Shadowdale Campaign Chronicles Part V June 6/2007

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We awoke from a peaceful nights rest in the storage room. Nymagus spent the day studying his book on portals with a bit of assistance from Veil and light provided by Torchy.

I spent the day working with the Scimitar Set, but for now will stick with my Falchion.

Lanister spent the day resting lazily.

Gawain spent the day standing guard, and preaching/teaching to the Goblins.  Blix, Snoot and Blongo listend to Gawain and helped with the guard duties.

Casey spent the day grooming Forbes.

Nymagus' studies proved fruitful and he described a way to redirect the portal to its original destination.  It would require the sacrifice of several magic items or 1 very powerful one.  After 2 full days of preparation and the sacrifice of a Flail +1 (Who donated this?), a Dagger +1 from Veil, the Longsword +1 with Acid from party treasure, and Thagnor's Axiomatic Axe +1 the Portal was redirected to its original destination and the "Trave" rune was restored.

We stepped thru the portal and found ourselves packed into a small room with a single locked door.  Upon magical inspection we found that there were a series of runes that had to be touched in a certain order to open the door. Somewhere in his travels Veil had learned the secret of the door and so he was able to open it. This door led to a hallway of elven construction with 4 other doorways leading to more portals with similar rune locks.  Veil was able to open some and Nymagus the rest.  3 or the portals were appeared active and one was dead.  There was also a set of stairs leading up.  Casey scouted up the stairs and eventually the group followed him up.  Where we found an ivy covered doorway with the inscription in old elvish "Here lies the Elven Library, Come in Peace and Friendship"

Nymagus used his magical powers to open the door and we found an ivy covered hallway with several hooks holding weapons and under the effect of a Divine enchantment of Plant Growth.  Casey scouted ahead once again and found that the corridor widened into a room with crystal windows/walls that allowed sunlight in.  There is a set of spriral stairs lerading up and down and many tables and bookshelves.  And a set of double doors leading outside directly across from the entrance we came in.

As we inspected the room we discovered that the doorway to outside had been forced in, and all the bookshelves had been looted.  The damage to the door was about a week old and done by large humanoids (Bugbears or Hobgoblins).  The group traveled up to the 2nd Floor I stayed behind watching the doors and Casey scouted outside.Â

The 2nd floor had also been looted, but there was a large statue of Correlon Lerethian which all of the light in the room focused on. The room is like a Church devoted to Knowedge. Casey returned and told us of a large encampment of hobgoblins and bugbears around 150 and lead by 7 drow.  Casey and I went upstairs and I said a prayer to Correlon and gained some insight if only temporarily.

We traveled to the 3rd Floor and found a locked door so we returned to the ground floor and then explored the basement.  There were several rooms in the basement where we found a barracks, Galley, supply room and the Head Librarian's Quarters.  In the galley we found a set of silverware with place settings for 16.  In the Barracks we found several footlockers which contained old but nice looking clothing and personal effects and also a Book bound in silver plates with an ornate lock, and also a heart shaped Golden Cameo with a picture of a beautiful elven woman in it. In the supply room we found a number of containers of ink in silver, red and black a bunch of Papyrus and 100 sheets of Vellum.

The door to the head librarian's quarters was locked and as veil found out when he tried to open it trapped aswell.  The trap was musical and everyone but Nymagus and Veil was facinated by the sound and just stared off in to space while it played.  Veil was able to use countersong to defeat the trap. And we entered the room. In the room we found a very nice bed, a Cabinet and a table with a foot tall idol of Corellon.  Veil tried to open the Cabinet setting off yet another trap, which shot needles into the wall behind him, and inside we found a footlocker.  Lannister was able to open the cabinet and in it we found a staff with gold shod ends (Gawain has since it improves his healing),  a sachel, a footlocker, and a light mace +1 Green Dragon Bane (Casey took to replace his heavy mace which was too big for him), the sachel contained some traveling gear, a couple empty glass vials and 2 waterskins.  The footlocker had 500gp, 6 silver tradebars wotrth 100gp each from an old trading company, 1000 primitive looking copper pieces, 2 amethysts worths about 80gp each and a Diamond worth around 1500 to 200gp. Nymagus also discovered a hiden chamber in the idol of Corellon which held a golden key.

We then returned to the 3rd floor and Nymagus used the golden key to open the door which lead to a room with "Millions and Millions of Books!"  As he entered the light coming through the crystal dome ceiling focused on a single book which Nymagus took to the statue on the 2nd floor and tried to read. We left the rest of the books untouched and re-locked the door.  We found that the pages of the book are blank and that you probably need some kind of crystal to read the book.  We are going to take the book to Storm, hopefully she knows where we can find a suitable crystal.

As we were examining the book, Blix noticed that there were smoke signals coming from the Hobgoblin camp indicating an attack so we went back to the portal rooms and chose a different "Travel" portal to leave since there was no way out of the other one.  When we stepped out of the portal we found ourselves in an old Elven lighthouse on what we ditermined to be the Sembian Coast.  We destroyed the portal behind us to prevent the hobgoblins and drow from following us.
We then decided to make camp at the lighthouse and Felix managed to catch us a nice fish dinner.

After an uneventful night we headed west down the coast for 2 days and came upon a fishing village.  We spoke with Jorb and he told us there was no inn in the town but that we could probably find lodging at one of the farms on the edge of town in a barn.  We wen to a tavern for dinner and learned of a shipment of fish going to the closest large town in a couple days, and also that they are having some trouble with a group of bandits whoose ranks include humans, hobgoblins and ogres.

The MIA Plinky perhaps?

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Paint up a Warforged.

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