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• Llamryl Chaent - Elf THF1/MAG1, Sister of Adaeril
• Alexios - PAL
• Morganna - Human MAG1, AC 10/10, MV 12“ Doors 1-2, Listen 1-2, 12, 18, 12, 12, 15, 14, 5 hp, NG, Venha, 31 years old.
• Ragnar - Human RGR1, AC 7/7, no shield, 13, 14, 15, 10, 14, 10, MV 9”, Doors 1-2, Listen 1-2, 9 hp, NG, Rook, 21 years old.
• Hendricks - Elf FTR1/THF1, 166 years old.
• Galador
• Oswald - CLR

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We are going back down the well and into Mon-Karag.

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We make it to the secret area beyond the secret door with the face. We push through to the southern chamber and immediately encounter 5 Giant Ants that are consuming several Giant Rats.

• Llamryl is going to shoot her bow.
• Oswald prepares for a charge.
• Alexios and Galador form a line.

Llamryl hits with an arrow for 4 damage but this does not kill the Ant. She then falls back to try and hide in the shadows.

Alexios hits for 3 damage and Oswald hit one for 7 damage but all 4 are still alive. After the initial charge, Alexios takes 6 damage, Ragnar takes 5 damage but Oswald is missed!

Llamryl hides in the shadows and is out of melee. In the front lines, Ragnar does 3 damage and kills one Ant so now there are 3 left. Galador kills another and Oswald hits for 3 damage, but that one is not down.

The Giant Ants missed Morganna and Alexios as they pursue them. Both Ants are now attacking Alexios but they miss him. Llamryl misses with her backstab attempt and Alexios takes 1 damage. Llamryl is struck and is at -3 hitpoints. SHE DROPS!

Alexios drags her out of the melee while Ragnar hits the biggest one, though it does not fall. Alexios stabilizes Llamryl and she is no longer bleeding out.

The front line hit one for 8 damage, which kills another one! Galador hits the other for 4 damage. Ragnar is knocked out as well as he takes 4 damage from the last Giant Ant.

Oswald and Galador destroy the remaining one.

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We are immediately headed back to Mombafra, to the surface.

On the way out, the party comes face to face with more Giant Ants.

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Galador is bit for 7 damage and then 15 damage. He must save versus poison or die but he saves!

The Ants are quickly dispatched.

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We introduce some new party members:

• Darvan - THF1, AC 6/8, Luz.
• Bron the First - FTR1.

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We head back down into the dungeons of Mon-Karag with the new lineup.

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Bron the First joins as does Darvan, the Thief.

We arrive at the entrance to the Giant Ant nest, which is located on the eastern end of the dungeon. We are thinking about sending Darvan down in Gaseous Form to scout it out. He agrees to do this and Darvan drinks the potion and becomes a transparent gas.

He begins floating along the passage and goes down into the pit at the end which extends down for about 50'. As he continues, he finds another pit and continues forward, floating past it. He has a movement rate of 30“ per turn. He can see with Infravision in his gaseous form.

Darvan continues forward and floats into a larger chamber that spreads out. He sees numerous heat signatures that are Giant Ant sized and immediately spots 12 of them. There are even more heat in the back. In a Gaseous Form, he can push against the walls and he finds that the ceiling in here is quite high as he rises up.

Keeping tabs on the time, he backtracks down the other passage which goes for another 50' until he sees 21 separate chambers. These have a much shorter ceiling, at about 10' tall.

It has so far been just over a turn. The tunnel in the middle feels solid all around and he finds that there are two tunnels coming off the bottom tunnel. There are more heat signatures down here along with a room. There are 5 Ants moving about but he sees even more further away.

The tunnel splits again and he comes across 11 more Giant Ant heat signatures located at the bottom of another pit. Darvan goes back down this way which opens up into another larger area. In this area, there are 18 more heat signatures at the bottom but there have been no eggs seen so far.

It has been 3 turns at this point and Darvan goes a short way into a chamber that is oddly shaped. There are 18 more Giant Ants around the entrance. At this point, he goes back to the top chamber to see if there are more than 12 Ants there.

It has now been 4 turns. He continues on behind the 12 in the top which is an enormous chamber. He counts and cant detect a total of 45 Giant Ants in here and the entire chamber keeps going. Beyond that, he sees no more ants.

He has to turn around at this point.

Darvan returns and arrives back at the end of the chamber. Back with the party, he turns back to corporeal form. As a Thief, he has no problems getting back

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The party decides it is not yet ready to take on the Giant Ants so we go to some staircase located in the south of the dungeon.

The staircase climbs up. As we go up the stairs, we find two bodies of Deep Goblins on the ground of a chamber at the top of the stairs. They are decayed and shriveled up and appear to be completely drained of blood.

Darvan searches the area for traps but finds no traps. The Goblins do have some coins on them. Meanwhile, Darvan also checks the southern door, and finds no traps.

• 14 sp

Appear to have died to stirges.

We go through the northern door, more stairs going up.

ROLL SURPRISE 8 Stirges caught by surprise. 2” away.

Bron Charges in with his Bastard Sword and Shield.

Triple rate of fire with your ranged weapon out.

AC 8

Does 2 damage, kills one 2 shots from Alexsios, 4/5 Morgana hits for 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1 Hendricks did 6 damage.

They kill 5 of them.

Bron does 2 damage. Galador does 8, 6, 5

1 left alive.

Darvan hits for 1 damage. Galador hits for 4, it is Slain!

We are inside a refined bedroom of smooth stone with perfect corners, staircase going up to the east.

Staircase goes up 20'

Bron checks along the wall on the west side. Alexios finds in the west wall, a sliding panel, small about the size of an outstretched hand. Thief does not find any traps?

Oswald casts Find Traps. NO TRAPS.

Lifting up the panel reveals two holes, one quite large, goes back into the wall 1' Other hole fits a key.

WE HAVE A KEY!

Nothing is glowing. No traps detected. Lock has weird mechanisms inside.

-10 to check the lock for Darvan. So did Hendricks try, nobody can open it.

ROLL SURPRISE

The door opens up and 6 more stirges come in.

BRON charges in.

AC 8, 2“ away.

Darvan hit 1 for 4 damage, Kills one. Hendricks kills Alexios kills one Oswald did 6 damage. Galador kills one.

No traps on the door.

Darvan listens. Does not hear anything. Hendricks fails to pick, Darvan tries.

Cannot force open the stone door. Its locked.

We check the southern door.

5 racks and weapon racks are empty. Stone panel with vertical slider.

Forbidden to all but the Forgeguards Small stone panel on the back wall. Built into the wall, like the one on the other chamber. Keyhole next to it. South Wall.

Fire Scorched Room. Beds are scorched by fire. Find Traps is no longer going. All of the beds are scorched, northern parts, some are unscorched in the north parts. Darvan does not find any traps on the panel

I hold the door open for him. Darvan picks the lock, Strange Metallic hook mechanism comes out, catches it with his lockpick tool. Snaps and disables it.

IT UNLOCKS!

Handle at the bottom of the panel. Shallow shelf inside with two keys.

KEY 1 and KEY 2 (Alexios has them). 1 coin weight.

Try the keys, small one fits.

When he turns it, the wall shifts and grinds open. Reveals a secret room behind the wall.

Looks like some kind of armory. 16 daggers, stacks of quarrels, 200 light, 340 heavy 3 light crossbow, 2 heavy crossbows. Unusual Dwarven Axe. Like we have never seen. Does not look rusted. 4 Dwarven tubes. Crafted into the axe, see where the thumb is, there is a button.

Bron lifts it off the rack. Cuts through the air, it has a +2.

4 tubes spring to life, steam comes out, comes down sharply with its own accord.

Darvan collects daggers.

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We open the other door on the second try with the other key.

Chamber dominated by a great forge, trimmed by obsidian. Dwarven forge masters. Forge is cold. Small metal barrel in the corner, 3 metal tubes on the floor. Dwarven Tubes. Flint and steel and charcoal not worn away.

Forge room, we find a secret panel on the floor. Small slit to lift it up. Check for traps, does not find any traps.

Hendricks tries to open it with the dagger, hidden panel in the floor contains a set of masterwork forge tools.

When Alexios picks up the tools, a chill fills the room. A sound booms through the chamber.

You have taken up tools that are beyond your ken.

Let us take the tools to the dwarves. I will not trust a random human to take and do what they will. If one of us can prove ourselves to be keen of hand, to craft something of value, only then will I permit you to use them. No dwarves among us.

Alexios volunteers to be taken over. We were brought here to seek out Ain the Traveler.

I am TUKUEL the first forge master.

That was not crafted by my hands but I will tell him how to use it if the paladin survives. The party leaves the room. Burst of heat, light of the forge, room is filled with incredible heat. Ghostly sounds of clanging, breeze from heat. Gasps as to cause pain. Alexios ages 10 years and must pass SYSTEM SHOCK! He passes and survives the possession. In pseudo consciousness. Vaguely understands. Senses TAKUEL of his soul, understanding that Takuel does not have the power to invoke gods. He defines in his eyes a set of Plate Armor. Feel an incredible power of the chamber, Stone Door we hear metal.

Morganna casts Hold Portal.

Noise finally stops after an hour. Fold is cold and dark, room looks like it did before. Presence of Takuel is nowhere to be felt. Willed the creation of Plate Armor

Plate Mail +5 for ALEXIOS! Made of Adamantine. With a shield. He has -3 AC. His move is 9 inches.

PLATE MAIL +5 (id 105)

Alexios is 29. (was 19).

Alexios grabs the tools, they were 300 coins.

We sell it for 9000 (the battle axes) 3 dwarven tubes (1500) 12100 gp

We each get 2 sp

1,728 gp

Fothas will deliver Adaeril's Spellbooks to Llamryl

We killed 5 giants on part 1, no treasure.

28 xp for all

Galador, 91 xp for everyone else.

Part 3

1816 xp

Alexios 6,316

Bron hits level 2, he is at 2001 xp! Llamryl is is 15/14 xp

Darvan is 2097

Alexios 11,109. He is level 3.

Bron pays for training