mouse talk = at end of the war with giant and demons, powerful wizard, kept changing sides, found a book with ritual for bringing unholy trinity to this world tower disappeared into dark beyond the stars transformed, broken the bond, inturrupted the ritual just enough tower has now come back but is now inside the mountain captured by the kobolds (changed by elder evils) ---------------------
returning to kobold Caves, hear grqwling on the way - dire weasel and 3 wolves - wolves killed the red splotchy dire weasel
web across cave river, attacked by red splotchy large spider (killed) - desicated kobolds and giant bats ------------------------------
10 kobolds, crossbow machine (balista) in upper cave 10 ft high, empty cave downstream, upstream cave has rafts attached - access to catapult perch from downstream cave tunnel - Dash uses scroll: Shield - kobold gear, 3 skeletons underwater in pool -----------------------
crawl space = 1 ghoul -------------------------------
skeleton burial chamber - 6 skeletons in pits - 1 ghoul chewing on a dead red splotchy kobolds (Ian and Edgar were the ghouls) ------------------------
glowing, pulsating red rock in the back - 1 ghast came through rotten door, from another cave with a rotten cot, and glowing, pulsating red rock in the back - detect magic (essence of magic in room), coming from behind the rock, transmutation aura. - Vivian used remove paralysis scroll on Ash who had been paralyzed by the ghast. - Ellie moves rock - sack - 50 gems (5-10 gp each) = 375 gp - scabbard with sword with a black dragon handle, its hilt carved into black handle wings - Cherry - longsword, made from black bone, with elven script in golden script says (Noir = 5,315 gp) - made from black dragon bone (+1 acid damage stacks (+300 gp) - magic +1 (+2,000 gp) - equivalent to adamantine in hardness and overcoming hardness (+3,000 gp, includes masterwork price) - Weapons fashioned from adamantine have a natural ability to bypass hardness when sundering weapons or attacking objects, ignoring hardness less than 20 - Lore: middle part of last empire war, elven nation joined with humans, elven leader had sword named "Noir", leader killed, sword (note the female elf ghast defending the sword) - sell Cherry's normal longsword (15 gp, sell = 7.5 gp) - stone itself seems to be magical - conduit from negative emanating negative energy - broke it up onto smaller bits
The blade of this longsword is made from the bone of a black dragon with golden script etched all along its length, its pommel is carved in the shape of a black dragon, and the hilt is shaped as its wings. The golden script along the blade is written in elven and says "Noir". During the middle of the last Empire War, an elven nation joined with the humans. One of the elven leader wielded a sword named "Noir". The leader was killed and the sword lost. In the Kobold Caves, the Wanderers of the Wyld fought a female elf that had been turned into a ghast. Behind a glowing rock in the ghast's lair, they found "Noir". Cherry Blossum, the warblade, has claimed "Noir". ---------------------------------
- weapons hanging in this room - only two are salvagable. - masterwork battleaxe, medium sized - sell (value = 310 gp, sell = 155 gp) - masterwork dagger, medium sized - Ash ---------------------------------
Downstream Cave - large 10 ft tunnel, with 2 branch tunnels, one going to catapult perch - 10 more kobold re-inforcement from smaller tunnel
10 kobolds, crossbow machine (balista) in upper cave 10 ft high 10 more kobold re-inforcement from smaller tunnel - light crossbow x10, bolts x100 = 35 gp x10 = 350 gp/2 =175 gp - shortsword x10 = 10 gp x10 = 100 gp/2 = 50 gp - light flail x10 = 8 gp x10 = 80 gp/2 = 40 gp - leather x20 = dropped - wooden shields x10 = dropped
large cave - pallets, large pot with body parts - tunnel to south, covered by tattered cloth/threaded - 2 derro dwarves, no red splotches - black derro chainmail armor and cloaks - keep x1, dropped x1 = 150 gp x1 - keep? - large diamond (150 gp) - 250 gp - spiked steel buckler with gold outer trim and silver outer trim (derro nobility), masterwork (175 gp) - Ash - shortswords x2 = 10 gp x2 = 20 gp/2 = 10 gp - light crossbows and bolts x2 - Cherry, sell = 35 gp/2 = 17.5 gp - spider webbing along walls, matted webbing, tapestries stuck to walls
tunnel made from black rock, filled with annoying talking shadows, DC 10 -1 morale to hit and to attack - light and dark vision half distance - net trap (raco, thak and cherry avoid) - pit trap (cherry falls in)
behind door, cave with 12 elite kobolds - Thak bull rushed in, surrounded by kobolds, killed - light crossbow x12 = 35 gp x12 = 420 gp/2 = 210 gp - small chainmail x12 = 150 gp x12 = 1,800 gp/2 = 900 gp - light flail x12 = 8 gp x12 = 96 gp = 48 gp
As the Wanderers of the Wyld walked down a narrow passage made of black rock and filled with annoying talking shadows, Rako triggered a hidden net trap. Fortunately, Rako, Thak and Cherry managed to avoid the net, but as Cherry moved out of its way, she fell down into a 30-foot spiked pit trap, which took her several rounds to climb out of. By the time she had climbed out, the battle in the statue chamber was well underway. Unfortunately, Thak had bull rushed his way in, but was swarmed and surrounded by a dozen red splotched kobolds that had hit him again and again, even after he had fallen and died from their ferocious onslaught.
The statue chamber had a statue of each member of the Wanderers of the Wyld, except for Thak. Instead, there was a statue of an unkown half-orc. The Wanderers of the Wyld noticed that their companion Rako now had red splotches all over his scales and see him "grinning evilly". Rako claims he is still himself, but he keeps hearing voices inside his head, to "join your brother and sisters".
when last kobold died, flash of darkness, can now see room, 8 statues of all the PCs, standing upright, holding up columns, but not thak, now a half-orc, - walls made of black brick, unnatural quietness in the room, shadows still flitting around the room - red splotches on rako's scales and you see him "grinning evilly", hearing voices, "join your brother and sisters" - 2 lemure devils appear from around a colum
chamber 15 ft x 60 ft, 10 pillars full of enlarged statues of wizards and warriors - far door does not open, but other door, had magical effect, rako touched and door opens - coincidence?
inside is 3 large bookcases, filled with books, and books stacked everywhere, - room has kiobolds x6 + special kobold (spider climbed, then died, falls from ceiling) - wizard book - 10 spells = 600 gp + 800 gp = 1,400 gp/2 = 700 gp - Dash - level 1 - true casting, hypnotism, summon undead I, color spray, glaze lock, ectoplasmic armor, - level 2 - blindness/deafness, magic mouth, command undead, mirror image - 5 books on history - middle years of last empire war (300-500 gp as a set) - spell caster kobold - spellbook - all cantrips in PHB = 700 gp = 350 gp - Dash - level 1 - cause fear, expeditious retreat, mage armor, magic missile, shocking grasp, spider climb, summon monster I - light crossbow - not magic = 35 gp/2 = 17.5 gp - wand of burning hands - burning hands DC 11 - Dash - 3 potions - cure light wounds x3, - Ellie, Rako, Cherry - potion of haste - Cherry - scroll - mage armor - Dash
When they leave the Wizard's old library, there is a flash of light, and they each have a vision. At the end of their vision, they notice that Rako's blotches are gone. In their place, he now has a solid white circle on his forehead. This is a mark that shows Rako to be a favoured of his kobold diety.
elemental room - 12 kobolds scribbling chalk marks on floor, in front of pictures covered up and hanging on the wall pull the four curtains, blasts of air, fire, water and earth gush out in a line, another curtain emanates cone of negative energy final curtain, transforms into a door leading into a 10 x 10 room, alchemists lab, chest in the room - small purple silk bag (5-10 gp) - big diamond (200 gp) - 4 potions - cure light wounds x4 - Dash, Ellie, Cherry and Rako - magic necklace of fireballs - 3 beads - type 1 (5d6x1/3d6 x2/range 70 ft/DC 14) - Gorgo (5d6 used, 3d6 used) - - magic cloak of resistance +1 - Ellie - hidden compartment - divine scroll case - planar shift - Vivian
table - alchemist stuff (300-400 gp) - 40 lbs - craft alchemy +2 bonus - keep?? or sell 250 gp
torture room - 12 kobolds - using torture devices as weapons - fireball - dead
briar plant room - plant's are 10 feet high, ceiling 20 ft, roof of building off in the distance - 3 kobolds with bird feet, walking on top of the briar patch + 5 kobold re-inforcement - black brick building (20 x20) 17 ft to the ceiling (3 ft to ceiling of room) - stairs going down - path to a pool -blackish water, foul rotty smell - 2 special kobolds, breathe cone of colds and 2 chainmail (keep) = 150 gp sell and battle axe (drop)
bottom of stairs, down 6 landings, door opens to hallway
The Wanderers of the Wyld enter into an extensively large room. The air is humid and hot, almost tropical. The area is full of palm-tree like plants reaching up to a tall ceiling. There are a few hundred of these plants, each one containing three to five cocoon-like pods. As they step closer to one to inspect it, they can see that the pod contains a viscous whitish fluid inside which writhes a kobold. Other pods contain large spiders, dire rats, dire weasels, giant bats, and some even show derro dwarfs. This is the chamber from their earlier dream. Their dream warned them to destroy all the pods before their evil can be unleashed upon the world.
altar room, organs attached to the wall, pulsating giant black candles burning SE corner - box kobold - with 2 faces, alter is made up 4 derros bent backwards and candleholders made from mangled kobolds - breathed from one face, cast spell from the other face - greater darkness, protection from chaos, soundburst, bane, hold person - used a fireball bead, and Gorgo killed her in the dark - 2 scrolls, shield of faith - vivian magic stone - gorgo
Gorgonzola and Twitch killed the two-faced cold-breathing spellcasting kobold priestess while fighting her in the dark.
prison - 3 figures chained to the wall, 2 dead derro and half-orc (matches statue), Zarod joins party
In a prison chamber in the lower levels of the Wizard's tower, the Wanderers of the Wyld find a half-orc prisoner, that resembles the statue from the statue chamber. Once released, he introduces himself as Messi Zarod and tells his story. He pledges to aid the Wanderers of the Wyld in their quest to stop the Unholy Trinity. The Wanderers of the Wyld offer to give him one of the black derro suits of chainmail, but he declines, as protective scales grow all over his body.
store room - rotting body parts - 1 box is different - derro scalemail x2 drop all - spiked bucklers - shortsword - 3 vials of derro poison destroyed by fire
meditation chamber - 40 feet high - 1 figure squating on rug in the room half white dragon/half-kobold, holding a battle axe, splotchy, has wings - east wall - large golden mirror - table, golden plate spoon and fork (150 gp set) - magic chainmail +1 (1,300 gp) - vivian - magic battleaxe +1 (2,310 gp) - Zarod
haze teleportation chamber - 2 curtains of hazy aurora in chamber, 8 pillars, 10 kobolds
octogon blood chamber - 40 ft ceiling 3 kobolds - shield and flail 1 half white dragon/half-kobold, holding a battle axe, splotchy, has wings - chainmail +1, blue shine (1,300 gp) - Cherry - battle axe +1, everbright (4,310 gp) - Ash (flash light x2/day, all creatures 20 ft radius, DC 14, blind 1 round)
In the chamber of blood, Cherry struck at the elite kobold warrior, killing it instantly and cleaving "Noir" into the half-white dragon warrior, staggering him. However, she left herself open, and took a mighty blow from the beast. Recovering quickly, she scored a critical hit against the monster and felled him, chopping off his head in one strike. Cherry claimed the magic blue-oily suit of chainmail the creature was wearing.
-------------------------------- 4th level large room (75 ft x 75 ft, 40 ft ceiling) - black altar, with black candles - cabinets - big chest (10x15 ft)
touch altar transported to a black ashphalt plane, altar replaced by glowing swirling globe, shatters - rending sound, something emerges, horrid, green scaly skin, bird head, writhing tentacles, churns, egg thing explodes - organ things moving - aspect of unholy resistance each round reflex and spot DC 15 each, or take damage from each - out beyond the stars, on the plane of one of the unholy trinity - 3 attacks - tentacle, tentacle, bite, min - AC 24 (22), cannot be flanked, feels no pain
cabinets - 4 glass vials not magic - golden dust (200 gp), silver dust (150 gp), silvery type dust (150 gp), diamand dust (400 gp) - ring ring of jumping - Dash - 4 potions darkvision - Vivian blur - Zarod fox's cunning (int) - Ash vision - Ellie
chest - 2 cloaks cloak of elvenkind Rako cloak of resistance +2 Ellie (cloak +1, Dash) - headband headband of intellect +2 Cherry - 2 bags 6 gems (100-200 gp total) 500 gp - suit of vestments - druid's vestment - gorgo - wand cure moderate wounds - 22 charges - Vivian (ash get cure light = 14 charges back) - stone rock luck stone - Ash - rod -metamagic: extend - Gorgo
The Wanderers of the Wyld were able to grab Thak's corpse and carry it out of the Kobold Caves, just before they collapsed in upon themselves. Thak was buried in the Hamlet of Roccatorre.
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