The small round hallway widens at this point, and the place is surprisingly well li. Ornamental gems embedded in the alcove walls emit a brilliant magical light and the worked stone has intricate patterns, and exquisite statues to either side of the them, set into the stone. Beyond the room is another large tunnel, and they head past it. As they do, a Death Tyrant that was above floats down, and moves its gaze, and all of the sudden, there is that magical rock behind them. They are trapped!
This room is a large room with a high ceiling, and a Death Tyrant (an undead Beholder) and what looks like 4 more beholders are here. They move forward, and Alzar orders his group as well.
Alzar tries to control the Death Tyrant. It works and he orders it to turn and attack the 4 beholders in the back of the room. Alzar’s group moves out, and he casts Time Stop. He first casts Skulltrap and flies over and throws it at the quartet. And then? That’s it, just the one Time Stop round.
It ends, and Alzar is in the range of the eyes of these mothers, but the Skulltrap blows up, and all four monsters with it, and the Death Tyrant in those blasts. They were apparently gas spores, creatures that look like beholders, but which explode when pierced (that exploding will send spores everywhere and its how the creature reproduces).
There’s nothing else in the chamber. A quick Detect Magic and Gem/Star reveal some items in an balcony way up high:
1950 gp in gems
Scroll – Dispel Magic, Polymorph Self
Potion – Extra-Healing
+2 Warhammer
+2 Long Sword
Dart of the Hornet’s Nest
Bag of Puchezma’s Power of Edible Objects