Crypts of Gluttony

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Episode no.	Episode 91
Date	2010
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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The lich Kazaven.

Ravenous crypt of Gluttony

Corridor...

Velicia and I came through to a round room with ten alcoves along the walls. On the opposite side a corridor continued on, leading up some stairs. In the alcoves were mummies, and they moved. Velicia drew them out using her magic only to throw them all up against a wall. I ran along them, dodging their blows, making them attack themselves. As I had passed them I quickly turned and threw my dagger into one of them. Velicia followed up with a sword burst catching them all and the fight was on. Nathaniel came through the doors and quickly smashed five mummies to dust. Unfortunately the dust carried mummy rot and covered him and Velicia, but I dodged out of it.

V sword burst and I threw my dagger and hid on the stairs.

A mummy chased me down but I threw the dagger in another, and hid in an alcove.

I threw my dagger into a mummy, and hid deeper into another alcove and the magical shadows my gadget created around me.

The mummy hunted me but could not find me.

Threw my dagger into a mummy and then came with a leap from the shadows tumbling past. I threw my dagger in a mummy and rolled into another new alcove.

The rest were beaten to death and all but I coughed.

When we had caught our breath we continued up the stairs, with me sneaking ahead.

It zig-zagged up into a circular room with seven doors. There were six statues standing in front of most of the doors. Most were holding different kinds of food, but one had candles and one held nothing but had its arms crossed over the chest and a wide grinning smile showing sharp pointy teeth.

As the others caught up I continued through the first door to the right.

It lead to a room that was some kind of entry hall with a painted door on the other side. I guess their pretend guests would come through that pretend door. There were a door leading to the left just before the room so I went through there.

Honeypot followed further behind as I went through a back room where they apparently had clothes to greet their pretend guests. I ended up in a new corridor that to the left looked like it would lead back into the circular room with the statues. As Nathaniel was still there I headed left and opened the door groaning with as dark a voice as I could. My giggles however lessened the effect. I told them to follow as we were about to head down the next corridor. Velicia who had followed said that the entry hall wasn't for pretend guests but for visitors from other planes. Anyway the next room had some kind of altar and behind it there was a secret door, but I spotted it. Sneaking in I saw a crystal sarcophagus with ghosts moving within, standing in the middle of a big magical pentagram. I was quite sure that it would be bad to enter the pentagram. As it obviously was magical I stepped back and let our mages work it out.

After some thinking Velicia said that it was some kind of source of power. Somehow it trapped souls inside the walls and fueled this part of runeforge with unholy necromantic power. She described some of its workings so I could disable some of its defenses and started bleeding off its power back where it came from, but some just leaked out. Honeypot said that she needed to counter it with a positive life affirming ritual. There were some plants sprouting from dirt but she wanted to celebrate fertility even more and asked Nathaniel to join her right there. He had his sword readied and wasn't in the mood for any shenanigans. Honeypot looked to Velicia but she was occupied with trying to banish any spirit energy leaking and were doing well. Honeypot was trying herself but when she looked to me I hesitantly retreated. I was definitely not in the mood for anything like that. Velicia did however with her religious training take care of the unholiness and Nathaniel finished by smashing the sarcophagus with his pickaxe. I looked around for anything valuable but didn't find any. I did however find another secret door. Inside was a room filled with books in a silly language I couldn't read. Apparently they were about necromantic magic.

Next I went to an even more chapel-like room. There were more secret doors.

Opening it I was met by an awful stench. Within were the decaying bodies of several humans in light blue robes. I entered trying hard to make my stomach agree with the stench. I looked closer at the clothes and suspected that the bodies were what was left of the inhabitants of envy.

Continuing on there were crypts and workshops and other rooms designed to handle the bodies of the dead in different ways I didn't even want to think of. There was one room with a more elaborate sarcophagus with partially butchered cattle on the sides. It was empty, but whatever family was buried there had been rich. The walls were covered with slots for the bodies of the family. Some still had stone slabs covering them but most was open and empty. There was a column where all slabs was still in place. I was suspicious and soon found it to be another hidden door, hiding a small tunnel. I went in followed by Nathaniel. It turned and the stench increased again. It ended in a room with three tables. On the one furthest away there lay a body and a creature was cutting in it, studying it. I recognized it as a lich from Foxglove Manor and retreated behind Nathaniel. Velicia sneaked up to the room and looked in. She told us it wasn't a lich but a powerful ghoul. I knew I recognized it from my family, but it was more like my brother, not my grandfather... We all sneaked up and readied us for attack.

I started it all by throwing my dagger straight into the back of the ghoul. It buried itself deep between its shoulders but ghouls are tough creatures and it only let out a wheeze from the hit. Velicia teleported up to it and teleported it back to between Nathaniel and me. I attacked but missed it and slid away and hid behind the table with the body.

Ghoul shadowtelpade to a better position than being surrounded. Reappearing it brought terrible darkness with it that affected Nathaniel.

I noted a secret door.

I feinting flurry to be able to hit it. I sly flourish and critical opportunity. It very heavily wounded. I hid behind the table again.

The hidden door opened and what I realized was the lich emerged. It cast evil spells on Nathaniel.

Honeypot ran up to it and kicked it and returned out the tunnel. There she herd some noise from the crypt we came from.

The ghoul tried to escape through the door the lich had come from, at the end of the corridor, trying to hide around the corner I threw my dagger straight. I saw it fall out into sight dead. I started to move away from the lich when Velicia shouted we should engage it, so I did. It turned out that she didn't plan to do so at all but she ran out into the tunnel to fight with the mummies there. Nathniel who had been slowed by the lich's magic couldn't hope to catch the lich who backed away into the corridor, instead charged a mummy and burned it with his burning sword. I was left alone with the lich. So much for listening to tactical advice from Velicia. Fortunately I had combat anticipation and avoided being hit by the lich's evil magic. Honeypot used her glittering dust and made almost all mummies blinded. From where I stood I threw my dagger into one that stumbled into the room and I felled the first mummy. Inspired by that Nathaniel and the other soon followed my example. Honeypot decided to help me out and attacked the lich. She danced in front of it just outside the archway it had back into, kicking low. I ran up to Honeypot, putting a hand on her back I leapfrogged over her and the lich, who tried to swing at me with its staff but missed widely. Landing behind it I twirled around and stabbed it hard. It was so scared by my move that it cast some magic and disappeared. I was stunned at how easily I and Honeypot had scared away a lich. Nathaniel and Velicia destroyed the last of the mummies soon after.

The room where he had come from was another laboratory and this contained a stuffed baby crocodile and Velicia said that it was what we needed from gluttony.

I didn't like the idea of leaving a lich, but I definitely want to be finished with runeforge as soon as possible. I really missed freshly cooked food. I wished that I could have brought Kaven somehow. We returned to Pride.