The Staff of Power
February 24, 2011
The group has finished off the trolls when someone notices that the trolls bodies are moving! They remember now that Trolls regenerate and are getting ready to use fire on them when it turns out that a lot of crocodiles had started to take the bodies. When a few burst out, wanting to get the fresh bodies as well. However, the crocs prove no match for the party and soon they are taken care of.
As they talk about their approach and what they are going to do, they stumble across a halfling. She was trying to hide but when found, she comes out and introduces herself. Her name is Calli and she is with another group. They came to the ruins looking for the Staff of Power as well. The are from a nearby settlement and need it due to the troll attacks that are happening. Calli talks about the others that are in her group and that they are nearby.
The group heads toward the ruins with Calli coming along. As they are walking, they are talking about what they will do with the staff of power and how the lich needs it. At the mention of the word lich, Calli is not sure what to think of that and decides it's time to part ways with the group, so she leaves. The group is not sure what to think of that and that they have rivals.
When they get to the ruins, Inari leads the way in searching. And in the first alcove created by the tower, they find the hydra! It's got four heads and is quite huge. They also notice the trap door it is guarding but not if the staff is around in the nest or down below. So, they realize they have to fight it.
The fight is quite ferocious. The hydra is a tough opponent and they do manage to get it out of the corner away from the trap door. Then they quickly go down into it, except Bamarden, who stays behind to make sure they all get into the trap door. Teldryl goes back up to try and do what she can to distract the hydra when the hydra chomps down on Bamarden! Bamarden goes down and Teldryl can't get to him in time. She has to go back down with the rest of the group.
The group can't mourn, though, as they have to figure out the room in which they find themselves. The do find a door and go through it but it ends in a dead end. At least, it looks like it but as they search they find a secret door. They go through that and find another corridor and another secret door. This one opens into a storage house with a lot of treasure. And a ghosts and ghouls.
The ghost is a paladin of Tyr and he is protecting the Staff of Power and other tomes and books as well as a storage of treasure. The paladin is quite reticent about giving or lending, as he has been known to do, any of the items that are under his protection. Teldryl tries to convince the paladin otherwise but to no avail. The discussion goes on for quite a while. The paladin is not willing to part with the items and Teldryl wants to leave with them. The group thinks about attacking but there are a score or more ghouls and they convince the group not to attack.
As they are talking, the ghost suddenly gets angry and says the staff is gone and the group should be gone as well. The ghouls come after them and the group runs, closing the doors behind them as they go. They don't know what they will do. They don't have the staff and aren't sure what Larloch will say when it comes to that.
As they get back to the room with the trapdoor, they don't hear the hydra but get ready to attack it when they come out. As they leave, they find that it is dead. And Cabal. With the staff of power.
Cabal slips up and offers them each something and gives the staff to Ander. Darksouls asks to be released from his vow. Cabal accepts this. Many of the others wait to have a favor from Cabal later.
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