Vulf rolls the dice !! he is transformed into a female gnome, which annoys both him and Fria (because he has a char of 24 which is higher than Frias).

• Vulf becomes a female gnome.
• Bjarni remains a female bear.

When Fria stops laughing the party go to the stairs down and head down: to a room with 4 doors. Vulf and Bjarni flounce in. This is not magically lit, below the balcony is an empty chamber with just a placard on the walls The placard reads:

Remember the tale of the green hare who grew .. sheltering rocks that sheild him, when he one day ventured into the fields he was eaten by a humble raven.. If you're then the mages 4 will get you… Fria checks a door, which does not appear to be trapped, but it it magic. Ahmumstut detects strong magic in the area and the doors have abjuration. Vulf tries a door.. there is a passage beyond, Vulf minces down the corridor self-conciously. Bjarni is in the doorway when the door magically closes: he can choose to be in or out: there is no longer a door behind Bjarni or in the main room. In the corridor the 'girls' find a lever. Vulf starts checking for traps etc and then tries the level, there is a clicking sound and (failing a willpower roll) a wind starts pushing him away from the level. On the other side Fria just detects Bjarni thoughts as he walks away and jestix tries a stone shape to get though but gets defeated by a DR. Inside the gerlz push their way towards the lever. Vulf steps through and Bjarni follows: in the chamber beyond there a small chamber with a grey metal column with a polished silvery metal door in it. As they enter an angry feminine voice, speaking in an unpracticed common: it says;

“Leave now or die”

Fria DD's through the barrier with Isondel and Leonora and telepahs to the others that it worked, Ahmumstut brings the rest of the party and we press on after the 'gerlz'.

The gerlz explore the room beyond, and something zaps a green disintegrate ray at vulfette. SHe succeeds the Fort so he only gets 5d6 rather than 20d6! Bjarni glimpses the source of the ray and runs to confront it, detecting evil & magic in the area. Bjarni is hit with a prismatic spray, which she dodges. Vulf detects invisible: he sees a grey skinned elvish woman who has spider-climbed up the wall and invisible. The party hear blasting and combat so they dash to the gerlz aid. Bjarni having had the target pointed out starts bashing the crap out of it..60pts damage. She responds with a mass charm “help me, help me” to which Bjarnia is immune and Vulfette just saves. Vulfette entagles her and she begs for mercy & surrenders while swigging a potion.

She introduces herself as Yarmella Ortzir, she was the one sent in to collect the artefact. She has a metal box and agrees the artefact is in the box. She denies being a vampire but is a vampyre, “Ahogys' Heart” made by Lysander made from the heart or an elemental creature, reputed a scrying device, not an intrinsically evil device per-se. She indicates she only wants the heart, and the devil indicated there were many items he just wanted the first-pick: he might not have wanted the heart! The large stone square pillar with a big metal block with a polished silver door. It is Trapped, not locked, but there is no way of opening the door. Anyone opening the door wrongly will be zapped by electricity.

The metal plate will sleep open like a door, but there is no chamber behind it: possibly a red-herring. Vulf and Ahumnstut use true seeing, but there are no concealed things or other traps. The door itself acts as a key to some sort of portal when opened correctly. Vulfette suggests we go to ask the city.

“How do we open Lysanders chest that contains Ahogys's heart?”
“Open the door & listen”

Fria opens the door and listens, the whole area 'zaps' fortunately she's protected, she hears some 'noise from the pillar' during the zap. There is something on the wall but it dissapears before she can investigates Fria misses it quickly the first time but a second search (zap!) she sees: there is an extra dimensional space opens. Fria recovers the stuff: 2 rounds later jestix is smoking..

• There are three pairs of hands of various sorts, cleanly sliced, with rings poss magical
  • 3 magical rings [ID needed]
• Two jewelery boxes : contain magic (epic magic)
  • “Ahogys' Heart”[ID needed]
  • “Fist-sized iron block with pentagrams” [ID needed]
• Several ivory tusk things with jewels : (not magic)
• Purses of stuff: (full of gems) + weird red-metal (stored xp) coins in.
• Golden ring w large blue gem (from Bjarni's face): it's an old loromil ring!
  • ring of summoning creatures use 1/week creates a summoned critter. 1 min/lvl

Vulf opens the jewellery boxes, one has a v fine looking crystal ball “Ahogys' Heart”. A fist sized medallion made from iron ore with pentagrams engraved (the devil's thing ?). We stuff them into a bag of holding to conceal them from scrying and then search on for the other doors. We open the second door and once again it closes behind us, there is another corridor leading to a lever. Vulfette pulls the lever. As he does the door re-appears for those on the inside but not the outside, and then 10×10 gelatinous cubes drop from the ceilings. nFria is engulfed but miraculously no one else in the corridor is.. Bjarni slices hers up, Fria while engulfed scorches hers, Jestix blasts a cone of fire along the corridor and Vulf sets to work with his ooze slaying sword. Battle continues with Ahmumstut zapping and Bjarni slashing, takes out a second one (Vulfs). Fria paralysed and being eaten by acid laughs as she scorches the cube into a goey mush. Jestix takes out a last one. We try the end wall, that is apparently solid, Bjarni tries to ignore the wall and walk through she stops abruptly but has a ring embedded in her face: it is Loromils old ring of monster summoning.

• Vampyre : Yarmella Ortzir,
• Gel cubes
• Traps & levers

• 1080xp each for 18th Level characters
• 1920xp each for 16th Level characters

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