Date: 11th Patchwall, 609 CY Attendance: Wulrakas, Jareth, Cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap: The party returns to the Citadel. They plow through the next few hallways with relative ease, dispatching some wraiths in the process. Things become more difficult, however, after Cat notices a hidden door in one of the hallways. Opening it reveals a room full of chains hanging from the ceiling. Hooked to these chains are a bunch of corpses in various stages of decay. There's also a mechanical machine shaped like a coffin. When they enter the room they're attacked by a bone demon, his henchman, and two wraiths. Wulrakas is knocked unconscious within a few rounds. Jareth and Cat fend off the bone demon and the wraiths, with Cat using his animate objects to defend Wulrakas' prone body. Both Cat and Jareth are nearly killed. Still, they survive by the skin of their teeth. The henchman flees, destroying the coffin before doing so. Cat revives Wulrakas and the group tries to leave the Citadel, after discovering that the jewel to their demiplane no longer works. They are chased by a mysterious armored man, who seems to appear at every corner they turn to. Eventually they find refuge in a room with skulls lining the walls, where they take a short rest. They return to the secret room and go through the exit there; the next hallway has three ghasts, which are destroyed with ease. In the following hallways they find strange, glowing orbs, but are unsure of what to use them for. They try to set them into some statues in the next room, but this doesn't work. Jareth narrowly dodges a trap near the statues. Another battle occurs in the next room. A winged woman on a raised dais made of bone demands that they submit to her master. Another somewhat difficult battle commences. Wulrakas flies up to the dais to attack; Jareth scales the pillar and leaps up on to the dais dexterously; Cat slings spells from afar, using her depleted list of spells. Eventually Jareth lasso's the woman mid-air after she hovers off the dais, and she's forced to the ground. They put a beating on her until she's dead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience: Wulrakas - 25,000 XP (285,750 XP total) LEVEL UP 18 Virgil - 0 XP (162,850 XP total) Cat - 25,000 XP (236,500 XP total) LEVEL UP 17 Jareth - 25,000 XP (236,500 XP total) LEVEL UP 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loot: Longbow inscribed with runes Black, tarnished plate armor Rope of Entanglement (glows blue)
