The Tower of Black Flame - "Hit by a flying skull"
General Summary
The The Bear-Downers are alerted by a noise coming from the barred door. They can hear someone picking the lock and then they see the door getting pushed open, slowly, until it hits resistance from the table blocking the door. Ralornan sees this and know it must be the thieves they encountered earlier, so he calls out to them through the door. No answer. The The Bear-Downers move the table out of the way so that Ralornan can open the door. He looks left and right but can see no one. As he turns to tell the The Bear-Downers swords attack out of the darkness. The thieves are there and they attack from the shadows dealing heavy damage to Ralornan but once the rest of the party gets involved 3 thief corpses are dead, slumped in the doorway. The group locks the doors again and proceed to the next stairwell.
Seeing this noose hanging from the ceiling Zath Sev deftly maneuvers around it. Skar, on the other hand, investigates the noose to see if it is blood and accidentally touches it. At that moment a deep warning bell tolls from some unseen bell higher in the tower. The sound is deafening but the The Bear-Downers make it to the head of the stairs.
Ralornan approaches the door, fending off the attacks from the tiny tiny snakes as Zath Sev, Baelok and Skar eliminate the threat.
- A noose of black tarred rope hangs down from the ceiling above the seventh step. It seems to dangle through a small aperture in the ceiling, not much larger than the diameter of the rope.
Seeing this noose hanging from the ceiling Zath Sev deftly maneuvers around it. Skar, on the other hand, investigates the noose to see if it is blood and accidentally touches it. At that moment a deep warning bell tolls from some unseen bell higher in the tower. The sound is deafening but the The Bear-Downers make it to the head of the stairs.
- At the head of the stairs, there is a small landing in front of a closed stone door similar to others you have seen in the Tower. This one seems to have a spreadeagled human skeleton fused into its surface, protruding halfway out of the stone. There's something dark inside its bony ribcage, something that hisses at you and starts to move!
Ralornan approaches the door, fending off the attacks from the tiny tiny snakes as Zath Sev, Baelok and Skar eliminate the threat.
- The Tower's fourth floor isn't a single open room like the lower levels. It's divided into three parallel hallways running between a transverse corridor just inside the door you're looking through, and what looks to be a matching open area on the far side of the level. There's a closed stone door in the wall opposite your door.
- The central hallway has plain walls, but the two hallways on either side of it have walls covered with shelves and wooden pigeonholes for holding scrolls. All of them look empty, except for three rolled-up parchments halfway along the rack to your far right.
- Suddenly some creature scurries into the far end of the hallway to your left-something that rears up in size with astonishing speed. It's a dragon, its jaws opening as it glares at you and rushes forward without a sound!
- An eerie blue-green radiance kindles around a skull that suddenly appears out of thin air near the head of the stairs. Then the skull flies down the stairs toward you!
- The stair ends at a closed stone door that seems to have a stylized bronze skeleton design sculpted on the surface of the door. The image's skull is missing, leaving an empty socket about the size and shape of the animated skull you just encountered.
- This floor is dominated by a dome 20 feet across in the center of its ceiling. Around the lip or lower edge of this dome runs a ring of archways formed by a circle of twelve slender stone pillars. Standing tall and sinister at the center of this ring is a high-backed throne carved of some dark, green-black stone. Its arched top resembles a staring serpent head, and its side and arms are adorned with snarling open-mouthed fanged serpents. It emanates a faint acrid smell and has a waxy, unhealthy look.
- Beyond the throne and the ring of pillars, directly across the room from your door, is the usual closed stone door leading to the next level.
Rewards Granted
- Scroll of Chromatic Orb
- 5 Tiny Poisonous Snake corpses
Zath Sev
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Rogue 2
Rogue 2
13 / 13 HP
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Bronan the Wildbearian
Baelok
CN Human (Occult Scientist)
Fighter 2
Fighter 2
13 / 13 HP
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Report Date
17 Jan 2021
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