2021/10/13: Hunting Ragross Part 1 Report
General Summary
Knight, Keel, Aurelin, Sith, Ios
The people in New Hallownest saw Knight running through the city at full speed a few days ago, chasing someone only he could see. Knight has no memory of this, so it’s probably the Knight who went into the fungus area. It’s unclear whether Knight will have to deal with that at some point. He’s been advised not to touch his counterpart if he encounters him.
There have been a few minor encounters during the eight days of downtime, but nothing the guards couldn’t handle. Knight was able to spend 10,000 gp to get the dead Great Sentry resurrected. Voices of the Void was given to Ngel Sfet so she can switch her levels.
Ios is being left in the Dragon Lord’s Castle. She should be thoroughly safe there.
The rest of the party set out to resolve the geas that the Self-Sufficiency dungeon had set on several of us in Cubit. We transported to the valley above the target vampire lord’s lair. There’s a “creek” there reminiscent of the Strid from the UK. Don’t fall in. There’s very little animal life in the area, and there’s a feeling of death everywhere despite the plant life. Find the path toward the vampire points to a particular spot in the middle of the stream. The stream has a death effect and a magic drain effect, and is hideously fast, deep, and bendy.
We’re skipping the Strid for the moment and instead going for one of the seven caves around the edge of the valley. They’re apparently made by people, but they’re very old. Five people passed through at least one of the caves recently. One of the caves contains mummified ghouls, two contain zombies, one contains skeletons, one contains (werewolves?), one contains a rent bronze breastplate, one is an old dwarven footpath.
The group met a Neutral adventuring party who was sent here to deliver some enchanted statuary. The leader is a centurion by the name of Crassus.
We set a trap with the aid of Crassus’s party, since they were definitely getting the impression that the payment for their delivery was going to be death. When Ragross appeared to claim the statuary, Aurelin’s mount pulled Crassus's party to safety and we jumped in to fight the vampire. He was Corrupted and really powerful, but with a great deal of effort (and some major custom magic by Sith) we managed to reduce him to mist, trap him, and finally finish him off.
We detected two other sources of Corruption while we were there: One source deep underground, which the mistform vampire was attempting to escape to, and another source 30 miles to the east-northeast, which is someone’s castle.
Aurelin then got sucked into the Halloween adventure, so the rest of the group took an 8-hour rest, bringing the day to the 26th of August, 23 ARL.
Missions/Quests Completed
Kill the vampire Ragross
Report Date
13 Oct 2021
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