Session 12: Statues of Limitations Report

General Summary

Earlier the day before, Ash had taken the job of reporting that the Red Legion were operating in the area back to Aofrik Hannara, after a few hours heading back to Quinton, he found a patrol of Seekers heading back that way and passed the message on and headed back to the group with all speed. Stealthily moving through to the cave, he found it easy to follow the trail of the dead who had tried to stop the party, and snuck past a pair of loudly snoring Ogres   He found his collegues struggling with a huge stone door that wouldn't budge but with his mighty sinews straining, he was able to push open the huge stone door, with a hiss of escaping air, they saw inside was an undisterbued room filled with the ancient accoutrement of the temple complex, including a shelf filled with Dwarf Ancestor Stones and other various knick knacks and a few other treasures. It also had three very finely made metal chests, two of them were locked, one contained 3 fine dearveb robes in good condition and 3 gold medallions. One of the locked chests was trapped but Grubis managed to disarm this without any trouble and with a helping hand from Ash.   There was also a huge black metal safe with a three keyholes. Arenor checked it and is made of a dense, solid metal that he had never seen before. Leaving this behind, the party moved on to follow the trail of the invaders again, coming across a room with 4 plinths with large statues of Dwarf ancestors. In the centre of room was a circle of dwarf runes spelling out "This is a place for the ancestors". Flick, who had pocketed on of the Dwarf Ancestor Stones, places it in a niche she finds in the centre, which opens an alcove, however just as this happens, Red Legion Goblins lanch an ambush.   Once the legion soldiers are defeated, the alcove is investigated and is found to contain a brass rod, 20 cm long, with a purple gemstone tip and with a circle at the top with another purple gem. on the shaft of the rods are a series of groves, the party suspects this might be a key for the black metal safe.

A dwarven key

  Up a wide set of stairs is a room dominated in the centre by a dias that contains two large, polished yellow stone sarcophagi. Both are decorated with the image of a dwarf warrior in repose. One is marked "Here lies Snargi Bashgarm, they died in battle, a hero to all." the other "This is Malikol Masterson. They died with nothing to their name." On the far wall are two white stone statues of Dwarf ancestors, one with a huge axe, the other with a maul. Between the statues is a plaque inscribed with dwarf runes "A dwarf has nothing but their honour, honed and keen. Without that they are blunt to the hold"   The party place the axe of the statue on Snargi and the maul on Malikol, which opens an alcove on the floor between them which contains another key, with green gems.   In the corner of the room was a thick grouping of spider webbing and egg sacks, Grubis gets to work on burning this, revealing a small door, which he opened and is set upon by four giant spiders. Luckily Grubis had a new staff and a scroll of Burning Hands which he cases, the rest of the part join in, Arenor holds the door, blocking the spiders, which the others take them down.

Rewards Granted

• 87 GP 20 SP in total
• 3 Dwarven Priest Robes
• 3 Gold Dwarven Holy Symbol Medallions
• Obsidian Dwarf Ancestor Stone
• 5 Hematite Gems (250 GP)
• Silver Pearl (100 GP)
• Black iron torch
• A pouch of a smoky tea leaves
• A bag of smarkling red gemstones (50 GP)
• A red leather garrotte
• Rough leather travelling cloak
• Scroll of Burning Hands
• A pouch of grubs
• A leather wrap of carved rib bones
• Pouch of smoke powder
• Purple Dwarf Key
• Green Dwarf Key

Notes

While resting, Arenor uses Identify on two weapons they have found on the bodies of enemies.   The greataxe is a +1 magic weapon that will increase the users hit points by +1 per level if attuned to.   The greatsword is a +1 magic weapon and if the word "Ignis" is spoken, it will burst into magical fire, causing 2d6 extra Fire damage on a hit. When ignited, it sheds bright light in a 40 foot radius and dim light for another 40 foot.