TGAT: Session 38

Jamming the air vents

## The Great Ziggurat of Boccob (Cont...)

The party left the Tharizdun Gem Vault and returned to the make shift prison in the Air temple reuniting with Amophar who was now showing signs of recovery from his injuries and as they arrive is finishing a burial ritual on his fallen brethren.

The party plan with Amophar a means of subduing the air elemental and they believe that if they stop the air flow into and out of its chamber it should be weaker. They look around the prison cells and remove all of the lengths of chain and use the forge upstairs to join them together into several 100 meter lengths. Richard Dickens decides to use his immovable rod to anchor one end of a chain to the floor and toss the opposite end into one of the adamantine propeller-assisted air ventilation holes in the floors of the six rooms with air vents. The outcome hopefully jamming it up; to his surprise this plan works perfectly the chain smashes into a fan slowing its velocity and sending the chain into a violent wrap around the fan and its housing holding it in place in the tube.

They repeat this with another chain on a second vent and it also jams up. At it does so Richard Dickens and Elvar both spot the immovable rod is starting to show signs of wavering as it approaches its 1000lbs limit as it beginning to ever so slightly wobble under the strain (of 964lbs of force on the chain). They rethink the scenario and Richard Dickens decides to try and fix a new chain to an already stopped fan and use that as a new anchor point. He uses the Frost Brand (Storvald) to levitate back up, they toss this chain into the third fan and it too slams to a halt. Now successful they repeat on the forth, fifth and sixth vents.

At this point they check in with the elemental to see if their plan worked and they find that the air elemental has shrunk in size significantly, the gem now taking up a far greater proportion of the creatures body and its effect on it now cause it to appear sickly like its was made up of thousands of coughs rather than a mighty gale force gust of wind. The party search the room and find chalk runes binding it in place. Elvar removes the runes and they successfully persuade the elemental to follow them back to the gem vault. Inside the vault the gems once again are drawn to each other and the large gem inside the creature bursts out to be with its siblings inadvertently freeing the creature. They quickly retreat and tell the creature to escape this place as fast as it can it does so with a swoosh vanishing down the corridor.

### Return to the Upper Floor

Leaving the vault and heading back upstairs they check out the elemental wall and all the seals are now active, the large bronze doors appear unlocked. Before heading into the central room they investigate the other rooms to the north west they missed previously. They find a number of small rooms connected to smaller corridors all full to the brim with goblins. The party convince all but one of the rooms to surrender, the ones who give up are restrained, of the sole group who fought back half of the goblins were swiftly eviscerated causing the other half to cower in fear and surrender as well.

Cubone finds a secret door with a trap designed on a Minotaur's horns, he can also hear cattle like grunting on the opposite side. He jams the dart trap with one of the goblins morning stars and the three of them bundle into the room charging a Minotaur wielding a great-axe and wearing plate mail. Elvar and Richard Dickens unleashes some powerful maneuvers and stance techniques with Cubone spring attacking the beast. With Elvar and Richard Dickens flanking the Minotaur and Cubone on his own the beast dropped its head and charged the kobold brutally goring him. Throughout the fight all three protagonists receive heavy damage but eventually fell the beast. Its horde includes a number of potions and a Lyre featuring brickwork designs and a Periapt of Health. It is also wearing a non-magical talisman depicting a circular object surrounded by flame similar to a solar eclipse.