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<blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 4099816" data-attributes="member: 8951"><p><strong>Session 55: The Apex of the Temple of the Dark Sun</strong></p><p></p><p><em>9th of Fireseek</em>. Upon opening the first door of the third floor of the temple, the party had discovered two black-skinned undead of the same type that they had now fought on several occasions. The party had engaged them and dispatched one quickly. However, the second one had emitted an ear-splitting scream that had seemed uneffective to the party, until Katawan opened a door and saw a mummy and two metallic skeletons marching in his direction. Katawan tried to shut the door to keep the new enemies out, but they simply opened it up again. Katawan now found himself surrounded by enemies - the black-skinned undead was with him in the preparation room, and the skeletons and mummy were on the opposite side of the doorway. The mummy started casting spells. Then it moved directly behind the skeletons and urged them forward. The skeletons raked at Katawan with their elongated, gem-encrusted claws. When he jumped sideways to dodge their blows, he was struck unexpectedly in the adam's apple by the black-skinned undead. This attack left him stunned and helpless. The skeletons seized their opportunity and grabbed hold of him, sinking their claws into his flesh. Tarric and Alees worked together to dispatch the black-skinned undead while Killick attempted to help Katawan by touching him with a wand of healing. Unfortunately, though, he made contact with one of the constructs first, using up the spell with no effect. The mummy moved forward and tried to touch Katawan with black energy crackling on its desiccated hand. However, Katawan wiggled at just the right moment, causing it to miss.</p><p> </p><p> Tarric stepped up next to Katawan to take the mummy's attention away from his near-helpless comrade. Tarric's heroic act was successful. The mummy turned its attention to him instead. It laid its hand on Tarric's chest and in a croaking voice, it said, "Die!" Tarric's eyes fluttered, he dropped his sword, and fell to the ground lifeless. And, at about that moment, the party saw two more metal skeletons moving forward from the worship hall on the far side of the door. It was at this moment, that things looked the darkest. Tarric was dead, Katawan was held, and so far they had done little damage to their enemies, who were about to receive reinforcements. Alexander, who had tried to remain outside the room to avoid the gaze of the mummy, finally poked his head in to survey the situation. While the mummy's visage was indeed horrifying, Alexander held his ground. He shot a Magic Missile at it, which was absorbed by the mummy's brooch. He ducked back onto the landing at the top of the staircase and suggested to his partymates that they should consider withdrawal. </p><p></p><p> Katawan finally threw the skeletons off of him. Even though he had only been restrained for a small portion of a minute, those seconds had seemed to last much longer to everyone involved. He asked for healing and made no movement to leave. Alees obliged, tapping him with her healing wand. Killick replied to Alexander, saying that they couldn't leave without Tarric. Now that the skeletons were no longer grasping Katawan, they found other quarry to pursue. One skeleton chased Alees into a closet, while the other moved towards Alexander. Braving the skeleton's attacks, Alexander stepped into the room and cast a spell at the doorway on the opposite side of the room. Suddenly the doorway was filled with a thick sheet of iron. The mummy and the two new skeletons were trapped on the opposite side. Alexander said, "There. That should keep them out for a while. Let's finish these two and get out!" The party concentrated its attacks on the two remaining skeletons. Just then, Alexander heard hurried feet coming up the stairs. As he prepared for the possibility of facing a new threat, he wondered how the party could have missed something down below. Alexander was relieved to see Thorash's gangly new human form running clumsily up the stairs. As he tried to catch his breath, Thorash explained that he had been monitoring the party's progress from outside and had come running when he sensed Tarric's death. He drew his mace and stepped into combat against the nearest metal skeleton</p><p></p><p> Meanwhile, the two other skeletons pounded on the iron wall that blocked their entry into the room. With each thump, the party could see indentations in the iron sheet becoming more and more pronounced. Just when it seemed the iron wall couldn't possibly hold for much longer, the last of the first two skeletons was destroyed. Alees quickly tied Tarric's body to Grimlock's military saddle. The party began beating a hasty retreat. Thorash started casting a spell and was quickly left behind with Killick who stayed behind to guard him. At long last, the iron wall crashed open and the mummy immediately fired a beam of energy at Killick, wounding him slightly. Finally, Thorash's spell was complete and a monstrous earth elemental appeared in the room. As Killick and Thorash joined the retreat, Thorash instructed the elemental to attack. It did so successfully, knocking a large chunk off of one of the skeletons. However, the mummy stepped back with an aggravated look on its decaying visage, and cast a spell which caused the elemental to return to its home plane. As Thorash was running back down the stairs, he saw his summoned ally wink out of existence. He warned the rest of the party not to get too comfortable.</p><p></p><p> They cast a couple healing spells and formed up in front of the opalescent black metal double doors where they had previously defeated a demon. Soon afterward, the party members standing in the doorway saw the two metal skeletons descend the staircase from the upper level and enter the narrow hallway followed by their mummy leader. When the skeletons moved to engage the party, Alexander let loose with a volley of magic missiles. (This was his standard operating procedure. Alexander found that sometimes his magic missiles harmed the creatures and sometimes they didn't.) Thorash was frozen in fear when he finally saw the mummy for the first time. Seeing that Thorash was inactive, it cast a spell that would have held Katawan immobile, but Katawan was able to resist the spell's effect. Grimlock waited with Tarric's body in the sitting room antechamber while the rest of the party fought on. If the party had to retreat, it might be difficult to get everyone back across the lava room without suffering further injury. However, the battle seemed to be going the party's way. In a matter of moments, the party had felled one of the last two skeleton constructs. The mummy stepped up and took the fighting position vacated by its collapsed minion. It formed a foul arcane symbol in the air above it for all to see. When Alees caught a glipse of it, she was wracked by a powerful continuous pain, making it difficult for her to concentrate on anything else. The party focused on the last remaining skeleton, so the mummy cast another spell which made the mummy seem even more powerful than it had been before. It then commenced attacking the party with its bare fists. The party was shocked by the potency of the creature's sudden combat prowess. Seeing his partymates in danger caused Thorash to recover his wits. He cast a spell on the mummy that would (hopefully) negate some of the magical effects that the mummy had cast on itself. After Thorash had cast it, the mummy returned to its normal appearance. Thorash's spell seemed to have met with some success. To test the waters, Alexander cast a fireball on it (that also engulfed a number of his partymates). After the explosion, the party could see that the mummy was on fire. Its resistance to fire had been nullified along with its extra combat prowess! The party knew that it had the upper hand now. Every party member pressed the attack with as many fire-based effects as they could muster, and within a matter of moments, the mummy was dispatched. </p><p></p><p> Alees immediately began prying the most expensive looking gems out of the skeleton constructs. The party collectively rolled its eyes at this behavior, and gave her a time limit of no more than 10 minutes. She spent as much time as the party would allow collecting loot. Then the party decided to go back up and investigate the third level. They reasoned that whatever had been up there must have been alerted to their presence, and if it hadn't already come running to repel them, it was probably not much of a threat. The party found that the remainder of the third level was now deserted. They found two small mausoleums and two small libraries. Alees wanted to spend time robbing the more important looking crypts. However, after unsealing three of them, she was disappointed to discover that they were not buried with any of their valuables. She gave up the search. Alees did quick searches for secret doors and passageways but found none. At the end of a long hallway, the party found a steel door with glowing pink runes surrounding a cloaked figure beneath which was written the words "Death is the entrance to new life." Alees found herself unable to open the door with her lockpicks, so Alexander tried his Chime of Opening. The door seemed to resist the chime's magic, but it finally gave way. Beyond the door was a rising staircase. A large room containing the apex of the pyramid was visible at the top of the stairs, lit by an eerie glow coming from somewhere near the floor. The party members looked at each other and took stock. What they were here for - the White Eye - was most likely at the top of these stairs. But who knew what horrors might be guarding it. Alexander and Thorash were nearly depleted of spells and Tarric lay dead downstairs. Under those circumstances, the party chose to retire, make camp, revive Tarric, and return the next day replenished and ready for battle.</p><p></p><p> Later on that evening, just after dusk, Thorash used up most of the diamonds that Alees had pried from the skeleton constructs in order to raise Tarric from the dead. He was grateful that the party had seen fit to revive him before facing the temple's final challenge. The rest of the party's spellcasters would regain spells at dawn, so the party made camp.</p><p> </p><p> <em>10th of Fireseek</em>. The party awoke refreshed and ready for the final struggle. Thorash cast a number of preparatory spells to aid his partymates in combat, as did Alexander and Killick. The party was as ready as it would ever be. They ascended to where they had turned back the previous day and quickly established the marching order. Alees led the way, looking for traps on the stairs. As she crested the staircase, she saw an undead figure seated in a chair against the far wall and an ornate stone pedastal with a small glowing orb resting on a pillow under glass. She reported this to her comrades and then fell back. Tarric was the first to enter the room. As he did so, the party saw him sheathe his bastard sword and draw the ornate longsword that he had been using as a backup strapped across his back. The figure at the far side of the room remained seated and said, "Welcome! Welcome to my humble prison! I am Horgrim, last remaining disciple of the Ebon Triad here in the once thriving Temple of the Dark Sun. Since you have defeated all of the temple's guardians on the lower levels, you must truly be the ones referred to in the prophecies - praise be to the Overgod! Please come in." By this time all of the party members save Thorash had ascended the staircase and entered the pyramid-shaped room. They now noticed that the creature speaking was stroke a small blue dragon construct as if it were a pet. The construct looked almost identical to the one the party had fought in the last room the party had explored on the temple's first level. Horgrim motioned toward the glowing White Eye lying between him and the party and said, "This is indeed what you are seeking. Please take it and fulfill your destiny... but only if you are pure of heart." With this last phrase, Horgrim's decrepit face curled into the undead version of a smile.</p><p></p><p> Alexander displayed the holy symbol that he carried as a devout worshipper of St. Cuthbert and said, "We are not here to fulfill your vile prophecy, Evil One. We serve forces committed to *preventing* your Age of Worms." The lich shrugged its shoulders and replied, "You are here to remove the Eye from its prison. Doing so will set in motion the events that will finally lead to the creation of the Overgod - may his oppressive reign on Oerth be eternal. Regardless of what you *claim* your purpose is, you are in truth merely pawns doing the Overgod's bidding." </p><p> </p><p> Incredulous, Alexander asked, "And once we leave here with the Eye, what will you do?" Horgrim replied, "I will finally have earned my rest and my place at the Overgod's side." With a flash of righteous anger, Alexander said, "Then you won't mind if we hasten your end!" With that he began casting a spell. However, at the moment Alexander began casting, a coccoon of blue flame ignited all around Horgrim's body, protecting him. As Alexander finished one spell and then cast another quickened spell, Horgrim impassively said, "If this is how it must be, then so be it." Both of Alexander's powerful fireball blasts washed over the lich with no apparent effect. Neither did they have any effect on his blue dragon minion. The rest of the party charged forward to engage the enemies. </p><p></p><p> Tarric flew forward directly in front of the lich. As his longsword sliced into the undead creature, wounding it, Horgrim betrayed a look of surprise. However, when he noticed Tarric's sword, the look of surprise turned to one of recognition. He stood up and said to Tarric, "I see you wield Branwhite. I suppose there would be some justice if he were the one to slay me." He then stood and cast a spell that caused a foul yellowish choking fog to appear throughout the room. However, unbeknownst to the lich, none of the party members were affected by his spell because of the magical Heroes' Feast that Thorash had fed the party just before they had entered the temple. </p><p> </p><p> Alexander continued to blast away at Horgrim and his minion with the same degree of ineffectiveness. Jockeying for position around the enemies, Killick accidentally stepped up against the pedastal in the middle of the room, and a green bolt of energy shot out of the White Eye towards him. Killick dove out of the way at the last second, avoiding the beam which was accompanied by a loud thunderclap.</p><p></p><p>[...to be continued...]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menexenus, post: 4099816, member: 8951"] [b]Session 55: The Apex of the Temple of the Dark Sun[/b] [I]9th of Fireseek[/I]. Upon opening the first door of the third floor of the temple, the party had discovered two black-skinned undead of the same type that they had now fought on several occasions. The party had engaged them and dispatched one quickly. However, the second one had emitted an ear-splitting scream that had seemed uneffective to the party, until Katawan opened a door and saw a mummy and two metallic skeletons marching in his direction. Katawan tried to shut the door to keep the new enemies out, but they simply opened it up again. Katawan now found himself surrounded by enemies - the black-skinned undead was with him in the preparation room, and the skeletons and mummy were on the opposite side of the doorway. The mummy started casting spells. Then it moved directly behind the skeletons and urged them forward. The skeletons raked at Katawan with their elongated, gem-encrusted claws. When he jumped sideways to dodge their blows, he was struck unexpectedly in the adam's apple by the black-skinned undead. This attack left him stunned and helpless. The skeletons seized their opportunity and grabbed hold of him, sinking their claws into his flesh. Tarric and Alees worked together to dispatch the black-skinned undead while Killick attempted to help Katawan by touching him with a wand of healing. Unfortunately, though, he made contact with one of the constructs first, using up the spell with no effect. The mummy moved forward and tried to touch Katawan with black energy crackling on its desiccated hand. However, Katawan wiggled at just the right moment, causing it to miss. Tarric stepped up next to Katawan to take the mummy's attention away from his near-helpless comrade. Tarric's heroic act was successful. The mummy turned its attention to him instead. It laid its hand on Tarric's chest and in a croaking voice, it said, "Die!" Tarric's eyes fluttered, he dropped his sword, and fell to the ground lifeless. And, at about that moment, the party saw two more metal skeletons moving forward from the worship hall on the far side of the door. It was at this moment, that things looked the darkest. Tarric was dead, Katawan was held, and so far they had done little damage to their enemies, who were about to receive reinforcements. Alexander, who had tried to remain outside the room to avoid the gaze of the mummy, finally poked his head in to survey the situation. While the mummy's visage was indeed horrifying, Alexander held his ground. He shot a Magic Missile at it, which was absorbed by the mummy's brooch. He ducked back onto the landing at the top of the staircase and suggested to his partymates that they should consider withdrawal. Katawan finally threw the skeletons off of him. Even though he had only been restrained for a small portion of a minute, those seconds had seemed to last much longer to everyone involved. He asked for healing and made no movement to leave. Alees obliged, tapping him with her healing wand. Killick replied to Alexander, saying that they couldn't leave without Tarric. Now that the skeletons were no longer grasping Katawan, they found other quarry to pursue. One skeleton chased Alees into a closet, while the other moved towards Alexander. Braving the skeleton's attacks, Alexander stepped into the room and cast a spell at the doorway on the opposite side of the room. Suddenly the doorway was filled with a thick sheet of iron. The mummy and the two new skeletons were trapped on the opposite side. Alexander said, "There. That should keep them out for a while. Let's finish these two and get out!" The party concentrated its attacks on the two remaining skeletons. Just then, Alexander heard hurried feet coming up the stairs. As he prepared for the possibility of facing a new threat, he wondered how the party could have missed something down below. Alexander was relieved to see Thorash's gangly new human form running clumsily up the stairs. As he tried to catch his breath, Thorash explained that he had been monitoring the party's progress from outside and had come running when he sensed Tarric's death. He drew his mace and stepped into combat against the nearest metal skeleton Meanwhile, the two other skeletons pounded on the iron wall that blocked their entry into the room. With each thump, the party could see indentations in the iron sheet becoming more and more pronounced. Just when it seemed the iron wall couldn't possibly hold for much longer, the last of the first two skeletons was destroyed. Alees quickly tied Tarric's body to Grimlock's military saddle. The party began beating a hasty retreat. Thorash started casting a spell and was quickly left behind with Killick who stayed behind to guard him. At long last, the iron wall crashed open and the mummy immediately fired a beam of energy at Killick, wounding him slightly. Finally, Thorash's spell was complete and a monstrous earth elemental appeared in the room. As Killick and Thorash joined the retreat, Thorash instructed the elemental to attack. It did so successfully, knocking a large chunk off of one of the skeletons. However, the mummy stepped back with an aggravated look on its decaying visage, and cast a spell which caused the elemental to return to its home plane. As Thorash was running back down the stairs, he saw his summoned ally wink out of existence. He warned the rest of the party not to get too comfortable. They cast a couple healing spells and formed up in front of the opalescent black metal double doors where they had previously defeated a demon. Soon afterward, the party members standing in the doorway saw the two metal skeletons descend the staircase from the upper level and enter the narrow hallway followed by their mummy leader. When the skeletons moved to engage the party, Alexander let loose with a volley of magic missiles. (This was his standard operating procedure. Alexander found that sometimes his magic missiles harmed the creatures and sometimes they didn't.) Thorash was frozen in fear when he finally saw the mummy for the first time. Seeing that Thorash was inactive, it cast a spell that would have held Katawan immobile, but Katawan was able to resist the spell's effect. Grimlock waited with Tarric's body in the sitting room antechamber while the rest of the party fought on. If the party had to retreat, it might be difficult to get everyone back across the lava room without suffering further injury. However, the battle seemed to be going the party's way. In a matter of moments, the party had felled one of the last two skeleton constructs. The mummy stepped up and took the fighting position vacated by its collapsed minion. It formed a foul arcane symbol in the air above it for all to see. When Alees caught a glipse of it, she was wracked by a powerful continuous pain, making it difficult for her to concentrate on anything else. The party focused on the last remaining skeleton, so the mummy cast another spell which made the mummy seem even more powerful than it had been before. It then commenced attacking the party with its bare fists. The party was shocked by the potency of the creature's sudden combat prowess. Seeing his partymates in danger caused Thorash to recover his wits. He cast a spell on the mummy that would (hopefully) negate some of the magical effects that the mummy had cast on itself. After Thorash had cast it, the mummy returned to its normal appearance. Thorash's spell seemed to have met with some success. To test the waters, Alexander cast a fireball on it (that also engulfed a number of his partymates). After the explosion, the party could see that the mummy was on fire. Its resistance to fire had been nullified along with its extra combat prowess! The party knew that it had the upper hand now. Every party member pressed the attack with as many fire-based effects as they could muster, and within a matter of moments, the mummy was dispatched. Alees immediately began prying the most expensive looking gems out of the skeleton constructs. The party collectively rolled its eyes at this behavior, and gave her a time limit of no more than 10 minutes. She spent as much time as the party would allow collecting loot. Then the party decided to go back up and investigate the third level. They reasoned that whatever had been up there must have been alerted to their presence, and if it hadn't already come running to repel them, it was probably not much of a threat. The party found that the remainder of the third level was now deserted. They found two small mausoleums and two small libraries. Alees wanted to spend time robbing the more important looking crypts. However, after unsealing three of them, she was disappointed to discover that they were not buried with any of their valuables. She gave up the search. Alees did quick searches for secret doors and passageways but found none. At the end of a long hallway, the party found a steel door with glowing pink runes surrounding a cloaked figure beneath which was written the words "Death is the entrance to new life." Alees found herself unable to open the door with her lockpicks, so Alexander tried his Chime of Opening. The door seemed to resist the chime's magic, but it finally gave way. Beyond the door was a rising staircase. A large room containing the apex of the pyramid was visible at the top of the stairs, lit by an eerie glow coming from somewhere near the floor. The party members looked at each other and took stock. What they were here for - the White Eye - was most likely at the top of these stairs. But who knew what horrors might be guarding it. Alexander and Thorash were nearly depleted of spells and Tarric lay dead downstairs. Under those circumstances, the party chose to retire, make camp, revive Tarric, and return the next day replenished and ready for battle. Later on that evening, just after dusk, Thorash used up most of the diamonds that Alees had pried from the skeleton constructs in order to raise Tarric from the dead. He was grateful that the party had seen fit to revive him before facing the temple's final challenge. The rest of the party's spellcasters would regain spells at dawn, so the party made camp. [I]10th of Fireseek[/I]. The party awoke refreshed and ready for the final struggle. Thorash cast a number of preparatory spells to aid his partymates in combat, as did Alexander and Killick. The party was as ready as it would ever be. They ascended to where they had turned back the previous day and quickly established the marching order. Alees led the way, looking for traps on the stairs. As she crested the staircase, she saw an undead figure seated in a chair against the far wall and an ornate stone pedastal with a small glowing orb resting on a pillow under glass. She reported this to her comrades and then fell back. Tarric was the first to enter the room. As he did so, the party saw him sheathe his bastard sword and draw the ornate longsword that he had been using as a backup strapped across his back. The figure at the far side of the room remained seated and said, "Welcome! Welcome to my humble prison! I am Horgrim, last remaining disciple of the Ebon Triad here in the once thriving Temple of the Dark Sun. Since you have defeated all of the temple's guardians on the lower levels, you must truly be the ones referred to in the prophecies - praise be to the Overgod! Please come in." By this time all of the party members save Thorash had ascended the staircase and entered the pyramid-shaped room. They now noticed that the creature speaking was stroke a small blue dragon construct as if it were a pet. The construct looked almost identical to the one the party had fought in the last room the party had explored on the temple's first level. Horgrim motioned toward the glowing White Eye lying between him and the party and said, "This is indeed what you are seeking. Please take it and fulfill your destiny... but only if you are pure of heart." With this last phrase, Horgrim's decrepit face curled into the undead version of a smile. Alexander displayed the holy symbol that he carried as a devout worshipper of St. Cuthbert and said, "We are not here to fulfill your vile prophecy, Evil One. We serve forces committed to *preventing* your Age of Worms." The lich shrugged its shoulders and replied, "You are here to remove the Eye from its prison. Doing so will set in motion the events that will finally lead to the creation of the Overgod - may his oppressive reign on Oerth be eternal. Regardless of what you *claim* your purpose is, you are in truth merely pawns doing the Overgod's bidding." Incredulous, Alexander asked, "And once we leave here with the Eye, what will you do?" Horgrim replied, "I will finally have earned my rest and my place at the Overgod's side." With a flash of righteous anger, Alexander said, "Then you won't mind if we hasten your end!" With that he began casting a spell. However, at the moment Alexander began casting, a coccoon of blue flame ignited all around Horgrim's body, protecting him. As Alexander finished one spell and then cast another quickened spell, Horgrim impassively said, "If this is how it must be, then so be it." Both of Alexander's powerful fireball blasts washed over the lich with no apparent effect. Neither did they have any effect on his blue dragon minion. The rest of the party charged forward to engage the enemies. Tarric flew forward directly in front of the lich. As his longsword sliced into the undead creature, wounding it, Horgrim betrayed a look of surprise. However, when he noticed Tarric's sword, the look of surprise turned to one of recognition. He stood up and said to Tarric, "I see you wield Branwhite. I suppose there would be some justice if he were the one to slay me." He then stood and cast a spell that caused a foul yellowish choking fog to appear throughout the room. However, unbeknownst to the lich, none of the party members were affected by his spell because of the magical Heroes' Feast that Thorash had fed the party just before they had entered the temple. Alexander continued to blast away at Horgrim and his minion with the same degree of ineffectiveness. Jockeying for position around the enemies, Killick accidentally stepped up against the pedastal in the middle of the room, and a green bolt of energy shot out of the White Eye towards him. Killick dove out of the way at the last second, avoiding the beam which was accompanied by a loud thunderclap. [...to be continued...] [/QUOTE]
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