Dramatis Personae
Alizander Carmelizzia - Human (Varisian) sorcerer
Boecca – Half-orc inquisitor of Erastil
Carlos Santiago - Half-orc (Alkenstarian) wizard
Nagiphax – Cyclops-kin rogue/barbarian
Slavé/Jancen – Tiefling (in guise as a human) rogue/assassin
Tavo Dechirent - Human cleric of Pharasma
Vaeden Corleone - Human rogue
Toilday, 14 Calistril, 4709 A.R.
Nyxervex the bone devil uses its ability to assume invisible form to keep the Returners at a disadvantage. The Returners outnumber the osyluth by a considerable margin, however, and eventually force Nyxervex to retreat to the Rasdovain gatehouse, sealing the entrance with a magically-created wall of ice.
Repeated blows from Vaeden, Nagiphax, and Boecca eventually damage enough of the icewall that the group can enter the gatehouse. There they find several of Nyxervex’s servants – oversized lumbering lemure devils – and battle is once again joined. The fight spills over into the looted and ruined Rasdovain manor as the Returners harry the lemures from a distance. Nyxervex eventually rejoins the fight, first trying to fool the group and wear it down using an illusory projection of itself, then wading headlong into the fray once it becomes clear the illusory projection has worn out its effect. Nyxerves is gradually beaten down by the group, but alas, manages to teleport away before anyone can land a final, killing blow.
As Boecca, Vaeden, Tavo, Nagiphax, and Carlos are busy dealing with Nyxervex and the lemures in the Rasdovain gatehouse, Jancen and Alizander head to the surviving wing of Aberian Arvanxi’s manor, and come to the large black door leading off from the now-destroyed dining hall. Jancen sets of a noisy alarm when he touches the door; Alizander manages to open the locked portal with a spell. The door opens to a long stairwell leading downwards. Jancen heads down and eventually exits into an underground chamber featuring banners hanging from ceiling to floor depicting the circled crimson cross emblem of Cheliax. The tiefling’s heightened sense of vision reveals several humanoid shapes behind the banners. Before he is able to react, Jancen is attacked by the four figures – three men and a woman, all wearing fine suits of leather armour and wielding slim rapiers. Two of the rapiers slip in between the greaves of Jancen’s armour, drawing blood on their way out. Jancen winces at the pain, then steps back from the four thieves and raises his own sword in defence, claiming only to be looking for Crosael.
“Crosael,” says one of the men, “well you’re a little off track then aren’t you? She’s upstairs in the house, unless that blasted she-devil got her. With any luck she’ll get “the Dealer” too, bloody halfling. I suppose you just happened to open the door upstairs by accident did you? Better start talking berk, if you expect to get out of here alive.”
Through some skillful diplomacy, and more than a little trickery, Jancen manages to convince the thieves to let him go visit Crosael. Jancen heads back upstairs and joins Alizander, telling him that he believes they have found the entrance to the Nessian Spiral – the dungeon underneath Aberian’s manor that houses Liebdaga the Twin. As the two are talking, they are set upon by four more thieves who emerge from a second doorway into the surviving wing of the manor. As the thieves get closer, Alizander and Jancen see that they are led by a halfling – rarely seen in Cheliax except as slaves and servants. As the halfling approaches, he seems to be absently toying with a small deck of cards in his child-sized hands.
“Only two of you hmm?” says the halfling, his voice tinged with a note of sarcasm. “No matter, with any luck the osyluth has taken care of your friends by now. We’ll have you delivered to the Council soon enough.”
Treasure
· Magic longsword (properties unknown)
· Magic composite longbow (properties unknown)
· 50-foot silk rope
· Masterwork longspear (worth 152 gp)
· Magic arrows (16) (properties unknown)
Experience Awards
· Lumbering Lemures (3) – 4800 xp
· Total – 4800 xp
· Per PC (7) – 686 xp
Current XP Total per PC
· Alizander, Carlos, Slavé, Vaeden – 35,231 xp each
· Boecca – 32,476 xp
· Nagiphax, Tavo – 31,486 xp
· Total Current Fame Points – 15
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