DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Skeef Hawkridge (Half Elf Druid 7 / Thief 7)
Goro (Half Orc Cleric 7 / Fighter 6)
Solcha (Elf Fighter 5 / Magic User 7)
Chanee (Human Paladin 6)
[Baqua Irontoes (Halfling Fighter 4 / Thief 6)]
Date/Time
Goodmonth 11 (later night) - Harvester 11 (day)
... Solcha, in the lead, reaches the end of the shaft first. She emerges into a large dome of that blue-silvery metal. And then is then nearly blinded by an intense flash of light off to the left. When her vision clears, she notes that the only thing in the room is a large white gem floating 4' off the floor at the centre. This could only be the Soul Gem, twin of their Midnight Opal. The party emerges one by one, the spell casters dropping protective spells as they emerge, and Skeef staying hunkered down in the shaft for now and supporting with spells. The intense light flashes again, and they realize it emerges from the gem, illuminating a different sector of the room each time. They try guessing where each flash will appear, assuming it is not good for them, as they try to figure out what to do with the Opal and Gem. And it is not good, as one flash catches them. Baqua turns a translucent white and drops dead, her soul floating towards the Gem. The others are lucky to just have themselves and their belongings bleached the same white.
Finding there is a force-field round the gem, they try many ways to get past it. In the end they just press the Opal against it, and eventually it breaks through and smashes into the Gem. Solcha then uses her rope trick scroll to get her out of there, except Channe who stays behind to guard Baqua's body and to see what happens. The paladin sees the two combine into a swirling cloud of ectoplasmic black and white before exploding, sending a shower of thousands of black and white souls throughout the dome. Baqua's soul returns to her and she stands up once more alive. The rest head for the shaft and head down into the tower.
The tower now begins to shake and rumble, so the party (now out of the rope trick refuge) figure they have to get back to the first room and get out of here. They do this with relative ease, finding all the monsters who might stop them have been killed. They successfully get back to the room with the padded chairs, then out of the dungeons below the ruined keep to emerge onto the surface just as the twin moons Clene and Luna are setting and the rosy fingered dawn rises to the east.
After a day and night to rest and recover, they load onto the carpet (and Skeef turns into his eagle form) to head for the City of Greyhawk to prepare for the next stage of their journey west to the Lost Caverns. There they rest more, train and trade, and then look at their empty coin purses trying to figure out what comes next.
GAINS
None
KILLS/VICTORIES
None
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