The World of Telvar

[Session 38, 2/7/2004]

August 3, 2190
We find two huge statues facing each other across some ruined roadway. They are 8 feet tall, hooded grim reapers. They are damaged and vine covered. They have only 3 fingers on each hand. They might be double sized Ancients. They are holding swords in resting positions. Raybur spots something magical behind one of them. It is a piece of one the statues. It looks like a piece of the shoulder of one of them. It is low magic and the statues are high magic. It is a pale stone, which is unlike most of the orkish constructions.
Miraculously, Faffner spots that there was circular building near here as if one of the Ancients’ Tooth Buildings was razed. The remnants are 10 to 20 feet high. It looks like it is just the very top of the structure after a massive landslide.
Serlisse speaks with the three rats living there. There is a big room where BAM and you are really flat. The rats agree to let us have half of the shiny stuff for the food. This was a wizard’s stuff that has rotted away to mostly nothing.
The magical items are a bracelet (looks kind of like a watchband but not stretchy), 2 rings and a brooch. There are also 5 rubies (500 gp each) and a non-magical gold ring with three small rubies (400 gp maybe) and 2 corroded silver keys (maybe 5 gp each).
We also uncover a staircase. The walls are low magic. One of the rings is high magic and the other stuff is low. We find a corroded silver dagger.

We descend into an intact basement with little cubby holes around the room, but it is mainly empty with no exits. It is about 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet high. It looks like paper fragments in the cubby holes. There seems to be about 500 cubby holes. There are some larger cubby holes with jars. There are skeletons of small animals strewn about, so it may or may not be magical pest control. Raybur gets hit very hard for 33 points of damage and a triple wound.
Arthur gets whacked viciously when he sticks a branch into the room. Small deer-like creatures appear to have been moving around inside. When Fred speaks in Runic IV, we hear some twittering. When she asks about releasing them, she gets hit by a rock in the forehead.
I think that these are Invisible Stalkers. They primarily backstab cracking heads open. We decide to go for a stealth assault using the Ethereal Blade in case that helps.

August 4, 2190
Schnelp determines that it is a Ring of Wizardry. It doubles Fred’s first level spells.
Zephram is able to retrieve 3 sets of potions. The first set is labeled Healing potions, Summer 122 AQ. Extra Healing and Extra Healing are the other two sets. Potions seem to get better with age unless the seals have cracked. Six of the extra healing potions are still good. The longevity and flying potions are all bad. Eventually Zephram retrieves three scrolls.

August 5, 2190
Scroll Number One is Lightning Bolt Straight Through, Level 13. Scroll Number Two is Invisible Stalker, Wall of Stone, Level 12. Scroll Number Three is Contact Other Plane, Level 13.

August 6, 2190
We see four Carnivorous Apes. Serlisse threatens them and they leave.

August 8, 2190
We find two smaller Deathzillas. We back off slowly. They ignore us.
In size order, they have been the one in the temple at New Teft was the smallest, Precious and the smaller one here and then the ones at the river near Asheton and the larger one here.

August 9, 2190
We find dead orkish adventurers. It has been months not years. They were killed with swords and scavenged after the fact. We find another magic dagger, 123 fire giant gp, 19 fg sp and a statuette of a tiny 4 armed skeleton tied together with wire and ruby eyes. The wire looks like it is mithril, but not magical. We also find two leather scroll tubes that need to be repaired.
Talarian’s Blood Hawk attacks him when it returns. It seems that the dagger we picked up is an avian bane.
Before long a huge skeleton that looks like the statuette comes and kicks the crap out of Arthur. He gets knocked to -10. Phyllis gets smacked about as well. Fred’s Dispel Magic freezes the skeleton and Sputnik’s Death’s Door brings Arthur back up to 0. Sputnik pours an Extra Healing potion down Arthur and he gets 20 hit points back but his strength drops and . Arthur loses 5 hit points permanently.

“Hello friends, we haven’t seen you this millennium. I am weird, low rumbling. Who are you? My work is important to me.” An 8 foot diameter boulder rolls up and holes appear for features. He continues to converse. He knows about a dwarven city. This was an orkish city. “The stubborn ones all died. They said they were far-away mountains.” An underground tunnel runs through the isthmus. His parents live there.
The other city is Iron Deep. The Corner Stone Clan can and visited him sometimes. Orkish invasions may have been the reason the dwarves vanished.

August 10, 2190
We approach the foot of the mountains and realize that we need to go across, below or through the mountain. We find out from some salamanders that there is a guy in the caves. The humanoid eats the salamanders, so the salamander does not go through the caves anymore. We use Silence spells to approach him. The man has red hair.
“Thanks. Tell the people back Door Flower. Do not attack Memory of Breath. Tell the navy in Door Flower. Tell them what happened to Inton Silversmith.”

August 11, 2190
Nothing happens.

August 12, 2190
[Session 39]