Orhan 2 Day 46 TE 6053

It's still the city of undead for us....

We decide to sleep the night inside the lightning field so we secure one of the smaller buildings and sleep. Sometimre during the first watch, Imre notices that there's a ghost here. "Flee you fools." Vallandra and Oathar stay asleep. Good thing to, 'cause Vallandra will just run away. Though once it starts drainin gour CON away, we decide to wake her up.

The fight ensues. Jsut as it's starting to look grim, a second ghost shows up. We beat on him for a while, but then the third ghost shows up. Things look a fair bit grim, but then the ghosts start falling to our onslaught. We get rid of them, but the con damage to the party is vast. Imre uses all of his power points to heal some of us, but the rest will have to wait until morning. We move the watch schedule around a bit to accomodate Imre.

Orhan 2 Day 47 TE 6053

It takes a bit of sleeping in the morning to for Imre to heal everyone up to snuff.

We think it's time to get the guy to walk the maze, but then decide to finish our other business first. So we head to a new building and investigate. It has the symbol of a star. Inside we find a crystal globe with a gold sphere in the center. Imre immediately identifies it as a globe of the heavens. The gold sphere represents Kulthea and the stars are etched on the globe. It looks fairly fragile. We take it.

There's also a long tome that discusses that we should keep the sorceror's off of the council of the city, because they are bad. Haeraan takes the book. It's titled "The Prophesy of the First Lord Astrologer of Quellbourne"

We find some telescope parts. We pocket some lenses. Upstairs is a complete observatory. It's mostly disassembled, but there's a bunch of stuff and a couple of headless skeletons. One has a necklace. Oathar tries to attune the necklace but it doesn't go off so well. It's an astrologer spell adder.

We then get to the row of magic doors. It doesn't go so well, but the D. finds a magic door outside just behind it. Finally giving up in disgust, we step to the side and prtal through the wall. Inside is a nice study. Beyond is a strange meditation chair. People sit in the chair. Imre finds it quite relaxing. Vallandra sits next and finds she can cast extra self healing spells. Then Haeraan tries it. The weak-minded fools get mind controlled by the chair and we spend an hour trying to get Haeraan and Kyrik out of the chair.

We head back to the maze and Oathar has his curse cured. Imre determines that there wasn't actually a curse involved.

We go to the final unexplored building. It appears to be a bunch of display cases. Among them are banners of the Unlife. There's a large armored hide. There's a huge stinger. There's a black curved sword. With magic. Imre looks at it and determines it doesn't have a spell, just some magic. Oathar identifies it as the sword os slaying good elves. Upstairs is a natural history museum. Lot's of dead stuff.

We go back to our secure area and sleep. Haeraan tries to dream about the evil sword and how to get rid of it. He's given a dream about disolving the sword in a pool, and he also throws it over a cliff, and he also throws it in the strange bubbling liquid. Then again, he also see himself having gleefully slaughtered hundreds of elves.

Orhan 2 Day 48 TE 6053

Imre pockets the evil elf slaying sword for safe disposal later. Then we head back tot he old man and get him to walk the maze. He glows and shakes a bit and then goes "Aaarrrrgggghhhh!" We try to make him comfortable. Every few minutes he rouses himself and then passes out.

We finally get him conscious and prod him about the story of the fall of Quellbourne. He thinks about it for a bi tand then says, "I should go back to my house." Haeraan prods him about his decision, but he's non-commital. He does reveal the Xin the cruel is his grand niece. His name is Xenon. "Gosh, then your my great grand neice."

He suddenly decides to make his momentous choice and heads for his doors. Imre gets the idea that he needs to attack right now in order to live, but doesn't mention it to several of us. Meanwhile, the guy is putting on his rings and amulet from inside one of his doors.

After getting his full regalia on, he declares himself Lord Sorceror in the Council of Quellbourne, "Who shall join me?" We say, "What is your cause?" He says, "Join me or die!"