Session Seventy-Seven (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

Session 77 – October 7, 2015

We continued our exploration of the ancient dwarven research center, this time to the East. We encountered several skeletons and dispatched them, easily, thanks to good tactics. Then we found a lot of platinum utensils and plates to add to our collection. In the ancient kitchen cold storage, we found a wight who doesn’t realize he is dead.

The good thing about that is that he didn’t try to attack us. The bad thing is that he realized we are not official ancient dwarves, so he thinks we are rebels. He has backed around a corner where we can’t get at him without coming near his deadly touch.

This wight, was once Alke, a researcher, who fled to the freezer and ate all the food before succuming to the cold of the storage room. He gave us new information about the research areas and that we need the platinum keys from the head of each research area to open up area X. [This gives comfort to know that if we can control more of these platinum amulets and get them away from here, perhaps it will prevent them letting Xena Tel loose.] We also learned from Alke that Xena Tel is a more formal name and giving distinction. I wonder if there is a dwarven cleric above who has not been corrupted and that we can trust?

We then found that the ancient dwarves have a plentiful supply of fresh water in their quarters, and found many nice items and some furniture. We encountered more undead, but barricaded them inside their rooms making it harder for them to reach us. There were some of a new type, but their newness did not appear to have any new abilities, at least not ones that would allow them to get at us.

Now that we have plenty of fresh water, we can greatly extend our stay down here.

At the end of the hallway with the rooms for the dwarves is an elevator with what appears to be two levels above us and two below us. We decided to search the rest of this level before attempting a new one.

We continued to the large open recreation area and saw two bodies on the ground and the newest member of our group looked around tha corner and saw many more. Due to the openness of this room, we feared being surrounded and pulled back and used the same tactics against the skeletons, except we used fire. We encountered two new types of undead, that we plant-like and their skulls split open revealing a tentacle. Thankfully, we did not learn what would happen if it hit us.

We had completed another five or so hours in this place, when we decided to catch our breath and eat. I am interested in the platinum coins and gaming devices of cards and dice. More non-magical stuff we can sell to Marchmain and hang on to the magical stuff we have found.

I hope our success continues and that we can hold off on death and injury to our party.