The group plots an elaborate strategy involving multiple sources of protective spells and energy drain nullification. As they draw near to the lair, they prepare with an unseen servant, then creep into the room. Using the mage to unlock the gate, they send the servant to open it.
As before, the throne swivels around and the plate-mail clad vampire bursts out of his coffin, rising to the ceiling, then beginning to float down the center of the hall. The elf remarks that this is _exactly_ what happened last time. A quick peek through the gem of seeing reveals a gourd on a wire, being pulled down the length of the hall. What the what? Is this an elaborate hoax?
The group is momentarily stunned and does not notice the figure that plummets from the darkened recesses of the ceiling to land betwee...
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Exiting the vast underground caverns, the group rows out onto a large lake. They recognize the general area from the planeshift incident. Across the lake lies a troll community, crude huts ringed by a palisade. To the northwest is a large stone structure with battlements that overlooks the lake. Trolls or towers? Hm. Send out the mage!
The mage scouts the area and reports. The towers look uninhabited – the courtyard full of weeds, sacks of moldering grain, a half-sunken rowboat tied up to the dock. Underwater scouting reveals that the lake level has risen sometime in the past and a section of the outermost tower wall is submerged at this point. The group decides to investigate the towers and then press on to the frog temple that they saw a week or two earlier.
They land the boats and begin...