Session Fifteen: Pursuit of Deathknight Schmidt

As we are are pursuing the Death Knight, Friedrich catches up with us on a horse and he is with 2 companions. Lufir and Stefaan. Stefan is looking for someone name King Syruck.
 
It seems Stefan has the Sword of Syruk. it turns out that Lyra's sword, Starfire is the sister sword of the sword of Syruk. Together, they will be able to open a portal to the lost RuneForge.
 
No matter how quickly we pursue him, we cannot catch up with him, but we know he is headed to Amrun Rad, Callun's home.
 
There is also a moon portal there that connects the North and South parts of the continent, although it's been out of commission for a while.
 
Since we know where they are going we travel the next few hours and make it to Amrun Rad. We are exhausted (literally, we all have on level of exhaustion).
 
Callun is confronted with his memories of murder and death here. He approaches his old home and touches it. WE see far off in the distance that the death knight is on a roof staring us down.
 
Faenor i is able to tell that we are surrounded by fiends, undead, demons, undead, and everything desecrated here.
 
Our new friend Lufir makes friends with a Raven who asks for shiney things to take back to his queen, The Raven Queen. I guess she's taken special interest in what is going on here and has some raven scouts in the area.
 
Faenor remembers that his father's lost sword is buried in this village, and he knows exactly where we need to go. We decide to flank the city and enter from the side closer to where the sword is buried.
 
Tempest makes a lot of noise and we get noticed. We have a conversation about morality and the value of people's lives who have no function.
 
Mr. Schmidt says he's just trying to bring peace everywhere, but killing everyone and controlling them. He tries to force hs son Fredrick to start turning into a deathknight. Lyra uses her spell of suggestion to make him stop listening and to resist what is happening to him, and it works. He is able to stop transforming into a deathknight for the moment.
 
A fight breaks out between some manes, death dogs, a winter eladrin, a dretch, and bunch of shit. .
 
Hazel gets one shotted by the eladrin. Faenor runs to where the sword is and starts digging for it.
 
Stafan, Lufir, and Tempest carry the fight. Tempest kills a whole BUNCH of demons by bringing a building on them. He shatters the shit out of some undead.
 
Unfortunately, Tempest is killed by the death knight. As he falls, Lufir's raven pecks at Leland and time stops. The Raven Queen shows up and only Leland can see him. Leland tells her that he will give his life to save his brother. The Raven Queen picks up Tempest's body and flies away with it.
 
Leland is now covered in feathered armor and is completely restored. Leland is now a warlock of the Raven Queen.
 
The death knight is quite confused about what is happening.
 
A giant raven sized shadow shrouds us, and the death knight starts to run away leaving the eladrin to fight us.
 
Before he gets away, Lyra swipes at him with the vorpal sword. She hits, but it's not enough to decapitate him.
 
This allows Stefan to make it to him and hit with the twin sword and he is able to deal the killing blow completely decapitating the death knight.
 
This frightens the eladrin and he surrenders to us. Friedricks starts to transform. Lyra determines that there is definitely nothing we can do for him. If we don't kill him, he will turn into a deathknight.
 
Lyra beheads him. Hazel becomes upset and runs off.
 
The eladrin makes an escape while we are doing this.
 
Faenor is able to get her father's sword from the little girl's grave and he also finds a map. The map portrays an X on Excobar and it is says "Runeforge" in dwarvish. It says, those who wish to enter, must possess the twin swords.
 
Faenor runs back to us. We see Tempest's body up on a wall. We run over to him. He's ok We learn that he spent some time in a burning place, and he got pulled out by someone saying "My mistress needs you" and a huge bird brought him here.
 
Leland hears "As long as you serve me, your brother will live"
 
Leland runs up and slaps him, and is just really happy that he's alive.
 
Hazel notices Leland's Runeforge necklace, and realizes that he is a descendant of the Runeforge dwarves. If we could find the Runeforge, Tempest and Leland will actually be able to use to create amazing weapons.
 
We find the demonomicon that the death knight had. It's volume 6. Leland tries to absorb it into his hand with the other one, but it doesn't work. It's just a book.
 
We grab his magical gear, a magic bottle, and the Demonomicon and go rest in Callun's house.
 
We lay down for the night and get some rest. Leland's armor disappears automatically when he lays down to sleep. When he wakes up, it comes back.