(G622 18/04/2026 via Roll20 - JF, KT, AP(GM), AD) 5ED16

(G622 18/04/2026 via Roll20 - JF, KT, AP(GM), AD) 5ED16

[This continues the story of Rogier the bard, a warforged called Gravedigger and a goliath paladin known as Uthmar Shatterstone. They are currently beyond the portal they entered in the manor house of the Viers family and exploring the tombs and chambers they have discovered here.]

DAY 20 cont ...

Our heroes, having finished off the fearsome flesh golem and its keepers moved on  to the next chamber. 

The next room was a cellar, empty except for some piles of decaying refuse, bits of bodies and old bones. Rogier and Uthmar began to feel as if the walls were warping, most likely they were hallucinating as Gravedigger felt nothing.

There was a door in the east wall that the vanguard warforged tried to open. On the other side of it was a set of stairs going up to the north and a window to the east. Gravedigger hoisted himself out of the window and found himself in an overgrown and decaying garden. He then climbed back in again and joined the others going up the steps.

Near the top of the stairs Rogier found a spiky pit trap covered by an illusion by nearly falling into it. He took a step back and nimbly leapt over it.

Gravedigger then jumped over, being not so agile he needed Rogier to help him up as he crashed into the side of the pit. Uthmar then leapt across, like an elegant gazelle.

At the top of the stairs was a door in the west wall. Gravedigger opened it to reveal a sort of bank teller area that had a counter with bars on it in the southern wall. Whatever it was doing here, this chamber looked like the foyer of a well appointed bank. 

In the middle of the room was a being that looked sort of human, but with something off about it. When it saw our heroes enter it attacked. It wore armour and carried a shield and some spears. Gravedigger cast Spiritual Weapon, Rogier shrunk it with his magic and... Uthmar took a very long time deciding what he should do in this fight - should be first strengthen himself with magic, should he attack with a  paladin ability? What weapon should he use, should he attack head on or attempt a flanking manoeuvre? He was overcome with all the possibilities at his disposal.

Eventually he simply went up to it and hit it. As he then started to receive blows back from the humanoid being Gravedigger healed him. Rogier hung back and cast Firebolts. In the end Uthmar finished it off and they looted its corpse of all valuables.

Not long after that another one appeared on the other side of the bars.
"Are you a human?" asked Gravedigger.
It glared back in silence.
Gravedigger then went to the counter and said, 'shop!'
The being threw a spear at him which left a gouge in Gravedigger's side.
He fired off a Sacred Flame in return and ducked under the counter.

Everyone then exited the chamber through a door in the west wall and worked their way south through a smaller room to find themselves facing another door.

Gravedigger, who was now opening all the doors they came to because if he didn't no one else would, opened this one and saw a big clay golem and the  spear-throwing fellow he had just previously met.

Uthmar held the door shut while they prepared themselves. He then stepped back and the spear thrower came at them, followed by the clay entity.

Uthmar biffed away at them while Rogier fired off Poison Spray magic and Gravedigger used Sacred Flame. The spear-thrower went down as Rogier and Gravedigger healed Uthmar. Then slowly the clay golem was whittled away until it too was destroyed.

Tombs, gardens and banks? wondered Gravedigger. Where had they found themselves? The others seems unconcerned, as long as there were people to fight and treasure to be looted, they didn't seemed to care.