The
band from Mistledale was down Zaven and Dusty, but one of the rescued commoners
volunteered that he had some skill and would be willing to help the party
out. The elf is named Ele’mir and his
skills range from spell casting to opening door and finding traps.
The band decided to head out of the
area and find any treasure while Thovan meditates. Katie, Ele’mir, Valorous and Styve head to
the ruined room with the small elementals.
Travelling to the room the party encounter some ochre jellies. In the elemental room, they find a wand and
defeat all but one of the elementals, that flees.
Leaving that room, they decide to look
into the room where ants were suspected of being in. The room had no ant creatures but was some
sort of torture chamber with a shrine to Shar.
This room trapped the party and they were sometime later transported to
another location where they met a creature named Modulok. In this eternally dark place, Styve was
killed and the others captured.
Modulok told them that she would speak
with them later and left the room. The
band went back to the room where they first appeared. There they found a rune on the ground exactly
where they appeared. Also in this room, the group found another prisoner
chained to the wall. It appeared to be a
demon, tortured and beaten. Ele’mir
warned Katie not to talk to her but Katie freed the demon and learned that it
was actually an angel named Taleron.
Gratefully, Taleron brought the group from Modulok’s domain back to the
room where the shrine to Shar was.
Once the group was back in the
dungeon, they headed to the their lair to recover and return Styve’s body to
safety. This was problematic as Styve
and his gear made everyone more encumbered then they would have liked. It also meant the trip back would take
longer. As they made their way back,
they encountered Aura the medusa again.
Meanwhile, Thovan came out of his
reverie and decided the other had been gone too long. He decided he and Seoni should go and look
for the rest of the group. They left and
traveled down the right passage. When
they went down the long corridor, they triggered a rune that caused them some
distress but that was nothing compared to the assault the crossbowmen gave
them. With their poisoned bolts, they
managed to get Thovan who recognized the effect as drow sleep poison. He realized that he would soon be passed out
for hours, leaving Seoni alone to guard him.
They fled back to the lair but triggered the rune again, only this time
it actually grant them instead of a bane.
After a long sleep, Seoni and Thovan
ventured out again and this time decided to take the left turn instead. Nearing the corridor, they heard a commotion,
Katie and the others were in a battle.
Thovan and Seoni sprang into action just as Katie ran past them toward
the lair. She told them that Aura was
after them and that Styve was dead.
Valeros and Ele’mir were stuck in the rubble with Aura advancing. After a pitched battle, Thovan killed Aura
with a spell but was then petrified.
While the party recovered from the medusa battle,
Taleron, the angel came to the party to thank them for their aid. She gave Ele’mir, Valeros and Katie a feather
from her wing. The feathers could be
used to summon Taleron and ask her for a boon.
Katie promptly used her feather and asked Taleron to bring back
something to raise Zaven. Taleron
departed, vowing to return with something Katie could use to help Zaven.
Katie, Seoni and Ele’mir, then set about
identifying the magic items the party recovered. They learned one item found was a jar of Raise Dead Balm. Taleron returned soon after and brought Katie
a scroll of Raise Dead. Styve was raised using the Balm, he then used
the scroll on Zaven. Ele’mir used his
feather to ask Taleron to help Thovan.
Taleron brought back a potion of
Restoration. This potion was poured
over the Thovan statue and thus Thovan was restored. Later, the group found out that one of the
potions found in the gelatinous cube was also a potion of Restoration.
