Session 14: Orlane Morning Part 3 Day 24 of Readying

We explored down the hall and into the rooms where we had found and fought the monks and found nothing of interest, but in the last room Lhoss noticed a secret door in the wall! We all went through it and found ourselves in another hallway that stretched to the south. It held a row of golden statues! Each statue was in the shape of a harvest food, including the likes of a large carrot, sheaves of grain, a pile of beans, and a potato. They were beautiful and tempting, and I even noticed my stomach growling a bit, but we decided to leave them in order to maintain our good relationships with those few townsfolk who had been friendly. I’m secretly hoping that if we can save the town they’ll offer us golden vegetables as a reward!

At the south end of that hall we found another door and both Calbach and Armaziti crept in to find a bed with the priestess sleeping! There was another door on the other side of the bed, but we figured that we could get in there from the main hall area so they snuck back out without waking her. We went back into the main hall and Armaziti searched through the room but found nothing but some benches. From there we went back into the hall with the golden idols and headed west down yet another hallway on the north side, coming to a door that led to some stairs. We crept up the stairs and around into another room.

As soon as we got into the room, madness ensued! There were skeletons all over, swinging at us with their bony arms! They did damage to Armaziti, but he could heal himself up a bit, and then they knocked out both Lhoss and Calbach! Lhoss was bleeding badly so I grabbed the nasty bloody robes that Chiki was dragging around and bound up her wounds. Hopefully she doesn’t get gangrene or covid from it. So disgusting! Ronan was charging all over at the skeletons and swinging his two-handed sword but somehow managed to miss every time. Eventually the team did enough damage to them all that they shattered into piles and splinters of bones. Armaziti cast healing spells on Calbach and Lhoss and they started to wake up. We decided to memorize spells and rest up for a few hours after that dangerous adventure. It was getting later towards morning and we needed to get out of there, but also needed to regain our strength before we stumbled across anything else.