Characters: Terus, Balin, Samael, Julian, Anthony, Grim, Davvin, Cael.
NPCs: Grimir the Priest of Gorm Gulthyn.
13 Alturiak 1374 - 14 Alturiak 1374
2700 XP
The adventurers recovered from the amazing battle with the Anaxim. Julian began to search for yet another way out. During his search Julian discovered that the magical torches in the room were actually levers. Samael, and Terus helped Julian listen to the complicated series of mechanical noises that were created each time a lever combination was pulled and after several hours they had activated the final device. The entire room began to shift downward through a stone shaft and then leveled out into a moving platform along a mechanical tunnel. At the very end the platform joined with an amazing island of treasure surrounded by a moat burning clear acidic liquid. On the platform was the Uderhardt Clan's secret treasures, and in the center, a Huge casting mold structure adorned with magical runes, fit to create whole golems. Once again elated, the already treasure encrusted Julian leaped into the pile once again.The rest of the party began to search through the pile and found two other anvils, a Medium sized Uderhardt anvil most likely for tool making, and a Tiny one made from magical platinum that was once used for ring-making; it was adorned with the symbol of the destroyed Dakul Clan. The party's spellcasters soon began to plan how to return these 3 anvils safely to the Gorm monastery. Grim attempted to shrink the largest anvil and its magical energy resisted. Meanwhile, Julian Terus, Balin and Samael were busy clearing an open floor space for Balin to turn into a Gold Dragon so that he could carry and teleport with the anvil. As they did their Geas activated and they began to internally bleed in terrible pain. With the treasure cleared Balin turned into a Great Golden Dragon and lifted the anvil with strain. Grim teleported the to spellcasters directly to the monastery of Gorm. The dawn sun illuminated the monastery and the two were again quickly surrounded by an increasingly prepared and yet amazed number of Gorm followers.
They returned three more ancient anvils of Gildabarr to Grimir who insisted that Grim and Balin stay with them and celebrate again. The next morning Grim and Balin Teleported back to the Uderhardt clanhold and re-joined their adventuring friends. The party then Teleported back to the location of the Theoric Clan guildhall. Amongst the many ruined structures in the great mining cavern they found many circular foundations of ruined Theoric buildings. Davvin's Find the Path spell allowed Julian to again lead the party through the ruins to the largest of circular foundations. At one time this building could have stretched to the very top of the cavern ceiling twenty stories high. They entered the first story rubble and down a collapsed staircase to find yet more rubble at the building's base. The party cleared away much of the collapsed stone and found an archway of dwarven runes which to Julian's Arcane Sight revealed strong Conjuration magic. Without thinking much further Julian began to carefully disable the magical runes, when he realized that these were runes of teleportation however, it was too late. Now cut off from the Theoric Clanhold Grim decided to cast a powerful Wish to undue and repair the magical damage Julian had wrought to the runes. The archway was fixed in a glow of magical power and the party ventured through.
They found themselves in a circular sandy room which had the bones of a number of dead orcs. Balin discovered that they had killed and eaten one another in a desperate act of cannibalism. Eventually Julian found a large metal brush and carefully drew the complex Theoric Clan symbol in the sand. The sand began to glow white with a teleportation circle and the party had entered the first room of the Theoric Clanhold. They found themselves in a dark small room made entirely of black stone.; purple runes adorned the walls with necromantic magical energy. In the center the party found a stone platform with 4 black skulls, in each of the room's 4 corners there were 4 matching alters. Grim reeled in disgust of this school's forwardness for he knew that each skull must be placed on each alter, however there was a great price to pay. Julian, Cael, Davvin, and Samael each placed a skull on a platform and were sapped with many negative levels. Just like that the party was teleported again into a similarly small room with a very tall ceiling.
The room glowed with runes of transmutation magic that were arranged in a checker board patter along the floor. The party found that their transmutation magical items and spells no longer functioned in this room. Once by one they crossed through the magical runes and as they did many magical transmutation effects were triggered. Davvin was flung upwards against the ceiling in a Reverse Gravity effect, Samael was Polymorphed into a frog and then a snake. Anthony was effected by a Temporal Stasis spell, and finally Julian was turned to stone. The rest of the party rescued their transmuted friends and teleported into the next room of the Theoric clanhold.
