D&D Campaign: The seal of Akatiel: 3rd April 2011. (Pt 2.)

The party moved fast. Cassie informed them that they need to make their way to the Well of Dragons and find the Black Dragon lair there and retrieve the Golden Dragon Orb.

The party ask Cassie to fetch Ceinwen's coach from Velgoth, where they were before they teleported to Willow, whilst they headed across the isle to the port town to the north where they have a reclaimed Battleship in dock. They set sail for Waterdeep, anchor their ship and head out the SouthEast gate, onto the Sword Coast Highway, where they meet up with the Black Coach that Cassie delivered. The coach is essential for this leg of the journey as it protects Ceinwen from the harsh daylight. Her amulet works well enough but only for short periods of time, and the journey to the Well could take several days.

The party proceed with their travels, and after a couple of hours come across a hamlet called WatersDale. Out of sheer boredom they decide to have a little fun...

Watersdale - A hamlet near Waterdeep, on the Sword Coast Highway.

The party pull up outside the inn in the center of town and head in... Inside there is 3 guys and a young girl, and two people behind the bar. A man and a woman tend the bar. The young girl takes one look at the disguised Ceinwen and tries to get her dad to leave, and runs off when he waves her off. She runs out the door, followed subtly by Joe...

Evictus, Egan and Dreinell walk up to the bar and ask for the strongest drink, which the barkeep introduces as "Waterdavian Death Brew" - a 91% alcohol beverage. Virtually poison, and highly flammable, if you can get an ignition source to it before it evaporates. Ceinwen asks him what he has to eat, and convinces him to take her through to the kitchen... where she feasts. On him.

Evictus, Egan and Dreinell take their first taste of the drink. Evictus enjoys, feeling slightly intoxicated within moments, Egan only managed to hold it down for a few seconds before throwing up all over the barmaid, and Dreinell drinks it unaffected. Evictus jokingly holds a lit tindertwig to Dreinells lips when he takes another swig, and the fumes ignite. Dreinell spits the drink out which goes all over the bar-maid, setting her hair on fire. She runs into the kitchen and dives head first into the sink, with a loud splash and hiss. She sits there sobbing with her face in the sink whilst the others laugh. Watching from the other side of the kitchen, Ceinwen has the owner entwined in her arms, draining him off blood...
The 3 guys in the bar look a little uneasy at the show that is going on, or the fact the bar is now on fire. One of them stands up to protest as Evictus draws his sword and cuts him cleanly in two, embedding his blade in the wall.
The other two guys jump onto Dreinell and Egan, who after a moments struggling, kill them with Phantasmal Killers.

A few houses away Joe sneaks into the window of  the living room where the little girl is sitting with a dolly in front of the fire, shaking, whilst her mother sits nearbye in a chair... Joe slips his blade through the back of her chair, killing her instantly as the blade passes through the back of her spine and up into her skull. He then cleaves a gouge out her chest showering the little girl in blood - who just sits there in horror. Joe suggestively whispers "They come in the night"... as he slips out the door, concealed by the shadows. The little girl looses it and starts wandering about muttering "they come in the night, they come in the night..."

Dreinell wanders outside into the square and sits on the bench as the rest of the party start going Door to door and wiping out the town, and driving any children they discover completely insane. By the time they finish, Evictus has pushed over a building, and sniped half a family down with his new bow, Dreinell has cloud killed a family that Ceinwen sent on a wander with a hypnotic light spell, Joe had killed 3 families then stumbled upon a sickly looking abandoned puppy, and killed a mage. They leave the town with a statue of themselves and half a dozen insane children, who are walking around coated in blood and muttering incoherently.

They proceed to do this to another 4 villages on their travel along the sword coast - hoping to create rumors of "The Sword coast massacre" - even if they have to spread them themselves!

When they get to Triel, they leave the path, and head directly east looking for a river that drains down from the mountains by the Well of Dragons. When they reach the river they get ambushed by a Large Dragon-like creature, but quickly slay it, and stop for a rest.

>>End of session<<