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12th of Morne Yowa

Session 22 - Raven Queen's Champion

by Kaito "Oreson" Brinejaw

We enter the temple from the top of what seems a tower, which is predominantly below and surrounded by bog, we entered through where a window would have once been.
 
We decide to rest before venturing in as we pushed through the night. An hour into my watch I hear the sound of footfalls outside where we entered in the bog. As I listen out I deduce that the creature is hooved, with 4 sets of them based on the timing of the steps, the footfalls faded away after about 30 minutes.
 
In the morning, we all notice that Malaphor is ghastly white in skin tone, similar to Austar, and has reddish pupils.
 
We descend the spiral staircase downwards 80 feet, and arrived at a room, musty smell and has swamp shrubbery growing through the cracks in the stone, and partially flooded, with a face down corpse lying in the water.
 
On the back of it's rags is a faded symbol, black bird with wings folded up over it's eyes.
 
We move through the temple and end up at an opening of what seemed to be the central chamber. I notice on the ceiling covered in matted, patchy brown fur, clinging to the ceiling in the central chamber. Chest rising and falling, very quickly, It looks down at me, and I see a deer skull with some sinewy muscle, 2 sharp antlers, broken jaw. It scuttles away at great speed and appears behind Raskin and Austar from the corridor we came from and launches itself at Austar's skeleton he summoned.
 
It destroys the skeleton, paralyzes Raskin and knocks Raskin down very quickly, I banish it and it re-appears after a minute and we attack collectively again, it's still standing and manages to paralyze myself and Ape, as well as downing Austar. I notice that the chest strapped down with chains to the alter, glows more brightly as the creature begins to heal itself. A tough battle ensued, where people went down multiple times. During the battle we broke the chains holding the box, and inside was a black heart pulsing quickly in a black ooze like liquid. I stabbed the heart with my spiritual weapon and it stopped beating, and the creature wailed in pain.
 
After defeating the creature, we notice writing on the front of the altar holding the box. It read in elvish "Hold no pity for those who die, for death is the end of life". Austar mentions there is a missing word. It should read "Hold no pity for those who die, for death is the NATURAL end of life". Where "natural" should be is a chip in the stone which Austar presses, and the stairs descend and a small doorway is revealed. We decide to rest before going through it. Austar and I decide to go down. We only get 20 feet down, before we find ourselves in a room. At the back, is a beautiful raven statue made in deep black stone. Behind the statue attached to the wall is a stunning silver and black scythe. Handle wrapped in purple and black raven feathers, gleaming blue sapphires embedded up the handle of the staff. The scythe gives off various different schools of magic auras from my detect magic, giving a very strong aura of magic, only beat by the Fracture Fist. It's affixed to the wall by raven claws, which unfurl when Austar grabs the scythe.
 
The heart found in the chest is giving off a magical aura of Abjuration. We tried to destroy it but nothing worked. I then identified it and it is a Wendigo Heart. Whoever carries the heart, gains resistance to cold damage, in my identification it did cause some pain.
While resting I go and explore the rest of the temple, I find a crumbled staircase which I can't climb and I head back. Malaphor goes and climbs it and comes back with a 5 headed hydra necklace, which has a magical effect to it, each head providing a different effect.
 
After the extremely tough battle, depleting our energy and resources we decide to take a longer rest before heading to Trentsigrad and meeting with Curtana to hand over the golden coffin we found after defeating Kurash and his cultists.

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  1. Session 1 - New Beginnings
  2. Session 2 - Drunk and Disorderly
  3. Session 3 - Crossroads and Giants
  4. Session 4 - Lorger's Thicket
  5. Session 5 - Pentareach Beginnings
  6. Session 6 - Pentareach Rumble
  7. Session 7 - Friend of the King
  8. Session 8 - Forgotten Ruins and Mystery
  9. Session 9 - Blacktop's Secret
  10. Session 10 - Depths of the Blacktop
  11. Session 11 - Morgan's Mystery
  12. Session 12 - Visions and a Cleansing
  13. Session 13 - The Long Road
  14. Enemies
  15. Session 14 - Laelos Arrival
  16. Session 15 - A Royal Mistake
  17. Session 16 - Revenge and Truth
  18. Session 17 - Trouble and Research
  19. Session 18 - Lonely Toad and Proposition
  20. Research
  21. Session 19 - Vellsten and Disappearances
  22. Session 20 - Wear-wolves, bears and rats?
  23. Session 21 - Heroes of Vellsten
  24. Session 22 - Raven Queen's Champion
    12th of Morne Yowa
  25. Session 23 - Revelations and a Chaotic Victory
    14th of Morne Yowa
  26. Session 24 - The Manor and Word
    15th of Morne Yowa
  27. Session 25 - Isaiac's Maw
    15th of Morne Yowa
  28. Places of Interest
  29. Allies
  30. Session 26 - Manor Gains and Desert Travels
    22nd of Morne Yowa
  31. Session 27 - Hashal and Partha
    23rd of Morne Yowa
  32. Session 28 - Hashal's Rift Ki
    23rd of Morne Yowa
  33. Session 29 - Sol'Partha
    24th of Morne Yowa
  34. Session 30 - Partha's Mystery
    24th of Morne Yowa
  35. Session 31 - Odror Partha's Fall
    24th of Morne Yowa
  36. Session 32 - Odror's Sentinel VS The Paragon
    1st of Yoweth
  37. Session 33 - Asgorath Revelations & Beast Rescues
    1st of Yoweth
  38. Session 34 - An Exotic Rescue
    1st of Yoweth
  39. Session 35 - Demonic Beast and Desert Travels
    2nd of Yoweth
  40. Session 36 - Malaphor's True Self
    2nd of Yoweth
  41. Session 37 - Triumphant Winnings
    3rd of Yoweth
  42. Session 38 - Sailing the seas and Chankata
    6th of Yoweth
  43. Session 39 - Asgorath's Chosen United
    7th of Yoweth
  44. Session 40 - The Doyen's Teachings
    1st of Uthwix
  45. Session 41 - The Ninefold Rise
    1st of Uthmix
  46. Session 42 - The Ninefold Scatter
    3rd Uthwix
  47. Session 43 - Troll's Denthoum
    3rd of Uthwix
  48. Session 44 - Denthoum's Spectator
    3rd of Uthwix
  49. Session 45 - Talona's Plant
    4th of Uthwix
  50. Session 46 - Diege Entities & New Headings
    5th of Uthwix
  51. Session 47 - Poacher's & Mystery Dice
    5th of Uthwix

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