Session 23 – Lost City: Island of Death
General Summary
Determined to explore the Island of Death despite Gyleon’s warnings that no one ever returns from there the team sets about gathering supplies and equipment that they think they might need.
Feebs and Gunkyn visit the Magi of Usamigaras in disguise hoping to trade for or buy magic items. The exceedingly pompous mage they deal with at the gates agrees but gouges them severely on price, charging 6,000 gold pieces for a basic cloak of protection, ring of protection, and a set of bracers of defense.
Meanwhile, Gyleon is able to scrounge a couple of potions of healing from the Brotherhood’s stores and arrange for the group to borrow a fishing boat. Arriving on the island, there is an immediate sense of eeriness and death. As they get closer to the center that feeling increases.
At the center of the island, atop a small hillock they find a ring of eight stones with an inverted, slightly faded pentagram in the center. Each of the stones has a word etched into that in a language no one recognizes.
Gunkyn utilizes the spell comprehend languages to interpret the writing on the stones. The eight words form a phrase but they are not in order, so it takes a moment to decipher that they create phrase “Do The Hokie Pokie And Turn Yourself Around”.
Gunkyn tries speaking the phrase aloud several times, both while performing the dance and not but nothing happens. Once everyone else has taken some cover behind the stones, with Feebs taking the extra precaution of hiding in a bush, Gunkyn enters the center of the pentagram but before he can utter the first word, a ghost appears and immediately attacks!
As they vanquish the ghost, another appears, and so on despite Feebs using an unseen servant to try to damage the inscription on one of the stones. After defeating the fourth ghost first respawns!
Gikhesh is extremely weakened due to the ghosts’ withering touch and the group is so far at a loss as how to make the ghosts stop re-appearing. But it is clear that they must find out how soon before this battle becomes deadly!
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