527.12.1

Journal entry 5.2023.11.26

by Krix

1 Uvork 527
Darien is in a water elemental and drowning. Vectis goes down as he absorbs wounds from Darien. Ferzith casts healing word and brings him back up. Hergatz shoots the elemental with scorching ray and destroys it. I help Darien up and pound some water out of his lungs. We advance to the next room. Another water elemental attacks, no surprise. It engulfs Hergatz but is quickly slain. We continue to advance. There is ongoing animated and highly opinionated discussion about details of the murder rug incident. We continue through the rooms and corridors, encountered air or water elementals. During a fight with an air elemental, All The Light Touches gave me a magic rapier which landed a critical attack the first time. So now I wield a rapier. A bit like a toothpick, but so far it is better than anything else as far hitting monsters made of air goes, I guess. We discovered acid could damage the painted runes in the floor (perhaps the trigger for the elemental-summoning traps). But then it lit me up like a bonfire. So we tried to cast it at the next rune, damaged it, I got burned, the trap still sprang an air elemental. Stabbing an air elemental from the inside worked surprisingly well. Ferzith then insulted it to death. We then realized, thanks to marking the walls, that we are in an infinite loop of trapped rooms. Investigation of the magic and the walls commenced. We found a secret door in one of the stairs. We decided what our single file marching order would be, and headed down into a corridor below. We hear chains rattling and the moaning of prisoners. Are we still on the 5th level? Are we just lost now?