%% date:: [[2025-03-09]] %% # [[084_20250309 Lurem's Last Words]] ![[084_20250309.svg]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[084_20250309 Lurem's Last Words]] > The party learns from [[Augrael]] about three factions on Level 5: undead (including the dangerous [[Death Shepherd]]), flesh warps, and mysterious stone/metal creatures. They discover an experimentation room with a three-week-old morlock corpse that has been surgically modified in an attempt to transform it into a dreshkan. The corpse contains a **specter**—the corrupted soul of the morlock seeking vengeance. > > A crucial encounter with **[[Lurem]]**, an ancient gnome ghost who has been trapped for a thousand years and is going insane, provides vital intelligence. Before the party mercifully kills him, Lurem reveals that [[Siora Fallowglade]] (Belcorra's assassin) has a map of the level and that [[Jafaki]] (a flesh warp creator) and [[Volluk Azrinae]] (soul gem manufacturer) were Belcorra's top servants. > > The party discovers that this level was originally an arena, with Volluk responsible for constructs and soul-sucking mechanisms, while Jafaki was building a golem army. Lurem warns [[Ash]] that he too might go insane from existing as a spirit in this place, adding urgency to their mission to find Jade Quarion. ^summary %% ## Video [Video]() %% --- ## Recap ![[ttrpgs/The Undead Unkillers/083_20250216 Augrael is totally our favourite undead#^summary]] --- ## Log There are three factions here, according to [[Augrael]]. - Undead. He can kill and eat most of them, but not [[Death Shepherd]]. - [[Flesh Warps]]. - Other creatures he doesn't understand. They're hard, like metal or stone, when he tries to bite them. ![[uu-084_20260309_01.png]] - three slabs. On one of them is a morlock corpse, about three weeks old. - Lanterns - downward facing lights that are clearly magical. - The morlock has been experimented on. Missing an arm and leg. Fine incisions and marks all over its body. It's like they were trying to make him a dreshkan. - Augrael recognises him from a long time ago. He came from Augrael's clan. It's been a while (Augrael has been separated from his clan for some time.) Someone has been taking his people from upstairs, he guesses. He's not close to this person. - [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]] cuts it open. There's an incorporeal undead inside the body right now. There's something tugging at the back of his mind. It's a [[specter]], a hateful undead (level 7) that seeks to kill living things because it has suffered so much pain and it wants to get revenge on living things. All it knows is vengeance and pain. It is the soul of the old morlock, but has been corrupted and cannot be reasoned with. But Ash doesn't understand why it isn't lashing out right now. [[Grumblebum|Grumble]] pulls on one of the chains. It reveals a shaft under where the body would be. Ash climbs down the shaft while Grumble keeps the shaft open. It's 40 feet. It opens into a room. There are piles of flesh that have decayed over a few weeks. Ash recognises that not all of them are flesh. Some of them are [[jelly creatures]], an animated mass of protoplasm (yellow, orange, and blue) that dissolve flesh. Some of the jellies move, looking for more flesh. - This room has metal shelves and operating tables. - Can't see into the east side of the room but there's probably a door there. Ash goes back up to report. Random encounter! Met [[Lurem]]. Old man, easygoing. He requested that we kill him because he's been there for a thousand years and is going insane. He becomes evil and casts spells. We did so. He told us about a person who has a map-- [[Siora Fallowglade]], assassin of [[Belcorra]], who is on the southeast corner. Siora killed Lurem thinking he had the key to leave this level after Belcorra died, but he didn't. None of them could escape this level. He also warned Ash that he might go insane too, from being here only as a spirit. [[Jafaki]] is a Flesh Warp that makes Flesh Warps. This level was an arena. [[Volluk Azrinae]] and Jafaki were important members of Belcorra's organization. - Volluk has maintained this level before, but not lately. He was responsible for all the constructs here. He wants to make this building suck souls. He was using soul gems to achieve part of that. Belcorra wants something grander. - Jafaki was making an army-- he was making golems. > [!abstract] Nico's notes > Lurem the Gnome Ghost inhabits the level 6, old, bald, is used to watching the fights happen. His stuff are incorporeal. Was a mage that served Belkorra, knows Volluk. Has a split personality. Scary… Thanks us for freeing him from this plane, letting him move on. > > Jefaki the professional fleshwarp fleshwrite was Belkorra’s top servant, knows how to make fleshwarps. > > Volluk the drow was a professional magic lens maker and soul gem mechanism manufacturer. > > Siora Fallowblade, top elven assassin of Belkorra. Stabbed Lurem when she thought he had the keys to escape level 6 when Belkorra died. Is the avid mapmaker, is stinky. Has a map of the level. STRONG > > Holy water, vitality attacks, ghost charges, moving on, force damage, ghost touch, spirit—immune to non-magical attacks %% # Excalidraw Data ## Text Elements ## Drawing ```json {"type":"excalidraw","version":2,"source":"https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/releases/tag/2.0.25","elements":[],"appState":{"theme":"dark","gridSize":null,"viewBackgroundColor":"#ffffff"}} ``` %%