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Session (Izan’s Deceit) <Game Time: Thursday, January 2nd> A group of 4 trained and
able, but inexperienced soldiers met by chance as they were all stationed in
the vessel "Loudemma," leaving for the shores of Gosseg, a legendary
continent east to their island-nation Quidann. Their names were Gundelbar (the
Holy Warrior), Cemar (the Holy Cleric), Adouri (the crafty adventurer), and
Rhune (a mysterious wizard). This was a supply vessel, carrying supplies
meaning to support the troops in the transports and supply the tools necessary
for building a colony. Gaelun, the
commander/paladin, Iggrid a cleric, and Izan another paladin all met the
onboard and explained the rules of behavior. Although a monk among the crew
realized that Izan was very uncomfortable in his armor, nothing of interest
happened that day. Not much more of interest
happened the following days wither, except a rather nasty outbreak of the flu.
The cleric at hand expected nothing fishy, but Gundelbar realized that it was
odd that Izan, the paladin, would catch the disease. There was a confrontation,
but there were no outbreaks or fighting on the tightly run ship. A few days later, the fourth
day out on sea, the four soldiers were disturbed while conversing with each
other in the sleeping quarters. They ran to the deck where 5 mysterious
creatures were attacking Gaelun and Iggrid. These were foul creatures looking
the mix between a leech and a fish, with suckers protruding out of their fleshy
underside. Fortunately, there was enough aid present to destroy the oozing
creatures, but Iggrid and Gundelbar were wounded as the creatures seemed to
attack in a frenzy when one combatant slain one their own. After the battle was
over, Izan came from his underneath, returning from helping evacuate the
servants aboard the ship. Seemed a tad odd. Nothing much happened for
days afterwards, but after about 14 days out to sea, Adouri noticed something
odd while checking the inventory: there were no scents in the back of the hold.
His sense of smell did not work at all. After much searching, he found a
strange artifact that looked like two gold plates pressed together like a
Frisbee. It was encrusted with jewels. He informed the rest of the part who
also discovered that there were no scents when Adouri arrived with his trinket.
While they were chatting, crewmembers were running into the deck from inside
the hull, swearing loudly of a horrible scent. Gundelbar and Adouri went to
investigate along with Adouri. There was a horrible smell in the hold, but they
could see nothing of interest in the hold. When Gundelbar opened one of the
crates, however, he found that one of them was stuffed with dead bodies! The door behind them slammed
and they pondered their situation. Adouri examined the door while Gundelbar
poked at the bodies with his sword. Suddenly, there was a commotion coming from
the leaders sleeping quarters (that Cemar on the deck hear as well as Rhune is
his quarters). Adouri opened the lock, and the two below along with Rhune
rushed to the deck to find Izan crawling up a rope ladder to the observation
tower in his undies and a crossbow slung to his back. A huge fog rolled in over
the boat from across the sea, and a huge red blinding flash filled the entire
sky; it was an evil light. Gundelbar began to crawl up after him, but with his
armor he could not catch up and Izan reached the top while Gundelbar was
halfway up. Servants ran out of the hold in a panic, one or two even jumping
ship. While up on the top, Izan
launched a magic missile at Gundelbar, but the Knight was able to keep his
hold. Gundelbar furiously tried to climb up the rope as Izan shot at him.,
cursing himself for not bringing a knife with him. Cemar shot at Izan from down
below, and Adouri decided to follow up the rope ladder as well. Suddenly,
zombies began to emerge from under the hull. Rhune starting untying ropes with
an unseen servant. Unfortunately, with the weight of his armor and the chill of
the fog, Gundelbar slipped and fell 50 feet and began to die. Cemar was able to
heal him while turning zombies. Out of six zombies to reach
the air from the ship, Cemar had turned half of them. Cemar and Gundelbar had
begun fighting off the zombies as Adouri creeped closer to the top with bolts
whizzing by his head. Suddenly, while searching around, Adouri noticed a rope
with pressure against it, and realized he could ride it to the top if he cut
it. He did so, but was unable to grab hold of the observation tower and over
shot it. Adouri found himself hanging from above as the fray continued down
bellow. Rhune's creation untied a rope of his choosing and suddenly a giant
mast fell and folded over onto the battle. Cemar crawled out and the mindless
zombies tore and clawed their way from it. Adouri dropped into the tower from
above knocking into Izan, but only glancing off his back and knocking him
against the wall of the tower. Izan cast a spell, and Adouri struck him, but he
was able to get it off. After a moment of struggle, Izan was finally able to
grab a hold of Adouri with his cold, necromatic fingers. Weakened but only
slightly wounded from the blast, Adouri was able to strike a fatal blow and
send him falling to his death. The sorcerer masquerading as a paladin was
killed. Meanwhile, Gundelbar and
Cemar were taking advantage of their opportunity to get at the zombies, but
they finally had broken loose. Adouri attacked from above as the battle below
waged on. It was won, but both Rhune and the weakened Gundelbar were
incapacitated. In a rage, Cemar crushed the side of one zombie, and knocked the
head off the one standing last. After the wounded were
attended too, the party rushed downstairs and examined the damages. There were
zombies attacking and munching on servants, but some servants where able to
escape to some rooms where zombies where pounding on the door. With the help of
the rallied servants, the last zombies were vanquished easily. Izan murdered Gaelun and
Iggrid in their sleep and studies respectively, apparently. Land was seen ahead only a few hours later after the sails were rigged again and the fog had lifted, but the other ships they had been following were nowhere in sight. The reached the land of Gosseg, but alone. They did have the supplies to survive, however, and it was possible for them to make it for a while with themselves and 9 of the remaining servants. |
