Saralas: Session 61

• We're in the basement/forge area of Sunblight's lair
• Entrance to the underdark is to the north
• We think Sunblight is holed up past the doors but there is a narrow passageway surrounded by arrow slits between us and it
• What are our options?
  • Try to push our way through (dangerous?)
  • Try to whittle down the guys inside (slow, dangerous)
  • Try the other elevator, see where that goes
  • Long rest and regroup
• Korag pushes the corpse of the umber hulk towards the door, staying behind the hulk. A few arrows rain out but hit the corpse rather than Korag
• We head back into the forge to try to look for another way around. In the forge area, whatever magic Wodna deployed cut a perfect sphere out of the building
• The lava from the forge is dropping into the hole, pooling at the bottom.
• There are corpses everywhere, clearly a battle was fought here
• The others start exploring, it feels like we are losing focus
• We decide to try the elevator option and head back up to the main floor
• We notice something strange as we return to the room. The suits of armor are standing in their original position.
• We leave them alone and head back into the main hall.
• We return to the west elevator room. the elevator chain is running. Blood is everywhere from Bun's previous work, though he is nowhere to be found
• We take the elevator down to the lower floor. We find ourselves in an empty stone room, with a door to the west.
• Min goes through the door. The room contains brazers of glowing coals in the NW and SW corners. To the east we can hear the noises of the elevator room, and the room is otherwise empty. There is a door to the north. It looks like it may open into the room we were trying to get into.
• Min opens the door and looks through. Korag follows.
• Seated on a dais is a throne that looks to be made entirely of black ice. Seated on the throne is a large, old deurgar covered in soot and wearing a crown. A purple light courses through his veins.
• "Are you Sunblight?" Min asks. He does not reply and merely stares at her. The room is unlit.
• Min sees the piled corpses of the militiamen along the wall. The bodies are badly disfigured, arms and legs broken in many places.
• Min pulls out her javelin. From our perspective, we see Min has opened the door to a dark room and readied her javelin.
• Resda walks into the room and explodes in tides of chaos
• She begins screaming in agony as an extra arm grows out of her left shoulder, forming itself into a fully functioning limb.
• I walk into the room and, seeing Sunblight, attack.
• Min is actually a sabre-tooth tiger and pounces on Sunblight, knocking him prone, then bites him
• He reacts by blasting a spell from his prone position which throws Min and Resda across the room
• Karthos turns into a giant spider
• Korag runs into the room, was he asleep?
• Korag starts trying to hit Karthos the spider
• From the distance we hear what sounds like an explosion, and the muffled voices of deurgar shouting angrily
• After a while we do quite a bit of damage to him. He laughs deeply, closes his eyes, and the room fills with electricity. Karthos is hit so hard he becomes not a spider, before turning back into a spider.
• Saralas finally puts an arrow into Sunblight's eye and he falls over dead.
• Saralas checks sunblight for useful items or information and to make sure he is dead
• I find upon his corpse not much in the way of belongings, he is wearing black ice gauntlets. They look expertly crafted, possibly beyond the craft of the Deurgar. I don't recall him using them in any specific way during the battle.
• As we discuss what we do we see people banging against the door to the north. I grab the gauntlets, being careful to not touch them directly, and stuff them in my pack. We should go, but Resda wants to use the horn to blow up the black ice throne
• Korag and Saralas agree we should leave up the elevator
• We do so, and return to the dining hall, which we find empty. The food on the table has pooled. We can see that she was eating Illythid
• We vote to stay, in spite of Saralas wanting to leave, and we head to one of the bedrooms. Another explosion rocks the building. Bits of ceiling fall down.
• We decide to try to leave. There is a group of militiamen in the entrance corridor, trying to hold ground. They seem frightened of the spider and the tiger
• One of them is Seth. Karthos becomes himself again, as does Min.
• They don't know where the explosions are from, and have not seen Bun.
• We report that Xardarok is dead, but we don't know where the explosions have come from.
• The militiamen ask if it's time to go. They seem happy to be leaving. We make our way back to the camp.
• As soon as we enter the camp, a huge crowd surrounds Resda, and separates her from the party. They lift her up into the air, chanting her name "Resda Resda Resda!" They are screaming in adoration and joy
• "We knew victory was ours when we had the greatest spellcaster in the world"
• I stalk off angrily. "I fired all the arrows, I did all the work"