## 2022-12-01

  Present

    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Jenn (Raigunn - berserker)
    - Chris (arsalian-death-lord)


  not present

    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)


## 576-12-25

It is decided in silence to go back to the room with
gems, jewels, and coin and carry as much as they can.

## 576-12-26

Walk back to Khromarium.

Along the way 16 shortbowmen and about a dozen dogs. They
are confused by the silence problem. They aggressively motion
for the party to move along.

At the gates of Khromarium they are stopped and the guards try
to suss out what is going on.

The group says they are going to go to a temple of Aurorus to figure
out what has happened to them. The guards discuss it for a bit and then
decide to let them enter.

Folks give the party weird looks as they come into their zone of silence,
which happens to end about 15 feet from them.

It is in the evening before they get to the temple. An attendant greets
them and is confused about the silence. Verg pulls out pen and paper and
asks for help with what they think is a curse.

The priest goes to fetch someone. It is Xanthe, the priestess they have dealt
with before. She looks tired.

Written words are exchanged. She steps outside the zone, talks with the attendant.
They run off and come back with a scroll. She reads and then looks at the party.
She closes her eyes as she turns her head and throws an arm across her face.

She faces away from the party. The attendant explains that when she tried to determine what is happening the magic aura coming off of everyone was blinding. Stronger than anything she's ever seen.

After some time she turns around and exchanges more words with Verg.

"I can't help you with this and I'm not sure who can."

More written discussion occurs, particularly the details of what happened: go into room, it's quiet in the room, take out some of the loot found in the room,
leave the room, and the silence follows them, return the loot, silence still there, decide to go back and take as much as they can safely carry. She also asks if the place seemed sacred or evil or something. They think it might have been.

Xanthe ponders this.

"I think this is a god level curse or something"

"From the details I think you need to give back all the loot taken and also perform
a penance."

She emphasizes "give it all back."

The party goes back to the Eel.

The group ponders what to do. An idea is to test the limits of the curse.

Verg would like to throw a low value gem to an urchin. Before he does this he remembers Xanthe, "all the loot must be given back."

This causes another round of discussion. What kind of penance needs to be done?

Verica suggests that maybe the loot was an offering and the penance must be loot as well?

Further discussion results in the idea to go to a library or sage to try to figure out the diety that has been offended.

## 2022-12-15

  Present

    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Chris (arsalian-death-lord)


  not present

    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Jenn (Raigunn - berserker)


## 576-13-08

Approximate total party loot : 11,000 gp available for penance to Hish

Also, the zone of silence has increased from about 15' radius to
20' radius.

Decide to go to the temple and do penance.

## 576-13-09

The day goes by

## 576-13-10

11 wolves attack, 9 are killed, 2 run away

Get back to the temple of Hish.

Take a long time to figure out the minimum penance to be done.

The total penance for each person is 1,100 gp.

122 gp left for each party member.

Torcan writes "Free treasure in here" in the hall outside the
temple.

Arsalian adds "You won't hear the end of it"

Now everyone can hear Verica's goat boy ranting.

They decide to go to where they felt vibrations.

The sounds of drumming is obvious.

As they open the door a wave of sound washes over them. It would be loud even if
they haven't heard a sound in almost 2 weeks.

The room is at least 50 feet square and not quite that high.

In the center of the room are pair of raised platforms. The first is about 5' above floor level
with stairs up to it.  The second is 10 feet above the first with a ladder up to it.

The top platform has a person drumming very loudly and passionately.

At each of the 4 corners of the lower platform is a drummer. They are drumming as well but not
nearly as energetically.

A dude waves at them, "Welcome" he says. Everyone decides to go in and talk with him.

Only Arsalian, Raigunn, and Torcan don't feel slow when they enter the room.

He explains this is a temple of Skarl and they are his disciples. Skarl drums so that He Who Must Not Be Named
will continue his slumber.

He Who Must Not Be Named (HWMNBN) created everything and the gods. When we was done he went to sleep. Skarl
knew that if HWMNBN ever woke up he would destroy everything, including the gods. So he started drumming.

"We drum to honor Skarl and to hopefully keep HWMNBN in his slumber as well if Skarl even pauses."

The party asks about the quiet place.

"Oh, Hish. They like their silence. I will warn you though, be respectful and do not take any of the offerings
given to Hish."

He is asked about any other temples.

"There is Hish and Shish that I know of. Kib the Sender of Life has one I believe. As does Mung the Bringer of Death.
Mung is necessary but too bad he is jealous of Kib. There might be others. We mostly stay here and honor Skarl.
Would you by chance want to have a good book of Skarl?"

Verica says yes and he hands her "The Gods of Pegana".

The party is feeling tired and asks if there is a safe place to sleep.

He thinks for a bit, "Yes, I think there might be."

He leads them back to the first room they entered on this level. He goes up to the west
wall and opens a secret door. Behind it is a hallway to another door and they go in.

There is a shrine/altar along the west wall.

The altar has a fresco of a human looking person with a glow
about them sleeping on a bed of large pillows. On the other side
is another glowing human looking person. They appearing to be drumming.

The north wall is a mural of the sky. It is a bright blue sky and puffy clouds.

Along the south wall is a large bed covered in large pillows. It looks similar to the
one in the fresco.

He says, "be careful about sleeping on the bed. It is extremely comfortable and restful."

He bids them a safe and restful night and leaves.

The party checks the place for traps and Emmett checks out the bed.

## 2023-01-05

  Present

    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Jenn (Raigunn - berserker)


  not present

    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Chris (arsalian-death-lord)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)


## 576-13-11

Wake up and go about the day.

Find some skeletons and Ars is able to control them.
They each have a gem in their rib cage. These are of
course taken.

The next cave has 5 wights.

Raigunn and Kalli are able to chew through them without
losing any CN.

The wights had 1,000gp and 6 gems amongst
the corpses, debris, and "meat" in their cavern.

The next room has a richly clad skeleton fighter looking thing.

He says, "you can go no further"

Arsalion sends 3 of his skeleton friends to their end as the
result of the skeleton warrior's two-handed sword.

Raigunn runs in fright at the sight of it.

After a long bout along with some healing support Kalli is able to defeat
it. She however suffered greatly from its mighty sword.

The party searches for Raigunn and then decides to hole up
in a room to rest and heal up.

## 2023-01-19

  Present

    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Chris (arsalian-death-lord)
    - Jenn (Raigunn - berserker)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)


  not present

    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)


## 576-13-12

Continuing on from the cavern that attacked the party

They aren't surprised by the ghasts in the next cavern.

The ghasts knock down the skeletons.

Ars casts lightning and it kills a ghast, a skelton,
knocks Verg unconscious, gets to Aldi, Asulfr and Verica.

It peters out before it gets to Kali.

The duo of Aldi and Ars take out last ghast.

One of the ghasts is holding a nice, melted sword.

Arsalian checks out his handiwork

Torcan checks out the loot pile and finds

2,500gp
7 gems
4 pieces of jewelry

They continue on to the next cavern to fight some ghouls.

Raigunn and Arsalian get paralyzed and carried off to the
side and get a bite or two taken out of them.

In the debris and carrion 5 pieces of jewelry and 2 scrolls
are found.

It is decided to stay in the cavern and rest up for the
remains of the day

Explore some more. Find some giant black centipedes but they
mill about in their debris.

However, several small lizards with wings that breathe fire
cause mayhem on the party.

Verg gets flamed unconscious. Aldi is severely burned.

Alsufr however is unaffected because of his ring.

Raigunn eventually gets enraged and smashes the last 2 until
bloody, flaming pulp but doesn't take out any rage on the nearby
Asulfr.

The party holes up in the mini-dragon cavern and rest up.

## 2023-01-26

  Present

    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Jenn (Raigunn - berserker)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)


  not present

    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Chris (arsalian-death-lord)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)


## 576-13-12

During the first watch a loud noise is heard. Then what sounds like a
door slamming. Then footsteps.

There is some grunting heard. Then Verg and Aldi is an ugly orc looking
into there cavern. It grunts at them.

Verg grunts back. The orc has a look at it's face. Grunts something

Verg tries his best to convey "everything is ok you can go" politely in
grunt.

The orc gives another look...grunts then leaves.

The rest of the night passes without incident

## 576-13-13

The go to the cavern with the door, presumably where the orc(s) came out
of.

It is stuck but it gets opened. A bendy hallway leads to another door with what
looks like a small slot in it at eye level. While checking it the slot opens. An
eye looks at the party, a grunt is heard, and the slot is closed.

A few beats later the slot opens again "What do you want?"

Verg was at the door and answers. "The usual"

"Safe passage is 5sp each"

Verg says that seems a bit expensive.

"Ok, 6sp each"

The party thinks for a bit and decides to pay. It is noted that if they don't
like what happens they can always get back off of the corpses.

They are let in. One of the orcs points at another orc and tells Verg, "Follow him"

The party is lead along hallways, through 2 rooms, and eventually end up in a third room.
There are stairs going down.

The orc mentions payment on the way back as well.

The stairs lead to a room with broken wooden strewn about the room.

The take the door that is in the "south" wall of the room. It is decided to take
the left when presented with a choice.

Hallways are followed and then a series of 4 rooms are found. In each are ape like men.
They are asked where the loot is, "Not here, elsewhere".

This plays out roughly the same at the 3 other rooms. Sometimes Emmett is a bit loud when
checking the door for traps and the ape-like men open it.

Sometimes the party just opens the door and says "Housekeeping", close the door, open
it, and say "Just kidding".

A winding set of hallways ends in a door. The knock and a gruff voice says "What?"

Some parley through the closed door is had but the door isn't breached. Retracing their
steps they check a door. Raigunn opens it. Inside are 2 tall things that have barbs all
over their scaly skin, body, and tails.

"Excellent. Some new toys", one says.

Raigunn fights the one and Verg tries casting spells. The spells don't seem effective,
ice darts nor slow. Raigunn is able to push the creature back and close the door.

Nothing happens.

After a short while it is decided that Raigunn will open the door and use the horn of
valhalla.

This is done and 10 wild berserkers appear.

5 of the berserkers appear to freeze up as the barbed creatures attack, killing several
berserkers out right. The one is able to engage Raigunn in melee.

The second creature continues the slaughter but in its exuberance it happens to tail whip
itself quite grievously.

Raigunn continues the fight but is getting weakened.

The creature is able to be pushed back and the door closed. Behind it can be heard the loud
slaughter of creatures.

Another door is tried and it has stairs leading down.

These are taken.

They lead to a semi-circular room with a wide hallway going "south".

It ends in a pair of double doors. They are deepest black. They have the appearance of knapped flint
or obsidian. There are sturdy, black iron handles set in them.

Verica checks for traps but finds none.

Kallisto opens the door. The are smooth, silent, and easy to open.

Behind the doors is a pedestal. It looks like there might be gems set in the top of it but one would
have to go in the room to confirm that.

There are 5 circles in the room in an X pattern. The 4 circles in the corners have a triangle inside each
of them. The circle in the center a pentagram.

Inside the circles are demonic looking creatures. "Welcome" they say.

During the conversation Verica asks if any of them have heard of Zilzoon.

The two in the back seem to recall him.

"Whiny b**** if I recall correctly"

The party asks about loot and one of the chatty ones in the back says he can show them fantastic wealth.

It says look in the pedestal, there are gems of fantastic wealth there.

Torcan and Verican go in the room to investigate. In inset on the top of the pedestal are 5 gems. Each at least
the size of their fist. They are arrayed in a similar congruence to the circles and even have similar diagrams
they are in the center of.

Torcan asks if the fantastic wealth is dangerous.

"Well it could be. You can trust the wrong person and they take it all. You can use it to
buy...what's that stuff called?....Sugar. You can buy lots of sugar. Nasty stuff that"

"Or, you can become bored with such wealth."

Torcan asks what's behind the other doors in the room. The doors are in the center of the 4 walls of the room.
Each of the other 3 is of the same construction as the one the entered from the "north".

The party exits out the "eastern" door. Nearby they find a small library. The "western" wall is a bookcase
filled with books. A quick skim from Verg and he determines they are related to demonology.

The party decides to spend the rest of the day here. Reading, healing, and otherwise recharging.

## 2023-02-09

  Present

    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Jenn (Raigunn - berserker)

  not present

    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Chris (arsalian-death-lord)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)

## 576-13-14

After getting bored with the undead that isn't entering
the hallway the group decides to explore further.

The go back into the large room with the pillars and column
in the ceiling and take the stairs up.

This leads to a room a couple of couches, tables, and chairs.

A door in the northwest corner of the north wall is checked by
Verica. Then Raigunn opens in.

This opens into a room. Sitting in a very comfortable and luxurios
chair is human looking person. They have dark blue skin, bright red
hair, and shocking yellow eyes.

"I don't remember you", he says in a deep, calm voice.

"Oh we're just housekeeping", replies Raigunn.

"No, no you are not."

Verica asks, "Have you heard of a guy named Zilzoon?"

"I have not"

Conversation leads to him explaining that the other door in the room he
controls. You come through that door and he charges folks to use the door
they party came in. "To get to the level below"

After a little discussion the group decides to go back the way they came.

The wide hallway heading west is taken, then "south" down the hallway that
lead to the undead and then to a hallway that heads east.

A four way intersections is found. To the north it leads to the hallway that
heads east out of the room with demons and circles/diagrams.

The next four way intersection is 10 feet wide north and south and still 5 feet
wide east west. The wide hallway going north leads back to the demon room. South
goes to undeads. About this time Torcan shows up.

Torcan explans he appeared outside the drummers area. He went back up and around and
paid the orcs again their toll, and made his way back to the group.

The hallway goes west for sometime and then T's north and south. The hallway is 10 feet
wide. South does to more undead, and north continues on.

Heading north the get to another four way intersection. All of the hallways are 10 feet
wide. There might be rooms to the north and west and the hall extends east.

Raigunn goes into the room in the west. As he steps in he feels a deep calm descend on
them and a clear mind.

The walls, ceiling, and floor look to have writing on it. Raigunn can only read one of
the inscriptions, "Don't pray to the Sleeper"

Some other folks poke their head in and find that phrase in the other languages they know.

Aldi makes his presence know as the party is about to investigate the room to the north.

There is a mural that covers the walls. Starting on the left hand side as you enter
the room they see a figure they recognized as He Who Must Not Be Prayed To,
MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI.


There is a dais at the far end of the room.

There are 2 statues on the dais. Each 12' tall.
One a perfect human specimen
the other a monstrous creature with wings, 3 eyes,
and 5 fingers and 3 thumbs on each of its hands on 2 arms.

The mural starts on the left hand side with the creation of everything and the gods.
Then MANA sleeping then Skarl drumming, and then a series of dreams.

The dreams continue and change as the mural goes behind the winged statue.
MANA is seen waking, the world being destroyed, the gods being destroyed,
MANA walking away and then oblivion on the wall to the right as one walks into the room.

There are a few instances of the mural on the right that the monstrous, winged
creature is scene destroying things.

When Torcan is still a "safe" distance from the statues he notices a glint of gems in their
eyes and gold rings on each finger.

He is tempted but refrains from theft.

Last edited by gizmomathboy (2/16/2023 10:30 pm)