After a day of mourning comes celebration. Alzar animates three days worth of skeletons from Lolth’s army and returns with 191 skeletons and restocked the Rings with two more copies of the spell. He was lavished with praise for his role in turning away Lolth’s troops, and they never though a necromancer would be their salvation. They will sing of him for centuries. He leaves them to their rebuilding and returns to the Web.
The next Gate opens to a gloomy castle courtyard. Alzar checks it out and it’s boring and skips it because he wants to move on from these Gates. The next opens to a desert plain. He checks it out and sees prisons in the area. This catches his interest, and as he moves in, a large golem rises and blocks his way, it’s a bone colossus. Alzar tries to control it with his Golem Talisman and…it does not work. Too bad, this would have been a nice golem to control. But it didn’t even try to work, and this is an undead creature, and Alzar tries to control it that way but also fails. It’s undead alright. He summons three elementals as it closes and they blast it. The party frees several people, including a cleric who heals them and carries on. Alzar finds nothing, and the bone colossus is regenerating, so they return to the Web.
There is one last Gate. This portal is different than the others with bronze doors flanking it and closed over it. Alzar tries to open to but cannot. His thieves can’t either. A Knock spell opens it and behind is a gate that opens into some stairs. They lead up to a doorway that’s at last 25 stars away. The entire place, stairs, walls, and such has a metallic look. Alzar enters through. The doorway is entering a domed top with many windows that look like eyes. In fact, Alzar looks around, and they are not on a Prime Material Plane, like the other gates, but it’s another layer of The Abyss. In fact, Alzar can tell it’s one of the top layers, and many magic spells work again. They are on a gigantic ship shaped like a Spider that is sailing/flying?... via magic and steam power through the aether.
Part of the ship:
Here’s another:
