Recap of last session:
Opening the secret trap door, ( after moving the petrified Callitheus) the party discovers a small secret room with two large chests and a desk. Embedded between the floorboards is a very tiny dagger that the party eventually determines to be an anchor for a teleport via anchor device. The party makes work of determining what the two obviously trapped chests contain, but retreat when they set off a gas trap.
Returning to the inn, the party loiters for a few days identifying magic items. Here they meet Ki Jou Raan, an emisarry from Elmer and apparently some sort of churchman. He is grim and focused and highly disciplined. "I am the servant of the servants of Eli, If by life or death I can aid you, I shall." He tells the party. He tells them that Elmer has located a covey of seven dragons, far to the northwest across the desert and suspects that is where the dark elves are.
The party realizes that Delianir is missing. Eventually they receive a note directing them to an Inn. Here they find her hand, and a note directing them to an upscale tavern, The Bone Skiff, for the rest of her. The meeting at the Skiff is an ambush as expected, but the party quickly deals with it.
During the battle, Elbereth is slain, pretty much cut in half, but when the party checks on her following the battle, she is alive, her pheonix gone. But she has changed. Her hair is flaming red, her eyes like glowing coals, her skin a golden hue of serious suntan.
They recover Delianirs severed head and True Ressurrect her.
Camping outside of town, the party is located by an Illusion/Sending that claims to the Archmage of house Melekevar. He promises them a generation of peace and other boons, if they will quit pursuing the quest to eliminate the dark elven threat. The party refuses. (XP Awarded)
What Next?