Flossaria "Flossie" Heathland

Lawful Good Female Human Fighter / Cleric, Level 1 / 1
Played by Jenn

Str 17 Dex 16 Con 14 Int 16 Wis 15 Cha 13
HP 11 AC 17 Prime Attributes Strength, Wisdom, Charisma
Height 5' 4" Weight ? Age 15

Class Abilities Weapon Specialization (Bastard Sword), Turn Undead

Equipment Bastard sword, small wooden shield, studded leather armor, bedroll, bottle, metal file, gord, wooden holy symbol, sewing kit, 10 torches, wolvesbane, hemp rope, large sack

Description She's rather average looking with no real distinguishing features except for being more physically fit than the other girls in her town. She's of average human height with light brown eyes and medium brown hair. Her clothes are practical for the weather and any expected fighting she might have to do in the name of Mung. The only note worthy thing about her appearance is the necklace she wears. It is a pendant of a silver swan holding a light blue stone. It used to belong to her mother.

She makes up for her average looks with her outstanding personality and fighting skills. She's bossy and opinionated so it is quite difficult for others to dissuade her from her plans. Her stubbornness makes her try to convince others to go with her ideas (but as she is quite intelligent her plans probably are the way to go :p ).

Although she has spent the last 7 years in the small town of Asuna, she has not led a sedentary life. Her grandmother raised her with the teachings of Mung. Being quite pious, Flossaria decided that she would honour Mung by returning the undead to their more natural state of just plain dead. She has been building her physique for a few years in preparation for the day that she would encounter the undead.

Biography She meets the party in Asuna where she has been living with her grandmother for the last few years. She is originally from Imaut. Although Asuna consists mostly of followers of the iron god, Flossie is a cleric of the god Mung. Most townsfolk accept this as just part of her previous life in another town. For the past year, she has been honing her healing skills with the town's local healer, hoping that one day she could put her skills to use in the name of Mung.

Her grandmother passed away just before the strange happenings with the iron temple. Flossie spent time grieving and trying to figure out what to do with her life. When she heard the rumours about the undead in the iron  temple, she knew it was her duty to lay those poor people to their final rest in the name of Mung.

Session 5: Tomb of the Iron God, Part 5

After a holding a funeral for Lorcan, presided over by Iriellis, in which his body is burned on a funeral pyre, the party retire for the night, having divided his valuable possessions amongst themselves. Adokas goes to the healer's for the night, while everyone else rests at the inn. Adokas is not satisfied with the treatment he receives and berates the healer the next morning, to which the healer responds that Adokas is free to take his business elsewhere.

Back at the inn, Arik summons everyone into his room. When they arrive, he is looking much better, and is dressed and fully equipped. He tells them that they can't let Lorcan's death stop them; indeed, those are the hazards of the adventuring profession. They have only a single day left, so they need to make good progress. He is finally feeling well enough to join them, and furthermore, he has acquired the services of a local cleric of Mung, Flossaria, who will join them in the investigation.

Wasting no time, the party, along with Arik, head to the outskirts of town, where they meet with Flossaria. She introduces herself and Arik explains the situation to her. Seeing the group carrying around Lorcan's old crossbow, which is too large for any of the gnomes or halflings to use, she asks to carry it with her. Everyone then heads off towards the monastery.

Back in the cellars, the group can still hear the chatter of goblins off in the distance, but the barricade that they erected two days ago still appears to be undisturbed. Arik asks to be taken to any areas of interest that they've discovered so that he can investigate them. They first take him to some of the iron statues. He is unable to make out much more than the rest of the group - their condition appears to be due to some sort of divine retribution on the part of the Iron God. Either that, or some enemy did this to them and took great pains to make it appear as divine retibution.

They move on to the room containing strange patterns inlaid with iron into the wall. They seem to still have the same calming, mind-focused effect that Zedlyn encountered before, but no one is able to make any new deductions here. Arik suggests that they might be an aid to meditation.

Finally, the party show Arik to the room containing concentric iron circles inlaid into the floor. Arik points out that the pattern seems to indicate that something or someone is supposed to go in the center, and the party admit that they didn't continue investigating after dropping a book in the center. Iriellis steps forward to take a look. As she holds her arm above the inner circle, she feels a strange upward force. Throwing caution to the wind, she steps into the circle.

The rest of the adventurers see Iriellis float upwards and begin levitating a foot in the air, her body and muscles seemingly in a state of relaxation. Iriellis, floating in the circle, sees a vision of a pure white void, out of which a gigantic metal figure floats. The being introduces itself as the Iron God, and explains that it punished its own worshippers for their greed, and their dabbling with the forbidden arts of necromancy. Furthermore, it explains that the undead still stalk the catacombs, and if Iriellis accepts the task of destroying them, it will grant her a boon. Iriellis accepts, at which point the vision shatters.

The rest of the party see a flash of white light, and when their vision clears, they see Iriellis lying on the ground, holding an iron flail in her hands. When she explains what happened and what she saw, and Arik immediately steps forward into the circle, hoping to contact the Iron God as well. However, neither he, nor any other party member, are able to duplicate the effect. With this new quest accepted, the group head back to the catacombs.

Returning to the strange area of magical darkness, Flossaria takes a look, hoping to be able to see something that the others didn't, but she can't figure out what exactly is causing the darkness or what it is. Arik pulls out a strange metal cylinder that produces light from the end of it, but it is also unable to penetrate the darkness. When questioned by Sharla about the device, he explains that it's something that he found in an ancient ruin back in his homeland. He doesn't know how it works, but it cannot be through magic, because there is no magic where he comes from.

Iriellis casts a spell to detect the presence of evil and directs it towards the darkness, which doesn't register as evil. As she sweeps her sight around, though, she does detect a strong aura of evil coming from the northwest, in the direction of the room where they fought the giant tick. Walking into that room, they find that the evil aura seems to be coming from the cavern that is marked as the prison of the "Eater of the Dead". The group collectively decide that disturbing this area would be a bad idea.

Looking at the chest in the room, they are worried that it might be cursed or protected by the Iron God, but Iriellis has an instinctive feeling that the Iron God doesn't care about the treasure - the priests weren't supposed to have it in the first place; that's part of the reason why the Iron God chose to punish them. She attributes this knowledge to her vision of the Iron God; it must have been imparted to her then. Given this explanation, the party take the treasure (which consists mostly of silver and gold coins) from the chest, dumping it into a bag for Arik to carry.

Deciding to finally brave the darkness, Iriellis steps on ahead with a rope tied around her waist. Inside, she hears a low, growling voice, warning her to "enter only with reverence for the quiet dead". After a pause, it goes on to explain that "the dead walk unquietly in the Sacred Catacombs, and the walking dead are an abomination to the Iron God". Iriellis attempts to question the voice, but it doesn't speak any more than those two sentences. She starts walking forward through the pitch blackness; after about thirty feet, she hits a wall. She uses the rope to find her way back.

The party decide to try using the ceremonial implements that they found nearby. They take the long-axe, lantern, and incense burner, tie themselves together with the rope so they don't get separated, and step into the darkness. However, the implements seem to have no effect - the darkness is still absolute. Preferring not to continue in pitch blackness, the party decide to retreat and enter the catacombs from one of the two other entrances that they had discovered. They pick the one near the library / archive room.

Heading into the catacombs from the new entrance, the path soon splits into three directions - northwest, north, and east. To the northwest, the passage continues before ending in another wall of seemingly impenetrable darkness. To the north, the passage continues onwards before opening into a cavern. To the east, the passage goes for some distance before curving north. The party opt to follow the east passage.

After it curves north, the east passage continues on in that direction, and also contains a cavern opening to the east. The party step into this cavern and find that its walls are covered in inscriptions and pictures. No one recognizes the language of the carvings; Sharla mentions that she might be able to decipher them, given enough time, but even a preliminary reading of a small section will take a few hours. Arik points out that they may not have a few hours to spare, so the group forge on ahead, resolving to come back and investigate the carvings if the time is available.

The carving room contains an opening to the north, which opens into another cave after a short passage. This cave contains six iron statues, arranged in two rows of three. However, these statues are different than the others encountered thus far - they are of guardsmen or warriors rather than priests, and they have calm, neutral expressions rather than expressions of pain or fear. The party are wary that they will come to life and attack, but after they step into the cavern, the statues don't react in any way.

Attempts to communicate with the statues or cause them to react fail, until Zedlyn walks up while carrying the ceremonial longaxe and salutes, which causes the statues to salute back. The party experiment with various combinations of the ceremonial axe, lantern, and incense burner, before finally discovering that, if three characters march together carrying all three items, the statues will follow behind. With these new allies gained, the group head out of the room through a passage to the southwest.

This passage leads to a Y-shaped intersection; their options are the south and the northwest. The southern passage joins back up with the passage that led them to the room full of ancient carvings, so they head to the northwest. This leads them to a very large cavern, dominated by a giant statue of the Iron God. The room also contains a set of stairs leading downwards carved into the cavern floor, an exit to the south, and most strikingly, a corpse lying on the ground near the statue.

Iriellis steps forward to check out the corpse, and determines that it is a human male who died a week or two ago, with no visible wounds or obvious cause of death. He is wearing chainmail armor and a mace and shield are lying on the ground next to him. The party discuss the possibility that this is the missing caravan guard who disappeared from the caravan that passed through Asuna before their own. The dates fit, but none of the characters are familiar enough with the missing man's appearance to be able to say for sure.

Searching the body for anything of interest, apart from a small coin-pouch, the party discover that the man is wearing an amulet that depicts a half-closed eye. Flossaria recognizes the symbol as being very similar to that of Sirami, the Lord of All Forgetting. However, Sirami's symbol is a closed eye, whereas this symbol is a half-closed eye.

The southern passage out of the room leads back to the cave that they glimpsed to the north at the first intersection after entering the catacombs. This cave appears to be empty. Thus, the party are left with only a few choices remaining to explore: the two walls of impenetrable darkness, the third entrance to the catacombs, and the stairs in the statue room.

The Ability Score Lottery

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha	Total	Rolled By	Claimed By	Character
14	13	12	15	13	10	77	Alan
15	15	14	10	5	14	73	Tess
16	15	15	13	13	12	84	Jenn
11	9	10	14	12	17	73	Winnie	Annie	P'hla
17	16	14	16	15	13	91	Jeff	Jenn	Flossaria

Death and Injuries

Since this came up during the last session and I was basically making things up as I went, here the rules for serious injuries.

The standard healing spells are Cure Light Wounds (1st level), Cure Serious Wounds (3rd level), and Cure Critical Wounds (5th level). Thus, injuries can be divided into these categories as well.

Light Wounds This is hit point damage; while your hit points are above 0, it is assumed that you have only sustained light wounds. Any healing spell can deal with light wounds by restoring hit points.

Serious Wounds In general, these are wounds that would put someone out of commission for a time, but are not life-threatening - broken bones, major dislocations, concussions, that sort of thing. A character who suffers a serious wound is knocked unconscious for at least a turn, and cannot continue to fight if the wound was suffered in combat. These cannot be fixed using Cure Light Wounds; it isn't powerful enough. Cure Serious Wounds will take care of them, although it will not also heal hit points when used in this manner. Cure Critical Wounds will take care of these injuries, and on top of that will heal hit points as a Cure Light Wounds spell.

A character with a serious wound cannot rise above 0 hit points until it is healed.

Critical Wounds These are wounds that are life-threatening - severed limbs, cut arteries, sword through the gut, etc. A character who suffers a critical wound is in mortal danger, and begins "bleeding out", as described below. Cure Light Wounds and Cure Serious Wounds are not powerful enough to fix these injuries (although they can delay death; see below); only a Cure Critical Wounds spell is sufficient. When used in this way, it does not also heal hit point damage. Incidentally, this is what Lorcan sustained, having rolled the second-lowest possible result on the injury table (the lowest being instant death).

A character with a critical wound cannot rise above 0 hit points until it is healed.

For reference, Cure Serious Wounds is first available to casters at 5th level, while Cure Critical Wounds is available at 9th level. There are usually casters available for hire in large cities that can handle Cure Serious Wounds; the starting price is 150 gp. Cure Critical Wounds is a much bigger deal; 9th level or higher casters are generally important, busy people and may require convincing. The price for Cure Critical Wounds starts at 450 gp.

Bleeding Out If a character sustains a critical wound and a Cure Critical Wounds spell is not available, then the character is in mortal danger and is bleeding out. The characters has 1d6 turns (10 - 60 minutes) to live. Healing spells below the level of Cure Critical Wounds can extend this duration; for each hit point that the spell would heal, it extends the character's life by 1 turn. Thus, Cure Light Wounds provides 1d8 turns (10 - 80 minutes) and Cure Serious Wounds provides 3d8 turns (30 - 240 minutes). The 0-level spell First Aid is also of use in this situation, providing 1d3 turns of respite (10 - 30 minutes).

Magical healing is not the only option to prevent bleeding out; a skilled healer can staunch the wound and prevent death. However, this is an extremely difficult task. Depending on the specific wound, the difficulty generally varies from 20 to 30. A given healer can only attempt this once, and each attempt takes an hour. If less than an hour is available, the difficulty increases by 2 for each missing turn (for example, if the healer only has ten minutes, then five turns are missing, so the difficulty is increased by 10). Also, note that this doesn't remove the injury; the character is still critically wounded, and cannot rise above 0 hit points until receiving a Cure Critical Wounds spell or waiting for the wound to heal naturally (which generally takes multiple months).

Session 4: Tomb of the Iron God, Part 4

Having finished investigating the monastery's library / archive, the party exit through the eastern door of the room. Beyond is a short passageway that leads to a t-intersection, heading north and south. To the north is a room containing an archway mounted with an iron plaque, which bears the same warning as before - that those who pass must be "draped in respect" and "speak [their] name for the scribe of the dead". There are three more rust-colored hoods hanging next to archway on pegs. The party decide to leave the area alone for now and head to the south.

To the south is a door, while the passage continues onward in a winding and twisting manner. The party continue down the passage, but they are wary of goblins, as their map indicates that the first group of goblins that they heard are somewhere nearby. Indeed, after they follow several bends, they hear the sound of goblins in the distance, and they decide to back off and investigate the door near the intersection.

Through the door is a room whose only feature appears to be a series of concentric iron rings inlaid into the floor. The innermost circle is two feet in diameter, while each successive circle is a foot larger, until the largest circle is twenty feet across. The party are unsure what to make of this; Zedlyn walks in and throws a book fetched from the library into the inner circle, but nothing unusual happens. The party decide to leave this room alone.

Evaluating their options, the group next decide to investigate the pressure plate that they had backed off from before. Zedlyn attempts to trigger it by pressing down on it with his trident from a distance. It works - the plate is a pit trap that opens up, and Zedlyn manages to keep his balance and not fall in. Peering across, the party can distinguish the glittering form of another iron statue. Adokas tosses his rope across with a grappling hook and snags it on one of the statue's legs. The entire party give the rope a pull, and it seems quite secure. Adokas fastens the other end to a nearby door handle, making a line across the open pit, which he uses to shimmy over to the other side.

The room across the pit contains, apart from the aforementioned statue, a large iron cage occupied by a decomposing skeleton attired in elaborate robes. Lorcan tosses a scalpel (earlier salvaged from the embalming supplies) across to Adokas to use as a makeshift lockpick, and after a minute or so of work, he manages to get the cage open. Investigating the skeleton more closely, it appears to have been gnawed on by animals. It doesn't have any valuables or anything else of interest upon it. Untying the rope from the statue, Adokas leaps back across the pit, catching the edge. The rest of the party help him up.

With their remaining options the rats, the goblins, and the catacombs, the party decide to go after the rats, despite their earlier assumption that they probably don't have anything of value. The arrange themselves at the door where they heard the chittering sounds. Zedlyn flings it open and Sharla throws the torch into the room, hoping to surprise and frighten the rats. The rats, eight of them in total, have the opposite reaction, and flood out of the room to attack the intruders!

As the rats swarm around them, Zedlyn attacks with his trident, Lorcan with his daggers, Iriellis with her flail, and Adokas with his fists. Sharla, standing safely to the side, summons up tendrils of darkness which appear from her hands to strike at the rats. The creatures are defeated in fairly short order, with only Zedlyn sustaining any injury from the rats' bites. Iriellis heals the damage with a healing prayer, and the party move in to investigate the room. Unfortunately, their earlier assessment seems to be correct - there is nothing of value in the room, only garbage, fragments of smashing furniture, the rotting carcasses of half-eaten animals, and rat droppings.

The party decide that they will finally brave the catacombs. They move to the room containing the offering bowl and ceremonial instruments, and they attire themselves in the rust-brown hoods. They take the instruments with them, with Sharla replacing their torch with the ceremonial lantern as their light source. As they pass through the door, they each state their name and their purpose, as the plaque warns that they should.

Past the door, the character of the walls changes, more resembling a worked cavern than the fully man-made cellars of before. Additionally, each character can feel a strong supernatural presence as they step into the passage. The walk forward until the passage ends in a t-intersection; to the north the cave continues onward, but to the south there appears to be complete, impenetrable blackness. None of their light sources seem able to pierce it, including the ceremonial lantern. The rest of the party back away, leaving the gnomes Sharla and Zedlyn waiting in the darkness for their darkvision to return, but when it does, it is equally incapable of seeing through the darkness. Unable to see to the south, the group decide to head through the north passage instead.

To the north is a cavern containing an open treasure chest flanked by three iron statues; there is a passageway leading further north with an inscription above it. Sharla moves forward to read it; it is a warning that beyond is the "Eater of the Dead, imprisoned eternally". Lorcan goes to check out the chest, but as he approaches, a giant tick drops down from the ceiling and lands on him, trying to bite him.

The group erupt into chaos; Zedlyn charges forward and tries to help Lorcan pull the tick off and Sharla tries to scare it away by waving the lantern at it, while Adokas tries to attack and Iriellis fires her sling at it. Unfortunately, in the confusion, Iriellis accidentally hits Lorcan instead, and everyone else's actions are ineffectual. The tick gets to Lorcan's throat and takes a bite; he goes down, severely injured. With Lorcan down, Zedlyn switches to his trident and attacks, striking a powerful blow that badly injures the creature. It tries to skitter away, but he and Adokas pursue it. It is slower than they are, so they easily catch up, and Zedlyn strikes it with a second, killing, blow.

Lorcan is down and quickly bleeding out; Iriellis casts what healing magic she has left, but it isn't strong enough to close the wound, only to delay the inevitable - at this rate, Lorcan has under two hours left. Repurposing one of the large wicker baskets from the embalming room as a stretcher, the group head out back towards town, hoping to make it to the healer in time.

Adokas, the fastest party member due to his monk training, is sent out ahead to warn the healer of their arrival, while Zedlyn and Sharla take the basket and Iriellis follows along. Adokas makes it to Asuna without difficulty and the healer begins preparing; Zedlyn and Sharla are much more taxed by the trip but manage to keep up a good pace. Iriellis can't keep up with them and is forced to drop behind.

When Zedlyn and Sharla arrive with the litter, the healer is waiting for them and he immediately gets to work. But the wound is too severe, and it is beyond his skill to fix; within the hour, Lorcan dies of his wound.

Session 3: Tomb of the Iron God, Part 3

The party begin the session by completing their interrogation of the goblins. The shaman is the only goblin that speaks Common, so he ends up answering most of their questions. Overall, they discover several interesting pieces of information:

• The goblins arrived at the monastary about a week ago. Previously, they had been living in the jungles around the area.
• This group of goblins know about the other group of goblins to the east, but they are not on good terms with them.
• The talking head at the entrance to the cellars was actually placed by the shaman, in order to scare off intruders. It has nothing to do with the Iron God.
• The goblins attempted to explore the catacombs, but everyone they sent started to experience strange visions and hallucinations.
• Similarly, they tried to steal the silver from the bowl to the north, but as they took it away, it somehow became progressively heavier.

The party decide to be friendly to the goblins, after Iriellis deflects their suspicion about the party sending the iron statue at them. Iriellis spends the last of her healing magic helping some of the wounded goblins, and Zedlyn proposes an offer: the party will allow them to live, if they leave the monastary. The goblins accept this offer, and the party escorts them out, although not before they search through the goblins' pile of spoils, finding 100 gold pieces and several gems and trinkets that seem valuable.

At the front entrance, they rejoin with Sharla to plan their next move. Everyone is in favour of resting, since several party members are quite injured; Sulif points out that Asuna is only an hour away, so they could easily rest the night there. Everyone agrees, so they head back to the town, paying close attention to the route so that they will be able to return without Sulif's guidance.

Back at Asuna, Sulif departs - with his broken arm, he won't be much use adventuring, although fortunately his share of the loot from the goblins should be enough to tide him over until it heals. The party check in with Arik, who is feeling a bit better, although unsure if he'll be able to join them tomorrow. He reminds them that they only have two more days before the caravan departs. Zedlyn, Adokas, and Iriellis check in at the local healer's home, and everyone rests for the night.

The next morning, Adokas picks up some dungeoneering supplies from the village's store, including torches, a lantern, and a prybar. Arik is still too exhausted to join them and decides to spend another day resting. The party head out, with Iriellis retracing Sulif's footsteps back to the monastary.

Their first stop after they arrive is the storeroom where they found the embalming fluid, and where they hope to find more. There are nine more crates in the room, which open much more easily with their newly-acquired prybar. Most of the crates contain various mundane supplies - ceremonial garments, scrap iron, tanned hides, and dried food. In addition, they find a crate full of various primitive idols, which Iriellis recognizes as representations of orc and goblin deities. There is also a crate containing hundreds of wooden sticks, about the size of wands; Lorcan uses a spell to detect magic but they do not appear to be enchanted. Another crate contains what they were looking for: three vials of embalming fluid, along with ten flasks of (holy?) water, a flask of what appears to be honey, and two unidentified green flasks. They take them all. Finally, at the bottom of the crate that contained ceremonial garments, they find a strange book. Sharla quickly flips through it, and finds that it concerns necromancy. The first half of the book concerns the creation of skeletons and zombies, the second half, ghouls. Oddly, there do not appear to be any references to the Iron God in its pages, only Mung, the God of Death. Sharla takes the book for more in-depth study later.

Continuing on, the party head to the east from the four-way intersection, but are stopped when they notice a large pressure plate stretching across the passage. Adokas and Lorcan investigate, but are unable to find any linked mechanisms, so the plate is either a pit trap that opens up, or it's a pressure plate that controls something deeper into the cellars. The party decide to avoid it for now.

Taking a nearby door, they enter a mostly-empty room filled with animal droppings. As this is near where they previously heard the sound of giant rats, they decide to leave the room alone, reasoning that rats are unlikely to have treasure or anything else of value.

At this point, the group decide to return to the front chamber to investigate the statue of the Iron God holding an urn. From this room, they can see the barricade they put up to block off the goblins they heard earlier; it appears to be undisturbed. Lorcan is the only party member tall enough to see into the urn, so he takes a torch and peers inside. The urn actually opens into a chute, which goes for about ten feet and opens into a room, although all Lorcan can see of it is the floor. He throws the body of a goblin down the chute to see if it has any effect; the goblin tumbles down into the other room, but nothing unusual or unexpected happens.

Their options being limited to the goblins past the barricade, the passageway through the urn, the passage beyond the pressure plate, the room with the rats, and a single unexplored door near the rat noises, the party opt for the door. Beyond, they find a ransacked storeroom, followed by an intact storeroom containing five barrels, two boxes, and a large spool of thread, as well as doors to the north and south. Continuing to the south past the barrels and boxes, they enter the room at the other end of the urn's chute, where the goblin's corpse lies. Inside are a large stone slab, shelves lining the west and east walls, several large iron vats, and a pile of curiously large wicker baskets. The party surmise that this must be the embalming room, and follow a passage out to the north.

The north passage opens into a small room containing a stairway down, mounted by an iron plaque similar to the one above the catacombs entrance. Zedlyn steps forward to read the plaque, at which point he triggers a pit trap that none of the party had noticed. Luckily, quick reflexes save him from falling in, but the open pit now prevents easy passage, so the party decide to return to the storeroom from before.

Inside the storeroom, two of the barrels contain nothing but stagnant water, while the other three are full of embalming fluid. One of the boxes is full of alum powder, used in dehydrating bodies to be preserved, and the other contains various surgical instruments. This is clearly where the priests kept their embalming supplies. The party proceed through the northern door.

This door leads to a passage which swings to the east, then opens into a room that appears to be a library or archive, full of shelves of books. Strangely, the books appear to all be made of solid iron, fused shut. The only books that can be read are four that are open on a sturdy reading table, and even then, only the currently opened pages can be read. One book is open to a description of a spell that creates illusionary duplicates of the caster. The second contains a description of how to prepare the dead for re-animation (broadly consistent with the surgical tools from the storeroom before). The third seems to be a record of valuable items. The fourth and final book is open to part of a story or parable, describing how the Iron God defeats something called the "Eater of the Dead" by imprisoning it in store.

The books are solid iron and thus extremely heavy, so Sharla gets to work copying down the spell while the rest of the party check out the other books on the shelves. None of them can be opened, so they can only judge by the titles, but most of the books seem to be either religious texts or archival records, mixed in with a smattering of tomes regarding necromancy, as well as a few books covering sagely topics such as history and magical theory. Unfortunately, none of them can be opened and read.

Sorcerers

Spells: A sorcerer casts arcane spells. Sorcerers can only cast a limited number of spells, from each spell level, per day. The Sorcerer Spells Per Day Table lists the number of spells per day a sorcerer may cast of each spell level. For example, a 5th level sorcerer can cast seven 0 level spells, six 1st level spells, and four 2nd level spells per day. Unlike a wizard, a sorcerer does not need to prepare spells before casting them. A sorcerer may use a spell slot to cast any spell that he knows of the appropriate level, without assigning slots in advance.

Bonus Spells: With a high charisma score, a sorcerer gains bonus spells. If the character has a charisma of between 13-15, they can memorize an extra 1st level spell. If the charisma score is 16 or 17, the sorcerer can memorize an extra 2nd level spell, and if 18 or 19, the sorcerer can memorize an extra 3rd level spell. Bonus spells can only be acquired if the sorcerer is at a high enough level to cast them. Bonus spells are cumulative. Bonus spells only affect the number of spells a sorcerer can cast per day, not the number of spells known.

Prime Attribute: Charisma
Alignment: Any
Hit Dice: d4
Weapons: Club, dagger, sling, staff
Armor: None
Abilities: Spell casting

Level	HD	BtH	EPP
1	d4	+0	0
2	d4	+1	2,600
3	d4	+1	5,200
4	d4	+1	10,400
5	d4	+1	20,800
6	d4	+2	42,500
7	d4	+2	85,000
8	d4	+2	170,000
9	d4	+2	340,000
10	d4	+3	500,000
11	+1 HP	+3	750,000
12	+1 HP	+3	1,000,000
13+	+1 HP	+3	250,000 per level

Sorcerer Spells Per Day

Level	0th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1	6	4
2	6	5
3	6	5
4	7	6	3
5	7	6	4
6	7	6	5	3
7	7	7	5	4
8	8	7	6	5	3
9	8	7	6	5	4
10	8	7	6	6	5	3
11	8	8	7	6	5	4
12	8	8	7	6	6	5	3
13	9	8	7	7	6	5	4
14	9	8	7	7	6	6	5	3
15	9	8	8	7	7	6	5	4
16	9	9	8	7	7	6	6	5	3
17	9	9	8	8	7	7	6	5	4
18	9	9	8	8	7	7	6	6	5	3
19	10	9	8	8	8	7	7	6	5	4
20	10	9	9	8	8	7	7	6	6	5

Sorcerer Spells Known

Level	0th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1	4	2
2	5	2
3	5	3
4	6	3	1
5	6	4	2
6	7	4	2	1
7	7	5	3	2
8	8	5	3	2	1
9	8	5	4	3	2
10	9	5	4	3	2	1
11	9	5	5	4	3	2
12	9	5	5	4	3	2	1
13	9	5	5	4	4	3	2
14	9	5	5	4	4	3	2	1
15	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	2
16	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	1
17	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2
18	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	1
19	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	2
20	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3