Game Log

In my cursed bronze age game we had an absentee due to scheduling and I had JB playing his warrior with cleric sidekick and bard charioteer plus Dallas with his amazon wizard and her paladin wife and bodyguard warrior. The team managed to make a non-aggression pact with the Reptilians and the Tyraneans allowing the Tyranean armies to come to the front with the Death Templars of the Grey wastes.

The heroes on chariots crossed the lands and arrived at the united war camp to meet all the factional generals. They were updated on the 4 millitary allied camps and a number of fortified towns in the area. The party decided to visit some towns to check up on the possibility of spies after some divination.

Went to first town to find 100 skeleton archers led by two skeleton warriors. Was a few tense moments until the got close enough for clerics to turn skeletons into dust. A few heroes were wounded and the konga pulling the chariots were injured but remained obedient. Skeleton warriors jumped on chariots and got closed but one turned then killed and another was repelled by an anti-undead shell spell. It climbed on the chariot yoke to attack the konga and was destroyed by magic missiles.

Arrived at the first town and saw it had skeleton guards they turned to dust. Met the lord in his palace and he explained the locals felt unsupported by the distant crown and felt they had to be prepared to get along with the death templars. Then there was a poisoning incident. They also detected some evil people. So the warrior who was poisoned at the dinner table was outraged and shouted about the wicked enemies in the town. A fight broke out and the poisoner fled while the party killed the Nergal priest and captured the lord and made the town surrender. The dead priest was questioned by clerics and they rounded up various evil cultists for a warning to not side with the death templars over the border. The priest apparently was responsible for the skeleton army. The local ruler returned to his position and apologised for the problem with his cultist relatives.  The poisoner spy was caught executed and questioned. Isn't magic wonderful? They also found texts in the Nergal temple on treating the plague menacing an allied camp and so thought that would be the next place to visit.

On way to the next town and millitary camp was attacked by a wraith and wights which were eliminated easily. Divination on remains revealed they were sent to ambush party. They visited the camp and the commander was a bit unimpressed by these adventurers with fancy diplomatic credentials and cheap fame. They reported local illness problemsThe local town was apparently miserable and in decline so they visited. The guards seemed depressed and not alert and didn't escort them through the semi-abandoned town to the lord's manor. The windows were boarded up and servants took them to the lord explaining he was sick and couldn't stand the light. He looked unhealthy and was detected as evil so they turned him. Horribly melted before all into a staggering skeleton that fell smoking to the ground and had fangs. So the palace staff were all aghast and they questioned the dead vampire thrall to learn there was one vampire and 16 thralls in the palace. The spirit was pleased its evil body was destroyed freeing all of its soul. They found a vizier in the library and fireballed it clean (lucky everybody writes on clay tablets in this setting). They went onto a shrine and killed some more thralls and entered the catacombs. Ten thralls were a bit of a problem with a girl child vamp who tried to trick the party but a cleric had detected alignment up. Most of the party was shielded by an anti-undead shell and one poor warrior lost three levels and got scared before luck turned and fireballs and spells and turning eliminated most of the vamps. The locals were grateful and given hope and a lord from the camp came and assumed command. The camp general was impressed and apologised for doubting them.

Now Lv 14 and ready to secure the borders with the Death Templars. Tyranean arrivals reported reptilians had moved troops to their part of the border and forests of the elven border in the mountains had grown closer. Soon the invasion of the death temple would begin.