The Characters
Pendleton Torst, rogue anatomist
Catarina Redmoor, prioress of an unusual convent
Geradd, dissolute swashbuckler
Panthalassa Laurentide, a very weird orphan
Raoul Carathis, necromancer
Daytona Midnight, dhampir gunslinger
Asudem, a drowned antiquarian brought back from the dead
Events
The first thing that the party noticed is that the third level of the Necropolis was infested with fleshy, alien growths on the walls and ceilings of its corridors and chambers. In one chamber they found a fifteen foot pit with a stained glass statue standing over a small iron chest. To either side of the pit were statues of Scylla and the Chained Scholar. Geradd climbed down into the pit to examine the chest, but the glass statue animated and attacked him. Luckily, his compatriots were able to shoot the statue to pieces before it could harm Geradd. Inside the chest was a key and two glass lizard eyes.
As they explored further, they found two of the degenerate dwarves laying dead on a flight of stairs. Pendleton could tell that the dwarves had been exsanguinated. Following the murderer's bloody footprints brought them to a balcony overlooking a vast chasm. On the other side of the chasm was another balcony with a statue of an eldritch monstrosity standing upon it. Floating within the space of the chasm were five floating wooden disks.
Eschewing the disks, Daytona cast wall walker on himself and traversed the chasm without recourse to the floating disks; he brought a rope, hoping to tie it off to allow the other to cross. However, when Daytona was about halfway across the chasm, Geradd pulled a lever on their balcony, which caused the chamber to fill with a violent wind and the sounds of howling beasts and grinding machinery. The lever also caused the statue's hand to unclench, revealing two more glass lizard eyes. Daytona's clone appeared on the opposing balcony and began to shoot at the original; Daytona high-tailed it back to safety as his clone retreated. The group opted to send Annabelle, Raoul's familiar, across the chasm to retrieve the glass eyes. They then retraced their steps to explore another in another direction.
They found a metal door with a bronze disk in the center of it. Along the perimeter of the disk were ten circular indentations. They placed the four glass eyes they had into the indentations, which caused a bronze eyelid to close over each glass eye. Six glass eyes remained to be placed.
In another chamber they obtained a gilded human skull.
Speaking of skulls, beyond a door carved with leering skulls they found three tapestries. The first tapestry showed nobles feasting and drinking. In the second, the same nobles were fighting each other, fucking on the table, and vomiting in the feasting hall. In the third tapestry, the nobles were shown to be feasting on their servants while the roasted boar laughed at the spectacle. The group then heard the stomping approaching of something with hooves. A towering boarman appeared in the doorway, covered in blood, an apple in its mouth, and bearing an axe. After spitting out the apple, it announced that the Lord of the Feast had arrived. Raoul summoned a grave guardian, but the Lord of the Feast cut it down with his axe. Geradd dealt the creature a horrific blow with his glaive, slaying it; Geradd had split the creature's belly open and golden cups, cutlery, and jewelry began to pour out of the wound.
In another burial chamber, the group found a shrine devoted to Scylla, a magically warded sarcophagus, and a number of frescos that held clues on how to safely open the sarcophagus. Catarina figured things out quickly, and made the appropriate offerings to her "goddess." Which each completed step of the ritual, the group could hear the crashing of waves on a shore and smell the scent of the briny deep. Upon completing the ritual offerings, the sarcophagus's lid slid off. Inside was a set of leather bracers decorated with delicate fish bones.
Geradd, Raoul, and Pendleton had all donned fish masks they had found in the chamber during the ritual. When the ritual was complete and they removed the masks, they discovered that their faces had been transformed into piscine visages and that their necks now sported functional gills.
As they traveled the corridors of the Necropolis's third level, they encountered the corpse golems that Catarina had scryed from the prior level. Daytona shot one, but Geradd charged them and single-handedly destroyed them. Further in the Necropolis they found a portal within a large carving of a wolf's mouth. Looking into the portal gave them a vision of an explorer in a chamber stepping on a rune that caused the room to fill with poisonous spoors that killed him. The group later found the room from the vision. Raoul was able to use a summoned zombie to avoid the symbols on the floor and open the sarcophagus in the chamber. Inside were two more glass lizard eyes and a spiral horn.
At this point, the group became nervous about the whereabouts of the false Daytona. Catarina proposed that Daytona cut himself with one of her bone daggers so that she could psychically communicate with both the real Daytona and his replicant. The false Daytona communicated that he had received an invitation to visit "three pretty ladies on the fifth floor." The group realized that he was now en route to visit with Dorian Margrave's three wives--a confluence that could not bode well for them.
It was decided that they needed to hustle down to the next floor in pursuit. They located an elevator and took it down to the fourth level of the Necropolis. However, as it neared its stopping point, they could see that the elevator shaft was filled with the walking dead. The elevator crushed the milling undead as it settled into place, causes a flood of blood and gore to come up through the grate in the bottom of the elevator. With bloody feet, they now entered the next level within the Necropolis of Omera.
