No Small Sacrifice

With Daria wandering off, the party discovers a secret room behind the throne room. One chest was trapped and incinerated when it was bashed open. The other chest had some of the loot Rudy was expecting.

Checking the whereabouts of Daria's last known position, the door opens into a room of bones. Ranging from two to ten feet think, the bones hamper movement all around the room. Nesta examines a fountain, and Kongu just smashes the thing until it sprays water everywhere. A large human headed snake zombie thingy rises from a pile of bones and casts a spell. Z panics and casts silence. So there is no sound while the party pounds the snake monster into mush. Z uses a spell he saves for Kongu, and repairs the fountain back into working order.

Then the party travels down a long hall of howling ape statues. Rudy runs and opens the far door. This time there are five Statues and a big fire pit, with Daria swinging from a chain over the pit. Rudy is furious that the statues would do something like that, so he charges the far status and starts bashing it until it falls into rubble. The big monkey-demon-smelly-ape-brute appears out of nowhere and starts clobbering everyone. The chain holding Daria starts to drop her into the fire pit. With combat raging all around, Nesta pulls a once-in-a-lifetime bow shot planting an arrow deep into the gears of the winch moving the chain. The boss monkey flies into a rage and pounds everyone. A few characters fall unconscious in combat, wounded. At the end of their rope, the party merely outlasts Monkey-kong.

Apparently, the destruction of the main statue attracts the wrong kind of attention. A strange green mist forms around the statue and it reforms and attacks the party. The two-headed monkey statue is a juggernaut, attacking with its vicious tentacles. When the statue finally falls, the aura of evil leaves the shrine and the foggy mists dissipate into the air.

The way now clear, the party continues southward. They find a recently abandoned village, and a dinosaur tries to eat Vin.

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Session Characters: Nesta, Kongu, Rudolpho, Vin, Gwendelyn, Ortho, Z
Session Loot: 2000gp, 3000sp, +1 buckler, wand of aid(50), +1 warhammer spell storing, potion of haste, bone shaped copper wand of lesser silent metamagic, +2 bracers of armor, boots of levitation, +1 cloak of resistance, ring of the ram, +2 ring of protection