11-04-2022 - Session 4

Sho turns in the tent, draws his dagger and cuts a in the back of the tent to get out and runs as fast as he can from the camp.

- Running he sees the beast behind him tearing into the tent trying to get through.
- He also sees a person on a mount start making chase and that his allies are looking to have surrendered.
- Seeing that Sho won't be able to escape and that his allies aren't making a move he decides to stop and head back towards his allies. Heading directly towards the mounted man.
- Getting closer to the mounted man he said halt and surrender. Sho complied and followed him back to Sho's allies.
- Back with his allies the man with the horn made another sound and soon the orc with the headdress came out.

Now with the group the orc with the headdress started to question us.

- He asked why we were there and why we entered into their camp without permission.
- He gave us the options of Sho taking punishment along or as a group.
- Sho said that he will take it alone and he need not involve his allies, but the others in the group spoke up to accept punishment along side Sho.

The people escorted us back to where we saw the wooden pillars.

- They said we needed to enter the hole found within the circle. If we make it through the ruins alive then we are absolved of our transgression.
- The ruins are the remnants of a fallen city and there are similar sites around the dessert. Some with the building still above the ground.

We all started to make our way into the hole that was found.

- Sho headed in first and slowly climbed down the sheer cliff-face.
- Made our way slowly through tight passages.
- We found a large stone door with a key hole and text written in eleven, 'defend'.
- Arthorius detected abjuration magic and we then started to attack the door.
- Eventually Sho decided to try and pick the door which unlocked it and they made their way into the chamber.

Inside Arhorius tripped a pressure plate that lit all the fire basins. There were 4 rusty suits of armors, 4 runes surrounding a handle in the middle of the room, and a blue crystal above.

- Arthorius could see that magic was getting sent to the runes from the blue crystal one at a time.
- Kai stood on one of the runes and took heavy damage from the beam.
- Then we all decided to pull on the handle and it activated one of the suits of armor that we decided to detroy. The armor became shiny metal.
- Using the metal we tested not charging the runes which didn't seem to do anything.
- We pulled the handle again and Kai directed a beam at one of the runes destroying it and causing damage to everyone nearby.
- After people had been injured and some feeling tapped for their own unique abilities, we are thinking that maybe we need to try to rest being advancing any further.