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Azzil reports a back entrance to the south that hits the apartments, and Alzar summons shadows, and gets 9 shadows, and sends them down to the lower level to relieve the attack on the prisoners, and the Stalker and his gingwatsim/fremlin ally down there. The shadows can slip past everyone else. Then he grabs his stones and conjures two more Earth Elementals and has them guard the south flank, just in case, and leaves these here and does a quick inspection.
There were two royal chambers. One has been turned into the wizard’s major wizard area, with a lab, library, workroom, and summoning chamber. The other is where the bed, bath, and such are. Alzar uses the Star of Mo-Pilar on them and checks to see if there are any traps, or anything else.
As Alzar begins to inspect, checking the corpses and such, the area begins to fade. In a moment, a statute that looks suspiciously like Morena is in front of Alzar, and the mouth opens. Alzar is in a dark chamber, with no light. The statue tells him that the Abomination of Karazan, a rival immortal who hates dwarves, has taken the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords back to its sub-plane. Without the amulet that summons it, it can’t come back to Pandius. The Axe will be lost unless Alzar can go to the sub-plane, and then destroy the Abomination on its own plane, which kills it permanently, and then returns with the Axe.
Alzar inquires further and Morena tells him that it would be inappropriate for an immortal to go and arrive at the sub-plane of another Immortal and destroy one of their creatures directly. She helped the dwarves create the Axe, an it’s an artifact of the Sphere of matter. So she needs someone to go and get it, and defeat the powerful Abomination.
The problem of course is that Alzar can’t go to that plane. So Morena, an Immortal of Matter and a patron of the dwarfs, offers to free Alzar of his burden, and Alzar must pledge to return the Axe, and then agree to do one other task for her dwarves at a later point in time. Alzar accepts but points out that they demon princes can just come to Pandius and reestablish the block later. Morena’s statue agrees to ensure that he can’t be so ensorcelled again.
And suddenly, the demon prince’s magic on him is gone, and he is no longer tethered to Pandius, or any other plane.
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