He Slimed Me
Gary, Ovi and Mirime run into each other in the tavern and after some discussion decide to finish off the undead problem off to the northwest that they’d previously encountered. Before tackling that though they make a trip to Carl’s Club to get Mirime’s armor repaired and pick up some additional provisions, including a few health potions.
They travel northwest to the church that they fought the Wight in and that Elmer sanctified in the name of Dwarfoe. They check out the graveyard for anything “unnatural” but don’t find anything offhand, then investigate a substantial tomb in the very center of the graveyard. Made out of dark stone in a sort of gothic style it’s about twenty feet on a side, square, with a large embellished steeple projecting from it. It has two heavy, dark metal doors in the front with a symbol carved into them of twin serpents twining about a sword. Mirime kicks in the doors and they peer into the interior, finding it empty except for two rows of three sarcophagi and a set of sconces for torches around the walls. Ovi immediately blasts the nearest sarcophagus with an eldritch blast, throwing the stone lid across the room to smash into pieces against one of the walls, blowing a huge chunk out of the sarcophagus and thoroughly mangling the dessicated corpse within.
Having established that nothing is immediately going to attack them by the method of attacking everything in sight first, they proceed to open all the sarcophagi, finding a masterwork longbow which Mirime takes, a set of masterwork half plate that they leave, some assorted gems that had once been attached to bejewelled weapons and a set of mason’s tools that they take for Elmer. As they prepare to leave the tomb they hear footsteps on the grass outside and Gary goes outside to investigate, finding a trio of ghouls heading for them.
They attempt to divide and conquer, running towards a smaller tomb some distance away where Mirime jumps onto the roof and takes a shot at the ghouls with her new bow. One climbs up after, another attempts and fails and the third is distracted by Gary. Mirime does a sick backflip over the one on the roof with her and then totally fails to land the backstab she was trying for but looks super cool in the process. Gary and Ovi dispatch the ghouls on the ground then Gary climbs the tomb and helps Mirime take care of the last one.
As soon as it dies there’s a hideous shrieking and a wraith zooms up through the steeple of the tomb they had just left and flies straight towards the part, attempting to attack Gary. The wraith has a hard time landing a hit on Gary, his natural armor and agility proving an effective defense, but the party also struggles to chip away at the wraith until Gary jumps down off the tomb and retrieves his silvered sword. Just before Gary kills it the wraith finally manages to close in on Gary and life drain him for half his health but the success is shortlived as Gary cleaves it and the wraith disappears in a shower of black dust, out of its corpse drops a black pearl.
They return to town and report success to Sarah who suggests they might have dealt with the problem a little more quickly but no one has been more that lightly gnawed in the last few weeks so it’s good enough. While she chastises them Gary coughs up some blood and she quickly compliments their successful venture and hands over the rest of their money. Gary asks if they could get a little extra since he’s not feeling so well and Captain Mills gives him a tin star painted gold that says “JUNIOR SHERIFF” on it.