Post by hubertbartels on Oct 4, 2019 15:28:09 GMT -5
Following the corridor of cells in which demons were imprisoned, we opened a pair of double doors to a torturers’ chamber. A fireball from Kerlic and a few moments of melee and we cleaned the torturers out. Stepping out into a corridor, we ended up entering a room laid out to be a bedroom. Inside, an undead wizard in the red robes of Thay was writing. He started to make a speech about promising us to Szass Tam before Aaylea smacked him down. In his room, we turned up a box containing the True Names of demons in the complex and a black key.
A bit further on, past a room guarded by a fire elemental, we find a great hall with a rift to the planes. Scattering the box’s collection of True Names into the rift caused the demons to return to the Abyss. A loud scream made us turn to see a vampire and four zombies enter the great hall. “What have you done?!” he screamed before we began to beat him into a mist. The mist tried to escape us but we followed it into a room to its coffin and finished off the vampire.
Having the black key, we stepped through the Black Gate to end up in the Verdant Halls of the Forest of Slaughter. The guards at the gate, a wight and a helm-horror, we quickly dispatched.
The Forest was deceptive place – distances were stretched and twisted. Howls in the distance marked the attack of a pack of large wolf-like creatures. We cut them down. Our wandering led us into a secluded space, lush and well-suited to camping. Elathrion sensed that this is a hallowed area, warded against dark forces.
Although it was hard to tell the time of day in the Forest, we decided to keep going. A few hours later, we came across a white gate in a hook horror breeding area. Kelric used mage hand to extract the white key from a pile of hook horror eggs. Rather than fiight, we approached the hook horrors who told us that this prison’s black key was held by the Mother Troll who guarded the Black Gate.
Guided by the hook horror’s advice, we found the troll warrens. Five male trolls were dancing around an obese female troll. We took out our weapons and spells and went on the attack. From the body of the Mother Troll, we recovered the black key. This gate led to the Iron Golem Foundry.
It seemed like late afternoon so we retreated to the secluded camp site and settled down for a long rest.
A bit further on, past a room guarded by a fire elemental, we find a great hall with a rift to the planes. Scattering the box’s collection of True Names into the rift caused the demons to return to the Abyss. A loud scream made us turn to see a vampire and four zombies enter the great hall. “What have you done?!” he screamed before we began to beat him into a mist. The mist tried to escape us but we followed it into a room to its coffin and finished off the vampire.
Having the black key, we stepped through the Black Gate to end up in the Verdant Halls of the Forest of Slaughter. The guards at the gate, a wight and a helm-horror, we quickly dispatched.
The Forest was deceptive place – distances were stretched and twisted. Howls in the distance marked the attack of a pack of large wolf-like creatures. We cut them down. Our wandering led us into a secluded space, lush and well-suited to camping. Elathrion sensed that this is a hallowed area, warded against dark forces.
Although it was hard to tell the time of day in the Forest, we decided to keep going. A few hours later, we came across a white gate in a hook horror breeding area. Kelric used mage hand to extract the white key from a pile of hook horror eggs. Rather than fiight, we approached the hook horrors who told us that this prison’s black key was held by the Mother Troll who guarded the Black Gate.
Guided by the hook horror’s advice, we found the troll warrens. Five male trolls were dancing around an obese female troll. We took out our weapons and spells and went on the attack. From the body of the Mother Troll, we recovered the black key. This gate led to the Iron Golem Foundry.
It seemed like late afternoon so we retreated to the secluded camp site and settled down for a long rest.