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Sat 29th Oct 2022 12:44

Continuing Deeper

by Griska Ironrain

We returned to the dungeon. We decided to check on Chandriu Invisar to see if she had been laid to rest. As we opened the door we did not see her, so we decided to search the room. Then she came drifting through a wall... When she entered the room she demanded that we get back to work. Some attempted to do so. The Orcs tried to leave. She got angry & attacked. Rosa was able to tell that convincing her that Volluk Azrinae was no longer interested in her it might help weaken her so we could dispatch her more easily. Griska told her that Volluk no longer had any interest in her. This enraged her, causing her to be consumed with rage and not able to focus. However, the group seemed to be under some sort of curse... Everyone had the worst luck hitting anything! Luckily, Sprite was able to use his healing magics to heal it back into death! After she dropped we continued our search, finding a secret door. Behind it we found a room with a scroll none of us could read. We decided to take it back to town. We went to see Rin. She said it was written in Infernal and was a contract for someone named Korlok. We recalled this was the Bearded Devil we had offered to try to find the contract for. She was glad to see us as well, saying she had read in the stars that we would have an inauspicious day. We agreed that we wished we had known that before we headed back to the Lighthouse! We agreed to wait out the day and come see her tomorrow morning so she could have read our stars, hopefully getting a better reading for us.
We then took our loads of books to Morlibint to sell. He bought most, but told us he was not interested in 3 of them as they were books about Necromancy. We decided to take these to the Dawnflower Library. The Cleric there offered to buy them, letting us know she planned to store them away in a safe manner. Zebott & Rosa decided to read the books before handing them over. They found that the 3 books were tomes about transforming someone from a living being into a Ghoul, Worm-man or Skeleton. Rosa wanted to keep the books but the group talked her out of it. We delivered them to the Dawnflower Library, where they paid us and agreed to allow Rosa to visit and study the books safely in future, if she wished. We then returned to the dungeon. We took the contract to Korlok, who read it over, finding he had actually been released from his contract long ago. He thanked us for our help by giving us the names of 2 other Devils in this place. One we knew about, it being the cleaner Devil on the level above. He also told us about a "Contract" Devil on the level below, named Urevian. We headed down a set of stairs, picking one of the many at random. At the bottom we opened a door and entered a large room with several skeletons around a large table. They immediately stood up and started to attack as we entered the room! We soon found these were Corpselights, as identified by Rosa. They were more annoying than anything else. We finished them off quickly and moved to explore the area. A nearby room was a kitchen. Rosa and Griska found a secret door here. We rested and healed up, then headed through the secret door. It led to a rough hewn cavern where we found 2 of the Scalathrax. We had fought these in the graveyard some time before. Returning to the first room on this level we searched behind some of the other doors. Most had nothing of value, just some old stinky wine in one room. However, in another room we found an open metal trap door with a chute beneath. As we moved to investigate this we were attacked by a Poltergeist, as identified by Rosa during the fight. It managed to throw Graklak into the chute. Luckily he managed to arrest his fall, Zebott threw a rope to him and Griska grabbed the rope and hauled him up! We managed to defeat the creature. We then gathered it's remains and threw them into the hole in the floor!