Session #17: Haughty Eladrin & Ominous Hounds

Our Saturday session did not have Sal present, but since we are unlikely to get the chance to do a makeup next week, we went ahead and played it.

The session started off right away with the encounter against the wights. This encounter did not prove to be particularly difficult in terms of the damage output, but the fact that the wights took healing surges from the characters every time their attacks hit may become a serious problem later on. The situation was alleviated by the arrival of an eladrin in dark plate armor who began cutting through the wights. Before long, the wights were defeated.

The party then met the eladrin, a blackguard by the name of Elaureth. He was highly condescending toward the drow in the party, and somewhat condescending to the party themselves, referring to them as "rabble" at one point. Malthus & Ilivarra have developed a healthy & righteous dislike for Elaureth, but Pieter managed to maintain cooperation for the time being. The party, now with Elaureth in tow, headed to the next room over and found the key to the office they could not enter before. Before entering that office, however, they decided to explore the rooms in the eastern wing. There, they were met by a number of dread protectors, and a pair of spectral hounds known as hounds of ill omen.

This encounter proved much more difficult, though the party did manage to attain a strategic advantage by using the stairs. During the encounter, Nirreh was cursed by the howl of one of the hounds of ill omen; this curse has the effect of causing Nirreh to take 3 psychic damage every time she makes an attack which does not hit any target. This did not come into play during this encounter, however.

After defeating the hounds and the protectors, the party continued to explore, checking the furthest room east, which the monsters had emerged from, and the room next to it - they found gold within both rooms. In the final room, they found a number of glowing zombies - we stopped here to allow everyone present to level their characters to Level 5. Sal, contact me when you can to discuss Nirreh's experience.

See everyone Wednesday at the usual time! We most likely will not have access to the DDI tools; I've made a point of saving all the information I'm going to need to run the next session, and I have everyone's level 5 sheets saved (including Nirreh's for when she levels) as PDFs. I have everyone's money but Sal's, and everyone's wishlist but Andrew's - Andrew if you don't get your wishlist to me by tonight, I won't be able to give you any rewards, you need to do it immediately!