Reincarnation Recuperation, Trap Traversal and Corridor Constructs

## Regrouping

* As the dust cleared around Kunai’s glowing form, they noted his pauldron was a combination of the couatl symbol of Jazirian and feathers of the raven queen
* Leo began to lead him out of the domed chamber as he stared in the direction of the exit form the chamber
* They reunited with Tamsin and Breena and Tamsin, confused, handed him back the Kunai dagger
* At that moment, the glow faded and Kunai fell asleep — Tamsin agreed to watch over him as the others pressed on
* The others discussed the events that had just transpired, Lysandre in particular was bitter about the lack of warning sign
* Bayul asked Azurial about the implications for him and he explained what Bahamut had told him; that it was at least known about and potentially solvable
* There was some questioning about the lack of warning from Rillifane too, but Leo defended him stalwartly and conversation (for some reason) turned to the other notable disciples, including Father John and Father Wokopokototikei.
* While they were talking, Breena took a closer look at the skulls in the central chamber, seeing they were from a horned devil, a titan, a pit fiend, an auroch and an ankheg

## Corridor of Terrible Things:

* Decided to finish the mission and open the central adamantium door, rather than investigating the distinctly rotten smelling passages to the east

### **Fire death sticky room**

* A small but extremely tall room with runes encircling it and also rising upwards, with a force field across the far door and a contraption high above
* Belgaer flew up and found this to be a fuse connected to a firework-esque device
* Lysandre lit the fuse with some pinpoint firebolting and they all scampered out of the room as a fireball crashed to the floor
* Returning inside and closing the door behind, the force field opened and they passed through, getting coated in a thick tar ejected from the walls as they did so
* However it was trivial for Lysandre and Breena to clean this magically and all breathed a sigh of relief at evading the fire tar combo

### **Spike death pitty room**

* A series of platforms and pits savagely coated and filled with spikes
* Azurial air-lifted Breena across and then attempted to repeat with Lysandre but dropped him from his grasp immediately — thankfully Jeff the beholderkin was summoned in the nick of time and caught Lysandre before he was impaled
* Belgaer flew across easily while Leo repeatedly plonked his wide feet onto vicious spikes and also set off a trap containing gas - upon reaching the end he was healed back to full by a mere touch of the benevolent Azurial
* Jeff and Belgaer successfully got Bayul across safely, despite his heft

### **Creepy death child blob room**

* A strong sulphurous smell permeated the corridor
* They turned the corner and came face to face with two children, who began to murmur grimly ‘Mummyyyyy’ and shambled forwards
* Bayul leapt into action as Jeff’s eyes blazed with deadly rays
* The group quickly dispatched the two as a much larger blob rounded the far corner, though was met by fireballs and eldritch blasts that hewed chunks from it
* It ejected two more unnatural humanoid figures that shielded the larger being from the smiting slashes of Azurial and Bayul’s spear
* However Breena yeeted several bombs at the main body of the beast, Jeff’s eye rays and Bel’s eldritch blasts crossed over as they lanced forth like a fantasy sci-fi discotheque, and Leo provided the disco ball with his sacred flame of Rillifane
* The beats struck back through its minions, clubbing their limbs through Bayul’s defenses and invading his very mind — his eyes rolled back in his head and he slumped to the floor unconscious
* He was rapidly healed up by Azurial but seemed dazed and confused on waking, watching with bleary eyes and Azurial finally blazed his way through the two smaller figures
* The abhorrent thing was finally laid to rest by Jeff’s savage gaze, and all decided to rest to help Bayul regain his memories

### **Slicey death construct room**

* A large room opened out with a stationary, dormant-appearing construct in the centre, a door on the far side, a hole in the wall to the right with corpses laid out, and celestial inscribed on the wall to the left
* Breena and Azurial attempted to sneak to the writing but the magnificent heavy armour of the paladin was not used to subtlety and once more made its presence clear
* The construct twitched at the disturbance, its form unfolding as a series of blades spun out from it and it charged
* Lysandre found that it was almost impervious to his fire and psychic-based magic, and Breena’s bombs faced a similar challenge, but the thing crumpled beneath the blows of Bayul, Bel, Azurial and Leo’s mighty hammer
* As it fell inactive, a scuttling noise from the corridor grew into a worrying susurration and a series of insectoid creatures burst forth
* The group was not their usual prey.
* The creatures lived for mere seconds before some were blown to smithereens and others scuttled back from whence they came in fear
* The writing was an inscription devoted to '\*\*\*\*\*\*\*'
* The far door led to a small chamber with a portal, identified as being ‘one-way’

### **Spinny death fan room also fire**

* They passed through, despite the need to rest, and appeared in an elongated room with a gigantic fan dividing the room in town and braziers burning beyond
* The wall behind them lined with spikes and the fan began to turn, threatening to blow them into these, as Bayul stepped forwards onto a section of floor that clunked down
* Breena dashed through, barely passing through the spinning blades, while Lysandre and Bel misty stepped through
* Leo tried to traverse the wall without touching the floor but there were few handholds and he fell
* The three remaining decided to begin smashing the walls, creating the necessary handholds
* Eventually, guided by Leo, Bayul was able to climb along and jump through the blades without touching the floor
* The others investigated the braziers and saw a lever inside the burning coals that would not budge once they put out the fire
* After deciding that getting a small burn from reaching in was probably better than tanking a fireball, they activated the lever and thus summoned a portal to the next room
* Azurial traversed successfully, then Leo tried while Breena and Bayul used the arcane cannon to blast the fan, but it was unaffected by seemingly all damage
* At the last moment before the fan, the firbolg fell and, feeling he didn’t have time to get back, leapt through despite its spinning — he was grievously wounded by the sharp blades but made it through just about whole
* All decided it was time for bed