Resting again in the same room they did before, the group headed back to the eyeballs. Phain crawled along the walls with his spiderclimb boots and found a hallway leading to a room with a statue. Preacher decided to join him and jumped into the eyeballs. As he started to moved through them, a nightmarish creature made of eyes and mouths grabs him and starts to pull him down. Touching the creatures Preacher used his holy power and puts it to sleep for a moment and then killed it with the special war razor he found from the kobolds. He commanded it to be on fire and continued to move through the eyeballs.
In the room with the statue of a holy warriors with the symbol of the Peacock Spirit, they find a hidden compartment in the back. Inside they find some magic potions and a Staff of Healing. Also there was an ancient map showing a location, but they were unable to discern where it was showing them since the towns and landmarks had changed.
Feeling confident they cleared out this level, they decided to head down the stairs and check the lower level of the vault. Immediately they felt a sense of dread and the air felt malignant. At the bottom of the stairs was a pool with a cauldron spewing out a noxious gas. The gas burned the skin of the group so Budwar and Phain investigated and after a few minutes managed to seal of the cauldron stopping the gas, but not after suffering from it a little.
Heading south they came into a room filled with gears, as well as a humanoid figure made from tallow. Budwar used his Golembane Scarab and detected a golem so the party attacked the figure with fire...Preacher with his flaming War Razor, Xantumal and Phain with fire spells, and Budwar used his hammer to pound it into pieces.
Playing with the gears, they learned it flipped a section of wall allowing people to get tot he other side. They realized it met up with another hallway so they followed that instead. In that room there was a Cleric of Pharasma trapped in a crystal. The cleric told Preacher that there was one of three existing seals at this location that held the Runelord of Greed in place. A Necromancer trying to tap into its power has broken the seal and that the Runelord is aware of that and has the power to control the necromancer to finding and breaking the other seals. As he was telling Preacher this a wraith burst forth from the seer and attacked. The group, however, had been ready for anything and managed to dispatch the incorporeal creature. The seer, after some healing, managed to finish telling them that he had sacrificed himself and his afterlife to keep the power of the seals and the Runelord in check. He asked the group destroy the necromancer and either reseal the vault or collapse the tunnels leading to it. Budwar agreed and they continued on.
They returned back to the hallway and headed south. Finding another room, they entered to find some undead. Preacher channeled and destroyed most of the undead and the group cleaned up the rest. Continuing on the came across another tomb of six sarcophagi of war generals in the Runelord's army. Out of nowhere, a creature attacked that was made up of many different body parts. It was identified as a Mohrg by Phain. Budwar used his smite ability on it and with the part's help destroyed the undead creature.
After finding some nice items on the corpse, they returned to the hallway and headed south. Another room revealed a mummy with flies and insects buzzing around his head in a cloud. Budwar, immune to the fear caused by the mummy, again used his smite ability to demolish the dangerous undead foe.
To the south they came across a stone plug blocking the way. The sense of dread caused by the seal was growing stronger, and the party decided to return upstairs to rest in the same area so they could be at full strength when confronting the necromancer.
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