Tomb of Annihilation (Session 12)

 

The camp up for the night then finish exploring the camp. A small burned down shrine to Torm being the only thing of note they decide to explore the house of the man and crocodile.

Thavakean takes the lead and nearly drops down a 20' deep pit! Remembering the wooden boats and jetty outside they soon make a bridge to cross safely. The next problem they come across is a blade trap. After getting slashed horribly Thavakean manages to jam up part of the wall reducing the blades swinging in but the trap remains active. Undril follows behind as Thavakean climbs a ledge and Alyssia gets Solus to scout the path ahead. As Alyssia moves in and nearly dies, Undril heals her and lifts her up to pass to Thavakean above without triggering anything. The party soon recall the tale of Man & Crocodile and start carrying each other on their backs. The bizarre move works and they find they don't trigger anything climbing up to the next ledge. Following a pattern they see they carefully process across some tiles before getting to door. Orion having been carrying Alyssia for so long finds her strength failing however and the two of them tumble down onto the tiles triggering a fire trap! Another round of healing later Thavakean and Undril stop at the door and after some debate the party decide on what to press opening up the final room.

A spiral staircase with Man & Crocodile depictions winds round a pillar atop which stands an ornate jug. Alyssia and Orion inspect the staircase noticing glyphs of warding. They carefully make their way up until the Professor misses one then another blasting them both with lightning from the glyphs. The second blast renders them both unconscious but Thavakean to the rescue! He grabs Undril now feeling very superstitious about that tale and is able to climb the stairs with no ill effect. Undril uses the last of her healing bringing them back to consciousness and they make their war down after grabbing the jug.
Once the party is all down they inspect the jug finding out it's an Alchemy Jug that can magically make Water, Beer or even Mayonnaise! 



As the party consider resting Alyssias familiar hears a horn sound from outside. Concerned they carefully make their way down the gauntlet of traps before emerging into a battle!
A horde of zombies and skeletons are attacking with Crumb fending of several of them. 

The party are drained but swing into action. Alyssia shouts at a group of dead as she dashes out to move towards Inette and Eku. Meanwhile Undril brings forth the last of her holy magic summoning a Spiritual Weapon and calling the Spirits of Torm to act as Guardians blasting any undead that close with radiant light. Orion takes advantage of the support blasting apart some of the shambling horde as Thavakean rushes in slicing them apart.
Alyssia roasts several then uses her fancy blade dancing to protect Inete and Eku as they both heal her.

Thavakean eventually gets up to help Crumb who'd only been benefiting from Solus distracting the dead. One zombie annoyed at the Familiar finally punches Solus out of existence but is soon avenged by Alyssia who delivers the killing blow.

The party battered and exhausted are looking forward to resting but dismayed as a group of Goblins wearing masks appear at the top of the hill the burned down shrine sits -

"Give us magic treasure!" they demand...

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