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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZosKia" data-source="post: 1090947" data-attributes="member: 8574">The diary of AOSI have been summoned to see the Margrave. I hope he is in better humour now, when I saw him a couple of days ago he was rather short with me. Titania says it was because he didn’t get a better price when he visited the Siren. I don’t know why he blames me. I have nothing to do with the day to day running; I merely paid towards the rebuilding and took rooms there. He also seems I think I spend too much time carousing. If he looked out the window he would see me morning and evening running around the walls of Gaxmoor, lifting stones and sparring with the guards. Perhaps I should challenge him to a duel, then we shall see who spends their time carousing!But that thought, however amusing must wait. It turns out that his grace wishes Leo, Titania and I to investigate strange lights at the Gaxmoor graveyard. Before he can fully detail our mission there is a knock at the door. Two guards enter with two strangers of unusual appearance. A shortish but heavily built man whose plate armour would seem to indicate that he is some sort of warrior and an even shorter woman in travelling clothes who I initially thought was some sort of mage. Apparently they are from Mount Fire, far to the West and they had been pursued from there by a number of Mount Fire soldiers; the last few having been finally defeated just outside the walls. They introduce themselves as Xiang (male) and Choo (female). The Margrave welcomes them to Gaxmoor and introduces Leo, Titania and I, Leo glares me as I introduce myself as the greatest duellist in Gaxmoor but I believe that we should be proud of our achievements; Leo is a powerful wizard but so self effacing that you would think he was an apprentice! The Margrave then asks if Choo and Xiang if they will help us to investigate the graveyard! They agree and the Margrave says that a group of Sith scouts are based in an inn just outside the graveyard, they will be able to brief us further. The meeting over I suggest we adjourn to the Siren to plan for the mission, collecting Tarquin from the temple en route. By the time Tarquin has been collected, introduced to the newcomers and basic plans have been made it is rather late and realising that Choo and Xiang have nowhere to stay I offer them a room and a bath at the Siren. They graciously accept, though Choo does seem rather wary of me.Early next morning we set out to see the Sith. At first they refuse to see us because they believe that Choo and Xiang are Mongali, it seems the Mongali invaded the Sith lands. Having been convinced that they were not Mongali the Sith invited us into the inn and told us what they had seen; namely strange lights and walking corpses. Leo decides to magically scout the graveyard with numerous magical eyes which whirl around and return to inform Leo what they have seen. The magic took all day but did yield valuable information about the layout of the graveyard; such as the fact there were four gnoll copses just inside the gate, walking dead sentries no doubt. Entering the graveyard at night did not seem wise and so rather than return to the city we stayed overnight with the Sith. Early next morning the Sith captain woke us to report that one of his warriors had gone missing during the night. Rising swiftly we set out into the graveyard with Choo scouting ahead. As she entered the gate the gnoll corpses rose up to seize her. However upon seeing this Tarquin raised his staff and calling upon his god turned the gnolls to dust, most impressive! The Sith captain proved a most able tracker and quickly led to a large mausoleum which contained a number of skeletons and zombies. The undead seemed inactive and the mausoleum entrance was sealed by a metal grill. Xiang and I tried to open the grill so that Tarquin could destroy the undead as he had done previously however before we got very far there was a noise behind us, whirling around I saw a most beautiful woman with golden wings. “Who is the leader here?” she called. As no one said anything I pushed myself forward “I am” I said. Truly she was most beautiful….Suddenly I was confronted by hordes of undead and an ogre! Apparently I had been charmed by the winged woman who had now been killed by Xiang breaking the spell. During my enchantment I had apparently attacked Choo, an act for which I later apologised.  Tarquin flew above the group and destroyed many of the undead but not before I heard Titania scream. It turned out she had been received an almost fatal blow from the Ogre. Staggering away Titania used her magic to return to the inn leaving the ogre to rampage through the Sith. Having recovered from the charm I proceeded to bring down the ogre while Titania having healed some of her wounds came back to help Tarquin heal Xiang who had received some serious wounds in defeating the demon who had charmed me. The woman Choo had also been wounded but has the ability to heal herself, is she a priest?While I had been charmed the grill had been opened allowing some of those within out. Fortunately Leo resealed the entrance with a web spell before we could be overwhelmed trapping a lot of the enemy inside while we dealt with those who had got out.We now presed on into the tomb Xiang and I burning through Leo’s webbing with torches. Tarquin stepped forward and using the power of his god destroyed many of the lesser undead and forced the larger ones to flee. Leo cast a fireball (his first?)at the remaining undead and their master an evil necromancer. The battle was over quickly; Choo rushed forward and stunned and stunned the necromancer, who was attempting to escape through a secret door,  with an unarmed attack before I helped her finish him off; the two giant undead were destroyed, one by a blast of white fire from Xiang’s spear and the final foe, a gnoll, surrendered. In the secret room we found and freed the missing Sith.The gnoll prisoner revealed a link between the necromancer, Heracules and the godess Hel, apparently Heracules planned to recapture Gaxmoor with an army of undead created by the necromancer who was a priest of Hel.We returned to the city with the necromancer’s treasure but vowed to return to the graveyard to explore further although killing the necromancer did seem to put an end to the mysterious lights.The most intriguing item we found in the necromancer’s horde was a circlet engraved with snakes which Leo took away for research. I later discovered that he been tempted into donning the circlet which had offered him the opportunity to become a powerful necromancer. Apparently he managed to remove the circlet only by a massive force of will, and seeing the effect of it upon Leo Dovistar, the leader of the White Way ordered it melted in the orders furnace. I attended the melting and was almost overcome by the noxious fumes it gave off.Leo seems to have been badly affected by the circlet, which was apparently linked to Hel and feels that he has been cursed by it since he has twice failed to create an item of power for himself. These failures have apparently cost him some 18000gp in materials and a lot of what he calls life force. Tarquin says he has rid Leo of the curse of Hel. I do hope so.Speaking of life force I used to find that engaging in combat greatly increased mine, however destroying the necromancer didn’t seem to energise me in the same way; perhaps I am getting old?AOS</blockquote>

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