Campaign 4, Session 2-1

The party returned to the spire, returning to the floor of the morlocks, finding it still covered in decaying fecal matter, but thankfully there were no more monsters. Descending further down the spire, they walked through a two mile cavern, where the temperature grew increasingly hotter until it was sweltering (100 degrees F), and emerged into a small cavern of igeneous rock. Venturing further inside, they fought a crysmal, and an Augur Kyton. After defeating these creatures, they searched the room, finding four dead knights in black platemail, sporting the insignia of "The Order of the Noble Rod". Hans was able to identify this an an order of mystical paladins in the service of the King of Jegoria. They further found the knights encampment, where Borje also found a pack with a stone of alarm that rang out through the cavern. The dead knights were impaled by large red crystals, which the party took from the corspes. They also found the journal of "Knight Freya Jannet, Signifier of the Order of the Noble Rod". Her journal was entitled Volume III, and   "The Journal of Knight Freya Jannet, Signifier of the Order of the Noble Rod. What follows is Volume 3, the rest being safely stored with the order on my expeditions return trips to the surface.   The campaign continues, now into heat and boiling stone. Our troop has dwindled in size, but the gemstone vein that has provided our engree time and again is sure to be near. We will resupply, forge ahead, and discover what secret lies within these depths. I've come too far now to let something as flimsy as fire stand in my way. These pits secrets will be mine, even if it takes the bodies of all my knights to smother their flames"   They headed into the next chamber, where they found more dead crysmals, and they made the observation that these creatures should have returned to the plane of earth when they died, meaning the presence of their remains is odd.   In the next room, they found a river of lava and a rock bridge, as well as three powerful elementals of gas known as Caustic Stalkers. After a long battle involving burning acid, poison, and a giantgic Winny, the group was successful in defeating the creatures, who like the crysmals, did not disappear, but rather their gassy remains merely floated to the ceiling. After crossing the bridge, they took the left cavern, and found more dead knights, as well as a female knight who seemed to be petrified. Heading into the right cavern, they found it was filled with more poison, stinking gas, which Hans was immune to. They found a small passway that would have required squeezing through, and a thin wall, which Winny proceeded to break down in her still gigantic form. On the other side was a large cavern with a lake of lava, and strange gray creature with yellow eyes and a gaping maw, raising its claws to attack.