Monthly Archives September 2016

The group completes the circuit of the outer ring of the vault, battling a pair of lamia and their mirrored pillar of strength reduction. Once the creatures are slain and mirrors are shattered a yellow button is found. Pushing it causes the ring to turn in the opposite direction from the monkey lever room. Hmm. Beyond that another room – trapped and also containing a lever, this time brown.
After the loot is looted, the group casts about for ideas. There is much discussion and thought given and the decision is made to thoroughly search each and every room for more clues. More levers are found and existing levers are pulled and nothing seems to yield a doorway through which to pass though the ring spins and twirls.. The reset lever is pulled and then another and finally a door appears.
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Beyond the door lies a room full of strange iron bars that project from the walls and hang from the ceiling. The only door is in the opposite wall and about 30 feet above the floor. Presumably, one can traverse the bars and reach the far door.The cleric’s map of traps reveals that the entire floor is indeed trapped and the decision is made to send the mage on a scouting mission.

The mage assumes gaseous form and wafts his way across the room and into the opening beyond. He returns a few minutes later with news that the room beyond is occupied by a duo of four-armed mountain gorillas. This seems like a bad enemy to encounter and the mage is sent out again. This time he uses a spider climb spell to climb the walls and hang upside down...