Uktar 26
Uktar 26, 1369:
High = 50, Low = 30
No precipitation
Wind gusting to 39 mph from the south.
Cloudy.
The party kept tabs on the urn the next day, but the bag remained
in place.
That night, the same party members, minus Gomsha, who thought it
wasn't worth sitting behind a bush all night just to watch Henkles
get immolated, returned to their hiding places. Henkles and
Ursula hung back this time. After a long wait, their patience was
rewarded by the bag suddenly popping up out of the urn and walking
off! Steve and Narthan, who were again invisible and the only
ones close enough to see it, chased it to a tomb across the City
of the Dead, where the door closed in their face. One kept watch
while the other eventually attracted everyone else by tossing a
light button up in the air until someone saw it.
When everyone had arrived, they cautiosly entered the tomb and
found it quiet as a... never mind. They looked around and managed
to find (there's probably a word for this) the door to a
shelf/shaft in the wall for a casket that appeared sealed but
wasn't. Openning it, they found the expected 3'x8'x3'
compartment, which appeared empty except for the sack with the
chimes at the back. Someone (Stewart?) climbed in to get it and
got the reinforced bugbear skeleton to break its invisibility
spell when it attacked him. Stewart turned it and Darius killed
it with sling bullets as it crouched at the back of the
compartment.
200xp to Narthan and Steve for due caution
50xp to Darius, Denyae, Henkles, Narthan, Steve, Stewart,
Ursula and 4 members of the City Watch
for one helpless monster skeleton
Meanwhile, back at the manor, the rest of the party was attacked
by three more invisible, enhanced bugbear skeletons that broke
into Fair Winds. Dexter tried to turn them, which should have
been an automatic sucess, but was unable to do so. Cassie was
still laid up, but Dexter, Maanamere, Jan, Gomsha (wielding a very
effective frying pan), Tesla and Edison (Ursula's Hounds) and
Dexter's cave bear, were able to deal with them with only minor
injuries.
1000xp to Dexter, Maanamere, Cassie and Jan for holding down
the fort.
They returned the bag to the urn. The rest of the night was
quiet.