Episode 18: Exploration and a cult

When last we left this party they were recovering from a nearly deadly battle with some goblins, orcs, and a fire giant. This is also another catch up tale so we're going off of my fuzzy memory. As a reminder, this party consists of:

Unit 2408, the Warforged (humanoid living construct) Barbarian

Luthis, the Kenku (humanoid raven who can not fly) Blood Hunter

Dancing Wind, a Tabaxi (humanoid cat) Wizard

Elniss, a Human Cleric of Ilmater

Evangeline, the Tiefling Paladin of Tyr

After healing, resting, and eating, the party was ready to go again. We still have our mission of exploring and finding out what Hallister is up to, and Rubis is encouraging us to keep doing so. So off we go.

We quickly find the stairs down to the 3rd sublevel and find ourselves in a dark hallway that smells horrible. There seems to be a structure in the middle of the room, and there's these glowing purple tendrils of energy along the high ceiling. Waling along the hall we do find the bodies of some of the previous parties investigating the area and make note of their location.

Eventually we do find the door to the building and proceed to investigate. It smells horrible in here too, and we do hear chanting in the distance. As we explore we do find a room of statues that attack. And while we were successful in destroying them, I do not remember the details of the fight.

The following fight though was against a biiiiiig burly beefy dude in spiked armor that basically bowled himself into the party. And everything just smells of death down here. But we were able to dispatch him as well, though Evangeline was eyeballing his armor for ideas. She's thinking spiked tail armor so she can tail-whip those who may come up behind her.

Cautiously continuing our exploration down this upside down pyramid the chanting kept getting louder, and eventually we find the bottom (top?) floor where there was a batch of necromancers using some chained people against the wall doing some sort of bad spell. There's ribbons of purple arcane energy coming from this and we're like yeah time to stop this.

So we wade in to take care of business. Again this was too long ago to remember the details of the fight but Unit 2408 went to town mowing through cultists alongside Luthis while Evangeline and Dancing Wind went around the room taking care of cleaning that up. We were successful in dispatching the cultists and ending their spell.

As we were returning to the 1st floor rest area with the bodies of the former explorers we noted the purple ribbons of energy along the ceiling were gone. And saw a bat fluttering around.

Some reconnoitering of the 1st floor we discover that the white dragon is now a pile of bones. And the vampire in the coffin that we booby trapped is missing, though our trap was sprung.

More story in a bit!