Exploring the Temple Dungeon 4 Report
General Summary
Fullfalling 27
2022-03-17
With all of the animate skeletons destroyed, the Venatore took some time searching through the hall of skeletons, finding many usable weapons and armor, and even a few silver arrows. They recognized the southern passage in the hall from when they defeated the ogre chieftain, and knew that there was another room on the western wall of that passage they hadn't checked. Hearing noise from that doorway, they readied for combat. Opening the door they engaged two ogres. Behind the ogres they spied a tabaxi (catfolk) hanging from the ceiling in a net. As they engaged the ogres, the tabaxi sliced through her net with her claws and grabbed the weapons below her to attack the ogres. Once the ogres were defeated, Crasokk put the tabaxi in his sites and asked her to explain herself. The tabaxi identified herself as Rudy, and said that she was here investigating a call to giantfolk going through the Wildlands which she called home. She revealed that he had another companion waiting for her scouting report in the devastation. While talking, Rudy dressed with the equipment that rested just below the net she was imprisoned in. Seeing no reason to distrust her, they Venatore moved on with Rudy in tow. Heading back to the corridor north of the Hall of Skeletons, they opened an eastern door to find four Black Earth Guards in an antechamber on duty. Those guards quickly fell and the next room held another six Black Earth Guards. Quickly dispatching the guards, who were tougher than they looked, the companions found the guard's leaders in the next northern room, but with the addition of Rudy, the resistance fell quickly. North of the guard captains, they encountered the leaders of the Black Earth Cult, the Earth High Priest Romag and his acolyte Hartsch. While Romag got off a shatter spell which injured the entire party, he and Hartsch quickly fell. Having gone quickly through what seemed to be the main forces of the Earth Temple, the Venatore decided to rest for a while. They took their time going through the five rooms looking for clues, hidden information, and loot. Hartsch's journal provided many clues as to the nature of the Temple as a whole, and the Earth Temple in detail. Elyot identified a book from the Neldath Library, Sediment, Soil, and Stone, stolen by Selvar in the act that led her here. Romag, high priest of the Earth Temple penned a book, Corruption of the Black Earth, detailing his quest to turn the element of earth to evil. After gathering the treasures and clues, it was time to move on.Crasokk
Balan
Rudy
Adrea Ravensworn
Virion Presfaren
Elyot
Report Date
26 Mar 2022
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