It wasn’t easy, but we managed to get back to camp and rest up. I swear half the battle of getting better was getting Ben to hold still long enough to do some good. He is so full of spirit… heh, well at least his sword is. I’ll have to remember that one…
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Desario is going anywhere. I guess he too had contracted the slimy doom, but I guess it was late to set on because he doesn’t work very hard. Oh well, we could really use him down there, but I’d rather have him not die.
Before we left I conferred with Bran to see if we could do anything to increase our odds against such foes. We put our heads together and came up with a few ways to detect and protect against the undead.

It wasn’t long after we re-entered the lair, that we found out why this place is so full of undead. It looks to be a long-forgotten Necromancer’s lab. Not far from the lab we could hear the strained moans that can only mean one thing… zombies.

The cells of this…prison are full of all sorts of unfortunate souls. I can see now that these are no ordinary zombies. Something is off about them in the worst sort of way. We managed to get at them without much reciprocation, fortunately.

I couldn’t believe it hadn’t I seen it. Some sort of evil armor was animated by the malevolence of this place. It was enormous, almost as if that suit was built specifically to hold such evil spirits. I’m just glad that I was trained to fight this sort of thing. Were it not for the ability to call forth the positive energy of the light I don’t think we’d be alive for anyone to read this. Hmmm. I don’t like the idea of my journal being some treasure of bauble to be found hundreds of years later by some other hapless adventurers. We have to survive!

We’ve made it to the end. I think. Let’s see what await us down in that sarcophagus…
I was right, that was the end… almost. The Necromancer had been sealed away by the combined forces of some ancient heroes and we almost let him out. Fortunately we were mighty enough to put a final end to him. As much as I was reticent to disturb what had been so carefully sealed away, I’m glad that we were able to make the seal obsolete. Perhaps the souls of those who worked so hard can rest a little easier now that we have vanquished that which they could not.