Battlefield Bangkok

Witchfire – In search of Dutious

Things started well for the party as they delved into the sunken chapel, First Kovul slipped and plummeted 30′, and 3 minutes later Solomn joing him with a 40′ fall… after seeing the fun, Pytor elected to take off his armor first before heading down the rope.

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Once safely down in the dark damp chapel the party began to explore the small area. Entering the main sanctuary they were disturbed to find the body of a prelate slumped over the altar, dead hundreds of years but fresh bood still pooling at his feet, and the stone relief carved into the wall of the chapel, split in half by a shift in the Earth that led to water dripping from a crack behind the eyes of Morrow, making him appear to be crying. Searching the dead prelate , a tarnished holy symbol in the corpses hand didn’t tempt any of the party to take it. Though they did bag the bodies scepter of office.

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Milskrat manged to find the concealed hole in the floor and was plucked from a plummet into newly discovered flooded lower level of the chapel.

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At this time the haggled figure of Renfrow made himself known, claiming to have been trapped  in the chapel for 10…15…20 years, living off errm fish. The more the party talked to him the less they started to trust him, and his imaginery friend Cappus, until Kovul (with an apptitude born of beating the crap out of people who are unaware) took a swipe at the back of Renfrows head with his fist, a love tap it may have been, but combat broke out and before Renfrow could make good his escape he took an axe to the back of his head. Not enough to floor him though and he scrambled and tumbled out of the sanctuary.

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The party gave chase and ran into Cappus, a ghastly howl sent everyone but Kovul running in fear, and Kovul soon decided to join them, being on his own against some form of incorporeal creature didn’t appeal to his sense of “self perservation”.

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And so a game of cat and mouse began between Cappus, Renfrow and the party as they scrambled the chapel trying to catch each other. Renfrow thought he had Solumn cold, fired his gun missed horribly and then got nailed by a Hold Person from Kovul. Next round he suffered an axe to the head and that was end of his fish eating days.

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Cappus though proved to be a far harder target to track down, never mind hit, materiliazing to ambush the party, flooding the area with Darkness and using his howl (to gradual lesser effect) he  managed to avoid being nailed too badly  though Kovul did give him one “kinda” solid whack.

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In a moment of inspiration Solomn told Gob to hold up the tarnished holy symbol (still attached to the dead priests arm)  and he put a bullet through it, yes the curse was lifted, the creature bannished… no, but it was an interesting idea.  A while later Cappus stopped appearing and the party were left undisturbed for long enough for them to pluck up enough courage to search the rest of the top level of the chapel. In doing so they dug up some interesting religous artifacts and Renfrow’s collection of “fish”!