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The Myste-Hass Calender
18/01/2024
- The battered adventurers stand upon a jutting outcrop of the tower, looking over the Northern Pass. They can see the Pyramid, the Tower of Dariss and they know the Temple of Resurrection is not far.
- Paladins are moving around below.
- Reinholt identifies the half orb - The Soul Crux - is used as a ritual device in death rituals to ensure a soul moves on to Garr, but it can also be used to hold those souls. The souls then grant great power to whoever controls it.
- Reinholt can still feel the reminents of tens of thousands of souls that once occupied this. Reinholt feels that if Ravaran wants it, it should be held in a place of Dariss. It must be protected.
- Maolmhuire detects magic on the statues, the throne, the two peaks on the floor, the archway and Ankhelos's spoils.
- Maolmhuire takes the sack with the orb in it.
- Corym retrieves the magical armour and bone staff on the death knight.
- Rasvyn drops a note off the tower to tell the paladins to wait, then investigates the throne as well. There is still a symbol of an eye in the Garr markings on the throne.
- Rasvyn has Ankhelos's scepter.
- Ankhelos's body gets thrown into the pit. Gartok takes his head. Reinholt takes a finger. Dramos takes a tooth.
- The party exits through the portal, appearing in the room on the lower floor.
- The staff used by the death knight is a Staff of Bones, it requires attunement by a spellcaster who knows at least one necromancy spell. It summons two skeletons which can be commanded. They can resurrect other skeletons or humanoids. It's an item that recharges.
- Rasvyn checks Ankhelos's Staff. It is the most potent magical item he has ever identified. Rasvyn feels the presence of Ankhelos. It summons undead creatures from anywhere. It is a spell casting focus that comes charged with spells - animate dead, blight, speak with death, circle of death, finger of death, power word kill - and can cast necrotic bolts. It must be wielded by a huge creature. This is a spine of another creature, potentially a demon.
- Reinholt identifies the armour, which is made of over-layed plates much like a carapaces. It improves the wearers combat readiness. It's flexible. It gives a +5 bonus to initiative, does not impose disadvantage on stealth, dexterity and heat. It provides a +2 on armour class. It has scorpion-like patterns on it, with inscriptions in infernal on the surface.
- The group determine that the amulet which the feline-creature, Varuun, wanted was not on Ankhelos. The amulet supposedly locks Ankhelos to this plain. It had a paw print on it.