After a rest they approached the next room. This room had spikes all along the floor and ceilings. There was a staircase across the way leading down. Phain used his boots to walk along the wall and check out the staircase. It was real and not trapped. Searching for traps on the way back he was finding multiple traps when a glowing creature attacked him and then disappeared. Khazen cast a detect invisible spell and directed everyone on its movements until they killed it. Phain lead everyone safely through the traps.
Heading down the stairs they found a room with a strange device. When they started to investigate it, a wizard appeared out of no where telling them to leave his experiments alone. A fireball sprang from his fingers damaging everyone. The group attacked him and managed to avoid a slippery area on the floor. After they killed him they found a Hound Archon corpse he was dissecting. The device in the nearby room turned corpse into healing potions, and they used both the wizard and the Hound Archon to make some.
Going down the other hallway, they came to a room with a breeze blowing inwards. Inside the room was a man covered in tiny bug-like creature. It attacked as well as a swarm. When they killed the man. a swarm burst out of it. Khazen and Xantumal used spells to damage the swarms, Khazen almost was infected but Xantumal had a wind spell that dispersed them long enough to save him. Beyond this room was a scrying pool that required a key. The party remember the key in amber, so they went back up and experimented with the remaining combinations of powders and liquids until they made an acidic solution that freed the key. Using the key caused a pod of water to cover the users head. Xantumal cast water breathing so everyone would be OK when using it.
Heading further down the other hallway, the worked stone turned to natural cavern. They entered a large area with a lake and a boat. Also a small hallway branched off so they decided to see what was down there first. As they were going down the hallway they came to a ziggurat shaped room that had swords raining from the ceiling and falling into slits of the floor only to reappear at the top of the room to fall again. A vampire was in the center of the room and pulled in Phain, Khazen and Orik. Gravity increased in the room and they had a hard time standing up or avoiding falling swords. Orik managed to stand up and attack while Preacher used his aura against death to protect from life drain and then hit him with a searing light spell.
They killed the vampire, but it escaped down a small hole in gaseous form. Xantumal changed shape into a tiny creature and followed it down to the vampire's lair. There he staked the vampire, cut off its head and doused it in holy water.
Heading back to the large cavern, Xantumal cast air walk on everyone so they didn't have to rely on the boat. A large black dragon emerged from the water and breathed acid on everyone, and then bit and held Phain in its mouth repositioning itself for another breath when they felled it as it was inhaling.
After searching for the dragon's treasure, they continued on to an area the was covered in some slippery slime leading to a trench in the floor where water was flowing, and on the other side was a door. Preacher moved up first and got attacked by two crab like humanoids. One grabbed him and took him underwater, but luckily still had water breathing spell in effect. The other Chuul grabbed Phain and took him underwater as well. Vale jumped in to save them, while Khazen, Xantumal, and Orik used ranged attacks. Preacher used his channels to keep himself and Phain alive, but even those were not enough to save his life.
The group retreated back to the library to rest.
Sunday Neth 4 Around 5PM
After resting Xantumal cast a reincarnate spell on Preacher. Preacher came back from the dead, but now as a gnome. Gone was the intimidating priest of Pharasma, replaced by a perky looking gnome. Preacher was not happy about the change, and seemed to have a death wish.
Heading past the water trench to the door, it lead to stairs. Preacher bolted past the group, down the stairs, and into the following room. There were three levers int he room that wouldn't budge. Khazen and Vale came into the room and when Khazen approached the southern doors, they all closed, and three fire elementals appeared. They each moved to one of the switch and pulled at the same time opening the door, but causing walls of fire sectioning off the three areas. Xantumal used a quench spell to remove the walls and weaken the elementals as the rest of the group poured into the room and killed off the elementals.
Heading to the next room there was a grate on the floor and when Phain approached it, two oozes pressed through the grate and turned into four oozes. Khazen cast a well placed fireball damaging the oozes while Xantumal summon elementals to finish them off.
Heading east, the group came to a room with a portal to another plane. Phain advanced and saw a Xill and a Destrachen. The destrachan emitted a piercing howl, while the xill appeared in the middle of the group with a silence spell on. They killed the xill before it could lay eggs in anyone, then turned their attention to the destrachan. Soon both creatures were dead.
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