Callbacks

15 March 2010-

After recuperating for a few weeks at the now-saved city, a long-delayed letter arrived for Brian's bard to invite him to participate in a theatrical production written by one of his former colleagues. The village where she resided was only a few days away, so we packed up our gear and headed out, even though we figured the offer might no longer be available.

We arrived at the village to see that it had been attacked by something, and no sign of the former inhabitants was immediately apparent except for the splashes of blood all over the walls. We advanced cautiously into the village square, and discovered a yellow symbol on the wall to the general store that we'd seen before in Freeport- a sign of an ancient and evil god of madness and chaos. Of course, it was then that things went from bad to worse.

Weirdly-altered humans emerged from the buildings and lurched and slithered toward us. They had been radically changed, with tentacles instead of heads, and translucent, boneless bodies. They were accompanied by large white worms with tentacles of their own, and they were soon on us. We let them have it with stone missiles and fireballs and missile weapons, but they kept coming, and one of them took down Schmitty's fighter by enveloping his head and chewing his face off. Kevin's fire-mage got his leg bitten off by a worm, and we were hard-pressed for a while before we managed to fend off the baddies. Finally, we dropped the last of them, and now we'll have to heal and assess the situation.