Legacy
Part 7 – More Secrets Revealed
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Day 3 and Gathering the Clues
When the party finishes up in the naga lair, they may believe that their task has been completed, but they will soon find out that they are not done.
- The members of Night Stalkers wish to return their dead back to Blackcross
- The nagas take special care not to damage Selarea, with one of them admonishing “No harming the changeling, she wants her alive”
- The priests may try raising the dead but will not be able to due to the Soulgems
- A Talking Corpse spell may be more helpful (if used, the dead remember how they died – by others hands or the nagas and that there was a strange human woman watching eagerly nearby).
- If the party learns or guesses that someone may come back again this evening, they could meet one of the hags, Ishdor who will use Translocate to flee and warn her sisters
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When the group got back to Blackcross for the end of the 2nd day of adventuring, they brought a lot of news with them including the deaths of one of their competing groups and the capture of another powerful group. The captured group, Night Stalkers have decided that they would need to recover and regroup before they would attempt any more incursions. However, they also feel that the competition is probably at a close since the cache of items found in the underground Death Knight’s tower is pretty complete. A couple of the other groups have decided to head there the last day to try to find any missed opportunities or hidden areas.
Depending on how public they have made knowledge of the mysterious blonde woman who was casting spells on the captured adventurers and may have been spotted in town recently, the party may be mostly on their own, or have a contingent of ‘helpers’ to get in trouble. If they decide to look for the blond woman the next day in Blackcross, they will need to search the area thoroughly Many people wear warm hoods and heads are not easily seen. However, with a DC26 Dipl roll, they could get some clues or 2 DC26 Per rolls may find someone matching the description. As a matter of fact, they will find someone in the market that matches the description – almost no one knows strangers by name for the most part but it will be the wrong person. Depending on how they handle the encounter, they may frighten the wrong lady and cause her to flee (in which case the real Ishdor sees this and decides to leave) or they do find out and need to keep searching. If they do spot her near the garden, she will turn a corner ahead and disappear with the Ddoor spell.
The Final Dream
Selarea will receive another vivid dream (from her patron?) that night where she is walking upon wet ground in a dusky fog. She has her companions with her, but they each fall one by one to different dangers – a poisoned-thorn plant, falling into quicksand, choking on animated vines etc. but when the same vines try to wrap themselves around her legs and neck, they recoil and cannot seem to touch her as if she is protected or bane to them.
At the end of the dream, an attractive matronly woman implores “come back child, we are waiting for your return”
With a DC20 Society check, anyone can identify the scene from the description as a swamp.