{"id":1710,"date":"2019-07-31T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/?page_id=1710"},"modified":"2021-12-02T03:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:45:43","slug":"the-arrival-adventure-notes-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/adventure-notes\/completed-games\/adventure-notes-the-arrival\/adventure-notes-the-arrival-11-20\/the-arrival-adventure-notes-11","title":{"rendered":"The Arrival \u2013 Adventure Notes 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Want to help? Consider becoming a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kneurth\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patreon.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/calliope-laurelleaf-origin\" target=\"_blank\">Calliope Laurelleaf \u2013 Halfling Bard<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/ellyjobell-origin\" target=\"_blank\">Ellyjobell \u2013 Gnome Ranger<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/phalen-origin\" target=\"_blank\">Phalen \u2013 High Elf Cleric<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/talerien-origin\" target=\"_blank\">Talerien \u2013 Wood Elf Ranger<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/trogdorr-origin\" target=\"_blank\">Trogdorr \u2013 Dragonborn Barbarian<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/twirpo-origin\" target=\"_blank\">Twirpo \u2013 Hill Dwarf Wizard<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-arrival\/alaric-lysane-human-fighter\" target=\"_blank\">Alaric Lysane \u2013 Human Fighter<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Phalen and Alaric confirm that the magical swords that belonged to Martell are indeed cursed (&#8220;forged in the flames of Hell&#8221; according to the Cleric)<\/li><li>The caravan prepares to leave Ridgecrest and head for Lakefront<\/li><li>There are a few instances of trouble along the road; including Harpies; but concern is escalated when in the distance a large (hundreds of people) group can be seen shambling up the road not far from Lakefront<\/li><li>Talerien and Elly ride ahead to see what it is (expecting it to be a massive undead army of some kind)<\/li><li>They discover it&#8217;s survivors of Lakefront, most so badly wounded, it&#8217;s a surprise that they&#8217;re standing; many of them look burned<\/li><li>They explain that they never saw what hit them since it came at night; but there was definitely a loud roar<\/li><li>Several people on the caravan are concerned because they have family in Lakefront and ask the party to investigate<\/li><li>The party agrees and find the bodies of two people cut and torn to pieces displayed on the gate<\/li><li>They party then separates when they get there<ul><li>Calliope and Phalan look for medical supplies for themselves and the survivors of of Lakefront<\/li><li>Twirpo and Elly look into a Wizard&#8217;s tower that collapsed in the attack<\/li><li>Alaric, Trogdorr, and Talerien look for the town&#8217;s bank<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Calliope and Phalen find medical supplies after some extensive searching<\/li><li>Twirpo and Elly remove some rubble and find a stone passage that leads underground; a glowing sphere blocks their way which Elly uses a bag to ensnare and at that moment something begins burning in her bag; and the skull she had kept from the undead medic from the mine has come alive again<\/li><li>She attempts to destroy it but she nicks it (Critical Fail) which sends the skull bouncing down the stairs, far, far, far, far below<\/li><li>Trogdorr, Talerien and Alaric find the bank and crawl underneath and find some valuables; but the steel safe door is what&#8217;s holding up the enclosure<\/li><li>That&#8217;s when everyone hears a loud roar; and everyone in a building is forced to DEX save and escape the buildings they&#8217;re in before they collapse<\/li><li>All of them make it except Alaric who gets trapped under some stone and takes crushing damage every round<\/li><li>The source of the roar is an undead black dragon (Ebony) who has been resurrected with the staff given to Onyx (the other Black Dragon the party encountered)<\/li><li>Talerien fires off an arrow and draws the dragon&#8217;s attention (while trying to get everyone else&#8217;s attention)<\/li><li>Phalen casts a wall of air spell, which does damage until the dragon flies over it<\/li><li>The party knowing it&#8217;s the undead black dragon launches an attack<\/li><li>Twirpo uses a Slow speed, which the Dragon continues to fail repeatedly; but not after doing significant damage to several members of the party<\/li><li>The dragon launches it&#8217;s Dragon Breath (Acid) which everyone but Calliope saves against (everyone took 1\/2 damage except Calliope who took full)<\/li><li>Though gravely wounded she stayed to fight, her sword glowing, and struck the killing blow, finally bringing down the undead black dragon<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This adventures ties back to a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"previous adventure with the party (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/adventure-notes\/adventure-notes-the-arrival\/the-arrival-adventure-notes-07\" target=\"_blank\">previous adventure with the party<\/a>, when the party had gone to the mining town and fought several undead, including the medic who had gotten a hold of an ancient staff from the Broken Lands that warped him and drove him mad. The party handed the staff (reluctantly) to a Black Dragon (Onyx) who swore they&#8217;d destroy it; instead Onyx resurrected his deceased brother (Ebony) who sought the two hunters (who were hinted at when the party first arrived at Spire&#8217;s Edge and Trogdorr had spoken to a tavern owner who had collected mounted heads of various beasts; but sold them for gold, to help fund the repairs in the city; one of those heads had been that of a Black Dragon, killed by two hunters). The two bodies on the front gate were the two hunters that had killed Ebony, that it tracked to Lakefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to help? Consider becoming a\u00a0Patreon. Calliope Laurelleaf \u2013 Halfling Bard Ellyjobell \u2013 Gnome Ranger Phalen \u2013 High Elf Cleric Talerien \u2013 Wood Elf Ranger Trogdorr \u2013 Dragonborn Barbarian Twirpo \u2013 Hill Dwarf Wizard Alaric Lysane \u2013 Human Fighter Phalen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/adventure-notes\/completed-games\/adventure-notes-the-arrival\/adventure-notes-the-arrival-11-20\/the-arrival-adventure-notes-11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1805,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1710","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710\/revisions\/5080"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}