Session 64: Tunneling to more questions

General Summary

After getting all of the living prisoners out of the doom vault, we took a short breather before heading back. There were still a lot of places to search in the master’s domain, so we decided to check out the big room we hadn’t been to in the Hall of obedience. Valstrax carefully opened the door a little to spy on anyone inside. He saw several Thayan warriors and skeletons fighting. Aaldryn used a magic eye to get a look inside. He spotted a red wizard inside, and I think Janey and Aaldryn really wanted to get a look at his spell book because Janney used some spectral oil to create a hole in the wall. After the hole finished appearing, she shot a fireball towards the Thayan warriors and skeletons, killing almost all of them. Valstrax restrained the red wizard while we dealt with the stranglers. We then got ready to interrogate him.   It only took a little convincing for the red wizard to tell us what he knew. We only had to promise not to kill him. He told us that the lich’s phylactery actually isn’t here. What is stored in the phylactery vault are the phylacteries of his generals. He also told us that the phylactery vault is somewhere underneath the doom vault and is accessible through the halls of extraction. This was all great info, but we still needed to find a way into the halls of extraction. While we started devising possible ways to get into the halls, we let the red wizard go who left the doom vault.   When we checked the map of this place, we saw that there was one room outside of the halls of extraction where the walls were relatively thin. We decided to try and make a path through this wall. Janey tried sending through an earth elemental, but it got blocked by something after entering the wall. Aaldryn used magic to try and open a passageway, but it also stopped abruptly about halfway through. We discerned that there was a strong magical barrier around the halls of extraction, which was even too strong for me to dispel.   There was this small isolated room in the golem laboratories. It was close to the temples of extraction. Before we could get there, we had to get through a room full of flesh golems that Christopher had resupplied. I’ve got to say, I’m a little jealous of the teleportation skills that the others have.   When we got to the room adjacent to the secret room, Janey sent the earth elemental into the wall to try and find it. Unfortunately, the room on the map wasn’t where we expected it to be. It was right above us. When the earth elemental attempted to enter the room, he ended up in the room with the skull doors… I’m not very keen on getting back in there again...

Rewards Granted

98830 xp total