Session 17: The Hall of Harsh Reflections
General Summary
The fight with the mimic was bloody and left the noblewoman unconscious and short an arm. The party stabilized her and left her in the abandoned office, hoping a sheet would make others assume she was dead.
They retraced their steps, moving further into the warehouse. They found a collapsed room which must once have been a shipping bay on the river. There, they were assaulted by invisible enemies who sent them floundering into the murky, rusty-spear-filled water. Sigvurd was grasped by his beard and held under until the raging dwarf went still and began to sink, drowning.
Lins dashed across the beams to pull him from the water, but their combined weight caused a collapse. The party fought frantically, firing at invisible assailants, retreating toward the next door, and trying to stabilize the dying dwarf.
Eventually, they reconvened in the next room, where Vin cast a spell that indicated good results if they proceeded with the (recovered) Sigvurd raging as their vanguard. They dove down the well in that room, entered a flooded room where a lever controlled the water level, and found an illusory wall while exploring the basement. Stepping through, they found a secret room with mirrored black glass on its walls and floor, lit with blue-fire torches, and within that room, four familiar faces:
Vin Frostkeeper's
Nemara's
Lins Bogmar's
and Sigvurrd Snake-in-Eye's
All of them manacled to chairs, struggling to escape and crying out to be freed!
Timeline
12th of Wealsun, 595 CY
- 11:35 PM: The party enters the Flooded Room and barely survives a battle with Invisible Stalkers. They take a Short Rest in the Well room.
13th of Wealsun, 595 CY
- 12:30 AM: The party descends the well and explores the lower level of the dungeon, discovering the Hall of Harsh Reflections