Last Time: The characters slogged through combat with some ettercaps.
This Time: The party makes it’s way into the last few rooms of the dungeon. They find a room guarded by flame-throwing statues with a broken scepter used to resurrect an ancient dragonborn king. The warlock uses make whole to fix the scepter, and the party is able to talk to one guardian and forced to fight the other guardian, and then meets the king, who tells them of the doppelganger’s (known to him as ‘the faceless’) pogrom versus the kingdom of Ossa in times past. He tells them to search the tombs for the “Book of Names” before being surrounded by the black vines and branches that permeate the tomb, and attacking the players.
The Twist: The paladin, Marc Greysun (worshipper of Pelor) really wanted no part of resurrecting Kyro-Tar. Arctana, our half-elf warlock, was neutral, but somehow the adventure-crazed elf ranger Bobric was able to “smooth-talk” them into it.
Some Background: Kyro-Ta was the ruler of the and Ossa, an ancient kingdom of dragonborn. A faceless known as Isami the Slayer lead an infiltration war that plunged the kingdom of Ossa into a bloody civil war. By the time the plan was found out, the damage had been done, and the fractured splinters of the dragonborn kingdom were unable to fight this enemy that they could not see or recognize. The Book of Names is a book of rituals to help alleviate that problem. Isami is believed by Kyro-Ta to still live. He didn’t know whether or not he was responsible for these necromantic vines or not.
The Best Part: The end fight with Kyro-Ta. The dragonborn mummy became the heart of a huge construct built of the black vines and branches, and took an impressive amount of damage before collapsing into a heap of dust and branches.
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