Adventure 52

Othello – Gnome:  Thief
Gubikla – Gnome: Magic User
Bone – Hauman: Fighter
Hammar – Dwarf: Cleric
Pete – Dragonborn: “Real” Cleric
Mightychondria – Half-Orc: Fighter
Talin ‘Forehead’ Firebeard – Dwarf: Fighter

Did Cloverdung go to Highvail to find out what was going on with the Nobles disappearing?

As the party approaches the blue glow they see a large that is lit by three pools.  The room start off as part of the hallway and has a the hallway is beveled outward to make a larger hallway. The hallway/room go another 20-30 feet and then opens up another 5-10 on either side.  The room ends in a half circle.  The three pools are right in the middle of the long axes of the room.  This first is a blue pool then about 10 feet is a green pool, and after another 10 feet is a Orange/Red pool.  The last pool is just past where the room opens up into the half circle. There are long tables on either side of the pools.  There are people stirring the pools and another going to the tables and pulling things off and pouring them into the pools.  At the back of the room are a bunch of people that have their hands bond above their head.  

Pete carries his chair over and sits down to talk to the people at the first pool.  The party move forward to stand behind Pete.  Just as Pete is getting ready to speak to these people Othello sees a guy toss some gems into the blue green pool.  On seeing this Othello freaks out.  He know somehow that they are destroying the gems and that goes against fiber of his being.  He shoots the scrawny looking guy with a sonic bolt and it hits pretty hard.  Yet the guy still stands.  Though it did make him pour the rest of his  plate of gems into the pool.  The pool starts boiling and all of the workers get angry.  The people at the first pool start running toward the party where the guy at the back pool uses a net to fish out the what looks to be an egg.  Mighty, Bone, and Talin step in to engage the people running toward them.  Gulika cast flaming bolt at one of the one near the back and he falls into the pool.  Othello figures that if they don’t die with sonic bolt maybe they will die with a lightning bolt and pulls out his wand and cast lightning bolt at two that are running up toward him.  This catches the two of them and the guy he had shot earlier.  Pete and Bone notice that flying stingray like creatures detached off the back of the head of the one that Pete cast dispel magic against.  They also notice that the eggs that the guy in the back is pulling out are hatching these things and they are attaching to the people chained against the wall.  These new host break their chains with ease.  At this point Gublika cast his first fireball.    This kills the few un-infected host that were still chained and a few of the weaker people/creatures. But the guy in the back is still fishing out new creatures and now is tossing them into the air where they are hatching and start flying toward the party.  One manages to land on Pete but he is able to spew acid into his hands and rub it across it before it could take control of him.  Bone, Mighty, Hammar, and Talin continue to pick off the creatures as they attack.  Pete is trying to get people to just apply heat to the creatures in hopes to save the host.  Gublika cast another fireball.  This time it kill the last guy fishing out eggs.  The rest are subdued.  They party gathers up gems, scrolls, potions, rocks, and pots that survived the fireballs.

COD = Othello