Chase across the rooftops Report

General Summary

5 Amesh 527

    While inside a hidden chamber below the Cassalanter Memorial, Kevnan found a sack hidden behind one of the stone sarcophagi. As he lifted the sack to show to the others, Vaelle shouts, No, Don’t! but it was too late. With an audible grating noise vents are opened. Kevnan is enveloped in a dark mist, which begins to drain him of his life-blood. At the other end of the chamber, two dark shadows slide across the wall, taking form to attack Clive and Grasshopper. In the ensuing battle the heroes are victorious, though Clive is rendered briefly unconscious and Kevnan’s wounds are mortal.

Ferzith, Vectis, Gyrah, Ryker, and Ping Pong take Kevnan’s remains to the temple of Xosus to tell the priests what they have learned about Asmodeus cultists at the Cassalanter Memorial.

Bolide, Grasshopper, Clive, Hergatz, Darian, Rilitar and All the Light Touches, follow Vaelle to the ruined windmill in Grand Circus Park district. Arriving at the ruined windmill the heroes search the first level, finding only the rudimentary shelters of vagrants. On the second floor there is a sturdy door with a well-made lock. All the Light Touches picks the lock and steps back. Vaelle charges through the door with a dagger drawn. Inside the comfortably appointed room, two non-descript individuals were waiting and visible through the open window were four spiky-spiny flying creatures, one carrying a package. Magical darkness impedes the heroes’ vision and in the ensuing scuffle Vaelle is burned by some magical spell. When the darkness ends, all that is visible is Vaelle’s body and the retreating flying creatures.

Grasshopper, Rillitar, and Bolide pursue the creatures across the roof tops while Ferzith, Gyrah and Clive pursue on the street below. Darien and All the Light Touches descend from the rooftop to re-investigate the ruins to find the missing cultists.
At the end of the chase, the heroes are not able to catch up to the flying creatures, but are close enough to see them descend into an alleyway, which moments later a well appointed coach with the Cassalanter family device exits.
Darien and All the Light Touches find a secret room with a pentagram painted in blood with warm blobs of black wax at each point. They also find an ancient, cracked wooden spoon.
The heroes regroup at the ruined windmill and explain what they have learned to a group of priests and paladins from the temple of Xosus.

It is well past supper time and the heroes will have to walk home in the dark.