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-====== V2 Session Nine - 8 June 2007 - "Barrow of the Forgotten King" (part 5) ======
+==== V2 Session Nine - 8 June 2007 - "Barrow of the Forgotten King" (part 5) ====
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 ^ Player ^ Character ^ Race ^ Class ^
-| Dave | [[freyrik|Freyrik Ulthkell]] | Human(Feytouched) | Warlock/3 |
+| Dave | [[Freyrik]] | Human(Feytouched) | Warlock/3 |
 | THF | [[Líkami]] | Human | Monk/3 |
-| Ken | [[Ash]] | Human(Aasimar) | Paladin/1 |
+| Ken | [[Ash]] | Aasimar | Paladin/1 |
 | VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/2, Psion/1 |
-| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | [[Witch]]/3 |
+| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | Barbarian/1, [[Witch]]/2 |
 | Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/3 |
-| Val | [[Alleraia]] | Human(Aasimar) | Favored Soul/2, Fighter/1 |
+| Val | [[Allie]] | [[Lesser Aasimar]] | Favored Soul/2, Fighter/1 |
 //Note: This adventure comes from "[[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/959767400|Barrow of the Forgotten King]]",
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 **//12 March 1111//**
-Continuing in the dungeon...
 //Area 14)// Labyrinth Summoning
+The party is lost in a labyrinth deep under the barrow of a forgotten king. The
+twins, [[Líkami]] and [[Heilli]] are in one room, while [[Freyrik]],
+[[Ketamine]], and [[Yosi]] are in a second, and [[Ash]] and [[Allie]] are in a
+third.  As each room magically leads into another (identical) room and the
+return trip does not go back to where they started, the party has no good way to
+find the path to each other -- let alone the way out.
+Even worse, the rooms are trapped with a magical summoning power.  [[Líkami]]
+and [[Heilli]] have just finished killing two Fiendish Dire Weasels with a display of coordination that would have inspired their compatriots.  Shortly
+thereafter, [[Freyrik]], [[Ketamine]], and [[Yosi]] encounter a trio of Fiendish
+Wolverines.
+But the real challenge comes to [[Ash]] and [[Allie]] -- who are beset by two
+Fiendish Monstrous Scorpions.  One manages to clamp a powerful claw onto
+[[Ash]], leaving [[Allie]] to play a risky game of chase with the other.
+=== Interlude ===
+//The circle of fire hovers in front of the man as the skin on his right arm
+slowly fades from burnt black to gold.  In the circle, an image shimmers and
+forms.  His target has fallen, the claw of a monstrous fiend squeezing the life
+from him.  Nearby, he hears the sounds of another fight -- probably the sister.
+There were only seconds to act, though, so she will have to fend for herself. He
+gestures quickly with his left hand and points at the image of the beast.
+Switching to his natural voice, he speaks into the circle of fire, adding as
+much of his presence to the words as he can muster without losing concentration.
+"The dark lords welcome your offering, soldier.  Bring him back alive and you
+will feed on fresh souls for a year and a day."  The beast hesitates and
+scamperes to the right and left, as if looking for the sound of his master. But
+it remains still.  It is working!  A few seconds later, the sister returns. Her
+rapier flashes and the beast drops his prize to defend himself.  A few more
+seconds and it is all over.  The man concentrates on the image and it shifts
+right, left, back, and fore.  The room holds no sign of the others.  This could
+be very bad.  But if Xeron has managed it, so too will they...//
+==== ====
+[[Líkami]] and [[Heilli]] enter a new room and a glowing orb of energy is
+summoned.  After a brief, but tense standoff, the orb communicates with the
+twins and tells them they are lost in "The King's Labyrinth".  In centuries
+past, it tells them that the labyrinth summoned only Good creatures, but now its
+magic has been corrupted and the fiends it summons mostly hail from the lower
+planes.  However, the summoned creatures come from a limited pool, which is
+renewed only once per day.  When the orb drifts off toward one of the exits,
+the twins decide it wise to follow.
+After following the orb (which they eventually decide is a "Lantern Archon")
+through two rooms, they enter a room with [[Freyrik]], [[Ketamine]], and
+[[Yosi]].  The larger group then follows the Archon through another room, where
+they meet up with [[Ash]] and [[Allie]].  Healing ensues and the now-reunited
+party is led out of the maze and into a room eroded by water.
 //Area 15)// Labyrinth Pool
+While this room appears to have once been yet another room in the maze, an
+underground stream has eroded the floor away and its magic has faded.
+[[Freyrik]] is able to discern the locations of the summoning runes, and the
+party safely navigates through the room without triggering the summon.
 //Area 16)// Maze's End
+At the bottom of a pit trap, the party finds a nearly-dead half-elven female.
+They haul her up and tend to her wounds -- but have insufficient magical healing
+to bring her to consciousness.  Fearing they are not in a position to safely
+continue, they decide this is as good as any place to rest for the night.
+**//13 March 1111//**
+The next morning, they revive the half-elf, who introduces herself as "Leera".
+When quizzed about her role here, she says the following:
+=== ===
+//"A man named Xeron leads the tomb robbers, but a hobgoblin priest also has
+some clout. Xeron is some sort of arcanist—- he's also young, intense, and
+without mercy. To be honest, he scares me, and I've tried to keep from
+attracting much notice until I could escape from his band of cutthroats. He's
+looking for something deeper in the catacombs, and only his personal magnetism
+has kept the tomb robbers from escaping with the treasure they've found already.
+He thinks someone is bound to be pursuing him by now, though, and has talked
+about finding a different exit from the tomb rather than the hole we dug to come
+in.//
+//"The hobgoblin cleric —- Krootad, they call him -— elected to stay behind and
+take care of the pursuit. You must have already run across him. He wouldn't
+shirk when it comes to raising the dead and the possibility of killing decent
+folk.//
+//"I think the remaining tomb robbers are nothing more than servants and
+hirelings, though most seem reasonably loyal to Xeron. Supposing nobody fell in
+the next room, he still has Teryl, a few more varags, three hobgoblin warriors,
+a halfling male I think is a sorcerer, and a nasty goblin female. We left a
+several goblinoids and undead behind us, as well as some of Xeron's twisted
+pets.  Many members of our band have died in the run through this place."//
+==== ====
+//Area 16)// Maze's End
+Avoiding a pit trap, the party enters a large room and are immediately attacked
+by a group of constructs.  Deciding haste is a safer tactic than combat, they
+run across the room, dive through a smashed door, and quickly descend a
+staircase.  At the bottom, a crude wall of masonry blocks the way, but
+[[Líkami]] pushes the barricade down and the party stumbles into yet another
+tomb room.
+//Area 17)// Robber Encampment
+As the party floods into this room, a trio of sleeping Varags wake and jump to
+the ready.  Once again, the party has pushed themselves past one danger, only to
+find themselves in another...
 ^ # ^ Challenge ^ CR ^
 | 3 | Fiendish Wolverines\\ ([[Freyrik]], [[Ketamine]] and [[Yosi]] only) |  2 |
-| 2 | Fiendish Monstrous Scorpions\\ ([[Ash]] and [[Alleraia]] only) |  2 |
+| 2 | Fiendish Monstrous Scorpions\\ ([[Ash]] and [[Allie]] only) |  2 |
 | 1 | Lantern Archon |  N/A |
 | 1 | Magical Water Trap |  4 |
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 | 2 | Distracters (Smoke things) |  1/2 |
 ^ ^ Total XP (each) ^  405\\ +600 ^
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