Khala, Khala, Khala, Khala, Khala the Demon... He comes and goes...

After looting the tar pit room, the party followed Daria into a room filled with the skulls of people who were apparently decapitated. Searching reveals no other notables in the room. Daria peeks through the next passageway, and spies a very large room with a statue. This draws Rudy out and, eventually, the denizens of the room as well.

Six large demonic lizards crawl out of the pool of icky water, and some creature vaguely resembling the Demogorgon. The party gains an early advantage, but then seems to struggle through the stretch. Khala, mighty aspect of the Demogorgon, is resistant to most spells and damage. Finally closing with the party, Khala wears down the party even as his pet lizards fall.

Moving about, Khala strikes at the party as the party charges close to the demonic beast. Finally, after being greatly wounded, Khala changes places with one of his servants via teleport. The servant demon battles the party to his last breath.

With a brief reprieve, the party explores the surrounding rooms to the ceremonial chamber, while they recover their wounds. Most of the surrounding rooms were storage rooms for ceremonial offerings. Now they only contain dust and broken pottery. The corner room contains a nice bed and a writing desk, although the moisture in the air and the stink in the stone have left there mark. In the room, the personal effects of Noltus Innersol are stored in a trunk. It appears that a demonic beast, Onalati, took Noltus' persona to decieve the villagers to be sacrifices for Khala's creations: Shadow Pearls. The possesions of Nualla and her two companions are also here.

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Session Characters: Nesta, Gwendelyn, Vin, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nualla
Session Loot: celestial armor, rod of splendor, periapt of wisdom +4, a strand of prayer beads (healing and karma), 2 bracers of armor +2, 2 tridents +2, a ring of protection +1, cloak of resistence +1.

Get me to the temple on time...

The party returns to the lower temple and immediately resumes searching for the key to the mosaic door. The party discovers the room of darkness, and Daria retrieves the key. Making a bee line to mosaic door, the party opens it and goes down a long winding natural passageway that eventually emerges into the room with black pits and kopru.

The party powers up and enters the chamber with the pits of black goo and the kopru guardians. During the battle, more kopru reinforcements arrive, totalling their numbers to eight. As the kopru fall, Daria gets an early start on the looting.

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Session Characters: Nesta, Gwendelyn, Vin, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria, Ortho, Nualla
Session Loot: 8 large studded leather armor +3, 6 potions of fly, 8 coral statues of the demogorgon (50 gp each), large sunblade.
Session Daria Loot: potion of fly, ring of telekinesis, 2 emeralds (1000 gp each)

Loot dispensation

To: House Vanderborn/Farshore Adventuring Party

I hope this letter finds you well, and enjoying your rest time here in Sasserine. Rudolpho, Ortho and I have finally gotten all the party's 'captured' goods and magic items transported here to town. Mystic Z and Gwen have identified and cataloged all the items and with the help of all the partys various contacts, we have sold all the many pieces. The party has quite a payout due to each of the active 7 members.

Each active party member will receive the sum of 20,000 gp as their share of the sales. This also leaves the tidy sum of 36,807.5 gp in the party fund as a reserve for the eventual need of another True Ressurection. Likely, if our past holds any hint of the future.

Now that the Anvil has been returned to the care of the Clerics of the Traveling God, all our members are free of the unnatural 'need' to pursue that above all else. We can expect to be here in Sasserine for a few weeks and can use that time to rest, prepare for the next encounter, and refocus ourselves on our mission of supporing House Vanderborn in it's plan to defend the Farshore Colony. This also is the perfect opportunity to upgrade our equipment, expand our training and improve our abilities. Please do take advantage of the time we have here.
Attached to this letter, find a copy of the sale inventory. Look over it carefully, and verify your paperwork is in order. Remember also, that each of you are due a payout from the temple Clerics of 14,000 gp upon the delivery and destruction of the foul 'demontainted' weapons. If you have not retrieved your payout from the Clerics, visit the Temple and they will settle your account.

Use these funds wisely. It appears that in the pursuit of Holy Justice, such as we have been engaged, our tasks will become much more difficult and demanding. But nothing that is Good and worthwhile ever is easy.

Your most humble servant

Vin IceMark House Vanderborn
Paladin In Fharlanghn's Service

XP Standings

Rudolpho, Vin, Daria, Nesta, Ortho, Gwendelyn, Hjalmgerdr are all now 14th level. Update your character sheets. Any copy e-mailed to me is worth 500xp, if done by April 12th.