The party encountered their newest member, a hulking green dragonborn with a jagged double blade by the name of Rogar, though not everyone was counted thrilled. The color of his scales unsettling enough, he was quickly revealed the son of Reedthagn himself! On a mission that also pitted him against the cult, who dared steal from the Elder Green, he proposed a pairing which Relic accepted on behalf of all.
Plunging into an ancient, stinking, crumbling temple, they found a hellish ceremony involving Vistani and several witches, led by a pale beautiful warlock known as the Shadow Prophet. While attempts to remain unseen were admirable, they also proved unsuccessful, and the warlock bid them welcome. All he wanted was the ruby, the Hellheart, which Fog-eye had been keeping hidden the entire time! Rogar's eyes widened, as did Portia's, to say nothing of the rest of the group's.
On the brink of making a deal, or so Relic feared, Fog-eye parlayed with the Shadow Prophet, who held Chiela captive in a warded chamber. The warforged weighed the odds and attacked, the others following him into battle, breaking up negotiations when it seemed the warlock was going to get what he wanted. Fog-eye was left furious and betrayed, merging with the Hellheart to become a fiendish version of himself with an exposed, ruby heart.
The Shadow Prophet dragged Lysaga's spirit back up from Hell to do his bidding once more, her wrath knowing no bounds, and she attacked the quartet of Kaylan, Thamior, Diana and Portia. On the temple's second tier, Fog-eye and Relic battled the Vistani and the Sibyls of the Bear, Wolf and Serpent. Rogar managed to reach the third tier, cutting down an eye-gouged Sister of the All-Seeing Eye with a little help from the far-flung sorceress, only to meet his match in the fifteen foot stone colossus of Triglav himself that lurched to life and attacked!
All the group's varied powers and skills were laid bare, pitted against the dark power of the witches and their ilk. Animals burst forth from the Wild, chaos shrieked in bolts and explosions, constrictor fangs stabbed deep, divine light shone down from Heaven, the cannon smoked from a constant energy barrage, Ten-thousand Winters flashed between translocating assaults, and the jagged blade became two in a veritable hurricane of scale and steel. Kaylan nearly met her maker if not for the Relic's healing poultices, the favor returned when divine surges prevented an all-systems meltdown. Eventually the Vistani were dispatched and two witches slain, but still the indomitable Saint of Witches, coupled with the unstoppable Colossus of Triglav, tore into the group from either flank, the surviving sibyls and sister blasting, burning, poisoning and dazing the middle ranks.
Amidst the tumult of battle, Diana managed to pierce the wraith's hate and appeal to Lysaga's saintly aspect, the heroic and compassionate soul she had once been in the days of Nor. It fought to the surface long enough to reveal that the Shadow Prophet commanded her through possession of her corpse, which was interred in the colossus's stone torso, a walking, fighting sarcophagus. It's destruction or the destruction of her earthly remains would allow her soul to slip back into Perdition and out of the battle.
And so the battle continues!
Experience: Pending
Magic Items, Money, Loot: Pending
New PC
Rogar, Dragonborn Tempest Fighter
New NPCs
The Shadow Prophet, a pale, beautiful human warlock with a prominent pentagram symbol of Hecate; led the ceremonies in the Temple of Triglav to resurrect the archfiend via the fanes and human sacrifice; interrupted by the party under Lysaga Hill, where he's absconded with Chiela into a room filled with writhing shadow
Chiela, Fog-eyes little sister, kidnapped by diabolists for having found a pretty red ruby to give to her brother on his birthday; that ruby turned out to be none other than the Hellheart, and she became bait to lure the Norsman within the cult's reach; currently held hostage by the Shadow Prophet
New Monsters
Sibyls, Sisters of the All-Seeing Eye, Vistani Cultists, Colossus (construct), Lysaga Manifest
Active Quests
- Isabella's Ashes (1/3 complete; group): Attune Izzy's remains to the three Barovian fanes in order to resurrect her.
- Seeking a Sister (Fog-eye, group): Discover the remaining fanes and save Fog-eye's sister Chiela before she's sacrificed.
- Triglav Lives! (group): Prevent the devil cult from completing their fane rituals and resurrecting something more ancient and powerful than even the dreaded Count.
- Rising of the Sunsword (group): Uncover what you can about the missing Sunsword and help return day to the lightless realm.
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