Adventure 64 – Caverns Under the Quarry (Dark Tower)

Hammar – Dwarf: Cleric (lvl 8)
Bone – Human: Fighter (lvl 9)
Tetranac – Drow: Ranger (lvl 7)
Gubikla – Gome: Magic User (lv 9)
Talin – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 8)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 9)

Is Cloverdung lost in a skeleton closet or is he the closet!

Still on the fourth floor of the dark tower the party continues to investigate.  Othello searches the chest to see if there are any other secret compartments.  Gubikla ask Talin to check out the crystal ball that he has been keeping an eye on the amphibious creature that came out of the portal.  Talin walks over to the crystal ball and pick it up and puts it back.  Tell Gubikla that there is nothing wrong with it.  Gubikla then licks it and nothing happens so he pick it up.  Tetranac and Hammar head over to inspect the suits of armor.  As Hammar is leaning in to take a closer look it sees the armour open its eyes and look back and him.  Tetranac senses something and tries to leap back but is not fast enough and gets hit by the Flesh Golem.  Talin advances and engages the Flesh Golem next to Hammar.  Gubikla cast some acidic spell against the same one.  Othello shoots the other Golem fighting Tetranac.  Hammar and Talin continue to hack at the Golem near them.  Gubikla cast another spell.  Tetranac decides he needs to get away so he cast globe of darkness, activates his cloak of invisibility and then does a backflip into the wall as he lost his direction in the dark.  This enables him to avoid the Golems first attack but it grabs him with his second attack and throws him across the room barely missing Gubikla.  But this attack incapacitates Tetranac.  So he is laying on the floor invisible next to Gubikla.  But as the he went unconscious the darkness globe vanishes.  This allows Othello to take another shot.  Hammar and Talin finnish off the Golem near them and head south around the hole to engage the other Golem who has taken off his helm and charged Othello.  Othello blinks himself up to the ceiling, a little too close to the ceiling and then falls down creates a shock wave on the Golem. Bone becomes aware of the situation after looting the chest and swings at the Golem.   Talin finish of the Golem.

Just as the party is starting to relax three Vrocks flies up the hole.  One lands next to Bone, one next to Hammar, and the last one lands next to Gubikla.  The first one screeches out and this stuns Hammar and Gubikla.  Bone hits the one near him.  Othello shoot a bolt and hit the one near Bone.  Talin hit the one near Hammar.  The Vrock’s release a cloud of toxic spores.  This poisons Hammar for a short while and causes Tetranac parish.  Gubikla cast lightning near his and arcs across to the one near Bone.  This appears not to do as much damage as he would have expected.  Talin hits the one near him.  Gubikla cast sonic orb against the one near him.  Hammar cast detect magic to try and find the invisible Tetranac.  Bone continues to chop at the one near him.  Othello shoots and misses almost hitting Bone.  The Vrocks are slashing and pecking at the party members.   Hammar manages to find Tetranac and revivify him.  Tetranac casts a healing spell on himself.  The party continues to attack the Vrock near each of them.  Hammar continues to cast some bonus healing on the party while attacking when he can.  Othello has move so that he can get sneak attacks on the Vrock near Bone.  Tetranac uses another healing spell and tries to sneak away but fails and one of the Vrock gets a attack of opportunity on him which negates the healing he had just received.  Gubikla almost goes down but manages to drink a potion that restores him to full health.  The party manages to kill off the Vrock.  Tetranac cancels his invisibility and Hammar heals the party.  Talin heads down to the first floor to find the gem the Vrocks turned into when killed.

Gubikla and Othello go over and investigate the silver casket that the Golems were guarding.  Othello finds out that there are several runes that are on the casket.  Gubikla tries to cast tenser’s floating disc under it.  He made it part way but misjudged the angle and the casket slid off the edge and the lid came off.  This release a spirit that looked like multiple snakes that went through the forehead of everyone left on the floor.  It left a mark on Gubikla’s and Tetranac’s forehead.   Hammar and Othello felt that they barely avoided the mark.  The spirit started to form a humanoid and looks to becoming corporeal.   Bone swing at the spirit.  Othello jumps up on the stone slab that the casket was on and gets ready to attack but then pulls off a smoke ring and tosses it down and says a word activating it.  This miraculously sucks up the lich spirit.  Othello then picks up ring and starts tying a string around the ring to mark that it has a lich inside it.  Gubikla sees the red “sriracha” cylinder in the casket and strikes it with his necro dagger and it shatters.  This releases a blast of energy that hits Othello and throws him back and down the hole. He manages to land feet first allowing him to use his shockwave boots to break his fall.  Unfortunately Talin was near by searching for the gem.  Fortunately the shockwave managed send to the gem straight into his mouth.   At this point the party decides to gather up and teleports back to town.  

COD = Othello for sucking up the spirit of the “sriracha” litch.

Open Quest:

1. Highvail – in trouble
2. Deephold – in trouble
3. Gnolls army
4. Defeat Erlic Black Snake
5. Nobels are going missing or killed in the Capital
6. Circle of moving trees
7. Green Book and the Valisitial Network.
8. Collect Dragon blood to brew Dunain’s Dew
9. Defeat Relic Doom Snake’s minions.
10. Mirror located in the Anus, that lead to other areas/plains
11. Beer pool.
12. Centaurs spear – return.  The centaurs were looking for the Tear of Alindril)
13. Dragon in the swamp
14. Find – Ispil’s Staff
15. Finish Agers Temple.
16. Find Dunain’s dread devl