Wiki of The Dungeoneering Crew

There is a split campaign running at the moment, Angelique is missing. They don't know where she is or what is or has happened to her. She is keeping a separate journal of what is happening to her. It will be inserted here if they all survive enough to get back together again. In the future, we will add her notes here.

= = = = = = Angelique's diary = = = = = =

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= = = = = = = = Main Journal = = = = = = =

Angelique is missing. Snatched away from them in the hallway outside this temple room, in darkness and silence. The only clues they have at this point were that something tussled with her, moving by Cal and shoving Symon out of the way. They have been unable to find any trace of what happened to her. When the darkness and silence lifted, she was nowhere to be found. Cassandra ran through the tunnels as if chasing after them but never caught up to anything. There was no sign outside the tunnel of them leaving. With that in mind, they focused their search inside the structure. A temple of sorts to Sahn. They looked around the main room but knowing she wasn't taken into the temple room they began looking at the doors leading out of the room. As they were moving toward an exist to the main room on the north side, Cal stopped, closed his eyes, and tilted his head back a little. Cassandra returned about this time and walked into the room asking, “What happened?”, when she stopped, closed he eyes, and tilted her head back. Eryn told Xor to grab Cassandra and she was grabbing Cal to carry them out of the room. Cal and Cassandra found themselves standing in ethereal rooms with wispy cloud like fog lightly drifting around them. “Is this what dead looks like?”, ran through Cassandra's mind. They both heard a very large mysterious voice. It said, “To know your own heart, and mind, one must be willing to face yourself as you truly are. In this, the true power of your inner self can be released and receive the blessings of Sahn.”.

They were not together. Each was in his or her own room. Across from them was…well…them. Across the space from Cassandra was Cassandra. There was an anger, or rage on the face of this duplicate. Her weapons were drawn and she started moving toward her. The same thing was happening the Cal. His duplicate, full of hate and rage, was on the move. The real Cassandra pulled out her weapons and shield and growled as she charged into counterfeit-Cassandra. Cal, minus the growl, prepared to receive his counterfeits charge. The fights were on. Cal's fight lasted a couple of rounds as he was already wounded so they didn't start with full hit points. The counterfeit Cal won that battle. Cassandra's fight took several rounds as she started out fully healed. The real Cassandra won her fight. As she finished her fight, she woke instantly in the temple standing where she had stopped moving. Cal had just woke up as well. Very quickly the memory of what had happened to them began fading. After a moment, they couldn't remember. To the others, they had only been in that state for a few seconds. Cal seemed to be thinking very hard about something as Xor asked him if he was okay. Cassandra shook it off and got back to the business of finding Angelique.

As Cassandra moved toward the door, Cal walked over to the statue of Sahn and looked at it. He decided to topple the statue, face forward. Using the extra strength of the girdle, he began pushing on it. It was really tough and began to move a little but didn't immediately fall. He pushed harder and it popped some more, leaning further forward, but then rocked back into place. He tried again, Xor began moving and was thinking about helping as Cal seemed to be stalling on his third attempt. Eryn took a run and then leaped, performing a flying dropkick against the back of the statue. This gave it that little bit of extra something to make it finally fall forward. The top of it hit the alter and everything on it flew up into the air. The skulls scattered. The alter was crushed. The crystal ball fell onto the floor and cracked. Cal stomped on the back of the head of the statue, working through something for sure. Eryn picked up the cloth she had covered the crystal ball with before, and covered it again. Her thought was that if someone was able to use that ball to look in on them, she wanted them to see nothing but cloth.

Eryn said, “Well, that felt good but I guess we need to get back to it. Do we want to go through these doors?”, as she pointed top the northern doors. At that, Cal swiftly turned around and gave her a disconcerting look. He seemed a little angry with her which was totally unlike him. Then he turned around and walked over to the crystal ball and tossed the cloth away and picked it up, looking at it. After a brief few seconds, he hurled the crystal ball, with his improved strength, into the far wall. It shattered and released a black, ethereal kind of smoke, monster like thing. Seeing this, Cal, Eryn, well, everyone began pulling out their weapons, expecting a fight. After a moment, it spread out and slowly dissipated. Eryn said, “I hope that's not running around in here now!”. Cal seemed to be having a moment. He sat down, head in his hands, visibly working through something. To everyone else, he appeared emotionally shook. Xor walked over and asked if he was okay. He looked up and seemed to be relieved, patting Xor on the shoulder and then motioning toward the door, indicating his wish to continue on now. As they headed to the door, He stopped at Eryn and gave her an “I'm sorry”, sort of look. She smiled letting him know that they were okay. She turned and headed toward the door.

The door was made out of a very strong metal, and it was very cold. She tried to unlock it but failed. She pulled out some oil and worked it into the lock, then let it sit for a moment more to really work it's way in. She tried again and successfully unlocked it. She opened the door and found a hallway, leading east, lined with eight stone statues. They appeared to be a cross between some sort of demon and human. They were armed. The hallway was lit. They began moving down the hallway, Eryn was leading and being extra vigilant for any sort of trap. About half way down the hallway, two of the large statues, the fourth one and the fifth one, suddenly animated and attacked. Eryn took a hit. The group ran forward to returned the attack. Cal hit one and though it was a solid hit, he didn't think it did as much damage as it should have. After a few rounds, they destroyed them. Eryn had taken a lot of damage so she gathered doses of healing potions from everyone to get back up.

They continued on down the hallway again. None of the other statues moved or attacked. They came to an archway that led to some steps going down, to the south. Eryn carefully checked them and they moved down them. At the bottom was a hallway continuing south. There were some stairs further south going back up. There were two openings, one west and one east. There were voices coming from the eastern opening. Symon made Eryn invisible and she snuck up to the intersection and looked both ways. The west continued on with a door on it's southern wall about middle way down. The eastern archway opened into a large dining room with lots of tables. There were two guards eating in there. There were a couple of weapon racks. She moved down the hallway to the west. She stopped and listened to the double doors in the middle of the hallway and heard what sounded like snoring. She moved to the end of the hallway and peered both ways. To the west in front of her, there was a set of really ornate ornamental doors with all kinds of depictions on them. The hallway continued to the north and south. She tried to line herself up with the rooms above, hoping to find where the circle that Angelique disappeared from sat in relationship to where she was now. She couldn't determine a correlation between the two floors.

She didn't want to leave the others alone too long so she went back to let them know what she'd found so far. She checked back on the two guards eating and they were still there. She spied an opening beyond them that appeared to be the kitchen. She explained what she had seen to everyone. Symon suggested that if they could get uniforms, they might be able to move around more freely. He asked about the snoring in that one room. Eryn thought she only heard one person snoring but the doors are thick and it may be that she only hard him because he was close to the door. They decided to move down the hallway and see what was in that room. Eryn tried the door and it was unlocked. She cracked it a little and saw that it was a very large room and there was carpet. She opened it a little more and decide it was a barracks with lots of beds and lanterns were burning a little more dim. She stuck her head through the door to see the rest of the room. There were twenty two beds of which five were occupied. One was sleeping and the other four were sitting there working on stuff. They all turned to face the door. They all jumped up and grabbed their weapons.

Eryn backed up and whispered to the others to go back and around the corner. That was heard by the men moving toward the door so they burst out of the room before anyone could get away. They engaged. Eryn was trapped behind the men as they moved out into the hallway and engaged Cassandra and Xor. Symon backed up around the corner preparing to prevent the two guards from the dinning room from joining the fray. As they moved to their door, he hit them with a color spray, stunning them. Xor and Cassandra charged forward and engaged a couple of guards. Eryn got behind one and delivered a vicious backstab to one of them but then was visible and became a target. Cal couldn't engage directly in melee so he pulled out his swords and turned to face the guards that would be coming from the dining hall and waited. Symon had stunned them already so he scrambled to disarm them while they were unconscious. He looked for a way to tie them up. In the kitchen he found a woman and boy working, or hiding now. He told them not to worry as he looked for something to use to tie the guards up. He grabbed a bag full of food and ran dumping it out as he went. He cut it into strips to tie up the guards with.

Eryn finished off the guard she had back stabbed. The battle went one a few more rounds. The guards were especially good fighters and many of the party took a lot of damage. Cal broke his magic short sword. Symon did get the two guards tied up but not well. As they finished off the others, Eryn and Cal moved back and re-secured the two guards. Symon approached the woman and boy in the kitchen again to try and get some information but the woman was obviously too scared to talk. She wouldn't let the boy respond either. She just told Symon to leave them alone. They questioned the guards they'd captured and put them in the back of the second kitchen. They got no information out of them, just threats. They found two more sets of stairs in the western opening off of the dining hall. The north and south sets of stairs went up while the western staircase went down. They went back and searched the barracks. There were four rooms in the barracks of which two had weapons and armor while the other two rooms were privies.

Xor dragged the bodies out of the hallway and back into the barracks. He put them in the beds to make it look like they were sleeping. In searching the barracks, they found 25 gold, a few unremarkable daggers. In the armor area, the found uniforms and thought about wearing them as a disguise but Symon reminded them that everyone they'd run into had tattoos and red hair. They had no way to achieve that look. As far as disguises go, it would likely fail to achieve their desired results. They found a bag of gems worth about 100 gold. They found another 200 gold pieces worth of stuff and two potions of cure light wounds. In examining the guards, Symon and Cal thought that they looked part dwarf, maybe part elf, and part something else mixed in. They were all heavily tattooed. When asked if they served Grizzolo, they didn't respond to that, only continued the threats. He did get that they do the will of their Lord, Sahn. Finally deciding that there was nothing else to gain from questioning them further, Xor asked Symon if he should take them out. Symon looked at Cal and said, “I don't think our friend here will have that!”. Symon left the room. Cal gave Xor a look of disappointment as he left the room. They gagged them, making sure they couldn't get anywhere, and also made sure there was nothing they could use to cut their way free.

Cal left the room then and checked the weapon rack in the dining hall. He found a mace, non-magical but very well made. After thinking about it and realizing that there were less people here than there should be, Cal went back to the guards and asked if they would be willing to tell them anything about Grimbog Vale. They got the same responses as before. Symon suggested that they might be able to help them with it. Again, he received no information from them. He finally asked the guards if whatever happened in Grimbog Vale several nights ago had killed their companions. The guard said, “I don't think I'll answer that question!”. Then Symon asked if they'd won. The guard didn't answer. Symon judged from his demeanor that the conversation was over.

Eryn had an extra +2 dagger which she offered to Cal to get him by for a while.

The stopped there.

Start the recorder!

They received 798 + 80 = 878 xps.

They also received 45 gold each.