==== V2 Session Eighteen - 12 October 2007 - "The Sinister Spire" (part 4) ====

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^ Player ^ Character ^ Race ^ Class ^
| Dave | [[Freyrik]] | Human(Feytouched) | Warlock/6 |
| Ken | [[Ash]] | Aasimar | Paladin/4 |
| THF | [[Líkami]] | Human | Monk/5 |
| VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/5, Psion/1 |
| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | Barbarian/1, [[Witch]]/4 |
| Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/6 |

//Note: This adventure comes from
"[[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/107977400|
The Sinister Spire]]", by Bruce R. Cordell and Ari Marmell, as
published by [[http://www.wizards.com|Wizards of the Coast]].//

=== 16 September 1111 ===

After the initial expedition into the "Necromancer's Spike", [[Yosi]] finds
himself babysitting a drunk, agitated, and out-of-control [[Ketamine]].  The
reasons for her behavior remain a mystery.((Kurt will have to supply the
details, if he so chooses))

During her drunken misadventure, [[Ketamine]] spends an enormous amount of money
on vials of acid (clearing out the contents of the bazaar) and hands them out to
the rest of the party.

=== 17 September 1111 ===

//Area S7)// With a revitalized (and complete) group, the party storms into the
shrine to Lolth and overwhelms the massive spider statue with acid and weapon
attacks.  In the end, the great golem explodes, having managed to exude only one
of its deadly swarms.

Convinced that this room holds the key to further progress into the "spike", the
party spends over an hour searching and tearing apart the altar and a magical,
ceremonial font.  In the end, however, they convince themselves that this is a
dead-end.

//Area S10)// Spiral Stairs

Searching elsewhere, though, someone((who?)) discovers a secret door in the
kitchen that leads to a small room with a wrought iron spiral staircase leading up.

//Area S11)// Foyer to Horror

Keyed to the idea of secret doors (and aware of their quality), the party spends
more time searching for them.  At the top of the spiral stairs, [[Heilli]] spots
a secret door leading to a narrow hallway -- which allows them to bypass a pair
of dangerous pits filled with undead-infused body parts.

//Area S14)// Landing

On the other end of the bypassed room, the party discovers another wrought iron
spiral staircase going up.

//Area S15)// Hall of Audience

Atop the second spiral stairway, the party enters a large presentation hall.
Here they find a trio of "living spells" (who are destroyed) and a Shadow (who
flees).

Nearby, they discover a third spiral stairway going up.

//Area S18)// Graveyard, //Area S20)// Overlook

While [[Ketamine]] enters a weird, indoor graveyard on one side, the rest of the
party enters the overlook at the other end of a massive, "natural" cavern.
Here, they find themselves in a prolonged fight with a quartet of dangerous
undead, including a massive "Desiccator", a Wraith, an "Entomber", and some kind
of Illithid.

In the course of the battle, [[Ash]] takes a near-fatal blow from the
Desiccator, saved only by the timely administration of magical healing from his
sister, [[Allie]].  Meanwhile, on the other end of the cavern, [[Ketamine]]
finds her life force partially drained by the Wraith.  In the end, though,
the party is victorious.

//Area S19)// Mausoleum

Despite their weakened condition, the party gambles and enters the one remaining
room on this level.  In it, they find two sarcophagi -- one containing the
perfectly preserved body of a female drow (covered with a magical shroud), and
the other empty.

They take the shroud and the jewelry from the dead drow and make their way out,
so they can rest another day before tackling the rest of the "spike".


^ # ^ Challenge ^  CR  ^
| 1 | Bone Spider Golem |  7 |
| 1 | Glyph of Warding trap |  4 |
| 1 | Living Spell: Wearying Worm |  5 |
| 1 | Living Spell: Blinding Blot |  3 |
| 1 | Living Spell: Ghoul Ooze |  3 |
| 1 | Shadow |  3 |
| 1 | Entomber |  5 |
| 1 | Wraith |  5 |
| 1 | Advanced Evolved Desiccator |  6 |
| 1 | Evolved Illithid Forlorn Husk |  5 |
^ ^ Total XP (each) ^  2,000<sup>6</sup>\\ 2,420<sup>5</sup>  ^

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