Completely Floored

A'Chiad 8-9, 6638; next holiday: Dragonning, Treas 35 (the spring equinox)

The Party:

• Rig Bigny, Gnomish Beastmaster
  • Flit, the bat familiar
  • Clench, the Wardog War-Badger
  • Midnight, the Panther
  • Faufe Yitaw, Dogwere (Badgerwere?)
    • Rawf, Wardog familiar
    • Aroof, Wardog familiar
  • Llarm Paphyra, Elvish Polydoctorate
    • The Metal Man, construct
• Caranthir, Human Leader of Men
  • Rhea Trueheart, Elvish Nightblade
  • Lucille "Luce" Burwood, Fighter
  • Elenora Garrard, White Mage
• Gróin of Norston, Dwarven Sapper
  • Laurita Gomez, Priestess
  • Sal Rrentath, Thrassian Gladiator
• Quetgar, Thrassian Assassin
  • Zarc, Thrassian Gladiator
• Gottes Segen, Cleric
  • Betül Tirmizi, Ectomancer

After a quick rest upstairs, the party once again returned to the tower, planning on delving into its depths. Rig and co stayed behind.

The adventurers continued sweeping the 8th floor. The discovered (and avoided) many traps, though found few creatures. The first creature the party ran into was actually summoned into a trap - a mummy! The creature, surrounded, didn't last long.

Another room revealed a second skeletal dragon, slightly larger than the first, but no less easy to destroy. The party picked up the magical loot and continued searching.

The party began to find more undead creatures; first, a room full of troglodytes. Zombie troglodytes! Between Caranthir and Luce's blades, and Quetgar's claws and teeth, the undead creatures were quickly destroyed. Next were 8 ghouls, returned to death before they had a chance to attack. Another room revealed 11 more undead troglodytes, quickly dispatched. Finally, the party happened upon a room with four skeletal statues. But not statues for long! The immense creatures were enormous skeletal trolls! Two of the creatures actually managed to pierce Caranthir's strong armor, and crushed Sal Rrentath to a bloody lump, laming his leg! Finally, the creatures were destroyed.

Gathering treasure and returning the undead to death, the party finished off 5 shadows and 14 more ghouls, before finally uncovering the last room. Treasure in hand, they returned to the surface.

Sal Rrentath's lame leg was healed, but unfortunately, the experience left him drained; he requires a full 5 weeks to recover. Even so, he remained in the service of Gróin.

• Experience from Encounters
  • 1 young red dragon skeleton (1600)
  • 21 zombie troglodytes (420)
  • 22 ghouls (638)
  • 1 Mummy (460)
  • 4 skeletal trolls (5200)
  • 5 shadows (295)
• Experience from Treasure
  • 1,000 Electrum
  • 1,000 Gold
  • 2 amethyst cylinder seals depicting religious scenes (2,400gp)
  • 1 Facet cut imperial topaz (4,000 gp)
  • 1 ivory jewelry (700 gp)
  • 1 silver studded with turquoise jewelry (1,000 gp)
• Total XP from Experience: 8613
• Total XP from Treasure: 9600
• Total XP: 18213
• XP per PC: 3643
• XP per Henchman: 1821
• Gold per PC: 3200 gp

Additionally, they found many scrolls, potions, and some magical items:

• 2 unknown potions
• Potion of Diminution
• Potion of Healing
• Potion of Polymorph
• 1 Cursed Scroll
• Scroll of Arcane Spells (Written in Classical Auran): Water Breathing (3rd lvl), Fly (3rd lvl), Magic Missile (1st lvl), Haste* (3rd lvl), Dimension Door (4th lvl)
• Scroll of Arcane Spells (Written in Draconic): Sleep (1st lvl), Invisibility (2nd lvl), Mirror Image (2nd lvl)
• Scroll of Divine Spells (Written in Draconic): Tongues (4th lvl), Speak with Animals (2nd lvl), Snake Charm (2nd lvl), Insect Plague (5th lvl)
• 2 Scrolls of Ward against Elementals
• Treasure Map (to 82,31)
• Sword +1
• Ring Mail Armor +1