2024-04-10 – Empire of the Ghouls

Characters

  • Bruno (PP 15) – There is a ritual taking place in here far beyond what other cults typically do. And it's called something.
  • Durrim (PP 20) – Donovan Wintersborne was once a noble traveler of the Cantons and the North lost in the wars with the vampires of Krakova. Now he's here as a ghoul – lost.
  • HB (PP 18) – The voice of Ix has stopped for now. Something else stands in the way.
  • Wynasia (PP 11) – There is an evil growing here, something legendary and awful – worse than the Shoggoth. Worse than the Emperor or the Duke or the coming of the Darakhul.

Strong Start

The Antechamber of King Tragus – The Storm in the Dark

Scenes

  • Traveling through the Bone Cathedral
  • Goal – reach the upper chambers of the Cathedral and avoid alerting the Dread Feast – the fifth legion.

Secrets and Clues

  • Hundreds of starving ghouls were amassed beneath the Bone Cathedral.
  • High Priest Radomir Marrowblight plans to sacrifice Archduke Avghost and use his royal blood to make an army of darakhul swordsmen.
  • Smiling Margarette is fanatically loyal the Duke Radomir Marrowblight. Her Fifth Legion of Darakul, known as the Dread Feast, guard the ceremony.
  • High Priest Radomir Marrowblight has conscripted a masked wight to serve him in the temple. It's hideously powerful and dangerous.
  • High Priest Radomir has sealed the vault with death magic that turns both living and dead into dust.
  • Ixian ghouls have begun attacking other ghouls in Vandekhul.
  • The emperor still waits behind his walls of soldiers – the Crimson Blades and Armor of Titans.
  • The Dread Feast hates the Crimson Blades and Armor of Titans. They are fanatically loyal to Smiling Margaritte who is loyal to the duke.
  • King Tragus was one of the first lords of the ghouls, one of the few touched by intelligence who build armies of undead to dominate the underworld.
  • Intelligence came to darakhuls through noble blood – the processing and devouring of noble and holy blood.

Notable NPCs

  • Lost Lebura – goblin beggar ghoul lost in the catacombs of the Bone Cathedral.
  • Caretaker Donovan Winter's Born – Conscripted dwarven barbarian ghoul caretaker of the North.
  • King Tragus – The Scourge in the Dark

Monsters (LBM 14)

  • Bone Guardians – CR 8 AC/DC 15 HP 136 Atk/Prof +7 DPR 53 Atks 3 × 1d6 + 15
  • Darakhul patrol – CR 5 AC/DC 15 HP 95 Atk/Prof +7 DPR 35 Atks 3 × 1d6 + 9
  • Caretakers – CR 1 AC/DC 12 HP 33 Atk/Prof +5 DPR 12 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 3
  • Bonepowder Golem (TOB 201)
  • Necrohydra (TOB 283)
  • Tomb Guardians CR 6 AC/DC 15 HP 112 Atk/Prof +7 DPR 41 Atks 3 × 1d6 + 11
  • Masked Wight (TOB 264)

Treasure

  • 15,045 gp, 1,900 pp (34,045gp), 1 x 5,000 gp jacinth, Potion of Diminution, Potion of Diminution, Spell Scroll (8th-level, Feeblemind), Staff of Thunder and Lightning
  • 9,940 gp, 2,134 pp (31,280gp), 2,500 gp unholy yellow sapphire earrings , 2,500 gp ghoulish yellow sapphire earrings , 2,500 gp, prehistoric ceremonial gold-etched full plate armor of Thunder. Cast Thunder Wave as a reaction to being hit or missed from a creature within 5 feet 4d8 damage. , 2 x 1,000 gp sapphire,