Episode 23: Journey to Uncaller (Part 1)

The party head down a winding tunnel until they arrive at a larger room filled with shambling zombies hauling and dissecting corpses. Juan casts Protection from Good and Evil on Mal as they confidently stride in to the room.

On them entering the bigger of the zombies sees them, stops cutting up the corpse, points at them and groans. The other zombies begin to shamble towards the party.

Craw dashes out of the entrance to the larger zombie, charging up to him and slashes him twice with his swords. cutting off various appendages.

Juan hurls a javelin at the same zombie, and misses, following up with a second javelin which connects solidly in its chest.

Methven casts spiritual weapon with a prayer, then a spectral sword starts to float around her, then charges in with her mace drawn to the nearest zombie, smashing into it and slicing it with her spectral sword.

Mal jumps over a zombie to get a good angle, and fires an arrow at the leader hitting him.

Four new zombies shamble into the room while the head zombie reaches out to Craw and it appears that he drains life from him.

Drūdlin heads into the room, attacking a zombie with the Green Sword of Destiny, dealing a glancing blow, and following up with another swing which solidly connects, removing an arm. following up with a flurry of blows, smashing his head into the ground, smashing him to a pulp. She then moves onto the next nearest zombie, punching it's chest punching out a chest plug, causing the zombie to collapse.

Aginiars casts Eldritch Blast on a zombie in the center of the room, hitting it full in the chest, knocking it back into a torture wheel which rips him to shreds. He sends a second beam of energy into a second zombie blasting a leg off but it continues to crawl towards the party.

Bookt charges in crying out and smashing his sword on his shield smashing a warhammer down on the legless zombie crushing it into the ground. He then swings his hammer to the next zombie smashing it's head clean off.

The zombies then attack, with one hitting Drūdlin but the others missing Mal and Craw.

Craw attacks back at the head zombie, making solid contact with all attacks, but not seeming to do as much damage as would expect.

Juan casts Turn the Unholy which hit's most of the zombies turning them.

Methven smashes the nearest zombie with her mace. Mal seeing that the zombie near him was hit by Juan's spell takes the opportunity to charge at the only unaffected zombie, impaling him with his Rapier slicing in pieces.

The main zombie who is turned tries to run away, getting hit with an opportunity attack from Craw while Mal misses. He then stops and shoots Juan with his longbow.

Drūdlin slashes at the zombie in front of her twice with her sword slicing it's head off. She turns to Methven and gives her a cheeky wink. Methven's tail flicks uncomfortably.

Drūdlin then charges across to the zombie that Mal ignored and attacked it with a flurry of blows kicking his legs out, but it is still crawling.

Aginiars eldritch blasts the main zombie dealing major damage, exploding it into a fountain of blood, sending a smaller blast into one of the other zombies.

Bookt then casts Guiding Bolt on the zombie Aginiars hit, annihilating him in a beam of light, he then charges at the fleeing zombies, instantly killing one of them with his warhammer.

The zombie on the floor next to Drūdlin lunges at her and bludgeons her.

Craw sheathes his sword, and draws his longbow point blank impaling the zombie in front of him in the head sending it flying across the room and pinned it against the wall hanging from the arrow in the head. He then sends another arrow at the last fleeing zombie killing that one also.

Juan then charges at the last zombie that attacked Drūdlin and kills it.

Looking around the room Aginiars finds that there seems to be some form of ritual being performed in the room, it doesn't appear random, and there is a decay in the room indicating the bodies have been here for some time, and he advises the rest of the party.

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Drūdlin stealthily checks out the passage and sees that there doesn't appear to be any traps, but the tunnels are so tight and cramped, they can barely turn, and get panicked due to being stuck and unable to go back and take psychic damage.

Aginiars helps Drūdlin free, and begins to cast a ritual.

Mal leads the way down another passage let by the dim glow of his bent flame sword. The passage gets narrower and narrower constantly hugging the sides. He reaches the end where there is an even narrower and smaller passage, large enough to fit, but only if crawling or crouched.

Juan still stuck reasons that the rest of the party know where he is and will come for him. Calmed he casts find steed summoning a mastiff who drags him free. Free, Juan encounters Aginiars performing his ritual.

Mal squeezes through the passage, almost getting stuck, but pressing forward and making it out the other side. Drūdlin follows after telling Bookt and Craw of the tight space.

Bookt removes his armor apart from his helmet and coming out the other end he seems the same stature as Drūdlin, but once he puts his armor on, he seems bigger again. Mal proceeds ahead.

Aginiars ritual finishes and he can tell that there is a necrotic magic in the area but cannot sense how far. Juan and Aginiars head off in search of the rest of the party. Juan sends his mastiff on ahead, and then manages to squeeze himself through and Aginiars follows suit.

Mal carries on ahead and arrives in an antechamber full of coffins. He stealthily enters the room and can see that there are hoof prints in the dirt, but nothing else noticible about the room. He looks at the coffins and seeing nothing obvious cracks a lid to peek inside. As lifting the lid it flies open, and there appears to be human bones for 2 - 3 bodies. Mal closes the lid again, and steps away, but then the lid flies open once more and three skeletons emerge.

Bookt charges in and attacks a skeleton which takes a solid blow, but somehow still stands.

The skeletons then attack Bookt and Mal with shortswords.

Craw draws his bow and fires arrows at skeletons smashing one to pieces and damaging a second.

A bunch more coffins open with more skeletons emerging.

Drūdlin attempts to attack with her sword, but it misses through the gaps in the skeleton. A second slash cuts the spine in half and the skeleton collapses on the floor. She then charges one of the new skeletons and atrtacks it with a flurry of blows bludgeoning it to dust.

Juan charges another skeleton and attacks with his vicious greataxe a couple of times shattering the skeleton. As he collapses, two more coffins open with skeletons emerging.

Suddenly from further down the corridor the party hears a loud roar and Mal is charged by a Skeletal Minotaur. Dealing a major blow.

Aginiars summons an undead, and instructs it to attack the nearest skeleton. His undead attacks the skeleton with Grave Bolt.

Mal drinks a potion and runs the gauntlet through two skeletons to a safer location where he is less at risk. Both skeletons miss their opportunity attacks.

Bookt charges the Minotaur dealing radiant damage and then further hits him with his warhammer doing a massive amount of damage.

The skeletons then attack making contact with Drūdlin but missing all other attacks.

Craw draws his longbow and attacks two skeletons softening them up.

Drūdlin then attacks the skeleton that attacked her and kills it. And then kills the two skeletons that Craw softened up with a flurry of blows.

Juan attacks one of the skeletons next to him, using the flat of his axe to crush the bones to dust. He then swings at another skeleton landing a solid blow, but the skeleton remains standing.

The Minotaur tries to attack Bookt but misses, as Mal lines up a shot with his bow hitting him directly and dealing a solid blow.

Aginiars sends a couple of eldritch blasts into the Minotaur blowing the bones apart. Sending his undead minion against the second to last skeleton destroying it. While Bookt crushes the final skeleton into the dust.

As the party celebrate the last two coffins open and a couple of bandage wrapped creatures emerge, attacking and missing Bookt but hitting Aginiars.

Juan attacks one of them with his axe, connecting solidly a couple of times. While Mal fires an arrow at one, and then running up and stabbing the other.

One of the creatures glances at Drūdlin who is overwhelmed and attacks Aginiars who looks very ill. The other one tries the same on Mal who is unaffected, and dodges his attack.

Aginiars casts Eldritch Blast on a creature, blasting him back into death, sending another bolt into the remaining corpse. With his undead minion sending a Grave Bolt at the remaining corpse. Which really hurts the corpse.

Bookt follows up with guiding bolt, following up with a second attack severely injuring the corpse.

Craw moves forward and misses a shot with his arrow, but makes contact with the second arrow.

Drūdlin attacks the corpse, missing with her first punch, but hitting with her second, grabbing the bandages unravelling them and the corpse drops to the floor dead.

The party take a short rest but Aginiars doesn't regain hit points due to his Mummy Rot

Drūdlin does a medical check to see if there's anything she can do, but it appears to be a curse rather than a medical issue.