GoM: The Festering Blot - Turn Results 51

Ro-Mahn stabbed the newly revealed demon with his cold iron rapier. The flanking attack hit and dealt 9 damage. Stabem moved up the stairs toward Barnacleez but stopped to stay behind Cando.

Barnacleez cast Magic Missile again. The arcane bolts hit the demon and managed to overcome its spell resistance. The spell dealt 8 damage. Lady Emyralda channeled positive energy again and healed 8 damage from Ro-Mahn, Wahesh and Stabem.

Wahesh attacked the demon with his cold iron swords. The monster avoided the short sword but the longsword landed a blow. The weapon bit deeply into the worm demon’s flesh and dealt 9 damage. Wormgnash stopped laughing and collapsed to the floor. Unlike the dretches, the demon remained on the floor oozing ichor and breathing shallowly.

Cando strode forward to enter the room. As he went he kicked the body and finished off the dying demon with a blow from his axe.

The party began to search the room in earnest.

On the table, you find drawings and diagrams of some sort of portal, showing a worm-demon stepping through what looks very much like the sacrificial pit in the adjacent room. The notes—written in Abyssal—suggest that the author believed he was very close to a breakthrough that would have ripped a tiny interdimensional hole here that would have allowed several of his vermlek brethren to join him on the Material Plane. You also find a rough map of Saringallow with arrows and drawings of mites scribbled on it. It indicates that the fiendish fey were soon to attack the town in order to obtain bodies for the vermleks to inhabit.

There are six cabinets in the room, each full of documents. The shelves are neatly labeled, and you easily find the missing records in the cabinet in the northeast corner of the room.

As you gather the documents, tremors start to ripple through the basement and the house begins to crumble. You make a mad dash to escape and manage to retreat outside after a few tense rounds with only a few bumps and bruises.

Returning to Saringallow, Mayor Trinelli congratulates you for your bravery and resourcefulness and pays you for the records, as agreed. When the mayor issues a report about the your findings, people start lining up in front the town hall, curious to know what happened to their kin so long ago. Over the next several days, you meet with the grateful people whose families are mentioned in the records. Many tearful townspeople also seek you out to meet and thank you.

This concludes The Gallows of Madness.