Date: 2/18/96

Players: JC, Kathy, Chris

Characters: Rio, Dre, Raagnar

Raagnar and Dre go to the 'House of Purple Silks'.

Rio and Glow (Glowing Forest is her full name... her mom was a druid) head back to the Sacred Grove. He remains in human form and enjoys the evening laying out under the stars. Glow has also returned to human form. They talk quietly for a while. She doesn't seem like such a young girl anymore and the two watch the stars and the skies. After a while it's obvious she's fallen asleep. Then Rio does.

He wakes up abruptly. Silence and an eerie feeling. Looking over at Glow to see if she's still there he sees her still asleep and dark shambling forms in the grove. He gets up hastily and looks around. Chaos and battle... the grove is under attack by a large group of silent undead. Rio pulls out his continual light gem and grabs the Staff of the Woodlands invoking a charge to 'Animate Tree'. He wakes up Glow and tells her to keep behind him as the largest nastiest undead, a wight, advances toward them. Instead of attacking the wight, Rio instead invokes another charge on the staff animating another tree. By now the first tree has begun to attack some of the undead attacking one of the surviving druids. The wight hits Rio, draining a level. Rio again invokes the staff animating a third tree. The first two are hastily dispatching nastys. Glow attacks the wight with her dagger and hits. Rio grabs his club and attacks the wight hitting with a good solid blow.

MELEE continues. There are only four other druids left up and fighting. (Rio has now used 4 total charges on the staff)

Glow is the one that finally kills the wight. Rio goes to help the great druid. After all of the undead are killed the silence lifts. Rio immediately goes to help any who can be saved. Six of the 13 clerics have been killed. The trees are whispering that the Lord of the Undead has come to Waterdeep. It is obvious that this was a deliberate attack on the Druidic structure here. After making sure everything is OK at the grove Rio and Glow go to find Raagnar and Dre to tell them what has transpired. They are informed at the House of Purple Scarves that the two have left so Rio and Glow head for the Sleeping Mandrake. They meet Raagnar, with Dre draped unconscious over his shoulder, on the street talking with some of the city guardsman. The guards are concerned for Dre and they escort us all back to the Inn where Rio relays the account of the attack on the grove. It seems that Dre had a run in with something that literally scared her out of her wits. She says it was a demon sent by Angstrom but Raagnar didn't see anything and after Dre collapsed nothing happened.

We stay up discussing events until breakfast time. 9 days until High Harvest. Elrinith has already left so the four of us eat listening to the town criers and other news of the city. There were many undead attacks at various points of the city last night. Word also comes around that the Lords of Waterdeep will put extra guards on duty.

Shortly before noon we get a message from the Monster Shop that they have news for us so we head off in that direction. The man there tells us that the 'magebane' that killed Cherri was magically created by Angstrom, he can tell by what he calls the magical signature. He also knows of a mage who can give us rings that will protect us from the spells of an individual magic user. Since the Lords of Waterdeep are financing us at the moment we get four. One each for Dre, Raagnar, Elrin and Glow. Rio can not wear one because he already has a ring on each hand and will not remove them. He says he can have the rings ready tomorrow morning. As we are heading back to the Sleeping Mandrake we pass a crier advertising a band playing at 'The Bowels of the Earth'. Rio stops and gets directions. Raagnar has heard of the place but never been there.

We get back to the inn. Dre is a bit reluctant to move to the grove not being entirely comfortable with sleeping out where that thing could get her again. Raagnar talks her into it and we all return to the Sacred Grove for a restful afternoon. We leave word for Elrin to join us when he returns. Raagnar takes a nap while the rest of us relax .

We've several things to do before going in search of Angstrom but it seems clear now that we must go on the offensive and end his destructive bid for domination. Dre goes to the information broker and arranges for the map and defensive information on Angstrom. She returns saying that it will take two days for the map to be ready. Rio asks the Great Druid if there is anything she can do for the injury he sustained at the hands of wight. Sadly although normally she would be able to cast restoration, she can't now since like all the other clerics, she can't cast spells unless in the presence of their god.

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