Session 32: The Lighthouse of Drac Report

General Summary

The party realizing they are now wanted, disguise themselves to purchase some basic supplies they will need plus a new rowboat before their trip across the harbor later that night to infiltrate Milton's Folly. Ganbold also manages to slip across town unseen towards the Temple District and manages to remove the curse that was placed upon him by the Sword of Sorrows.   The party gathers later that evening as the sun has set, with the new moon in the sky their approach is still difficult but quite easily they are able to slip past. As they approach the lighthouse they realize everything is quiet. No guards, no party guests, no nothing. They approach the lighthouse itself and find the four doors barred shut. Climbing through the top window they find Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign guards below them. They are able to slip in and surprise the guards. Ending their lives they begin to make their way up the tower. The next floor they find themselves face to face with a priest and a bunch of acolytes. The party has little difficulty dispatching these Yellow Sign cultists. Searching the floor they find 2 rooms, each with statues. The statues have on them levers that open a hidden door, behind another set of hidden doors.   Finding a new set of staircases beyond the party climbs them to find a trap door. As they head through the trap door they are assaulted by a creature known as a Gibbering Horror. An aberration of some fame for being a very deadly foe. The party quickly discovers this as it attempts to eat Hanz. Hanz is almost digested before Diala throws a Fireball at it. Defeating the strange mass of flesh. The party spends time drinking potions, healing up, and searching the room. They find a hidden set of stairs and another trapdoor that leads further up. The party heads through and finds a large area that has a spiral staircase that heads up 90 ft. Above them Milton Drac, NTal and multiple Yellow Sign Guards. Milton orders NTal to kill the intruders. Something NTal relishes and even almost succeeds in the end. With Milton heading to the top of the tower to complete the ritual NTal starts launching powerful magic on the party. The party barely manages to escape with their lives. Ganbold however manages to shoot the Snake Person out of the sky as he plummets 100 ft. into the ground below. Killing him.   The party climbs the stairs, while chugging potions trying to heal their fresh battle wounds. They find one final trap door, easily broken open by Rothgar and through it Milton Drac and his cronies. Here the lighthouse is being fueled by a yellow crystal. Milton and his underlings attack the party. A many month confrontation finally reaches the climax. The party has difficulties with Drac. He proves to be a very powerful spellcaster able to stay one step ahead of the party. However Hanz eventually removes the yellow crystal, shattering the glass of the lighthouse. He places the Jade Serpent of Yuan and with it a green light bathes over Freeport. This light kills all those who worship the Yellow Sign, leaving only their equipment behind. With the light of Yuan fading so does the Jade Serpent.   The party however is now in a difficult position. They are still wanted by the authorities of Freeport. And with no evidence or support to back the claim of false charges. (That evidence was probably destroyed with Drac himself) the party's best course of action is to leave Freeport for now. Rothgar however is in need of help. He is located within Cloudbreach and needs help rescuing his friends who have been captured by a bounty hunting crew named the Raiders of the Stout. These bounty hunters are mostly likely after the bounty placed on all Dragonborn by the Vimor Empire.   The group quickly slips out of the Lighthouse and returns to The Rancor. Here they spend the night recovering and at first light they make haste towards the open sea, in hopes they are not discovered by the authorities.