Jasper's Journal: Mirror Mirror

7th of Utkar, 1491 DR
 
Sitting in the claw of the dragon, I make my way up in the passage full of mirrors, scaling the slippery surface as far as it will take me. When I reach the top, I find myself in a tower, a spiral staircase circling the wall, and mirrors leading all the way up.
 
I jump from the landing to the stairs, and look out the keyhole of the nearby door. It appears that I am on a tower attached to the roof, and this door leads outside. The stairwell goes up for a while, with mirrors placed strategically around the tower. I begin to hear moaning and wind to the west and below. As I climb, I find two more stairways leading down, and I see a concentrated cloud of black gas on the next floor up. Due to my injuries, it seemed like a bad idea to proceed alone, so I traveled back to the roof and took a stairwell down I thought would lead to the second floor. Upon reaching the bottom and looking through the keyhole, my gaze was met by the eye of an undead.
 
Swiftly, I rushed back up the stairs, knowing I was being followed, and quietly ran down the stairs of an adjacent stairwell. Once I reached the bottom, I ducked into a room that I believed would be above the chapel. Inside this room, I was met by a number of portraits of The Morning Lord and other Faerunian gods. Stained glass windows flanked the east wall of religious figures, one of which was St. Andril. As I peered through the glass I could see my friends cowering down below. Sensing they were in danger, I broken the glass and jumped through the window crying out: "Have no fear friends! Jasper is here!".
 
As I reached the ground and rushed in, I bumped into an invisible figured, who revealed herself to be a beautiful Vistana woman who goes by Ezi. Just like back at home, I put on the smolder and did my best to impress her! We spoke for a while, and I believe I convinced her to aid us. We sat in the hall talking for some time, until she eventually revealed she was sent by Madam Eva! After learning that, I mentioned my sister Arrabelle to if perhaps she know her, and Ezi said it seemed our fates were tied. She also informed us that we was looking for Van Richten and that she had the skull of Argenvost.
 
Ezi believes that we need to reconsectrate the burial site of Argenvost before we can bring back Piccolo. So, we make our way back to the first floor to systematically check the whole building. We start with the spider room, and after some persuasion I enter the room after learning there are ten beasts within. Three large sac like objects sit in the center of the room, which appeared to be fallen and cocooned adventurers, and a small tendril of smoke is billowing out of the fireplace to the east. As I inspect the smoke, I notice a small glowing ember in the fireplace. I prod it with a stick, and the ember erupts in flame, consuming the stick, and then from the fire emerges a small flaming lizard which runs from the room!
 
In the commotion, two giant spiders descend down the walls and begin to approach me hungrily...
 
~ Jasper Solavich