Session 2015-09 Part II: As told by Roland Red Oak

Several weeks later….

We came together as a group after reflecting upon adventures in Orlane we decided to go to the Mount of the Red Door to tackle a demon that the group had run into earlier and fled. Milo, Draven, Quasi, Borg, Thagmar and myself headed into the mount. We returned to the room where the demon was found. The group burst in prepared for the worst, Draven blasted the demon with a powerful spell and the demon disappeared in a puff of smoke. Much to the groups relief the demon turned out to be an illusion. The illusion was guarding a small treasure that we recovered.

The group decided to head to the lower level after the confronting the demon illusion. After descending a stair case we came across a large number of metallic skeletons that immediately charged our group. Quasi jumped into action and quickly fired his bow and he absolutely destroyed two of the skeletons at the start of combat. The group waded into the battle and took down the remainder of the skeletons.

The group continued down a hallway until we found a large room that had six columns, all made of different metals, and labeled with different high sullian words. The ceiling contained a mural of the stars in the sky. While beautiful we were unable to determine the use of the room.

We left the room and entered a smaller room filled with broken furniture and a long table. During the search of the room Quasi found a small nook that contained a small magic scroll of mirror image.

Just down the hall from the broken furniture room we came across a small room that contained multiple shattered statues, there were at least six smashed statues crumbled upon the floor. There was one statue still intact, a rather squat and ugly thing. Draven walked up to it and poked it in curiosity, which was a bad idea as the statue sprang to life and clawed him across the face. Leaving bloody tracks across his face. The group sprang into action with everyone chipping in to bring down the gargoyle with Milo delivering the killing blow.

After recovering from the shock of being attacked by a statue, the group focused and continued our search of the area. We went through several non-descript rooms and hallways, all of which are filled with broken furniture and various debris. The group finally entered a room covered in some type of crude graffiti and contains five large sacks with some type of creature inside as we heard moaning and saw movement in the bags. One of the creatures escaped the bag and some type of humanoid monster emerged and it immediately attacked Quasi. Luckily he avoided the blow and the group fell upon the creature. After taking a massive amount of damage, Milo finally dropped the creature. Shaken after the encounter the group decided to leave the remaining bags alone.

We left the room and entered a small room with four columns that contained four glass pillars that contains each of the four primal forces of nature (fire, water, air, and earth). The floor was covered by a tile mosaic of a planet. Once again we were unable to determine the function of the room so we moved on.

The next room we moved into was oblong in shape and contained 6 large pillars each constructed of a different metal. We move on and found a third room with over a dozen glass tubes with dials and other metal attachments. All of which were broken or smashed. Standing guard at the only exit of the room was four large and burly humanoid creatures, while not overly friendly they were not openly hostile. Unable to convince the creatures to let us pass, the group decided to leave the room.

We explored a little further and decided that we would need to return to town to resupply and plan our next steps.