Monthly Archives August 2012

Wooops.

The morning brings frost and a cold snap, but the afternoon is warm and sunny, so the group carpets to the southernmost island. Upon arriving they make camp near a beach and send out scouts while Dalliance prepares to leave with the booty garnered from the tomb of Hestrin the golem-loving merchant. The scouts return from the first flyover and report the ruins of a large structure and a tower are the only buildings. the island is densely vegetated and there is a pride of lions on the plains. Dalliance teleports back to Waterdeep and the scouts go out for another round of looking. That leaves Humbar, Lubbitch and Reza back at camp.
The scouts return and report that the building ruins must be the destroyed temple of hades and it looks as though the place exploded from the inside, collapsing t...

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Shhhh….be vewy quiet…I’m hunting gowems

Pausing only to fall into, then cross a large pit hidden by illusion, the group continues into a large amphitheater. The seats surround a central raised dais of black stone and are surrounded by black tapestries showing scenes of decay and death. Although there is an exit directly opposite the entrance, the group decides to investigate . They are attacked by tapestries and the dais sprouts tentacles tipped with fanged mouths.
Deciding that this brand of horror can wait till later, the group presses onwards, moving into a short hallway that ends in a door.
Door is opened, room of statues that animate and dance, delaying the party members long enough for the gas in the room to render half of them unconscious. The fallen are dragged away until they regain consciousness...

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