Session 11: The Wall of Blood
Scouting the Encampment
Eimador turned invisible and went ahead alone, taking the measure of the cult's encampment at the Ruins of Kathas Castle before anyone committed to anything louder.
What came back was a plan in three parts:
- Let the prisoners escape
- Steal some robes
- Get into the tower
Robes, Acquired
Dorian knocked a cultist out cold and quietly. Eimador then slit their throat, which settled the question of whether the party intended to leave witnesses. The robes were acquired.
The Blood Elemental
Inside, the party met a Blood Elemental. The gang defeated it with slashes and cleaves — no ceremony, no clever trick, just weapons applied until the thing stopped being a problem.
The Inner Circle's Rooms
With the tower open, the party searched the inner circle's quarters and came away with two things worth more than the robes:
| Find | What it told us |
|---|---|
| The map (taken by Gauthak) | The cult is a large operation, with people from multiple areas involved |
| High Order Malgora's diary | A well-documented, slow descent into madness — and drawings of an orb |
The map reframes what the party thought it was fighting: not a local cell that fled east from Newhaven, but something with reach across multiple areas. The diary reframes Malgora — whatever the blood magic in the corpse is meant to reveal, the diary suggests the person keeping it was coming apart long before the party arrived at the gates.
Where we left off
- The party is inside the tower, in stolen robes
- Gauthak has the map — the cult draws from multiple areas, far beyond Newhaven
- Malgora's diary recovered, documenting a descent into madness and repeated drawings of an orb
- A vertical wall of blood blocks the way forward
- The only way left to go is down
Metal Gear Solid style