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Flimflam fades into the shadows and sneaks forward, he comes back a few minutes later letting the rest of the group know that there is a group of 8 ogres, that have a little camp set up. In the middle of the camp is a small shelter that appears to have mounds of items and boxes in it. There appears to be a tunnel leading north that heads down, and another tunnel leading south that appears to continue level in that direction.
You proceed through the hole in the wall and come to the entrance of a large cavern. The sharp ears of the elf picks up movement and mumbling deeper into the cave.
The ooze charges out of the hole in ceiling and is immediately evaporated by the combined divine bolts of the two archons and the holy flames of fire wall.
The blast from the warlock has little effect on the bars.
Jon does not have any luck lifting the portcullis.
The ooze extends a feeler down out of the hole and feels that the fire is still active.
Jon anx Axelrod try and shift the portculis but are not able to make it rise more than a couple of inches. The blast Flimflam sends at the bars seem to heat up the metal but it cools quickly.
As one voice the archons speak, "We will hold off any enemy that comes towards you to the best of our ability, but we do not have the strength to lift the portculis. Your combined strength may be able to while we hold the ooze at bay."
The pudding shrinks back from the flame and goes back into the hole in the ceiling, and two lantern archons pop into existance in front of Jon and Axelrod. They float in front of the two adventurers waiting.
A large chunk of the ooze is roasted before it rolls the spot back into its bulk.
"So glad you asked!," comes out of the thin air near Jon's shoulder. You all hear a soft chanting.
Jon:
You recognize it as a black pudding, and remember that piercing weapons and slashing weapons are ineffective against the target, and that its touch can eat away weapons, armor, and flesh.
The secret door opens to reavel...a blank wall! A portcullis slams shut 40 feet behind you. You hear a grinding noise and see a large blob oozing out of the wall. It begins to slither towards you as you grasp and pull at the portcullis blocking your escape.
Jon immediately recognizes a poorly concealed secret door, and notices the latch that it would take to open it.
The bucket appears to be a used chamber pot.
oops posted on boorag instead of DM
Flimflam does not notice any traps and the door appears to be unlocked.
Jon gets closer and notices it opens up into a regular size tunnel that leads to the east.
The group decides to backtrack and heads down the eastern corridor, it turns at a sharp right angle leading south. There is a door to your immediate right, a medium sized hole in the wall about 10 feet further down and a irregular looking wall at the end of the 60 feet long hallway.
The oily substances light upon the water, you see some small insects scamper away from the pool (nohting out of the ordinary in a cave). After a few moments the fire goes out and the scene returns to normal.
Axelrod notices a section of wall that easily slides back to expose a drop into a room with a pool at the bottom. The drop is around 15 feet. Oily bubbles regularly spout to the surface of this water-filled room, creating a rippling, iridescent sheen. The walls and ceiling, colored a glossy black, cast weird reflections from the party's light source.
The group travels down a short tunnel to a circular room strewn with more bones and debris. Axelrod:
Roll a stone cunning check
The collects itself and walks through the southeast portal and immediatly appear in an empy room full of bones and debris. There is a corridor leading to the east and one leading to the southwest.
The northeast door indicates that it opens to a small grove frive miles from Fairhill(far away) and is one way only.
After some time working on the locked door you get it open, and it leads into a room with 4 floating doors with signs on them.
Jon notices that there are steps leading further down and assumes it goes to the next major level of the dungeon.
It is a relatively easy to get through the watery tunnel with the rope that Flimflam provies. You come out in a small circule room with two doors. The western door is ajar and leads to some stairs but the door to the east is locked.
Flimflam spends quite a bit of time in the water, once he comes out he is holding a small drinking horn. He did not note any other items in the water, but believes he spied a way out up stream, down steam, and in a small hole in the bottom on the western side where the water is calmer.
Jon belives the current in the pool is very strong and is probably not a good idea to venture into it without a solid plan.
Flimflam examines the amulet, while Savannah soathes the rangers wounds. Flimflam:
Periapt of Health: The wearer of this blue gem on a silver chain (worn on the neck) is immune to disease, including supernatural diseases.
Jon's arrows send the last wraith to its final rest. As it fades away an amulet is left behind on the ground.
The combination of attacks is just to much for the wraith in front of Jon and ashes float to the ground.
The wraith takes a vicious hit and seems only minorly effected.
The wraiths move forward and attack the closest living creatures.
Jon: A super strong light could, but the light from your weapon is not strong enough
As the adventure's peer at the corpses they notice black smoke starting to spew from their mouths.
After about 30 minutes of moderate work Axelrod is able to make a passage through the rubble. You continue down the tunnel which turns into a long passageway of worked stone and it a a cavern. This cavern is vast. Rushing water can be heard nearby. As you enter, you see a symmetrical pool of water cut into the floor in a T-shape with a river flowing to the west and out to the north east. The cavern walls reflect a myriad of dancing, iridescent colors. Across the pool to the south, where the river enters the pool, are two large blue-colored stone platforms, fully 8 feet tall and 12 feet long. Corpses lie on them.
You believe that you could make it passable with minimal work.
Following the winding tunnel you come to a loose rubble wall blocking the passage forward.
Jon does not notice any movement from the skeletons, he cannot tell if they are regular skeletons or animated with malign energy.
Flimflam edges closer and sees 8 black skeletons, that look identical to skeletons he has seen previously in this evil place.
The twisting cavern corridoropens east onto a series of small alcoves. The light from your lightstones is not penetrating the darkness of these niches.
You do not find anything of interest on the dragon, and all Axel can notice is that the pool is extremely deep.
The dragon screams one final time and slams into the ground half in and half out of the pool.
The massive strike from the dwarf and hits from the elf's arrows griveously wound the dragon. He yells out. Draconic:
"Here is a parting gift."
The black narrowly evades the brunt of the fireball, but the distraction costs him in the fiery blast from the halfling. Draconic:
"You will pay for that worm."
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