Orhan 3 Day 61 TE 6064

We get the boat and sail out to sea. We head to the lighthouse island. We tell the boat to go home if we don't come back by nightfall. We go to the tower with the little rock hole and put the smokey quartz into the hole. Then the doorway shimmers and glows with power. Alynna touches the screen and vanishes. Oathar follows. Everyone else checks to see if we've died. Then they step through.

We show up in a room wth four wooden doors at the extremes of the oval room. With a circular stairway in the center leading down and up. Up is a giant domed room of white stone with 12 columns with 6 crystal windows alternating with wall segments with runes. Straight up is a 12 sided crystal on the cieling.

• Window 1: looks on the three towers.
• Wall 1: Two curlyques (like a wind gust)
• Window 2: Barren forbidding looking tower. (Snowdrifts all around. Angry red glow in the background.)
• Wall 2: A six pointed star inside a hexagon
• Window 3: Coral Road Entrance
• Wall 3: Little circle with a whole bunch of iso-triangles coming out form it. (Like a sun)
• Window 4: Circle of Standing Stones with structure in the center
• Wall 4: Squarish thing within a squarish thing.
• Window 5: Picture of a tower rooftop with odd grooves in floor, and a set of six panels each with a crystal hole.
• Wall 5: Flame
• Window 6: A giant cavern. It's dark. There are three pillars in the distance.
• Wall 6: Two curves like waves

Each wall is probably an element.

We try one of the wooden doors. North, there is another domed oval chamber. It has three windows, from the left we can see another island. The center one has a view that shifts momentarily, but then looks like water. The right one is also just water. When kyrik looks through the center window he sees a glowing ice castle. That's a portal not a window. Oh wait, that's the citadel of the Northern Eye. The walls are made of unusual marble, with intricate tracings.

Haeraan does a vision behind to about ten years ago when Andraax walks into the room and stares into the window.

Next room has a pedastal with a shallow basin on top. On two edges of the room are two large niches in which stand statues about 14 feet tall. Two different six fingered guys. Everything glows with arcane power. Fireplace.

Next room has a large oval bed. On the west side is a curved screen with a bathroom behind it. There are again three windows. Another island is visible to the south.

Final room has a large oval table with a fireplace and windows again. Oval.

Back at the central staircase, Alynna plays the tune and then steps on the magic thrid step. We're now in a circular chamber at the bottom of the stairwell. There's a tunnel.

The tunnel angles down. It's cold and damp. Further down, it's flooded. We send Kyrik to scout. When he gets to the end of telepathy range, Oathar joins him. The two of them go about a mile and then the it comes up out of teh water. The party follows it towards the isle of bridge caves. It ends in a circular metal door.

The circular door is at the edge of the desert pod in the bridge caves. It's a giant spherical room with a single wooden bridge going across it. Down below is hot desert. We see about a half-dozen humanoid skeletons half buried. They are laden down with glittering weapons and gold. Oathar determines they are a trap. spiders will leap up and get them if we try for the money. It's only 50 gold and some mediocre weapons in sight, so we move on.

We take the potions of scentlessness and open the door to the rain forest (shards) sphere. We follow the bridge to the middle. We take the left branch and head to the bridge cave of storms! Oathar feels at home. The bridge extends 15 feet in and ends in a blackened ruin. We're on the bridge remnant, the sky flashes and the lightning hits.

We escape the otherside and fly across the pillar to the golden platform. In the center is a ring of trees with a pool of water, in the center of that is the Salufa tree. The central area is holy to Eissa. Halfway into the tree, our spells go down and we crash into the platform. That's when we notice that among the other trees are a set of 20 foot tall black Eog pillars arranged in a circle around the outside. Yup, black eog pillars. The runes say, "Ha, ha, screw you good guys." Then, the shards attack.

They hose us down in the first round. We fight back, but mostly flee, flee and flee. We get to the Salufa tree where the holy circle protects us from the remaining shards.

After we heal, Oathar gives Imre his scroll of Commune True. Imre communes with Eissa. He gets a vision of a pair of windswept towers on the edge of an ice fjord. In the middle cracles an emptiness. He see a man strapped into a chair underneath the hole. His essence is being sucked away from him into the hole. Eissa says, "Behold! The Orb of Unlife! It is nothingness and sucks in all around it: matter energy thought power, No weapon can be used against it. NOTHING can be used against it. Then he sees two crossed swords, one flaming and one sheathed in ice. Beneath the Citadel of the While Lion, bring the swords of unheat and uncold. Only there can you destroy the orb of the unlife. Here in the caves you will find the sword of uncold. The sword of unheat will come to you. When you have obtained both, storm the citadel."