Session 20

Members

 * Ceilidh
 * Helbena
 * Robin
 * Ulric

The Adventure
We began today's session in the northern branch of White Plume Mountain. After an unrestful night of sleep in the volcano, the party decided to head to the east passage again. Moving past Etrusca, the sigil, and the golems, they found a strange room.

Just beyond a short ledge, was an enormous natural cavern. Fifty feet below was a vast mud pit. The heat was stifling. The only way across was a series of wooden disks, each suspended from the ceiling by a massive steel chain.

Ulric used his athletics and made the first attempt. When he jumped to the first "stepping stone", he realized that they swung freely and tended to tilt when any weight was placed on them. They were also coated in a wet slippery algae.

Ulric slipped early on, and was hit by a cylinder of boiling hot mud, boiling him in his armor. He made it past the first geyser and fell off again at the second one. Robin took her chances and made it out to him, using the rope he had tied between the disks.

Following up, Ceilidh drank a potion of fly and used guidance on Helbena to get across. Ceilidh healed up Robin and Ulric and the party headed south. Ulric kicked open the door, and they encountered a dry dusty hallway leading to a 25 foot hallway.

Magically opening the far door, the party saw an inky and unnatural blackness. Helbena cast Dancing Lights and illuminated part of the room. Moving in, Ulric found a stone coffin and was attacked from behind. Ctnmiir the vampire dwarf hit with a huge blow and drained a level from the fighter.

Combat began, and it was a harrowing fight. Helbena and Ulric dropped. Ceilidh used the last minute of her fly potion and crawled back and forth on the ceiling to heal her comrades. Robin rained bolts on the vampire, but had a difficult time hitting. Helbena did some major lightning damage.

After destroying the coffin and dispersing the mist that was Ctenmiir, the party took his gear and headed back for a rest. There was a strange resonance between Ulric's armor and the new magic armor he found. He also liked the clearly magical weapon Whelm.

XP
Platform Room: 2,300

Ctenmiir: 3,900

Total: 6200

Individual: 1550

Loot

 * 900 gp
 * 1000 sp
 * Wand of cure light wounds(22 charges)


 * Scroll of Magic Mouth


 * Scroll of Dispel Magic


 * Potion of Shield of Faith (+3 bonus to AC for 10 minutes)


 * 2 Potions of cure serious wounds (2d8+2 HP of curing)


 * A tattered journal that Ctenmiir kept during his life


 * Magical plate armor
 * Whelm