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They head back and take the left branch from the sphinx’s place. There is a ten foot long open pit here, visible since the water level is gone. They arrive at a section of the corridor with a series of copper colored metal plates in the walls. As Alzar moves into it, the metal on him starts to warm, and then get hot, so he retreats. The shadows are sent through with no problem. The golem makes it through. Alzar takes off his metal stuff and puts it in a bag of holding, and then crosses fine. He grabs his staff and as he does, 8 ghouls pop out of a room for surprise and Alzar tries to control them and fails. His shadows move in front and he grabs his axe from the Bag and Ring of Free Action. The ghouls are unable to damaged the shadows and try to push past. The golem move sin front as well
Alzar wins init and kills a ghoul. They try to attack him and he takes 8 damage from claws. The shadows kill a ghoul and #9 hits once for 10 damage and smears a third. Alzar wins init and hacks a 4th dead. 9 hits once for 12 damage and kills another. He shadows miss. Alzar takes 6 more from ghouls. He then kills another with the 2nd attack. 2 left . Alzar wins init yet again and th#9 crits and kills the last one.
They each have an Amulet like the others he found so 8 more are found. Awesome!
Amulets of Protection vs Turningx8.
Everybody else arrives after a bit of time. They will not be able to leave this way quickly. They walk up some stairs and arrive at a room. This room is frictionless. The walls, ceiling doors and spike traps all have a magical coating of frictionlessness, discovered when Alzar dropped a copper piece onto this weird looking room. Megala can’t fly in here and Alzar was just able ot gab it before it bounced away. Alzar sends out the Rope of Climbing with two more ropes attaching and it hits the end wall and goes through. Alzar throws a copper piece down that way and it rebounds after going through the wall, so there must be an illusion there. The Rope stops, and Alzar tries it. It appears to be stuck on the far wall, and with people in the hallway holding the other end, they make it through. The golem is the anchor on this side, and the shadows and golem don’t make it through this room.
The hallway after than room Ts and they go…right. There is a door here. It opens to reveals a stream running through the room, and yet suspending in mid-air. It enters and leaves through two tunnels. There are also six two man kayaks. Alzar decides to put a kayak on the stream and it floats away. Alzar watches it float along the stream with his Crystal Ball. There are blind fish in the stream. Thirty minutes later the kayak returns.
Alzar saw a room it passes through with several fighters watching and waiting. Other than that, nothing. Alzar goes into a kayak himself and turns himself invisible, riding along. The kayak arrives in the room and again, no one bothers to net it. There are 9 warriors here. Suddenly, Alzar casts Skulltrap and throws it at the group by the stream.
24 damage is dealt to the fighters who all die. The one behind them all moves forward and Alzar jumps out of the stream to fight him. He has a practiced stance and hand, and should be a difficult opponent. He casts Ray of Enfeeblement, the warrior makes his save.
The warrior moves in and battle begins. The warrior misses. Alzar’s axe does 16. The next round, Alzar wins and rolls a 6, and needs to hit -1 AC. 5, plus +2 for axe, +3 for mastery +3 for strength is a 13, one less than the 14 he needs. A miss. The guy rolls a 5, and misses Alzar’s second attack hits for 14. His second attack hits for 11.
40/56
He wins init and misses. Alzar misses as well. Alzar wins init and misses. He hits for 12. Alzar hits for 18. He misses. He wins init and this for 6. Alzar misses. Alzar wins and hits and he dies.
22/56
XP – 4500 for just Alzar.
He finds a key
Plate Mail
+1 shield
Boots of Striding and Springing
He returns to the first room with the airborne river and they leave. They head to the left.
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