Session 2023.02.23
Date: February 23, 2023
Location: crypt in Meadowlark Hill
After delving into the crypt again, we take a peak in the crevice that had light coming in from the last room we were in. After we all fail terribly at looking into said crevice, Elrond uses light on his staff and shoves it in the whole. Ajax looks in and sees a cloth object and some shiny things. Elrond uses [[Mage Hand]] to get the items, which turn out to be a [[Silver Bracelet]] and [[Coyote Cloak]].
We then decide to continue through the set of stone doors in the room, which behind is a room with a crank. After Elrond tried and fails miserably to turn the crank, Ajax steps in and actually turns it. It seems that the far wall is actually the edge of a rotating stone circle, which eventually has a hollow in it.. Lini and Fafnir get into a hollow in the circular and Ajax keeps turning the crank.
After turning a little, they see an opening which is just a drop. Lini tries to climb down and falls into the hole. Since the stone circle is still turning, Fafnir and Droogami meet back up with the others. We decide to send Ella this time with her bag of holding since she has a ladder in there. And also apparently Elrond is coming as well. While the room is turning, Lini notices a new hollow down where she is opening, so the stone turning is a large vertical cylinder. By sitting in there she comes upon another room with another crank. But she can't move it.
Once the former two come upon the opening again, Elrond climbs down, but now Lini is no where to be found. We send Fafnir down this time and have him use the crank, and eventually move everyone down.
We are then in front of a set of doors, which upon opening, we are greeted with a large open room, with ever-burning torchs on both side walls. The room is filled with statues of deities, most of which seem humanoid, but a grotesque one is at the end of the room. There are painting on the wall, depicting a famous battle of the gods.
Ella and Ajax realize that one of the statues doesn't belong, that of [[Iomedae]]. Upon noticing this, the statue moves to attack. The statue eventually crumbles as it is defeated. Ajax takes the [[Minor Sturdy Shield]] it was holding. The statue of [[AsmodaeCHECK]] was facing us, but in the battle they fought against [[Rovagug]]. Elrond turned the statue of the former to face the latter, and a door on the far side of the room open, but only rubble spilled out. A door on the opposite side was also unlocked, and it leads to even more tombs.
We walk down the hallway of tombs a bit, but notice an odd wall with some construction on it, and a weird moving shadow a little closer to us. The shadow is actually a monster called a [[Shadow]], and it decides to attack us. Which we take down without too much of a fuss.
At the end of the hallway, we find a human skeleton with a backpack, in which is just three [[moderate Acid flasks]]. We open the doors next to the skeleton, and see yet another hallway with yet even more tombs. And in this new hallway is some kind of undead creature, a [[wight]]. Naturally, we attack it.
After defeating it, Ella continues reading all of the tombs in hopes of finding more of her ancestry. Then they continue to the set of the doors at the end of the hall. Beyond the doors is a room with the pattern of an eight pointed star on the floor in the middle. There is the burned remains of what seems to be an elf in the middle as well. Lini discovers the room is trapped, and stepping in the middle of the room triggers it. We carfeuly remove the body from the center of the room, but it only has a gem. We carefully make our way across the room to a set of doors on the other side of the room, which we make our way through.
What is on the other side you ask? What mystery awaits us? More tombs. Though it seems that some have been looted. There is a small storage area that Ajax uses a [[crowbar]] to break into. His attempt breaks some vials, but we also find three silver religious symbols for Sarenrae. Obviously Ella decides to give those a better home. In her bag. They head to the next set of doors, where our next battle begins.
We enter in a large room with tombs on the side, and stairs heading upward, with three humanoids on the other side; 2 [[Zombie Brute]]s and a [[Zombie Mage]]. It was a harrowing battle, with close calls, deaths, revivals, and some epic attacks. But our team of heros was victorious.
The zombie had a [[Mentalist Staff]] and a key. At the back of the room, we found a humanoid skeleton holding a metal box and the glass heart amulet we are looking for. Lini picks the lock on the metal box, which contains a steel decorative religious symbol of Sarenrae, a [[Staff of Healing]], 15 gp, an [[Invisibility Potion]], and a stone with mystic markings called a [[rune stone]]; this one being a striking rune stone. Ella finishes her ancestry investigation, and they head back into the light of day.
We give the oversized decorative steel religious symbol to Sunrise Church. We make it in plenty of time for Mother Lahanelle's funeral. Paxton gives us a warhorse, Benji. We stick around to help for another day, and Father Felix Chasman blesses us as we head out.
Rewards¶
+14 xp
