Session 43 - Clean Up Part 3

Pharast 20

After defeating the harpies the party entered the tower to attack the Black Monk. Phain flew in first. Inside the tower the temperature of the air was freezing and everything was covered in a layer of frost making it slippery. Inside they found the Black Monk flying in the air, its legs and arms wrapped up tight.

Phain blasted it with a scorching ray, greatly injuring it. But then Phain was no longer in control of his actions and started blasting the party with lightning bolts. Orik moved in the tower but fell on the frost, while Xantumal tried to flam strike it. Physical weapons seemed to not affect it. Preacher was paralyzed with fear and was unable to do anything. Swarms of bugs came from the mummy and started to hurt the party while a second lightning bolt made preacher unconscious. Vale, almost dead himself, dragged preacher away. Finally the killing blow was delivered with almost half of the party almost dead.

The Black Monk was carry a scroll tube that was impossible to open. Khazen used a wand of knock 3 times to finally get it to open. Inside were valuable ancient scroll detailing a religion of the Peacock Spirit and also contain some clerical scrolls.

Pharast 21 through Pharast Gozran 1

Phain and Khazen studied in the ancient library for information on Runeforge. They also used Mokmurian's head to get more information with the magical cage they had found. Khazen also used teleport to return the party to Magnimar so they could sell the items they had found and buy new items with that money.

After six days Phain and Khazen had the information about Runeforge and were ready to return to Sandpoint to try and find the traitor Xaliasa. Khazen wanted to make a few scrolls so Phain spent a couple days starting to research Xin-Shalast. After they were both ready, they teleported back to Sandpoint and met up with everyone else.

They were greeted by the Sheriff and the Mayor of Sandpoint. They informed the party that almost two weeks ago there was an earthquake and that the runewell below flared back to life. Also at that time the callapsed stairwell became clear and that there were strange howling sounds coming from down there. They posted guards but a couple days ago they disappeared. The party assured them they were heading down to investigate.