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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Advilaar" data-source="post: 5999377" data-attributes="member: 6698911">The room beyond was a great hallway with 90 foot tall statues. Very, vey tall cielings that must have extended up 100 feet. Of course, the Pale Bearded Man warned them that there were rumors of statues that moved and attacked. "Wait", the Wizard said. He uttered a few words and the entire floor was covered in grease. Then, with another combination of ancient words, the party was flying. "Over the grease! To the set of double doors! It is amazing how such a simple spell can get a party out of something that could have been nasty. The huge statues started to move then fell down. Over and over. Sometimes one would get up only to fall again. If no one knew they were there before, they would now. The thuds of the statues falling repeatedly echoed through the halls. The double doors were locked. But, a knock scroll solved that as the party moved forward. The doors were massive and it took everyone to push it open. After all, they were designed for dragon and not for men. They made sure to lock the doors behind them and the Wizard made double sure with a Hold Portal. "The grease will only last for so long." As the constant falling and slipping could still be heard behond the massive double doors. What they found next was a series of huge rooms designed for a large creature like an older dragon. They were expecting old green and ugly to come out and grab them behind every door. One door was particularly frightful as a cold burst of air revealed a frozen mass of elven corpses, faces frozen in horror. There was a library whose books were covered in dust. Touching some of the books would cause them to crumble. "Guess this Dragon is not much of a reader...", the Wizard noted. After going through the circle of rooms, it was quite obvious no one was home. The Archer did note that there was evidence a dragon was in here, though. Looking around he saw dragon blood in a trail going from one wall in one room to another wall in another room. "Yeah, you put the hurt on his stomach, Druid. This is not only blood but Green Dragon stomach acid. But, it is a day old.", the Archer kind of chuckled. the thought of the pain caused to the Taskmaster brought him pleasure. "Wait a second, the trail leads to not two walls in different rooms but three!", the Archer noted. Three walls. The first one after dealing with various inconvenient traps revealed a portal. The second one revealed something that made thier jaws drop. It was a large room filled deep with more gold than the treasury of a large prosperous city with magic items glinting there in. But, this room also had a gaurdian. A golem covered in green armor and strange markings. The PCs would find out this was no ordinary golem! "Otto demands you leave or be terminated. Otto serves the Emporer and the Taskmaster! If you step closer Otto will have no choice but to crush you!", the golem demanded. A fight ensued, but the standard tricks that the PCs had used in previous fights with golem type creatures were no good. Otto levitated. His gauntlets would launch out and track the PCs. Occasionally, his helmet would light up columns of fire would surround him. Otto was a cuning opponent and a worthy hoard gaurdian. However, as Otto was mopping the hoard room floor with the PCs, the rouge between getting slammed to the floor repeatedly noticed a tiny dor on it's back neck. With some manuevering and of course, the Cohort dieing yet again, the Rogue managed to jump on it's back and pick the lock. With that exposed and a quick push of a switch, Otto fell limp. The next few hours, the party was acertaining the sitution and looking over all the strewn items. The Cohort was laid out to be taken back to the Temple of Magic, once again. The Wizard had scrolls of Identify, but not nearly enough to identify everything. And, of course nothing powerful enough in case something was cursed.The amount of cash might have taken weeks to determine if it was not for the Wizard. As a mathmetician, he calculated square feet and multiplied by depth of the pile. Over 3 million gold. Of course getting this out would mean many trips and no telling if the Taskmaster would return. They did find several bags of holding, some the sie of small rooms. However, the rogue after looking at and deciphering the panel on the back of Otto realized that Otto could be given commands. So, they put the gren golen to work pushing massive amounts of gold coins into each bag. The Indentify scrolls were used only on what was detected to be the most powerful items. The archer ended up with a nice quiver with 50 types of each bane arrow 5th circle. The Wizard ended up with a nice ring that let him recall spells. The Druid got some really nice bracers. The best catch was for the rogue. It was a longsword that was vorpal of 5th circle. There were many other items, too. But really no time to sort. that would take more time than the party had. While all that was going on, they got through to the third wall and found not one but 5 portals. One with the trail going right through it. "Wonder where all these portals go to?", the Wizard said with a puzzled look."Only one way to find out. Lets see where our dragon crawled to.", the rogue smiled.</blockquote>

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