Session 29 - In Pursuit of Swords

Starday Neth 3 Around 8AM

Hearing that there was an entrance to an ancient stronghold off of the crypt, the group decided to check it out. Jakardros went to Turtleback Ferry to request help with repairs and to send word to Magnimar for men.

Approaching the crypt, they saw a huge hole on the side of one wall, spilling out some contents of coffins. A ghostly figure rose out of one of them with an angry look on it's face. Preacher recognized this creature as a spectre, and called upon Pharasma to protect everyone from the life draining attacks. Knowing the the spirit's attack were mostly harmless, the group dove in and returned it to the afterlife.

The tunnel led down to a complex deep underground. Shalelu and Hogie stayed back to guard the keep and wait for Jakardros's return.

As they entered the first room of the stronghold, they knew they were in for some weird sights. First in this room was a huge trough filled with fish. Somehow these fish survived for thousands of years. Wary of traps, Phain proceeded out the door further into the stronghold. He was greeted by swords from some thugs that Tirana must have brought with her to guard her back. Phain retreated into the room. Xantumal sent some swarm of bugs after the thugs while Orik attacked and wiped them out.

Heading further down the hallway, they came across a pile of treasure. Not buying it for one moment, Phain saw through the illusion and found that the wall would collapse on anyone getting close and releasing a creature in stasis. Further down the hallway some goblins tried to lay traps for anyone to follow but instead caused their own deaths.

The next room they came to had a huge cauldron and 3 skull pillars with different colored water in them; red, yellow and blue. Searching the room they found powder of the same three colors, some lead ingots, and a key trapped in amber.

The party wanted to move on and not mess with it, but Preacher was excited to experiment. Xantumal knew some alchemy and told him that one liquid and one powder needed to be mixed. The first mixture created a small portal to the negative energy plane, the second produced a mixture that was the equivalent to potion of cure serious wounds, and the third mixture summoned a demon.

This demon has some sort of acidic ooze covering it that damaged everyone weapons when hit, and most hits or spells were not effective or not as effective as they should be. Also, the demon summoned a second one. Khazen cast a haste spell while the others attacked. Vale hit the second one with a serious of deadly hits killing it, while completely rendering his weapons ineffective. Orik and Khazen managed to kill the other one. Khazen used a spell to repair everyone's weapons. They decided it would be better to move on than to experiment.