Heather Under Moonlight

Session 26, The Lake Region, Tuesday Group, 03/02/2026

Welcome back, everyone. A couple of sessions have been missed because I have been pretty busy lately but today we've got a double feature to post.

The party returns to Tor and Ambell to collect their money from their factors. They identify the treasure they found in the abandoned swamp docks and spider mineshafts as a Scroll of Elemental Protection as well as some gold bullion, oil, etc, and sell it all. Merce then heads in to train from level 2 to 3 while the rest of the party goes South, to get their dead characters resurrected by the Shrine Mother of the Bare Pines. Aethelwynn and Caractacos spend 8 days in the infirmary; the rest of the party take the chance to find some more information.

First, the Shrine Mother issues a warning to Relimi. Something evil is stirring under the mountain. For some time, demons have walked in bear's skin. On the Spring Equinox, one walked in man's skin, and prepared a scroll. On the Autumn Equinox, the demon walk in man's skin again; and when its servant has called it across, the demon will walk in its own skin. The servant is not strong enough to cast the spell itself with surety. It must be destroyed in time.

Second, Nissa asks around for a bit about what exactly is up with the weird shacks, and learns that a No Tongue found a bucket in a red hut once, and never lets it out of his sight. Also, she learns that there are multiple shacks of the same color, and that the Bare Pines think they're weird as well.

After that information-gathering mission, the party decides to poke around the Southern area and fill out their map a little. They find some empty hexes and a Costello tomb; on determining that it was full of dozens of level-draining wights, they decide to leave it alone until they get their paladin back. The party return to the Bare Pines and recover their paladin, then go back to clear out the tomb.

Their skeletons decimate the wights' barrowcarls placed as a guard outside. Opening the door, they discover a huge army of the undead; 22 barrowcarls led by 10 wight-lords. Nissa places a Web and Relimi turns the wight-lords, who flee into it, while Relimi's skeletons decimate the barrowcarls. Aethelwynn just kind of stands back and dispenses her Protection from Evil field. By this mechanism, the wights are disabled while the party goes to plunder the tomb, recovering a silver crown and some suits of mail for a total value of a couple of thousand GP. Everyone's pretty close to levelling. That was where we left the session!