Age of Umbra: The Lost Monastery

A desire to both protect and to learn has led to terror in Firmament's Harrow - but can that terror be contained?

Runtime	Break start
3h 46m	2h 3m

Last we left off, our troupe of fresh Delvers (from the small village of Desperloch here in the Halcyon Domain) have discovered that a rather practiced troupe had just returned from the depths of Luzal Vaults, half of their team slain or missing. Those who remained too wounded to pursue. You managed to convince the head of the Delvers (Rascelo) to go in their stead. To seek the missing member of their team, one of which you have some past relationship with.
Velk Dravenmoor.
You then went into the depths of these vaults, utilizing a map that was provided for you. A little lost at some point, but after tearing through some rising, shambling skeletons and some burning oozes that called that domain their own, you eventually came to the great gates that were recently discovered that supposedly lead to the long-sealed Luzal Monastery, the target of much of Desperloch's research and hope.
Upon arriving, you discovered that the gate guardian they had thought before which had been laid low, had begun to recover, and while still damaged, rose up and assailed your troop, tearing through you quite horribly in but a matter of moments. But nevertheless, through the majesty of an empowered boomerang you cut it down as well as the skeletons that it had risen out of the slain Desperloch delvers that remained.
You noticed that the gates were partially ajar and where a bloodstained hand smear, a series of blood pools, and a small trinket were left, and you believe that this insulates that your target, Velk, may have traversed beyond these gates towards the monastery himself. As such, hurt and winded, you closed the gate behind you just in case the guardian was still giving chase. You catch your breath here in the darkness, barely noticing the stone steps that ascend into shadow, up, up into the depths of the mountain. To where, no one yet knows. It is here inside this dark cave, as you catch your breath in silence. What would you like to do?

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