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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1120211" data-attributes="member: 224">Lost!Session #14: (Session of RL July 23rd, 2003)The adventurers had driven off the last remnants of the goblin raiding party.  Two of the leader goblins had escaped on the backs of their pet wolves; several of the lower goblins had been able to run off, out of Riva’s darkvision range, and make their escape through the woods.One of the leader goblins had been trapped in Tieran’s web, however, and had not fared so well.  Although the goblin had been able to turn invisible, somehow, a flaming sphere from Rowan had been close enough to him to finish him off.  Now the body of the former goblin commander lay in the midst of burnt webbing, still “invisible”, revealed only by the ash from the fire.  Riva strode up, with Tieran right behind, and made ready to dismember the goblin’s roasted corpse.Why tear the long-dead goblin, limb from limb?“Ta see what makes ‘im invisible, of course!” says Riva, as he gleefully severs one of the corpse’s limbs.  After each limb is severed, it becomes visible, until only the invisible trunk of the body remains.  Tieran discusses this strange occurrence with Riva.  What sort of magic could this be?  No decision is reached, although magical rings and amulets are definitively ruled out.The rest of the party avoids this macabre magical investigation, and decides to search the goblins camp.  They find all sorts of common household items, presumably stolen from the farms around Eaglesford: pots, bowls, kegs of ale, books, nails....even entire window panes, bags of recently removed door hinges, and pots of fresh writing ink.  Rowan breaks one accidentally, and stains her boots and robe.  The rest try hard to suppress their giggles as she accidentally marks her face with the permanent ink.Also found was a small locked wooden box, which contained a carved wooden comb with two garnets and a silver holy symbol of Anwyn (Goddess of the Hearth).  There is some other jewelry as well; in fact some of it Thaile recognizes as pieces that were sold by her family to the surrounding townspeople.After completely searching the goblin’s stockpile, the party goes off a short distance and sleeps.  Watches are set.  The night is interrupted by an attack by a large walking dead, wielding a greataxe and wearing a set of rusty armor.  The walking corpse was able to walk right into camp, practically stepping on Tieran, before the adventurers were organized enough to respond.  It swung its greataxe at Kytum-up, singling him out for almost the entire combat.  The only other person it swung at was Thaile, who tried charging the thing, only to be met with a hard slash of the axe.  (She wisely avoided its reach for the rest of the combat.)  Eventually, with the help of Riva and Kytumup, Garret was able to take it down with a ride-by attack.Kytum-up, during the battle, had demonstated one of his abilities.  Barking out some sort of prayer in draconic, the kobold’s hands glowed with a warm light.  He touched the walking corpse, and damaged it.  Afterwards, Garret regarded Kytum-up with a new-found respect.  Perhaps here stood another of his own kind: a holy warrior.   But which god did he pray to?End of Session #14 </blockquote>

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