DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Skeef Hawkridge (Half Elf Druid 7 / Thief 7)
Goro (Half Orc Cleric 7 / Fighter 6)
Solcha (Elf Fighter 5 / Magic User 7)
[Baqua Irontoes (Halfling Fighter 4 / Thief 6)]
Date/Time
Goodmonth 10 (midday) - Goodmonth 10 (mid afternoon)
As the party finishes gathering the treasure and the strange metal object, their redoubtable paladin suddenly vanishes from sight. With Solcha muttering something about 'powerful wizard magical time dimensional dilation temporal fields' or something, the party shrugs and moves out the room and down a long winding corridor. After several twists and turns, they see that something lurks in the darkness ahead. The strange reptilian creature lifts its head and gazes at the party. Goro barely shrugs off a sense of suddenly stony-ness before the might of the party falls on the thing, Several more near-petrifications occur before the beast is battered to bits. Just around the corner they encounter a room; which blazes with the night of a thousand suns when Goro stick his continual light coin in for a look. After much experimentation, they discover the room is filled with very highly polished metal mirrors, orientated to 'build up' light and reflect it in an almighty blaze.
Further down the passage they open a door and release a giant rolling stone boulder. The party flees before it and takes refuge in the mirror room as the stone ball crashes on down the corridor. Once danger is past, they return to the door, open it, and are surprised to find another boulder rolling towards them. This 'boulder and run' process continues for some time until Skeef casts stone shape to drive a passage though the walls and around the trap. Curiously, once they get into the 'boulder' room, they find no boulder or anything else of interest.
Beyond they follow another wide passage that leads to a solid wall of the strange blue-ish metal. In the centre at about waist level is a recessed carving of a square with a circle on each corner. The party notes right away that (a) it kind of looks like the ruins of the tower and (b) the weird blue-ish metal thing from the manticore lair fits exactly into one side. Solcha also searches and finds hints of a doorway, but no sign of how to open it. Figuring the metal piece is a key, and that they need three more to get beyond the metal door, the party retreats and heads back to the surface ruins and the NW tower.
Descending below the NW tower, the party walks a wide corridor with another cryptic message carved on the wall "TAKE CARE WHAT YOU SPEAK AND WHERE YOU LOOK". Goro immediately pulls out his candle wax to prepare to plug his ears. At the end of the corridor they come to a door. Beyond is a room, at the centre of which is a crystal pillar topped by a 8' diameter crystal sphere. Inside the sphere swirls mist and something(s) else. On the base are carved four words: IXAM, ALRASTIL, PENTUKO, MYRG. Finding that door exiting the room is locked and unopenable, the party sits down to puzzle out the words, assuming they are some sort of clue. Several hours and much ink later, they can make no sense of it. So Goro boldly reads the four words aloud. And immediately a mist drift out of the globe and deposits four monsters in front of the cleric; and ice toad, minotaur, owl bear, and carnivorous ape. These tear into the half orc, all hitting hard, before his companions come to assist. In the end all four are slain. The party also noted the crystal ball has shrunk to about the size of a kobolds skull. And the exit door is nowe unlocked ...
GAINS
none
KILLS/VICTORIES
Basilisk
Owl Bear
Ice Toad
Minotaur
Carnivorous Ape
LOSSES
none
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