Session #16: The Trapped Bedroom

This ended up being a very short session as we started late and had to end early.

After taking their extended rest, the party woke up to find that Malthus was no longer suffering the effects of the zombie plague. They headed upstairs and checked out the next room down from the storage room they ended on last session. They could hear a conversation in this room, but the room's lock proved to foil any attempts they made to open it, as it was white-hot to the touch and melted the lockpick Pieter tried to use on it. They decided to continue exploring.

Reaching the end of the hall, they heard noise behind them, and a voice cried out to begin searching for intruders. They scrambled to a nearby door, finding it locked - they managed to unlock it, and got themselves inside quickly. They found a rather lavish single-person bedroom, clearly the quarters of some important person. On the desk, they found a diary - as soon as they opened it, the many traps in the room sprung to life. The diary made an attack against the party, but missed; the desk turned into an object mimic; and the armoire in the room flung open, releasing a trio of ravenous ghouls.

This encounter lasted the majority of the session, and the party found themselves tested. The ghouls hit hard, and the object mimic tied up Ilivarra for the duration of the encounter, eventually sending her into negative hit points. The party managed to take the ghouls down one-by-one, however, and eventually defeated the object mimic shortly after it knocked Ilivarra out. They recovered, but the encounter took a hefty toll in healing surges.

After resting, the party decided to explore the adjacent room, having discerned that this was the trapped bedroom that Halpern had warned them about earlier. Immediately upon opening the door, however, they were cornered by a number of wights, and Thomnall was struck with a grave bolt which left him stuck in the doorway. We stopped here for the night.

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