Session Date: 08/18/2024
The Party
Major asks how to help, and Dia advises that he can stay with us and help us fight his mother if he would like, or he can join Bertram and help with the riot and freeing the prisoners. Major likes the idea of free, and would like to help Bertram. Dia messages Bertram and explains that he has a new ally. A few minutes later, he messages and is absolutely astounded that the Major is the one that is joining them for help.
We all suit up in the armor and decide to try to find the mad mage who had been mimicking General Chase. Dia contacts Bertram and asks the riot to start in about ten or fifteen minutes so that we can find the mad mage.
As we head out, Bertram and the others start a commotion. We go to the library since that is where we last saw her, and Rohan calls out for the general, reporting the riot, and a thoul peeks out from the area that the workshop is. We follow on down and she asks if this was our performance, and Rohan asks if she wants an encore. She decides she likes him and will kill him last.
The mad mage monologues about how it’s stupid to try to kill her - she’s immortal - and she’s already sent some of the thouls out, if we know, and she realizes we may not know, actually. The mage wants to experiment and create, calling herself an “artist”. She ultimately asks if we’ve been visited by the Wounded Man, and Rohan says that he’s an acquaintance of ours, asking what he is to her. She says that one might recognize a kindred spirit, and Rohan mocks her ability.
Combat starts as Iskra asks if we can start fighting.
- Mad Mage
- AC: 20
- Spell DC >19
- Notable:
- Undead creature
- Immune to cold
- Resistant to vitality damage
- Thoul Grunts
- AC: ~19
- Notes
- Have opportunity attacks
- Not undead
- Regenerates unless hit by fire
Arythas finishes her off by beating the body repeatedly, but the head was still in tact. We discuss next steps and we decide to take the brain down to where the rest of the thouls are so that we can burn everything at once.
We hear from Bertram that things are going well, and the Major is coming to join us. The Major enters and his sword is broken and covered in blood, his claws and teeth are also covered in blood. He sees the body of the mad mage absolutely destroyed, and he very slowly goes to the body, clearly having complex feelings about what’s happened - Arythas had finally detached the head from the body and holding it. With the mad mage dead, he throws his sword to the ground, and then removes the uniform portion of his clothes and then goes down to where the thouls and the lab is.