Orhan 4 Day 37 TE 6063

We spend some time with the Zorian fremen. We teach them stuff. They teach us stuff. Kyrik teaches his priest dude written langugae.

Haeraan stays behind to train the hundred feydakin that will train the thousands more.

Oathar scouts and sees a giant lugraki attack en route. No one else notices it. Oh wait, they are 21 miles away.

We go around them

Orhan 4 Day 39 TE 6063

We come upon the Eastern Outskirts of the city. We start heading in towards the center. Oh wait. There are lugraki everywhere. There are a bunch of structures near the center of the town with a well and lot's of huts and crude stone structures, as well as a number of holes in the ground and lugraki going in and out of the ground.

We try to figure out how to get past the 1000's of lugraki in the city without disguising ourselves as lugraki. Imre does a divination and gets the fool in the center surrounded by swords cards.

Imre heads in to scout. He comes back and tells us only the elite lugraki can go into the central buildings.

Kyrik skydives into town, and merges into the walls of the building and explores. Building 1 has two floors, hundreds of lugraki, and no basement.

En route to building 2, he encoutners a tunnel. It turns though, so he move on.

He finds basement of building 2. There's another tunnel filled with lugraki leading down.

Spiraling around, he comes upon an opening. It's dark. He casts darkvision. It's a large cavernish area with several entrances on each side. On 1 wall is a large tarp. He gets out of the wall. We send in reinforcements. Imre and Alynna teleport in. Then Oathar and Mornan follow.

There is a big door under the tarp, with a giant Symbol of Death in the middle. Sigh.

There is also a clairvoy point watching us.

We cover the symbol with an illusion.

We open the metal door with Oathar sacrificing gold to pick the lock.

We open the stone door with the key.

We open the kregora door with Mornan Zaon's handprint and the god constructs passwords. (The GC identifies the appropriate king in ancient Zorian.)

Bethooven's ninth starts playing, the door open, and a giant crack opens behind us with a great ourpouring of water.

Oathar casts dam.

We run in. It's filled with loot. There's a dessicated basalisk in the center of the room. We loot!

The dam breaks! Oathar puts up another.

We loot several more rounds.

Lugraki show up. Really. Inside the vault. Sigh. We fight! (Oathar loots) Alynna reaches into the chest of at least 7 lugraki and just pulls their hearts out with her bear hands. She snaps the heads off of some.

There is much looting and fighting. Fighting and looting. Oathar casts haste. Alynna and Kyrik fight at double speed. Oathar and others loot at double speed. So far, we are at 14.9k gold retrieved. More orc killing and looting.

We're up to around 28k gold recovered (out of 100k) when evil brother shows up. He says, give me all the money and leave, or my lugraki kill your sister and sister-son.

Summary: OK, now we've got a problem. We're in the kregora lined vault. The door is open, but can't close without taking down the dam. Outside is a 100,000 gallons of water waiting to get in past our force dam. Evil Brother has Alynna's relative hostage thousands of miles away and is threatening to kill them if we do anything. No merging into kregora lined walls. We can't hurt him because if he dies, the universe will end in the following round due to speedy elven soul depature. Oh yeah, that 100,000 gallons of water out there? That's unholy water.

Sigh.