To Araj - S02E17 Report

General Summary

Before leaving Blingdenstone, Richter & Joseph meet with the town guard captain and use lesser restoration to repair his damaged brain.   As they leave, Joseph wonders aloud if the Oni is still present. They party debates leaving the expeditionary force behind, but decides the force would be safest if they travel along.   The first day of travel is without incident. Shortly before the rest for the night, Alan Cardew uses True Sight on both the party and the entire force, only to find that no one is the Oni or any kind of shape changer.   Concerned with the Oni still, Garrick cast summon elemental and tasks it with killing the closest Oni. It heads off, never to be seen again.   The next day as they travel, they come to a branching tunnel. Bug understands that a purple worm has traveled through here. They decide not to pursue the worm and continue to Araj.   A few hours later, Alan sees a purple glow coming from the side of the cave just in front of him. They map he was carrying triggered the secret door to show itself. They open the door to find a long, very narrow tunnel. The force is left here.   Traveling about an hour through this narrow passage - that is often tricky for Richter to squeeze through - they finally enter a large cavern with a giant stalagmite near the center. It has been carved to be a large tower.   Grin, a drow mage, greets them as they enter and tells them his master awaits.   Conversing with the mage, they learn more about how the demon lords entered the material plain and the mage's plan to remove them. Finding no reason to distrust him, the party agrees to get the items that he needs.

What Vizeran Needs	Why
Intact & unhatched egg of a purple worm	channeling great physical power
Central eye of a beholder	break down magical resistance and overcome magical forces
6 feathers from 6 different angels	the authority of the celestial realms and a force to enrage fiendish creatures
Heart of a goristro	a lure to draw demons
A piece of skin or other outer tissue from a higher demon lord	to have some authority over the demon lords
A few drops of blood or ichor from a demon lord	to connect the demons that the ritual will call
A magical item from the shadow realm	for the power of darkness to counter the demon lords power
Gromph Baenre's grimoires and notes on his ritual	for a better understanding of the power that summoned the demon lords

Joseph surprised the party by offering a piece of horn from Grizz'at to fulfill one of the items on the list. It wasn't his offering of the piece that surprised them, just that no one knew he had such a thing on his person all this time.   They also offered the broken mirror, hoping that the mage would be honest and return it when finished.   Hoping that it would help, the mage gives each member a cloak of Elvenkind and a scroll of protection from fiends.   They spend the night resting in the tower and head off the next day in search of a purple worm egg.     Finding a Purple worm tunnel, Bug gets excited and races ahead. He's scooped up by an ettin how believes he's found some food. The party quickly changes the giants mind as they slay both him and his hunting partner. Allen took down the first and Joseph finished off the other.   Before setting off again, Mr. Garrick searches their pockets and finds 17 silver and 20 copper. Alan once again warns Bug about racing ahead.   As they converse, they come to the opening to a large cavern. About 60' ahead, they hear an argument and see two large groups of troglodytes preparing to face off against one another.   Bug notices that one of the points of argument seems to be the female that is tied up and guarded on the jutted ground just ahead. He sneaks over and slit the throat of one guard and unties the female. The remaining four guards are still distracted by the coming battle and do not see the female race off.   Meanwhile, thinking that the group will wait, Joseph and Garrick hatch a plan. Mr. Garrick summons and invisible stalker and sends it to pick up an egg (about 3 miles away). They think it will take it less than an hour to get there and to get back.   While the group had considered waiting, freeing the captive has set things in motion and the party may not be able to stay out of harms way.

Rewards Granted

• Pawai - cloak of elvenkind (one for each party member)
• Scrolls of protection from fiend (one for each party member)
• 17 silver
• 20 copper

Character(s) interacted with

Blingdenstone's Guard Captain   Grin   Vizeran