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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 3307129" data-attributes="member: 8951">Session 2: Alexander's EarWhile Alexander and Tarric were sleeping off their fatigue during the day of the 11th of Planting, Killick and Alees were cutting limbs off the tree that has been felled just outside the entrance to the cairn in order to allow quicker exit from the dungeon in the future.  When Alexander woke up around 8 pm, he had the rest of the night to make a scroll before preparing spells for the next day.12th of Planting:    In the morning, Killian decided that the abandoned office was sufficiently cleaned and repaired for him to join the party in the dungeon today.  (He had grown tired of missing out on all of the action.)  So, for the first time, the entire party entered the dungeon together.  On the way there, they noticed that the sky was getting cloudy.  They guessed that rain must be on the way.  Upon entering, they spent a bit more time searching the wolves den and found a broken stone finger.  They found that the sarcophagus trap had somehow been reset, so they disarmed it (again.  They decided that the sarcophagus was as secure a place as any to place their valuables.  Then they returned to the area of the dungeon that they were exploring the previous day (the portion underneath the green lantern).    The party encountered another GIANT BOMBARDIER BEETLE.  Katawan noticed 3 large lumps covered in orange goo behind the basin.  He scraped off the goo and found humanoid bones.  Tarric carried one of the lumps out into the corridor.  Alees poured water on it from her waterskin and wiped it off with an empty sack she had been carrying.  She found soiled and ruined red leather armor with the 8-pointed star symbol they had seen before.  In addition, they found a stoppered bottle on his belt.  They also cleaned off the other two corpses.  These had stoppered bottles on their belts as well.  One of them also had a belt pouch containing 2 gp, 5 sp, 8 cp, and a magnificent pearl.    Tarric went to wash the goo off of his hands in the water at the end of the hallway and was attacked by a small WATER ELEMENTAL.  The party decided to explore the underwater room at the end of the hallway.  Tarric removed his armor so that he could swim more effectively.  Killian decided to keep his armor on and simply walk underwater.  The party tied ropes to both of them before they submerged.  Each of the two held an object with Light cast upon it.  When they were halfway into the room, Killian was attacked by a GHOUL wearing the same red leather armor as the rest of the corpses the party had found.  Killian tried unsuccessfully to turn the undead.  Tarric tugged on the rope to have his party-mates pull them both back up to the stairs.  The ghoul followed them and was killed on the stairs.  The ghoul was wearing a gold ring fashioned with the same 8-pointed star figure.     Tarric and Killian returned to the underwater room to explore.  They found another corpse in red leather armor who was carrying the violet lantern (that was missing from the 7-alcove room) as well as a scabbard that contained a short sword of very fine make.  In the pile of cracked bones that the ghoul had been feeding on, the party found a belt pouch containing 2 pp, 38 gp, and 55 sp.    The party returned to the lantern room.  They experimented with turning the sarcophagus some more.  They discovered a false elevater CRUSH TRAP and avoided it.  They also discovered that one of the alcoves has a round passage cut into the stone 40 feet above the ground.  The party climbed up to it and found irregular scratch marks going down the length of the tunnel.  At the end of the 70 foot long tunnel, was a bas-relief of an angry face with a very large mouth.  Seeing this prompted Killick to plant a piton and tie a rope around Alees.  Then the rest of the party evacuated the tunnel while Alees checked for traps.  She found one right in front of her, a pressure plate that she was unable to disable.  The party decided to return to this corridor later.    After much experimenting, the party descended the elevator in the alcove with the yellow lantern.  The elevator emptied into a small room whose egress was blocked by a large bolder.  The room itself was covered with a bas-relief similar to the one encountered below the yellow lantern, except this one showed a multitude of bald people in happy adulation.  Alees discovered tiny holes in the sculptures that she decided were part of a GAS TRAP.  She spent a while (with Alexander) plugging these holes up before moving the large stone block that kept them from moving into the corridor in front of the party.  Moving the stone did indeed set off the trap, but the gas was blocked and no one was affected.    The party walked down a long corridor lined on both sides with statues.  Although each statue was different, they all had their right hands extended slightly with the palms facing up.  Killick noticed that each palm seemed to have a different shaped shallow impression in it.  At the end of the hallway was a cold room.  Killick and Alees found a BROWN MOLD growing on another basin full of orange goo.  Alexander poured oil on the mold and lit it with a torch.  The mold seemed to absorb the heat from the fire.  With this sudden intense heat source, the mold doubled in size almost instantly.  Those near the mold found the heat being drawn out of their bodies.  Alexander fell unconscious; he was shivering and turning blue.  He seemed to have taken severe cold damage from the mold.  Killian dragged Alexander's body from the mold, and then Killian, Killick, and Katawan worked together to stabilize Alexander.  However, the young wizard seemed to be in very bad shape.  The party decided to withdraw from the Cairn and do what they could to revive Alexander.</blockquote>

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