Session 52 - The Ravenous Crypts Continued

Erastus 7

The party started searching for secret doors after getting themselves healed up. The monk found a trap door in the floor that had a ladder leading down to a hallway. The group headed down the hallway and found yet another secret door leading to another room. Inside the room were three sarcophagi and the lich. It immediately cast a spell that made a cloud that made everyone sick, except Phain who was immune, and tapped his stick against a sarcophagus behind him. Immediately waves of negative energy pulsed healing the lich and Phain while injuring everyone else in the room.

Phain and the lich battled while everyone else fought the nausea. Xantumal, who had changed into an Earth Elemental and was traveling in the walls, came out and grabbed the lich and dragged him back up into the previous room. Everyone but Phain moved back there and dispatched the lich once in for all. Phain meanwhile broke all the sarcophagi with his adamantine gauntlet, including the lich's phylactery.

Having taken heavy damage, the party decided to rest back in the Shimmering Veil and come back to fully explore the Ravenous Crypts the next day.

Erastus 8

The party had one area left to explore in the crypts. Those doors lead to a larger room that was the tomb of some Thassilonian noble. An armor plated golem was inside protecting the tomb. The golem hit the monk, but otherwise the party was careful in their fight. Preacher tried to heal the wound, but somehow the wound was resisting the magic spell and Preacher told the monk it would have to heal on its own.

Searching carefully the rooms, they found one more hidden area. Inside was a sarcophagus made entirely out of crystal. Inside were undead, but they were not sure how to get them out. Phain took his adamantine gauntlet and smashed the crystal release two dread wraiths, larger version of wraiths. Preacher used his death ward to protect the group from level drain while the monk used his ghost touch sword to do full damage to the ghostly figures. Some damage was taken, but nothing the group couldn't handle.

A secret cache was found that had some treasure, as well as a plan shift focus. Preacher and Phain were sure that it could be used to travel directly here, instead of having to use the heads at Rimeskull.