07-Jun-2023

 This week’s session started off shortly after Shava scooped up the enormous emerald that fell when her cousin was defeated. Going through the small camp, the Munch Bunch found a few empty cabins that smelled like they were used as barracks for the orcs. They searched each cabin until they found the one for Garok. A large black robe that smelled of death told of the cabin’s owner. The desk littered with notes about necromancy were scooped up by Dara for a bit of light bedtime reading. Paavu recognized a journal in the room, matching one given to him by his father in his youth, that must be Garok’s journal from their father as well. Nuka found a colorful wand and impulsively stepped out of the cabin, pointed it at a tree in the distance, and fired. A stinking cloud formed around the tree and Nuka put the wand away on her person and thought nothing of it.

Searching the other cabins Gold Brain found an amulet that had some interlocking and working gears in it. After ransacking the cabins, Nuka looked over the corpses of the fallen enemies and thought a few of those creatures would look better without hides and skinned the hell hounds and harvested what seemed to be some useful parts from them. Garok’s curiosity got the better of him, and he opened the journal to read it. An infinity symbol appeared on his forehead as he passed out for about 30 seconds and took some necrotic damage for doing so. 

Showing he recovered from that damage quickly, Paavu was back to doing Paavu things by going to the male hell hounds and cutting some specific trophies off of them. He now had a goal of preserving these impressive paper weights so he can cherish them forever. After investigating the site and having some tasks to do, the Bunch headed back to Alapon Landing. Nuka took the group’s extra items and bartered them away for cash, while Paavu took to looking for a taxidermist. The group found some leather work to be done with the hell hound hides and commissioned them to be made into cloaks. They went to the apothecary and ordered some potions.

With those chores out of the way, they wanted to do some research into necromancy, both fighting it and trying to figure out where Garok may strike next. After asking around, they found one of the older wizards in town, Rocria, in the library buried under some books. Despite hearing a number of overly details stories, they learned very little other than the glyph on Paavu’s head linked him to another plane. What plane and how he was linked, however, was still unknown.