The Almsman’s directions lead to a heavy wooden door. A sign on the door is partially obscured by grime and moss, and the word “Skytower” is still barely legible.
It is just common sewer moss, prevalent throughout the sewer.
The door is a sturdy wooden door (despite its age and rotted appearance) and is unlocked.
This room was once the basement of a building above, but the stairs in the far corner are now choked with charred rubble and seem to lead to a new stone foundation of the new building above. Odd furniture and knick-knacks of all description fill the remaining space, and strange winged effigies made of wood and broken pottery are arrayed in a bizarre diorama.
The focal point of this display is a pair of chairs standing on different-sized piles of old crates like thrones on a dais. A charred and shriveled corpse dressed in rotting and burnt finery and wearing a tin crown is propped up in one of the chairs while the other, lower chair, sits vacant.
You can hear shuffling and snorting sounds to the west (deeper into the rooms).
The charred corpse has a tin crown that bears a crude inscription that reads “Emperor Relios.”
Amidst the furniture is a desk with several log books and journals. Most seem to be ledgers for a business called Relios' Emporium. There also seems to be a personal journal written by Relios.
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I agree, may be the "Emperor" was a Pathfinder who was left here. I heard that before the "Shadow Lodge" appeared a certain number of teams were "forgotten" and missing agents were never look for...
After listening he added
Yes, I heard something strang deeper in the room. Be prepared
Nemrok cast detect magic in the room before going further and casting shield on himself.
These are dretches, lowly demons from the Abyss, a favorite target for dabblers in Abyssal summonings. Relatively weak and easy to bully, as far as demons go, these ones in particular seem weaker and slightly smaller than expected - and they appear severely disorientated. Perhaps they are a result of a less-than-fully-successful summoning... in any case, they are still a hazard to contend with!
Neither demon falls from the grease, although the blue one is looking like he may be ready to fall from his injuries (-16 hp so far).
The creatures have basically the same problem as you, in that they are bottlenecked.
The blue creature attacks Auri.
Then he tries to step back 5' to let another one in, but it slips and falls prone in the grease.
Kristoff enters the battle and begins casting a summoning spell.
Auri finishes off the blue monstrosity, and steps out of the way.
The eagle appears right behind the (red) demon.
The eagle flurries about the demon's head, only managing to scratch it once, but as it does so, lightning and bolts of force slam into it as Bart and Tyranius make their attacks.
Arkath casts Magic Fang on his badger friend. Nemrok makes an imposing figure, but the creatures don't see to understand what he says, and continue to come.
Green tries to move forward, but slips in the grease and falls prone.
Red moves forward slowly, and manages to keep his footing.
He attacks Tyranius with a vicious looking claw, but misses completely.
Tyranius moves back without taking a hit.
Nemrok does intimidate the red demon, who is not shaken.
The badger runs through the fray, trying to get behind the demons.
The demon takes a swipe as it runs through his legs, but misses due to being shaken.
The badger then turns and attacks the demon.
As the badge gets into place, Arkath steps up to take advantage of the flanking and uses his shillelagh.
The red demon drops.
The green demon summons a stinking cloud, centered on Nimrok, provoking AoO from the badger.
The spell is disrupted. Angry, the demon stands up. The badger has no more AoOs allowed.
OK, as the spell dissipates, and you are all able to get in there, you easily finish off the last demon. (Badger and Auri pretty much covered it).
The next rooms are vaults lined with shelves thick with growing yellowcap mushrooms. More faerie effigies hide among the mushrooms, and on the very back wall, There is a large circle of swirling color patterns painted on the back wall. On the floor lies an open and empty scroll case next to a slightly charred, blank piece of parchment.
The following items are mixed among the wreckage of the vaults: brooch of shielding (30 charges), potion of enlarge person, screaming bolt, and of shocking grasp (50 charges), and a gold necklace worth 300 gp.
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Auri looks at the painted "portal" to the abyss on the back wall.
"I hope that is not a real one..."
She carefully detects evil around the room, looking for signs of artefacts that may have brought the demons to this realm.
Finally she starts to scrub clear the portal.
"Wouldn't want to give other people bad ideas now."
It appears to just be paint. No evil is detected anywhere now that they demons are destroyed.