Dungeon 2

The reference map

Session 3 [4 February 2005]: (...continued)

As The party descends deeper into the monastery vaults, they are confronted by 3 quill rats and 2 spiked fiends.  The mage utters the lines of a spell and immediately an invisible armor encases his body.  The quill rats shoot sharp darts from their backs but they miss their targets.  The fighter runs into the room (a) and slashes a quill rat.  Lysander follows suite and squishes another.  A spike fiend hits the cleric with his small spikes, while the barbarian makes a quick work of the other quill rat.  Sadak puts a bolt into a spike fiend's body however it only injures it slightly.  Magnus brings down his gladius onto a spike fiend... and the monster is no more!  Lysander turns and engages the last spike fiend, however his morning Star does very little damage to the beast.  Somehow the monster escapes harmlessly an attack from the barbarian, however, it does not escape the deadly shot from Sadak's crossbow.  Among the butchered remains the cleric finds 132 gp and 118gp.  In the chests, Magnus discovers a hidden trove containing 109 gp and he finds 34 gp also in one of the barrels lying in the room.

The party moves on to another chamber (b), discovering the stairs which lead further down.  Guarding the stairs, carvers and devil kins glared menacingly through their demonic eyes.  Among them, encased in a faint evil aura, was their leader, Pukerat the Unclean!  Sadak immediately conjures a magic missile which hits and injures the leader.  The barbarian enters the room, cautiously ready for any attack.  Pukerat was quick to attack, however the barbarian defended well.  Blog Goth struck the demon, giving him a good blow to the head.  The demon attacks a second time but misses his chance again to injure the barbarian.  The cleric dooms the demon, while carvers start to surround the party.  A carver attacks Blog Goth but the weapon banged against the small shield of the barbarian.  Another carver attacks the cleric but, like his fiendish friend, his attack proved futile.  The fighter impales  one of the carvers with his gladius while he moves into the room, immediately to be attacked by a devil kin.  The attack failed.  Sadak shoots to kill one of the devil kins.  Blog Goth tries to hit Pukerat the unclean however he missed to connect steel with flesh, and in retaliation, the demon hits and slightly injures the towering barbarian.  Lysander is locked in a fight with a devil kin, which he kills without any hesitation.  In the meantime carvers surround Blog Goth and hit him slightly.  The fighter slashes with his sword, cutting Pukerat's head clean off the body!  Seeing their leader down, the devil kins attack the fighter and the cleric but can do nothing against the impenetrable defences.  Another bolt sings past the melee combatants, straight into the heart of another devil kin.  Blog Goth strikes but his sword just missed one of the devil kins, but lysander had no mercy.  The morning star bashed the head of the foul fiend.  From behind, two carvers attack the barbarian, one actually wounding him.  The fighter misses his chance to notch another kill and gets injured slightly instead by the devil kin he is in battle with.  All the while sadak loaded another bolt into his crossbow.  He shot the devil kin dead, while blog goth squishes the life out of one of the carvers.  The other carver fell under the morning star of lysander.  Blog Goth finds a blade lying by the side of a fallen devil kin, while Lysander picks up a throwing axe.  The mage spots gold glittering under another corpse, 130 gp in all.  In a sarcophagus lying at the far end of the room, blog Goth finds 174 gp among the bone dust.

Behind the stonework of the stairs, the party finds a small chamber (c)... with returned captains seen through the metal bars.  The fighter moves up to the door and opens it stepping aside tactically.  Sadak casts a disrupt undead spell on one of the captains and injures him.  The barbarian moves in the battle fray too, injuring one of the undead.  Lysander tries to conjure turn undead, however the spell fails to work.  In turn, one of the undead hits the cleric, injuring him.  The other returned captains step back and take out crossbows.  Their first shots failed to hit anything but the walls.  The fighter swings his sword and hits one of the undead.  Seeing it survived the attack, the fighter struck again, this time with his shield.  The captain could not withstand such a blow and fell down dead.  Sadak shoots at a returned captain and slightly injures him.  The barbarian switched his weapon from sword to flail while stepping up to an undead.  The flail does it work really well, crushing down one of the remaining captains.  The cleric closes distance with the last returned captain, striking out with his morning star.  The undead shook violently as it felt the spikes puncture its body.  Seeing the cleric so close it took out its sword, giving enough time for the cleric to swing his morning star once more.  This time, the undead couldn't withstand the blow and fell lifelessly down to the ground.  While the injured cleric healed himself, Sadak started to read out from a book entitled "The lands of Khanduras" which was lying on a stand at the far end of the room.  After he finished he fished out a dagger from one of the corpses while blog goth took a cloak which had been upon one of the captains.

As the party moves on to explore the dungeon, they stumble upon a huge chamber (d).  Carvers and Devil kins filled the vault.  The barbarian immediately runs and attacks their leader, Bladeskin the cleaver, injuring him heavily.  The mage shoots Bladeskin, impaling him on the spot.  The fighter engages a devil kin and marks another kill.  Lysander makes a fast kill from another devil kin.  Blog Goth attacks another devil kin, leaving him dead.  Magnus kills a carver which was in a small room (e) adjacent to the big vault.  Two other carvers immediately attacked the fighter and fatally wounded him.  The cleric moves in and kills one of the carvers, while Magnus injures with a bash of his shield a devil kin which came up from the side.  The carvers attack again, one of them putting Magnus in a critical situation!  The cleric's attack proves futile, while the barbarian steps up to help his companion and kills a carver which was locked in the fight with magnus.  The mage struck down another carver with a magic missile, while the last carver injures slightly lysander.  Enraged the cleric strikes at the carver and hits him slightly with his morning star.  Blog Goth smashes the last carver!  Among the cadavers, Magnus and the Barbarian found 120 gp and 138 gp respectively.  The cleric unsheathed a dagger from one of the carvers while sadak took 118 gp and a cloak from the body of their leader.  From some chests Lysander found 102 gp and 93 gp, and in another chest the barbarian found a ranseur which he gave to Magnus.  In a barrel Blog Goth found stashed a long sword.

While searching among dust in a seemingly empty coffin, Magnus stirred up a skeleton captain.  Immediately he hits the skeleton and rattles his bones.  From behind, the cleric charged and crushed the skeleton with his deadly morning star!  Among the bones the mage picked up a magical wand.

It was in Tristram that Decakard cain identified the wand as being a Fine wand.  The party rested and regained their health back.

Session 4 [10 February 2005]:

The cleric bought a scroll of Town portal before the party went down once again to the dungeon.  In the huge room with the four columns (D) there was a shrine along one of the walls.  The fighter touches it, immediately to be surrounded by what seemed to be a protective aura.  The shrine revealed to be an "Armor Shrine" which enhances the defenses of those who touch it.  The party then moves into a new room (f) and has to face about 7 hungry dead.  Blog Goth immediately rushes into one and hits it with his flail dealing some good damage to it.  It was then that the cleric cast a Turn undead spell upon them all.  The hungry dead are no more!  Among the corpses Lysander finds 136 gp and Blog Goth picks up another 112 gp.  They move on to another room (G), immediately to be confronted by some carvers and spike fiends.  The fighter launches an attack which leaves one of the spike fiends dead.  The cleric kills another too.  The carvers then move up and attack but the party defended well.  A bolt sung over the little demons' heads, only to miss by a mere inch, driving itself into the wall beyond.  The mage cursed, while the spike fiend moved back and shot some quills at the cleric, but they ended in his small shield.  Blog Goth swings his gladius and decapitates a carver, while the fighter kills another carver.  The cleric finishes off the spike fiend which had shot him.  The fighter searches among the bodies and finds 130 gp while the barbarian picks up a sickle from beneath a dead carver.  He gave the sickle to the mage for use as a melee weapon if necessary.  In a coffin Blog Goth finds 168 gp while the cleric retrieves a guisarme from a chest.  Sadak finds some more gold pieces in another chest, 91 in all.  As the barbarian moved up to open the last chest, it exploded in his face, a lightning bolt sizzled through his body!

There was a small room (H) in the middle of the hall.  Everybody agreed to investigate inside this room.  A hoarse shout of "Ahhhhhh... fresh meat" rings out suddenly from inside the dark corners of the small room.  Suddenly a towering form materialised from the shadows!  The barbarian, who had opened the door, blocked the exit of the small room.  The mage immediately cast on himself a mage armor to enhance his defences.  The butcher lashes out with his cleaver and hits Blog Goth full blast.  The barbarian still held fast although injured horribly!  The cleric mumbles a few words and casts a Doom spell on the butcher.  From behind the barbarian, Magnus attacks the butcher with his ranseur but the butcher skillfully manages to dodge the blow.  The barbarian injures slightly the giant form, while Sadak injures him slightly more with a magical missile.  The butcher lashes out again, hitting again the barbarian almost cutting him in half!!  The cleric summons a celestial riding dog.  The celestial creature tries to bite the butcher but to no avail.  Blog Goth steps aside and drinks a healing potion, somewhat reviving, making way for the fighter to strike the huge monster with his ranseur.  The mage casts another magic missile onto the butcher and wounds him really bad.  Once again the cleaver gleamed in the darkness lashing out at the fighter but it missed its intended target.  The dog snapped again at the giant but once again its bite proved ineffective.  Suddenly the hands of the cleric glowed with a blue hue, and Blog goth seemed to regain back some of his vitality.  The fighter hits the butcher once again but the monster still held fast on his feet.  With renewed strength, Blog Goth assailed the butcher, driving his gladius deep into its fat chest.  The giant toppled down, lifeless.  Apart from treasuring the cleaver, the mage managed to find also 112 gp on the butcher's body.

After a moment's pause for resting, the adventurers continue down the hall, venturing forth into a new chamber (i), immediately to come up against more hellish creatures.  The fighter strikes down a spike fiend immediately, while sadak took position behind the barbarian and let out a crossbow bolt which homed directly into another spike fiend.  The spike fiend let out a dying scream and was no more.  It was then that a multitude of high pitched dischorded sounds rumbled throughout the chamber.  It was Lysander, who uttered the lines of a spell in which deafening sound bursts out wounding and killing anything within a short distance.  Around the cleric, the ghoul could be seen confused and stunned, while the remaining 3 spike fiends and some of the quill rats fall lifelessly down by his side.  The remaining quill rats, uneffected by the sound burst, shot the cleric and hit him with their pointy darts.  The barbarian attacks the ghoul but his sword hits the dungeon walls.  Magnus strikes again with his ranseur, wounding the ghoul slightly while sadak shoots and injures one of the remaining quill rats.  The cleric bashes his morning star on the ghoul and kills him, while the quill rats shoot again but miss their target.  The barbarian closes distance between himself and 2 quill rats and, striking with his gladius at the first rat, he cuts it in half while the sharp blade continues its way into the body of the second rat.  The fighter notches a kill too when his ranseur dismembered another rat.  Sadak finished off the last quill rat by shooting it with deadly precision.  Among the corpses, Lysander picked up 138 gp, 124 gp from another corpse and 130 gp from the ghoul.  Opening a coffin, Sadak found a helm which he immediately gave to the cleric while in a chest, Blog Goth found stashed a gladius.  In some barrels Magnus and Sadak found 8 gp and 34 gp respectively.

The Party moves around the dungeon in a new area (J).  The dark chamber was filled with ghouls.  A reddish blueish hue surrounded one of them.  As he came out of the shadows the party saw that he was rotfeast the hungry, an infamous ghoul which their were many legends about him.  As the first ghoul moves up, Magnus is ready for him and wounds him imediately.  The cleric takes out his wand and casts a shield of faight onto himself to enhance his defence.  The fighter attacks the ghoul again and the ghoul lets out a hoarse cry of pain.  Suddenly, rotfeast the hungry charges straight into the fighter and strikes at him with his claw like hands.  The fighter is momentarily frozen up as a feeling of coldness grips at his inner self. The cold feeling rips at his insides like knife through butter.  Sadak shoots Rotfeast with his crossbow, the bolt remaining stuck into the rotting body.  Seeing his comrade all shaken up, Blog Goth cuts down the fabled creature, decapitating him.  The fighter moves aside and engages the wounded ghoul, and brings him down for good.  The cleric attacks with his morning star but failed to make any contact with the undead.  The ghoul strikes and injures the cleric, while another bolt whistles past the fighters and homes deep into the ghoul's body.  The barbarian and the fighter both hit the ghoul but although critically injured it tried to attack back the barbarian, but it attack was too feeble to cause any harm.  Finally another bolt brought it down.  The fighter found 106 gp under rotfeast the hungry, while in a chest Blog Goth netted 115 gp more.  In one of the barrels, Lysander pocketed 10 gp and the fighter found a blackish potion in a sarcophagus.  He gave this potion, oil of precision, to the barbarian.

Further deep into the dungeon (K), the party encounter more and more undead.  Returned captains looked menacingly deadly with their longbows.  Immediately the mage casts a spell to disrupt one of the undead however the spell failed.  The fighter switches weapons from ranseur to club and shield.  Some barrels were separating the party from the undead.  Blog goth kicks an empty barrel in an attempt to open up the passage.  A returned captain shoots Blog Goth, the arrow driving deep into the barbarian's body.  The other 3 returned captains loaded and shot their longbows.  As the arrows flew straight into the body of the barbarian, he fell down unconscious, bleeding heavily to death...  Lysander then casts a turn undead spell upon the creatures and kills all the returned captains.  Deadeye shoots the cleric, however misses by inches., while sadak shoots a magical missile into boneripper which injures it heavily.  The fighter rushes by the barbarian's side, grabs one of his healing potions and pours it down blog goth's neck.  The barbarian immediately stabilizes.  Suddenly, another hollowing sound was heard as the cleric casts another turn undead on both deadeye and boneripper.  They both crumble into dust.  After the combat, the cleric turned to heal his companions, Blog Goth and Magnus.  He also healed some of his wounds.  The mage, seeing the fighter had no more healing potions, gave him one of his.  Among the bones Magnus, sadak and blog goth manage to find 242 gp, 112 gp and 110 gp respectively.  In a coffin at the far end of the room Lysander adds 168 gp to the amount.

The party moved down the passage into another chamber (L).  Bonehead Keanaxe immediately let out a skeletal battle cry, but sadak bombarded him with a magic missile.  Carvers attack both Magnus and Blog Goth.  One of the carvers hits the barbarian, while, uttering the verses of his spell, the cleric unleashes another turn undead spell which immediately brings down Bonhead keanaxe and all the returned.  A quill rats attempts to bite Blog Goth but misses.  In retaliation, the barbarian kills both carvers, while the fighter downs the quill rat.  Among the skeletal remains, the fighter found 106 gp, sadak 122 gp and a spear, and the cleric added another 102 gp.  The barbarian picked up a halberd which he gave to Magnus.  He also took off a studded leather armor from a corpse.  In one of the barrels the mage found 26 gp.

They continue down the dungeon, into another room (M).  Sounds came from the darkness within.  The cleric immediately casts a shield of faith from his wand as he saw a ghoul closes in.  The ghoul immediately lashes out with his hands but hit nothing.  The barbarian attacks the ghoul and wounds him.  The ghoul now turns to blog goth and this time his attack injured slightly the barbarian.  The fighter uses his new weapon, the halberd and injures badly the ghoul.  The ghoul now turns to the fighter and attacks him but misses again.  Suddenly, soulpus shows up from the shadows but sadak was ready for him and wounds him with a magic missile.  A quill rat shoots his deadly darts unto the mage, some of them actually hitting him.  The cleric's attack on the ghoul fails but not the fighter's attack, which crushes down the ghoul.  Another ghoul moves up but suffers an attack from Blog goth.  It in turn tries to attack the mage but miraculously the mage escapes unscathed.  Soulpus hits the cleric and wounds him mortally, the cleric's attempt to hit him back was too weak to cause any significant damage to the leader.  The quill rat shoots the mage again but misses its target this time.  The mage steps back, drinking a mana potion in the process.  The fighter cuts down the attacking ghoul while the barbarian drives his blade deep into soulpus.  Another ghoul moves up to the cleric attacking him in the process but failed to make any contact.  The quill rat attacks the cleric too but its darts fly harmlessly over Lysander's head.  Suddenly, the mage's hands glowed deep red as fire engulfed them.  The burning hands unleashed a cone of flaming death which wounded deeply the ghoul and destroyed a chest.  The cleric swings his morning star, this time hitting and finishing off the ghoul while Magnus kills off the last remaining monster, the quill rat.  Among the butchered bodies, the mage finds a gladius, the fighter a helm, which he immediately puts on, while Lysander finds a magical buckler and 170 gp from a coffin.  The mage found 109 gp in the remaining chests.

Seeing all the level of the dungeon explored, the party move back up to rest and sell the unwanted items.  Deckard cain revealed that the cleaver is in fact a jagged greataxe, while the buckler was a buckler of the ages.  The adventurers rest in preparation for the awaiting quest down in the dungeons, in search to rid the culprits for poisoning the well waters of Tristram.