Monday, October 17, 2022

The Life and Times of a Dead Man - Episode 6 - What do you expect? It's a Living room!

The party continues exploring Sawfish Brothers looking for the body of the Sharn Slicer and to hopefully figure out why it was taken in the first place.

The party heads downstairs and hears the rain still pouring outside. There are iron hooks hanging from above for holding sides of meat. Hendra notices faint footprints indicating that there have been people through here recently.

As the party turns a corner, there is a large man with a big hammer.

Hendra says, "If you stand down we don't need to fight me in my many friends back here" 

The guy has a menacing grin on his face until he sees the party and mutters, "I'm not getting paid enough for this. You'll find that crazy witch out past the waste disposal." He leaves.

The party continues and finds the killing floor. They approach one of the doors and inside find a waste disposal area that incinerate animal remains.

After looking for a bit, zombies appear and are shambling toward the heroes. 

Battle ensues. 

The doors open and another large man with a hammer moves in to attack.

During the battle, Sabrina encounters a service lift!

The party defeats the zombies and the hammering human.

The party continues exploring and find a room of taxidermy animals - poorly done.

Eventually, the party finds their way into a room with a shrine that the party can't identify (metagame: Blood of Vol).

Inside the room is also, a BUNCH of summoned spiders, a couple of zombies, and a woman casting a spell from a scroll.

Battle ensues.

As it starts, the witch summons a snake.

*edit*

After the desperate battle, the party succeeds in defeating the various summoned creatures, the zombies, and, with a crossbow bolt at the end, the witch.

The party continues looking and finds a room with an unusual sight.  In the middle of the floor there is some sort of glowing magic circle with a variety of runes dancing around it. Hovering over the circle, there is a jagged green crystal spinning slowly in the air. Below the crystal is the body of the Sharn Slicer. Light is coming out of it and it is focused on a jar in the middle of the room. Light is going through the jar and bathing a man manacled to the wall. The jar is radiating evil and makes anyone approaching it uneasy. The party determines it is some sort of necromantic ritual and is focusing energy of some type into the man in hopes of attuning the energy.

Sabrina insists on taking the obviously evil magic items and selling them. When Sabrina attempts to take the gem, it sticks to her hand.

The man chained to the wall awakes. His name is Clory and says he's been there a few days. He begs the heroes to free him and get him out of there. He has no idea what was going on. The heroes let him follow them for his safety.

The jar is holding a small, bright green, grub of some type. Bosley concludes that it is actually what is radiating evil. They shatter the jar and crush the grub. They take the body of the Sharn Slicer. 

They head back upstairs via the elevator and into the smoke filled room. The room sounds of boiling liquid. 

Fun Quotes!

I'm not a murder hobo, I'm a murder resident!
I'm not going into any undead-cow room!
See? They're not zombie cows, they are REGULAR zombies!
It's Chekov's Meat Hook

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