Conquering the Barbarian Altanis: Session 148

October 13, 2025

Adventurers

Character	Race	Class	Description
Dalkanarion	Human	Fighter level 6	A youthful specimen in full strength, full of purpose, bluster, and eagerness to prove himself.
Heran Marod	Human	Cleric level 3	Bearded, aging man with shaved head. Follower of Umannah, the Sun God, The Radiant Death.
Tobias Lindflags	Hobbit	Thief level 3	A sixth-born son standing to gain nothing from inheritance, so he set out to make his own fortune in the world.
Somniel	Elf	fighter level 1 / Magic-User level 1	An elf of ambivalent age suffering from mild amnesia.
Ignaeus	Elf	fighter level 5 / Magic-User level 4	A slightly weathered looking elf with dull blonde hair and chiseled features. Seeks wealth and knowledge.
Ludd Nuck	Human	Fighter level 1	A lad from the farm, still wet behind the ears and smelling of dung whom became an adventurer to impress a village lass who jilted him.
Tikatu	Human	Druid level 3	A dirty little ma with dark and dirty skin, wearing loincloth with no back. “What will be, will be” is his favourite aphorism.
Kho Rimbo	Human	Magic-User level 2	A knife throwing wizard extraordinaire. Covered in ritual knife scars. Cuts himself whilst casting. Prone to being sarcastic.

Meadowlark 16th, Airday

Dalkanarion has promised the Oathkeeper he would return to destroy the nexus of evil on the second level. Ignaeus arrived just in time to reinforce the party.

Seeing how his elven ally would benefit from magical plate mail more than himself, Dalkanarion doffed it and gave it to Ignaeus. Then he forced Ludd Nuck to strip his own armour, for it was formerly Dalkanarion's armour. Poor Ludd was then give Ignaeus's former armour, which was fitted for an elf, not a big, burly stable boy.

With first rays of sun, adventurers descended into the underground complex once more.

Tobias and Dalkanarion made a stop by the chamber with fountain filled with amazingly tasting water. Whilst the latter felt nothing special drinking it, the former felt completely rejuvenated by the refreshing water.

They heard a sudden scream and rushed up. Ludd Nuck was surprised by a viper snake that slithered through the rubble. It bit his face, unleashed venom, and slithered away. Dalkanarion ran to the dying man, and cradle him in his big, strong arms, until Ludd Nuck stopped convulsing and twitching. They went from Chosen Seven to Glorious Eight and back to Chosen Seven in a blink of an eye.

Meme by MLord.

Dalkanarion carried Ludd's corpse into the fountain room, and placed him gingerly on the ground. This was a room of Law, and would thus make for a grave better than any other a regular adventurer might expect.

Party continued towards the spiral staircase leading further down. To get there they passed through he secret doors where they fought stone statues, then through X shaped chamber, then past the pool chamber, and across hundred feet long corridor with iron grates on the floor. Tobias heard a sounds of something breaking water, but other adventurers chose to ignore him.

They wisely elected not to ignore the sounds of wet flash slapping against cold stone floor. A pack of ravenous ghouls rush at the party from the darkness. Heran Marod held up his gold symbol, a plate with spirals made of gold and copper. They fled in his awesome presence, screeching and wailing.

Adventurers resumed with their initial plan. Down and down they went down the spiral staircase until the reach a long corridor with ominous frescoes. Then they beelined straight to the room with heretical tapestries.

“But wait, let's get the treasure out first!”

Three burliest adventurers stepped through the black tapestry and into the treasure vault bathed in eternal darkness. From there they recovered two chests that still had coins. One weighted nearly hundred and twenty pounds, and was filled to the brim with silver, copper, and gold pieces. The other was lighter, some fifty pounds, with nearly two thousand gold coins. Heran Marod emptied the second coffer into a large sack, and then gave it to Hue, Dalkanarion's “squire,” to carry.

Total destruction was next item on the menu. Dalkanarion started by slashing all the tapestries across. Then Somniel hacked them into finer pieces and threw them on a single pile. Finally, Heran was torching the pile, creating larger and larger bonfire over time. Tapestries were large and heavy. They spanned almost two hundred feet in length. Smoke that filled the chamber soon escaped into the dungeon corridor. It lazily rolled along the vaulted ceiling.

“Time to go!”

Alas, the party soon found their route blocked by a gang of skeletons and rotting undead hulks. Dalkanarion rushed forth and seized a position in the side of a T-shaped junction. He needs a lot of space to wield massive Oathkeeper effectively. Tobias put on his ring of invisibility and snuck right behind him, hoping to find an opening for a backstab.

The elven duo Ignaeus and Somniel charged straight into the fray. The former immediately destroyed a skeleton, while the latter was immediately punched out cold by the hairy, rotting hulk.

Zombie hulks, some seven feet tall, towered over the skeletons. In fact, they were so eager for adventurers' flesh that they smashed the skeletons in front of them.

Tobias was shocked when a pack of undead surprised him from behind. Luckily for him, being invisible meant that all sans one went straight for Dalkanarion. But one tripped over cowering hobbit. Rotting hulk stood up, and clawed into empty space. Hobbit dodged with ease.

Heran prayed to Umannah. At first it didn't work, then it worked, then it didn't work again, and then it worked once more. He turned five zombie hulks and two zombie elves. Tikatu and Dalkanarion destroyed several. Brave boy Tobias attempted a frontstab, became visible, missed, and then fled behind Heran.

“Let's get out of here!”

Party turned corner, went thirty or so feet straight, and then stopped as soon as they heard noises of something scraping against stone floor. Dalkanarion dropped the heavy chest he was carrying. The coffer splintered in hundred pieces as thousands of coins spilled all over the ground. The myrmidon rushed forth towards the stairs. By doing so he prevented four fossilized skeletons from advancing into the long corridor.

Heran stepped behind Dalkanarion, called upon Umannah once more, and failed. banished foul undead. Suddenly all their light sources dimmed greatly. Frescoes began glowing with dim red light along the full length of the corridor.

“Forget the coins, get out!”

Adventurers moved at an incredible speed, scaling the stairs like their life depended on it. As before, they crossed the long corridor with grates by side-stepping the iron bars through the alcoves. They carefully crossed the pool room. Being completely focused in the direction of rank pool ghouls often ambush from, adventurers relied on the safety of walls a tad too much.

Thus, Ignaeus and Tikatu were completely surprised when wall next to the suddenly swung open, and a pack of ravenous ghouls assaulted them heads on. Elf was so shocked he dropped his sword, while Tikatu dropped like a sack of potatoes by a single slash of ghoulish claw.

Heran Marod faced the undead ambushers, gripped his holy disk, and called upon Umannah with such determination that undead fled in terror once more. Dalkanarion picked up the paralysed pygmy, and adventurers fled the dungeon.

They emerged into fresh air at noon of a clear day. Kho Rimbo greeted them by the horses. Chosen seven rode back to Cedarwade Keep in order to rest, regroup, and plan their further actions.

“Tikatu,” Dalkanarion said solemnly to the druid “you take care of my wife if I perish in this den of evil.”

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