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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rabbitbait" data-source="post: 6751328" data-attributes="member: 60100">Entering the Sacred Stone MonasteryContinuing on from the groups non-PoTA related political shenanigans (or a side adventure if you like)The next morning, they decide that they must do what they can to stem the danger posed by the cults, and that they are unlikely to get any help from the King now. So they decide to head on to the Sacred Stone monastery. They travel for two days through rough terrain until eventually they find a trail. They then follow the trail which leads directly to the monastery.[ATTACH]71706[/ATTACH]They arrive at mid morning, and send some time scoping out the building. As they are watching, two people exit the building and begin walking down the trail. They are wearing brown robes and gargoyle masks. They follow and attack the two monks, and take their robes.Layna and Aimn Lu then don the robes and masks. They pick the lock on the gate to the walled garden at the back. Layna and Aimn Lu walk through without issue, but when Tito and Morythas enter, gargoyles attack them. The gargoyles are easily defeated and Layna and Aimn Lu decide that they should enter the building in disguise and reconnoiter. The pick a door (which is unlocked) and enter.They find themselves in a large room which is obviously some sort of temple, with wide stairs in the middle of the room leading down into darkness. A dark haired man stand behind the altar doing something with a dagger, while two men in what looks like stone armour stand and watch.“What are you doing here,” says the dark haired man, “you know you are not to disturb me. Get out”“Sorry boss,” slurs Aimn Lu, pretending to be drunk, “we were just out there and wanted to come back in. What’s going on?”“I said get out,” says the dark haired man, “How dare you disobey me. Leave now.”“Don’t pay any attention to us,” says Aimn Lu, “we’ll just pass through and…”“That’s it,” snaps the dark haired man, “I will not stand such disobedience.” He looks at the men nearby. “Dispatch them”, he says.The guards move in to attack. The heroes move into the room and take them on. However as the dark haired man sees the non-disguised halfling and Dragonborn enter he realises that this is not just drunken insubordination.“Wait, stand down. There has obviously been a misunderstanding” he says as Layna moves towards him. However she notices that he is moving towards a small lever on the wall and starts slashing at him. He runs towards a small door as the guards move to protect him.He runs through the door and down a small hall, but Aimn Lu is too quick and splits his head apart as he attempts to open another door. The guards are quickly dispatched and the group explore the temple. They note that it was once a dwarven temple, but the runes have been carved out and new carvings of the elemental earth symbol have replaced them.Aimn Lu is curious about where the dark haired man was fleeing to, so tries the door and sees that it leads to an empty dining hall. He tries another door and sees people in robes and masks cooking in a large kitchen. They see him and stop, staring.“Well, don’t just stand there”, he snaps at them, “Get that dinner out here now.” The cultists look at him in his servants outfit and then hustle into action. The rest of the party join Aimn Lu for a nice meal.Part way through the meal, a large number of other cultists enter the room, see the group sitting and eating. Stop momentarily, and then sit and start eating, giving them sideways glances throughout the meal.When the characters finish eating they return to the temple and decide to go down the stairs. As they descend, Layna notices that there are scrape marks that indicate that the stairs have a mechanical trigger that can turn them into a slide. They descend warily.At the bottom they find that they are in a room where a mutilated Umber Hulk is held at bay in a cage. The only other exit is through a bronze door which they manage to unlock and open and they find themselves in a tomb where they are attacked by zombies. These are easily dispatched and the group heads onwards through the tunnels.They try a door, and see an ogre lying on the floor with other creatures in nearby beds. But the ogre is immediately alert. “WHO’S THERE?” he yells, “HEY GUYS, DERE’S SOMEONE COMING IN.” The party shut the door and decide to head onwards, but as they walk away, the door opens behind them….Full adventure log here: <a href="https://deathgrind.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log" target="_blank">https://deathgrind.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log</a></blockquote>

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