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==== V2 Session Nine - 8 June 2007 - "Barrow of the Forgotten King" (part 5) ====

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^ Player ^ Character ^ Race ^ Class ^
| Dave | [[Freyrik]] | Human(Feytouched) | Warlock/3 |
| THF | [[Líkami]] | Human | Monk/3 |
| Ken | [[Ash]] | Aasimar | Paladin/1 |
| VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/2, Psion/1 |
| Kurt | [[Ketamine]] | [[Crag Gnome]] | Barbarian/1, [[Witch]]/2 |
| Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/3 |
| 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]]",
by Ed Stark, as published by [[http://www.wizards.com|Wizards of the Coast]].//

**//12 March 1111//**

//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 [[Allie]] only) |  2 |
| 1 | Lantern Archon |  N/A |
| 1 | Magical Water Trap |  4 |
| 1 | Harrier (Spiky construct) |  2 |
| 1 | Assaulter (animallike construct) |  2 |
| 2 | Distracters (Smoke things) |  1/2 |
^ ^ Total XP (each) ^  405\\ +600 ^

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