After fighting their way through the jungle and into the ruins the band of ex slaves decided to take refuge in a small building that was still mostly intact. Tired and wounded from their journey they fell asleep without even setting a watch.
Suddenly Rozlynn awoke to an eerie howl. She immediately shouted an alarm to the others "Wake up! The creatures are upon us!".
More of the undead creatures attacked them along with several twisted and mutated undead hounds. The hounds attacked with even greater ferocity than before. Again the party suffered several wounds before destroying this threat. This time they decided to set a watch before going back to sleep.
Rozlynn took over watch after Racket had his turn. She noticed a strange winged statue on a nearby building that she had not seen earlier. Eventually fatigue overtook the Aesir and she began to fall asleep. Suddenly the roof shook beneath her feet with a loud thud. Snapping out of her stupor she saw the statue before her raising a taloned claw to strike her. She barely managed to deflect the strike with her sword as she struggled to her feet. Racket had heard the commotion on the roof and rushed outside to aid his companion. The Argosian drew an arrow from his quiver and fired but the missile was deflected by the monsters stone-like skin. Rozlynn screamed as a taloned claw ripped into her thigh as she rained blow after blow onto the creature. Though she struck with great strength she did only minor damage to the beast. Again the creature struck and sent the warrior reeling. She barely managed to keep from falling off the roof. Seeing that his bow had done no damage Racket gripped his spear and hurled it at the creatures back with all his strength. The spear struck the creature square in the middle of it's back and pierced it through it's torso. The creature screamed and crumbled into many pieces.
Shortly after the battle with the stone creature the sun came up and Rozlynn woke the rest of the party. They were all amazed that such a battle had not woke them during the night but they decided to be more cautious.
As they made their way through the city again they heard the echoing howls of the undead hounds. They saw a large pack approaching from their front and a small one approaching from their rear.
The creatures discordant barks and howls echoed from the buildings and stone pavement. The Argosian and the Hyrkanian shot several arrows at the creatures felling a few but the pack charged into them snapping at them with their teeth and slashing at them with their claws. With no where to run the party fought desperately against the hounds. The two Aesir stood their ground slashing left and right with their great blades felling several hounds but suffering grievous wounds.
Within moments they were completely surrounded by the rotting creatures. Racket and Mon Tau fired arrow after arrow into the beast as the others fought. Racka and Aziz held off the creatures charging from the rear and Alenna did her best to keep the beast that broke through from attacking their archers.
Eventually the beast were defeated but they were again forced rest in an ruined bakery.
Near the middle of the ruined city Racket spotted a familiar looking building. "There at that temple! That is where Melampos found the clues to the location of the tomb". The adventurers entered the temple as night began to fall. It was sparsely decorated but there was a large plaque on the far wall behind the alter inscribed in ancient Stygian. "I think I can translate this with a little time" Raka said.
Heimdal and Mon Tau took up a position to guard the door. "Look there!" Mon Tau Shouted. A hoard of ghouls charged towards the temple from across the square. "We are going to have company!" Heimdall Shouted. Mon Tau began to fire arrows into the crowd of ghouls killing several even at great range but still they charged on. Racket climbed up to the roof and Rozlynn guarded the back door.
Before Racket could fire any arrows into the approaching ghouls one of the flying stone creatures swooped down and attacked him on the roof. Another attacked Rozlynn at the back door.
Heimdall and Mon Tau fought at the front door as Raka began to translate the inscription. Alenna rushed to Rozlynn's aid and they managed to destroy the stone creature trying to get inside.
After a fierce battle with the stone creatures and the ghouls it looked as if the battle was about to come to an end. Only a few ghouls attacking the back remained. As the party closed in on the remaining creatures one of them lashed out and slashed Rozlynn across her mid section. The Aesir fell back into the temple covered in blood. Her companions charged the remaining ghouls and destroyed them.
"Look here Mistress!" Aziz exclaimed "There is a loos stone behind the alter. Raka removed the stone and uncovered two scrolls. On one of the scrolls was a map to the Tomb of Voltannox and on the other was a riddle of some kind. "We can use these to help us find the tomb more easily" explained Raka "Go and check on the others Aziz".
Alenna used her skill and divine power to revive Rozlynn and after they had rested to party assembled and began their journey to find the Tomb of Voltannox.
Notes: We played this session over nine months ago so this account is somewhat more invented than the others. The players have finished this adventure but I still have the final chapter to post after this one. Their final encounter at the Tomb of Voltannox. They have also had another adventure since then. We played it just a couple weeks ago. Hopefully I will get caught up on this campaign soon.
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