Aporeu Chronicles issue 342: The Tower of Crazohr part 2

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Some adventurers dive deeper into researching this tower in the way they know best: by experience.

The Tower of Crazohr part 2

For the past five months, I have been stuck out in this grim, hostile stretch of wasteland I have come to call “The Desolation”. With the assistance of the ever-dwindling numbers of The Hive, a once powerful mercenary organisation, now reduced to a fraction of their former glory, I have worked on the grueling and tedious task of excavating the subterranean ruins beneath the Tower of Crazohr.
After numerous setbacks and delays, we have finally breached the coveted lower levels of the ruins. To our dismay however, the way ahead seems well-guarded by hazards both magical and mundane yet ingenious. A parting gift left behind by the infamous wizard Crazohr.
With captain Nevari refusing to sacrifice more of her troops than needed toward our goal, I am once again requesting the aid of the adventurer’s guild. Please, I beg you, deliver us.
Signed, Rickard Hartman of the Aporeu Fellowship of Scholars.

Booyagh Caster

Hi, I’m Booyagh, you must’ve heard about me by now. Others have written about me before, but I have not written often myself for the chronicle. It was not really needed until now…
But seeing as I’m not as great as the greatest adventurer of all “the great Fionna” I will just tell about what happened in the wastelands as short as possible.
Together with Cahir, Wicky and Arthos I went to the wastelands to help some guy that thought it was fun to stay in the wastelands. Weirdo, in all the years I lived in the wastelands I have never thought of it as “fun”. Vuk
To get there we had to go by boat, stupid deathtraps. Don’t they know how easy it is to drown. But somehow we safely got to the wastelands north of Arnheim and from there it was just a bit of light travel to get to this tower. Or so we thought. Vukvuk
Suddenly a very thick mist surrounded us and the caravan that we were escorting, right didn’t tell you, for some reason we were also escorting a girl that thought it was easy money bringing supplies to the people at the tower. Well she thought wrong, we were attacked by spiders. We adventurers were fine of course, but the spiders did kill some of the caravan. Why go to the wastelands if you can’t even survive a couple of spiders. Ha

After that it didn’t take long to get to the camp at the tower. We met some bald dude that Cahir really didn’t like for some reason, don’t worry about him he’s probably not there anymore. Hihihi. After that little talk we go to mister scholar, the one that is going to pay us for the hard work, this guy is almost as chaotic as that damn noisy gnome on his metal monstrosity. Eventually we do get the information we need and we head into the tower. Haha
The first room has some big pool inside, Some kind of big floaty humanoid with swirling water for legs is inside of it who thinks that he’s amazing. Pah, nothing amazing about him. We just promise him that we will leave him alone and he’ll leave us alone, but don’t you worry I still have plans for him, after this he goes back to sleep in the pool. Hahaha
The second part has some hallways and easily avoidable traps, nothing much to these. Eventually we end up in some kind of study room. Some puzzles in here that are easily solved by us great adventurers we find the thing that the scholar was looking for. Hahahaha
But it’s been so easy up til now and this place is probably hiding even more treasures… So we keep looking and find some gems with weird booyagh coming from them, a booyagh circle and some notes about summoning something called a “Chaos Elemental”. That sounds like way too much fun to pass up on, so of course with my knowledge of the arcane we are able to summon this elemental. Hahahahaha
And then it all went to shit, none of my booyagh works on this damn thing. Vukvukvuk
Luckily I’m not the only great adventurer here as the others take care of the elemental. Hahahahahaha
As we are about to go outside we think that we can find even more treasure in the hallways, as we avoided some parts over there. Just an easily found trove of treasure under some pressure plates. Hahahahahahaha
So we go outside and bring the boring stuff to the scholar and take all the cool stuff ourselves. And as part of our report I tell, a little “too loud”, that the pool inside has a cure for baldness. The thought of that guy that Cahir doesn’t like having to deal with that water creature, priceless. Hahahahahahahaha

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Mindscape III