After finishing their much needed rest, the group went over their directions once more with the dwarf so make sure they knew where to go next. The fighter volunteered to stay behind so that he couple protect the dwarf and the other prisoners that were rescued.
With their path layed out, the group headed out into the unknown rooms ahead. Rynn too over the scouting duties for the group. The next unknown room he came upon was a decently large room with several crypts set into the walls forming small alcoves. An open passageway was on the other side of the room and a door was on the north wall. With nothing else in view, Rynn motioned for the group to join him and together they all entered the room.
As the heroes made it about halfway into the room, the door to the north suddenly opened though no one was there. The group came to a sudden halt, all eyes on the new open door. They then began to hear a thumping sound following by growling. They then could see an orange glow begin to flicker from the doorway. Within only a few moments, snarls became louder and erupting from the door where a pair of panther like creatures made of magma charged onto the scene and immediately began attacking with burning claws and spewing lava.
The group scrambled to set up a defensive stance against the sudden onslaught. Burn, letting his trust in his spells get to his head, he attempted to burn the magma cats further but it seemed to have no effect and one of them quickly backed him into one of the small alcoves. To add to the confusion, two gnome skuklers appeared out of invisibilty and attacked from behind, badly hurting Rynn. Rayan, unphased by the turn of events, quickly control of the battlefield and began to pull and grab the attention of the magma cats and the gnomes. The rest of the group rallied behind Rayan with Thais healing the group, Rynn cursing and harming the gnomes and Burn and Rayan dealing with the cats. Eventually the cats where killed along with one of the gnomes. The last gnome, smartly, took off running down the open hallway.
Having taken heavy wounds and most of their abilities tapped, the group pulled back to the safe position to recover. While resting, they dug through the items taken off the gnome to find nothing of real value except a magical amulet that Rynn was able to determine was an Amulet of Health after tinkering with it for a couple hours.
Finally recovered, the group made their way back to the room with the fallen magma cats where Rynn scouted the room beyond the door to find two prison cells with an old man in one of them. The man called himself Sertanian, the castellan of the Great Hall of Valor. Rynn was able to help him get free of his chains and the group escourted him back to the safe room before returning once more to go down the passageway that the gnome had gone down the day before.
Once more Rynn scouted out the hallway which at the end was a set of stairs leading upward. At the top of the stairs the group found a room covered in webs and within them were three ettercaps. The group tried to deal a quick death to the Fang Guards but Rayan was unable to handle them swiftly before the Webspinner moved in with its longspear and started spitting globs of web and restraining Rayan and Thais. The battle was intense but the group was able to overcome the poison attacks and the webs and finally defeated the ettercaps.
In the corner of the room the group found the remains of Kartenix, the captain of the guard with all of his blood drained. Along with him was a silk bag filled with coins. The heroes stopped to catch their breath and plan their next step.
Treasure Parcel 5 (room 5): Amulet of Health +1
Treasure Parcel 14 (room 7): 130gp, 100sp, 100gp of residuum
XP Per Player: 330
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