# [[057_20220726 Pin's no good very bad day]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[057_20220726 Pin's no good very bad day]] > We kept marching on, following the map to Molaesmyr, and it became increasingly more and more obvious that Pin was still not doing well. He still had a smell about him, and despite Lesser Restoration and a Cure Wounds, he was still not doing well. He was also super surly and refused to rest. > > We got to what must be The Blighted Hollow, which turned out to be a clearing of dead trees and a pool right in the centre. Reya found some footprints from humanoids, as well as some of their stuff. It seemed like they were looking for artifacts as well. One of the pages in their notebook had a drawing of some tool like a hammer. > > The strong smell of decay was coming from a bunch of corpses that had somehow formed together and rotted over time. As Xenia examined the oily black waters of the pool with his awakened spellbook, we got attacked-- the corpse mound began to crack and go towards us! > > During the fight, Pin almost immediately got swallowed by the Corpse Mound and spent most of the time inside it. The Corpse Mound crushed his bones as it moved. Wally sprang to action, dealing quite a bit of damage from reactions to people around him being damaged, despite him taking a lot of damage himself. The Corpse Mound had an ability to incapacitate those in its melee range, which both Wally and Scura succumbed to at one point. It also regurgitated stinking heaps of bones, from which rose four skeletons. The tiefling cast Ice Knife on the Corpse Mound, the skeletons, and unfortunately Wally as well. > > Wally finally killed the Corpse Mound and got Pin out, but Pin was badly hurt. He was able to dodge some attacks with the help of Scura's Sanctuary, but fell unconscious and nearly got killed by skeletons until Xenia, in an act of self-sacrifice, cast Life Transference to take damage himself and heal Pin almost to full. We cleaned up the remaining skeletons with ease. As we planned to retreat a bit out of the Hollow, put up the Hut, and take a short rest, Xenia found a shard that seemed to have magical runes on it, sticking up out of one of the bodies in the Corpse Mound. ^summary %% <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/52YlbbJrWEg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> %% --- ## Recap ![[056_20220719 From vampires to death butterflies#^summary]] --- ## Log Dim light. We smell a scent of decaying flesh from [[Pin Dunstorm|Pin]]. He's so prickly and doesn't want to be healed at all, but I finally cast *Lesser Restoration* and *Cure Wounds* on him. He's not grateful at all. The sun is peeking through the leaves and every now and then we realize it's not as late as it seems -- it seems like it's dusk. We get to a clearing. We see a pool of some kind. We see a bunch of footprints - about 4 or 5 sets of humanoid footprints - around this space. Reya sees that there are a couple humans, an elf... there may have been a scuffle here, but pretty recently. There's a smattering of coins, a metal bracelet and a pendant. There's also a pocket notebook that is barely intelligible. It seems like it's the log of a journey from others who may be looking for the same thing. They mention consecution and a ritual. There is a drawing of a metal tool that could have been a hammer but part of it is torn and we see the word *Grovelthrash*. This is [[Blighted Hollow]]! It's a bunch of dead vegetation and oily black soil. The stench of decay is pretty strong here. As we walk forward, we see a mound of corpses up ahead that seem to have rotted together. It's like there's some sort of moss and stuff that have entwined them. ![[twc-blighted-hollow.png]] The water itself seems to be made of the black, oily stuff. There are some flies but we don't see any other creatures. Xenia uses *Manifest Mind* to send his awakened spellbook into the water, but it doesn't see anything with all the murkiness in there. Just then, we hear a cracking noise as some of the bodies begin to move towards us! - Round 1 - Reya - Curses the thing "in the name of the Queen". What freaking queen is that? Casts *Protection from Evil and Good* on herself. - Pin: Spends a ki point to *Step of the Wind* and then attacks. - Scura: Turn Undead, but it makes the save (it has advantage) - Wally: Attacks it with a javelin - Xenia: Fails with Fire Bolt - Milla: Attacked it with *Chromatic Orb* (lightning) but it didn't seem to harm it as much as we would expect. - [[Corpse Mound]] - Hits Pin 2x - Wally uses a reaction to do *Rebuke the Violent* (Channel Divinity) - Pin's body is engulfed into the corpse mound. - Round 2 - Reya - Has to make a Constitution saving throw - Rapier attack misses - Scura - I got incapacitated and didn't make the save :( - Wally - Has a freaking awesome turn. Crit + Divine Smite = 17 slashing + 28 radiant damage, and he used a 2nd level spell slot - Just kidding! He actually got Incapacitated and didn't do any of this and didn't spend his spell slot. Shit, sorry Tyler. :( - Xenia - Wither and Bloom on the Corpse Mound and on Pin. The necrotic damage doesn't seem to do anything to the Corpse Mound, but Xenia does manage to heal Pin (hit dice value + 4) - Milla: Casts Color Spray, but there doesn't seem to be anything to be blinded. It doesn't seem to be affected. - Corpse Mound - Attempts to attack Reya, but misses. - It seems to get rejuvenated from sinking its roots into the soil. - Round 3 - Scura - Saved vs the incapacitation thing - A: Disengage and run away! - BA: Sanctuary on Pin - Wally - Saved vs the incapacitation thing - Attack longsword hits. 5 slashing + 15 radiant from a Smite - Xenia tries *Fire Bolt* but it doesn't work. - Milla uses *Evening Moon* and does 9 damage - Corpse Mound - does 20 points of bludgeoning damage to Wally - Tries to leave, but Wally takes an opportunity attack and stops it from moving. - Round 4 - Reya - 23 piercing + 5 thunder - It retches out four thorny/bramble skeletons. - Pin - Scura - Bless - Move away! - Wally - Longsword (1-handed): 7 slashing - Xenia - Wither and Bloom, but at 3rd level. 4 necrotic damage because they save. The Corpse Mound is immune to the necrotic damage. - Milla - Hits the Corpse Mound. 9 piercing damage to it. Everything including it has to do a Dex save and if they fail, they take 16 cold damage. She hits all the skeletons, but unfortunately, Wally as well. :( - Corpse Mound - Pin makes his Con save for the first time this whole game - 15 slashing + 35 radiant - Wally does an opportunity attack and crits! He kills the Corpse Mound. - Round 5 - Skeletons - grapple Pin and do 8 damage on him. Pin is unconscious again. - Attacked Pin, but Sanctuary made it attack Wally and deal him 1 damage instead. - Attacked Reya, 8 points of piercing damage. She does *Uncanny Dodge*. - Reya uses *Green Flame Blade*. - Scura - Move - A: Toll the Dead on one of the skellies. - BA: 3rd level Healing Word for 13 HP to Wally - Xenia - Does *Life Transference* to do 21 damage to himself and heal Pin for 42. - Milla - *Chromatic Orb* on Skeletons 2 and 3. 16 damage to Skeleton 2. - Round 6 - Skeletons - Attack Reya, who *Shield*s. - Spores explode from one of them. Constitution save from everyone within 10 feet. - Attacks Pin, but attacks Wally instead due to Sanctuary - Reya - 6 piercing + 7 fire - Pin - Attacks, so Sanctuary drops - Scura - A: Toll the Dead - Wally - Attacks, and hits once - Xenia - 14 force damage on Skeleton 4 - Milla - *Fire Bolt* on Skeleton 1 - Round 7 - Reya - Finishes off the last Skelly with a booming blade + rapier + sneak attack. The whole area is just covered with corpses and bones. Awesome things that happened during the fight - Pin getting swallowed - Wally doing amazing damage out of his turn! - Milla accidentally hurting Wally. - Pin going unconscious and Xenia doing a *Life Transference*. - Pin dodging skeletons with the help of Sanctuary. Xenia finds a flint arrowhead (bright orange) sticking out by one of the bodies of the corpses and lifts it out. It looks like a spearhead. It's a crystal shape with symbols on it. It has sunset colors. ![[twc-fey-shard.png]]