Session Report #6

How did I miss an update?

The PCs continued in Languedoc. After failing to expel the devil from the old woman during an exorcism, the PCs dispatched her, burnt her body, and burnt her house to cleanse the evil from the area.

When they went to check on the old man, who was also in league with the devil (or Lord Rocard) they found he has escaped. They decided to set out in the morning to get help from the church in the town a week out. 

That night, they heard the strange, out-of-tune organ and sensed that it was drawing nearer. Initially barricading themselves in their meager cottage as the sounds entered the village, the knave and knight changed their minds and ventured out into the darkness to face whatever they may find. 

The knight encountered it first, a dark form of shifting eyes and mouths that piped tunelessly (resolve damage occurred). He engaged it and found it was more than a match for him. The knave assisted, only to see the knight’s head bitten off by the horrible creature. Though he fought bravely, the knave was swallowed whole by the creature. One of the alchemists stayed behind to give the other alchemist time to escape, and he, too, met an untimely end. 

The PCs woke in a strange, white room without windows or source of light. A strange man dressed in green was speaking English, which 2 PCs had picked up in their travels. He asked them their names, and seemed disappointed by their answers. He asked them to count to 10, and when they did in French, he asked them to do it again in English. 

A woman in blue came into the room and asked for an update. She seemed hard and irate. She only got more irate when she was told the PCs needed time to recover. Time was a luxury they didn’t have, she told him. If they didn’t have anything to report, he was to send them back. 

This didn’t sit well with the PCs, who became much more willing to answer questions. 

We stopped there.