Session 14 - Fashionably Fatal

 

Session Fourteen was finished a while ago and here's an EPIC recap.  The session began with the players clearing out some of the rooms they had been in before and generally cleaning house of the valuables.  When they entered the prison however they dealt with a terrible foe.  The room was about 25 feet by 25 feet.  5 feet of it was sectioned off by bars and a door.  Inside the cell where humanoid skeletons in rags chained to the walls and some crates in the corner.  When the party tried to open the door a specter slowly descended from the ceiling and in goblin ordered the party to leave while skeleton lurged in the chains.  Bl'nx immediately began detecting evil and determined that neither the skeletons or the specter were evil.  Passing this off as some sort of parlour trick the party messed around with the voice for a bit before forcing the door to the cell and kicking the boxes over onto a goblin hiding behind the crates.  It turned out to be the goblin Kyler had tied to the wall.  The party decided it had gone through enough and let it escape and decided to investigate the second floor.  

      To get past the portcullises Saloch cast stone to mud on the wall and the party cleared out a hole in the wall and walked past the into some of the rooms.  The first room was an alchemists lab with various ingredients and three potions.  The second room was a throne room with a compass rose laid into the floor, a ornate throne and two valuable paintings as well as three chests one filled with 1000 gold one with 2000 silver and one with 5000 copper.  The gold chest was trapped and some bricks fell from the ceiling on to Saloch and Zanben.  The next room leading from the throne room was the bed room.  In this room the first thing that stood out was a quarter staff standing perfectly on end in one corner.  Saloch, suspicious of an invisible foe, shot an arrow in the vicinity yet missed the staff.  In further investigation it appeared to be an ordinary quarter staff that would alway try to stand on one end.  The real fun started when one of the party members investigating a clothing trunk unleashed a magic glove that flew to the a pile of clothes in the middle of the room and animated into a clothes golem of sorts.  The golem immediately attacked Kyler and managed to slip in between his armor and possess him (see above).  The monster then began attacking the rest of the party quite successfully.  After a looooooooooooong battle involving the possessing of the quarter staff and the summoning of malicious bats, the the party defeated the monster.  Some characters leveled up at this point and all were happy to be rid of the clothes.