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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2142186" data-attributes="member: 7451">Things are looking bleak for the Mysterions, a brave party of adventurers in Greyhawk of which Dr. Thanatos, Demonologist, is a member. Plumbing the depths of an ancient castle left over from a centuries-old fallen empire in the Bright Desert, the Mysterions were looking for an ancient device purported to be able to break through all magical defenses against scying, revealing the Truth. They accidentally triggered a trap containing a bleakborn, one of the ancient undead of the city of Moil. Apparently, the lich-lord of the castle keeps exotic undead as "pets". The Mysterions successfully beat back, but did not kill, the bleakborn, only to reveal a bodak. During the fight with the bodak, in order to avoid its insidious gaze, Miss Bernadina the rogue ran. Right back into the bleakborn trap. The undead monster made swift work of her, and only through fate were the Mysterions able to recover their goods from the zombified Bernadina's bag of holding before leaving the two undead to their timeless prison.Deeper in the castle, the Mysterions accidentally released two spectral lyrists, members of the lich's menagerie, but they were defeated with little fanfare. We were met by the lich's majordomo, a vampire tatooed with strange, arcane runes, who escorted us into the lich's inner sanctum. The lich revealed that we had reason to aid each other. The ring we had been given by our patron was the key to a vault in the lich's throne room. This vault was long since unopened, and the lich needed to get the crown within the vault to be able to obtain the eldritch device (as well as open a portal to the Negative Energy Plane, but...). We gave him the ring, he gave us the device, and the Mysterions fled to the surface as the lich sank his castle deep beneath the sands to finish his plans.The elevated vault that the lich-lord sent us away in contained a very helpful spirit, who informed us of both the possibility of sandstorms and the raging battle taking place within the desert between Rary the Traitor and the armies of the Circle of Eight. Once outside, my character, Dr. Thanatos, attempted to use the device to determine where the armies were, so as to avoid them. He was greeted with a vision that was maddening in its complexity, and fully incomprehensible. Struck with a sudden urge, as well as the information that the undead of the castle were terrified of an ancient coin in the Mysterion's possession, a coin possessed with the spirit of an ancient Suel archmage, Thanatos attempted to bury it in the sand and encase it in glass formed by his eldritch blast, as its "chosen", Bernadina, was now dead.Then all hell broke loose.Suffice it to say, Thanatos and the two halflings, Sunshine and Starshine, were the only survivors, with Rosie Starshine badly dehydrated, Thanatos wracked with supernatural pain, and Radday, the party's wizard, left in the desert, a thrall of the coin and feebleminded thanks to a miscast scroll. But the coin was last seen in the claws of a dire vulture, with Radday dimly chasing after it.Next week will be bad...Demiurge out.</blockquote>

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