D&D at the Games Tower

(Scroll for tl:dr) After pledging allegiance to the Lord’s Alliance, Arnogall, Aubrey, Balderpoor, Skonn and Sorin took off on their Hippogriffs and headed for a shrine called Gwaeron’s Slumber.  Sorin had wanted to go here as it was rumoured that his god, Gwaeron Windstrom was sometimes seen walking in the woods and would grant a boon to anyone who slept there.  They arrived at the edge of the woods where Sorin expected to find the area in a perpetual state of Autumn.  However the scene more closely resembled winter.  Sorin led them to the centre of the wood where he meditated and slept. When he woke Gwaeron approached and asked Sorin if he wished to receive a blessing.  Sorin agreed and knelt down before him.  Gwaeron raised his warhammer and struck Sorin’s head.  A fight ensued and “Gwaeron” revealed its true form and transformed into an evil giant known as an Oni.  It’s hammer caused a thunderclap that incapacitated the entire party and Sorin was knocked unconscious.  The Oni prov

(Scroll for tl;dr) The party emerged from the tomb and healed the fallen Balderpoor.  Across the graveyard they could see the old man from earlier.  He began to straighten up from his hunchback stance and called over, “Give me the orb, or die!”  Then he lifted his hands above his head and bellowed, “Rise!”  Four flameskulls now floated above the ground and a revenant clawed its way out of a fresh grave.  The flameskulls shot rays of fire at the party while the revenant protected the necromancer. During the battle, Aubrey was cursed with a Crown of Thorns spell and forced to fire a spell at the party.  Luckily his Wand of Wonder only cast Slow but no one was affected.  The flameskulls and necromancer were defeated and the revenant was slowly beaten down. Nareen Dhest emerged from the shadows demanding payment now that the Orb had been recovered. The party felt inclined not to pay considering that getting the orb had not been entirely straightforward. Dhest wasn’t happy with this