Island Empire Part 2, Mermaid's Rest

[Scotley]

The final door...

Marienna squeezes Radoon's hand in return. "You must have been crazy to attack that devil knowing you likely couldn't hurt it. Very brave or very foolish." Opening the door reveals a small room. Are two bodies and one undead, quickly dispatched by the men of the Radiant Sun. Two more people are at the back of the room. The are covered in open sores and smell of death suggesting that the curse extended here too. One is bound hand and foot yet unconcious. Radoon recognizes him after a moment as Finn Hunter. He is badly bruised yet still alive. The other proves to be Allois Marin. His eyes are vacant like the slaves upstairs. His hair is long and dirty, his nails overgrown and his normally clean shaven face covered in a tangled dirty beard. He is very subdued and allows himself to be led out. It seems he has been drained of Wisdom by a Vacral, the will sapping undead. In this case Terry Lockspar notes that he recognizes one of the other bodies, one that had been undead, as Preston Ambler, an officer on Daughter of Cambre which was lost at sea last year. He was a close friend of Allois in life.

 

[mleibrock]

Radoon

Marienna squeezes Radoon's hand in return. "You must have been crazy to attack that devil knowing you likely couldn't hurt it. Very brave or very foolish." Opening the door reveals a small room. Are two bodies and one undead, quickly dispatched by the men of the Radiant Sun. Two more people are at the back of the room. The are covered in open sores and smell of death suggesting that the curse extended here too. One is bound hand and foot yet unconcious. Radoon recognizes him after a moment as Finn Hunter. He is badly bruised yet still alive. The other proves to be Allois Marin. His eyes are vacant like the slaves upstairs. His hair is long and dirty, his nails overgrown and his normally clean shaven face covered in a tangled dirty beard. He is very subdued and allows himself to be led out. It seems he has been drained of Wisdom by a Vacral, the will sapping undead. In this case Terry Lockspar notes that he recognizes one of the other bodies, one that had been undead, as Preston Ambler, an officer on Daughter of Cambre which was lost at sea last year. He was a close friend of Allois in life.

To M, "A foolish old man, I am indeed." He looks at her intently and then lets loose a smile that unfolds like the Sheet's sails.

"Let's get Allois and Fin to one of the ships. H'Roosh, would you help me with with Preston? He deserves a proper burial at sea."

 

[Lou]

Mingo Frasse

"Let's get Allois and Fin to one of the ships. H'Roosh, would you help me with with Preston? He deserves a proper burial at sea."

"Let me help you. Some holy water and prayers will see that he is not again raised as undead."

 

[Scotley]

[sblock=Radoon]You have a duty to perform. See the following post for information.[/sblock]

Here

 

[Leif]

Gnurl Whiskerling

OOC: Gnurl will begin to look around for any of Allois's belongings so that they can all be returned to him. (Also, while he's doing that, he will spy about for any other "treasure-like" items that are now up for grabs, in particular, the lich's spell books.)

 

[Leif]

OOC: I went ahead and rolled a knowledge (arcana) check for Gnurl to see what he knows about lich's phylacteries. He got a 22, http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1485725/ . I await a ruling from our all-powerful dm about this.

 

[Scotley]

[sblock=Gnurl]Saddly for Gnurl, he is aware that the Lich was the Sea Sorcerer. This of course means no spell books. There is also some gear which Marienna confirms belongs to Finn. There is of course that Yacht of sleekness you noted earlier which has as of yet not been explored.[/sblock]

[sblock=On Lich's Phylacteries (Phylacteri?)] The Lich’s Phylactery
An integral part of becoming a lich is creating a magic phylactery in which the character stores its life force. As a rule, the only way to get rid of a lich for sure is to destroy its phylactery. Unless its phylactery is located and destroyed, a lich reappears 1d10 days after its apparent death.

Each lich must make its own phylactery, which requires the Craft Wondrous Item feat. The character must be able to cast spells and have a caster level of 11th or higher. The phylactery costs 120,000 gp and 4,800 XP to create and has a caster level equal to that of its creator at the time of creation.

The most common form of phylactery is a sealed metal box containing strips of parchment on which magical phrases have been transcribed. The box is Tiny and has 40 hit points, hardness 20, and a break DC of 40.

Other forms of phylacteries can exist, such as rings, amulets, or similar items.

No sign of such an item can be found and it can be assumed that it is either on the Yacht or the Sea Sorcerer's own large ship which was docked across the 'Rest from here or on the Ice version of Marin's broken up ship, the Daughter of Cambre, which so recently set sail.[/sblock]

 

[Leif]

Gnurl Whiskerling

"Sounds like we need to go and thoroughly search the lich's yacht and possibly his larger ship, too. How about it, guys?"

 

[mleibrock]

Radoon

[sblock=Radoon]You have a duty to perform. See the following post for information.[/sblock]

Here

I have not forgotten, but wanted to be sure we were safe, alone, to bring him to us.

 

[J. Alexander]

Resolution

Having secured the primary objective, Geoffrey says "Why dont we allow Master Allois to be escourted back to the bedsheet where he can be healed while we continue with the ships. I do not think we will be that long?