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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 893544" data-attributes="member: 10820">Session 7 - Log 4 of 4"I just don't get it." Amador looked around as he spoke. "It's a staircase into a room with no exits?"Will nodded, "Well no exits that my spell can detect." He continued to walk the edge of the room, concentrating on the walls, hoping his magic would reveal some signs of a secret door.Tanerus stood by and watched, fidgetting a little now and then.Will called over, "A bit more light over here." Durgaden held his glowing shield up to spread the light a bit better. Suddenly the dwarf's eyes grew large and he slapped his axe head against his shield."Thats it!" growled the dwarf. Tanerus thought he may be upset about something, but in contrary it seemed that Durgaden had thought of something."Hey!" Will called out in surprise as Durgaden turned and jogged back to the stairs, taking the light with him. Durgaden ran up the steps and and leaned over the edge some thirty feet up. The levitation potion seemed to still be in effect so the dwarf stepped out of the steps to better spread the light toward the higher walls of the chamber."Ah ha! There are passages about halfway up!" The dwarf struggled back onto the steps and repeated the process over and over till he had circled the room. "Four of em. I'm take a look." He lowered himself to the floor and then went over to the wall and slowly began to ascend back up.After a while he returned, "All but one lead to the same place. The one is collapsed after a while and seems they used it for a layer." Durgaden held out his arms, "Climb on, I'll carry you all up." Tanerus snickered, "I'll climb, thanks." Amador and Will grabbed a hold of the dwarf and soon the party was safely into a tunnel. The tunnel lead off into darkness, and the party began moving down it carefully.Will whispered, "What I don't get are how fiendish creatures made it into these crypts. The top area did not seem disturbed."Durgaden grunted, "Well they were not put here by me kin. That is for sure."Amador whispered, "And what were they feeding on? Durgaden found bones in the fiendish gargoyle's layer."Tanerus stopped ahead as the passage opened up into a chamber. It was another large chamber. As Tanerus slipped forward and began to dart to one side he slammed into a solid wall of force. "Ow!"The halfling stumbled back and shook his head. He felt to the right of the doorway... another wall of force. It was as if the passage continued forward into the room. Tanerus began forward feeling the walls as he did, waiting for an opening. He stopped dead in his tracks. Ahead of him was a massive minotaur. It snorted fire and stood there, leering at the small halfling. It carried a large glowing hammer.Durgaden moved forward and grinned, "Let him come to us...."The minotaur moved to one side, apparently there was another wall of force, this one perpendicular to the others. It was a maze! Durgaden backed up and felt for the walls to either side of him. Knowing the force walls were now protecting his sides he felt safe. He hefted his shield in front of him and waited. Tanerus moved to the side, finally finding an opening in the wall of force. He back through it, watching the minotaur. A loud huff behind and to one side sent Tanerus spinning around. Anothe minotaur moved into the light. Tanerus tumbled forward, ducking past Durgaden. The first minotaur loped out to in front of the party, just over fifteen feet from Durgaden.Durgaden waited, "Come on ugly, I'm waiting for ye!"The large beast slammed its right hoof into the ground and scratched it back. It repeated the motion, lowered its head and bellowed.The second minotaur moved up to beside the first and lifted an arm. Black energy bubbled up around the entire party and burned their skin, singing their hair. Amador growled at the pain of the unholy energy, "More fiendish beasts... this is getting old." He began a prayer to his diety and threw a hand forward, calling for the holy power of Corellian to smite his foes.At the same time Will called forth a burst of electrical energy that expanded like a loop from a point between the two beasts. The blast did not seem to have any effect on the beast, the electrical energy coursing off of them.The first of the beasts charged, but the second seemed stunned by one of the spells that had been cast. Durgaden met the charge, ducking under it and slashing the beast wickedly. Tanerus ducked and tumbled through the melee and came up next to the stunned beast. He drove his blade up into its stomach and twisted it. He sliced to the side and then tumbled back out of reach. Durgaden slashed through the leg of the beast ahead of him. As it fell to the ground he quickly removed its head from its shoulders. Will pulled Sergio's wand of Magic Missiles out and let fly with three of the small globes. The energy slammed into the beast left standing. It belowed in pain and stumbled. Tanerus ducked back in and lept up. Grabbing a hold of one horn he flipped up around behind the beast and drove his blade into its neck. The beast fell to the ground dead, blood spurting from the wound.The group quickly found the minotaur lair in the back corner of the force maze. Finding a few discarded items they moved forward again.Amador spoke as they walked, "More fiendish creatures, more discard bones... these creatures are getting food somehow."Tanerus stopped ahead of them and slipped back toward the party, "I may have found out how... there is a giant crack in the wall ahead... leads to some sort of ancient natural chamber."Durgaden nodded, "The earth shifted then and exposed the crypts to the Underdark."Will looked a bit worried. Amador voiced Will's concern. "Perhaps they already got the book."Durgaden shook his head quickly, "Nay. I can not believe that the tomb intended for me grandfather would be so easily disturbed. We go forward, assuming they never got to the book."Tanerus nodded, "The passage does continue straight, and I uh... think you guys should see this..."A chamber opened up straight ahead. The first five feet of the thirty foot wide chamber was carved into a deep pit, deeper than their light would shine. On the other side of the pit, some fifteen feet past the pit lay a large sarcophagus. Behind the sarcophagus was a twenty foot tall stone statue.Durgaden whistled in awe. "That thing is huge." Indeed the statue was in the form of an squat sturdy opponent. Though only twenty feet high, it was nearly that wide. Its fists were massive. It did not resemble anything real. Tanerus gulped, "Is that..."Durgaden nodded, "Must be Flamesculptors greatest creation..."Will frowned. "A stone golem." Will had never seen one before, but this looked like it would fit the bill. "They are nearly impervious to damage, and impervious to all spells."Durgaden looked at his axe. "Me axe is not made to cut through magic stone." Indeed though Durgaden's axe was magical, it was not very powerfully enchanted.Tanerus snapped his fingers, "The magic hammer we found on the Minotaurs." Durgaden fished the warhammer out of his pack. Will stepped up, "Here take these..." He handed Durgaden his magic gloves. "They will make you quicker."Amador whispered softly and cast a strengthening spell on Durgaden. Durgaden nodded and asked Tanerus, "Mind if I borrow your amulet of armor?" Tanerus quickly handed it over.The rest of the party looked at Durgaden. He stood tall for his size, his crown on. He carried magic from all of them, and hefted the warhammer the minotaurs had carried. "Alright then. Wish me luck." The three companions nodded and all said, "Good luck." They stepped aside so Durgaden could leap the pit.Durgaden grinned, "Five feet... thats easy." He took a few steps back the hall and began to run toward the edge. He vaulted forward, his magic boots aiding his momentum. He landed easily on the other side, his warhammer and shield at the ready the moment his feet touch the floor.Then the floor gave way as a trapdoor opened beneath him. There was nothing the other companions could do as they watched Durgaden plunge out of sight with a loud cry.The statue never moved.</blockquote>

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