They move through the building finding almost no corner untouched by battle and ruin. Walls are crumbled into rubble. The central ring of stones is made up of mostly of only remnants of the great stone pillars. The rooms themselves have been mostly picked for any remaining items of value.
Two large wooden doors at one end of the vast room beckons but the group needs rest first. Each finds a place to secure a place to sleep as Rook prepares his usual mirage arcane, in case its needed.
Entering The Temple Of Vecna
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After resting, the group moves on to the large wooden doors at the end of the chamber. They are heavy but open easily with a loud groan. Inside is an ornate room. There are statues of a robed wizard posed imposingly in the four corners of the room. At the far end of the room is a raised dais upon which sits a beautifully carved sarcophagus. In the center of the room sitting upon a raised pedestal, is a statue of a monstrous creature, each of its four arms holding a massive long chain which collects at the base of the statue. Scattered around the room are massive amounts of bones.
As the adventurers move hesitantly further into the room, they tell each other to avoid going to close to the statue. They fear the statue is the source of the many bones around the room. They do not wish to add more bones to the collection.
A woman comes out from around the sarcophagus at the far end of the room. She is dressed in beautiful robes but her face is withered and dry. Her skin is shrunken and horribly stretched across the protruding bones under her flesh. She laughs when she sees Rook and she claps her hands in joy as she tells them she is glad that he has brought her the Eye Of Falazure. She is Osterneth, greatest servant of Venca. Together they shall return it to Vecna.
Rook tells them that he wont be accompanying her or giving her credit for the Eye. She pauses with a raised ratty eyebrow and casts a spell towards him. She tells him to kill his companions. The spell cannot take hold on Rook so she begins the utterance of another spell. As she does so the bones around the room begin to move towards each other, finally coalescing into a giant ball of bones which moves using its various hands and feet made of partial skeletons.
The massive corpse mound rolls towards the group and it flings sharp bones towards them hitting Katya and pinning her to the ground. As the corpse mound rolls over the others the boney hands and fingers try to grab onto them and pull them inside of the rolling death mound. As the group pulls themselves out of the rolling death mound, several bones drop out of the ball and rise to form zombies which harass the adventurers.
As the group moves into attack the central statue grinds to life as the statue begins to rotate faster and faster, its chains rising with the centrifugal force and they lash out at the group. Rook finds himself entangled in the chains and he is flung around the room. He is able to misty step out of the chain before it does too much damage.
Between Osterneth and the corpse mound the group is in dire straits.
Of Pixies and Polymorphs
Adrasteia summons 16 pixies which surround the corpse mound and Osterneth. The pixies fire polymorph spell after polymorph spell which hits both the mound and the mage. They are transformed into rats. Which are then are put to sleep, again, by the pixies. The rats are then easily picked up and tossed into one of the party's many bags of holding.
The group realizes that once the spell wears off the corpse mound will be too large to be held in the bag of holding....and that's ok. Once the bag is torn, the contents, including their enemies will be scattered into the Astral Plane. Too far away to do them any harm.
Flying up, Rook places the bag upon the top of the statue in the middle of the room. As the group watches expectantly, soon enough the bag ruptures, with a <phewp> and collapses on the head of the statue. They look look at each other with looks to say, "that was it?"
The Remnants Of Vecna
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Smallfang approaches the statue with the hand. He pulls the hand off of the statue and holds in his own. It calls to him. He know now what he needs to do to acquire power. He must replace his own hand with this hand. Just as Rook had done with the eye. He pulls out his sword and prepares to perform the crude surgery.
The others, seeing this rush to him. Adrasteai, summons sea hags which are able to paralyze Smallfang and he is then polymorphed into a weasel. Katya takes the item from Smallfang as well as the others, being careful not to touch the items. She then places them in a bag of holding for safe keeping.
The Sword Of Kas
Katya then moves towards the dais upon which sits the sarcophagus. The sarcophagus is ornately decorated with the image of Vecna carved in relief upon its lid. As Katya moves about she can hear voices coming from within the sarcophagus. She opens it and finds that there seems to be a portal again in the bottom of the sarcophagus as well as on the lid is a sword.
The sword speaks to Katya and tells her that she is now destined to be the one to kill Vecna...with it's help of course. It explains that they must travel to the Abyss to stop Vecna as he is planning to kill The Raven Queen. He wishes to be the sole ruler of death. Death shall cease to be the end. He shall create an army of undead. He has already tricked the god Falazure into trading eyes and through Vecna's tainted eye, has turned the dragon god insane. It is only with the power of Vecna can they remove the curse from Falazure and his eye.
As Katya picks up the sword of rush of power injuring her courses through her body and she is bonded to the sword.
The sword, the Sword Of Kas, swears that he and Katya shall not allow this to happen.
Katya isn't so sure of her new sword.
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