c02s02e02 -- Full Circle -- Night of the 36th - THX completes the 11th day of ritual to cleanse the evil staff with Tug's help.. DC 20 with inspiration adn guidance has been working well so far! - back in cragwar, THX conducts another ed talk = local history, of course. Word spread quickly that THX is an actual Judge now, and there's no shortage of disputes to resolve-- THX now has his ed talks twice a day due to level up.. one will always be needed while in town to arbitrate disputes... the other can be kept in reserve for use. (of course Ed could ignore the demands of the people, but he'll be accumulating favor in town Very Fast if he focuses on it) - tusk draws from the deck and is immediately ensnared in an angelic Prison Rune... disturbingly similar to the demon crystals where Nero and countless other cyran warlocks have been imprisoned by Kazarak the Dealer. The Hound Archon from Rogar's memories strides into the dreamscape and claims Tusk's rune. - Rogar faces the Hound Archon <a href="http://orig13.deviantart.net/00e4/f/2013/170/e/5/hound_archon_by_hologramzx-d69s6bz.png" rel="nofollow">http://orig13.deviantart.net/00e4/f/2013/170/e/5/hound_archon_by_hologramzx-d69s6bz.png</a> .. the dreamscape environment is very maleable. The Archon used the terrain to gain advantage over Rogar. Rogar started to get a feel for the concentration to modify the terrain to his favor, but the Hound Archon was far too aggressive and dangerous to ward off-- abandoning Tusk to the celestial menace, he withdrew from the dreamscape into a new day... -- Day 37 - fury dhraksis dropped off to replace Tusk. Jared now playing the half-elf paladin/ranger Dhraksis (Yay Dhraksis!) - laila and the furies head off to aruldusk for more intel on the platoon.. they spent time with LInda and the archon... one of them may know something. - team gets curious about how the wolf pack could not notice a horde of athasian undead shuffling across the desert for three days before getting into cragwood. They catch up with the Wolf Pack at The Golden Catch.... Loderr flick - human mechant sanni holder - human gal admin joe - half elf left in charge out whoring Regan - leader of the wolf pack ... it's midday and the only Wolf Pack in town are some simple admin. Loderr and Sanni quickly realize mysteious strangers are approaching them about adventure, and they are ALL ears. Turns out for the past 3 days their deep scout has been MIA Reagan took the remaining crew out into athasian desert yesterday to find their ship-- if they aren't back by night fall they are officially late. The tam convinces the admins that it's their fault there's undead roaming and need to help in resolving it asap. Lo and san are super psyched the team recruited them to go on a misssion to find the undead horde, and burn a favor from the town guard to borrow their helmed skiff to search more quickly. old man withers owns most of the land between cragwood and the salt plains. it was cheap after the first critters came roaming out to play... he and his family had NO chance of survival when the athasian horde got to their ranch villa. Pretty obvious at this point though that the undead had made it into cragwood. The wolfs drop the team off at the prison fort and return the skiff before they sour their favor with the town guard. Raskal scouts report in that there is sizable signs of movement along the southern border of Cragwood-- Raskal sends word to marketplace of potential trouble while he takes the team out to search the woodline. they find a merchant waypoint where the horde had hit.. just downt the way from where the team had baited athasian crabs just outside the forest. The team has no trouble tracking the horde to an underground hollow under the cragwood trees-- a musky sap odor mixed with earth-- the ground having been churned up recently.. soft and damp from recent rains. inside the hollow is a tunnel complex about 5 feet in diameter.. cramped but not inhibiting movement. Inside the team finds the horde huddled in the dark. Lots of violence ensues. These undead turn out to be pretty smart. they figure out how to shoot back at Rogar with one of his own ForzTek-9 sidearms. Thye responded almost like humans, but were obviously warped, and read as undead to the paladins of Fury. They certainly died easily enough. some of them escaped outside where raskal chased them down but some escaped through a crab tunnel deeper underground than any of the other tunnels they had previously collapsed. and the complex was lined with pockets of larva sacs entwined in the roots of the cragwood trees... stuffed full of scuttle crabs feasting on custard. Dhraksis favored enemy reads easily... these babies are cooked and ready to hatch out. There's maybe 100 of them? size small monstrosities. The adults that the team had encountered on the first episode 27 days ago -- there was a pile of about 30 of them torn to shreds in an alcove only partially carved out of the root-filled earth. >>> end of session day 37 late afternoon about 18 hours spent in game 1/3 to level 7 loot acquired: nothing officially loot expended: nothing spent.