Session 16 Tnin and Vrae SPLIT Session

FIELDS OF FRITH

• T'nin chaes Vrae for around 4 hours, after a few she transforms back into herself and he continues to chase her running
• They stop and speak, and decide to eat and make camp, she convinces him to keep going with her
• Know they need to rest because after night of running they are exhausted
• Realize they left most of their stuff behind

• They long rest (finish the previous one) an additional 4 hours, waking up around 9:30am
• Wake up to find rats over the rabbit they ate that morning, T'nin kills them and keeps them for food for later
• They run through the day, knowing they'll be exhausted the next day.
• Run south along the cliff for about 14-15 hours, ignoring everything else
• Vrae has a sense of the location being lower in the cliffs, they prepare to descend off the edge, and find an ancient, almost hidden pathway

• After passing 2 statues, sentinels of the entrances, they find themselves in a series of tunnels (Dungeon!), the first guardian being a Stone Hammer-Handed Golem, who asks if they were sent by the Queen
• Vrae tries to lie and say they are friends of the Queen and the Golem moves to attack them, saying the Queen has no friends, only Worshippers
• They flee down the tunnel and run into a Flameskull, battle ensues
• They take out two flameskulls, and convince the Golem they were sent by the Queen, especially after Vrae goes into her Hybrid form and realizes the Golem is referring to the Raven Queen
• T'nin and Vrae deduce the necromantic magics of the flameskulls will bring them back to life unless they put Holy Water on them, they explore and find a pile of poles and some treasure, and a map room
• The Map Room has a giant Ancient Map of Terus, with a dotted path going from a Winda (Marked Lord C.) to the Caves
• They find a Cloak of Billowing and some Holy Water, which they use to destroy the Flame Skulls
• Further on, they come across Animated Ballista but Vrae flies out of their line of site and moves them to point at the wall, removing the threat (T'nin tossed his cloak forward first to see how they shot)

• Eventually find MAGE LAB, where they loot Thessaltoxin, a vial of Green Liquid, and the Butchers Bib
• T'nin almost turns into a rat trying to reseal the Thessaltoxin vial
• They then find a large chamber with a big Artificing Machine powering a shaft of sunlight on a small, 3 or 4 foot coffin
• In the center of the active machine is the amulet Vrae saw in her vision
• There is a warning against touching the machine or removing the Amulet, which Vrae decides to ignore. T'nin tells her to leave it and says he is going, starting to run away knowing she is going to pull it anyway.
• Vrae grabs for it, setting off the trap and is almost hit by lightning thrown by the machine, which she deftly dodges
• She then grabs the amulet, which breaks the machine, and ends the shaft of sunlight. The coffin opens as black smoke billows out from the machine, and Vrae turns to run, hearing the sounds of batlike wings chasing her. 
• She catches up with T'nin and they flee the tunnels, hearing the creature behind them, but it is slower than them
• They reach the first chamber where the Golem is nervously waiting, ushering them to flee as he starts hammering at the rock walls, causing  a cave-in
• They make it out just as the tunnels collapse, destroying the Golem and hopefully sealing in whatever the creature was
• (As they keep running and do not look back, they do not see the Vampiric Mist escape the cave-in)

• Optional here to match the rest of the group
• They either run back all night (2 points of exhaustion) or long rest, or find the other group fairly quickly after leaving the tunnels