Dust and Devils Session 4

Delving through the old ruins of Hazlik's archive, the party looks for the remaining gem keys to push further down to find the old wizard's treasure.

Summary

Continuing in the delve through the old ruins of Hazlik's archive the party was left in the room with the summoning circle. Demons were summoned from the abyss to ambush the party. After Kazuki quickly dispatched the lesser demons, another larger winged fiend was summoned through the circle. This demon took the combined effort of all party members to fall, including Trash Compactor who has just caught up to the rest of the group.

The party continued to another unexplored room looking for gem of brightness which they suspect are used as keys to unlock the secret of the first room. In this room there was a narrow hole in which only Arno and Trash were able to squeeze inside of. In the cramped space it was revealed to be a private study. Through some investigation the two found a magical ring that turned the wearer invisible but revealed a hidden room with a chest. The chest contained another gem, the party now having 3 of the 4 that was necessary.

The party now needed to explore one last room. On the way there, they had to evade a large boulder trap. They easily made it past the the tunnel by forcing the boulder to roll into a spike pit. And in the unexplored room were multiple bookshelves each labeled in draconic with the words PAST, EVOKE, CONJURE, GRAVE. Trash surmised that each bookshelf with the exception of PAST triggered a spell from the corresponding school of magic. Within the PAST bookshelf contained many books on various histories of the world as well as some fictional works, Kazuki and Brisk Barrie took a liking to the erotic novel 50 Shades of Grave but Khimari Stormgrove found the last gem within a book detailing the last war.

Now armed with all 4 gems, the party backtracked back to the original room with the pool and and inserted the gems into each socket. In doing so the golem statues came to life asking for a Command. Understanding that this meant the golems were asking for the passphrase of "Darkness" in draconic, Khimari spoke the words and disabled the golems. The pool then was covered with a portal leading the party to a grand library tended by a Beholder librarian by the name of Zangy.

After making some small talk with the Beholder, the party finds a door to the vault of Hazlk's treasure and make their way inside only to be greeted by a mechanical construct imitating that of an adult dragon.