Prince of Darkness II
Summary
Adventure: Prince of Darkness II
- Sequel to Prince of Darkness
- See earlier notes for additional information on places and people.
GM: Jon
Season: Spring 798 WK
- Party
- Ithilmor, Elvish lady and healer.
- Pent, Halfling scribe and fighter.
- Merthac, Halfling but easy to wind up.
- Loganbury, Human scholar and very rich.
- Sasha, Human good looking noble.
- Esmeralda, Older Human wise woman.
- Time on adventure
- 1 Thaw 798 to 19 Blossom 798 WK
- Employer
- None
- Mission
- Simply put we are to return to Glissom to tidy up some loose ends. Most specifically we want to revisit the Catheads in the Ruins of Mimir in order to pick up the knowledge they hold. Also we want to finally deal with Prince Fengil.
- Original Scribe Notes
- Media:Snsp9705.zip
Scribe Notes
1st Thaw 798 WK
After getting together we left for Glissom via Grobbenbonk's tower.
We caught up with King Doron and found out that he was getting along fine. The Elves have been teaching him how to be a Fire mage. We told him that we were intending to go back to the Ruins of Mimir and then finish off Fengil (if we can catch him).
We picked up the armour (the magical leather offered as payment for dealing with Fengil and headed out of town to Lord Rockwall's manor to see him and Hadron. They lent us some Potions. After contacting the elves from the Siren forest the transported us to the village of Mimir. They told us of a strange obelisk in the east of the forest that seemed to be draining the mana from the area.
2nd Thaw 798 WK
After staying the night in the village of Mimir we were taken to the obelisk site by the elves. It pained them to get to close to the obelisk so Esmeralda walked the last bit alone to have a look at it.
Esmaralda looked at the obelisk which was made of some strange brown rock, and almost seemed to be alive. She collected some of this strange rock and bought it back to us for later examination.
We went to the Ruins of Mimir and found it was completely deserted (we had expected a wraith or elementals or succubi to be around).
3rd - 12th Thaw 798 WK
We spent all this time either at the Ruins of Mimir or having curses removed. Eventually we each had learnt one thing from the Catheads.
In the middle of the session we had 8 weeks training and investigated the Obelisk.
18th Blossom 798 WK
We returned to the Elves from the Guild and entered The Mountains of Brack but since we had maps from last time it was easy to negotiate the tunnels.
Eventually we came to the hall of the Frost Giants (deceased) and it was pretty much as we had left it a year ago but the Giants bodies (and their dogs bodies) were all missing? We continued down our underground tunnel making much better time that last time we were here.
At last (mid afternoon) we got to the end of the tunnel and I tunnelled through the ice to the temple in the middle of the lake. Just outside the temple was the Eltrandorian war banner we forgot to pick up last time we were here.
We entered the temple, went through the maze, and prepared to go though the statue of darkness to defeat Fengil (and his minions - see above for the full list). It is a place of power for Dark Celestials and a high mana zone only for them as well. It also is made mostly out of magically bound earth and ice.
Stepping out of the beam of black light we arrived in the dungeon under the Temple of Balor. Steps lead out into this black gooey stuff. We waded through the goo (we'd been told it would protect us from the Grey Hood) and arrived in a huge room partially full of grey mist with a large throne at the other end of it. To our left and right were two small rooms which we looted first (Circlets and Cloaks).
On the stairs (leading down into the mist) on the right had side there were a number of strange torches which we left as we could all see in the dark anyway. We went through the creepy grey mist and through a door under the throne.
The next corridor had a wall of darkness in the middle of it and rooms (the doors to them were hidden by the wall of darkness) to the left and right. The left room was were you prepared for the test of Balor and the right had some scrolls in it. Logan and Sasha explored the room to the right and the corridor beyond it accidentally setting off an explosive trap (they both survived).
The rest of us continued straight ahead and carefully snuck through the circular room with the huge pool / well in the middle (supposably where the Ganglyings live) and out the other side where we were rejoined by Logan and Sasha.
By opening the two swing doors and shutting them so no breeze went down the stairs to Krang we ensured he would not smell us and attack us.
Finally we advanced down the stairs to where Fengil lived. In the big room down the bottom we saw six zombie dogs and two zombie frost giants. We had a quick fight and got two of the dogs until Fengil turned up and cast lots of Darkness around so we couldn't see. We backed off into the light and Fengil sent a couple of dark spheres after us, so retreated some more.
We realised that the magic torches back by the Grey Hood could proberly penetrate the darkness so I ran back to get them (mostly followed by the party). This also woke up the Ganglyings which I had to zap before getting back with the torches. I distributed the torches and we advanced through the darkness (the light shone out about thirty feet), we couldn't find Fengil so we beat up his zombies and Sasha laid a trap for him using her Scroll of Entrapment.
Just before we left Ithilmore bravely did the test of Balor and survived (although quite hurt) and got some neat Armour of Darkness. Only one person could do the test and then the magic left. We backed off and camped in the tunnels outside the Temple and rested for the night.
19th Blossom 798 WK
We returned to the Temple of Balor and found Fengil and another greater undead in Sarsha's pentacle of Entrapment (from the scroll) and we destroyed them both then returned to Glissom for much drinking before coming back to the Guild in Seagate.
