Statboy
Resident Cueball
The Story So Far
What's Next
Party Loot
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When we left our band of explorers they were licking their wounds after losing 2 members and not succeeding in looting their third and final tomb. As they sold the little treasure they had procured, they unthinkable happened. UNDEAD APOCALYPSE!!! As undead streamed into the auction house, the Iron Covenant nearly lost one it's newest members to a mummy. After several intense battles they realized that the entire city was under siege by a horde of undead. Acting quickly they first secured the gates to the Necropolis, then moved about the city handling the worst of the invasion themselves.
While fighting the undead scourge they began find cultists running about in funerary masks. Not knowing much about them they kept fighting the undead, eventually being called upon to take the fight into the Necropolis to find the cause of the undead rising and put a stop to it.
Several cultists set a trap for our heroes ambushing them as they left a building they had just searched for clues. The cultists were no match as 2 of them were quickly taken hostage and a third died of non-lethal injuries (that totalled 3x his maximum health, seriously guys 50 points of nonlethal in one hit?). The hostages were interrogated and gave some information, specifically that the cult's goal was to raise the Sky Pharaoh Hakotep from the dead so that he could reign as undead leader of the world. The hostages also agreed to take them to their hideout if the PC's joined them in The Cult of the Forgotten Pharaoh.
Without any intention to join this Cult the Iron Covenant fooled the dim witted cultists into believing that they would join, and were promptly lead into famously lost Shepses Family Tomb, acting headquarters of the Cult. The cult's leader in Wati Meret-Hetef wasn't so easily fooled and never gave the Iron Covenant a chance to fool her, she went deeper into the tomb and prepared for battle. But the Iron Covenant proved to strong knocking Meret-Hetef unconscious and taking out her undead horde and fellow cultists.
Descending further into the Tomb they located a head shrieking and cursing at them, after killing her guards and with an exceptionally dirty look from the the Half Orc she told the PC's that her grandson Nebta-Khufre was behind the raising the of the undead in Wati, and that he intended to raise the Sky Pharaoh as well. It seems he had made common cause with the cult.
Down and down the heroes went, until they at last found Nebta-Khufre and he was wearing the Mummy's Mask, with which he had raised the undead. Nebta-Khufre had 2 mummy's and a half dozen zombies as bodyguards, but those were quickly dispatched by the Iron Covenant. Nebta himself proved a tougher foe, and 2 of the heroes were forced to retreat while the remaining 3 kept fighting on. A flying cleric, a giant snake lady, and a rodeo roping android, combined to bring down Nebta and so win the Mask and end the assault of undead upon the city of Wati.
While fighting the undead scourge they began find cultists running about in funerary masks. Not knowing much about them they kept fighting the undead, eventually being called upon to take the fight into the Necropolis to find the cause of the undead rising and put a stop to it.
Several cultists set a trap for our heroes ambushing them as they left a building they had just searched for clues. The cultists were no match as 2 of them were quickly taken hostage and a third died of non-lethal injuries (that totalled 3x his maximum health, seriously guys 50 points of nonlethal in one hit?). The hostages were interrogated and gave some information, specifically that the cult's goal was to raise the Sky Pharaoh Hakotep from the dead so that he could reign as undead leader of the world. The hostages also agreed to take them to their hideout if the PC's joined them in The Cult of the Forgotten Pharaoh.
Without any intention to join this Cult the Iron Covenant fooled the dim witted cultists into believing that they would join, and were promptly lead into famously lost Shepses Family Tomb, acting headquarters of the Cult. The cult's leader in Wati Meret-Hetef wasn't so easily fooled and never gave the Iron Covenant a chance to fool her, she went deeper into the tomb and prepared for battle. But the Iron Covenant proved to strong knocking Meret-Hetef unconscious and taking out her undead horde and fellow cultists.
Descending further into the Tomb they located a head shrieking and cursing at them, after killing her guards and with an exceptionally dirty look from the the Half Orc she told the PC's that her grandson Nebta-Khufre was behind the raising the of the undead in Wati, and that he intended to raise the Sky Pharaoh as well. It seems he had made common cause with the cult.
Down and down the heroes went, until they at last found Nebta-Khufre and he was wearing the Mummy's Mask, with which he had raised the undead. Nebta-Khufre had 2 mummy's and a half dozen zombies as bodyguards, but those were quickly dispatched by the Iron Covenant. Nebta himself proved a tougher foe, and 2 of the heroes were forced to retreat while the remaining 3 kept fighting on. A flying cleric, a giant snake lady, and a rodeo roping android, combined to bring down Nebta and so win the Mask and end the assault of undead upon the city of Wati.
What's Next
Early on in the adventure the heroes learned that the Osirions believe there are 3 parts to a living being. Ib, which is your heart and emotions; Ka, your vital spark which gives your life; and Ba, your psyche and personality. The cult believed the Sky Pharaohs Ka was trapped in the mask. That still leaves 2 more parts they would need to collect to raise him from the dead. Though don't think for a second that the cult has given up on obtaining the Mask.
It is now a race to discover and secure the other items containing the rest of Hakotep's soul. Septi recommends researching everything you can on the Sky Pharaoh, Forgotten Pharaoh, and Hakotep at the Great Library of Tephu. Though it's clear the cult thinks all three are the same person, historians don't agree. The Sky Pharaoh was a name given to a different Pharaoh who reigned over a thousand years after Hakotep. Though the incredibly little that is known of Hakotep comes from writings found in the Slave Trenches in southern Osirion
There have been more and more reports of bizarre people wearing funerary masks in Tephu, so it seems the cult is already there.
It is now a race to discover and secure the other items containing the rest of Hakotep's soul. Septi recommends researching everything you can on the Sky Pharaoh, Forgotten Pharaoh, and Hakotep at the Great Library of Tephu. Though it's clear the cult thinks all three are the same person, historians don't agree. The Sky Pharaoh was a name given to a different Pharaoh who reigned over a thousand years after Hakotep. Though the incredibly little that is known of Hakotep comes from writings found in the Slave Trenches in southern Osirion
There have been more and more reports of bizarre people wearing funerary masks in Tephu, so it seems the cult is already there.
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