• Fothas - Hand Axe id 197
• Ragnar
• Yohan - Whirlrender
• Irayas - Leather Armor +1
• Iona
• Risten

Lord Thompson is trying to maintain control of the Valley. Any sort of weird phenomena in the Valley is treated with urgency by the Lord.

Klort is training to level 3 Magic-User. Fothas has AC 0/2. Desmond cured Yohan's parasite.

We are going back to the Basin of the Red Sun Valley. It is one hex north of the Tower of the Forgotten Master.

The weather is cloudy. We are setting out immediately after the party returned last time.

Our journey is uneventful and we head inside the middle cave. Iona goes up and walks along the ceiling. There is a mustard yellow smog running along the ceiling which Iona avoids as she walks along the east side of the smog.

We come to the door that is covered in Devlish Runes and emits a yellow smog.

There is a sigil on the wall that previously revealed itself as a Trap. It lies below some other charcoal runes. The trap on the runed door lied somehow behind the door.

Iona studies the runes and realizes they are transmitting some kind of curse. She is able to properly disfigure the runes and is disrupted.

Yohan, Fothas and Ragnar are all on doors. Yohan and Fothas both have continual light.

We manage to unseal the door. Beyond the door, a great force of yellow gas blasts outward and into the hallway. Beyond this there are stairs going down. The three door openers must save versus poison. Fothas gets a +4 due to his height. Yohan and Ragnar both failed their saves.

The noxious sulphur gasses blast into Ragnar and Yohan and they collapse on the ground. The stream of gas billows out the door. Iona checks our companions while Fothas holds our door. She finds that Yohan and Ragnar have taken in a highly concentrated amount of gas. They will recover with time. The gas is about 1' thick inside the stair well.

We wait for 10 minutes and our allies recover quickly, they will be ready in the next hour. Yohan is conscious but not able to do anything but Ragnar is totally unconscious. Yohan uses the Locate Object ability of Whirlrender and does not detect any new armor, other than the dead hobgoblins.

Irayas holds the door while Fothas investigates. He finds 3 bodies of Hobgoblins that look like they have been seared and partially consumed. They have been decayed several days, 3-4 days since they were eaten. They were chopped with blades, probably the ones we defeated.

20 minutes later Yohan has regained his fighting ability and Ragnar is conscious and then he has also regained fighting ability.

We go through the stone door and go down the stairs as the door shuts. We go to a landing and then around a corner and another landing. We find more stairs going down. They stairs level off into a chamber. 10' into the chamber is a depressed area. The chamber is filled with a yellow haze, but less concentrated form. We can see now that it is rising from the depression, specifically from three points in the depressed area. The source is the top of 3 sarcophagii, that are all opened. It rises from some unusual, unnatural force.

One of the sarcophagii is at an angle and there is a shiny object on the end of the sarcophagus, billowing out huge amounts of smoke that goes to the ceiling.

Iona casts Detect Magic from within 3“.

We are surprised.

Iona is instantly leapt upon by Zombies. She has AC 6 against 6 attacks. Two hits. One Stoneskin and takes 6 damage.

We can hear someone reciting an incantation or spell from someplace unsean.

• Yohan attacks the Zombies.
• Risten casts Invisibility
• Ragnar attacks
• Irayas fires some sling bullets.
• Fothas tosses his bracelet of continual light and attacks.

In the Alcoves we can see stone statues that look like they were once men but they are broken apart with pieces crumbled on the ground. There are creatures embedded inside the statues, as though growing inside of them. There are flesh and blood creatures of women with wings of feathers. They look to be encased in stone. Most of their bodies are encased in the statues. The Zombies are fighting us in a melee. The chanting is coming from the north west alcoves area.

Iona, Fothas, Yohan and Ragnar must rolls saves against poison. Iona fails her save and Yohan too, we take a -1 to our to hit rolls.

Iona, Yohan and Fothas all rolled a 1 and miss. Ragnar hits for 4 damage. On segment 4 the Zombies will attack but Irayas gets a shot off as well as Invisibility going off.

Irayas does not shoot since we are all in melee.

Iona is hit for 3 damage. Yohan is hit twice for 6 and 1 damage. Ragnar is hit twice for 7 and 1 damage. Fothas is missed.

There are a total of 8 Zombies. A spell completes on segment 6 and coming out of the alcove is a platemail wearing individual with a holy symbol and he steps out.

• Yohan attacks
• Risten tries to get eyes on someone
• Irayas slips past the melee.
• Iona tries to do a fighting withdrawal up the wall.
• Fothas charges the plate wearer.

The ceilings are 15' high. Ragnar hit a Zombie for 2 damage. Yohan hit for 13 damage, which destroys one!

Fothas charges in but 4 Zombies attack him. All 4 Zombies hit for a total of 18 damage. Fothas misses the Cleric.

Irayas tries to Move Silently and fails, he is a potential target. 5 of the statues have winged women in them, the others are shattered.

Iona automatically disengages up the wall as she is able to get out of range quickly enough with a 6” movement.

There are two attacks on Yohan. One hit for 4 damage. 3 attacks on Ragnar and 2 on Irayas. There are 3 hits on Ragnar for 5, 6 and he drops to -2 hitpoints. Yohan is hit for 7 damage. No hits on Irayas.

RAGNAR IS DOWN!

On segment 9, a spell completes on Fothas, Iona and Yohan. Yohan fails and is Held. We get a -2 to attacks.

• Ragnar is unconscious.
• Irayas tries to withdraw.
• Iona attacks from above with her spetum
• Risten casts Magic Missile on the caster.
• Yohan is held.

The Cleric is casting a spell and he takes 11 damage and 9 damage from Risten's Magic Missile. Iona misses against the armor.

Irayas is being swarmed by Zombies. 3 hits for 8, 5 and 8 damage which puts him at -5 hitpoints.

IRAYAS IS DEAD!

The Zombies KILL YOHAN! Ragnar is bleeding out on the ground and loses 1 hitpoint.

• Iona attacks the Cleric with her Spetum.
• Fothas tries to combat withdrawal to the sword of Yohan.
• Risten is casting Magic Missile.

The Cleric is producing a potion as Iona misses. He drinks the potion which does not take effect right away Magic Missile goes off at the same time the Zombies attack Fothas.

The Cleric is blasted by the Magic Missile for 8 damage, Killing the Cleric!

Fothas hits one for 11 damage, killing one Zombie! There are 6 left. Three attacks against Fothas and hits for 2 damage. 3 Segments later, the Cleric's body goes Invisible.

Fothas is in melee, Risten is a bit to the east of the Cleric.

• Iona moves to engage from above.
• Fothas uses Whirlrender to attack.
• Risten casts Invisibility.

Whirlrender hits for 13 damage, killing another Zombie.

The Zombies attack, 4 surrounds Fothas. 1 Zombie charges Risten and he loses Invisibility and takes 3 damage.

Fothas is attacked by 4, one hits for 5 damage.

Iona is above the melee. Ragnar loses a point of hp.

• Risten attacks.
• Iona attacks
• Fothas attacks.

Fothas and Risten each kill one.

Fothas is missed. There are 3 Zombies remaining.

• Risten stabilizes Ragnar.

Fothas hits for 14, destroying one.

Fothas takes another 5 damage. Risten can stabilize on the following round.

Iona misses again, Fothas does 14 damage, killing one. Risten is missed and stabilizes Ragnar.

Fothas destroys another one for 12 damage.

Platinum incense burner lined with zircons. Fothas tries to put out the smoke from the incense burner. There is a bang sound as is Blasted! He takes 3 damage and is deaf. Fothas is still able to take the incense.

• Platinum incense burner lined with zircons.

Iona saw streams of magic coming from the smog, the potion that the Cleric drank, weak magic emanation from the plinth, long belt pouch that is about 1' in length, medium shield is magic.

Ragnar is conscious.

Iona searches the statues for traps at 40% chance. We thoroughly search the statues. They look like the naked winged women that look like pieces of man statue glued to them. They are more creature than statue. They are completely stationary. Iona does not find any traps. Risten finds a secret compartment on the south west plinth.

Iona stands on the ceiling and opens the secret compartment. Inside is a Clerical scroll containing a 1st level and 4th level spell. Endure Cold and Giant Insect.

Each of the open sarcophagii contain platinum coins. Iona searches the sarcophagii for traps but does not find any. When she begins to loot the sarcophagus it animates.

We are not surprised.

• Iona withdraws to the ceiling.
• Fothas stands back.
• Risten casts Lightning Bolt.

Lightning Bolt is 3 segments. The Corpse strikes at Iona as she flees.

Iona is grabbed around the neck for 5 damage and she is being throttled. Lightning Bolt goes off on the other two Undead Corpses. They get a +4 to save. They both FAIL their save and take full damage, dealing 19 damage. They split in half, destroying both!

• Fothas charges
• Risten does nothing.
• Iona uses Ring of Shocking Grasp.

Iona obliterates the undead creature and this also kills Iona outright. They kill the final Revenant.

Fothas grabs the platinum.

• 224 platinum.

The Cleric also had a Wand and 50 pp and 7 gems.

• Wand
• 50 pp
• 7 Gems

The party leaves with all our bodies. They head back to Starling.

They make it back to Starling. The head Cleric is called CETEFIS and he is a Cleric of Zo. He can now cast Raise Dead.

Ragnar just needs bedrest. Yohan, Iona and Irayas all need to be Raised.

Iona is Raised and gets 1000 xp.

Yohan is also Raised and gets 1000 xp.

Irayas has a +1 Leather that would sell for 2000 gp but he just takes out a loan for 5500 gp. Irayas is raised and gains 1000 xp.

All of our CON is dropped by 1.

We are healed of hp on the 20th. Yohan is healed for 45, Iona for 8 and Irayas for 9. Irayas is healed for 16. Iona is healed for 17.

Fothas is healed for 28 + 8 and is fully healed. Ragnar is healed for 12.

Iona is back on 5/25/498.

05-20: Oswald does healing. Iona raised (was dead 5 days). 05-21: Oswald does healing. Yohan raised (was dead 6 days). 05-22: Oswald does healing. Irayas raised (was dead 7 days). 05-23: Ragnar off bedrest. 05-25: Iona can adventure again. 05-27: Yohan can adventure again. 06-01: Irayas can adventure again.

• 50 gp
• 1000 gp
• 100 gp
• 5 gp
• 50 gp
• 1000 gp
• 50 gp

Pouch contained a wooden wand made of Ash wood. The shield is a Medium Shield.

The Incense Burner is 2d6 x 1000 gp, 11,000 gp!

Oswald spars with Fothas using the shield, it is a +1 medium shield.

The wand is activated in the country side by Risten. There are two command words written on the side of the wand in common. LAPZE / DAPZE.

Risten, Fothas and Oswald activate the wand. The wand pulses in his hand but nothing happens for both command words. Fothas sets up a trap and Risten uses the Lapze command and sees Fothas's traps. LAPZE is for Trap Detection and Secret Door is DAPZE.

The party goes to Mombafra to speak to Lord Thompson about the Basin and what we found. The reward is 4500 gp. Risten and Fothas communicate to Lord Thompson's messenger. Based on the description, it was Vossel, one of the Forgotten Master's henchman. Since we put a stop to what he was doing. He will send some of his men to go clean up if the place is clear. They don't think its clear yet.

They can sell the wand which they have only used 4 charges off of. It had a total of 90/100. We get 36,000 gp for the wand.

• 36,000 gp

Fothas takes the Medium Shield (id 243).

Cleric Scroll sells for 1,500 gp.

PC shares: 45pp, 8092gp

Gems go to Yohan.

8477 xp for everyone.

Yohan and Ragnar get 8312

8519 Iona

8595 Risten

8845 Fothas

Iona pays 5,500 gp for the Raise Dead.

Yohan trains to level 5 Ranger. Risten trains to level 6 Magic-User.

Klort trained to Magic-User 3.

• Oswald
• Omaz
• Xrith'atiril
• Fothas
• Klort

Fothas receives a Flame Tongue sword and Omaz borrows a +1 Hand Axe.

The weather today is a Hard Rain. We head for the Forgotten Master's tower.

Our trip is uneventful and we stay the night. The evening weather is cloudy as is the next day.

We arrive back at the Basin and find there is no smog.

Oswald, Fothas and Omaz are on doors. We have continual light for days…

We enter the cave and push through the runed door. We find that everything is as we left it but the corpse of the Cleric is gone. Inside of the statues, the women that were once beautiful now look like a shriveled corpse and now look like a chalk substance, like a husk.

Oswald thinks that these are Erinyes Devils. They dont look like they have anything on them, just the husks.

Xrith searches for hidden compartments or false bottoms in the Sarcophagii. Oswald casts Find Traps.

Neither of us find anything so we continue through the north door.

We hear very quietly, the south door cracking open.

• Klort watches
• Omaz readies his sword and shield.
• Desmond moves up so that he is in front
• Xrith tries to hide in shadows.
• Oswald casts Prayer.
• Fothas forms up with Desmond.

The door softly closes. We do not see anything.

• Fothas opens the door.
• Klort watches
• Xrith moves up along the wall hiding.
• Desmond follows Fothas.
• Oswald opens the door.

Fothas opens the door. He can see some stairways going up so we move forward with purpose.

The top of the stairs curves to a natural cavern and slopes upward. It loops around and leads to other natural stone steps that wrap around into a landing where there is a door to our left and a continuation of a landing and some steps that goes down. We can see the edge of some water.

No traps are detected. We look for wet footprints. It looks like something disturbed the water and we can see some streakmarks like a slime. The stream comes into this area and forms a pool that is around 8' deep.

Inside of this room is an elevated area with a stone sign with some words in common. At the end of the room are some more steps that go down. The stone slab with words in common on it. There are two candelabras made of iron are on either side.

The streaks of water we were following kind of fade out. Oswald casts Detect Traps and Xrith reads the slab:

“Within this sanctified complex, noble priests of the Twelve and Twenty reached out to the Furnaces of Gehenna and drew forth the forces that ended the Siege of Alkdast. 927 Seed XVIII, one hour before midnight”

These seem to be significant to Sleal.

We find ourselves in the area where we fought the Ice Trolls. There are two chests laying in the rear of the chamber. The room is cold. There are no traps on the chests.

When Xrith opens the chest, he is stricken by front that draws his body heat from his body.

Xrith takes 23 damage from cold.

• Xrith falls back.
• Fothas says retreat.
• Klort retreats.
• Omaz retreats.
• Desmond retreats.

Xrith will take 15 damage but then gets away.

This is a Brown Mold.

Fothas can throw a rope around the chests. He loops one of the chests.

Oswald, Desmond and Xrith help Fothas pull the chest. It is at our feet.

• 3900 cp
• 3000 sp
• 5000 sp
• 100 ep
• 500 gp
• 80 pp

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We fall back to the room with the slab.

We are surprised. Encounter distance is 3“.

We are searching the slab and a stone goes skipping as if it were disturbed by something.

• Klort observes.
• Omaz grabs his shield and axe.
• Desmond forms up.
• Xrith uses his sling
• Oswald turns undead.
• Fothas forms up.

We see a black pool with beady eyes. They attempt to kill Klort after emerging from invisibility. He has AC 8 for his Tiger Cloak. Both attacks hit Klort who takes 3 damage.

Oswald has no effect on the creatures with Turn Undead. Omaz hit for 8 damage.

These are regenerating creatures. Fothas does 9 damage that turns into white goop, the white ooze spreads across the ground.

• Melee attacks.

Xrith hits for 10 damage. Fothas does 12 damage and tries to burn the goop, which boils and bubbles.

There are no signs that they came from the pool. Klort is healed for 3 hitpoints. We search the slab. Desmond finds that both of the Candleabras rotate and are built into the stone. We also notice that the white goop is reforming.

Xrith turns the Candelabra on the right. There is a key inside. Key ID 25.

Fothas and Oswald are continuously hacking at the goop. Klort pours alcohol on it but it does nothing. Desmond goes to help keeping the creature from regenerating. Fothas looks for shifting stone but finds none.

We push open the door and find a 20' x 40' room with columns. We find small wooden prayer benches. The columns depict some kind of fire ritual. People on fire, people in robes in the area with the altar and the rocks.

We start thoroughly searching the room. We find nothing and there is not shifting stone.

The party leaves and heads back to the Sarcophagii Chamber and the calcified Erinyes.

We open the north door. Inside is a room that is empty of creatures. Somebody was living here for a few weeks. There are burnt down candles, candle holders, remnants of food. A smell of someone that is unwashed. The construction matches the complex and a stone ritual focus carved to Sleal. We see two silver candelabras and a wooden box on the stone table. A sack tied with a strap of leather.

No traps detected. There are some scrolls of parchment and some ink.

• 320 gp
• 2 silver candelabras
• Incense Box

The parchment seems to be notes indicating the movement of troops from Seed Moon the 26th.

Xrith and others thoroughly search the room. We find some valuable incense in a box (125 coins).

We leave with the stuff and make it back to Starling.

Back in Starling.

Over the course of the next week, we receive the payment of 4,500 gp.

Candelabras are worth 30 gp. Incense is worth 850 gp.

Each character gets 356 gp in xp.

second part shares: 13pp, 283gp, 16ep.

392 xp each.

Also 750 gp for the Lord Thompson reward and 750 XP.

XRITH LEVELS UP TO THIEF 2! Must pay 1500 gp.

Iona is reactivated on the Reed Moon the 15th.

Ragnar pays his upkeep.

Xrith owes 100 gp Upkeep. PAID! 3876 gp in debt is PAID.

Xrith takes a loan for 500 gp with his collateral of Horn of Fog. Rate is 2.5% interest starting on the 26th.

Xrith will be ready to adventure on 6-6-498.

Risten is out of debt.