Tomb of Horrors (Almost Done, I think)
Well, if we don't finish next week, we will all likely be dead anyway. That's foreshadowing for all you literary types. Read on, True Believers!
When we last left our band of brave adventurers, they had just entered some sort of workshop. Jars, bottles, vials, workbenches, and dust. Oh yeah, and three vats of crap with skulls on them in the middle.
The party worked the perimeter, scanning with Find Traps and Detect Magic. No dice, so they searched through all the refuse. Nothing. Well, everyone knows that the real money in wizardry is in the vats, so we checked those out.
One had dirty water, one had some sort of green liquid, and one had some sort of grey claylike substance. We cut some lengths of rope, and dipped them in each. The dirty water did nothing. The green liquid did a number on the rope, so we decided it must be acid. And the third one slapped Kool the Monk back!
Some sort of grey ooze type of thing was rising out of the vat. We took positions, and Yngwie used his wand of lightning to fry that thing! Except replace the word 'fry' with the words 'split it into two grey slimey things.'
Anyway, Kool starts whacking it with his magic voulge. Magic missiles are fired. And our dwarf Ned decides to pick the other half up with his Ring of Telekinesis and dunk it in the acid tank. Apparently it is acid proof, so Borg the Fighter had to whack it with his hammer a few times until it stopped twitching.
Lo and behold, there's half a key in the vat! Well, where there's half a key, the other half is bound to be close. So, Ronald James Padavona cast Unseen Servant to go in the acid. The little guy came up with the other half. Yngwie held the two ends together, and they reformed into a nice gold key. Which we will need according to The Poet Lauriat Lich King Acererak's nice little verses.
For good measure, we had Unseen Servant bail all the water out of the other one, finding nothing. We moved on down the hallway.
After a few stairs, we found a pit with spikes. Find Traps revealed something fishy at the back of it. So Kool levitated over, and threw a handful of coins down there. Spikes shot up to the ceiling! Not going to get us with that one E. Gary - I mean Acererak!
Moving down the hall, we found a dead end. An extensive search for secret doors found one, so we opened it. Inside was a tapestried room, with a bunch of chests and moldy furniture. Ronald James went in with Ned the Dwarf. When poor Ronny looked behind a curtain, he saw nothing, so he tore it down.
That's when he was buried in a sea of green slime. It looked like this:
So Yngwie ushered Ned out of the room, shut the door, and cast fireball (taking his damage like a man.) When the flames died, there wasn't enough left of poor Ronald James to loot him for his Boots of Levitation.
Also, then the other curtain turned into brown mold.
Well, the door was incinerated by the blast (but somehow the one on the other end of the room was fine.) All the chests and furniture were gone, but the 24 coffers remained. So the party decided to douse the mold in oil, and then threw in a torch (from the safety of the hallway.) This proved to be a dubious choice, as the mold doubled in size.
Kool decided to sprint into the room and open the door. This proved to be another dubious choice, as most of his body's heat was sucked out of him, (and the door had a blank wall behind it and shot a spear at him. Which hit.)
Kool got out, and Lucas the Cleric decided if fire = good for brown mold, that he would give it an ice storm. That proved to be just the trick. After opening a coffer and finding it to contain poison snakes, we gave up and found the secret door out. So we left.
This brought the party to a crossroad. Stepping forward, Borg the Fighter stumbled into a pit of poisoned spikes. Lets just say a Neutralize Poison and a few healing spells brought him back to his feet. They opened the door on the east wall. They encountered a golden mist. Borg was feeling brave, so he walked through. Failing a poison save, he was reduced to 2 INT. (This was fun to roleplay.)
Borg had a nice conversation with a pretty lady. She was getting nowhere though, because although he was an idiot, Borg is stubborn and his counting skills got worse. So she healed him, but Borg decided to still play it dumb. Then she started singing so he killed her with two blows of his ZWEIHANDER. Hahaha!
The party then took the body of the siren and threw it in the pit with the spikes.
After finding the other two hallways leading to false doors with spears that shoot out of them, we called it a night. We will look for yet another secret door next week.
