session 5 (15/01/2024)

down in the dungeon
- last session's room
  - Thelder is having a mental breakdown
  - old woman crying for help
    - Diana and Vivian go in the room
    - old woman is in farmer clothes and attached to the wall
    - the room has an altar with a vivisection on it
    - Diana unlocks the old woman from her predicament
    - the old lady is intact physically (she was mentally tortured by mentally witnessing the horrors)
    - Vivian gives her a ration and some waer from the waterskin
    - Vivian asks her some questions
      - name is Nebra
      - been here for "so long", maybe 3 or 4 days
      - was tending her garden before she got kidnapped, near the elfsong tavern
    - Diana mentions that it's weird
      - here for a long time but no physical torture
      - the area around elfsong has no gardens
    - Nebra was a fake name and she is a baddy
  - Le'garde mentions the weak wall
    - Le'garde and Lavasham go inspect it
    - Lavasham can't make it budge
    - Le'garde makes it slightly move
    - grooves into the floor
      - this wall has give a bit
      - might be a latch on the other side
  - fight script
    - Vivian misses a satrry wisp and calls for Le'garde and Lavasham
    - Diana misses with the warhammer
    - Nebra lands 2 strikes on Diana and turns invisible
    - Le'garde runs back in and holds an attack for the aggressor's return
    - Vivian heals back Diana with a 2nd level healing word and holds an attack
    - Diana casts feary fire to try to reveal Nebra but no success
    - Lavasham holds his greataxe at the ready
    - Thelder heals Lavasham
    - Nebra appears and attacks Lavasham
      - it hurts a bit
      - Lavasham misses the axe
      - Vivian hits the Starry Wisp and Nebra can't go invisible
      - Le'garde mindspikes Nebra
    - Le'garde casts chill touch on Nebra
    - Vivian reaplies a Starry Wisp and heals Lavasham
    - Diana steps and slams Nebra
  - Lavasham finishes her of by cutting the head
    - the head stays disguised
    - the corpse turns into the cultist uniform
    - (thats a hat of disguise identified by the age old spell of axe to your neck)
  - Vivian asks for the head as it might have an item
  - the wall has streaks of blood on it
    - Vivian notices the torche fixture has a small gap
    - Vivian pulls the torch and a wall opens
  - the wall Le'garde and Lavasham tried is opened
- going in the wall
  - explosive smell no torch
  - Lavasham and Diana take a potion
  - Diana casts light on Lavasham's head
  - Le'garde takes the lead
  - there are rotten pillars and skeletons everywhere
  - Diana goes to the front to help Le'garde on the skeleton matter
  - nat 1
  - Lavasham uses magic awerness, the are past expiration date and not animated anymore
- around the corner
  - combat noises and someone falling
  - combat script
    - a slash and a scream are heard
    - Vivian rounds the corner
      - a figure in tattered robes is attacking a larger man with no flesh on the skull cackling histerically
      - 2 other figures on the ground with apparent skulls that are caved in
      - hold a starry wisp unsure who to attack yet
    - Le'garde casts suggestion on the shrouded individual
      
      stand down, I'm in charge of the situation, you will obey me !
    - Thelder guidance on Diana
    - Lavasham runs to the front
    - the large figure slams on the shrouded figure
    - Diana runs to the front and heals the large figure
    - Vivian unleashes the held Starry Wisp on the shrouded figure
    - the shrouded individual stands down and wait orders completing the suggestion
    - Vivian runs to the front getting a better view and throws another wisp and the shrouded individual
    - Le'garde portent 20 an acid chromatic orb on the shrouded figure
    - Thelder iceknife the shrouded figure
    - Lavasham breaks a javelin on a nat 1
    - the large figure turns the shrouded figure into a pulp
  I thank you for your assistance, i wish you could have come a bit sooner but i appreciate
  - name is Mortlock Vanthampur
  - the Vanthampurs are the ones who runs The Bathhouse and are a noble family
  - Diana asks if he was captured
    - Morthlock was betrayed by his family
    - the family payed the cult of the dead 3 to kill people
    - Mortlock was captured but they underestimated him
  - Diana asks that Mortlock escort the civilians out
    - can't escort them to the Fist as they are in it
    - the goal of his mother, the Duke, is to get the fist in power to become Archduke
    - Mortlock fears that there is evidence that Baldur's Gate might follow Elthurel's fate
  - Vivian mends back the broken javelin
  - the rest of the party hears a droning chant comming fromm the north
  - Lavasham goes first
- north room
  - 3 cultists praying around a body on the floor
  - fighting script
    - the first cultist plunges a dagger on his own chest
      - casts wither and bloom
      - Lavasham goes down
      - the cultists sacrifice himself
      - the life essence goes in the body on the ground
    - Vivian
      - heals back up Lavasham
      - starry wisp the third cultist
    - the second cultists tries to stun Vivian
    - Le'garde chromatic orns the third cultist
    - Diana pops out the wings
      - cristaline wings jetisson out of the garments
      - flies to the third cultist
      - channel divinity harness power
    - third cultist continue the ritual
    - thelder
      - starry for chalice
      - cure wounds Lavasham for 15
    - Lavasham
      - rage for extra shiny head
      - slashes at the second cultist
      - reaction to no damage
    - Vivian starry wisps the second cultist
    - second cultist attacks Lavasham but the rage cancels the aura of murder
    - Le'garde misses a chill touch on th ritual target
    - Diana inflict wounds on the ritual target
    - third cultist attacks Diana
    - Thelder thornwhip the third cultist and misses
    - Lavasham greataxe at the second cultist
    - Vivan misses a wisp on second cultist
    - second cultist attacks Le'garde
    - Le'garde tries to go away but gets downed by the second cultist
    - Diana attacks the third cultist and misses
    - third cultist stunns Diana
    - Thelder thornwhips
    - Lavasham
      - head light blinds the third cultist
      - attacks the second cultist
      you and me don't touch the others
      - the cultist answers
      the dead three will take what they are owed, this one will not get away
    - Vivian misses a wisp on the third cultist
    - second cultist attacks Lavasham
    - Diana flies after the third cultist and hits him
    - the third cultists blindly swings at the wall
    - Thelder 2nd level cure wounds for 23
    - Lavasam crits the second cultist
    - Vivian missed a wisp
    - second cultist
      - first hit on Lavasham
      - cultist sacrifice himself to the ritual target
    - Le'garde bites the ritual target
      - bad blood not tasty
      - might be someone similar to Le'garde
    - Diana
      - hits the third cultist
      - the cultist loses the grip on the ritual
      - the aura of the 3 idols stop going in the ritual target
    - third cultist
      
      the lords will get their due, you may have this one but they will get you
      - runs to Lavasham and stabs him
      - Lavasham is barely up
    - Thelder bonks the cultist and disengages
    - Lavasham attacks the third cultist but he blocks it
    - Vivian zooms past the cultist and hits him
    - Le'garde
      - continues to suck on the ritual target
      - still a very sick drink
    - Diana crits the third cultist but is not enough
    - third cultist
      - finishes Lavasham
      - stabs him on the ground
      - the dagger corrodes in Lavasham's chest
    - Thelder misses a thornwhip on the third cultist
    - Lavasham corrodes with the cultist as he dies
  - the ritual target wakes up
    - it was my character :p
    - Le'garde has his caprisun woken up
- Mortlock point at the stuff from his family
  - looting stuff will hurt the cult
  - the party decides to loot the place
  - all the rescued civilians make it out