ROSK-The Tower: 22 Flamerule 1479 DR 4

The Order of the Red Circle consists of:
Donaar, a Dragonborn Paladin of Kelemvor,
Travok, a Dwarvin Cleric of Kelemvor,
Scapin the Sly, a Halfling Rogue &
myself - En'Kethradath, an Eladrin War Wizard.

The Final Countdown Part 2

After a short rest, we head inside from the Battlements.

There are runes inscribed in the floor; a circle in the center glows blue projecting arcane symbols around a purplish black portal, with black and purple arcs of energy circling it. The Spell Plague flares around each of us. Keth takes a moment and looks at the portal, It will take some time to close but it can be closed.”

Donaar walks across the room and the black flames ripple around him in an echoing effect, as he walks it seems like part of him follows behind and then quickly catches up to him.

An insubstantial yet odd looking Dark Kreeper comes around the corner and shoots an arrow at Donaar. It misses widely but he notices that the arrow is some kind of shadow arrow. Travok wades in and goes to kick in the door but notices that the two doors are arcane locked with the same puzzle lock that we have seen previously. Scapin charges the Kreeper that attacked Donaar and bloodies him. Another Kreeper hits Donaar with a dagger and some shadow energy comes out of his leg and it seems to flicker. Keth moves in and sends a chilling cloud at Donaar’s attacker. She also can tell the portal is a portal to the shadowfell, and to turn it off someone would need to actually stand within the circle. Donaar gets hit again and pops into the Shadowfell.

He described it later as a place where everything was dripping in shadow.

The portal is unstable, but Donaar is able to come through from the shadow side. Travok smashes some runes and sigils cracking them with his hammer and there is an echo after the fact that is kind of creepy. Keth comes forward with her staff and swings it around and dissappates some of the sigils and then moves her hand toward the portal and a blast energy comes out from the sigils around Keth and sizzles outward while the portals energies come outward in lightening strikes. Donaar gets stabbed in the arm by the dagger of one of the creatures. Travok simultaneously smashes the head of one of the Dark Kreepers and heals Donaar of his wounds. Because the Dark Kreepers came through the portal and its is unstable it takes them a while to fully adapt to this plane. So when Scapin attacks a Kreeper and kills it, it doesn’t explode like the others have been. So he turns around and smacks the same Kreeper that Travok smacked on his turn. That Kreeper in turn tries to attack Keth and misses so then she was able to disappate the portal even more. When one of the Kreepers strikes at Keth with a shadowbolt she is able to block it disappating the shadow energy with her staff. Travok swings at one Kreeper in a feint and slides to attack at another one Killing it. The Shadow energy keeps reverberating from the death of the Kreepers. Keth swings her staff carving her own sigil in the portal. A Dark Kreeper hits Keth in the back and critically attacks her. Keth continues to close the portal, and purple lightening jumps from the portal and climbs over Donaar’s armor, meanwhile the spinning circle of runes seems to slow. A Kreeper attacks Keth and hits her. Donaar hits another one and shift backward. Keth reached forward and pulls some of the ley lines and smashed her staff downward and there is a crackling and bending of metal as a wave of shadow energy comes out of the portal and a blast of shadow rips backward off of us then snaps back. Meanwhile the Dark Kreepers suffocate as they weren’t fully integrated into this plane.

The top of the tower:

There are 7 Dark Kreepers and a shadar-kai, a Dark Stalker. The Kreepers start out shooting arrows at Donaar. The Dark Stalker mutters some incantations and creates a large blanket of dark fog. Donaar moves forward and attacks Thorin with a bit of angry rhetoric with his Unyielding Faith sanctioning him. Scapin moves in a sly flourishes the Dark Kreeper behind Donaar. Travok moves in and Blesses us, allowing us ease to hit the creatures. Keth color sprays a group of the Dark Kreepers and dazes three of them. And then the Dark Stalker throws a weird shadow dagger at Keth and hits her with it. Donaar shifts and attacks the Dark Kreeper causing it to disapparate into shadow dust. Scapin uses some fancy moves on the ShadarKai and makes him a walking wounded as if he moves more than 15ft he’ll fall prone and Scapin can shift him 5ft every time he hits him. Travok sings a Hymn of Resurgence.

The Dark Stalker comes forward and pulls out a scimitar and bloodies Keth. Thoran teleports and becomes insubstantial and falls prone. Donaar charges the Stalker and then Scapin throws a dagger at it blooding it. Travok puts out a spirit of healing that allows for healing to occur whenever an ally hits an enemy. The Dark Stalker shifts over and strikes at Donaar. Thoran moves closer and stares down Keth with a will based attack which she resists. Donaar meanwhile cleaves the stalker in half disappating him.

Keth feels the arcane whispers in her head and feels the spellplague rip through her body, she is dominated and attacks Travok with Chill Strike.

Keth uses her gauntlets to make her magic missile deal acid damage for the battle. Travok moves in to kill the Dark Kreeper and Scapin and Donaar go after the ShadarKai. Keth meanwhile activates Fire Shield and then runs past the two Dark Kreepers causing them to attack her with Opportunity attacks from which they take fire damage. The ShadarKai moves toward Keth and immobilizes her. She teleports away and sets off a chilling cloud on the Dark Kreepers around her, they back up and attack her. Meanwhile Scapin moves in on the ShadarKai and attacks him but is attacked in return becoming immobilized. Donaar delays to wait for Travok to move in and move the healing spirit in, and then Donaar charges in to Thoran and kills him. Keth uses a chilling cloud on the Dark Kreeper closest to her. Travok moves closer and Donaar moves in to intimidate the remaining ones, and they run away.

A faint green light appears at the top of the stairs. And the cloud and shadow dust dissipates. Thoran had a bunch of pieces in his pouch and Keth believes that its enough for the locks on the doors. Up the stairs there’s Lady Saharel's Ghost. She will answer each of us, one question truthfully.

Keth asks “How can we get rid of the spellplague without it killing us.”

“Tempting dark bound in thine own name
The echo of sorrow and the Nine Keys of Pain
Dominated by shadow’s verse
At the heart of darkness break thy family curse”

“Huh?”
“It’s a prophecy”.
“I know that … its just … crazy that’s all.”

Travok asks ““How can we release you to the Raven Queen, to walk the lands of the dead?”

“Forever bound, cursed unknown rest
My heart trapped unforgiven in a chest
Sorrows clarion ring holds the key
Therein shadow’s echo lies release for me”

Scapin asks “Who is the High Prince of Shade?”

“Thy true enemy, cloaked in a shadow lies
Plots murder and vengeance upon unwitting spies
Annihilation of mortals is hardly a gamble
For a dark engineer the likes of Telamont Tanthul”

Donaar asks “What is to become of those of us who embrace the shadow spellplague?”

“Thy soul encamped in a high lament
Darkness crashing down in Fate’s Torment
A light from the darkness shall spring
Rally hope to many it shall bring.”

At the portal room we assemble the pieces and open the two rooms there. The pieces assemble for each lock in a different way. The chests inside each are empty. We head down further and assemble the pieces there and the door opens dramatically. There are seven chests arranged in a circle and one in the center. Four torches burn in the corners of the room.

“I have a bad feeling that if we open the wrong chest something bad is going to happen.” Keth states.

“Get on it Arcana girl!” Donaar and Travok say simultaneously.

“I will. Don’t rush me.”

A humanoid creature appears next to the center chest. Nice clothes and robes, black and purple in color, edges embroidered with arcane symbols. Keth notices that the torches are all pointed at the chests. Scapin decided to disarm the torches individually. The torch swiveled and flames hit us. Scapin tries again and fails.

When he does finally open the chest there are some lovely 600 gold peices waiting for us. We head down back to the sewers and get the pillar and the art works and cart them back to the monestary.

EXTENDED REST

1055 xp
600 gp,
Alabaster Pillar, Art Works
The remaining Puzzle Peices
a suit of reinforcing layered plate armor +2, cloak of distortion +2, and a centering cincture.