Characters:
- Teslan (Paladin)
- Tristan (Rogue)
- Raoul (Rogue)
We set out from Sophia’s Rest, and immediately get lost. Eventually Raoul gets on track and we start heading in the right direction. We rest at the altar to Lady Luck and continue our journey in the morning light having trouble finding a path into the hills that are our goal, and work our way around them to the south.
We stumbled upon a abandoned graveyard that had several disturbed graves, investigating the portion that wasn’t disturbed I sensed some undead ravens who were sitting on the rundown stone fence surrounding the graveyard as they flew off to the west, more undead rose from the graves to attack the party. I think Lady Amalthea is using Ravens as spies and scouts.
My companions fell back and peppered the undead with shots from afar while I tore into them with the Corpse Slayer Greatsword. After finishing them off, we move into the hills and discover the tracks of a large humanoid creature and hear its footsteps further up into the hills, having just missed an encounter. We move closer to the river and discover a large smattering of footprints, with a set of even larger footprints than what we just came across. Definitely a horde of undead shambling. Probably the horde which re-took the fort with an Undead Giant. We set camp, and were ambushed in the night by Specters, The Stormfather protects and I turned two of them and destroyed the other two, but they were able to knock out Raoul, who was heavily wounded, I healed him as best I could, and we traveled up to the Quarry, hoping to gain a safe rest there. I spoke to the mine workers, assuring them that we were working on the undead issues and trying to raise morale. Tristan spoke with a worker and found out some more information about what undead were prowling the area. We decided instead of scouting the fort, we’d scout the Tower in the hills there. Moving down out of the quarry we found a well with water in it, Tristan crawled down into it finding a silver necklace with some emeralds which Tristan put on. We found the tower, which was flying an old tattered flag, a deep red field with a device of 5 black ravens/crows.
The tower was occupied by humanoids with a worn trail leading out to the southwest, with beast of burden tracks obvious on it. Tristan and Raoul went to sneak closer, moving up to get a better look, the tower is definitely occupied by the undead, likely those in service to Lady Amalthea. One of the undead was more armored and seemed to be intelligent and in charge. We moved south toward our original objective, the Fort, which was also occupied by undead flying the same raven banner we saw at the tower.. We didn’t see the undead giant, but we’re quite sure that there is one in her service. We’ve seen its tracks several times now.
As we traveled back home, we ran across a group of three wights on the road. Also on the way home we found a copse of trees that was full of dead bodies, save for one, who was an Artisan Farmer, whom we rescued and brought back to Sophia’s Rest
