"Nice pictures." Tauriell says as she looks through the different buttons on the plate. "Does anyone know who this Ayandamahla is that is bound to the Light for all ages according to this text?"
As no one answers Tauriell adds "Yep, didn't think so."
"I have no idea." Jimmy says "So now what?"
"How about we go further down the river? I hope you still know how to steer a boat?" Tauriell asks.
"I haven't forgotten." Jimmy says climbing into a boat, offering her hand to Gwen to help her in.
Tauriell unties the other boat and jumps in. "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome on your travel down the river styx."
Just a bit down the river the tunnel it flows in opens up. This immense cavern is a breathtaking sight. Dozens of tiny coloured motes of light flit and dance in the air, illuminating a vast, cathedral-like cavern. A forest of delicate stalactites hangs down from the ceiling 30 feet above a dark pool of water. To the east, the water foams as it cascades down into a lower cavern, while to the south-west, a low beach of white sand slopes up from the shore to a single stone door set in the wall. A seven-sided stone platform sits in the middle of the lake—an artificial island whose surface sits a mere six inches above the water level. A three-foot-tall stone mooring post protrudes from each of this island’s seven points. A single glass statue of a beautiful woman stands atop this platform, one leg poised before the other as if she were preparing a running leap into the water.
To the right is another beach. The sand of this beach slopes up toward a door in the cave wall. To the south, two seven-foot-long mounds of sand break the otherwise smooth contours of the beach. A long oval shield painted with a strange symbol sits atop each mound.
On the other side of the cave the river flows down a waterfall.
"So where too?" Jimmy asks his boat,
Jimmy and Gwenhwyfar's boat drifts askew towards the platform.
"Then the platform it is. Tauriell calls chuckling.
As the first boat touches the glass statue comes to life and it's obvious that this will be no welcome.
"Today is not my bloody day." Jimmy says as he tries to control the boat to the platform
"Oh f@+*. What is that?" Tauriell asks and jumps onto the platform charging the thing with her blade. She would prefer to flee but with Mrs. Fiddles unability to get the boat along reliably that is too risky.
"I have no clue. Shall we test if it burns?" Abomentolor voices his opinion. Which is no surprise.
Niamh isn't fast enough to stop Abomentolor but instead facepalms herself. "You didn't learn anything, did you? Almost everything we met here is resistent to fire. And this one heals itself with fire. It's a glass golem."
The moving glass statue gets a large crack from Tauriell's mighty blow. But as Abomentolor shoots his fire at it it's like the glass melts and the cracks close again.
Then the statue returns the favour to Tauriell.
"Oops." Abomentolor replies meekly.
Niamh starts playing the violin to encourage the group.
Seeing how Tauriell got hit Gwenhwyfar casts spectral hand to be able to heal her from afar.
Jimmy moors the boat and charges the golem
Tauriell drops to the ground unconscious.
"What can I do to hurt it?" Abomentolor asks.
Gwenhwyfar casts Cure serious Wounds on Tauriell
Jimmy attempts to murder the glass woman on his next turn
The Glass Golem attacks Niamh and Abomentolor.
Niamh takes some butter and murmurs some words to cast Grease under the golem's feet.
The glass golem is damaged by Jimmy's one attack that actually hits.
The Glass Golem slips and falls to the ground.
Tauriell uses her chance to get up and jumps into the water.
Niamh tries succesfully to steer the boat away from the island to the beach.
As soon as the boat is out of reach she starts healing herself.
The golem gets up again and moves to Attack Gwenhwyfar.
Tauriell tries to swim to the beach
but instead drifts further away.
She swims directly towards the wall and doesn't try to go against the current that is quite strong here. As she reaches the shallow part of the river she walks to the beach. There she lets herself drop onto the sand.
"Are you okay?" Niamh asks while she jumps out of the boat and runs to Tauriell. She sits down next to her and casts Prestidigitation to dry the elf.
Gwenhwyfar flees into the air and heals herself.
"Gemeena get out of there!"
"No I'm not." Tauriell mumbles into the sand.
Niamh tries to look her into the face. For that she lies her head into the sand too. "What's wrong? Are you bleeding too?"
"No I'm not." Tauriell mumbles into the sand.
Lifting up her head and spitting out the sand she adds "But I'm still in bad shape."
"Between you and me we can keep me standing long enough to take this thing down." Jimmy shouts back at Gwen
"Abomentolor, throw some rocks, or find something to do."
Jimmy swings at the golem again
As Jimmy stands alone on the platform with the Glass Golem it just stands there and looks at Jimmy.
"Wait..." Niamh touches Tauriell with a finger to heal her.
"...a moment"
"Why the hell isn't this thing attacking me?" Jimmy says
"Maybe because I look like Sorshen?" Jimmy asks
The golem looks at Jimmy but doesn't do anything.
"Continue doing that. If you repeat it a dozen times I'll e fine again." Tauriell replies dropping her face in the sand again.
"It attacked men, women, small and medium ones. I know no better reason than your looks." Gwenhwyfar replies to Gemeena.
"I don't have that many spells per day. And I think Abomentolor could need some healing too. As long as Gwenhwyfar and 'Jimmy' are busy with that golem." She looks at the island. Then shakes her head and looks again. "I would really want to know what they did to that golem."
Niamh walks to Abomentolor and starts healing him.
"Should I try command it to do something? Or just destroy it?" Jimmy says to Gwen.
"Jump up and down." Jimmy commands the golem
The golem just looks at Jimmy.
"Maybe it doesn't speak our language." Gwenhwyfar suggests.
"Well that doesn't work. Tauriell, don't you know azlanti or whatever it was in the crow. How do I tell this thing to jump up and down?"