Breac's Guild report - 0.3.14 agf

Stone Cold Devilry

Breac Sunfist led an expedition north through Barbarian lands to the Temple of Eternal Twilight. Their goal was to summon a Daemogoth and petrify it so Breac could harvest the eyes for the creation of the Mindshield Helm. On their way, they were escorted by the barbarian tribes as far north as the head of the glacier. Making camp beyond the head, their camp was assaulted by 3 huge frost giant skeletons with strange bird-like heads.

On harvesting the skeletons for parts and skulls, the party proceeded to the shrine and Breac began the ritual. On summoning the Daemogoth, the party and shrine were teleported - somehow without Breac and his escort - into some higher plane, where they battled the demon on a platform in the clouds, attempting to keep it within the temple bounds for long enough for the pillars to do their work. On rapidly realising the demon meant to destroy the pillars one by one and render their task impossible, the party rapidly deployed webs and grapples to keep it in place. As the demon tried to resort to its mind magic to force the party members to the edge of the platform where they could be conveniently knocked off to their doom, the party responded with countermagic.

As always, the guild's greatest threat came from within. Their paladin experienced an existential crisis ("There is a demon, I must smite it!") and the party was barely able to restrain him from continuing to rain blows down on the restrained Daemogoth despite knowing it was barely clinging to life and that killing it would fail the quest.

Finally the temple activated one last time, and the demon was petrified from head to toe. The party returned to Elanora, harvested the stone demon of its eyes - and arms - and head - and heart - and returned victorious to the guild hall. A mithril vein was spotted by a sharp-eyed ranger near the north edge of the abandoned temple.