Reptilian Delights
The fight with the two-headed giant (an ettin, according to the widely travelled elven ranger, Quorbin) was vicious and brutal. The creature fought with a fearsome strength, and the heroes, particularly the battle-leader, Kurgan, received terrible blows from it. In the end, however, experience and teamwork prevailed, and the ettin was laid low.
Rummaging through the monster’s possessions, Kurgan discovered a strange glass orb, within which floated the disembodied head of a striking eladrin woman. As Kurgan examined this oddity, the woman’s eyes opened and the head spoke! It introduced itself as Vyrelis, an eladrin princess, whose head, and life essence, were trapped in the orb by the foul sorcery of a wizard she named Karavakos, “the master of this place,” as she claimed. Vyrelis offered to help the heroes, providing advice and information, in exchange for undertaking several “minor tasks” for her. “Without my help, you will not be able to free yourself from this prison, this pyramid to which you have been drawn,” the head declared.
Lacking information, and options, the party reluctantly agreed to the offer. With Vyrelis in hand, they set off down one of the passages from the chamber.
The group follow stairs leading down to water. The stairwell opens into an irregularly shaped flooded room. At certain places, there is a churning of the water. The water is thigh deep. The interior is lit with a dim magical light, as with the rest of the places within the pyramid the party has been to, its source unseen but its effect predominant.
Wading within the room, two upright reptilian hulks wait ready to engage on contact. Quorbin looses with a well aimed arrow followed by another quick shot and connects with both drawing first blood. However, another reptilian biped, obviously a caster of some sort brings forth a cloud of poison gas from deep across the room shrouding the elf and Garrosh, the dragonborn cleric. They are dazed and poisoned. Smaller reptilian skirmishers pop up and make a fighting line just beyond the churning vortex, Quorbin nimbly shoots at the caster who responds with another cloud of poison engulfing everyone.
As Yshven moves, he is sucked into the churning water but holds his footing, continuing his movement to avoid the fighting line and close with the distant reptilian caster. Garrosh is likewise pulled in and with a splash disappears from view. He is spewed out deeper into the room but obscured from view of his friends. He emerges dazed and slowed behind another duo of hulks. One of them senses him and charges trying to slam him with meaty arms, Garrosh ducks, evading the initial onslaught.
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