(G151 09/11/2012 - BG - JF(GM) , AP , ON)

DAY 155 (13th Eleasis)(August) cont...

Not needing as much rest as the spellcasters Oz searched the burial chamber once
more and then tried to provoke the golem from a safe distance.

He found only the two secret doors already identified and that the golem seemed to
prefer standing on its plinth facing towards the entrance when not engaged in chasing
puny humans around.

Meanwhile up above them, today in the market square four people where burned to
death by the inquisition.

They were :

Samson Doomdark - a school friend of Baeron Thunderstaff
Jannish Tel Marrik - a former business partner of Baeron Thunderstaff
Flish Tranby - a former assistant of Baeron Thunderstaff
Yvelle o' the Gate - an elf lady from Baldur's Gate. An associated of Baeron
with flames tattooed across her face.

DAY 156 (14th Eleasis)(August)

Early in the morning the adventurers arose, suitably rested and chose to
first investigate the southern door.

The crypt that was revealed was guarded by six suits of what they took
to be animated armour. They were not too intelligent though and were
dealt with one by one as they came through the door into the main room.

In the crypt they found a stone coffin with a dusty old skeleton in it
which the decided to leave unmolested and a set of three narrow tunnels
in the west wall, no more than a foot tall.

Oz got down onto his belly and wriggled through the middle tunnel. Finding
a blade trap that would be triggered by a pressure plate he disarmed it
and made it safe.

The next room he wriggled into was a small chamber with an altar in it
on which were put two gold lanterns.

When he touched one, suddenly a big puff of smoke revealed a beautiful
dark skinned maiden dressed in silks. Much taken aback Oz took a few
paces away from her, but with hips swaying she pursued him.

She also tipped the other lantern and another maiden appeared, this
time with fair skin.

Some inner sense summoned Fenrir into the room, drawn by exposed
female flesh most likely and he appeared from the tunnel. Oz was
in the mood for talking though and the maidens revealed answers in
exchange for kisses.

They were genies (djinn), the dark one was called Enlessa and the fair
one was called Meshnosha. Oz was still trying to hold the wench off but
seeing that Fenrir was already 'fully engaged' with Meshnosha he
thought to himself 'what the heck' and gave in to Enlessa's charms.

Once fully sated and very happy indeed he decided to search the room.
He did discover a secret door in the north wall, but the genies began
to insist that Oz and Fenrir leave.

'We are sorry', they said, 'But you have to leave now. It was fun,
and please come back sometime, but now you have to leave.'

So they crawled through the tunnel once more and gave vague answers
to Corum when he asked what all the moaning and groaning he had
heard echoing though into the crypt had been about.

And so they went on to the northern secret door which lead to
a chamber containing a well and a stone table. There was a corpse
on the table and as they entered it stirred and stood up.

It was a mourg and gave much more of a fight than the suits of armour
had. It had a big purple worm inside its stomach and it lashed about
poisoning those that it touched.

Still, it was soon defeated by the blows and magic of the party and
finally blasted to smithereens and giblets by Fenrir channeling all the
power from his Gloves of Eldritch Power.

They left the well for the moment and tried the door to the west.
The small chamber on the other side of it had a collapsing floor. No
one fell, but it made reaching the stone coffin on the other side
trickier.

Fenrir flew across and tried to open it. Oz magically swapped places
with Fenrir, but could not get the lid off the thing either.
Eventually Fenrir decided to smash the lid off with his morning
star and started to bash away with it.

Ten minutes later he had the thing caved in, but as he reached for
the treasure inside he was hit by a poison blade trap.

As he weakened, he still tried to scoop up the gold coins but the
cries of the others urging him to come back meant that he just made
it back across in time to be healed by Sylvia.

Once healed he flew back across, swapped with Oz again who disabled
the trap, then took all the treasure.

After that they examined the well. It went down about twenty feet
to some murky dark water. Using a rope and a sun rod they reckoned
that the water went down another thirty feet at least.

Not being able to think of a way of checking what was beyond that
they decided to leave and negotiated the golem once more on their
way out.

It was about ten o'clock when they once more emerged into the OJB.