So a good thing about this secret temple is that it’s totally old, and I’ve never seen anything like it before. A bad thing about it is that what we thought were just a bunch of ugly statues, were actually a bunch of -evil magical statues- and they tried to kill us! Rhogkun was just starting his Detect Magic ritual when one of them came to life and just stabbed him in the guts! What!
It was super dangerous but we made it okay. Max smashed one of them into itty bits, but the the other ones were only partially damaged. Swindle and Variel picked some little black skulls out of them?? They said the statues are some kinda monster that necromancers make to guard their stuff. They make them… out of people. And I guess the little skulls have like, the recorded memories of the people the statues used to be inside of them… I dunno how I feel about that. But Swindle pocketed them and I guess they’re gonna try and talk to them somehow later.
We kept poking around and found… more ash zombies. One of them killed Rhogkun’s cat. :( But I guess he also saved one of us getting hurt. And they’re so hard to hit with my magic!! I don’t know why. We found a kitchen, and a closet full of valuables, and also…. Some magic circles and a torture room…. So I don’t think this temple is one of the good kind. A lot of bad stuff happened here for sure. I almost threw up. In one of the rooms we found a body, and the guy was long dead like everything else, but it looked like he’d been burned out from the inside. I wanna… I wanna go home.
In the room with the body are a couple magical books and a big warhammer with a ram’s head. Max takes the hammer and Rhogkun takes the books. And then we go down one last long hallway, and open one last door, and inside… is a black and ghostly swirling figure, and it says “Do you want to know a secret?”
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