# Chapter 4: The Revenant Hunt # session 20 (15-02-2025) ***date is 25th Uktar 1519DR*** - party finishes to buy stuff for the expedition - diamonds - potions - dynamite - holy water - 300 sheet of paper - basic shit - second revivify diamond - on the road - a bit rainy - cart leaves tracks in the mud - air is chilly - Nybarg drives the carriage - city watch is coordinating refugee camps around Waterdeep - Vincent sends a message to the other 2 groups - telling the party is departing for Amphel - 2 ACKs - all 3 parties will keep in touch on their progress - scattered wreckage of carts - Nybarg stops the cart - blood - dead animals - large cleaves on them - area around the wound is decaying faster - maybe 2 weeks old looking - it was run off the road - no sign of a chase - only tracks of this cart and animals - it was travelling too fast for the cart - weird as all signs point to a chase - broken carts - large pools of blood where people would have been sitting - no bodies left - they were most likely impaled - Calcine goes to the pool of blood - places his hand in it - casts crimson bond - there is a tug in the direction of Amphel - party is in the correct direction - Vincent is writing about that event in his papers - Nybarg can't manage to get the horse moving - Vincent convinces them to get moving after promising more carrots - the road continues - no incidents - road is a bit narrower - the crimson bond is stronger now - might be before Amphel itself - Vincent and Nybarg - peptalk - trying to understand what happens with the strong reaction of Jezz about the book - night is falling - thick fog - damp - party pushes for the last 2hs - Nybarg scouts ahead for a camp site - hears weird howling out in the forest - has a bit of a reverb - canine adjacent - finds a easy off the path camp site - 5mins off the road - old abandoned farm - long past decay - still ample enough shelter - goes back to guide the party there - camp - a fire is lit - fog is thicker here off the road - the howlings can still be heard - sound like moving in packs - multiple of them - hard to tell numbers - not in the immediate area - they feel like shadowplane noises - Vincent and Jezz banter - Calcine - is a person heater - some people gets the in the offered blanket - hoping people don't dislike trekking as she plans on getting the party to trek for fun at some point - Jezz doesn't dislike it - Jezz - first watch - moves up in a tree - hides in it - howlings get a bit closer - north east - west - fog is getting disturbed - half skin and half muscle dog - appears around in the fog - blinking to where it wants to go - after a moment it stops having sniffed something - Jezz shines a mirror on Nybarg waking him up - Nybarg joins Jezz in the tree - Nybarg sees a few more of these dogs - they are joining with the first one - even more are joining - Nybarg wakes up the rest of the party - the hounds close in on the party - *fighting script* - first harrow hound - comes out of the bush - shadow steps to Vincent - bites Vincent - Vincent resists getting knocked prone - second harrow hound - shadow steps to Calcine - bites and prones Calcine - third harrow hound runs towards the party - Nybarg - crits down the second harrow hound - climbs up a tree - hides - Jezz - jumps down on the third harrow hound - handaxe and dagger miss - crit punches it - fourth harrow hound - shadow steps to Royston - bites Royston - fifth harrow hound runs to Jezz - sixth harrow hound - shadow steps to Royston - bites Royston - Calcine - gets up - hastes Royston - telekinetic shoves in the fire the first harrow hound - Royston unleashes hastened punches on the fourth harrow hound - seventh harrow hound runs to the party - eighth harrow hound runs to the party - ninth harrow hound runs to the party - Vincent - inspires Calcine - vicious mockery the first harrow hound - resistant to psychic - tenth harrow hound runs to the party - first harrow hound - burns from the fire - misses Calcine - teleports behind a wall - second harrow hound misses Jezz - Nybarg - shoots seventh harrow hound - hides back - Jezz handaxe, dagger and kicks second harrow hound - fourth harrow hound misses Royston - fifth harrow hound - shadow step to Jezz - bites Jezz - sixth harrow hound bites Royston - Calcine - produce flame the first harrow hound - shoves the sixth harrow hound away from Royston - Royston - casts darkness around Jezz and Royston - haste punches the fourth harrow hound - teleports into the darkness - seventh harrow hound - fails to see Nybarg - blinks on top of the wall - hops to the other side - eighth harrow hound - fails to see Nybarg - dashes up to Calcine - ninth harrow hound runs to Nybarg - Vincent - casts hypnotic pattern on the harrow hound around Calcine - Calcine barely saves - tenth harrow hound runs to Vincent - first harrow hound - goes to Vincent - bites Vincent - hypnotic pattern still is here - Nybarg - shoots first harrow hound - hides back - Jezz - pulls out Ebonedge - kills the fifth harrow hound - action surge - attacks the tenth harrow hound - knocking it prone - fourth harrow hound - runs out of the darkness through the campfire - runs to Calcine - misses a bite - harrow hound - goes to Vincent through the fire - misses a bite - Calcine - turn undead the harrow hounds - shoves a harrow hound near Vinent - Royston - moves the darkness atop Calcine and the harrow hounds - cleans up 3 harrow hounds - Vincent - is in the darkness - misses a shillalagh - moves out of the darkness - Nybarg - goes down from the wall - shoots into the darkness missing - Jezz - moves into the darkness - slashes a harrow hound down - moves deeper - punches a harrow hound in the darkness - Calcine sear undead again - Royston finishes the last 2 - a hunting horn bellows - not sure of its meaning - very off in the distance # session 21 (01/03/2025) ***date is 26th Uktar 1519DR*** - morning - mist is still present - cold and damp - party goes on the road - there is still a lot of wrecks - party decides to do a detour to Rassalantar, a potential hamlet to the south of the road - Rassalantar - desc - blood and cries - civilians getting abducted into cages - cultists are manning the operation - giant flying creatures are here - party starts prepping to move in to interrupt - Vincent casts fly on Jezz - Calcine casts - Nybarg starts moving stealthily to the side to blow up a distraction dynamite - Jezz gets ready to fly in when assault starts - Royston gets ready to stealth in with Nybarg - *fighting script* - Royston infiltrates and teleports to the wall - Calcine casts sanctuary on herself - Jezz - starts flying in - kicks a bucket starting to alert people - dashes to the fence - holds a dash if the fliers try to get away - Vincent - casts shillalagh on the bandore - tells Calcine that he can get both inside - Nybarg move to the side - dissociated shadow blade ranger - moves to see to the other side - sees Vincent - blows a silent horn - all of them are alerted now - Royston - realizes they are aware now - runs to dissociated shadow blade ranger - punches them - teleports out - overwhelmed blightborn druid - covered in runes and vines - moves to the center of the camp - casts corrupted growth on the entrance where Royston was - Calcine - casts flame blade - tries to help Vincent to land the teleportation perfectly - Jezz - flies in - dodge - Vincent - dimension door with Calcine inside - asks the cultists to stop - Nybarg - runs to the wall - ties a dynamite to an arrow - shoots dissociated ranger who resists - dissociated druid - moves towards Calcine and Vincent - fails to pass Calcine's sanctuary - targets Vincent with infestation who saves - dissociated ranger - misses Nybarg - moves back - surprised shadowblade ranger - fires a dread volley at Vincen - Vincent looses concentration on fly - evil ranger - goes to civilians - puts a knife on their throat - Royston - moves in - uses the cube of force to protect the civilians - overwhelmed druid starts holding a spell - Calcine - casts slow on - overwhelmed druid (fail) - dissociated druid (success) - surprised ranger (fail) - loses the flame blade - Jezz - casts armor of agathys - moves to numb gloomstalker, one of the fliers - slashes at it with Ebonegde - Vincent - casts hypnotic pattern on the gloomstalkers - trusting gloomstalker fails - Nybarg - peeks out - shoots overwhelmed druid - looses concentration on his ability - trips it prone - moves behind a building and hide - dissociated druid - form starts shifting into a shadow lupine form - attacks Calcine - light helps reduce damage - dissociated ranger - smoke bombs Vincent - moves back in a building - numb gloomstalker - bites Jezz - takes the armor of agathys damage - surprised ranger - is slowed - kills a commoner in retaliation - is no longer slowed - eager ranger - enters a house - becomes invisible - evil ranger - doesn't realize about the wall of force - fails to attack the commoner through it - silly druid - climbs on trusting gloomstalker - doesn't realized it is hypnotized - Royston - moves to surprised ranger - punches - they resists the stunning strike - punches again - showed them away from the commoners - overwhelmed druid - prone and slowed - stands up - fails an infestation on Royston - is still slowed - Calcine - burning hands dissociated druid - they are vulnerable to fire - Jezz - places the dynamite on the chain holding numb gloomstalker to the cage - kills it along with its empty cage - Vincent - dissonent whispers dissociated druid - Calcine hits an opportunity attack - unsettling word overwhelmed druid - Nybarg - moves to evil ranger - chucks a dynamite under him - it is blown away and on deaths door - hide back - dissociated druid - casts insect plague between him and Calcine - moves back - dissociated ranger turns invisible - surprised ranger misses Royston - evil ranger is in pain on the ground - trusting gloomstalker is still hypnotize - silly druid shakes out trusting gloomstalker - Royston - punches surprised ranger into the insect plague - flurry of blows them - saves the sunning strike - overwhelmed druid - is slowed - casts blight at Vincent - moves back - no longer slowed - Calcine - healing word Vincent and 2nd level - produce flame dissociated druid - Jezz - goes to trusting gloomstalker - breaks the cage door entirely - commoners get out - throws Ebonedge at silly druid - Vincent - dissonent whispers dissociated druid - inspire Calcine - Nybarg - moves towards overwhelmed druid - shanks him twice with daggers - dissociated druid - moves in the building - turns invisible - surprised ranger - moves away from the bees and Royston - Royston kicks him back in the bees - dies - trusting gloomstalker - flies off - silly druid tries to wrangle it - Vincent silvery barbs into a nat 1 - silly druid is shredded as it goes though a broken house - Royston - breaks the chains between some of the commoners - keeps an eye out for invisibles - overwhelmed druid - chill touch Nybarg who uncanny dodges - moves away - Calcine - moves towards overwhelmed druid - produce flame - it resists a telekinetic shove - Jezz - moves to another group of civilians - destroys the chains holding them - Vincent - moves to evil ranger - starts telling him his rights - Nybarg misses overwhelmed druid - dissociated druid - moves away - Royston sees him and misses him - Royston - runs to dissociated druid - slams him - overwhelmed druid - runs away - infestation Calcine closer to him - Calcine - moves to overwhelmed druid - 3rd lvl flame blade - it is barely standing - Jezz - moves to overwhelmed druid - finishes it - it is destroyed even trying to do non lethal - Royston punches down dissociated druid # session 22 (15/03/2024) ***date is 26th Uktar 1519DR*** - Rassalantar - Calcine gentle repose the dead commoner - Vincent speak with dead the commoner - how many were taken ? doesn't know, came here last night - where were they taken ? to the cages - where were the cages taken ? doesn't know - when did they arrive ? in the morning - how many cages ? doesn't know, was hidden - party tends to the commoners - Calcine uses sanguine recall - party takes a short rest - captured ranger - Calcine adds the blood of the ranger to the book - Nybarg places dimensional shackles on him - Vincent disarms him - the armor can't be removed - Nybargs holds onto the bow - shortbow - extra 1d8 necrotic when not in magical light - no attunement - 5 umbral arrows - Nybarg throws a bucket of water on the ranger - Vincent starts interrogating - banter back and forth - here to bring bodies to the Revenant - Revenant name is Davrok - worked with him for more than 20 years - when he dies he comes back to the Shadowfell - offers a game, one question on each side at a time - asks what the party thinks they are doing - share the Shadowfell with everyone - setting up an anchor to the realm - name is Garrick - calls the commoners are kindling for the anchor - Garrick taunt Vincent for asking the wrong questions - stuff started about 1492 > 1. "When rot and ruin claim flesh and stone, the first veil falls, the seed is sown." -- verse 1 - they are the ones that caused the Saprophytic plague - Calcine reacts to it and is the one realizing it > "A spell unmade, a path laid bare, through shattered light, the darkened prayer." - 2nd verse - a blue flame/shard of the weave escaping - gen 1 ending - goal is - have only one life lived - freed from the gods - wants pure oblivion after death instead of judged and serving - ready to end existence for it - serving entropy itself for it - Varus is the one that showed them that path and truth - Vincent goads him into telling more verses > "Where death falters and souls take flight, the third veil cracks, drowned in blight." - 3rd verse - party decide to gentle repose Garrick and send the corpse to Waterdeep - last words he said are "safe word is Ophelia" - Calcine casts gentle repose - Vincent panics at the mention of it and sends a sending to his Father - Jezz removes the axe and finds a half destroyed journal - mentions a shadar kai - in relation with a centaur woman named Ophelia - Calcine calms down Vincent, not the same Ophelia - Calcine sends a sending to Rolen about the qui-pro-quo and to expect a spare the dying body - Rolen answers and thanks for the care - Party sends the corspes with an explanation note to Rolen with the commoners to Waterdeep ***date is 26th Uktar 1519DR*** - party goes back on the road - on foot - arriving to the edge of Amphail - fog is even thicker - it is aggressive - Royston and Calcine gets a point of corruption - Nybarg crit fails and get 4 point of corruption # session 23 (26/04/2024) - Amphail outskirts - *desc* - *welcome to silent hill* - agricultural town - about the same size as Greenest - wooden palisade - horses not crops - no horses seen in the fields - Calcine uses her crimson bond - link is closer - pull is to the town center - alive - not well - feeling hot - no bodies can be seen - signs of struggles - eerily quiet - unseasonably cold - Nybarg sees swarms of carrions in the distance - in the direction of the fumes - party goes in the town - Amphail - Nybarg will scout ahead first - Vincent buffs him with bardic inspiration and invisibility - lot of tracks and drag marks in the south road - a building has all the bardings stored - a building have a lot of bones - snapped in half - bleached - rended of flesh - a chanting can be heard - closer towards the center of the town - shadows in the fog - no towns folks - revelry in a tavern in the middle of the town - middle of the town square - pile of corpses - mix of equine and human - in front of an effigy of stone - singing is louder here - no figure seen singing - Nybarg recites the chanting to the party - no one recognizes it here - the connection with the blood cuts off - the person died - party goes into town - town center - massive figure standing in the center of town - blue crackling energy - emaciated - giant scythe - standing on a pillar above the bone pile - on the pillars ghostly females - angry human bodies - they are throwing themselves into the pile - *combat script* - tense dryad spirit - chants - townsfolk bodies run in the bone pile - Royston - moves out of Calcines light - teleports above distracted dryad spirit in the south east corner - punches it twice - pushes it out of the pillar - Nybarg - throws ball bearings - climbs the tree - hides - more people run in the pile - Vincent casts entangle on the north west corner - more people run in the pile - Jezz - runs to the south west pillar - climbs it - swings and pushes back the XXX dryad spirit - action surge - *do it again* - spirit was blended - the masses bellow the pillar stops - patient defense - Davrok - asks why Jezz did that - Jezz ignore him - psychically blasts and stuns Jezz - Calcine - moves forward - calm emotion the north east group - steps back - distracted dryad spirit wails at Royston who saves - more people run in the pile - pile starts taking form - gibbering mouther 1 moves towards Jezz - tense dryad uses its wail to override the calm emotion - Royston - uses the cube of force - encircles the central pillar - shadow steps very far away - Nybarg - shoots distracted dryad - hides - calmed townsfolk ignores the run order and moves up - Vincent - moves forward - inspires Jezz - vicious mockery distracted dryad - Jezz snaps out of the stun - Davrok - recharged the blast - blasts Jezz and Vincent - Jezz failed and is stunned - Calcine - steps forward - tries to blood puppet Davrok - doesn't work - retaliates on Calcine - ***REDACTED*** - casts sanctuary on Jezz - more people run into the pile - the thing crawling out of the pile is almost formed - Royston - move up - shadow steps to relieved dryad spirit - punches an shoves her - stuns and crits her - Nybarg - kills distracted dryad spirit - hides - people fail to climb the wall - Vincent - casts dissonent whispers on tense dryad spirit - she is affected and flees - inspires Calcine - Jezz is still stunned - Davrok - glides to Royston - swipes with his scythe thrice - Calcine - slows - Davrok uses a legendary resistance - relieved dryad spirit saves - townsfolk fail - the last needed group of people gets in - a huge zombie t-rex gets out - relieved dryad spirit is stunned - tense dryad spirit continues to move away - Royston - shadow steps to Jezz - grabs Jezz from the pillar - starts running away - Nybarg hold an arrow for the retreat - party retreats - Davrok doesn't give chase # session 24 (10/05/2025) - Amphail square - *fighting script* - Davrok summons a gloomstalker as a mount - Nybarg - fires an umbral arrow at Davrok - hides - Vincent - moves forward - unsettling words the gloomstalker - irresistible dance the gloomstalker to dance moves back - Jezz is still stunned - Davrok - orders his mount to fly down - mount doesn't listen because of irresistible dance - Calcine - sanctuary Vincent - runs to Royston - hands Royston a chef snack - dodge action - T-Rex slams against the wall of force taking 10 dmg - gloomstalker - flies around in a circle - saves the dance - Royston - eats the snack - continue to push Jezz forward - Nybarg - shoots the gloomstalker - hides - Vincent - universal speech to tell to retreat - dashes away - Jezz is no longer stunned - Davrok - recharges the mind twist - is wrestling for control over the gloomstaker - Calcine - crushes the yellow diamond - an earth elemental is summoned near Davrok - casts sanctuary on Royston - earth elemental - stone throw knocks down the gloomstalker and Davrok - slams the gloom stalker - melds into the ground - T-Rex slams into the wall of force - gloomstalker - teleports up 40ft - leaves Davrok behind - Royston moves away - Nybarg - moves in range - shoots the gloomstalker - hides behind the pillar - Vincent moves away - Jezz - second wind - moves away - Davrok - moves towards the fleeing party - speaks some under common - places his hand on the ground - earth rumbles - orders the T-Rex to climb over the wall - Calcine - moves away - earth elemental - erupts near Davrok - grapples Davrok - T-Rex - slams in the pillar near him - pillar nearly topples to make a bridge - Royston runs away - Nybarg - moves closer to Davrok - shoots Davrok - dashes back - Vincent moves away - Jezz moves away - Davrok misses the elemental with his scythe - Calcine - sees a bulette emerge - panics - blood puppet takes hold on the bulette - earth elemental - pummels Davrok - drags Davrok to the bulette - T-Rex - fails to knock downthe pillar - is still trapped in the wall of force - Royston - drinks a potion - runs away - Nybarg - shoots Davrok - hides in the tree - Vincent - stops - asks Nybarg to shoot Davrok down - Jezz - stops - pulls the dynamite sticks from the haversack - starts putting them together - Davrok fails to leave the grapple - Calcine - dodges - earth elemental slams twice Davrok - T-Rex - slams down the pillar - a massive shockwave erupts from the pillar - forced into the sky by the wall of force - the sky has a bright blue hue - air is electrical - fog was blasted away - wall of force protected the party - T-Rex gets hurt - gets out of the wall of force - arrogant bulette moves towards teh T-Rex - Royston helps Jezz with the pipe bomb - Nybarg - shoots Davrok - hides - Vincent - looks at the energy in the sky - hard to know - unknown to him - magic items seem full of energy - Jezz - prepares the bomb - ties it to her axe - mad bulette - is a blood puppet - fails to bite Davrok - fails the save - Davrok - mind twist - elemental saves (nat 20) - mad bulette is stunned - misty step away - Calcine - dashes back to the action - elemental - glides to Davrok - misses 2 grapples - T-Rex - pukes a zombie - runs to Calcine - arrogant bulette - leaps to Nybarg - Nybarg is prone on the ground - Nybarg rolls away with skirmisher - Royston helps Jezz with the bomb axe - Nybarg - stands up from prone - moves forward - shoots Davrok - cunning action dashes even more forward - ends up close to the gibbering mouther - Vincent - dashes back to the action - casts shilelagh - tense zombie shambles forward - Jezz - turns back - lights the wick - throws it - lands on the T-Rex - explodes also Calcine - saves the puppet concentration - obliterates tense zombie - explodes arrogant bulette - mad bulette - savesthe puppet - still stunned - Davrok - recharges mind twist - stuns earth elemental, Nybarg and mad bulette - moves away - Calcine - channel divinity sear undead on T-Rex and arrogant bulette - T-Rex is on 1hp - casts sanctuary - wild magic surge - Calcine blasts the T-Rex and arrogant bulette with necrotic damage - T-rex dies - sanctuary falls - arrogant bulette - leaps on Calcine - Calcine is on the groun - Royston - runs to arrogant bulette - punches it - Nybarg is stunned - Vincent - runs to arrogant bulette - true strike it down - Jezz runs full speed after - Calcine - stands up - barely graze Davrok - Jezz - runs under him - throws her axe one last time - Davrok escapes at 1hp