🗓 Session 7 – 🕯️🐺 The Aftermath

📅 Date of Session:

2025/08/24

The party enters The Lucky Leap, Voss carrying Xaniver’s broken body from the previous battle.
Ricio Tane, owner of the tavern, gathers everyone in the main hall. Patrons pay their respects to Xaniver.
In a back room, Father Solemn (tiefling priest) and two other clerics perform a ritual. Candles dim and holy symbols flare briefly, but the gods do not answer. The priests, ashamed, admit their failure: “The gods are not answering… not tonight.”
Lord Signmonder expresses his sorrow.
Laughter from another tavern hall interrupts the reverence. Signmonder asks the party to stay and help. Ricio suggests caution—hunters are likely still searching for them.

The party disguises themselves to leave. Voss notices a towering goliath, his acquaintance Eldvarr, seated among gnomes.
Voss slips him a note signed (“❤️ Vossy”) via the barmaid, directing Eldvarr to the manor.
Eldvarr follows the group as they carry Xaniver’s body through the rainy, silent streets.

The group encounters a city patrol carrying a strange magical tracking tool.
Eldvarr slips into the shadows.
Zane tries to find a way to disrupt the magical tracking but fails, and a rooftop lightning strike reveals a wereKnight pouncing on him, slashing for 5 damage.
Nelvax climbs to higher ground to scout but accidentally guides the party toward the patrol.
Harlekk distracts most of the patrol members, though not the tool wielder.
Voss studies the tool to understand how it works.
With mixed successes and failures, the challenge tips into combat as the wereKnights converge.

Voss drops his disguise and strikes the wereKnight attacking Zane.
Harlekk casts Bane, weakening three wereKnights.
Eldvarr activates his rune, sprints in, and slays a wereKnight with a heavy greatsword blow.
Nelvax snaps the neck of a wereKnight with a flurry of blows.
Harlekk follows with an eldritch blast.
Eldvarr tries to shove another wereKnight aside but fails, then swings wildly with his greatsword, missing the mark.
The wereKnights begin surrounding the party with overwhelming numbers from rooftops and alleys.
Zane flies 15 ft up and fires eldritch blasts, but the rooftop wereKnight nimbly evades them.
A wereKnight lunges at Nelvax, but he redirects the bite with his monk reflexes, avoiding the chomp.
Nelvax then finishes another wereKnight with a strike, and shadow-steps 60 ft forward.
Voss retrieves Xaniver’s body.
Harlekk summons a fog cloud for cover.
Eldvarr hoists both Voss and Xaniver and flees north.
Zane flies north towards the party, checking on Harlekk on his way.
Nelvax shadow-steps again, casting Darkness to protect Harlekk’s retreat.
The party escapes through the opened northern gates.

The group reunites with Eldvarr at the manor, sharing drinks.
Morning is spent mourning Xaniver, giving him a final farewell.
Lord Signmonder and Ricio Tane arrive with half a dozen battered knights, seeking shelter and bearing news.

“The gods are not answering… not tonight.” — Father Solemn
“❤️ Vossy” — note to Eldvarr from Voss