Session 5

The party heads down the stone stairs into the mountain. They decide to stick together and carefully explore the dungeon. Ossie takes the lead. As they walk along, they hear some sniffing ahead. They continue along, and as Ossie turns the corner, they encounter a group of cultists. A battle ensues. After a few rounds, a large, two-headed dog appears from behind the corner who was sniffing earlier. The party is able to defeat the dog and the cultists, and they explore the area, finding an outhouse and boxes filled with cultist robes.

They continue along the dungeon, and find an altar and a bowl with fresh blood in it, and a picture with a symbol on the wall. They also find a weapons room, with arrows and other small weapons. From here, Mundo sees another pack of cultists up ahead. Mundo advances quietly, and is able to assassinate one of the cultists with his shortbow. Another battle ensues with some cultists, and another two-headed dog. The party is victorious once again, and continue on. They find a room with two bookcases, some books on the floor, and a letter on the floor as well. Theodor picks up the letter and reads it aloud to the party. It is a letter with orders to kill Kathrine Thorne, the wife of Kel Marcus Thorne, the military general of Cleyden. They want her death to be an example to others, since she has been advocating for the ban of worshiping evilly aligned gods.

The party then finds an iron door, standing out in the otherwise totally stone made dungeon. They back up a little, and Theodor opens it with his Mage Hand. Inside they see more cultists, and the cultists hear the door opening. Inside they hear a raspy voice yell out: "Who's there? What's happening? Go check it out!", and another encounter begins. The lead cultist steps out first, wearing full black and a fancy dagger, and casts a floating sword into the air and it slashes out at Theodor. The other cultists rally to their leaders command, and attack the party. The floating sword strikes down Brae, who is wounded from the earlier fights. The party is able to defeat some cultists, and they notice when dealing mortal blows to the leader, that the cultists are cut down in the leaders stead. Once all the cultists are dealt with, the leader is killed as well by Ossie. Mundo is able to stabilize Brae.

After the battles, Theodor goes ahead and investigates the altar the cultists were at, and heads down a small hallway next to it. He finds two chests, but they are locked. He returns to the party and tells them of the chests. They search the cult leaders corpse, find a small key, and take his fancy dagger. Mundo tells the party he could use it, and takes the dagger. Ossie and Theodor go to the chests, and are able to open then with the key. They find 60 gp, 3 gems, and 2 Potions of Healing in one chest. In the other they find bronze spectacles with blue gems as lenses, a light blue cloak with a golden trim, and a well crafted sword hilt. They take all the items and return to the party. Theodor ritual casts a detect magic, and notices all three items are magical. The party decide to wait in the dungeon until Brae wakes up.

At some point, Theodors owl notices a squirrel scurrying in the dungeon. They go up to the squirrel, and the squirrel delivers a message from Selena, the young druid from outside. She asks if they are doing well, and what is taking them so long. They decide to go talk to her outside, and they tell her that they are doing fine. She comes inside now that it's presumably safe. She goes over the corpses, and she doesn't find her friend that she's looking for. Brae wakes up during this, and the party and the druid converge together. Selena gives a healing spell to Brae. Theodor points out that the friend Selena is looking for might be the person who was walking in the swamp earlier.

The party with Selena leave the base, and walk along the mountains to the plateau they slept at earlier, and ready themselves for a rest. They take a look at the items they found, and the only item they are able to make sense of for now are the spectacles. Mundo notices that when wearing them, everything in his immediate surroundings is very clearly visible.