Adventure 85 – Deep Hold (around in circles)

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

Is Cloverdung Scouting the area that the Drud was teleporting to?

Has Kavis captured by the invaders of Deep Hold?

The party does a short rest and cleans up after the battle. The party searches the bodies and only find a few things of interest.   Among these were the spheres that the Drud used to send rays of fire and lighting at the party.  The party also found some silken armour it was wearing, plus the two large scimitars.  

The party investigates the structure that the Chethrol were building.  It appears to be some kind of latticework built with Black bars and crystalline sockets.  It is discovered that the rods screw into the the sockets.  The party decides to dismantle the structure and put the parts into Hammar’s commodious.

The party decides to head back up the the four way intersection and find out what the one passageway went that was not yet investigated. So they headed back through the secret door and up the stairway past the view stone looking over the throne room and back to the four way intersection.  A few people headed back down to the room with the flammable liquid pool.  The room still looked chard and the basin was still empty.  Othello search the hallway that paralleled the throne room.  Othello did not find any traps in the hallway that led to a square room with five large metal plates in the flour.  Othello decides to climb the wall and head around to the other side.  Talin and the others either jumped over or just avoided metal plates.  Othello search down the hallway leading from the room and it lead to another room.  This room had six metal plates in it.  Othello stepped into the room to investigate the plate and flames burst up around Othello.  At this he decided to just shoot a teleporting bolt to get him to the other side.   Talin jumped from one plate to another and made it across. The other do the same with a Pete getting his tail toasted and Hammar having to dowse his feet with beer.   The party goes a little more and run into another trap.  The party gets past this one as well.  There was one more trap in this hallway that made the a whole section of the hallway pivot like a seesaw.  But Talin found out the hard way that it drops people into a pit with spikes.  Pete comes up with an idea to put a spike in the hallway and on the rotating section of the hallway.  He then ties a rope to both with some slack in the rope past the spike in the rotation section.  He steps out and the hallway rotates and the rope snaps.  He fall and lands on Talin.  Bone manages to rotate the hallway and wedge it open enough so that Pete and Talin can climb out.  Othello teleports back across and uses his ring of Tenser’s Floating Disk.  Hammer climbs on and Othello uses his bolt to teleport across.  The disk slowly floats across bring Hammer to the far side of the trap.  He goes back and Bone gets on.  Othello misjudged or got to hasty on  the way back and bumps into the wall but makes it across. Bone floats across without any issues.  The hallway led to two flights of stairs with a small plateau between them.  At the end of the second set of stairs it opened into a large wide hallway perpendicular to it.  The party headed to the left and it lead to another large hallway that approached the doors to the throne room.  

In the hallway just outside the throne room are some lights flying around.  The party also notice that there is marching sounds coming from farther up the hallway beyond the throne room entrance.  Othello teleports across the wide entry way.  Bone still on the floating disk floats across slowly behind Othello.  One of the lights detects Bone and starts to attack.  Talin advances and Hammar cast Spiritual Guardian as the party sees a line of Orcus with Tower Shields come into sight.  Behind them is a line with black bows and one in the middle with red armour.  The one in red points a staff at Hammar and then several arrows hit him, shot be the archers.  Tretinac cast Wind Wall blocking off future shots.  Pete goes invisible and slides to the other side of the hallway, Blessing the party.  Othello makes a sneak attack and slips back into hiding heading toward the open doors of leading to the throne room.  He sees a few more Orcus making there way to the sounds of battle.  Bone takes out a couple of the lights.  Talin uses his hammer to slam the floor causing a shockwave that rippled across the leader in red.  Hammar attack the shield units breaking their ranks while Tetranac shot arrows into the group of Orcus. Othello managed to make his way behind the Orcus coming out of the throne room and shot a lightning bolt from his wand through them and last of the lights ending after it hit the line of shield Orcus.  This left Bone to concentrate the group Orcus.  The party manages to kill off the remaining Orcus now that there was only one front to attack and defend against.

COD = Tertranac for saving Hammar with the wall of wind giving time to heal from the barrage of arrows.