[Horde] Chapter Three: Session Eighteen

Appearing Characters: Arthak Saurfang, Azgadaan, Azuka Stormbreaker, Caria Felsoul, Dal'rend Blackhand, Gul'dan, Halno, Keli'dan the Breaker, Levia Blackflight, Nyxxa, Rehgar Earthfury, Ritssyn Flamescowl, Sadras, Samaara, Selin Fireheart, Shaspira

Appearing Enemies: Water Weird

December 18th

Azgadaan messages Halno and asks him if he made any progress on the healing potions he had asked him to make, of which, Halno had made no progress. Azgadaan goes and buys some potions on Quel’danas to cover their bases at least a bit if Halno is unable to make much progress on the way over to the mainland. He also picks up a potion of speed.

Arthak swung by Runesight’s abode and handed over 400gp for the passwall spell. He then goes to meet with Shaspira, and waits for her return as she was not present upon his arrival.

Shaspira gestures for Arthak to follow her into her office as she arrives.

Shaspira cocks her head slightly to the side, and she smiles.

Shaspira nods.

She nods and dismisses him.

As he leaves, Arthak uses the sending stone to contact Gul’dan, requesting a meeting next he is on the mainland. Gul’dan informs him to seek him at Stormreaver Spire.

Arthak reconvenes with Halno, Azgadaan and Rehgar, and he also opts to bring Sadras and Azuka (though the latter is for observation, not the manor infiltration), and they board the Summerfall and begin their sail back to the mainland. Azgadaan makes a detect magic scroll on the voyage over.

Nyxxa goes to speak with Selin, accompanied by Levia.

As they approach the Stormreaver spire, it seems the Shadowsword are giving them a wide berth. Selin is inside, waiting. There are a few Shadowsword fighters training, and he is overseeing them. They see him practice a bit with the trainees, and they are unable to break through his guard, shoving the others away.

Selin dismisses the trainees as he walks over to the pair of them.

Levia looks down.

Selin leads them to a side room, which was likely Lor’themar’s office at one point. The door closes behind them.

Levia looks between the pair of them.

Nyxxa looks to Levia.

He grins, and Nyxxa smiles in return.

Nyxxa looks at Levia with an unsettling smile.

They go out to the main area to demonstrate, and it seems the training of the Shadowsword is quite rigorous. But there is a familiarity in Selin’s techniques, to Nyxxa in particular. She suspects that the techniques he uses, which are utilized by the Spellbreakers. All of them can detect or dispel magic freely, and all Spellbreakers can channel magic into the edges of their weapons which produces a slight mana burning effect. Each of their strikes can burn magical energy off anyone it hits, and they can overload the weapon with mana break to do the same thing. They can counter magic with innate abilities, and they can also steal magic abilities. She believes that the spellbreaker techniques and the techniques of the Illidari may have come from a shared source.

They stay the night in the Stormreaver Spire, and Nyxxa has dinner with Selin. They compare histories, Selin filling Nyxxa in on the history of the spellbreakers, and Nyxxa explaining that the satyrs were a “blessing” from Sargeras after the first war.

While there, Nyxxa observes a degree of traffic among the warlocks and Shadowsword. Orcs are moving supplies, like crates and barrels and equipment, and loading it onto carts outside.

She doesn’t respond to Khadgar that night.

December 19th

Caria waltzes into the Stormreaver Spire that morning as Nyxxa wanted to speak with her.

Caria thinks for a moment.

Caria thinks for a moment.

Caria departs, leaving Nyxxa and Levia, who go on a walk.

Nyxxa does a quick look around using see invisibility.

Arthak and the others also arrive, and Halno tries to raise some skeletons while Arthak goes to speak to people. He manages to get six skeletons, and two skeletal wolves.

Arthak arrives at Stormreaver Spire and sees Levia and Nyxxa hanging out there. Nyxxa flags him down, and tells him about the chance for him to train some Shadowsword elves if he was interested. He does seem intrigued by the idea.

However, Nyxxa informs him that Caria seemed more ambivalent about helping them. Namely because words of Azgadaan’s deeds had gotten back to her. Nyxxa also informs Arthak what happened with Levia, and Selin’s response.

Arthak seems proud. And he smiles when Levia attempts to say some broken orcish.

Further inside, Arthak finds Gul’dan.

He looks to the rest of the individuals.

The other orcs in the room promptly leave.

Gul’dan laughs.

Arthak gives Gul’dan a careful look.

He puts his non-gauntleted hand on Arthak’s shoulder.

Gul’dan smiles.

Arthak raises an eyebrow.

Arthak nods.

Arthak heads out.

As Azgadaan heads over to the outside of Kilnar’s manor, there is a whistle that attracts his attention. He turns and he sees Samaara step out of an alleyway.

She bows and gestures for him to follow her. She seems on edge.

They find somewhere private.

He pulls out what seems to be a plain rock. It’s actually a rock-like box. Samaara takes it and looks at it curiously then opens it and slips the shard from inside the stone.

She looks up at Azgadaan with a smile.

Azgadaan looks around and he sees no one. He hopes that Samaara would notice them if there was anyone there. He then attempts to give Samaara a hug. She tenses for a moment, but she takes a deep breath, and wraps her arms around him as well. She’s shaking a bit, but she steadies her nerves.

Samaara smiles. As she parts, she gives his hand a squeeze.

Azgadaan mouths the words in return, and Samaara turns, puts her hood up, glances back, and then disappears into the alley.

Azgadaan takes some time to ritual cast detect magic. He sees magic around him, coming from himself, coming from the magic items he carries. But there doesn’t seem to be anything else.

Azgadaan heads out to cover the rest of the distance to the prismatic wall. Halno has been outfitting his minions, and two of the skeletons are mounted on the skeletal dire wolves.

Arthak also arrives and goes to speak with Flamescowl, who is as impressed as he can be with what Arthak had managed. The other people that had been recruited are also there, including a member of the Shadowsword and Rend.

Arthak goes to talk to Rend.

He taps his eyepatch.

Dal’rend laughs.

Dal’rend laughs.

He grins.

Dal’rend nods, pats his chest with his fist, and passes by Arthak. Arthak returns to the rest of the party.

Rehgar nods.

Keli’dan nods and cracks his knuckles.

Arthak nods at the Shadowsword elf.

Levia nods, indicating she will take care of it.

The other orcs come to the same agreement.

Things then burst into action, destroying the layers one by one.

They charge in with Halno’s retinue of undead soldiers bringing up the rear around their master. Nyxxa happens to catch movement out of the side of her vision, and she sees Caria glide to the roof of the building. She disappears inside, her presence unseen except for Nyxxa.

As they enter, the group is greeted by a long and elegant hallway. It’s pristine, marble white almost as far as they can see. It’s beautiful and unmarred by the war outside. There are a number of doors off the long hallway, and the first thing they notice are small holes at the very edges of the hallway. There is the trickling of running water, and a small stream of water seems to run beneath a lip. Periodically a spout of water will leap from the miniature rivers, seemingly dancing and skipping across it.

Nyxxa uses detect magic, and everything in the mansion seems to be magical. Even the water itself, which is conjuration magic.

Azgadaan starts ritual casting a spell as he goes, and Halno sends his familiar into the first side room. It appears to be a parlor of some kind with benches and a coat rack that still has some coats on it. There are shoes still placed at various junctures, as well as a few very tall mirrors. There is also a basin of water, and they can hear the water trickling in it. There are also some books stacked in areas.

The familiar continues scouting ahead into the adjoining room while the group moves up the hallway.

In the adjoining room are several long tables with storage departments below them, and chairs strewn about. There are a few stray dice on one of the tables, and some cards--a Hearthstone card on the ground. The hand continues around and rejoins the group, before continuing into another side room.

As soon as the hand enters there is a shimmering wall of magic in the doorway, and there is the sound of birds chirping. But nothing seems to happen.

The upper tier of the room appears to be a balcony of some kind with tables and chairs, and there are a few bird feeders that are hanging. They are mostly empty, and there is a small crate that seems to have had the lid removed. There are two small birds pecking at the seed inside, and there are some books on the table. Some stairs lead down, and there are vines and plants overgrown in the lower tier in what was likely once a botanical garden.

There seems to be a sensor above the plants that is magically providing sunlight.

The hand retreats and tries to go to another room, but both the doors on either side are locked. However, the pair of doors further in are not. The first room is rather sterile-looking with a large basin and two seats. There are large mirrors, and the room appears to be a sort of bathroom.

The hand looks less decayed in the reflection in the mirrors, and the reflection can even be seen through the blindsense.

In the lower tier there are braziers and a grate in the center. There is a door that leads out to the hall that seems to be one-way only.

Across the hall, the door is locked. They give the door a once over and they see nothing of note, so Nyxxa moves in and tries to pick the lock. It takes a few moments, but then it clicks open.

She takes a look inside, and it appears to be servant’s quarters of some kind. There are beds and clothes strewn about, and some bedding is tousled. As she takes it all in, there is a sound from behind the group.

The fountain right behind Azgadaan had launched into the air, and the water shoots down and wraps itself around the skeleton riding the skeletal wolf. The water constricts and crushes the skeleton’s head, which crumples to the ground.

The water continues its fall and slips back into the fountain.

Immediately to Nyxxa’s right the same thing happens, attacking Levia. Parts of it are constricting her, trying to pull her down into the narrow stream of water. Nyxxa grabs for it, but her hand passes through water. A strange, serpentine creature made of water materializes as it’s trying to pull Levia.

Nyxxa uses see invisibility, and then strikes at the creature. Her blade cuts through the water effortlessly, and there are no visible wounds on the creature, but the blade struck true, stunning the creature. However, it is still holding onto Levia.

Nyxxa strikes again, and once more, she carves into it, doing a good deal of damage. It is forced to drop Levia, and Nyxxa nearly drops it entirely.

Azgadaan trades positions with a skeleton and swings with his maul. The creatures burbles and fades into the water. He smiles at Levia, giving her a bardic inspiration die. Levia smiles in return.

Nyxxa glances around and, due to her see invisibility, she can see the remaining water weird in the water. She points it out to Arthak.

The water weird leaps out from behind the group, and it releases a powerful spout of water at one of the skeletal wolves. It is crushed by the blast.

Several readied actions go off on the momentarily revealed water weird, including Arthak’s javelin, but many of them miss as the water weird disappears again.

Levia reaches out a hand, her eyes turning black as she uses curse of weakness on the water weird.

Nyxxa takes a few shots with her longbow, hitting the weird.

Azgadaan tries to swing at it, as does the remaining skeletal dire wolf, but their attacks miss.

The water weird leaps again and tries to constrict Nyxxa. Azgadaan swings at it as it passes, connecting. Halno also snags a chill touch on it. However, it continues to hurt Nyxxa as it tries to drag her into the three inch opening in the wall. Levia also uses her own chill touch.

Arthak then rolls in with his sword, severing the creature, and it too slumps into the water, now dead.

They take a moment to nurse their wounds after the attack, and Nyxxa opens the other door, which is also a set of living quarters it seems. There doesn’t seem to be anything particularly valuable around. It’s mostly well-made clothing. And some hearthstone decks, which he grabs.

They continue further in, finally entering the manor in full.

This page was last edited on November 22, 2020, at 09:58 PM

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