session 20 (21/10/2024)

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- 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