Dagon reloads and fires!
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"I'll spit them right back in your face! Wait, that wasn't very intimidating, was it? Um, RAAAARRRGH!!!"
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Kaelic heals Juma again!
Dagon fires, but misses!
Juma smacks the creature as it stands, then trips it once more, knocking it on the head once again, ending its movements!
Searching the room, you find nothing on interest save for a ten foot wide, ten foot deep pit in the eastern portion of the room. It is empty.
"Well this room is almost as disappointing as dinner conversation with Juma. Let's keep moving"
Heading back out to the north, you find the corridor turns west, then ends in a door.
"Everyone stand back." Kaelic instructs before looking for traps.
Kaelic finds no traps, and easily picks the lock on the door.
Inside you see six stone slabs sit on the floor of this chamber. Heaped upon each are metal tools, gears, springs, and other parts for the construction of mechanical creations.
Surveying the tools and parts, Kaelic remarks "This guy did everything."
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"Bunch of junk, huh? What, like a couple hundred gold-worth maybe?"
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"Okay, so tools and stuff. Anyplace left to check?"
Eventually, you spend enough time looking around that you notice a concealed door in the eastern door of the clockwork lab.
Going through the door, you find a small corridor that wraps south around the clockwork lab, the continues northeast. As the hall turns south, you see two opening to the west, one at the end of the corridor and one nearer to the party.
"I vote left."
"I vote whichever direction involves the gnome going first."
"Guess I'm in charge then."
Kaelic examines the diverging paths for traps.
"They're both on the right, you dolt. Let's try the first one first. Seems only fitting."
"Let me know when you guys are ready to actually open a door, whichever direction it might be in."
Kaelic finds no traps and moves into the first opening. The iron gate to this chamber hangs ajar. The room within is bare, except for a conjuration circle of silvery metal inlaid in the stone floor and a small, rickety table on which sits a thin journal. Within the boundries of the cirlce is a creature that looks like a cross of a plump human infant and a gigantic, gore-fattened fly. It turns to look at the party as you enter.
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That thing's called an accuser devil; if we have to fight it, we'll wish we had silver or some oils of align weapon. But I think it's bound in the circle, because normally they can teleport.
Juma then addresses the devil:
"Um, hi, who are you?"
The creature begins to speak in drivling tones. "Please! Release me from this circle. All you need to do is break the circle and I can return to Hell! That blasted wizard summoned me here, and hasn't returned."
"Do you know where he might have gone?"
The devil stares at Dagon in what can only be disbelief. "How in the Nine Hells do I know? I've been stuck in this circle. Speaking of which, can you break it for me?"
"What happens if we do? How do we know you won't cause trouble?"
The devil ponders this for a moment and shrugs. "I'll sign a pact insuring that I will leave you alpine and return to Hell."
"Uh... I don't exactly fancy being turned into a tree..."
Kaelic considers this, and nods in general agreement. "Hey devil-person, I don't think we're the right crew to be breaking your circle. Union rules and such, I'm sure you understand. But we'll have someone with the proper credentials down here before you can blink, so just sit tight."
The devil shrieks in frustation, but can do little else. Other than the devil, and the journal on the table, there is little else in the room.
"Alright, moving on then."
"We should probably scope out that journal before we leave, right?"
"For now, let's define 'we' as 'Kaelic'."
"We always do anyway."
Kaelic examines the journal for traps or magic before flipping it open to take a peek.
Kaelic picks up the journal from the table that is not within the circle. Taking about a half hour to read through, he finds a it contains extensive notes on the appearances and behavior, of the outsiders Hunclay has conjured in this room, and the services he secured from them. Most were conjured purely for questioning. The journal describes Hunclay’s plans for two of them: He initially conjured the schir in area with the pit to be his bodyguard on a visit to meet someone named “Barlau,” and conjured a shae in area the doesn't sound familiar, because he believed, erroneously, that she might know about the Dark Tapestry.
The other creatures summoned run the gamut from devil to demon, azata to archon. The topics of Hunclay’s research varied from the creation of constructs and homunculi, investigations into Belhaim’s history, and discussions of various magical items and spells, but far and away the most common topic was the Dark Tapestry. Time and time again, the notes mention a failed conjuration of a “representative of the Dominion of the Black.” Hunclay conjured it only to have to kill it when it attacked him. The notes show that this took place in “my safe cave.”
After having read through the journal, the party continues down the corridor to the end, turning east, then back north, to find a door in the western wall.