We headed back towards the lava tunnels, threading lightly on the unpolished stone. As we found our way into the next room, Vlada triggered a blast glyph that made a terrible sound. Vlada quickly jumped to the side, while Erold was partly caught in the blast. Continuing even more cautiously, Vlada managed to trigger a second trap but this time we escaped completely unscathed.
We looked into the next room and there where huge husks of dead spiders pushed back against the walls. As Vlada stepped into the room, the animated corpses sprung into motion and shambled across the room towards him, one bit him hard but as he backed into the room with the rest of us Heion threw a fireball into their midst. With the spider zombies coming at us one at a time, Erold and Darius hacked them to pieces one at a time with the occasional shot finding its mark from me, Heion and Swyth.
Once in the singed room, we looked around. To our left was a room with an obsidian altar. Sensing danger we moved carefully which was fortunate as two horrible creatures appeared out of nothing and attacked us. Myself, Swyth and Vlada recognized these creatures as Spawn of Kyuss. The mere sight of them made Swyth and Darius run for their lives. As we started exchanging blows, One of them threw a worm on Erolds armor, but he immediately squished it in his hand. I invoked the power of Mystra and the two creatures headed for the back of the room. As we closed in for the kill we saw that their injuries closed by themselves. An infuriated Erold however would have none of that and charged them with full force. He pulverized them before they realized what hit them.
Vlada examined the obsidian structure carefully, it had some kind of lid but before we even got close to it he spotted that the surface had been coated in some kind of poison. He scraped the poison off the areas we needed to slide the lid off. Once the lid was gone, we found a huge treasure in the coffin, 15000 cp, 8000 sp, 4500 gp and 200 pp. If we could just recover the last two wands we would be set for a party at the Morkoth when we go back to the surface.
The other exit from the spider room brought a terrible sight. A tyrannosaurus rex skeleton had been used to create a nasty guardian, the guardian however, could not leave its room so we left it where it was and went round it into the other two lava tubes we had discovered before.
One of them led into the room with the T-Rex and the other to a small cave in. We climbed carefully across and found secure footing on the other side. With everyone in the other room, we moved on into the final chamber. Vlada was immediately assaulted by foul magic as the Gnoll Huecuva Tarkilar cast hold person on him. He shrugged this off and fired a bolt towards him which bounced harmlessly on the magically hardened skin of the monstrosity. The creature moved towards Vlada and hit him with his spiked chain before the rest of us could act. But even though the chains bit deep into Vlada's flesh, Tarkilar's doom was inevitable as we all closed in towards him. In the end Erold severed one of his legs and as it dropped to it's knees, the final blow split his skull to its neck.
After looting the room and the corpse we headed back towards the T-rex and peppered it with bolts to the spirited singing of Swyth. It took some time, but in the end the T-rex died to our fire. We returned to the surface and delivered the wands to Jenya who was very pleased .Although we had only 7 wands at this time, it was enough to turn the tide before any lives where lost. I helped with one of the wands myself. We received our reward of 5000 gp.
Year of Wild Magic, Marpenoth 21
The weave swirls around in joy as good has once again triumphed over the forces of evil.
We headed back down into the fortress to recover our treasure and conduct a thorough search of the premises. By the use of detect magic, we located another wand in the water below the illusory floor. By draining the water with a spell granted by Mystra and the aid of Heion's burning hands, we killed the ooze swarm that protected it and recovered the final wand. The vast amount of equipment was brought to the surface and stashed in the shrine and the food was distributed to the poor.
Swyth apparently stayed up all of last night creating a new poem to depict our exploits in the fortress.
It is time to have a thorough read through Skaven's notes to see what they might have been up to down here. I think me, Heion and Darius might have to take turns since we do not know if there are more snake sigils lurking on the hidden pages.
We looked into the next room and there where huge husks of dead spiders pushed back against the walls. As Vlada stepped into the room, the animated corpses sprung into motion and shambled across the room towards him, one bit him hard but as he backed into the room with the rest of us Heion threw a fireball into their midst. With the spider zombies coming at us one at a time, Erold and Darius hacked them to pieces one at a time with the occasional shot finding its mark from me, Heion and Swyth.
Once in the singed room, we looked around. To our left was a room with an obsidian altar. Sensing danger we moved carefully which was fortunate as two horrible creatures appeared out of nothing and attacked us. Myself, Swyth and Vlada recognized these creatures as Spawn of Kyuss. The mere sight of them made Swyth and Darius run for their lives. As we started exchanging blows, One of them threw a worm on Erolds armor, but he immediately squished it in his hand. I invoked the power of Mystra and the two creatures headed for the back of the room. As we closed in for the kill we saw that their injuries closed by themselves. An infuriated Erold however would have none of that and charged them with full force. He pulverized them before they realized what hit them.
Vlada examined the obsidian structure carefully, it had some kind of lid but before we even got close to it he spotted that the surface had been coated in some kind of poison. He scraped the poison off the areas we needed to slide the lid off. Once the lid was gone, we found a huge treasure in the coffin, 15000 cp, 8000 sp, 4500 gp and 200 pp. If we could just recover the last two wands we would be set for a party at the Morkoth when we go back to the surface.
The other exit from the spider room brought a terrible sight. A tyrannosaurus rex skeleton had been used to create a nasty guardian, the guardian however, could not leave its room so we left it where it was and went round it into the other two lava tubes we had discovered before.
One of them led into the room with the T-Rex and the other to a small cave in. We climbed carefully across and found secure footing on the other side. With everyone in the other room, we moved on into the final chamber. Vlada was immediately assaulted by foul magic as the Gnoll Huecuva Tarkilar cast hold person on him. He shrugged this off and fired a bolt towards him which bounced harmlessly on the magically hardened skin of the monstrosity. The creature moved towards Vlada and hit him with his spiked chain before the rest of us could act. But even though the chains bit deep into Vlada's flesh, Tarkilar's doom was inevitable as we all closed in towards him. In the end Erold severed one of his legs and as it dropped to it's knees, the final blow split his skull to its neck.
After looting the room and the corpse we headed back towards the T-rex and peppered it with bolts to the spirited singing of Swyth. It took some time, but in the end the T-rex died to our fire. We returned to the surface and delivered the wands to Jenya who was very pleased .Although we had only 7 wands at this time, it was enough to turn the tide before any lives where lost. I helped with one of the wands myself. We received our reward of 5000 gp.
Year of Wild Magic, Marpenoth 21
The weave swirls around in joy as good has once again triumphed over the forces of evil.
We headed back down into the fortress to recover our treasure and conduct a thorough search of the premises. By the use of detect magic, we located another wand in the water below the illusory floor. By draining the water with a spell granted by Mystra and the aid of Heion's burning hands, we killed the ooze swarm that protected it and recovered the final wand. The vast amount of equipment was brought to the surface and stashed in the shrine and the food was distributed to the poor.
Swyth apparently stayed up all of last night creating a new poem to depict our exploits in the fortress.
It is time to have a thorough read through Skaven's notes to see what they might have been up to down here. I think me, Heion and Darius might have to take turns since we do not know if there are more snake sigils lurking on the hidden pages.
