Dark Paths and Wandered Roads: Mysteries of Mystara 004T

Talyn's first person account of the events of Session #4 of the Mysteries of Mystara GURPS campaign.

Mysteries of Mystara
Session 004T

From Talyn's Point of View

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Duck, Duck, Goose

After burying the bones in the old cemetery and on the advice of Red we decided to return to the tower and search for the bones of the Lady of the tower. On our way back we heard some geese. Feeling like this is a weird place for some geese, we proceeded to track them down. When we located them they were in a clearing and seemed like they were going to attack. They were very agitated with their wings out.

Lucky started playing a tune for some reason and seemed to make some new friends as they all surrounded him. Meanwhile Malachai started talking to them and discovered that they were polymorphed soldiers from up north. Both Lucky and Red examined them for magic, Red even tried to dispel the magic on them and discovered that it was fairy magic. We briefly discussed helping these guys out, but I quickly talked the group back onto task.

Once back at the tower we searched the base hoping that the Lady had thrown herself off of the building and we could find her bones at the bottom. Sadly we did not locate them there. After talking about it a bit we decided to climb up to the very top where we discovered the vultures nest and attempted to search it. The Death Vulture then came back to the open top of the tower and proceeded to attack by vomiting up a noxious cloud of fumes and, well, vomit. Malachai did some magic and managed to put the vulture to sleep. At which point, Cass, Lev and I killed the sleeping vulture.

I then resumed searching the vulture's nest, it was disgusting and I almost threw up, but serving Brother Beecher stood me in good stead. (Brother Beecher had the worst body odor of any monk ever. You would think a librarian would bathe more often.) Finding some minor trinkets: gold coins, a tiny figurine of a weasel, what looks like an old dinner invitation, and an iridescent scale, etc..., but no bones or anything useful we had a brief discussion and then proceeded to search the basement.

Returning to the prison we Lucky opened one of the doors and out came a greater shadow. After fighting it for a bit it started monologuing and eventually told us it was the lord of this place. After we defeated it we then opened the other door and encountered another shadow which we quickly dispatched. After defeating it we gathered up some bones that had a white flower crown.

Red then suggested that we needed to gather the lords bones and that lead us back to the cistern room. I finally had enough with searching through crap and really did not want to get into that water. After several people tried to convince me that because of my ability to glow I should be the one, but I was having none of that. Cass eventually volunteered to search the cistern. She managed to find a bunch of bones and we gathered them up.

Unfortunately when we came out of the tower the ghosts of two kids were waiting for us and started to menace us. We decided to run away, but Panya was exhausted and moving slowly which allowed them to catch up and attack her. One of them grabbed on to Panya and was holding on for all she was worth. Panya then told us that they just wanted us to take them to their graves. So, I decided to grab the other one and we carried them to their graves. The little buggers were nasty about it, pinching, hair pulling, and really wrapping themselves around us all the while urging us faster and faster. As we got really close Panya and I started sinking into the earth and a weird fight started. The ghosts kept trying to get us to get in their graves by jumping on us, obviously we would have been dragged into the underworld if we did as they said.

Lucky had a great idea and that was to get the bones of the mother and father out and have Malachai bury them. This seemed to finally weaken the ghosts and send them on their way.

In the morning we decided to go talk to some Fey about the geese. After searching the forest for a bit we encountered Ruanoc and his tribe of pixies. Apparently the soldiers stomped all over a fairy ring, like a bunch of idiots. Malachai went on to repair the fairy ring a bit, and we managed to talk to them. They agreed to turn the soldiers back into humans, if we helped them with a problem. It seems a strange plant creature has been tearing up the forest and attacking everything in it. Should be a simple hunting mission easy enough.

Session Notes

This is an In Character report from our most recent session. Talyn is a young and naïve Celestial that has recently escaped from the Cult of Vanya. He was being trained as a holy avenger but chaffed under the strict training and dogma. Now out wandering the world, the young, glowing warrior tries to fit in with a strange and eclectic group of companions, but has no real skill to do so. I award bonus CP to players for doing these write-ups!