Orhan 1 Day 40 TE 6063

This time, the dragon!

There's another of those hollow tower. It has a ladder leading down into the darkness. We hear waves below. It smells like salt.

We buff like mad. Then we descend the ladder. It goes into the water after about 40 feet. We keep going, into the water. It looks like another 30 or 40 feet down is the bottom of the tower covered over in salt. Very strange.

In the bottom of the tower, underwater, there is a small hole in the center of the tower. Yup, that's the way down. Yup, there's a cave of salt way down there below the tower. Oh dear, down the cave entrance is an intersection. Right or left?

To the right, the passage comes back to the tower and continues along the tower. Then there's a turn leading to the center.

In the center is a sleeping dragon. And a key. And a pile of loot. Oh yeah.

We silently discuss. Then we vote. Then we attack. First ambush like hit, while the dragon is still asleep: 188 EEEDDD + 98 EE + 40 EEDD. total damage 469.

The dragon strikes back with Arcane Dispel True. Sigh. Damn dragons.

But then, surprisingly, we take him out.

Looting: (not yet accounted)

• 3456 silver
• 1674 gold
• 356 platinum
• 53 gems of various values (36 10gp, 13 100gp, 3 500gp, 1 1000 gp)
• 5 potions
  • Haste V
  • Clairvoyance
  • ???
  • Heal X
  • Heal X
• ruined scrolls
• Shield: +15,
• Rope of Entanglement +100OB large grapple
• Hammer +15, return via flight
• Death Scarab: Major Death 1/day, Seek out an opponent and burrow into their heart 1/week
• Lifegiving Rod: Seven charges of Lifegiving I
• Lots of salt encrusted art

The Key is Indestrucible. Most of us leave the water.

Alynna, Kyrik, and Haeraan go back down to explore the rest of the passageways. They find a grotto. There are lot's of glyphs. glyphs of dispel magic. Sigh. Damn dragons. Beyond is a room with some skeletons embedded in the wall. One is pointing at the roof of the grotto, where there is another symbol of Dispel. Damn symbols.

Imre chops up one of the statues (probably worth several thousand gold) and fits it into the bag of holding. The bag of holding is now full.

We head back to the empty tower to look for the darkweaver.

It gets pretty misty and cold as we levitate our way down. As we descend we take greater and greater cold criticals. A, then B, then C, then D, then E.

At the bottom, we find the edge of the Negative Energy Plane. Oh. Great.

Several more cold crits later, we flee like mad. We go back to the tower of chance to rest. That wasn't the plan. There are two towers left to examine, so we rest a bit.

Orhan 1 Day 41 TE 6063

This time, the other exits from the brine dragon tower...

There's a picture of a mummy surrounded by serpents. or something.

We come to the ancient decayed library. But the tomes are too decayed to make anything of. Then we come to the ancient tanning salon. There are a couple of zombies in two of the tanning chairs. Haeraan kills them.

In the next room we find a containment vessel. It's broken open.

Suddenly behind us is a platinum blond in a grey robe. She asks us if we are injured or ill. (in some terrible ancient language). Alynna looks slightly injured so, she puts Alynna in the vessel. She gets an MRI scan. Creepy. "Deep Scanner Activated". She speaks Boilian. Teh holographic imager indicates that Alynna's hand is indeed injured. "Diagnosing Hand Injury": It starts to heals her right up. How wacky. Then it malfunctions, and she takes an E crush critical. Then it detects her crushing injury and starts the "healing" cycle again.

The platinum blond picks up Alynna and tries to take her to a "doctor". In the next room, we find a nice hospital ward.

A mechanical doctor torture thing comes down from the ceiling to "heal" Alynna. He tries to treat the patient. Must operate immediately. Drills and stuff come out and try to cut her open. Alynna tries to get out of the grasp of the nurse. Oathar figures out that the nurse is a "magen" essentially a very advanced semi-intelligent golem.

The doctor starts attacking. Yeah, he's pretty bad. We lightning bolt him a lot. And then some more.

The nurse tries to take Alynna away to a reserve doctor or something. It's quite creepy. Imre severs the nurse golems arm, and then it explodes.

Next time, the next level of the tower.