Kay’s Journal – 2/5
- 1170 XP
- 500gp
- 2 gems @200gp ea.
- 1 pot healing balm, 5 doses
We’re still in the church with Sora the shapeshifter and the mayor. Corncob and Gooseneck negotiate with the mayor for more pay for this job, and the mayor offers a couple of gems worth 200gp each. They push for more, but either he’s got a great poker face, or that’s really all he can offer.
Fathom and Abran are reading through the books Sora had stacked about to try to learn more about the golem, while Corncob tries once again to get more details from Sora. He learns that she found the amulet she was wearing in Aubrey’s room, but that’s all she gives up.
We consider what to do next, and what to do with Sora. We turn her over to the mayor in return for her answering questions for us truthfully. With that bargain struck, she tells us there are two amulets. The one she has will cause flesh zombies to be made from bodies in the graveyard. The other amulet is with Aubrey in the crypt, and allows control of the stone golem. Sora was having the flesh golems steal stuff that she could sell for a profit later. She showed us a cache of the things her minions had stolen from the townsfolk; it was around 500gp worth of stuff. There was some discussion about whether we should keep that as ‘payment’ or give it back, and eventually it was agreed we’d give it back.
Pujol started working with the zombie amulet, so that he’ll be able to control his own dead guys. Ick.
The town guards take Sora to a house with a basement; this is apparently their jail. Corncob spikes the basement hatch shut.
We have a plan: Corncob, Gooseneck, Pujol, and Fathom will try to lure the stone golem out of the crypt and keep it distracted while Abran and I sneak in to the crypt to look for Aubrey and/or the amulet. Pujol has become friendly enough with the amulet that he manages to summon two flesh golems. He sends them in to the crypt to find the stone golem and lure it out.
Useful, but still yuck.
Abran and I hide near the crypt entrance, waiting for the stone golem to come out. It’s not long before we hear the stone-on-stone grinding of the golem approaching.
The flesh golems come out of the crypt, with the stone golem close behind. Corncob goes over to the corner of the graveyard and starts casting a spike growth spell, hoping that will help trap the stone golem up here as well as damage it. Once the stone golem has passed up, Abran sneaks down into the crypt, and I follow. Since he can see in the dark and I can’t, he stays a fair bit ahead of me. Abran moves forward slowly, looking for traps and other troubles.
Pujol has his flesh golem run over to the corner that Corncob has prepared, and sure enough, the stone golem follows. Gooseneck and Fathom move in with Corncob. Corncob casts a growth spell on the corner to try to block the golems in, while Pujol has his golem smack the stone golem with a headstone.
Abran comes to a doorway that looks like it’s trapped. He summons a spirit in the shape of an ostrich and sends it through the doorway. The eye runes on the doorway glow, and the ostrich is almost turned to stone, but shakes it off. Abran thinks the holy symbol on the amulets can probably pass through the trap safely.
Outside, the stone golem immediately turns back toward the crypt. Pujol’s golem, Fathom, and Corncob all attack the golem. Fathom sets off a fireball – that’s new! They all do damage but it doesn’t seem to distract the stone golem away from returning to the crypt. Gooseneck wonders if everyone should head down into the crypt now.
Abran sprints back to the crypt door to get Pujol and his amulet. Gooseneck, on his way down, meets Abran at the entrance.
Corncob, Fathom, and Pujol’s golem keep attacking the stone golem, but by then Abran’s ostrich spirit had crossed through the doorway again, turned to stone, and this somehow strengthened the stone golem.
Pujol comes down into the crypt. Abran grabs him and runs back to the trapped doorway. Unfortunately, the stone golem is also making his way down into the crypt. Gooseneck, Corncob, and Fathom keep attacking it, but it doesn’t slow it down at all.
Abran gets Pujol to the medusa door, and Pujol runs through. It looks like that disarms the trap completely. The stone golem, still by the crypt entrance, disappears, sinking in to the ground. It reforms right in front of me at the medusa door. Oh, yay.
Abran pulls me away from the golem and then shoots a couple of arrows at it. Gooseneck, Corncob, and Fathom all run through the hallway, trying to get to the golem. In the room past the medusa door, Pujol strips down and then slathers himself with the healing balm he’s carrying, hoping it will make him slippery enough to get through the small gap in the pile of rubble blocking the door into the room where we think Aubrey is. Amazingly, he wiggles through.
The stone golem hits Abran, and he backs away. Gooseneck gets there at about that time and rngages with the golem. I stay behind him and get out a healing potion, ready to dump it down his throat when he inevitably gets knocked down. Fathom and Corncob get there about then, and also attack the golem.
Past the rubble, Pujol runs over to Aubrey and puts the last dose of healing balm on her. It seems to help some, stabilizing her for the moment.
Sure enough, the stone golem his Gooseneck, and he goes down. I dump the potion down his throat…and then the stone golem shuts down. Aubrey must have found the other amulet.
Pujol has his flesh golem clear the rubble out of the blocked doorway, and we give Aubrey some food and water. Once everyone is recovered enough, we leave the crypt. Pujol sends his golems back to their rest.
Unsurprisingly, it takes Aubrey a few days to recover. As a token of gratitude, she gives us another container of healing balm, this one with 5 doses.
After spending those few days in the town, we continue our journey north. One evening just a short way outside of town, as we settle in to camp for the night, we see a blazing fireball cut through the sky, following along the path of the river.
I’m sure it’ll be fine.
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