havi<\/strong> and joaquin a chance to venture further into the house. i forgot why we were even here. this seems really stupid in hindsight<\/p>\r\nkorrus is a really powerful healer i think she was at the noble\u2019s healing someone important<\/p>\r\n
at some point they learn about the \u201cstonehenge\u201d in the middle of town. the group decides to camp behind some trees and watch the area overnight. night falls, and figures in robes carrying bodies start to group around the stones. clearly they\u2019re doing some fucked up ritual shit, and the gang springs into action. we kill all but two of the cultists before the authorities arrive. we come to an agreement that they can have one cult member, if we can have the other. they agree. a quick look-around tells us that the cult is somehow cursing townspeople with deformities, then using them for a specific ritual. one of the bodies nailed to a stone is aaron. good thing he paid us in advance am i right folks<\/p>\r\n
\r\nback at the inn, we tie the cultist to a chair and begin to interrogate him. we don\u2019t get much from the guy, and eventually joaquin snaps and punches him in the head, just to rough him up a bit. but the cultist purposefully leans into the punch and his neck gets snapped. so we\u2019re like fuck ok and hide the body in the closet of our inn room.<\/p>\r\n
night two of keeping watch over stonehenge; the cultists are back, with more bodies this time. we fight them again, but not fast enough; they complete their ritual, and summon a dark knight. during the boss battle, korrus appears to help us, but becomes severely injured. in an attempt to shield her, dahlia runs in front of korrus and tries to fire her bow at the demon, but (nat 1) trips and impales korrus with her bow. way 2 go<\/p>\r\n
we rush back to the town\u2019s temple and pray to korrus\u2019 god, begging for her to help. she transports us to probably a different plane to speak with us, and we try and charm her. (a goddess.) it doesn\u2019t work and she looks mad, so caranthir offers her his boar jerky. (nat 20.) the goddess is quiet for a moment before we\u2019re all suddenly transported back to our plane; korrus is alive, and caranthir\u2019s boar jerky is gone.<\/p>\r\n
korrus is very thankful and heals us of our \u201cissues,\u201d before handing us an ankh. she says it is unsafe there at the temple, and feels these adventurers will be better hands. they are told to go to the mage\u2019s college in new chasm and seek out meekus marcus.<\/p>\r\n
as they\u2019re going back to the inn, they notice people bringing out a dead body and wanted posters being hung up. turns out the cultist joaquin killed? the governor\u2019s son. the group is now wanted in windfast so they skedaddle.<\/p>\r\n
\r\nat the docks, they are contacted by a dwarf named deeri, who offers them safe passage to new chasm via a boat. they follow him<\/p>\r\n
they\u2019re supposed to meet with meekus at new chasm, but he happens to be on the ship they\u2019re on; how lucky! they don’t really get the chance to talk, aside some friendly at-the-table chatting (meekus is very into magic, and very into people), and meekus winking at joaquin and slipping him a piece of paper (containing a doodle of him winking), but that\u2019s no big deal; there are plenty of days to talk to the guy. it takes a week to sail to new chasm, anyway.<\/p>\r\n
that night, the ship is attacked by a leviathan and some mermen. the group defeats them, but quickly after, beard (the captain) brings them into the captain\u2019s quarters and we find none other than meekus lying dead on the floor. he hadn\u2019t even been fighting in the battle. so there goes our ankh information. beard tells us we have to find out who killed him by the time we reach land (6 days) or else.<\/p>\r\n
the next morning we head to breakfast, and figure we might as well start the questioning now. havi<\/strong> sits next to philip (meekus\u2019 apprentice) and asks him how he\u2019s doing, treading lightly.<\/p>\r\nphilip<\/strong>: pretty good ... have you seen meekus around?
havi<\/strong>: i need to leave<\/pre>\r\nand havi<\/strong> nopes the fuck out of there because there\u2019s no way he\u2019s going to tell the kid his mentor just died. nifty\u2019s eating a bowl of fucking fruit and ollie\u2019s in the back cooking. ollie\u2019s this sort of eccentric old guy; him and caranthir get along really well.<\/p>\r\nwe spend the day getting to know the crew and everyone on the ship to try and figure out who could have killed meekus.<\/p>\r\n
the next night, the ship is attacked again, this time by like 6 leviathans. \u00a0jojo (a half-orc, previously not in the party) wakes up in a box in the hold of the ship, and breaks out. the first person he meets is nifty, who is downstairs not helping.<\/p>\r\n
we go and fight the monsters and people question jojo because they are in the middle of the sea how do new people show up??? also with a murder??? but we all go to bed, and over the course of the next few days, beard tells jojo that he raided a merman cove to get that treasure, jojo ends up telling nifty all of this, who eagerly writes it all down. we continue questioning people.<\/p>\r\n
\r\nat one point we throw a party? jojo, joaquin, and xavia almost have a threesome it just ends up being jojo and xavia. also jojo tries to kiss xavia but rolls a nat 1 and kisses joaquin instead. nifty beats ireth and joaquin with his special cane. havi<\/strong> tries to make a disco ball out of fire but falls over and catches a table on fire. towards the end of all this, philip loses it.<\/p>\r\nphilip<\/strong>: meekus is DEAD & you\u2019re just running around having fun!!!!!<\/pre>\r\nhe runs to his room. (it\u2019s very sad)<\/p>\r\n
\r\nat some point we steal all of nifty\u2019s shit and force him to help us – (the mess hall interrogation?) it\u2019s perfect, jojo like holds him down<\/p>\r\n
it\u2019s coming to be the last day on the ship, and we have no idea who did it. nothing we\u2019ve really done has helped us, honestly. we\u2019ve pinned it on beard, because so far he seems the most secretive.\u00a0havi<\/strong> casts zone of truth<\/em> on the ship, but people know they\u2019re under a truth spell and can avoid answering things so long as they don’t lie \u2013 here\u2019s where we fucking talk to deeri, the guy that lead us onto the ship. he doesn\u2019t fucking say anything. literally. he stares us down. he doesn\u2019t say shit. \u00a0joaquin tries to interrogate philip but yells at him and makes him cry.<\/p>\r\nbasically we can narrow it down to beard or deeri. beard eventually threatens us to find someone to put the blame on, or else he\u2019ll turn us into the authorities, so we sort of panic but can\u2019t really figure anything out. we sneak into deeri\u2019s room and steal this weird book he has, and it\u2019s written in some code so we can\u2019t read it. we set a watch, who falls asleep right away. in the morning, we\u2019re pulling into the port. we wake up realizing that our watch failed miserably, and we find that the ankh and deeri\u2019s book are gone, and when we go to figure shit out, the second in command comes and our group gets put into the hold.<\/p>\r\n
jojo had been sleeping in another room though \u2013 the ship was full, he got to bunk with philip since meekus\u2019 bed wasn\u2019t taken. we break down the door for the hold, we force nifty into helping us, he riles some soldiers on the ship to help in exchange for his things back. we also run and get philip, tell him we know who killed meekus (beard or deeri) and get him to help too. we basically rally all we can on the ship to help because we need to figure it out before we hit port.<\/p>\r\n
as we\u2019re trying to get all this done, we hear someone jump ship.<\/p>\r\n
it’s fucking deeri. he jumped and is swimming away, but. havi<\/strong> knows water walk<\/em>, so he literally jumped and ran after him, yanked him out of the water, and brought him back to the ship. (somehow). deeri admits to having killed meekus, saying that we didn\u2019t know what we were doing and that the ankh in his hands was way better off.<\/p>\r\nwe fight him (huge boss battle), get this cult ring and staff off him, and get the hell off the ship.<\/p>\r\n
we take meekus\u2019 body (jojo carries it) & philip and we head to the mage\u2019s college. nifty is thankful to get the hell away from us. so is beard, honestly.<\/p>\r\n
\r\nwe see wanted posters of this like. really dangerous person who had murdered like 12 people recently\u00a0named\u00a0lindsay<\/p>\r\n
we\u2019re headed to the mage\u2019s college when we\u2019re stopped by a figure in the road. the person appears to be holding two guns. it’s lindsay!<\/p>\r\n
lindsay is basically ireth\u2019s cousin (??) from their village, ireth thought everyone was killed (village was attacked by orcs) so this is a shocker. lindsay has crazy tats that give her crazy magic strength that turns her into a murder-machine. we fight her a bit, but then convince her to come with us\u00a0 (sort of). lindsay fought with two really nice pistols that were basically all she had left to remind her of a person who was very important to her, but one was lost in the battle (joaquin took it)<\/p>\r\n
\r\nwe all arrive at the mage\u2019s college, which also happens to be where xavia works (her dad is the head librarian) so she walks with us. we talk to a few of the mages about meekus – they are saddened about his death, and when we ask if there is anything we can do to bring him back, one mage points us to a small village near the town. there\u2019s rumored to be a shaman who lives in the village, who specializes in … unusual favors. we figured the shaman can help with the dead meekus problem, and removing lindsay\u2019s tattoos, so why not. we leave meekus\u2019 body in the care of the mages, and the college is nice enough to give us our own personal escort to the village.<\/p>\r\n
our escort just so happens to be tanum<\/strong>, havi\u2019s<\/strong> very good friend; who was supposed to be back at their home, watching over their very valuable magic item collection. havi<\/strong> greets him happily, but … is also confused, and asks why he\u2019s here.<\/p>\r\ntanum<\/strong>: i wanted to be an adventurer like you, havi!
tanum<\/strong>: so i sold everything from the shop!! & here i am!!!
havi<\/strong>:
havi<\/strong>:
havi<\/strong>: you WHAT<\/pre>\r\nwe do some shopping around the college: caranthir buys a magic ring that changes the color of your hair every time you put it on, joaquin sells one of lindsay\u2019s guns (secretly), and havi<\/strong> gets his glasses engraved by an old guy. he isn\u2019t told what the markings do, however; just that they\u2019ll \u201ccome in handy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
\r\nwe leave for the village, and on the way we come across a forest was cut down and we are greeted by two wolves<\/p>\r\n
caranthir talks to the wolves, which are like yo some orcs cut down these trees, so caranthir runs off bc he\u2019s very protective over his trees<\/p>\r\n
we fight the orcs and then interrogate one of them who reveals that they were hired by someone named rodrik in the town over, so we went to that town. jojo is suspicious because he used to have an old buddy named rodrik, but assumes he was killed many years ago. we go to the inn and find rodrik, but it’s not jojo\u2019s rodrik – just a dude named rodrik. but we DID see he was wearing a cult of sorrows ring.<\/p>\r\n
lia shows up??? here??????<\/p>\r\n
tanum escorts us to the shaman, but as soon as we arrive the shaman points directly to jojo and says something like, \u201cyou are not welcome here,\u201d as if he recognizes him, and that\u2019s when jojo realizes this was the same village that him and his old gang (jojo, lia, rodrik, and collette) totally fucked up years back. (they burned it down and killed a lot of people on accident + all of jojo\u2019s teammates supposedly<\/em> died.<\/p>\r\ntanum<\/strong> jumps in and is really defensive for some reason, spouting some stuff about how we can all work this out and everyone should just calm down. the shaman is having none of it, and jojo decides no yeah i really don\u2019t want to be here right now… and tries to leave, but tanum<\/strong> steps in front of him<\/p>\r\ntanum<\/strong>: no. you aren\u2019t leaving ... this is going to work out
tanum<\/strong>: it\u2019ll be fine!!!!!
tanum<\/strong>: hey!! i said no one\u2019s leaving<\/em><\/pre>\r\nand then he just sort of \u2026 starts casting some magic?<\/p>\r\n
at that point we notice there are definitely a lot of graves surrounding us; graves for everyone who had died during jojo\u2019s group\u2019s attack way back when. and that\u2019s when people start crawling out of those graves (tanum<\/strong> was doing necromancy)<\/p>\r\nshit sucks because two of the corpses fighting us? look a little familiar to jojo. collette and rodrik, his old teammates, were being brought back from the dead to fight against their old friend. u don\u2019t get more fucked up then that<\/p>\r\n
during all this havi<\/strong> is shouting at tanum<\/strong> to stop<\/p>\r\ntanum<\/strong>: don\u2019t worry havi\u00a0- this is just a different<\/em> kind of magic!!!!!
havi<\/strong>: there's a better solution here!! this isn't going to work!!!
tanum<\/strong>: you left two years ago<\/em> to try & fix me, you aren\u2019t one to talk about getting things done.
havi<\/strong>: ...<\/pre>\r\nthat\u2019s when havi<\/strong> realizes something different; a faint glow coming from tanum\u2019s<\/strong> chest. (that\u2019s when havi<\/strong> realizes the enchanted glasses make wounds glow, something pretty helpful for a cleric. but that meant tanum<\/strong> was fucked up in the heart area. and that was really fucking upsetting)<\/p>\r\nwe basically fuck up the zombies, beat tanum<\/strong> up, jojo sits on him. havi\u2019s<\/strong> like yo dude what the FUCK to the shaman, who retrieves a jar. the jar contains a heart covered in runes, and the shaman explains that sometime in the past year, tanum<\/strong> had made a deal with the shaman to fix his magic. he had been asked to choose between his life or his magic, so tanum<\/strong> of course said magic, and the shaman removed his heart as tanum<\/strong> requested, because we assumed that was where the curse was concentrated. the shaman hands havi<\/strong> the heart. (later we find out the real reason tanum<\/strong> asked him to remove his heart, spoilers: the cult tanum<\/strong> had joined required his heart to be removed momentarily so runes could be carved onto it. these runes insured that, if at any time, the person decided to betray or run from the cult, they could easily be killed from any distance. tanum no longer wished to affiliate with the cult, so he went as far as to just remove the heart entirely<\/span>)<\/p>\r\nhavi<\/strong> doesn\u2019t know quite what to do because this isn\u2019t standard healing but after a lot of shouting back and forth within the group, he approaches unconscious tanum<\/strong> and goes to put the heart back in the convenient hole in his chest. tanum suddenly wakes up, eyes wide and body thrashing around<\/p>\r\ntanum<\/strong>: no stop, i\u2019ll die, havi i\u2019m scared, havi i\u2019ll DIE if you put it back<\/em><\/pre>\r\nafter more fretting and holding him down havi<\/strong> puts the heart back, making sure to immediately heal him as soon as it\u2019s placed. (i\u2019ll die = he was technically undead without his heart, so unable to die, but replacing the heart would have brought him back to life and he would have taken all of the damage he took during battle)<\/p>\r\ntanum<\/strong> had basically been using necromancy on himself to keep himself alive without his heart. idiot<\/p>\r\n
\r\nafter that, jojo is still a little shaken up by having to literally re-kill his old friends. but havi<\/strong> goes over to jojo and asks if he wants to have a last word with them, because he\u00a0can bring their souls back to their bodies for a little while. jojo agrees, and havi<\/strong> contacts collette first. collette explains that jojo did all he could in the battle and it wasn\u2019t his fault that they died. havi<\/strong> then contacts rodrik, who asks jojo to tell this one girl that he regrets never asking her out. shad cries<\/p>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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