Session 12: To All the Battle I've Seen Before Report

General Summary

The party decides to rest after their encounter with the Maze Engine, healing previous wounds from vampire enounters a few sessions previous. After they heal their wounds, they take a moment to figure out how much closer they are to the Throne with their amulet and the platinum rod they acquired from the other adventurers.    As they are doing this, they hear a small group of cave trolls walking near the snow filled hovel they are hiding in. They successfully hide from the trolls and a few moments later, a purple worm tears through the wall and nearly kills one of the trolls that was in its path.   When the trolls leave, the group moves further down into the Underdark. They find a spiral staircase made of ice and it leads down to a pitch dark cavern where they find a conflict between a large group of minotaurs and gnolls. The group uses the fight and sneaks along the left wall of the cavern to avoid getting caught up in the fight. Just as they are about to leave, a group of vampires rushes into the conflict as well and starts to kill the survivors of the main fight. The party stealthily exits and continues further on.    Finally they find a quiet room and upon further inspection, Lydia is able to dispel a magical trap that was laid in the room. Bucky and Armin take it upon themselves to inspect the frozen figures stuck into the wall. With a bit more light, the group finds that these are angels, frozen in ice, dead for quite some time. Bucky gets too close and triggers a curse from one of the angels and he gains a level of madness. Armin and Bucky suffer similar effects momentarily and proceed to smash the frozen remains of the angels until nothing is left. Bucky also receives a vision from one of the statues that shows they group fighting a vampiric enemy sitting upon the Throne, who is missing an arm and has it replaced fully with some form of ice. Slightly shaken, the group decides to move on from the room.   10 hours have passed.