TAK 4 Report - The Church of a Forsaken God
General Summary
The session started with a continuation of Adran walking off from the last session. He followed █████████
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to an abandoned church in the slums, but doesn't follow him inside. He then returns to the Old Deer Bar and Inn.During the night, Goldie is visited by Unie, who passes on a message from Los, stating that he owes Zabich, the Withering a favour big time and so is helping her recover her Divine Implement, the Catastrophe Needle, and by extension wants Goldie to keep an eye out for it, a glass-like dagger. He warns that it is believed to be in or near Firresse and is incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands.
In the morning, Alex and Adran wake up sick, which Aa'shen soon identifies as Heartfire.
They head to the nearby Church of Ƶycie where they are informed that magic is ineffective at curing the disease, but can temporarily relieve symptoms. They cast holy magic (which the players deduce to be 2nd level) and the symptoms are cleared for approx. 6 hours. Upon recieving this treatment, Adran begins to feel a slowlt increasing sense of dread.
At this point, Goldie decides to split from the rest of the party (because I didn't want to incolve an absent PC in too much chaos) to help out with the sick patients. The players elect to return to the abandoned church in the slums in ths hope that █████████
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, who they suspect is the Ashen King, can help them.They arrive at the church and Alex identifies it as a Church of Miraƶ, the Shifting. They enter and walk around, exploring rooms 1, 3, 4, 2, 5 in that order. By that time, █████████
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and his posse, including Mish Yanian and Grabber, return. The party aren't making an effort to stay hidden and quickly launch a suprise attack which goes south when they realise that Mish alone seems to be more than they can handle. They break through the window in room 2 and escape to the street.Alex, who had jumped through the window first, ran around the front of the building in an attempt to draw the attention away from the rest of the party. He was given the cold shoulder by the two guards at the door, then █████████
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ran out the door to attack him. They dueled for a couple of turns, which included Alex's opponent casting a spell that advanced his Heartfire to stage 2 with no save, when he ran away.While this was happening, Adran's feeling of dread overwhelmed him and he vomited and took some Null damage. The party ran with their tails between their legs back to the inn.
