S13: Return of the Moon Mother

The Party joined up at the bottom of the pit and found a passageway way that lead into a worship room with lines of pews. Upon the Altar in the Wolf Language, are inscribed the words, "All serve the Moon Mother. Here lies the last of the Hound Father's children." Two spikes stood near the alter with red skulls adorning them. These skulls did not look like normal human skulls, but also not like that of an animal. Most likely a were-creature's skull. Reliefs on the wall, detailed the story of the Moon Mother and the Hound Father.

As they look past the altar room, they see a darkness that stops all vision, even their own darkvision. The lack of light in the area caused Rhone's Peacock feathers to glow with brightly, but not enough to penetrate the darkness. They quickly discover this darkness also nullifies magic to some degree and use this to help Rhone change back into his human form.

As they start to explore this darkness that they can't see through, they are attacked. Zen is able to determine this is an Undead, and after timing the creature's attack, Rhone is able to Turn Undead, forcing it to flee. With Zen's ability, she is able to follow after it, and lead the group out of the darkness.

The room they enter has a single werewolf in it that they quickly kill. After looting it's body, they discover an amulet that lets them see through the darkness and negates its magic canceling ability. They use the amulet, ZeeZee, and a Dire Wolf that Eressil summoned, to lure more were-creatures with amulets, through the darkness into an ambush. Quickly gaining enough amulets to allow them all the ability to proceed.

As the proceed, the rooms start to shift and slide past each other, making it impossible to keep track of an appropriate way back. Finally they follow a path back to where the Undead was they had originally chased, only to come upon an Underground Arboretum fully of flowering plants and a giant Tree. Eressil talks with the plants in order to gain information about the Were wolves and to find out that this used to be the Moon Mother's personal Arboretum. She would visit it to relax because of how beautiful she found the tree and the flowers.

After exploring the next room, they tried to hide by casting minor illusions to make it look like a wall was in front of them, when a patrolling guard of were-creatures walked past. Right as this happened, Ajax sneezed and gave away their position. The group quickly killed the creatures. After this, Rhone sought guidance from his inner self, and received the following cryptic phrase, "You've had your peek at the relic you seek."

With this, they make their way back to the Arboretum, and detect magic, to find that the plants exude a necromantic aura. After much thought, they use the Chalice found in the manor, to revive the undead plants of the Arboretum that had been corrupted by the unholy water that flowed to them.

After this they make their way out (by way of a Spider Climbing Elephant that Eressil turned into) and the Moon Mother makes contact with them when her powers start to return. She grants Rhone the ability to control his Lycanthropy. She seems to have a mental communication with Ajax to which he replied out loud "Does that have anything to do with what is on my back?"

She rewards all of the group with ancient items associated with her domain, the Moon.