Summary Session 8

The group wake up in the ghoul-making alcoves, infected with ghoul fever but manage to escape the caves of the mother.  They return to the cannibal village where the paladin can barely wait to consider alternatives before slaughtering the helpless, bound captive women.  Szriel starts to clean up the village, his motives becoming clearer when he dumps all human remains (including the jerky) into a hut and burns the house down.  His excuse - somewhere for the NPCs to move their camp to.

The group return to the dryad for a little minor restoration, stay three days and head off to collect the tengu and check on the NPCs before returning to the cave of the mother.  They come accross a series of minor traps similar to those face previously and a new type, one that would apparently be manned normally, but in the absence of living cannibals is effectively the same as all the others.

The NPCs are pretty much all OK, and Szriel becomes limerent for Sasha the ex-assassin when she lends him a kukri.

The party rest with the NPCs, and in the morning see lightning shooting up into the sky from the direction of Red Mountain, accompanied by rolling thunder.  The thunder repeats a few hours later, but the lightning doesn't.

The party then head back to the cannibal village around the coast, finding a semi-ruined hut containing a scrap of paper detailing the history of the cannibals along the way.  They return to the village and notice the witch's hut, which was somewhat concealed by jungle.  They loot and spend most of the rest  of the day continuing to clean the village.

They then sneak into the caves of the Mother where a long, slow fight with the ghoul in the dark occurs, and after a while the ghoul becomes bored and leaves the area.  The party is able to retrieve the weapons they woke without.

The group sleep in the lighthouse without incident and proceed to head around the coast towards Red Mountain.  They find another empty shipwreck and a giant crab which has the paladin's measure, until flanked by Szriel and Ron and smashed.  The group see a cluster of stone monoliths as the session ends.

xp		Dorian	Szraiel	Helga	Ron	Titus
Start		7461	7711	7411	7811	7711
RP - Escape		240	240	240	240	240
Traps		320	320	320	320	320
Mother Thrunefang		120	120	120	120	120
Giant Crab		120	120	120	120	120
RP - Journal		0	0	150	0	0
Total		8261	8511	8361	8611	8511