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He flies in and casts Passwall at the wall, and then flies into the tower with the Golem, who then unloads.
4th floor is now akennel with a quartet of hell hounds that begin barking. They are caged up. Alzar hears nose from upstairs, and the room here is the entire floor, there are stairs up and down to the sides of where he entered. This is a lab and study and a bit of a sleep chamber all in one and Wazor is here, arming himself. He sees Alzar come up and casts the 8th level Major Globe of Invulnerability and is immune to all 7th and lower level spells. It’s a pretty good opening. Alzar orders his imp and golem to move in and attack physically, and rolls for init.
5 vs 6. Alzar casts Power Word Kill and…no protection, he dies. He has very low HP actually. He was level 24. Most high level magic users are glass cannons.
More advice from the module we are skipping (“Make sure that the characters do not kill or capture Wazor in this encounter!”) Not for any plot based reason, but just to strengthen the final battle.
Anyway, Wazor has perished and Alzar checks and finds:
Ring of Protection +2
Cleric Ring of Spell Storing – Word of Recall
Potion – Blue Dragon Control, Elemental Form, Human Control, Undead Control (Ghoul)
Scroll – Protection from All Elementals; MU Scroll - Close Gate (reverse of Gate Spell)
Staff of Power 16 charges
Wazor’s Spellbook
To be revealed later after decoding.
In the room are a bunch of random items taken from the barony (gold, gems, jewelries, cushions, furniture, art, etc) worth around 100,000 Alzar won’t touch.
He takes about a hour to load up the various lab equipment into his own mobile laboratory he has in his OtherSpace.
The Passwall is gone, so he heads to the roof, where there are two efreeti, but when Wazor was killed, they were freed and they fled back to the Fire Plane.
He grabs the Carpet, puts his golem in the Warp Marble, and then heads out. Wazor’s notes mentioned that there was a gate at the Temple of the Stars to the east, so Alzar heads out, scanning for the Temple.
It’s about 7 miles to the south and east. The temple was built by hermit-clerics and then abandoned when the Baron claimed and began to settle Twolake Vale a little more than two years ago. The three that be felt it was an ideal place to open a gate to another plane from which the deathcloud poured out and which the connection to the deathstone was harnessed. As long as the deathstone existed, the gate could not be closed. But now…
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