After resting the group approached the Dwarven Monastery. I voice called out wishing to talk to them and it was the wolf with human hands. The wolf said he used to be an animal companion to a druid of Erastil. After the druid died he protected the forest until a weird negative energy blast twisted his body. He fears losing his mind to the transformation and asked the party to investigate under the monastery. They agreed since they were going to do this anyways.
Inside the monastery all the workers had been slaughtered. Nothing was desecrated though. They explored the lower levels and discovered the spot of a cave-in where they found two dead kobolds and had been attacked by shadows had been cleared out. There was a hole that lead down to another level. Phain used his spider slippers to investigate. He found the the ten foot opening widen to over a sixty foot wide room that was filled with water below a passageway to the south. The walls also had strange eyeballs in the cracks of the walls. He had a rope secured in the upper level and began to secure a rope below when some undead crawled out of the water and attacked. Risking his life he finished securing the rope and called out that he was under attack. Fighting for his life while the rest of the party made it down the rope, he was almost dead when the paladin made it to the passageway and the druid, who had shape changed into a giant eagle, arrived with Hogie. Phain maneuvered past the undead to safety while the rest of the group took the undead out.
Heading south down the passage way, the group came to another room. Being wary of traps, Phain searched but didn't find any traps. Unfortunately the room was trapped. As the made their way in bladed pendulums swung out of the walls while spears fired from statues on the other side of the room. Then four creatures that resembled the creatures from underneath Sandpoint ran out from behind the statues and attacked. One hit Preacher so hard that he fell down. The party was handling these creatures fine until two more undead came out from the statues and attacked. These were foul smelling and they knew they were ghasts. One of the ghasts hit Phain and then he couldn't move. Orik and Budwar came to help and soon had all the undead defeated. The checked out the statues and Phain identified them as the Runelord of Gluttony.
Heading into the next room to the south, they found an oddly shaped room which had an inner chamber inside the larger chamber. As they made their way around to investigate the inner chamber, they found multiple pillars filled with information on Thasillonia, specifically about the Runelord of Greed's territory, and also they found a swarven corpse that was flopping around on the floor. Phain zapped it with a ray of frost when a ghostly figure came out of the floor and attacked. Preacher identified it as a mind wraith, a wraith that drains your mind. Attacking it carefully they managed to dispatch it without injury. Phain studied the pillar as he is always interested in learning about Thasillonia.
The group continued to move to the south and they came upon a room with a Runelord statue in the middle of the room. In each corner was a crawl space with a skeleton trapped behind bars. Wary of the skeletons attacking, but the true enemy were two shadowy creatures from behind the door to the south. Having fought these many times, they defeated the undead and discovered that there were stairs leading down here.
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