quartz/content/Journal/Day140.md

• hills become forested
• hack our way through tall grass
• step into a ravine
• edges are 100ft high, 20% grade
• clumps of trees grow here and there
• ravine runs 400ft west
• 9 caves scattered around in the walls, big enough for people
• bear, dead trees here and there
• vultures and ravens everywhere
• bits of bones and skulls of men and animals scattered
• we come in at the top
• enter in the caves
• run across some doors
  • E is locked
  • N hear some muffled voices behind
• find room with mosaic floor
  • S wall has huge tapestry
  • demons holding aloft a struggling human
  • stone altar of red veined black rock
  • no writing or inscriptions
  • ritual items: 2 goblets, 1 bowl, and a yewer
    • made of pure gold
    • covered in blood
• Corrin tries to pick up ritual items
• Bayden tries detect magic but doesn't find any
• Wrelen checks tapestry, finds nothing behind it
• continue exploring
• find large chamber
  • black iron bell
  • 3 stone altars: black, black/red streaks, black/red flecks
  • 4 lesser tiers on a lower tier on a dais
  • great throne above
• door nearby
  • no sounds behind
  • Bayden opens
  • zombines inside
  • Bayden closes
  • seems like they didn't react
• as we enter the "temple"
• see black figures all around
• Corrin and Wrelen begin chanting an evil hymn
• Bayden tries to burn Corrin/Wrelen to get their attention
• Belorin tries to drag them out of the room
• Drags Wrelen out and he's normal again
• Doors open, side room is full of 40 zombies and skeletons
• Belorin pushes Corrin out of the temple
• Wrelen gets a lot of them with a fireball
• Others advance and break Corrin and Bayden's ribs
• We finish off the undead
• Dwarf ../People/Wrongus comes around the corner
  • raised a holy symbol and starts casting a spell

2023-08-23

• ../People/Wrongus says his master will kill us
  • we're not supposed to know about this place
• ../Characters/Bayden tries to delay ../People/Wrongus while ../Characters/Luka Votsk casts animate dead
• ../Characters/Belorin Forechaser casts hypnotic pattern on Wrongus
  • it holds secrets
  • it's a meeting ground
  • they worship ../Gods/Orcus
  • his master has plans for us
  • to join them we'd have to cut off a body part and replace it with an undead body part
  • Bayden helps him start to remove his armor
  • gets some of the bigger pieces off
  • hypnotic pattern expires
• People don't want to attack Wrongus
• Wrongus takes Bayden, Wrelen, and Corrin down with chill touch
• skeleton gives Bayden a healing potion
• Luca gives Wrelen a healing potion
• Bayden kills Wrongus
  • He has a holy symbol of ../Gods/Orcus, but not much else of interest
• Belorin inspects Wrongus's chambers
  • Flagon of wine and 9 cups
    • we take them
  • send skeleton in to search his quarters
    • black and red everywhere
    • demon idol with 2 glowing gem eyes
• Belorin looks at Baba Yaga's skull and the eyes are glowing
  • Tells us we should leave
  • Worried about what would happen if Orcus gets her skull
• Altars give followers of Orcus the sanctuary spell while in this chamber
  • Would have needed several months of ritual
  • Throne has 10 black, 10 red, and 1 big red one
• Luca finds a secret passage behind Wrongus's dresser
• 4 people come in and start looking at Wrongus's body
• thieves stole Wrongus's goblets and escaped
  • he's going to be pissed
  • the master will be upset someone found us
  • they consider not reviving ../People/Wrongus
  • but decide to stick around
  • they are attending to the body
• move away from the caves
• Bayden finds a good hidden place
• rest for the night