Session004

Session Four - 14th April 2023

Day Twenty Nine - Leaving for Fort Frostfell

The party made their way to Fort Frostfell, where using the information gained from Sir Brenaform Steelcrest, they found the secret door and entered the cellars, avoiding some traps and defeating a couple of skeletons. Exploring further, they came across a pair of suits of dwarven armour that animated and attacked. An undead wight (named Gothmog Plaguereaper) joined the battle and called for assistance from a woman warrior who was in a room nearby. As the woman reluctantly came out and exchanged blows with Drex, Cormir got knocked out, and Drex turned his attention to the wight, throwing Eldritch Blasts at it as Morthos desperately fended it off.

At that point, the warrior woman disengaged, seemingly uninterested in fighting further, either to help the PCs against the wight or to help the wight against the PCs. Drex manages to finally take the wight down, and bring Cormir around, only in time for Morthos to hand Cormir the wight's sword, which reacted painfully to Cormir’s good nature, and the fighter passed out again as it zapped him!

The woman was encouraged to speak with them, and informed them that her name was Harlyot Crushade, an ex-captain of the watch from Safeharbour. She explained that she had been rescued from a flash flood a week after the first meteor struck by a wizard named Ralekai Gravemore, who, in turn, had explained to her that he had recently awakened, having been buried beneath the glacier for a thousand years. He didn't seem or act like undead, but... who knows. Apparently, he was researching a cure for something called "The Demon Plague" and he persuaded Harlyot of how important his work was. She had since been helping him, though she wasn't happy with her current assignment - which was basically keeping an eye on a disgusting gnome magic user called Harlan Barrypot.

Harlan, despite being a cowardly slob, had also been "rescued" by Ralekai and had been tasked with investigating the ancient library in Fort Frostfell to see if anything of any use in Ralekai's research. Talking with Harlyot, the PCs discussed the goblins in the fort above, and Harlyot explained that she disapproved of Ralekai's recruitment of goblins to capture subjects for his research - "for the greater good." She also really hated the fact that Ralekai had assigned the undead wight Gothmog Plaguereaper to keep an eye on everything at Fort Frostfell. Unwilling to go against Ralekai directly, she was, however, happy to let the PCs take care of the goblins. After a short rest, the party headed up to the keep, where they discovered a room full of prisoners where three hobgoblins were busy amputating a limb from one of them. They started a fight with them…

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