Session Twenty-one Report

General Summary

The party falls back to some nearby ruins to regroup and strategize for the possible encounter. While they are making their way to the ruins they see a group of four gnolls going to the enchanted tower and then are attacked by a group of six dragon cult members. The dragon cult members were easily dispatched, with the exception of Tednar who was recently recruited from Endtown. He said the group was sent to track the gnolls and just happened upon us. He also mentioned that the dragon cult is set up nearby and he can get the blackpearl portkey that Zappa needs. There is a discussion that leads to the party sending him on his way to complete that task and meet back up in one of two locations to lead him to safety.   After a short rest is completed and a plan is formed, the party heads back to the enchanted tower. Lady Alexis mentally links Avo, Azreal, Zappa, and herself. That way she is linked with Azreal on the outside and both Avo and Zappa, who are both invisible, since they are going in the tower with her. The smaller group going inside the tower drop all metal items outside the tower and make their way to the right side door when Lady Alexis asks to see Musalgot. They quickly see a large fire elemental between the two treasure rooms and then Lady Alexis is told to enter the throne room. Both Avo and Zappa have to quickly squeeze into the room too. The throne room is filled with ten magmen, four gnolls, and Musalgot. The gnolls appear to have just told Musalgot that they were attacked by a group of adventurers and point out Lady Alexis as one of the group as well as describing the other members of our party. Between this information and the vague memory of a party member tipping over the bowl of ashes he was using to communicate with, Musalgot begins to get furious. Lady Alexis tries to persuade him that they are mistaken, but he is having none of it and casts a wall of fire along the entire back wall and the only exit to the room. 
Zappa flees the room heading to the wand treasure, going through the flames, but is not seen since he is concentrating on his invisibility spell. Lady Alexis tries to escape the room and is almost downed by all of the enemies surrounding her, but barely makes it out of the tower before being knocked out next to the door. Six of the magmen merged to form a larger more imposing enemy, while the gnolls stayed in the throne room and Musalgot went invisible. Arthur started heading to the entrance while Zed started heading to the left side door to go in the back way. 
When the throne room was empty besides the gnolls, Avo got close to a door and heard a faint noise but nothing could be directly heard because of the wall of fire roaring nearby. Zappa uses the cold wand on the merged magmen as a cone of cold instantly kills all six of them. When he uses the wand, Musalgot appears before him swinging an attack and narrowingly missing before Zappa misty steps out of the building toward his team. Arthur rushes up to give a potion to Lady Alexis, recovering her from her unconscious state, and she quickly starts moving away from the tower. Zed continues to sneak around the other side as Azreal uses some javelins to attack the fire elemental when it makes its way out of the tower. Avo, still invisible, opens the door to see some more enemies and quickly rushes through the room to get to the top of the stairs going to the second floor. Arthur is surrounded by four magmen as he tries to cast slow on all of them, Musalgot, and the fire elemental, but only the fire elemental and one of the magmen fail the save so he can not move away from the four enemies without risking death. Almost paralyzed with the potential of losing an ally, Zappa casts another cone of cold on just the fire elemental before moving closer to Azreal. 
At this point Zed gets the warhammer and moves back around the treasure room to remain unseen. The magmen kill Arthur, but Turdy is undetected under the contents of his belongings. Lady Alexis moves further away from the tower. Musalgot moves out the door and kicks the remains of Arthur before hurling a ball of fire at Lady Alexis downing her again. Avo casts detect magic and sees multiple runes on the floor and a large magic coming down the hallway. Now visible, he moved toward the first trap that was on the floor, but was not able to successfully jump over the trap and was teleported back to the first floor in the middle of the throne room when he ran through the wall of fire towards the door where Zed is currently.

Campaign

Highfell

Protagonists

Authur Turtle

Zed

Azreal

Avo MacLeod

Report Date

07 May 2023