Still in the horrible version of the temple with horrible things in nearly every location. Numerous villagers found during the session. All but two were already dead. Of those two, only one survived to the end of the session. A lot of this session was just the horror of each room explored in the temple. I’m probably going to gloss over a bunch if specific details. More, as always, below the break.
Everyone was in attendance for this session. There will, obviously, be spoilers for Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow from The Merry Mushmen along with our mangling of this very fine adventure. My GM comments, as always, are in italics.
4th of Fall
- Exploration of the temple continues.
- The other earhorns in the observatory whisper similar messages to other characters.
- In the workshop, Sister Ruth is found. Her face and hands have been sliced away, but she still speaks somehow. Confused, questioning, she seems lost. Dieter chops off her head, but she continues to babble.
- The group heads down to the next level. Numerous rooms have various horrors in them…something moves in the privy, bloody sheets and puddles, horse hearts, pig gore, chicken heads emerging from walls, never-ending screams, and similar.
- A villager, Jesse, is found in one room and is led out. He wants to find his sister.
- Another room holds a floating demon goat head. It attacks, it screams, it is defeated. Sadly, Jesse did not survive the psychic attack of its scream.
- A dining room has a table covered in animal heads, conversing. The warn of something under the table. A growl is heard. The door is closed and the group carries on.
- In a chapel, a few more dead villagers are found…Isabella and two children. A small silver box on the altar held a map of the temple basement. One difference is that it shows a location where a wall is broken, revealing stairs down. None of the characters from Ragged Hollow recall any such stairway in the basement.
- Next level down, more horrors.
- One room has a giant frog, partially dissected and holding a large scalpel. After defeating the thing, Dieter’s brother, Wilhelm, is found hiding among the bodies of other children. The group take him up to the steeple and Dieter gets him out and back home.
- No time for a happy reunion…that can come later. There are still survivors to be found and Dieter hurries back to rejoin the others.
- Continuing their hunt for survivors and the source of the evil horrors, the group comes to this level’s dining room. A young woman is lying dead on the table. No one in the group recognizes here, possibly the paladin or her squire.
- A closet area has silverware and various other supplies. They are all shaking and vibrating as Marlena spots an agate ring on one of the shelves.
And that’s where we called it a night.
Shortest recap ever! I didn’t see much need to go into detail about each room’s horrors. The group has explore at least half of the temple…which the locals would know having been educated in the temple themselves. I think we might be getting close to the end of this adventure!
