Session 44 - Teleport Rooms

The adventurers explore some teleporters and return to the Fountain of Pestilence.

This write up is from Kay's notes from our November 27, 2024 session. Since our group is scattered around the country, we used Discord for our voice communication and Roll20 for our virtual tabletop. Thanks to Kay for the screen shots.

Continued from: Demons and Books

Date: May 26, 3517

Location: Mouth of Doom, Level 3

Saturday morning in town, Zelcor’s Ferry. Blaze, Breena and Elron were at Pye’s general store, where they bought the last three pairs of leather gloves on sale. After Elron’s disgusting rooting around in the heads of pestilence demons to cut out their eyes, Blaze suggested getting leather gloves to cut down on the zombie rot that they will inevitably get. Two gold pieces for the gloves, and Blaze ordered long sleeved gloves to be made and picked up later for 5 gp.

11 AM
Elron checked in with the armorer about his armor order.

2 PM
Back at Castle Calaelen, stashing gems that Blaze and Breena bought in town, having exchanged their gold pieces for lighter items.

5 PM
We returned to the Mouth of Doom.

The party followed Blaze’s map, through the chapel of green flame to the 3^rd floor stairs.

Once back on the 3^rd level, the group went east down the hallway past the pits and portcullis traps to the wall at the dead end with the left hand carved in bas relief. This was the one that Lark had touched and been transported to another room. Breena touched the hand and found herself in darkness, having the effect of flying through a tunnel for about 4 seconds. Breena ended up somewhere else, in a 30 x 30-ft room. Her eyes can see in the dark and she saw an old table in the middle of the room, it was intact but rotted. There was a skeleton with tattered white robes and a left hand missing on the floor, and carved handprints in bas relief on the south, north, east, and west walls.

Blaze was the next person to touch the hand and arrived next to Breena; her quarterstaff lighting the room.

 

Back at the dead-end wall, the rest of the group saw Breena and Blaze surrounded by a swirl of dust and then they disappeared. Back when Lark went through, he gave Artie his sword which would magically reappear in Lark’s hand when called; so, when the sword disappeared from Artie’s hand, we knew Lark was alive on the other side. Not having that option anymore, Parahelia asked Elron to come back once he went through, after Sinis and Artie had gone; Elron reappeared in the hallway, went back and stepped out of the way. It felt like travelling a long distance. Sinis took the robes from the skeleton and the holy symbol for Solanus. Blaze marked the hands as North, East and West 3^rd Level MOD with chalk.

Beena went to the hand on the east wall and three seconds later found herself in a 10 x10-ft room.

The room contained the remnants of an old and decayed bed, nothing else. There was one carving of a left hand on the wall behind her and she came back to the 30x30-ft room when she touched it. Blaze wrote “bed” in chalk on the floor in front of it.

Sinis folded the robes into a pillow, put it under the skull of the skeleton, and positioned the holy symbol under the hand of the skeleton.

Elron went to the north wall, pulled out his sword and used his right hand to touch the bas relief. Nothing happened. Elron then touched the carving with his left hand and found himself in a 10 x 10-ft room with a bed and a skeleton on the floor, its hands outstretched to the stone hand. There were scratch marks with old blood stains on the hand and wall below it. The skeleton was dressed in peasant’s clothes, not cleric’s robes like the other. The bones on both hands were damaged. Elron searched the body and clothes, found nothing, and touched the left-hand carving and came back. Blaze wrote a description in chalk in front of this one too.  

Sinis cast his spell of detect magic; all the handprints lit up with conjuration school type. While he did that, Breena went back to the east wall, passed through to the bedroom again, and checked for secret doors, but didn’t find any.

Blaze went to the west wall hand carving; one second later found herself in a room. There was a ball of lightning in the middle of the room and it fired a small lightning bolt at her. She was injured by the shock.

She touched the hand carving on the wall behind her and teleported back.

She was in the room long enough to get a good look at the room. There were three intact work benches in the middle of the room, an armchair in bad condition against the south wall, five cabinets on the west wall, and two bas relief carvings of left hands, one the north wall and one on the east wall. The ball of lightning was hovering above the middle work bench.

Sinis stepped to the east wall, going into the 10X10 ft room with the bed; found nothing in it that was magic but the handprint. Sinis then went to the north wall, went through to the 10 x 10-ft room with the skeleton; the only magic detected was the handprint. We calculated if we lined up and tried to rush the ball lightning, it would take ten seconds for all of us to get in to attack.

While Sinis was using his magic, Blaze healed herself back to normal. Blaze and the others began thinking of ways to get back into the cabinet room and around the ball of lightning. She had a wooden shield she could hide behind, had leather gloves, could cast shield for extra armor. Breena could cast invisibility; maybe wearing a holy symbol would prevent it from firing. The priests had to have some way of stopping it from attacking them. Blaze has dispel magic; maybe that would work.

Sinis asked Blaze about the ball of lightning to see if it’s familiar, but he didn’t recognize it. Sinis went through the north wall and looked for secret doors. He didn’t find any and came back.

We went back through the south hand carving to the hallway, and moved down the corridor to the west past the third level entrance. Then we turned north down a short hallway and continued back to the room of the toxic pool.

The demons’ bodies were not there; everything was gone including the rats. Blaze and some others began putting scarves around their faces and nostrils against the fumes. We heard the sound of running slime and the fountain splashing.

We went into the scribes’ room and Blaze went up to the handprint on the north wall next to the shelves. She touched it and traveled for 47 seconds, and materialized in the ball lightning room again, only this time she appeared at the north wall.  She cast shield and it missed her. She cast dispel magic on it and it dimmed, but didn’t go out. She hit the handprint on the north wall and returned back to the scribes’ room. From the time she left, it took her a minute and a half before she returned.  She told the party what she had found.

The group continued into the room with the fountain and statue. As we entered, the liquid began to get agitated. Everyone prepared for battle as four large eggs floated to the surface of the slime with a splash.

Elron slung two stones at the closest one to him and it hit its leathery shell, and there was a cracking sound each time.

Blaze cast witch bolt, hitting the one closest to her, and popped it like a bubble.

Sinis cast acid splash on the one in the lower right, etching its surface. Artie hit the upper right egg with his fire bolt, burning it some. Breena cast magic missile at the upper right egg which splattered and sank. Elron shot more stones at the lower right egg and hit twice. Blaze missed with her witch bolt. Sinis hit with acid splash and killed it. Breena moved over.

Two more eggs came up. Elron reminded us that we wanted the eyes, so we should wait until they hatched next time.

 

Continued in Session 45 - Overwhelmed