Adventure 37

Bone
Hammar
Gubikla
Othello

The group awoke in the lower chamber to find the rope that lead up to the cavern missing and a grinding like someone or something was pushing the stone lid with the ring in it back into the shaft to close off the chamber from the cavern above.

Othello realizing this and shoots a crossbow bolt up to the top of the shaft/passageway and teleports to where his crossbow bolt was and tried to use his grappling hook to latch on to the ledge.  While Othello appeared out of no were at the top of the passageway he saw a several ghouls that are trying to close the top of the passage way.  The ghouls swipe at Othello and one leaped at him but missed him as he was still following the arc upward that his crossbow bolt was taking.  This ghoul fell down the hole and the ghouls must have startled Othello as he totally missed his grapple and fell back down the hole/passageway just above the now falling ghoul.

Hammer sees the falling ghoul and as it hits the ground in front of him, slams his hammer into the ghoul.  squashing the now dead ghoul between the floor and his hammer.  Gubikla cast grease on Hammers head as Othello falls and does a hand spring off of Hammer’s back.  Making Hammer do a face plant into the ghoul.

Now that the group is cut off from the way into the area.  All it is left is to research the rooms/traps and passageways.  After a long exhaustive search.  Hammer determines that it is only a couple of feet of stone to another camber above the cannonball trap ammo chamber.  It is also determined that the acid pool is no longer acid and contains some water like liquid.  Othello determined that it was not dangerous but throwing a copper coin in, and then a lighted copper coin, and then finally dipped his foot in, after Gubikla cast spider clime on him to search the downward slopping passageway that lead to what was the acid pit.  The water in the pit is about 12 feet deep.

Bone gets fed up with arguing of who would swim to the bottom and goes in and finds a button at the bottom that with a little force was able to activate and it opened the bottom of the pit in an iris type door.  The water and Bone fall about 30 feet to another camber.  The water gets whisked away by grooves in the floor that lead to small holes in the wall.  Bone yells up that he is fine and would catch people as they come down.  Othello takes him at his word and slides down and Bone in fact catches Othello.  Hammer says ok and slides down and its the far side of the pit and then falls down.  Bone does not catch Hammer, so hit hits the floor.  Gubikla decides he does not trust anyone so he spider climes down.

The camber is has a big brass door that has a impression of a Medusa coming through it.  Gubikla determines that it is magical and finds three magical spots on the opposite wall.  Othello examines these and finds out how to open the three compartments.  The middle one looked to have had a poison needle trap that he was able to disarm.   The three compartments had sparkling valves.  Gubikla cast spider clime on Bone and bone climes with Gubikla above the door.  Hammer goes the the corner next to the door.  Othello turns the left nob clockwise and the snakes on the Medusa start to move.  He tries turn the nobe the other way and it brakes off.  Hammer is now envies Othello’s shinning nob.  Bone swings and strikes one of the snakes but it does not look like it took any damage.  Gubikla cast illusion of himself in the middle of the room facing the Medusa.  Othello turns the right nob counter clockwise but it will not turn so he turns it clockwise and the Medusa’s head starts moving.  Othello uses one of his wands and cast invisibility on himself and then turns the last nob clockwise.  The Medusa comes to life and ask what the password was.  No one remembered anything about a password so the Medusa comes out of the door. Bone stabs it in the back of the head.   Gubikla cast magic missile.  Hammer cast guiding bolt and misses its leg.  Othello pulls out the bottle of darkness and starts filling the room with darkness.  He shoots over his shoulder misses the Medusa and everyone else but the illusion.  The Medusa tries to grab Hammer and the hand slips of his arm.   Bone hit the Medusa again with this sword.  Gubikla misses with frost bolt.  Look through his mirror and see that the Medusa has their back to him so he turns and fires and hits the Medusa.  Hammer hits the Medusa with his hammer and Bone cuts off the Medusa head with his second swing.   Othello closes the bottle and the darkness rescinds.  Luckily the head was facing the floor.  Bone helps Othello slide the head into a bag.  Bone picks up a belt from the Medusa and Othello fins a ring.  The belt has a key in a pouch.  

The key magically opened the big brass door.  The door reviled a triangular shaped room with bookshelf along the back wall.  Othello searches the bookshelf and the walls and reveals no hidden doors or compartments.  The bookshelf has six brown leather books on it.  Hammer reaches out to look at a book and the book leaped off the self into his hand.  He could not put the book back on the self but could put it on the floor.  After examination it looks to be a magical book “Manual of Wisdom”  I then take the second book from the end on the right and it was a manual of Dexterity.  Gubikla gets a Manual of Intelligence and Bome gets a Manual of Constitution.  Gubikla tries to take another book and it flies of the self and slaps him in the face.  We all try different things to get a second book with no avail.  So we decide to hold up see if Cloverdung or Kavis make it to the room.

Character of the Day goes to:
Othello