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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 8046947" data-attributes="member: 7015827">The spectre asked Darrow if he intended to stay in the deeps, of which it declared itself master. Darrow in response challenged it further, asking Unanin if he threatened the dwarves above. It replied that it had no interest in them, then told Darrow that someone had tried to enter his realm from above, but had been prevented by the wards. Shanni meanwhile had perked up and went to check the door to the Underdark, which she informed the others had its lock and door mechanism both jammed. The spectre said that none had come through there since Haelgrim was lost.With that, Unanin declared that it was satisfied they had not come to reconquer the deeps. Dermot commented that there would have been more of them, if that were the case. The spectre then disappeared, but not before warning against the return of any dwarves to the Deep Delve, where it would be waiting. Darrow was unsure exactly what to make of the apparition, but decided it was at least not hateful. (All such abominations to Kelemvor's sight are to be distrusted and destroyed with no mercy. One must admit that circumstances do not always permit this, however. --C) Rahnee wryly commented that Unanin would be able to “entertain” any dark elves who came through the Underdark door. Aerikoth observed that the clan would have to expand elsewhere; Darrow did not believe they would be looking to enter the Deep Delve for some time, in any case. At Darrow’s suggestion and with Rahnee’s agreement, they planned to look around some more before heading back up, to make sure there were no other surprises.Shanni and Dermot first checked to see if Unanin had left any traces behind, but the creature had simply vanished. The group carefully went back through the Deep Delve’s dark corridors. When they reached a bricked-up passage, Darrow explained that some of the construction had been done while the clan was enslaved by a lich. The wall seemed solid, so they moved on, reaching a cavern where previously there had been an illusionary wall and behind it the lich’s throne room.After they fought off some undead skeletal bats, similar to those encountered on the previous expedition, Darrow went over and plunked himself down on the lich’s old throne to rest, while Aerikoth related to the others how it had been defeated. Ashnakzeroth’s corporeal form was killed and then its phylactery, a rare gemstone holding its spirit, was destroyed. The wizard explained to a curious Shanni that the runes inscribed on a nearby pillar were a repeated phrase, praising over and over the lich as master.Finding nothing else, the party exited the Deep Delve and checked in with the guards outside the dwarven mine, who were glad to see the party come back without a visible scratch on them. Shanni confirmed that the door to the abandoned part of the mines had been tampered with, and the Deep Delve door was unlocked, but the guards said they had seen nothing; only fools would try to go down there, they believed. The adventurers then made their way to the temple to report to High Priest Iskar, who was surprised to hear their expedition had in fact been an eventful one.Shanni reported to Iskar what she had found with the doors. The high priest said that nothing had made it past his wards, which did not rely on the doors’ locks, but that the act of unlocking them and trying to enter could have been what he had sensed. Darrow and Aerikoth described their encounter with Unanin the spectre, which called itself the greatest creation of the lich Ashnakzeroth.</blockquote>

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