Session 15 - The Vault Continued

Toilsday Lamashan 8 around 6am


Having used up most of their magic, the group decided to rest in the room with the traps after coming down since that had a crank to seal them off from whatever remained on that level. When they were done, the decided to head east from the room with the pillars. They came upon an oddly shaped room with a crank in one corner, and a turnstile in another. More of the undead sinspawn were in this room and attacked. Running at them on all fours caused Preacher to be knocked down, but the rest of the party came to his defense and as a group beat down the sinspawn.

Experimenting with the crank they discovered it moved the turnstile. Budwar checked out the other side and in it was a room with a pit that were filled with eyeballs, like the ones that were in the wall when they climbed down. They also turned and look at him when he came into the room. Deciding that they could come back, they decided to check out the rest of the level first.

Heading back west, they turned to the south passage and came to a room that had one wall blasted apart leading into a cavern with sounds of suffering coming from them. In the rubble they found a scarab that Phain identified as a Golembane Scarab that could detect golems nearby. Wanting to check out the cavern, they climbed over the rubble when a group of undead around the pit sensed they were there and attacked! Fighting on the rubble proved hard. Preacher was paralyzed by one ghast, and Phain and Orik took alot of wounds, but they managed to kill of all the undead. The party checked out the pit and saw that many farmers and lumberjacks had been dragged into the pit and were being changed into undead. Preacher channeled to kill them before it was too late, and Phain used his magical gauntlet that was found in the monastery above to use stone shape and cover the pit. Budwar vowed to get a Torag priest to cleanse the pit.

Having taken care of the pit they continued heading south. They camer into a room that appeared to have once been a laboratory. They starting to investigate when a hidden undead creature attacked. Budwar used his smite ability on the creature and soon killed it. They took some mysterious liquid with them and decided they needed to rest soon, but wanted to discover what was in the locked room they had avoided so far.

Open the door there was a mummy with it eyes sewn shut and carrying a head of a dwarf in a cage. Shaking off a paralyzing fear, they attacked the mummy. Budwar once again used his holy smiting ability and soon brought down the creature with the help of the rest of the group. Phain identified the cage as a magic device that allowed someone ask three questions a day of a head int he cage. They also deduced that the head belonged to the dwarven corpse found in the other room. They also found a black rod with a gaunt man that did damage to a foe and gave temporary health to the wielder.