%% date:: [[2025-02-16]] %% # [[083_20250216 Augrael is totally our favourite undead]] ![[083_20250216 Augrael is totally our favourite undead.svg]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[083_20250216 Augrael is totally our favourite undead]] > The party returns to [[Otari]] for a long rest and learns that [[Calamity's Ruin]] solved [[Doriana Menhemes|Doriana]]'s haunting by tracking [[The Motley Man]] to [[The Dreamlands]] and destroying him. They get updates on various NPCs: [[Odasa|Gloam]] opened a midwifery next to a funeral parlor, [[Karsh]] is running from Pharasmin clerics who want to convert him, and tensions exist between [[Dread]] and [[Captain Lardus Longsaddle]] at the garrison. > > At [[Magiloi]]'s, the party drinks magical concoctions with mixed results: [[Grumble]] becomes permanently sickened, [[Ash]] and [[Zuhri]] lose memories and become five years younger, while [[Vayle]] successfully changes biological sex. [[Zuhri]] confronts the werewolf hunters [[Kran Brask]] and [[Albaret Brask]], threatening them if they continue killing werewolves now that she offers an alternative cure. > > Returning to [[The Gauntlight Level 5 - Flesh Warps]], the party discovers the **[[Death Shepherd]]** has vanished, replaced by five **Gibbering Mouthers** in the pit. They find **[[Augrael]]** alive in a cage, accompanied by his pet crab creature. Augrael has transformed from eating different creatures—now appearing more snake-like with smaller eyes, triangular face, and a two-foot black tongue. He reports seeing a "[[Drider|Part Spider Part Person]]" dropping off injured Flesh Warps and offers to guide the party through the level. ^summary %% ## Video [Video]() %% --- ## Recap ![[ttrpgs/The Undead Unkillers/082_20250209 Deading the Shepherd again#^summary]] --- ## Log [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] goes to get the corpse of the [[Dreshkan]] thrall that is lying on the rusty grate. There are four manacles hanging above. The grate collapses! The corpse unfortunately falls down the pit, but Bond is dexy and escapes it. He sees some plants there that look like they're fungus, but they look like they're made of flesh. We go back to [[The Gauntlight Level 1 - Mitflits]]. We have to pay [[Boss Skrawng]] 1 silver for us to stay there. We decide to go back to [[Otari]] for a long rest instead. We meet up with [[Gears]] from [[Calamity's Ruin]]. We don't tell him that we've found a way through the barrier. Gears believes me. They said they've been able to solve the problem with [[Doriana Menhemes|Doriana]]. Some guy who lives in [[The Dreamlands]] had stuck a gem in one of her toys and she was being haunted every night. [[The Motley Man]], who we thought was her imaginary friend, was going to transition into this realm. They were able to figure out a ritual to get into The Dreamlands and hunt him down. [[Dread]] will soon have control of the garrison. He's currently working with [[Captain Lardus Longsaddle]]. He has plans on how to keep the peace - he thinks that Longsaddle is competent but not consistent with rules. - [[Odasa|Gloam]] is still obsessed with finding out where he came from because as a [[Duskwalkers|Duskwalker]], he just woke up in an adult body. Duskwalkers usually wake up somewhere far away, but Gloam thinks (feels) that he was born on this island. - The clerics of [[Pharasma]] are following [[Karsh]] like he's something holy, which he hates. Pharasmins think that Duskwalkers are special because Pharasma allows them to come back from death. - Gears and Dread are from Cheliax (like Transylvania), across the sea. It's like a dark [[Alkenstar]], where they do experiments and create Frankenstein-like creatures. - [[Shawanti|Bee]] is from a jungle land called [[Mwangi Expanse]]. - Dread is looking for a devil to fight one-on-one. It's part of his Ascension, his ritual, to be a Hellknight. - Gear says Dread looks scary, but he took Dread out of Cheliax when he Gear was still a monster. We go to [[The Rowdy Rockfish]]. [[Lazda Venkervale]] has become worse from his torture. His mum [[Brelda Venkervale|Brelda]] has to be there to settle him down. Some patrons have left. We go to [[Magiloi]] and drink a concoction. - [[Grumblebum|Grumble]] fails! He is *Sickened* for a day and he can't retch to remove it. - [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]] and [[Zuhri]] are okay but they don't remember what happened in the last day. And they're five years younger! - [[Vayle]] succeeds and changes sex. They are now biologically male. [[Carman Rajani]] and [[Dot Rajani]] had already left immediately for [[Arbor Felix]]. I go to find [[Kran Brask]] and [[Albaret Brask]]. - You were in poor shape when we helped you. - You have killed werewolves, but now there is an alternative: me. Yet you've continued to kill others. You killed Jaul. - I do not like people who prey on others' misfortune. - If you keep doing it, YOU will find out what it's like to get my bite. And it won't be an inoculation one. I will hunt you down. I will follow you. - We are part of Arbor Felix now. That village is under our protection. So it Otari. - They don't seem to be spoiling for a fight and say they're on their way out. We go to [[Odd Stories]]. [[Morlibinth]] is the redheaded one who was more charming. [[Karlth]] looked like a wizard but he wasn't actually the wizard - Morlibinth can cast some lower-level spells. But Karlth died in the werewolf attack! Morlibinth is really sad. I suggest going to [[Absalom]]. He said Karlth had suggested that he go there, but Morlibinth seems too lost in his grief right now. Maybe one day he'll go there... He has a few spell scrolls. I buy a spell scroll of *Soothe*. [[Vayle]] buys one of *Restyle.* [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] goes to find [[Dread]]. He's at the garrison talking to [[Captain Lardus Longsaddle]]. They're having an argument. Longsaddle says he's been running this place all his life and he doesn't want to let some young upstart take things over. [[Odasa|Gloam]] has opened a midwifery right next to a funeral parlour. He wants to bring life back into the world. It's a cycle. He has started a shop. [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] decides to talk to [[Karsh]] instead. He's running and well-dressed unlike the Karsh we knew. He's wearing a silky outfit and long braided hair and is showing off his toned physique. He has pants that are also silky and bare feet. He tells Bond to run with him. He said he's running from the Pharasmins who are wanting to test him and convert him to their faith. Luckily the Pharasmins can't run so he can get peace. - He remembers fighting a weird blue-skinned lady with chains, going through lots of confusing stairs with empty rooms. - He wants to sign up to work on a boat. - He doesn't know anything about [[Augrael]]. We go to [[Wrin Sivinxi]]: - She doesn't know anything about what happened to Augrael. - She knows that we've opened the way to the fifth floor. Not precisely how we did it. She just has a feeling. She thinks there's a lot of undead on that floor and maybe Augrael is one of them too? - She thinks the floor we're going to is in transition. What we find in this new level should help us in the difficulty beyond that. She specifically says she thinks Ash will find his peace soon. "I know you're worried, young spirit." Wrin says "You will find some resolution to your troubles soon. I hope that's good news for you." We go to [[Vandy Banderdash]] at [[Dawnflower Library]] to ask her about [[Augrael]]. - The plans to let Augrael eat some dead undead went sideways. They were waiting for us to bring Augrael out, but we left and then the werewolves attacked. - There have been some sightings of skeletons with fire on its hands. [[Odasa|Gloam]] went after it but didn't catch it. It never seemed to do any harm. Maybe it was looking for something... - [[Galiath Banderdash|Galiath]] isn't doing anything because he's come into quite a bit of money. He's dealing with other adventurers like us. He usually comes to her when he's in trouble and he hasn't been there, so hopefully that means he's not in trouble. We go back to [[The Gauntlight Level 3 - Ghouls]] where we had left the body. It was untouched. We go back to [[The Gauntlight Level 5 - Flesh Warps]]. There are five [[Gibbering Mouther|Gibbering Mouthers]] in the pit and no [[Death Shepherd]]. The two [[Flesh Warp|Flesh Warp]] guards have died and been replaced. - Level 6 is where the Flesh Warp guards are. - Level 7 is where the Gibbering Mouthers are. In Level 5, the alcoves have some sort of plants that seem to exude some life energy that [[Vayle]] feels would be harmful to them. The creatures whose shells are scattered on the ground seem to be made up. [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] sees that the plants used to be fleshy living creatures that were merged with plants. Now they're immobile weeds of some sort that exude a vitality energy around them. It explains why the [[Death Shepherd]] didn't go there. - [[Vayle]] finds out that the plants are blessed by [[Gozreh]]. - I can harvest these plants and kill all of them, turning them into *Elixir of Life (Minor).* - [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] talks to the plants. They just say something gives them life. They don't know what harm means. They just grow. There wasn't this many of them before. [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] gets 1 temp HP as he approaches. [[Vayle]] knows what force that is-- the god is feeding them. - I harvest (and kill) two of them. We go through the northern room from the octagon room. There's a voice that comes from there saying "Hello?" - There's blood and excrement from creatures long ago. - 1st Cage in the left used to contain a creature but the creature is long gone. - 2nd Cage further left is the same as the first. - The sizes of the manacles, cage doors, hallway give us an idea of the size of the creatures that used to be there. - The 3rd cage has [[Augrael]]! He says "it is gone?" He's holding onto the crab creature that he also kept safe. [[Augrael]] went here looking for food. He said there's a lot of food but also a lot of fighting. He can wait for things to die and then he can take those. He saw the [[Death Shepherd]] rise from a [[Flesh Warps|Flesh Warp]]. Fortunately the [[Death Shepherd]] didn't go after [[Augrael]]. [[Augrael]] can lead us to the others and has been to some of the other rooms. There's a [[Drider|Part Spider Part Person]] thing that comes here and drops off injured or dying [[Flesh Warp]]s. Most of them die but some survive and just roam the halls. [[Augrael]] is a ghoul. He used to be a morlock, but he looks different-- what he eats changes his appearance. His eyes are smaller. His face is more triangular like a snake rather than the round morlock face. 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