This week, as we can probably tell by now is about the accidental breaking of vows, unknowingly healing where healing is seen as an affront to their lords wishes. However as something stalks the streets of the village they will need to make a decision. Pursue their witch hunt or protect their flock.
So let’s grab a coffee, grab our torches and rush into tonight’s adventure!
The Cornered
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As the rumours circulated around the high priest being the one who broke the orders rules the gathering crowd of clerics of Kelemvor muttered nervously. The High Priest was still dressed in his evening robes as stood in front of the other clerics and, shakily, addressed them.
The clerics were all in their robes but many were still waking up as it had not been long since the party had discovered the high priest in the hall casting magic. A heartbeat later he had been seen by three other clerics who were on their way to retiring for the night.
“My brothers and sisters. As you may have heard the culprit for healing within our halls, preventing the worthy souls to be judged by our lord Kelemvor has been found. Unwillingly so or not, with knowledge of what I was doing our creed, our doctrine has been broken and there is but one punishment. Excommunication and execution.” he looked them all in the eyes before he turned his eyes to the door of the church.
There was a growing volume of noise coming from the village. As the room looked towards the sound of the noise the large barred door shook as someone pounded on the door. “Help! Monsters!”.
The party raced out of the church in time to see one of the same creatures that attacked them sink its teeth into one of the villagers and drag them between two houses. Except there was more than one and several villagers were twitching and frothing on the ground nearby with the same gruesome bite that their companion had been inflicted with.
The Clerics rushed forth with the party to meet the creatures on the streets. The creatures shied away from the clerics when confronted outright before circling back to attack when their guard was lowered. The fight was gruesome with casualties on both sides however as the silence of the aftermath was replaced by the quiet sobs of the survivors, and the twitching and whining of those afflicted by the bite the full scale of the attack was revealed.
More than half the cities villagers were bitten, a dozen of the clerics joined their number and all of them were fighting back the magical curse that the creatures bites induced.
The decision had to be made, heal them now or wait and see what would happen to these people. Many looked like they would not survive the night from their wounds alone and the clerics looked to the high priest Matihas to make a decision.”
Thanks for joining me for another night where I changed the direction tonight. Deciding that I wanted to explore these creatures some more in this adventure I wanted to change it from being a relatively straight forward “who dunnit” to something where a decision needed to be made, a test of morality. As normal the week is not done quite yet and I will continue to update this adventure over the next few days. So don’t forget to come back each day this week and, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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