Return to the Tower - Lorey / The Map
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05/05/22
- The adventurer arrive back at the tower with Engaro and Lorey's body. Cpt Percival Wainwright approaches offering information they procured during Operation Pincer.
- The group clear the alter room in the Tower of Dariss and bring up Lorey, only to discover that the adventurers do not have a diamond of appropriate value for raise dead.
- Lorey is left with Engaro in his tent, washing his body and watching over the corpse.
- Percival prays at the alter, holding a necklace. He senses someone behind him, a presence. Then an entity talks with Percival, speaking on the topic of Lorey. The voice asks "What have you done for me that I should help you? What shall you give me? A multitude of souls plead, my time is more valuable than his. I am not a street vendor to haggle with. Think of Lorey. Yes, I know what you want and it isn't Lorey. If I want something, I get it. I don't give unless I get what I want. You wish to be the lord of the storm. Garr trades in souls. To give you Lorey would mean denying him a soul he desperately wants. How am I supposed to appease him. Offer me a soul and I will speak with Garr on your behalf."
- The individual does not give his name. The presence moves away. Percival's amulet goes cold.
- Reinholt identifies Dramos's necklace. It is a Genai Amulet of Fire Resistance,which Dramos gifts to Harbinger.
- Gartok communes with nature. He senses more peace than he has ever experienced before. He senses animals, and then, above him in the Tower of Dariss he senses a brief, but intense, celestial presence.
- No one has seen Nia since the incident with the dragon.
- Dramos scoops up some loose stone from the Tower of Dariss.
- Dramos and Harbinger begin making a deal with Percival, to employ him for a salary and provide a ship and crew.
- The party rests and, refreshed, sets out in the morning.
- Harbinger and Reinhold attempt to apprehend Percival in order to cleanse him of spell effects when he mentions that he spoke with a celestial being. However, Percival avoids the attempt.
- The group heads out to the Halls of Resurrection. They see the Obsidian Tower hidden just behind the hills. A rockslide, which once covered the door, had been cleared away.
- As soon as we enter the Halls of Resurrection, the corridors are very cold. The group head through the corridor, ignoring the doors and move into the sarcophagus room. There is a shadowy entity, floating somewhere in this room.
- Gartok spots the golem stood in the corner of the room. There are glowing figures and a dark entity, a grey-withered women. She has no eyes, just skin over her nose and upper face. Half corporeal, half physical, she has a terrifying form.
- The creature screams out knocking Harbinger unconscious and then the creatures move in, draining Percival of life. Dramos visibly ages by forty years.
- Corym heals his allies up, just in time for the crystal golem to move in. Percival kills the creature with a percussive thunder attack after repeated attacks from all of the none-divine adventurers.
- The creature collapses, distributing at least 20,000gp worth of diamond. Percival picks up two 500gp pieces. Crassus picks up a 700gp chunk, 100gp diamond, 300gp, 50gp, 70gp and 150gp. There are a further - 7x1000gp, 7x350gp, 10x200gp, 50x50gp, 65gpx10, 2000gp Diamond Dust and chunks of diamonds. These are distributed throughout the group.
- There is a clear sense that there is more undead at the Halls of Resurrection.
- Dramos teleports the group and the diamonds to the Tower of Dariss.