Tombs of Scoria: Episode 62

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== Synopsis ==
The brothers and their companions, after nearly defeating a Death Knight, find themselves in a town near Saladin Keep. Tyrael, after healing, leads the group into a castle, where they encounter various magical traps and a banshee, which they eventually defeat. During their exploration, they discover a substantial amount of treasure, including magical items and a heartfelt letter addressed to a banshee named Athena. Continuing their journey, they face two beholders in the forest, losing several members in the battle. Returning to town with their fallen, they reorganize and confront ghostly figures during the night, facing an ongoing threat from the undead.
==Recap==
=== 22nd April 1513 (Day 16) ===
The brothers are in a town near Saladin Keep, after almost defeating the Death Knight. Tyrael heals, and they bring Braengaeng, Lord Kohn, Vash, Pola and Johnny, lead by Anton in the back. Slugrik follows behind them at a distance. 
Tyrael listens to noises inside the castle, and hears a sorrowful song. Anton hands everyone some wax to block their ears. Tyrael climbs the tower and leaves the rope for others to follow. They reach a shield of Ice, which Lord Konn destroys with a . 
Seeing the first room they enter is empty, Anton leads the way down, holding Kralfort. Tyrael tries to disarm the trap in the first room, a magical symbol on the other side of the door. They open the door and send Johnny through, the trap triggers, but Johnny remains alive but slightly crippled for a time, and the rune disappears. Vash notices a bit of snow in the next room, and there is one trapped door, so they continue further down. As they enter the lower floor, they see a banshee. 
Combat start: McGary and the company vs Banshee
Tyrael leaps onto the banshee and hits her twice. The Banshee attacks Tyrael's life essence but he dodges. Johnny flees in terror from the banshee. Pola stays to guard Lorn Konn. Anton jumps onto the banshee, misses it but uses the charge of Spear of Rohana. Braengaeng decides to look too and runs away in fear. Seeing 2 of them flee, Lord Konn fizzles . The death knight joins the fight and misses Anton. Tyrael jumps behind the death knight and hits it. Anton blesses the Spear of Rohana with Amulet of Velthara and hits the death knight, killing it. The corpse is gone, only the gear remains. 
Pola leaps into the pit, screaming in terror, and runs away from the banshee. Tyrael slays the Banshee.
Combat end. The Death Knight Athena is dead. 
Tyrael moves the gear around, finds 2 magical rings and 1 amulet that looks the same as the one around his neck. He removes earwax, upon hearing nothing he signals to the rest to do the same. 
The knight's armor is marked with symbols of Martha. Lord Konn casts but it fizzles. Tyrael reequips The Ring of True Seeing, the slug looks like Imrik. Magical items on the death knight: 2 rings, Cloak, Amulet, Gloves, Sword. Anton takes the armor. 
In a few hours, Jack's health potion takes effect and Imrik is back to his true form.
=== 23rd to 29th April 1513 (Days 17-23) ===
They explore the castle, find huge amounts of coins, 30k gold, 150k silver, 600 mythral and 1k platinum. Tyrael revisits the locked room upstairs, the same trap goes off. Inside the room: 8 potions, a bow, a lance, a sword, a book and 3 rings. Imrik takes a look at the book, a symbol of Martha on the cover. Anton is able to read it. 
One of the rings is +2 ring of protection. The cloak is a +2 Cloak of protection. The gloves are Gloves of war. The sword is a +3 sword, it glows a blue light in the night and cold. Other sword is a +1 arming sword. The bow doubles the rate of fire. Anton tries a ring that gets stuck on his hand, the whole finger is blackened. When the lines extend, Anton casts , and removes the ring, but they bring it. 5 potions of extra healing, 3 potions of healing. 
Tyrael looks through the castle with the ring of True Seeing, notices a parchment that exists in The Ethereal Plane. Imrik reads it 
The brothers think Willow is the banshee. Scattered around the town are interlocked stone, black warped around white. The fountain in the middle of town still has a source of water. In the keep, there are more magical spyglasses. They find scales with markings of Quantarius, God of Trade. Inside the jail, there is Rope of Binding. 
Anton read the book they found, it speaks of good, heroic figures, clerics of Martha, and their noble deeds. It numbs his brain. The book vanishes.
Lord Konn notifies Imrik of a sunken tower in the ground. Imrik it open. On the forth floor, there is a crystal ball and loads of books on the wall. Lorn Konn casts , they take all the 52 books. They find more magical torches, brooms, burning logs, blankets, aprons, and a magic anvil. 
=== 30th April 1513 (Day 24) ===
They proceed through the forest, towards the Saladin keep. 
Trough the woods, 2 beholders move towards them.
Combat start: The Party vs 2 Beholders
Montem flees, The Beholders close the central eye and fire of their attacks, Theresa is disintegrated. Tyrael is wounded. No other eye effects take effect. Imrik shoots one beholder. Tyrael hits the beholder once. Johnny takes one shot. Hans runs. Anton charges the beholder, hits once and releases one charge of lightning. Lord Konn the 1st beholder. Others miss. Imrik shoots twice, Tyrael kills the beholder, runs to the other beholder, and takes out the Darkness stone. Braengaeng shoots the other beholder. 
Jack runs toward the darkness, Johnny and Imrik ready to attack. Anton and Tyrael blindly miss.
Tyrael equips the Ring of True seeing and chases the beholder. Jack is on the edge of the darkness and readies an attack.
Tyrael misses, Beholder flees and Tyrael hits it and it leaves the darkness, and archers fire. Jack is turned to stone. Johnny is wounded.
The Beholder opens the eye and kills Johnny. Imrik shoots the beholder and Anton kills it.
Combat end. Teresa and Johnny are dead. Jack is turned to stone.
They turn around and bring Jack back to town. Upon return, they reorganise, Anton is now a sled driver.
During the night, on the first watch, they see ghostly figures approach. A man holds out a hand, 11 similar people appear. Anton speaks to them in Drekissian and shows the Amulet of Velthara. Behind them, ordinary skeletons keep appearing. Anton reads a scroll of Protection from Undead. The specters have a smug smile on their face.
==Experience==
Anton loses 30 000 exp for reading the book.
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