(8) Goodmonth 22, 582

• After their affairs were concluded, the group teleported ahead to Magepoint just outside of the town proper, knowing it wouldn’t be a good idea to teleport into the middle of the city itself. Almost immediately after arriving, the group was approached by a group of demons. Two bone devils and two barbed devils as Eligos called them. Donnor immediately cast Holy Word in an attempt to banish the demons back to their plane. The spell affected both of the barbed devils, but the group had to deal with the bone devils by other means. After a fierce but short battle, the group prevailed, and continued toward town.
• As they approached town, a group of guards hailed them. Godwin, seemingly the leader of the group, greeted us warmly and asked us what business we had in the area. After telling him that we needed an audience with Tenser, he chuckled and said of course we did.
• We were then escorted into town and told that the best place for us to stand by while waiting for word would be The Weary Shield. So the group did so. Shortly after arriving, Celeste showed up. She was thrilled to see Eligos again, and filled us in on some of the finer points of current happenings in the area.
• Waiting just a short while longer, Cymria, an elf, introduced herself as Tenser’s confidant, and said she would escort us to see Tenser. Celeste joined us from there.
  

(8) Goodmonth 22, 582

• Now having the piece to the Rod of Law they sought, Eligos teleported them back to Diamond Lake where they could look through the items they found and make plans on how to proceed in continuing the quest to stop the Ebon Triad.
• Once in Diamond lake the group went to the Emporium for refreshments and discuss recent events. Allistun’s research filled him in on the items that we found in Ikozials tomb with the Rod piece and his remains. The long sword was Sword of Aaqa, the short sword was The Lightning Sword, Zosiel’s Diadem, and the ring and all their individual powers where explained to the group.
• Allistun and Elligos decided that our next most logical step was to seek out their teacher and mentor Tensor in Mage Point. Both Barnin and Donnor were dumbfounded when they heard that Tensor was the Archmage that taught not one, but both of their friends how to follow their paths into the art of magic. Of course both of the mages dismissed this as not a big deal.
• So with out much delay the group teleported back to Greyhawk to pawn any looted items they weren’t in need of, and place orders with Penander for any other items they were looking for.
  

(8) Goodmonth 21, 582

• He took the disk and placed it in the recess and sure enough the pylon shook slightly and began to rise. It ascended slowly toward the ceiling. Barnin began to have a hunch they were on the right track and then wondered why there was no door. As he neared, it popped in his head that it was probably an illusion used again to thwart would be raiders. Firmly believing he was right he stood his ground as the pylon move upward. When he reached the what would be the point of contact he went through into a new room.
• Barnin then moved the group to the pylon and up into the newly found room. The new room had a sarcophagus floating in the middle of the room once they were all in the room and began moving about and inspecting what they thought was a demonic statue turned out to be more than a statue as it instantly multiplied using the spell like ability mirror image. Eligos knowing all thing demonic said, that’s an oculus demon. The group then attacked.
• After casting any potent spells they had remaining, they quickly realized that they were in no shape to fight such a powerful creature, so they fled to fight another day.
• The returned the pylon back to its original position and made their way back to the ledge where they camped so that they could be fully rested to face the demonic beast. After recouping and regaining all their used spells the group returned and Donnor was able to simply banish the demon with his banishment spell.
• The group then turned their attention to the whole reason they enter this accused cairn, Ikozials tomb now stood floating in front of them, with it’s guardian sent back to its plain they could now see if the piece or the Rod of Law was here. They found a long sword, and short sword, a ring, crown, and the piece of the Rod of Law that they came for.
  

(8) Goodmonth 21, 582

• After the huge stone doors swung open the group saw an enormous open chamber with large pylons standing in a path-like manner. As they approached the open door way they hurt and felt what seemed to be a hurricane force wind blowing in the room. Donnor had an idea to cast windwalk on Barnin and he could carry the group accross the space where there seemed to be no floor. After the spell was cast Barnin picked up Eligos to begin making his way accross the open air. A soon as he crossed the threshold he was hit head on with the forceful swirling wind. He was soon blown off course. He had to learn how to fight the winds force and continue walking. After fighting as the wind with all his strength he and Donnor saw in the same moment 2 huge wisp like shapes rushing there way.
• The air elemental’s attack was swift, but Barnin was able to get Eligos safely back to the landing before he could be knocked from his grasp and begin falling into nothing. From there the fight ensued. Spells where cast and weapons flew until finally the group defeated the Elementals.
• The wind died once the Elementals attacked. So the way across the room was much easier now. Well everyone except Barnin who carried the group across the room the the ledge on the other side.
• Once safely there the began inspecting the area. They inspected for what seemed like for every, but after just a short time they realized that this wasn’t the way forward, it was just a carved replica of the previous door to throw off would be tomb raiders. So Barnin figured since he still had use of the windwalk spell he would go inspect the individual pylons. Finally getting to the tallest standing near the ceiling in the middle of the room, he found a circular disk shaped recess in the stone. It hit him that the crystal disk they had used to open the other seal would fit in the recess.
  

(8) Goodmonth 21, 582

• As the group started making their way back they were discussing their situation. Allustan asked if we had dealt with the portal guardian, we said that we more or less snuck by and out ran him. So the group then came to the decision that it would be best to sleep here in the upper level, rather than going all the way back and facing that creature as low on spells as we were. After the evening of rest the group finished getting themselves in fighting form once again. We really were going to have to be on our game if we were going to be able to enter Icosiol’s tomb.
• As a group they moved through the complex back to the waterfall. Their way was much more challenging now that they did not have the shadow spider here to transport them past all of the pitfalls and traps that had been left behind in this place.
• Once the group made it to the waterfall, Eligos cast Feather Fall and the group made the first of many leaps to make their way back down to the corridor that they didn’t follow up the first time they came down the waterfall.
• Sure enough, after only a short exploration of this corridor, stairs to a doorway were found. Following the stairs they stood by and watched as Allustun raised the Seal of Law, and spoke the needed words, and the doors swung heavily open.
  

(8) Goodmonth 21, 582

• Once the group reached the bottom of the waterfall Donnor used one of his newer monk ability abundant step. Using that, in the blink of an eye the group was back at the top of the waterfalls. Just where they were before flying down to face the true ghoul.
• Now being back up here they remembered that the shadow spider got them to this point, and they didn’t know how to get back. So the started down an ice covered hall. They were immediately attacked by what they thought was a statue of an air duke. Soon after the battle begain Eligos cast feeblemind and the illusion was dispelled and they saw that they were fighting an inevitable. It was still a long though battle, but it was one that they were victorious. After Donnor healed everyone they picked over what was left of the creature, and surveyed their surroundings. A little over half way down the hall they found a hole in the floor under the ice, and the end of the hall was a dead end. There was another door, but all that was contained there was a winter maelstrom instead of a floor. They assumed that was keeping the red waters of the river that flowed in through the hole in the floor frozen.
• The group started chip away at the ice looking for a way past this hallway. After spending some time chipping at the ice they realized that this wasn’t going to end well if they continued. They didn’t know how far the would have to go through a water filled tunnel before finding the other side. and they didn’t know if the slush would start freezing around them as they were trying to make more of an advance through the tunnel. So they decided the best course of action would be to wait for the shadow spider to return looking for them. They waited for just a couple hours before the spider came asking if his foe had been taken care of.
• After a curt conversation the spider brought us back to the room where we were originally ambushed, and brought Allistun back to us. He then demanded the disk. We tried everything we could think of to reason with the spider. But there was no reasoning with him. The spider attacked Barnin being that he was the one with the disc. Barnin was hit hard, and poisoned with toxin that paralyzed him. Allistun cast light so that there would be no shadows for the spider to flee too, and the group battle with the spider on the one plane alone. At the end of the fierce battle the group healed up, and decided to head back though the portal to the cairne to rest before continuing on down here.