Gnoll Encampment (Mission)

"We set out at dawn as we usually do. Our party was myself, Throk, Kay, Fidelius and Avos. Heading west through the Greypines we came across spider webs stretching through a number of trees. Rather than getting caught in them and eaten we decided to go around. Entering the plains, we were attacked by a group of undead gnolls, which we took out with too much trouble, but it was worrisome for our goal. Undead were not what we signed up for.

We continued further towards the fort, planning to lure out at least some of the gnolls to deal with them individually. Huge plumes of smoke were coming from the fort as if there had been a big fight recently, so we decided to scout it out first.

I snuck ahead spotting a huge dog like creature eating from one of the piles of bones, but didn't see anything else, including gnolls in the fort. There were tracks from what looked like a large group of gnolls leading away.

We fought with the dog, which turned out to be a demonic beast called a Lucrotta according to Kay. It knocked out Fidelius so we decided to track the gnolls a ways to make sure they weren't headed to the Last Chance. Once Fidelius woke up we headed back to the fort to make camp for the night before investigating the keep that was barred up.

Avos ate some gnoll meat instead of rations, which the rest of us thought might be a bad idea.

Nothing happened during the night, and in the morning Throk broke down the door. One withered gnoll and three fleshy… mouth things. We managed to kill them all, but they did almost get Kay. We took a rest to allow Kay to recover, and Avos ate some of the flesh monsters, and seemed healed, but also sprouted some fur on his arm. He kept eating dead things and when Kay started looking for magic, he said Avos was glowing.

We pressed him, and he revealed he had a dream last night about eating and has been hungry for flesh, including ours. We kept an eye on him and scouted the upper levels, not finding much. The stairs to the lower levels were heavily trapped (and it was almost midnight), so we decided to head back rather than be trapped outside the Last Chance during the week of the dead and returned.

Luckily, Artax was able to cure Avos, but keep an eye out for him eating things just in case, and don't eat gnoll yourself."

― Khyrim Alodan's adventure log