# [[005_20220424 Nameless as beasts]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[005_20220424 Nameless as beasts]] > We were hired to finish the job that our predecessors could not: find and return Aldon, the Shadow King's son. In the time it took for us to be contracted and for us to travel to the Accursed Den, all on two legs lost our names, the poor became poorer, and all children were lost (except for Aldon, hopefully). > > We went into the Dining Room and had an unproductive talk with a muttering mage, retraced our steps when we discovered a pit trap, dined on the rotten flesh of the victims of the prisoners in the jail cells (ok maybe it was just me), and eventually spent some time falling into the tar pit and getting back out. Eldar discovered that there was a secret door that could be revealed by putting blood into the eye socket of a statue... > ^summary --- ## Recap ![[004_20220410 Kill a worm then we all die#^summary]] --- ## Log > Psalm 6:4 Those who walk on two legs shall be nameless as the beasts of the field. > Psalm 3:4 The great shall be made poor and the poor poorer still. > Psalm 4:2 And for five days and five nights shall fathers weep. We have been hired to go to [[The Accursed Den]] and find [[Aldon]]. We are [[Sator]], a cursed skinwalker, [[Newguy]] the esoteric hermit, and [[Eldar]] the wretched royal. We all sit down at the table and the catatonic guy starts muttering. We don't get anything out of him, and he goes catatonic again if one of us stands up. We enter the top left door and go into a hallway with Velvet Elvises, horrible landscapes (Thomas Kincaid-like). ![[mb-velvet-elvis.png]] ![[mb-thomas-kincaid.png]] ![[mb-creepy-baby-paintings.png]] We come across a pit trap that is 10 feet across, 20 feet wide. I taste delicious food in the air-- Chewbacca in Return of the Jedi. I run into the room. It's the Jail Cells! We see keys on the wall but don't free the prisoners. We're in a [[The Accursed Den#The Chained Sarcophagus|meat locker room]]. To the north is a wooden door. I leave an arrow in the stone room to the south (the outie door that can't be opened except from the other side)... just in case we fall into the pit again or somehow find ourselves on the wrong side of the door again. The old guy deftly skirts the edge around the pit and goes into [[The Accursed Den#The Crying Statue|the next room]]. I try to follow suit, but I am way less agile and fall almost to my death, but I am able to shoot an arrow with a rope to my friends, and they pull me out. The old guy and I start to bash on the door, while the rich guy examines the statue. We are suddenly all thrust into the pit, but I manage to stop myself from falling this time, the rich guy climbs back out quickly, and the old guy somehow floats up like some sort of newly arisen Messiah, spick and span and free of tar. I leave the rope around the statue and dangling into the tar pit. Rich guy tells us the statue is of King Leonard II the Eyeless, and that's why the statue lacks an eye. There is a secret entrance there somehow but Eldar is not sure how to get there. There are blood stains in the eye socket. I bite my wrist and deal myself 2 damage to fill up the eye socket. The door to the north opens up a crack...