# session 20 (21/10/2024) - crypt - Le'garde aftermath - there is panic at the end of the civilian group - Vivian goes there to calm them down - a civilian asks why he should be trusted as he brought Le'garde down here - Vivian apologizes for it - Diana goes to the front - Reinhold stays in the middle - Reinhold wraps the body of Le'garde in a spare cape - Diana hands the bag of holding to Reinhold - Reinhold stores Le'garde in the bag - party starts to move people back - a scream can be heard - *fighting script* - Vivian - dashes back - there are 3 mummies here - Vivian starry wisps a mummy - screams back to tell the party - Reinhold dashes in the room - first mummy - walks towards Vivian - glares at Vivian who is now paralized - second mummy - walks in the room - glares at Reinhold who saves - Diana dashes through the corridor - third mummy - walks to Reinhold - kills a commoner - commoners start to flee the room - Vivian is paralized - Reinhold - rages with fiery damage - kills the second mummy - moves between the other ones - first mummy - hits Reinhold - Reinhold saves - saves the fury of the frost giant - second mummy misses Reinhold - Diana dashes in the room - Vivian - sprays of card first mummy - moves back - inspires Diana - Reinhold kills first mummy - third mummy - hits Reinhold - Reinhold saves - saves the fury of the frost giant - Diana maces the third mummy - Vivian - moves around the room - starry wisps the third mummy - inspires Reinhold - Reinhold - burns to a crisp the last mummy - Reinhold slowly starts to calm down - takes Vivian on his shoulders - both reassure each other - party escort people back up - cathedral - people up here are surprised with the influx of survivors - it is a drain on ressources but they welcome them - party stays here to recuperate for a long rest - Diana and Vivian asks around for information about Duke Ravengarde - he was looking for a way to the grand cemetery - where Gideon Lightward might be holding with some survivors - Diana sends a message to duke Ravengarde - asks him to hunker down in the catacomb and wait for backup - Ravengarde is at the cemetery, get here as fast as possible, demons and undead - Reinhold stays near Vivian during the rest as comfort - next day - party decides to go see Ravengarde through the catacombes - Diana asks Reinhold for the bag of holding - Reinhold hands the bag and distracts Vivian from what Diana is doing - Diana dumps Le'garde into the hole to the river Styx - Vivian asks if we should dump the skeletons - it is done - party moves through the catacombs with little issue - bodies are strung across fences - they are corrupted companions - path to the cemetery has been cleared - like a sickening red bloody carpet - Vivian doesn't seem to care - *nope, uppies it is, don't sully the feet of the boi* - party hears a heated argument inside - graveyard - Giedeon is talking to someone - Tiefling - pale - armor - bone and steel sword - long dark hair - tiefling looks pissed > you have to the count of 5 to explain to me - he seems angry - he accuses gideon that he is lying and that he brought the sundering - gideon was apparently with Zariel ? - party is running in at that point - Diana asks what is going on - the tiefling lashes out - civilians should be staying out of it - Gideon accuses the tiefling of being a fiend - the tiefling says he has a name - Lemartes Eidolon, 3rd Captain of The Palantine host - Eidolon accuse Gideon of being a fiend - Diana uses divine sense to know more - Gideon has an undead smell - Eidolon has a slight feindish smell - Gideon sense it - mutters in abyssal - a giant skeleton and minotaur bones rise - *fighting script* - Eidolon - goes to Gideon - smites Gideon who takes additional damage - casts shield of faith - first minotaur skeleton dashes to Vivian and Reinhold - Diana - runs to Gideon - casts spirit guardians excluding the party and Eidolon - second minotaur skeleton - enters the spirit guardian and fails - runs to Diana and gores her - Diana succeeds the saves - third minotaur skeleton - dashes to Vivian - gores Vivian - Vivian is thrown away - fourth minotaur - runs to Reinhold - misses the gore attack - Vivian - stands up - goes to Reinhold - enlarges and inspires Reinhold - Gideon - saves spirit guardian - the radiant damage prevents his regeneration - uses withering gaze on Eidolon - Reinhold - rages and goes now Huge - smacks twice with one crit at the third minotaur - giant skeleton attacks Diana and Eidolon - fifth minotaur - runs at Reinhold - gores Reinhold who doesn't move - Eidolon - uses his conquering presence - frightening most minotaurs - first minotaur misses Reinhold - Diana - spiritual weapons Gideon - smacks Gideon with the candle mace - second minotaur - fails the spirit guardians save - misses Diana - moves away from Diana who maces it - third minotaur - moves away from Reinhold who attacks him - Reinhold gets an opportunity attack - is frightened so can't charge - fourth minotaur gets back and charges at Reinhold - Vivian - climbs on Reinhold - whisps Gideon - inspires Eidolon - Gideon - takes spirit guardians damage - disengages out of the spirit guardians - Reinhold reckless attacks the fourth minotaur - giant skeleton attacks Diana - fifth minotaur - runs to Eidolon - gore misses Eidolon - Eidolon - moves to Gideon - smites Gideon and kills him - all the skeletons fall to the ground - Diana its on the ground battered - Eidolon uses lay on hands to heal her - Diana asks what happened to Gideon - a display of the power of Zariel - Eidolon asks why the party is here - searching for duke Ravengarde of Baldur's Gate - Eidolon is surprised that Baldur's Gate is still around - evades the questions the surprise - no more threats can be sensed at the moment - Diana casts sending to Ravengarde - party is here, Gideon is dead, where to meet him ? - no response - Diana looks through Gideon's belongings - a twisted holy symbol of Zariel - personal journal - Eidolon looks at the chapel - he recognises some of the names written on the statues - name of heroes - Agnithar - Bertra Zomes - Yevina Druen - Xivik Looren - Whrenk the Bloody - Vivian - takes the body of Gideon and burns it - while passing near Reinhold is muttering about cursing the soul of Gideon - Diana mentions the failed sending - not good - this is one of the main defensible areas - hopefully he could be here in one of the other chapels - Diana sees some flyer activity in the distance - Vivian asks Eidolon if he joins the rest of the party and he agrees - Diana mentions the flyers - might be a clue for where to go - party goes towards it