I gathered some of my friends explaining that there seemed to be further problems in Kohldur, Bloodbeet, Nib, Mal and Jarock all agreed to journey to Kohldur to assist the town. Our journey was swift and without incident but once we reached Kohldur it was easy to see something was very wrong. The streets were empty and had little to no traffic for several days and Nib reported that the astral was tainted which wasn't the case the last time we visited. After knocking on some doors and stopping at the Wailing Banshee and the locals said the town was being stalked by some large beasts and everyone was staying locked in doors.
We continued on to the apothecary shop and saw it was trashed and the taint was stronger here than anywhere else in town. Jarock broken open the trapdoor we had noticed on our previous visit and then decided to fix the door after breaking it. A nice gesture. Under the town was an old small mine which had some unused carts and rails. We started to search the mines and ran into a trio of furry Fibroids with antlers on their head. Nib tried to converse with them but they just told us to leave and didn't seem interested in stepping aside so we quickly dispatched them and continued further into the mine.
We entered an intersection in the mine when Bloodbeet stopped and grasped her head. As I turned to look at her we were attacked by five Kreescra, horror constructs, who provide to be elusive creatures who quickly struck me a vicious wound. We were able to beat off their ambush by killing two of the horrors while the other 3 fled into the astral.
Once combat was resolved we heard a scream else where in the mine, we believed it to be Victor. We rush into a larger room and were presented with a frightening sight. The elven Beastmaster along with three dire wolves, a human male who we hadn't previously seen, an undead dire wolf and most disturbing a horror maw in the floor of the mine. Poor Victor was strung up above the horror maw and it seemed like the Elf and human were going to sacrifice poor Victor to it.
We weren't in much shape for jumping into another fight right away so we tried to converse with the pair. The human who we learned was named Folmar was talking with the Elf, Serethshay, indicating that Victor had somehow killed Serethshay's husband. How Victor could of managed such a feat is a mystery but Folmar had convinced Serethsay of this fact.
It quickly became apparent that Serethshay was talking to us but the human was whispering in his ear. They were planning on sacrificing Victor as punishment for killing Dashot, Serethshay's husband. Even in the remote chance that Victor has killed Dashot this wasn't justice and they had to be stopped.
We tried to deduce who or what Folmar was as it seemed like he was controlling Serethshay but we could only gather a little bit of evidence that he wasn't human but not much more than he might be hiding a tail of some kind. We tried to dispell or suppress a magic effect on Serethshay which didn't break the hold Folmar had. We also tried to reason with Serethshay that what he was doing wasn't justice and that Folmar wasn't what he appeared to be. After some back and forth Nib finally came up with the idea to let Serethshay see through his astral sight to see that Folmar wasn't human.
Once Folmar realized that he no longer had control over Folmar he taunted us before he and his undead wolf jumped into the horror maw. Once we recovered from the shock of Folmar's leap, we released Victor and tended to him. While Bloodbeet was tending to Victor, Nib was going around the room writing warnings to anyone else to stop them coming into this section of the mine while Jarock constructed a cover for the horror maw as we lacked the skills to close this hole properly.
I took this time to ask Serethshay about what was going on and who was that Folmar. He told me that he had meet Folmar several weeks ago and he wanted to help Serethshay. They also started to "help" Victor with his store and supplies. Folmar apparently wanted Victor removed so he could step in and start to take over the town.
We gathered our party together and left the mine to seek rest in the Wailing Banshee. During the night I had the most horrible of nightmares which kept me from having any kind of restful sleep. Bloodbeet and Jarock were also having similar nightmares. It appears the wounds from the Kreescra had lingering effects.
As morning approached the three remaining Kreescra attacked us from the astral once again. This time it was Bloodbeet who was grievously wounded by their attack. Luckily she had an absorb blow charm otherwise who knows how bad her injuries would of been. Even with the magic protection she was knocked unconscious and took several days to recover from the assault.
We were able to defeat the three remaining Kreescra and the town of Kohldur could relax as the immediate dangers were removed. During this investigation into what was happening to Victor and the town of Kohldur I felt a presence beside me, guiding me. When I saw how Folmar was perverting justice and using it to hide his schemes behind I felt an anger rise up. This powerful emotion was more than just my own.
Once we arrived back in Thoral I spoke with Krenyu and he said that Mynbruje had been with me on my quest and that my actions and my passion for the truth had drawn his interest. I feel like Mynbruje that the truth is important and justice can only be served by having access to all of the facts. I've deciede to join with mynbruje and become of questor.Statistics:Posted by redwraith — Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:00 pm
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