2007-01-14 Tarik's Journal

Looking in the sarcophogus, it looks like there was once a false bottom, but it's been removed.

We head down the stairs in the sarcophogus. The double back and forth and several minutes and several hundred feet.

(6) At the bottom the tomb is more rough hewn with magic. There is a low whistle of wind passing us, heading up the stairs. Rassi says she faintly hears an occasional note. Shensen listens, she thinks it's an organ. Sitting in niches are small Cagewright cages, each with a fire beetle inside providing dim illumination.

From ahead to the left is a smell of animal. (7) There is a minotaur sleeping in the side chamber. Aidan uses a wand to silence the chamber. We head in. In the back of the room is another of the thin walls. We cautiously move in. Rassi, Shensen, and Gadrey strike killing blows. The body explodes as four small chasme burst out. Crap! The warriors quickly finish them off, but not before the chasme strike some deep, bleeding wounds. Aidan quickly patches them up.

Rassi, protected by the silence breaks a small hole in the thin wall and peers through. (8) The room beyond has two vrocks, sitting in carved chairs and talking. After some quick planning we burst through the wall, surprising the vrocks and quickly slaying them.

• "Rassi's Precision Demonic Circumcisions." - Alan 2007-01-14

Down a narrow passage is a darker area. In the distance is a ruddy glow.

We double back and explore the wider passage. (9) It ends in a perpendicular hallway with three large doors. The door are decorated with crude Smoking Eyes. The doors are poorly hung. In this are the walls are especially crudely shaped.

Shensen says the organ music is slightly loudly. The organ music apperas to be coming from beyond the middle door, but it's still some distance off. I can't hear it at all.

Gadrey opens the left door. Two grey beams shoot out, hitting Gadrey and Rassi. It's disintegrate. Fortunately Gadrey and Rassi are tough enough to ignore most of it. Beyond is a wall.

Okay, the middle door. I use magic to open it. The door is trapped with chain lightning, but we're too far away to be hit. Again, a wall is directly beyond.

Opening the last door, it opens to a hallway.

Following the hallway, we come to a set of three double-doors. Left and right are crude wooden doors with Smoking Eyes carved into them. On the left a demodan has been carved into the door. Straight ahead is a large, ornately carved stone door. It is decorated with fire creatures. It looks new. The stone door is magical.

To the right, Shensen can hear someone very faintly talking in common. Every third or fourth word is, "Adamarchus"]. It sounds like a prayer. To the right is a whisper in a voice she can't understand. Kyrin and I ask Shensen to repeat it. It sounds like Infernal. Something like, "Quickly you meathead, ready for halberd." Great. We prepare for combat. Aidan summons an earth elemantal. Kyrin protects us with a mass fire shield.

(11) The elemental opens the door. Beyond is a torture chamber. There are four farastu, skeletal looking demodans. Two farastu hiding behind an overturned table throw spears at the earth elemental. As the elemental charges in, the two farastu to the sides of the door throw more spears at the elemental. The elemental slams the table into the farastu, crushing them and pinning them against the wall. Aidan seals the opposite door with a wall of stone. Gadrey slays one of the farastu while Rassi and Shensen finish off another. Then the group gangs up on the two pinned by the elemental.

While we recover, Aidan sends his elemental through the opposite wall to kill anything beyond. Kyrin disintegrates the wall. Rassi opens the door into a devotional chamber. (12) On the opposite wall is a carved symbol of the Smoking Eye. In the corner is a pool of water being filled by a magical canteen. There is a bed, a wardrobe, and a desk. There is a woman in her fourties. She wears grey robes. Her grey hair is pulled back into a ponytail. She has a Smoking Eye pendant. There is a vrock between us and her. Aidan dismisses the vrock. Kyrin blasts the woman with magic missiles. She falls back and summons her own earth elemental. Rassi maneuvers in and cuts a gouge out of the woman. Gadrey strikes her, slaying her.

We rest and recover. Aidan sends the elemental scouting ahead. It reporots on a large hallway ahead.

Checking the desk, there are papers authored by Shebelith, a cleric of Adimarchus. She specialized in summonings.

Stripping her full plate armor, she has a tattoo on her upper chest. It's the number 13 in Infernal. We loot her room.

Aidan checks the door for traps, aided by his magic. It seems safe. The magic on the door is illusionary. Odd. Shensen pushes the door open.

(13) The floor before us is inlaid with silver with the sign of the Smoking Eye. The eye is enchanted with necromantic magic. There are two cracks in the floor through which we can see red hot lava. The room's illumination comes only from the lava.

We double back and enter the room from the other entrance to avoid touching the Eye. Looking more closely, the lava flows look intentionally carved. It's flowing from our right to our left.

Shensen hears organ music in the distance. Behind the nearest door she hears dogs growling. The next door on the left has popping sounds beyond. The door on the right is similar. The far door has the organ sounds. At Aidan's request, Shensen uses Alakast to seal over the lava flows with a wall of stone.

(14) We open the door where Shensen heard dogs. Magma fills a corner of the room. Eight hellhounds are milling about. Two unusually large ones are lounging in the pool. In the corner is a red tapestry; there is a sihoulette(sp) in black of a bearded face howling in fury. Kyrin protects us with a mass fire shield. The hellhounds advance and breath fire on Gadrey, Rassi, and Shensen. Two of the hellhounds shift form to become red haired women in chain shirts wielding great axes. They're haraknin. Kyrin fills the room with an ice storm. The haraknin advance, Shensen as mountain troll tears two apart. The nearby door opens and a fire giant wielding a black-flame two-handed sword steps out. Kyrin continues to fill the haraknin room with ice storm. I feeblemind the giant. The giant cuts down Shensen with a pair of vicious blows. While Gadrey and Rassi continue to pound on the giant, Aidan revivifies and heals Shensen. Kyrin slays the giant with an orb of cold. We regroup to face the haraknin. The haraknin all transform into human form and regroup in the lava. Kryin blasts the haraknin with a cone of cold. One dives into the lava; the other two are slain. The remaining haraknin surrenders.

We look the giant and haraknin.

(15) The giant's room.

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