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Dermot cursed as he and Darrow failed to see a way out of the room. Darrow wondered aloud if the whole purpose of the room was that of a trap, asking Aerikoth if he bought that. The wizard again observed that they were likely missing something, since it would be odd to have such an extensive lab...

It became evident to Shanni that the spike trap in the corridor had reset itself, so she advised her companions to jump over it, past where Darrow had impaled himself. Dermot quickly followed her advice, but misjudged the distance and received a spike through his leg, wincing and collapsing...

Shanni was unfortunately unable to disarm the trap and the adventurers, seeing what had happened the last time, were reluctant to attempt the door. Darrow wondered if they could shoot the trap from a distance, while the petite rogue bit her lip and stared at the door. After rummaging through his...

After some commentary on the fate of the previous pit occupants, they tried the door and found it to be locked, to Shanni’s chagrin, without a way to pick it. Aerikoth volunteered to attempt his chime of opening before Darrow’s “dwarven locksmith” technique was applied. The wizard pulled forth...

The new corridor featured a spider pattern inlaid into the stone, which Darrow remarked on. As Shanni carefully led the way, Dermot relayed more about the conversation in the chapel with the vampire. She had said she did not who the Night King was, also denying that he was the master of this...

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While Aerikoth and Shanni remained to study the chapel further, Darrow and Dermot ran back to the room, where Dermot expressed his relief upon discovering the ring was still there. The ranger and the dwarf made their way back to the chapel, but in the gloom did not see their two companions, who...

Shanni cursed as she scrambled for something in her pack, then the petite rogue brought forth a magical scroll. She intoned the words rapidly, ending with a simple “please work.” Darrow then stirred, coughing and wheezing, to Dermot and Aerikoth’s approval and relief. Seeing the ranger slumping...

Impatient, Darrow tried one of the doors and was zapped hard by some force, although the stoneskin absorbed most of it. Turning to using their brains (for once --R), Dermot and Shanni worked to recall the colors on the misty door in the entrance corridor – yellow, orange, and blue – which they...

The wizard then moved away from the others, apparently taking inventory of the various magical scrolls and other implements he had with him. Absorbed in his task, he barely noticed his three companions heading through the south door of the central hall. After finishing his inspection, Aerikoth...

Dermot went on to point out the visible features of the hall: several statues, two doors that were “rigged” as he put it, one hidden door that went to a locked door, and one hidden door that went to another hidden door, which his companions had just emerged from. Shanni noticed that the statues...

Dermot soon called up that he was all right and that the pit was not very big. At first he shouted that he had not found anything, but then discovered a door in the pit wall. Shanni asked Darrow and Aerikoth, who had arched an eyebrow at all the shouting, if they should join him. Darrow, as...

Once back downstairs below the ruined tower, Shanni moved down the corridor and fiddled around on the floor, seemingly securing some tiles. She told her companions that it should be all right, but to be careful, and then approached a dark chest, appearing to fiddle around some more inside it...

Inside and down a set of stairs, they found themselves at the east end of a dark stone corridor, with seemingly blood-red wall tile interspersed with sandstone and jeweled patterns. Before anyone else could say anything, Aerikoth proposed that before they continued, they should eliminate the...

The adventurers made their way out of the cave of bones and were disappointed to see that night had already fallen on Tarsakh 1. Aerikoth gave an obvious warning that the parasitic undead would be more active after dark. Shanni heard a funny squeaking nearby and Dermot confirmed that it was...

As the adventurers debated what could be down there, the Ghost of the Pit reappeared and said that they had seen his home now. Shanni, who had not previously encountered the apparition, staggered away, groping in turn for her bow and magic cloak while sporting a panicked expression. Meanwhile...

The petite rogue Shanni was in fact uninjured, having fallen relatively gently into a packed pile of bones, close by the flaming torch Darrow had thrown into the pit. She called out to Dermot that she was all right, then picked up the torch, exclaiming that there were thousands of bones. She...

Interlude from "C" It is with mixed feelings that I resume my study and commentary of these chronicles, after nigh on six months occupied with other pressing duties. The transfer of our monastery to another site in Archendale disrupted many things, yet was necessary in order to preserve both...

Resting for a moment, the party regarded the ruins around them. Dermot noted that, unless there was something he had missed, it seemed that just the Sacrifice Pit was left to explore. Shanni pointed out that they still could go past their “friend”, nodding at the ghostly warrior Aronson still...

Two others like them had come once, continued the ghost, but it said it had not seen them since. Aerikoth presumed that this had been the monk and the paladin, some twenty years past. The ghost had nothing more to say on this, but began musing about how long it had been there. It had been an...