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The next room to the left has another zombie taurian and Alzar adds it to his collection. 9 hp for this one. A large pool covers the floor except for a one foot ledge on one side. Alzar investigates, finds nothing, and sends animal skeletons along the ledge. Nothing happens. The zombie taurians are not able ot make it across, so he orders the wounded one into the water to swim across but a giant octopus lance out and kills it. The other two are left here. They pass a trap where a dart deals 2 damage to Alzar, and the find a small shrine in a dead end room with a statue of a winged man. It’s actually terra cotta under investigation. He tips it and inside the hollow statue is a scroll, and it’s a simple Protection from Lycanthropes. They arrive in a passage with a large chest on the wall. Alzar investigates by rapping it with his staff, nothing, so he moves in and touches it, and takes 5 damage from electrification. The chest is empty. They arrive at another golem room:
Inside a great blue dome
Lives a shy young maiden
She blushes in the morning and in the evening
And is not seen at all at night
Who is she?
This one is much harder. The sun? That’s the only thing I can think of, so we go with that. Correct. They take a corridor that ends in a one way room with a ladder going up, and Alzar takes it and flips a trap door. He appears to be in a small tower and suddenly hears the song of a harpy. He is immune and moves up. He wins init against her and deals 17 damage to her. She dies. He follows by searching, finds nothing and returns.
XP - 250
They pass by a room with a bronze statue, took 4 damage from a room dripping acid, pass an empty room, and then find a room with rotted tapestries and an old wooden chest. It opens, music starts playing, Alzar grabs the music box and it explodes and deals 8 damage to Alzar and destroys the cloth items in the chest. There are 100 50 gp gems in it. They find a dead end passage and then another golem room with the following puzzle:
A home of wood in a wooded place
Built not by hand
High above the earthen ground
It holds its pale blue gems
What is it?
No obvious clue. Hmmm. Alzar can’t figure it out – it’s a nest. He orders the undead back and fights the golem himself. It wins init and misses him. He hits it for 12 damage. It wins init and hits for 7. Alzar gets two swings and just one hits for 19 damage. He wins init and hits for 17 and breaks the golem.
XP – 750
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