Ravencrest Manor: a D&D story

 not far from the ruins of the monastery,
the heroic band of adventurers took the fallen soldier to Ravencrest Manor.
with confusion and dismay,
the soldier leans over to the dwarf cleric and asked for a favor.
to end the painful reminder of the war.
Grungni lit his hand with radiant light and grasp a hold of the soldier's exposed
spine and crushed it in his hands.
only Grungni knew the true meaning behind the request,
thus not bothering to explain to the others.

upon entering the dilapidated place they are greeted by a servant and brought forth
to the master of the Manor.
the head master of the Manor was a lich.
the lich was able to locate one of the runestones the party is looking for,
but he asked for something in return.
they had to find his phylactery and destroy it.
for once in a very rare moment, the lich was tired of this long tiresome life.
he asked the group to destroy his phylactery and inside was a runestone.

here are some of the highlights...

making their way down into the bowels of the Manor.
"Crinkle Shorts" is the first to look through some unopened crates.
several healing potions were found.

as the group looks around Nanna notices something strange with a table.
an animated table springs to life and delivers a nasty blow to the unexpected barbarian.
Grungni takes his warhammer and makes the tables into a piles of firewood.

the entered another chamber and encountered a half ogre,
and befriended him to avoid any hostility.

"what is your name?" Breena asked.
"Gunther!"
"my name Gunther!!" the half ogre replied.

with all the commotion taking place,
down the hallway a door lock clicked open mysteriously.
and an ogre zombie appears.
the tiefling ranger, Nafaris aimed an arrow right into the dead ogre's head.

the group came upon a study room.
looking around for what they came for the group is attacked by animated swords,
that were hung from the walls.

after defeating the animated swords the group is greeted by two old hags.
being rude to the old hags, the group is knocked down by a spell from the oldest hag,
who in turn was Gunther's mother and told Gunther to go get his other friend so everyone can play.

"PLAY!?" Gunther exclaimed loudly.

out of no where,
Valkia appears from behind a locked door.
she summoned a demon hound from a magical mirror to frighten the adventurers.
with some kind of plan is place,
Valkia let the group go and resume their quest for the runestone.
leaving the Manor through the mirror,
left the gnome curious.

the group finally found the phylactery.
no one was able to break the magical orb.
Grungni, knowing he could die by holding the orb,
summon radiant light into his hands and held the orb by his head.

as the orb was destroyed,
a wailing moan could be heard from all around.

the dwarf cleric was being damaged by necrotic evil within his body,
fell to the ground.
a scuffle between the elf druid and the gnome warlock for the second runestone.
Breena was able to grab the runestone and award it to the goliath barbarian.

to be continued......