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Fri 3rd Jan 2020 03:58

Golems, Arrows and Skeletons, Oh My!

by SIMA LEES

Eventually the party enter the room with the statue. Cousin braylin stepped down the flight of stairs to lower level. Suddenly the stairs moved and became a big slide. my cousin slid quickly to the bottom. The large statue animated and thrust at Braylin with its Shield. Thrall kept smashing the wooden monstrosity. I grabbed the rope from Mueller's bag and knocked an arrow with it attached and fired into the leg off the statue and slid down the stairs avoiding an attack. I spotted a key hole on the back and yelled back to Kharos for the key he had. He aimed carefully and hurled it toward me landing squarely between my breasts. While awkward, I dug it out and tried to carefully dodge the mighty shields flailing at me. I grabbed hold but the wooden beast threw me off but Thrall landed another mighty blow disabling the trapped statue. I thrust the key in the back and turned it and the statue went fuentes limp dropping both tower shields. Thrall continued to smash the head while others kept examining the room. We moved one of the shields on the floor plate that activated the magical entity.
 
We searched the room and approached a door in the corner. We tried the key from the well and the door popped open. On a table in the room, where vials and scrolls each paired and with signs indicating each of our names as a sort of reward for our efforts. I was given a Cats grace potion and some weapon oil that creates a magical force field on my weapons. each of us took our rewards and we headed back down the hallway of statues and went to a door we previously left unopened.
 
With he door now open we could see circular room and large pillar full of arrows pointing out to the room in all directions appearing ready to strike. A small bridge was also in view to the side of the pillar. Thrall entered the room catching three arrows on his newly acquired shield. However when he looked he noticed they were blunt and just bounced off. Taking a calculated risk I dashed into the room and ran to thrall trying to get cover. The others went for the other shield, but impatient as always, Thrall charged the pillar with the shield and bashed into it. I tried to bash the door open behind him but arrows seemed to be able to find there away around the shield and sunder me mighty to the the point I had to leave the room.
 
Braylin grabbed the other tower shield and made his way to the door i previously tried with key in hand. He tried the key and the door opened. Thrall came back with the shield and led me through the room to the door which brought us to another large room with carvings of mourners all along the walls leading to a small staircase on the opposite side of the room. Statues of Derrick Engleton where on both sides of the stair case. Thrall went forward and skeletons animated behind 4 pillars in the room. Battle ensued and Kharos drew on the power of his diety to smite several of the skeletons with explosions of bright energy. Other joined in and the threat was ended.
 
We continued to the stairs at the far side of the room and Thrall impatiently charged ahead based on the word of our blind Oracle. aat the bottom of the stairs we cam across a small round chamber that acted as a crossroads for 3 tunnels with labels leading to singletons tomb to the west , the east to the wheel that opens the gate where the sounds of dripping water could be heard and to the south a place of rest.
 
Thrall and Braylin explored south and came upon a fountain that when quaffed heals and refreshed s the mind soul and body. There we chose to rest using the tower shields as a barrier.