Date: 6/30/96

Players: JC, Chris, Kathy, Richard, Laurie

Characters: Rio & Glow, Raagnar, DM & Dre, Elrin, Beccah

Pick up with Rio going back to the roof to retrieve Angstroms dagger. He pokes his head up carefully and looks around. The scene on the roof is the same and the druid quickly drops the cloth over the dagger and picks it up. YOUCH. It's touch causes damage. He sets it back down and cuts a good size piece of leather and several thin strips off one of the dead. Then he is able to pick it up, wrap it up and tie it carefully putting it in the bottom of his backpack. He returns to the group and we decide to investigate the tower as long as we can.

The door out of the bedroom leads into a cooridoor which comes immediatly to a T intersection. There is a strange fog, thick and eerie which obscures vision down to only 10 feet. A brief discussion and we decide to check the rest of the level. Elrin turns one way and somehow finds himself almost falling down the stairs in the other direction. Hmm... must be the fog. Rio tries to Dispel Magic and is successful. The fog vanishes and now we can clearly see the surroundings. Behind the first door we come to we find several buxom young prisoners chained and ready for Angstroms pleasure. They DO get both Raagnar and Elrins attention and they are quickly freed. They say their possesions are in the next room. It's a communal sleeping area. Another woman is chained to the floor. She has a many bruises and a smashed and broken foot. She's also turns out to be blind. Rio casts 'Detect Evil'. This prisoner isn't, the other two are. The druid then casts 'Cure Light Wounds' or her foot and completely heals her. Glow will guide her if she needs.

We discover several other bedrooms and then come to a door which is locked. Elrin calls out for Dre to come and unlock it when someone from within calls out 'Who's There'. Dre unlocks it. There's a female half gold-elf. Evil as Rio's spell shows. Dre discovers a hidden room behind the tub.

We continue, the growing collection of women stuck in the middle. Rio catches Glows arm and whispers to her that the two chained women and the gold elf are evil. Glow uses Contact and MindLink to let Dre and Elrin know this also.

We come to a room that looks more like a tavern with a bar. Raagnar and Rio both get a cold ale. There is another woman behind the bar. She's actually clothed and is wearing a short sword. This one is not evil. It becomes clear that she is scared of the gold-elf and, when Raagnar asks her about it says 'Well she is my superior officer'. We can tell this is infuriating the gold-elf. Raagnar and Elrin are keeping the gold elf under watch up front with them. Rio and Glow are in the back. We find the captains bedroom. He has several pouches and a couple vials hidden in a secret compartment in the wardrobe. Rio and Glow each get on of the potions to file away in backpacks. Elrin decideds that the gold-elf has a bad attitude and she should be tied and gagged (could be a mage you know). When Raagnar attemts it she resists and draws a dagger on him. The barbarian tackles her soundly but falls on her dagger and is wounded in the ongoing struggle.

MELEE

Elrin, Raagnar and Beccah subdue her. Elrin searches the robe and find it has a deep pocket (not visible from the outside). They search her and then Raagnar kills her taking her scalp. Rio casts a 'Cure Light Wounds' on Raagnar. We find the guards bedroom. Elrin smashes one of the chests open and gets a needle in the thigh for his trouble. He also gets a pouch with some gems. Dre opens the other chest and finds some gold coin and a nice necklace. Finding nothing further on this floor Raagnar leads down the staircase to the first floor.

We wind our way through a trapped entryway, the password through the magical traps is 'Death to the Otherworlders', and then an unused sitting room. There is the definate odor of cooking coming from what turns out to be a kitchen door. Raagnar stirs the stew, sees an elven ear within, and slams down the lid. Looking around there is other edible food and both party members and former prisoners have a brief bite. There is a small door off the kitchen that leads down to the wine cellar. Raagnar finds a very unusual bottle from way back in a corner rack on top which he stashes in his backpack.

Finding no other ways out we head back up into the kitchen level and continue looking around. We come to a room that is in disarray, as if it had been ransacked. There are some old legalistic journals and papers dating back as much as 40 or 50 years. Continuing we come to a library that is in equally as bad conditioned. Rifled a while ago. Many of the books are damaged, others just laying out dropped in piles. There's also another stairway leading down.

Raagnar leads on down and comes to a wall of darkness. Glow remains behind with the prisoners who say that it's the real torture chamber. Rio volunteers and then walks through with weapon ready. It's a large torure chamber. A large fire roars along one wall looking around the corner Rio sees a small area that looks like a fighter training area, another door that looks to lead to smaller cells and a second door across the room. Suddenly Rio is aware of a keening sound growing in volume coming from the fire itself. He backs up and is edging along the wall toward the wall of darkness to report back to the others when the golem we saw when we scryed Angstrom comes out of the fire and attacks the retreating druid. It's almost 18 feet tall. Rio makes a dash for the wall of darkness and it attacks him.

MELEE

It hits him for nine points of damage, leaving Rio at 5. He rolls out of the blow, becomes an owl and flies a short ways out of reach out of the creatures reach. The others have started to come through the wall of darkness and attack the fire golem. Raagnar gets in a good blow. Rio returns to human form, again being rejuvinated by the transformation and casts 'Dispel Magic'. It keens, a sound which causes fear in Elrin, Dre and Beccah and they run from the room. The 'Dispel Magic' backfires on Rio but fortunatly nothing happens. Raagnar gets in another awesome blow and it collapses into a pile of still burning cinders. As we're are trying to put out the fires lit by the embers a voice calls out from the cells. Unlocking the doorway reveals other smaller cells. One is occupied by a Paladin who says he came to rescue a maiden stolen from Waterdeep . We free him and a woman from one of the other cells. She has been beaten unconcious and is near death. Rio casts 'Cure Light Wounds' on both of them.

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