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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.