NEW CAMPAIGN - RAVENLOFT 1983

Imryll to Kia & Martha, as we proceed up the stairs to the second level: "I had the same hunch, that he was a Celestial.  Earlier, I didn't sense any undead creatures in or near the town, so I surmised that the Abbot could be a god-like creature from another plane of existence.  That's why I tested his reaction to me speaking Celestial.  It's a very beautiful but strange language I picked up over the years, taught to me by an Elven cleric mentor.  His immediate understanding of my question shook me to my core - I fear for the safety of these lands with someone like him freely roaming!  Let us make haste."

Imryll, visibly shaken, faintly mumbles to herself "El iai pe cisick. Cisick ol so mind-killer. Cisick ol so little-death so thlinn eem obliteration. El eam sian su cisick. El eam seeflen oo ca ceescel cam oo ou cia oo. Ou cip oo hwe epfle slocksi el eam cothin so sianm suthpou ca sut hwo flock. Tut so cisick hwe epfle oal eam un etet. Cot el eam sliatheen."

I will present the next encounter tonight. Stay tuned! Hang in there you all are doing great!

Grishkar reluctantly finds his feet again and stalks out mindlessly among his companions, "I don't care who or what he is. I'm going to kill him, reanimate his head and piss in it until this world falls apart."

Martha places a hand on Imryll's shoulder, “Each cel ee ol shiptol sa cipflep si tleannscloup sclat el um si unthinkable pehwiat. Oal ol it um sup; so ol thel. Eflout eennfle ol sup cip oo ulfloul ca so ou ethscea cip oo eatsceal al so.” And continues walking up towards the nursery.

OOC: Not gonna lie, actual Celestial is far funnier sounding than the Latin I usually use haha

LOFT AND BELFRY (S17)

AFTERNOON

The wooden stairs climb twenty feet to a loft with a pitched roof and a door in the center of the south all. Unlit lanterns hang from the rafters, and a rope dangles from a bronze bell lodged in the belfry thirty feet overhead. The room is filled with the sound of beautiful music - a melody so enchanting that it adds a bit of much needed warmth to the otherwise freezing room.

A black shroud covers a humanoid shape lying on a wooden table. The music does nothing to stir it.

A cot heaped with furs rests in the northeast corner, surrounded by empty wine bottles. An oil lamp burns atop a table nearby, silhouetting a squat creature that has two heads. It sits on the edge of the cot with a viol between its legs. With a crustacean, clawlike appendage, it grasps the neck of the instrument while running a bow gently across its strings with its human hand.

WOODEN TABLE: There is a body covered in a black shroud on this table.

WORK TABLE: Needles, thread, and saws are littered all over this table. They appears to be recently used.

CLOVIN: Clovin, the two headed mongelfolk, is quite drunk and playing the viol remarkably well. As you appear on this level coming from the stairs, he smiles at you all, and nods that his other head, which looks like an infant head, is fast asleep and wants to keep it that way.

WINE BOTTLES: There are lots of empty wine bottles on the floor.

OOC > Celestial might be the language most common to the members of this party!

Kia does not respond in Celestial, but she clearly understood both of you. "As you say, fear is but a barrier to pass through, there is nothing that stands in the way of the battle between good and evil. Add ydwy pfwz qujy sih kyoary zmuw zrfzm."

OOC > But does anyone else speak Infernal? :) See spoiler below if you do (or you're just curious, no one will know...)

Martha waves warily to the mongrelfolk and whispers, “Hi, my name’s Martha, and we’re looking for something. Do you know where a fancy holy symbol is?” While doing this she pantomimes a necklace shape around her neck.

OOC: Ah, only Elvish, Undercommon, and Celestial for me I’m afraid

Kia pads over to the table and twitches aside the shroud. Once she has seen what is under it, if nothing happens, she will replace it.

Clovis stops playing the viol for a moment to move a straight finger to his lips. "Shhh..." He points at the sleeping head.

Out of the corner of you eye, you could have sworn the body under the cloth on the table twitched.

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Kia pads over to the table and twitches aside the shroud. Once she has seen what is under it, if nothing happens, she will replace it.

Martha pulls out the paper Grishkar threw at her, scribbles the question on it, and holds it out to Clovis, but adds “nod if yes, waggle finger if no.”

You get a waggle. Surprisingly, he can read.

Martha nods and mouths “Thank you,” before turning to see what Kia is looking at.

I think Kia lifted the sheet to take a look. Just waiting on clarification.

Ooc: seemed that way to me, if she don't Bors will.

OOC: Didn't ANYONE learn from all those cheesy 1980s horror flicks?  NEVER lift the sheet covering the mystery lump on the table....   LOL!

Imryll catches the movement of the "lump" under the sheet out of the corner of her eye, and stumbles backwards in shocked surprise.  More and more, she's pining for the wide open spaces of the outdoors.  These strange monstrosities are starting to cause her pulse to quicken and beads of sweat to form on her brow.

Imryll whispers (as that's about all she can summon her voice to do) "ummm, GUYS, did you just see something MOVE under that sheet?!"

Under the sheet are the bodyparts of KIA!!!!

Everyone make WIS checks.

OOC: Humming “I want chicken, I want liver...”

Wisdom Check! 11

Martha is thoroughly shook.

Straight Wis 18  OOC: do any skills or saves apply to this?

OOC:A check or a save?

Wisdom Save: 16

Wisdom Check: 7