Adventure 80 – Deep Hold: Evil silver Urns & the reptilian army.

Pete – Dragonborn: Cleric (lvl 9)
Gubikla – Gnome: Wizard (lvl 9)
Tetranac – Drow: Ranger (lvl 8)
Talin – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 9)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 10)
Bone – Human: Fighter (lvl 10)

Has Cloverdung found the famous magic dancing pole?

Did we destroy Kavis’s soul when we destroyed the urn?

After killing off the elementals the party needed to rest and recoup.  They went around the bend of mountain slope and set up camp.    Tetrenac took first watch and headed around the bend to keep watch.  He sees six huge spider like creatures around the urns.  One of them picks up a urn and starts heading back to the door.  The spider like creature teleported, about the last thousand feet, and set the urn back down in front of the door.  Tetrenac makes it back to camp and informs what he has seen to Othello.  Othello decides to sneak up the road and see if he can’t figure out what is going on near the door.  After a while of creeping up the road he makes it about two hundred and fifty feet from the urns. He sees that there are about eighteen humanoids in plate armor. The have long snouts like a crocodile.  He also sees three other human like creatures come out of the door wearing red robes and walk around a area near the urns and position themselves one next to each urn.  The start chanting and doing some type of ritual.  Othello shoots a bolt across the road to see if he can’t distract them.  He hears but does not sees something in that direction.  It sends out a wave like a sonar ping, as it tries to determine if anything is in the area.  Othello stays as quiet and still as he can.  He hears the ping again but this time it seems that it is farther away.  With this he brings back his attention on the three near the urns.  The ritual continues and the leds on the urns unscrew and fly up and vanish.  The mist stats to come out of each urn. The area immediately around the urns starts to get covered in the mist.   Othello seeing the area is going to get covered in mist, sets his bear trap up on the road and puts a smoke ring with poison next to it.  He then retreated to the camp site and informs Bone of all the happenings near the door.  The mist is advancing down the road, but stops were the area start to widen out.  This means that the parties camp site won’t be danger being covered in mist.  Bone and Othello notice that about a dozen of the armored croc snout creatures were following a huge snake out of the mist and were heading down the road.  Most of the party was resting so the debate was if they were going to see / find the party before they had finished resting.  

The snake and the armored army came to a point on the road the and started cross country toward the camp site.  It looks like the snake was following the sent and wagon tracks toward the camps magical hut.  Othello figured out that the party would still need to sleep a few rounds after the hut disappeared.  Bone and Othello were hiding behind a rock to the side and ahead of the parties camp.  So just about the time the advancing creatures started past, Bone and Othello attacked.  Othello start off with a lighting bolt to hopefully weaken them up a little and Bone charged the closest one.  The lighting bolt must have jard Tetranac out of his meditation as he came out of the hut to help with the battle.   The armored creatures were shooting large black arrows at the party member that they could see.  Some of these seem capable of piercing rocks.  The three members managed to hold off the advancement till the rest of the party was awake.  Tetranac managed to kill the snake before it made it to the mules for a snack. Bone was doing his normal hack and slash method of thinning out the enemy.  Gubikla cast another fireball doing massive area damage.  Talin charged in causing one to run in fear, as he slammed them with his shield.  Othello and Tetranac were trading shoots with the enemy slowly picking them off.  Talin sees the commander looking to blow a horn and swings and trips him making him fall on his back.But he still has the horn in his hand and just as he is about to use it, Talin manages to disarm the horn from the commander.  Gubikla manages to use his crystal ball to scry and shoot magic missiles at the commander, that was hidden behind the globe of darkness that Tetranac had cast to help delay the advancement. The party kills off the remaining creatures.  

Pete revivifies one of the mules that got hit with one of the arrows, as well as heals Hammish.  It is discovered that the plate armor of the creatures is covered in a tarish substance.  The bows the enemy was using take a twenty strength to pull the metal “string” and look like they would use strength instead of dexterity in controlling them.  Pete activates his earring of tongues and cast speak with dead on one of the enemy corpses.  

What is in the silver Urns? – faital mist

What is the mist?  – The mist came from ripping the soul out of the victims

Who summoned you?:  der…..  Head Explodes

Pete heads over to the commander and ask him a question and his head explodes as well.  That is when the party notices that there is a floating eye above the battlefield.  It gets dispelled by Pete, and then Pete moves on to the next body.

Where is the secret entrance to deep hold? – Dunno

Resin coated upon your armor? – Yes they made us do it

Who is in charge? – Sequalashachiz

How did you manage to take over deep hold? – By killing all the inhabitants

Who is commanding you telepathically? – No one

COD = Talin for saving the party from whatever would have been summoned by the horn.