7-5-15 Recap

7/5 game

The heroes regrouped from their silver mine excursion in the dilapidated ghost town surrounding it.  Fladuk was mourned -- to a point -- and supplies were scavenged for.  The party rested in the mine with the doors shut, but soon detected Phase Spiders advancing on them.  The spiders were scared off, but everyone decided that perhaps they'd be safer sleeping outside of the cave.  Archibald and Fladuk's corpses were hidden or disposed of, though I can't recall how.

In the morning, the party headed Northeast to get away from the plateau.  In the distance, they noticed unseasonal snow clouds over the mountains.  Eventually, the adventurers arrived at a large field with three tall obelisks.  Around the bases of the towers were several badly decomposed bodies -- perhaps Archibald's party?  As they approached the obelisks, the day turned to night, and the stars in the sky were not those of the normal realm.  Each tower pointed to a specific star -- perhaps the three swirling stars of the cult?  Also, a ghost appeared.  These strange occurrences led the heroes to conclude that they had entered the strange nega/dark/dream/spirit realm that they had encountered in their initial mission to rescue Sebastian Cornfallow.

The ghost revealed himself to be Archibald's brother, Valentius.  The heroes explained Archibald's fate to Valentius, but took care to emphasize that he had died doing a noble deed -- aiding their escape -- and that Archibald's killer had met an unpleasant end.  Valentius told them something along the lines of, "You must stay the path; only a straight arrow can pierce the whatever," before vanishing in an awesome and spooky fashion.

The party continued on through the ghost world, eventually coming to a small deserted town in a dense forest (jungle?).  Suddenly, they were attached by a giant snake skeleton!  This animated creature, called a Bone Naga, was pretty gnarly but thoroughly outgunned, and we dispatched of it heroically.  Phobos snagged a bit of the bone powder it left behind.

Suddenly (I think?) the heroes found themselves back in an alley in Edon!!  They had been transported across space and dimension back to their world.  They were almost immediately set upon by a zombie, who was no match for their combat prowess.  Climbing onto the rooftops, they oriented themselves within the city, which was curiously empty.  Recalling a previous portent in one of Vincent's letters to Kao-Su that, "the infestation had taken hold in Edon," as well as the mysteriously dead horses in the fine stables, the party concluded that the town had probably been overrun by zombies.

They hopped across the rooftops, eventually arriving at the docks where there was a large crowd of people attempting to access boats to escape the city.  The city guard, called the Phalanx, were holding the crowds back.  Mr. Pug (I think?) read the name of a boat, and (Hubert or Phobos?) tried to convince the guard to let the pirate crew access "their" property.

I forget how we ended up jumping on the boat, but in the end, we were able to make our way off the island (much to the annoyance of the Phalanx guard, who I'm sure won't harbor any grudge) and are currently sailing back toward Bernard Beaucard's manor and the Ol' Kyle to get an explanation of WTF happened and let him know about our royal screwup (but also the information we gleaned)