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Tales from the Crypt (Dragon), S5E07

Current Objectives

• Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant's keep
• Enter Stormheim
• [COMPLETE] Join Kaldur and seek the Mantles of the Heroes
• [COMPLETE] Aid the merfolk in attacking the Cthulu cults
• Defeat the Dracolich to earn the Run from Nuripites

Events

• Back in Rime, we have some time to prepare:

  • Stackor crafts some stuff.
  • Gartug works as a sailor on the docks.
  • SG gets roped into dealing with some monsters in Greentown

• A few days into our preparation, SG gets notified by the Task Force of monsters attacking the city, and specifically the Greentown Mob.

  • SG, Withatwist, and Taliah teleport to the brothel being attacked. There, they find a bloodbath, including the castrated body of Clive hung upside-down on a meat-hook. Investigating further, they hear shuffling upstairs, and checking in they find a Dark Tapestry abomination -- COMBAT!!
    • They swiftly deal with the threat.
  • Investigating further, they find the office of Carmine, one of the leaders of the Greentown Mob, and some further evidence. We also find multiple prostitutes that evidently had the creatures burst from their abdomen.
  • Stackor and Harvey join the fun.
  • Taliah takes one of the prostitutes for an autopsy, and returns to her lab.
  • Harvey and Stackor investigate, and Harvey finds symbols marked on the beds. Specifically, they are symbols used to draw the attention of the Mother of A Thousand Young, Shub'nigguroth. They also investigate Carmine's office, finding a hidden room under a trapdoor. Inside are many more riches, and the body of Carmine, stabbed many times, with her face cut off.
  • Withatwist takes Carmine's body, intending to pay to have her resurrected.

• The following day:

  • Taliah finishes her autospy, determining that the creatures suddenly burst from the body, and that the victims were otherwise not poisoned.
  • SG casts blood biography and then speak with dead on Clive
  • At the insistance of Withatwist, SG raises Carmine (Woman Name) from the dead. She gives us some information, including the location of Clive's study.
    • Checking on the location, we find a warehouse burned down to cinders.
  • SG updates the Task Force with everything we've learned.

There are two days remaining before the party heads off to fight the Dracolich. We will decide what to do with those days next time!

Player Characters

• Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler; and Taliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
• Sheila G, a half-elf cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
• Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
• Harvey, a tengu-ish monk (Mike)
• Oliver Withatwist, a fey-sworn warpriest (Dan)

Locations

• Rime

  • Sheila G's Temple of Cayden Calien

• The Boneyard

  • The Runebarrow, Domain of Maugrim
  • The barrow of Nuripites the Crypt Dragon

NPCs and Notable Characters

• Nuripites, a crypt dragon in the Boneyard

Other Notes

• Woman name.

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