Great to hear from you Zach, glad that all is good in your world.
Update from Saturdays game:
After having killed the two individuals that they presume to be Zorin Greyblade and his consort, they begin to search the castle.
Here they defeat 5 pasty elves who attack the party.
In a bedroom, the come across a sword that radiates powerful magic and equally powerful evil. Uncharacteristically, they treat this sword with caution and are careful not to touch it. They pack it away for disposal later. They also find a chest full of gold and platinum and a book entitled Spellbook of Arcade Delsarrion.
Exploring further down into the castle, and carefully avoiding giants, the descend into the dungeons, here they locate a large globe permantly attached to a pedastle, runes on the pedastle lead the party to believe that this is a communication device. They do not activate it. Listening at the next door, they hear magic being spoken.
Gorion leads the way by dimension dooring into the room, and the party finds themselves in combat with a demon with the torso of a female woman and the bottom of a large snake. She has six arms and wields six weapons. The battle is joined by another "dark" elf who appears in the room as if from nowhere. Once the demon is dealt with, He is easily dispatched by a Powerword: Stun spell cast by Callitheus.
Further exploring the castle, the party discovers a chapel to an unknown dark elven deity. They Hallow this area. Shortly after this, they hear loud noises from outside. They run to the top of the tower and look out, to see 16 hillgiants breaking the bridge/causway that leads to the castle. As Gorion lobs fireballs at the giants, Randall notices that a HUGE black dragon circles overhead. When the dragon dives and cast darkness on them, the party teleports home.
They turn the sword over to Fergus, Archbishop of St.Cuthbert for destruction.
The spell book turns out not to be a spellbook after all (or once was) but has been hollowed out and holds an expensive brooch. They party wonders if this was his phylactery...
Next time: Feb 17 at Steves house.