note - bathrooms, broom closets, and cave-ins. One room contains a fresco of Zaharans bowing to Kaleth, The Madness, cathonic god of profanity, insanity, and oblivion. One door is bared shut. After beating on it for a while, a hobgoblin comes to investigate. It sees our band and begins to run away, but is unable to escape Uthman's blade.

15XP 3 XP ea 2GP 0 XP ea

We go back and search the rooms we cleared more carefully. In the room with 4 tortured bodies, near the south east door. We find secret door in the southeast door and we find

2 Tourmaline (2x100GP)
500GP
700XP 140 XP ea For gold from dungeon
1 healing potion.

We search through the debris, and find a key - an Iron key with copper paint on it.

Titania spends roughly an hour beating down a door to find a wall behind it.

After thoroughly searching the rest of the cleared rooms and finding nothing, we decide to leave and try to make it back to Turos Tem. We get to our horses and begin riding through the forest. We accidentally wander into giant peregrine falcon's nest. It greats Titania and shares some wisdom:

Reptilian abominations known as Thrasians once ruled these lands. Their immortal king still slumbers, waiting for the time when his kin shall come again.

26 Roc flight feathers 1/8st ea

We encounter a herd of deer, and find a small village. Aurelia looks around trying to find out if this is Zelicus's village. We find out that it is Gundus' village, and its suffering from the bloody flux (dysentery). We decide to stay and help the sick - as well as to quarantine ourselves to make sure we don't bring the illness back to Turos Tem. Aurelia works hard and Zelicus is impressed by her effort, but too busy to spend a lot of time with her.

Nethelen 23 - 33

We dedicate ourselves to helping the village for a couple weeks - using all our resources to help. They provide food and a place to stay in return - simple fare, but better than most are eating in the village.