Blinded by the wight…revved up like a dude frozen in carbonite!

Taking a look around the lich’s chambers the group does a quick assessment of the situation. A hasty bit of plundering follows while the group tries to orient themselves. Several doors lead to more secret peepholes and passages and one os followed into a strange cavern…complete with hexagonal rite pit, chained and caged corpses/wights a strange knot of living darkness and a brace of shadowspawn guards with wicked flails of electrical blasting. The pit is also home to a strainge and regal woman clad in armor and bearing a snake headed mace.
The group rolls up and attacks…Reza engages a guard, takes a wicked blow and then fells him with a smash from the Mace of Disruption. As he advances, the woman blasts him with a bolt of dark energy – slaying him immediately. Humbar and Feaster move to attack while Barada and Lubbitch ply the bows, shooting at the armor-clad woman and striking her with a pair of telling blows. Humbar takes up the Mace and attacks the next guard while Feaster moves to engage. Humbar is struck blind and Lubbitch drops her bow to take up the Mace and kill the second guard after taking a hit. A net of strange purple energy shrouds the pit and partially screens the woman from view. Barada’s next magical arrow vaporizes in the energy field, and an attempted shot with a normal arrow is deflected from its target.
Barada unlimbers the Rod of Resurrection and raises Reza – pointing him towards the woman of doom. Dalliance is persuaded to use the silvery fire to try and cast Dispel Magic on the energy net – it fails. When Reza uses his boots to leap into battle he passes through the net and is imprisoned in a web of crackling black energy. He crashes to the ground – immobilized.
The woman holds Feaster immobile and Lubbich escapes due to her ring of freedom, passing through the web to engage the target. Barada unlimbers his lute and tries a Dispel of his own, which also fails to affect the web, but frees Bud. Free Bud leaps into action. The woman strikes Lubbitch with the snake-mace – which poisons her and causes her to die. Feaster pops up with a helping of Neutralize Poison and Lubbitch is back in action, striking the woman with the Mace. The battle rages on, with terrible damage dealt. Dalliance uses her last bit of silvery fire to teleport into the heart of the web, attacking the woman with her staff while Feaster and Barada try to engage.
Feaster is slain by the woman, Dalliance is incapable of striking her her and it is left to Barada firing arrows at point blank range to finally deal the fatal blow (yay!), but not until he has wielded and broken the Mace of Disruption (boo!).
The Rod comes out to restore the Feaster to livingness and the wights are slain by Barada’s point-blank arrow fire. The web of dark energy fades away and the Silvery Witch possesses Barada’s body and uses him to blast the knot of darkness with pure silvery light until it is gone, The weave is restored – much to Dalliance’s delight. The group works to formulate a plan of action. Reza is loaded on the carpet of flying and the group makes haste to exit the area. They return to the village they visited before and find the dalefolk in a state of agitation.
Apparently the ranger that the group rescued has been imprisoned on charges of aiding the party in sedition. Judgement is to be passed the next day in the heart of the dale. Barada dons his hat of disguise and rides to the assembly, trailed by Bud in bird form. The rest of the group (Reza now freed) plans a general uprising to try and throw out the invaders, Barada makes his way to the assembly, sees overwhelming force and decides to lay low for a bit. The prisoner is trotted out before the crowd and his crimes are read aloud. Any dissent is dealt with by spells of silence, and the lord judges him to be guilty. He is to be imprisoned for 30 days, then sent to labor in the mines for 25 years. Barada acts, using his lute to dispel magic, breaking the silence spells, as well as an illusion which reveals the ‘lord’ of the dale to be a pretender, The crowd is outraged and mayhem erupts. The ‘lord’ is hustled back inside the tower while the skymages rain fireballs into the crowd to quell the disturbance, Although the crowd is dispersed, the embers of discontent have been fanned into the flames of rebellion. Barada makes his way back to the village and plots with the group. On the ‘morrow…revolution!