The group instantly
make their way to the royal quarter and investigate the area.
Natalia casts commune
with nature to see if she can find the target that they're looking
for but the spell fails to have any affect.
Natalia then shifts
into the form of an Earth Elemental and uses the forms senses to
detect any signs of movement in the ground beneath the group but
senses nothing.
Natalia then casts
detect plants which fails.
Vaneer then casts
discern location which also fails.
The group now getting
disgruntled at the elusiveness of their quarry resort to searching
buildings the old fashion way of one at a time.
Now the affects of
being awake for over a day are starting to take hold, Vaneer decides
to cast a Divination spell to seek further guidance only to be told
“You need to sleep”.
Reluctantly the group
agree that sleep would probably be the best course of action and so
they retire to their homes.
Around the middle of
the night Vaneer wakes to find a bright light shinning in through his
window from outside.
As the cleric looks
outside he sees what appears to be a hellish type landscape with city
structures either on fire in an eternal blaze or crumbling into piles
of rubble. In the sky above a large whirlpool of crows could be seen
circling and shrieking which got so loud it caused the glass in his
window to explode inwards.
Vaneer then instantly
wakes to find that his window has just that second exploded and
shattered inwards causing the glass to shred both the cleric and his
wife whom now was in a desperate condition. Vaneer instantly casts a
Heal spell on his wife to save her life followed by a cure light on
himself to stem the bleeding from his wounds.
The cleric looks out
the window to find the landscape normal but the explosion had
attracted a lot of attention as people wake to find out the source of
the noise that shook the night.
Meanwhile elsewhere in
the city, the city militia are flooded with reports of an Axe
wielding manic causing terror on the streets of Wyvernshore which
Otto decides to investigate personally.
Elsewhere Natalia
returns home to find that her husband is missing and finds bloody
footprints leading out of the house.
She sends an animal
messenger to each of the group members but the spell for some unknown
reason fails.
As Natalia follows the
footprints she soon finds herself in the city cemetery alone with no
other soul in sight, as she follows the trail through the mist she
soon finds herself standing in front of a tomb stone which read,
“Here lies Natalia
Rovska, Loving Wife, Mother and Comrade in Arms who will be hugely
missed, Died 16th Arodus 18”, Natalia stumbles back as she realises
that he date of death is in fact today.
In that moment all the
graves around Natalia explode open as withered, decaying hands reach
out from underneath the soil and grab at the druid whilst one
creature crawls its way out of her grave, almost skeletal in
appearance and from within its exposed rib cage another creature
explodes out at Natalia.
The shock causes
Natalia to startle awake in her bed to find a similar looking
creature with a fetus in it's chest looming over her,
Immediately Natalia
looks to find her husband sleeping next to her just before she
changes her shape into that of an Huge earth elemental,
Her husband wakes at
the commotion and instantly runs out into the street to seek help,
Natalia attacks and
hits the creature (Devourer),
The Devourer attacks
Natalia with its large claws, which hits and causes her to shudder
with a sickly cold feeling which the druid manages to shake off,
Suddenly Sagroc The
Bogeyman appears in the room admitting he had sense some sort of
unnatural energy in the city,
Natalia attacks and
hits the Devourer,
The Devourer again
attacks the Druid and she manages to shake off the sickling chill,
Sagroc attacks the
Devourer from behind and hits,
Bob rushes into the
rescue and maws the Devourer,
Natalia smacks the
Devourer again,
The fetus in the
Devourers chest extends its small boney arm towards the Druid “Join
Me!” it hisses before hitting her again,
Between Natalia, Sagroc
and Bob they make sure that the Devourer receives the beating it
needs as it collapses and disappears.
Otto's investigations
have proven that there was only one axe wielding running wild in the
streets but by the time Otto managed to track down the culprit which
was an Monk that had gone crazy he had already been stopped by his
fellow brothers whom unfortunately had to end their brothers life to
end his rampage.
The group decide to
gather so they can talk over the recent events.
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