Adventure 109 – Isbilis’ mausoleum?

Talin – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 12) + Cleric (lvl 1)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 14)
Gubikla – Gnome: Wizard (lvl 13)
Tetranac – Drow: Ranger (lvl 10)
Mightychondria – HalfOrc: Fighter (lvl 10)
Pete- Dragonborn:  Cleric (lvl 9)
Tetranac – Drow: Ranger (lvl 10)

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The majority of the party is setting down at the base of the passageway that leads to the depths of the lake.  While Pete and Mightychondria are up on the surface of the island. Tetranac has started feeling the effects of the nitrogen and is getting a little loopy.   With a rope tied off Othello goes out into the lake and climbs about twenty feet up to look around. He doesn’t find anything of interest so he drop down and finds a cave with a orange ring and a light that looks like it is reflecting from somewhere deeper down.  He goes back up and tells the party and gets some more rope and heads back down to anchor the end at the cave so the others could follow. But when Othello tries to drive a piton into the cave side the opening closes and it appears to be some kind of giant fish. While this is happening Tetranac trying to follow the rope finds what he thinks is nice blue coral and starts swimming off to collect it.  In doing so in lets go of the rope and starts flowing down. Luckly he had the sense to use his bow to cast dimension door and luckly makes it back to the passageway with Gubikla and Talin. Talin realizing a potential danger Othello is in starts casting Sacred Flame on the fish while othello tries to cut his way out of the mouth of this fish. Gubikla uses his Legend Lore spell to try to determine if we are indeed a Isbilis’ Rest.  He learns that Isbilis was a great sorceress. Isbilis’ rest has a tower on a island. A mausoleum deep underground and that it is trapped. Many people have tried to find it but none have returned. Once freed the party decides to head back up the passage way after Tetranac that wandered off in that direction.

Mightychondria and Pete who are on the surface of the island decided to cast a grappling hook on a rope like a fishing line.  Mightychondria latches on to what appears to be a large log. But when he starts to pull it in finds that it seems to be moving in on its own.  It turns into out to be something like a Deinosuchus. Pete tries using speak in tongues to communicate with it. Find out that it is here to guard something and considers us intruders.  Mightychondria feeds it a wheel of cheese and it appears to be satisfied at the moment and turns back. Mightychondria wants his grappling hook back and pulls but it twist and rolls and snaps the rope.  Leaving Mightychondria with a thirty foot rope. They then wait a little while but get bored and decide to activate the puzzle and make their way to the rest of the party.

Mightychondria and Pete use the puzzle and open the door like the party did before and the door opens and they start down with the door closing behind them.  They make it down to the stairs to the section that is filled with water. When they see Tetranac walk up out of the water. Tetranac is how hallucinating about a long lost love that has come to see him.  When he sees Pete and Mightychondria and thinks they are his old friends trying to take is love away. He cast darkness on himself. But Pete cast light to counteract the spell and ask Tetranac what is going on.  He murmurs something about them trying to take Penelope away from him. He then starts to levitate up to the ceiling. After a few minutes of contemplating what to do the rest of the party makes there way to the them.  After finding no way to recall the platforms down to let them out. The party decides to rest so that a couple of people can dimension door out and then let the rest of the party out. With a few people feeling altitude sickness and some with the decompression sickness.  A few lesser restoration spells were cast. Pete and Gubikla use the dimension door and use the jade puzzle to open the door but not before Pete gets lighting struck by trying to stand on two section of the puzzle at the same time to help speed up the process.

Once everyone was out the decide to activate the puzzle with the opposite section to go down last this time.  This lead to a door opening on the other side of the jade puzzle. The door open down this time instead of to the side like the first one did.  This lead to a mausoleum like camber that is light up with magic gems. The Dwarf says this is dwarven construction. There is a passageway leading of on the side of the room.  It bends in a U with a medusa mosaic on the wall. Othello checking for traps goes up and looks around the corner with a mirror. Lucky Talin noticed the eyes on the madusa tracking Othello and the mouth slowly opening.  He runs up and smashes the mosaic in the mouth with Earth Reaver from his hammer destroying the mosaic but finds a dart stuck in the end of his hammer. He then holds out his hammer for Othello to pluck out the dart.

COD = Mightychondria and Pete for persuading a deinosuchus not to eat them by giving it a wheel of cheese.