Zyl slices and dices and the orange ghoul falls! (2 left - updated map =)

Davis continue on the Purple, then Teal Ghoul!

21 dmg 21

20 dmg 33

Vesta is starting to feel the toll of combat. She decides to try and save some of her resources and energy and focuses a single fire spell at the teal ghoul.

Attack: 19 Damage: 16

Fire Affinity Damage - 5

Davis and Vesta finish off the last of the ghouls with their magical attacks! (Combat over =)

When the fight is over, Eldon offers healing for Zyl if she needs it, then says to the group, “We shouldn’t spend a lot of time traipsing through an undead-infested metropolis, hoping to stumble across a gateway to Neverwinter. That feels unsafe. Maybe we should ask around inconspicuously. There’s a market east of the Neverwinter Graveyard, which means it’s likely there’s a market east of Evernight’s graveyard, too. But we should be careful.”

Though you hear howls and cries through the fog that lets you know the graveyard isn’t a safe place to linger, you don’t have any other encounters as you make your way through Evernight’s graveyard.

Zyl will accept the healing gladly, giving a disgusted look to all the dead undead bodies around. "Yeah let's not stick around here, I agree. I'm already getting sick of undead so the sooner we get out of here the better. And then as soon as we can get some rest again that would be wonderful. But a market sounds promising! Even if it is a, umm, shadowy market?" Zyl shrugged and began fluttering off with the others out of the graveyard.

Davis can offer healing if anyone needs it also.

"A city of full of undead? It maybe hard to stay my hand here, but I'll try my best. Let's get out of here fast."

"I hope just the graveyard is full of undead!" Vanizi says. She looks to Eldon. "There are not undead... uh... living folks around here, right?" She does keep moving to the east though as Eldon had suggested. 

Eldon touches the fairy's wounds, and Zyl feels an icy rush of power followed by warmth spreading through her body as the gashes from the ghouls heal! (Heal 9)

"As far as I know - no. You won't see undead copies of yourself here. Although living visitors, such as us, occasionally visit here intentionally or by accident. The Shadowfell overlaps the Material Plane in much the same way as the Feywild. It appears similar to the Material Plane - you can observe landmarks similar to our world but distorted and often sinister. A mountain on the Material Plane might be replaced in the Shadowfell by a skull-shaped rock outcropping, a heap of rubble, or the crumbling ruin of a once-great castle."

The wall around Evernight’s graveyard is riddled with gaps, and the ground near it is covered in fallen rubble, so leaving the graveyard is easy. Directly east of the graveyard, a large market stretches for blocks in every direction. From a concealed corner behind the graveyard wall, you see tattered canvas and shrouds separate the numerous stalls. Feeble moonlight and flickering torches illuminate the city. Everything in the market exhibits pale, subdued colors, but the atmosphere is lively as ghouls, skeletons, and vampires meander from stall to stall. 

[Zyl, if your sheet is accurate, looks like your still down a bit of HPs, if that is true, Davis will heal you for 25 HPs with his lay on hands. LMK if you need it and I'll take off my sheet.]

Vesta stares with fear and wonder at the strange, undead market. This is truly a shadowy version of the city she knows and loves so well. She can't get over the sense of wrongness though, like walking along a floor that isn't quite level. It makes her feel unbalanced. 

"Will they be hostile to us?" she whispers, watching the skeletons and vampires go about their errands. She scans the market, looking for anything that catches her eye as particularly unusual. 

Perception - 15

Quote from Shasher >>

[Zyl, if your sheet is accurate, looks like your still down a bit of HPs, if that is true, Davis will heal you for 25 HPs with his lay on hands. LMK if you need it and I'll take off my sheet.]

 

 (Zyl is at 67/115. She'll take it if you want to give it, but she isn't at death's door or anything either)

Quote from Gnomesftw >>

Quote from Shasher >>

[Zyl, if your sheet is accurate, looks like your still down a bit of HPs, if that is true, Davis will heal you for 25 HPs with his lay on hands. LMK if you need it and I'll take off my sheet.]

  (Zyl is at 67/115. She'll take it if you want to give it, but she isn't at death's door or anything either)

Take 25, I have it to spare, better now then in battle! :)

While watching the macabre market, you draw the attention of an ancient-looking vampire merchant with sunken eyes and a shock of long, white hair. When she sees you, she spreads her cloak wide and shows sharp fangs in her smile. She says, "I am Sangora, proprietor of Sangora Sanguinaries. You’re not likely interested in a cup of warm blood, but perhaps you need something else? Something more ephemeral, like directions? Or knowledge? I’ve been in this city a long, long time you know.”

Vanizi steps forward to address this vampire, ignoring the comment about warm blood.   "We could use directions. We are looking for a way to leave the Shadowfell. They're must be an easy way to do that?" She gives the woman a hopeful look. "If it is not much trouble, we would appreciate it"

(Persuasion if needed: 30)

Davis' hand goes to his hilt as the Vampire introduces herself, but quickly moves it away, hoping no one has noticed. "You can't defeat an entire city of undead... Not yet..." he thinks.

He calms himself a bit as Vanizi steps forward to address her.

"I wonder what my divine sense would reveal here" he thinks, "probably best not to look. Tymora please help me stay calm". 

"Ooohhh...excellent! I know many useful things - for the right price. Come, let us continue our chat in my shop just over there." She points to a dark store across the street with a sign declaring it is "Sangora Sanguinaries". On display in the store are ghoulish remains intended for consumption, such as fingers pickled in brine, jars of blood, and wrapped organs. Nearby shops sell bouquets of dead flowers, frayed burial finery, jewelry displayed on severed hands, elegant canopic jars, and the like.

Once inside her shop and away from the sidelong glances from undead clientele and other shop owners, she continues the conversation. "So, how did you get here? Where did you come from? We assume any living creatures, like yourselves, wouldn’t be here unless they were under the protection of an influential figure in the city or were powerful travelers in their own right..." 

Zyl turns her nose up and makes an involuntary gagging noise as they enter the shop before stopping at near the lady while still trying to be inconspicuous. "I have no idea! We were fighting some cultists in a cemetery tomb underground place in Neverwinter, I blacked out and woke up in the graveyard here! This day is just going from bad to worse! Eh, no offense. I just uh.." she looked around at the severed hands and swallowed hard. "...nice uh, shop."

"Ah, Neverwinter. I haven't been there in more than a decade - it was a lawless ruin when last I was there. But I suppose you don't have time for chit-chat, do you? And I mean to turn a profit today! So, ask your questions, and I'll answer each one for 20 gold pieces. The first question is how to leave the Shadowfell...who has the coins?" She eagerly barters with you and is willing to trade items for info instead of coin...although you might value your fingers and blood more than your gold.

"If it gets me out of here all the sooner, I can always beat the gold out of something later. Here." Zyl fishes into her small bag and pulls out the expected coins and hands them over. "And no tricks! We wanna get out of here. There's all kinds of bad things happening out there."

"Twenty gold!" Vanizi exclaims. "That is rather steep. How about half that? You'll make a nice amount for little effort. I doubt there are no others that have the same knowledge."  (Persuasion: 29)