# [[037_20230304 Ash is Father Tyson]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[037_20230304 Ash is Father Tyson]] > The party explored a lake area in The Gauntlight and discovered a hallway lined with sarcophagi containing the remains of powerful individuals, including Ash's former body as Father Tyson. They found an octagonal room with an altar marked by seven indentations and four severed hands, which came to life and attacked them as motes of light. ^summary --- ## Recap ![[036_20230204 Vayle the undead unkiller#^summary]] --- ## Log It's noon. We're on level 4 There's a lake! There are massive mushrooms on the western shore of the lake, blocking whatever's beyond it. [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]] jumps off. Lake is bigger than it looks. It's a dirty lake. The visibility is about 5 feet. There are mosses floating in it. It's around 15 feet deep in most parts. There are fish and some small living things but nothing approaches Ash. From where Ash is: - east: Gibbering Mouther place - west: mushrooms We go towards the west, beyond the mushroom. Ash sees a familiar sight: where the chute from the trash monster led. We can go: - north, walking beside the mushroom to some passageway that goes to the rock - up the chute - south: leads to more water. We go north. The mushrooms are four feet tall. Ash knows the mushrooms are endemic to this region. They're normal and even edible. They're also providing cover. 85 feet long and 15 feet wide. Every 10 feet there's an alcove with a sarcophagus. Total of 13 sarcophagi here. Two of them have been destroyed by the crumbling section of the east wall where we came from. Used to be 8 sarcophagi on each side but on one side, one is destroyed. On the other, one alcove is empty. North: bigger room and bright light South: faint light. [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]]'s heart begins to pound as he enters the room. Ash enters the hallway and walks south to the second sarcophagus. He kneels down and cries. Huh? As Ash walked past the first sarcophagus, the stone lid becomes transparent and we see what's inside: a long-dead corpse dressed in rags with obviously fatal wounds. Metal-clad fighter with a halberd, now all bones. There are names on the sarcophagi inside. This one's name is: *[[Yunus]].* The second sarcophagus that Ash is crying at: small skeleton with tattered robes and beside it is a long stick. There are bandages that have fallen to the floor from the arms of this skeleton. Ash knows that this was his body. He is [[Father Tyson]]! He doesn't know why he's still here in this world. [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]] changes his form. He now has scars on his back, stomach, torso. This is like a trophy room, not a memorial. Ash wants some sort of simple burial. [[Aroden]]/Tyr is no longer here. [[Vayle]] failed to dispel the coffin. They all seem to be humanoids, some who seem to be fighters and some that have books. Vayle thinks they're all people of power. High mages, leaders, or adventurers. - [[Yunus]] - Tyson - [[Zazriel]] - [[Rockblood]] - Ezdran - Omar - Osmadiel - Domiel - Ice collar - Turiel - Stonehand - Saffon - Deadfall We can't open the sarcophagi and keep going north instead. - Wide hall opens into an octagonal room. - Mostly empty - Walls are carved to look like a swampy morass but all the graves are open and empty. Ghosts shrieking into a malevolent eye. - At apex of the room, circular 15-foot diameter sits in the centre of the room, 3 feet off the surrounding floor. Platform supports an altar of stone marked by seven indentations like a seven-fingered hand left them by gripping the stone. Pulse of blue light flashes every now and then. - Small objects are left on top of the altar: four severed hands. - Murals are all around the walls leading to the circular iris in the ceiling. We step into the room and feel an overwhelming sense of despair. - Success: Ash, [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]], Vayle (auto-succeed) - Fail: Zuhri [[Zuhri]] is frightened. Severed hands jump at us!! 4 motes of light shining in the grooves fly out at us!