Scrolls of Nedev - February 8th, 2023
General Summary
The Journal Of Xindge
Adventurers: Tellum, Stor, Xindge, William22nd day of Shaktide, 12th Year of the Reign of Empress Sorsasta, 5728
Xindge, Tellem, Stor are back together again, the superstar adventurers reunited for yet another quest. We are joined by William, a rogue who can “get you anything”. We spend our money that we got from the Baron of Nedev. Tellem is opening a soup kitchen, Xindge donated half back to the church. We gather together at the Emerald Star, near the South Gatehouse and touch base as to how our month went. Our serving girl Futhala comes over to us and flirts a little with Tellem. Ilyria still on his mind, still grateful for her rescue. William had a cow slaughtered from his farm, still has not found the culprit. Xinge is told of a farm south of Nedev, the Brighttoe family about halfway to the swamp. They were supposed to bring their daughter to the church but they never showed up. After finishing our breakfast we head out the South Gate to investigate. By 10:30 we approach the farm. Other farms were bustling with activity but this one is eerily silent. There are some sheep and pigs wandering around. The pigs start making more noise as we approach. They are hungry. There is something evil here. It’s in the house. We abandon the pigs and gather near the entrance to the house. There is a zombie, it’s Farmer Brighttoe. Xindge whacks him with a guided bolt and then the zombie charges him. The zombie misses badly. Xindge hears footsteps clomping upstairs. Tellem whacks him and the zombie expires. William investigates the room, there are definite signs of a struggle. We head up the stairs. Xindge heads up the stairs and hits the zombie mom with a bolt for serious damage. The zombie mom hits Xindge and Stor is missed by the zombie kid. Tellem and William run up the stairs. Tellem whacks zombie mom. William moves into tactical position. Stor stabs at the zombie kid and hits. His second stab with a short sword misses. Xindge drops zombie mom. Zombie kid attacks Stor and hits. Tellem whacks zombie kid but misses. William misses with his rapier, Stor hits on the first swing and the second. The universe timer goes to zero and the baby makes an appearance and goes to bite William’s leg but misses. Xindge goes over to the baby and splatters it all over the walls with his war hammer. Tellem misses the zombie kid but William hits supremely, destroying the zombie kid. We begin investigating the house. Tellem and William examine the zombie bodies. They were previously injured. No more evil is detected so we go out and slop the hogs. We also burn and bury the bodies. In the barn William and Stor discover a guy with an evil-looking axe. We hear the ruckus and the pale green dude attacks. Stor is missed. William does his double strike, hits with one misses with the other. Xindge hurries to catch up. Green Dude takes two attacks, William and Stor. Both get hit with the strangely smoking axe he wields. Tellem accidentally hits Stor. William gets in one hit. The wounds Green Dude is taking are healing up. Stor hits nicely, does a lot of damage. Xindge moves in to heal Stor. Green Dude is not happy. He attacks Stor and William. They take minor damage. Stor hits and disengages. Xindge gives Green Dude a blast. Seems to hurt him. Green Dude attacks Tellem twice. One misses, the second attack is a whopper. Tellem goes on the attack and wallops Green Dude and killed is ass dead. We clear out the barn and we finally got the pigs fed. Then we drag the body out of the barn and in the sunlight he vaporizes. We grab the axe and head out. We straggle back to town to get the party healed from the zombification damage. We get back to the church. I show the priests the axe and they take it to put in the vault with the evil spell book. The high priest casts restoration spells and then Xindge heals them. The high priest offers to restore William if he pays 100 gold pieces or work it off. Stor is offered the same deal. We explain the situation. Jerry tells us that the axe is super-evil. It’s a recent creation. Carved into the haft are intertwining snake symbols. William tells us that Stor and Jonathan fought a snake-queen who escaped. So I guess it’s time to get back on that case! So we head to the Library of Kanos for information. We enter the Library of Kanos and Kanos is sitting at a desk doing some calligraphy. He introduces himself and we go about inquiring. He shows us a book that holds information about a land of snake people. Wants 200 gold for it. Yeah, we ain’t got that. He is striking a hard bargain. We traded some of the jewelry we got at the end of our last adventure and he sold us the book. Now we have to read it and translate it so we can find out what the hell is going on. The book is a history of Situ-Va, a race of snake people who enslaved many in the Nedev area. Their stronghold is a 2-3 day journey from here in the mountains to the west of the city. The relevant locations noted are Stronghold of Drak-Drek and Citadel of Oriakhazon as well as the capitol of Dordreki. It gives relative distances and directions. With a map of the mountains we might have a chance. When the snake people enslaved other races they often transformed them into mindless thralls. The next morning Jonathan joined us for breakfast and told us about the snake queen. They last saw her at the snake queen a few days from the city. Time to round up the troops and make a stand.
Report Date
23 Feb 2023
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