Players (Characters)
Scott (Rain)
Jeremy (Grokk)
Catherine (Amber)
Tony (Roland)
Rachel (Horkina)
DM: Tom (Garlen)
Back in Cauldron, Roland spent a few days looking through the notes he'd captured from various Cagewrights, and was able to identify the remaining members of that society: Ssythar Nahazir, a yuan-ti sorcerer; Alurad Sorizan, a human fighter/blackguard; Xokek, a shadar-kai wizard; Kyan Winterstrike, an elven arcane archer; Viirdran Daraqor, a drow fighter/evoker; and Embril Aloustinai, a mystic theurge and cleric of Nerull who had masqueraded as a cleric of Wee Jas. He also identified the Cagewright's secondary base of operations as Shatterhorn, the former base of the area's yuan-ti.
As the party approached the split spire of Shatterhorn, several arrows flew out of the fog and struck Amber. The arrows had been fired by a group of orcs riding on the backs of Spider Eaters. Garlen, Grokk, and Horkina jumped on top of a ruined wall and fired back while Roland flew to the side and fired a lightning bolt and Sam morphed into a larger dragon. The Spider Eaters took heavy damage from multiple sources and fell dead to the ground, taking their riders with them. Most of the orcs died on impact, but Amber chased the living one and scared it into surrender. Suddenly a pair of will'o'wisps started shocking Roland and Sam, touching them with bursts of electricity. Rain kept sneaking along the ground, and yelled out as he spotted a giant and a pair of wolves. Grokk leaped off of the wall into melee with the giant, taking a heavy blow from the enemy greatsword. Rain tumbled into flanking position and jabbed the giant while Garlen made an acrobatic leap and stabbed a wolf right in the tail. Grokk let loose with a furious attack, dropping the previously healthy giant (dealing over 300 HP damage!) Horkina and Rain finished off the wolves while Roland continued fighting the will'o'wisps. Horkina got back on the wall and slashed through one floating ball of electricity, so the other turned invisible and began to retreat. Amber's invisibility purge brought the creature back into focus, and Garlen and Grokk flew into melee and finished it off. Amber got some information from the disoriented orc, and then took his stuff and sent him away.
The party walked through an illusory wall and down a short tunnel into a wide room with an altar and several pillars. Rain jumped onto the altar while Garlen tumbled past, flanking and slaughtering the yuan-ti sorcerer who was standing just behind it. A yuan-ti mohrg tried to paralyze Rain, but he was able to resist its power. Amber's sunbeam had little effect, but Grokk jumped over the altar and smashed the undead thing. Rain used his speed-enhanced weapons to stab the mohrg over and over again until it dropped. He took a few steps into the next room and spotted a stone arm clutching a ring. As he touched it, four nearby pillars disintegrated, revealing medusas inside. Rain sneak-attacked one to death. Horkina barely saved against a petrifying gaze, and responded by killing the offending medusa. Roland turned to stone, and Amber responded by casting an Antimagic Field and standing in the middle of the group. Grokk and Rain made quick work of the now-neutered medusas, and Amber restored Roland to human form. Meanwhile, the floor dropped out from under Rain, who barely jumped away in time to avoid falling. A voice swore in Abyssal from beyond a nearby wall. Garlen noticed some thin plaster and started poking holes, and Grokk ran right through the wall to engage the demodand beyond. Horkina, Grokk, and Garlen finished off the beast, and the party finally took a deep breath and relaxed.
Rain discovered Wail of the Banshee traps on several burial urns, so the party got some distance and Percy smashed each of the urns to bits. The party gathered up some treasure and kept moving. Rain discovered a room hidden behind a stone block. Grokk pushed the block to the side, solving the world's easiest sliding block puzzle and revealing a few magical scrolls. In another passageway, a pair of stone blocks slid out from the walls, nearly crushing Rain. Horkina, with her Maul of the Titans, demonstrated an alternate solution to this sliding block puzzle.
The party came into a room where a large, six-armed creature stood over a woman lying on a black slab. Garlen and Rain jumped over the slab and attacked the Spell Weaver, who summoned a giant hand to squish Rain. A few shadows came out from hiding in the corners and one drained Rain's strength. Grokk jumped up on the slab and cut the Spell Weaver down, and then shrugged off a strange mental compulsion. Roland realized the woman on the table was Embril Aloustinai, and she was holding a gem that would allow her to possess someone else's body. Horkina clobbered the woman and her gem while Roland used his own summoned hand to grasp a Shadow. Amber's mass healing spell injured the group of undead and healed the party, and Rain and Grokk each managed to get an attack through on the incorporeal creatures, finishing the last two off.
Horkina headed down a ladder and smashed the plaster walls away from its base. The surrounding room had a huge egg-shaped statue in the middle. A drow cast haste on the room's occupants and moved into an attack position. Grokk jumped down through the hole and attacked the drow while Garlen flew into a rage and attacked a demodand. A woman fired several arrows at Grokk while Horkina engaged the drow in melee combat. Amber spoke out a Holy Word and banished the demodands, paralyzing the two Cagewrights in the process. Rain and Grokk finished the pair off with a couple of quick blows.
Roland, Horkina, Grokk, and Garlen reached level 18.
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