Session 8

Elle
Our training continued but the Arch mage travelled to and from the palace often and was obviously concerned about matters at home and abroad. Our army overseas was unable to manage an ordered retreat and is retreating in disarray; they are also being attacked by unusually powerful elemental magic. Not being able to do anything about that, we decided to go looking for Daniel and Travis decided to try out his new powers to help us find the creature of many eyes. After Osmund coloured in Travis’ face, watching his body got pretty boring, so we decided to go looking ourselves.

We descended into the sewers through a grate and travelled for a time before we were attacked by possessed rats, we tried to jump out of their reach so I could use magic on them, but I lost my grip and fell into the mob, Osmund was very heroic and jumped down to help me. A mob of birds also approached us but seemed to be following something we couldn't see, we were too busy trying to heal and survive that we didn't think much on it. We later heard tales of huge numbers of birds swarming in the city streets.

We continue on, except this time we were better prepared with magical armour that I thought would be enough to protect us from the rats, Holt also floated me above ground. We discovered the creature in an old style cavern, it looked like some kind of plant, made up of ugly looking petals. Osmund charged across the room and laid into it, he did huge amounts of damage to it, but before the creature could be finished off, the creature managed to grab him in its vines and ripped Osmund in twain. I sent wave after wave of lightning against the creature, but Holt was still being overwhelmed by the swarming rats, eventually I managed to destroy the root of the creature with Holt’s help, but not before the damage to Holts legs was irreparable.

The loss of Osumnd’s was compounded when we returned to the college and discovered the Travis never came back to his body. I wonder if they both exist somewhere, wandering in another realm. I will return Travis’ sword to his father if I ever get the chance and am going to kill the bane hound even if I have to do it by myself.