When we last left our heroes of the RedWater Fellowship...
A heated battle was ongoing with a varied group of undead creatures whom had cornered a group of humanoids. Some now had fallen, the final few were now fighting a battle of dead and dying comrades. The Fellowship was in dire straits as well, Many injured, as well the sorcerer Graxusas had lost much to
a energy draining kiss from a female spectre or shade.
Kantiff looks about standing over a heap of bones and freshly undead dead.. "I can hear more zombies coming. We may need to get out of here!" Saying this the shadowy monk fades into the shadows and starts to search for his enchanted dagger.
Gothi, just walking down the side of the small house, jumps lightly to the ground and nocks an arrow. "I wish JawBone was here..." She murmurs as she fires multiple arrows into undead in battle with Cedric, Doc and Graxusas.
Doc Holliday yells out, "We have to get out of here!", wiping blood from a gash on his forehead.
As the party prepares to disengage, a horde of zombies and skeletal humans pour into the intersection
they look to be running in front of a massive fell beast. The skeletal three-headed monstrosity pulls a large wagon. With a roar from one of the heads, a 2nd head whips down to bite a skeletal archer's head right off that was preparing to attack the Fellowship. With the flick of a whip, the tall humanoid in hooded cloak stands at the front of the wagon, whipping the zombies and skeletons. Seeming to be herding the undead creatures, as well, the 3 headed.. hydra(?) The Fellowship at first thought the cause was lost to save the small group of humans and kobold and immediate flight was the next step. The creature is covered in blood and gore, it lumbers along pulling the old wagon which has the name Crakin Wine Estate visible through the grime and dust
Then.. Kantif's eagle eye noted something strange.. the cloaked figure was getting the bone hydra to attack the undead and were not bearing down on the Fellowship or the pinned down group. The figure's hood flew off and there standing at the front of the wagon was Thogra!
With a cheer from the Fellowship, the heroes re-doubled their efforts and brought the attack to undead.
At one point the bone hydra loses a head to an attack from a large zombie. At that point, you hear a cry of rage from Thogra.. "Fluuuufffy!" The next moment, the large ogre zombie, is attacked by the 2 remaining heads of "Fluffy"(?) as well as by Thogra and goes down with a groan and moan.
Even though many of the zombies stood up again and joined the attack, between the still-going wall of fire, the attacks Fellowship and finally the Bone Hydra, the undead are destroyed.
Thogra looks over to the party with a big toothy-tusk grin. "By the Wizard's manse.. what are you doing here!?" He hugs each of the Fellowship and after some healing of the now three humanoids, a kobold and a human. Whom seems to be the kobold's assistant or bodyguard. The kobold is a priest of Istus, whom gets into deep conversations with Cedric quite quickly.
Thogra advises the party of the current status of the Green..
"Skully
Town. This is a stronghold of live humanoids whom scratch and claw out an
existence in the Green. humans, dwarves (not BR), gnomes, 1/2lings, goblins,
kobolds, hobgoblins, lizard folk, orcs, 1 giant, I hear too.., some ogres and gnolls, etc.
Ruled over by an Ogre magi - Arch-Duke Sorbo. supposedly a cruel bastard...
2nd, is the horde of undead. Most of this is mindless masses of zombies, skeletons, ghouls, shades and more. But there is another force at work here as many times these mindless undead seem to have purpose in their attacks on Skully Town and other areas. The rumours are it could be a lich, vampire, ghost... who knows??" Thogra helps load wounded party members as well as the only 2 whom survived.. the kobold and a human named Pedrigo, "Jus' call me "Rigo" a gaunt tall human male in a breastplate, carrying a two-hander and large crossbow, he has one ear missing as well as multiple scars all over his arms and hands.
While Thogra tells the party of the current status, with some remarks thrown in by Rigo on Skully town as well, the 1/2 orc drives the wagon pulled by 'Fluffy' to his 'hideout'. "I found a good place to hide in here", the rogue grins toothily. An estate is reached, the mansion is mostly burned to the ground, a few charred 2nd and 3rd floors still stand. As Thogra pulls the wagon up into what was probably the foyer of a very fine mansion, he jumps off. Both of the two heads of Fluffy turn to him and nuzzle his chest. Thogra chuckles and scratches the skeletal heads behind a horn. "Sorry girl.. I wish I could help you more.." sighing, "Go to sleep, Fluffy." and with a clatter of bones, the monstrosity collapses into a pile of bones on the floor.
Thogra leads the party over to a secret trapdoor, disarming a few traps on it. Leading the party down a ramp, they enter what was once a large cellar that had a warehouse connected to it. Once the mansion was the home to a merchant of fine paper, vellum and scrolls.
The party rests while Graxusas uses his newly discovered powers to identify a number of items. The party splits of treasure and gets a good rest. At the end of a long rest, Graxusas, feels refreshed the draining power of the spectral woman no longer affecting the lizard (DM: all levels recovered).
What next for the Heroes of the RedWater Fellowship?
