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General Summary

1490 DR - Winter - 23, Hammer (1) - Thay, The Doomvault  

• The Chosen have discovered the way to disrupt the black gates, and enter the phylactery vault, but need to continue disrupting a few more before they can make their way to their ultimate goal.
• They start with the Augmentation chambers, where the jellies were before, the remaining defenders seem to have been prepared and ambush the party as they exit, unfortunately they can't stand to the empowered crew the Chosen have become while exploring this area. They annihilate the ochre jelly, wights, and wizards ambushing them with ruin and swarms and thunder.
• The noise seems to have alerted the other areas nearby and the crew decides to disrupt the gate and retreat before more defenders descend upon them.
• They move back to the Forest of Slaughter, and find that they can now twist the magic of the Gate to enter the Phylactery vault.
• The Vault is a gravity defying tetrahedron with Vaults and black pools lining the walls, ceiling and floor.
• They break into a vault setting off the Gargoyle guards, but defend against the stone monstrosities through quick tactics.
• Inside the Vault are shelves of phylacteries, protected by some type of sealing magic. They use the Glyph key to mar the sigils and begin smashing the Phylacteries. After marring a second vault, the pools seem to activate and open a gate that reveals a floating skull with gems for teeth and eyes.
• They identify the skull as a Demilich, a potent form of undead, set as guardian of the vaults.
• The crew is quickly overwhelmed by the magical power, as it screams a wave of death through the party, with only Huden left standing. He quickly moved to bring teammates back to life, as the Demilich moved to focus on the survivor, unleashing waves of necrotic tendrils and further deadly screams. Those resisting the outright death of the scream are frightened and unable to fight effectively.
• After a chaotic fight to stay alive and the party splitting across the tetrahedron, Huden finally unleashes a mass healing word to raise the party back to motion. Shortly thereafter he is able to begin deafening the party, making them immune to the screams. Lucyan and Oudman then were able to further bring the party back to fighting form, while Llewellyn, Xifor, and Yasen began scoring glancing hits on the Demilich, cracking it's defenses.
• Their combined push was then overriden by the demilich healing itself from the parties lifeforces it drained with the tendrils, making the outcome look bleak, but with the scream no longer affecting the crew, the focused fire and everyone's magical attacks were able to crack the skull, dropping the gems to the ground.
• The black pools seem to evaporate, and the entire structure shakes as the magic held within the guardian dissipates, and threatens to destroy the pocket dimension.
• Oudman begins to take the gems from the Lich, but the party realizes these are likely it's phylactery, and help convince him to crush them instead, as valuable as they may be with the souls contained inside. He does so and the ancient creature screams in fear as it sees it's permanent death in the dimension loom.
• They party narrowly escapes the dimension to the gatehouse, where Syranna thanks them in a curt Red Wizard way, and they are rewarded with travel back to Maztica, in time to proceed with freeing Keezor before more sinister forces descend...