Northreach Session 14: Pyramid of Shadows
From Toosigma
After their rest the group heads south down a stairway and into a room with a hideous trap floor which sends Tinverton head first into a hidden room and brings several charnel rats into the trapped room. Tinverton sees a Charnel Lord in a pit and tries to avoid sliding into its pit. Allanon rushes forward and trips the floor once again sliding into the pit and pushing Tinverton into a room full of charnel rats. Tinverton triggers the floor from the rat room and reappears with the rest of the group unwittingly sending rats into the pit with Allanon. The battle rages on as Findo has the group attach two ropes to his body to keep him from falling into the pit when the floor flips. He triggers the floor and nearly slides into the pit where Allanon is fighting fro his life. Risking Allanon’s life in order to try to save it Findo throws everything he has into the pit in the attempt but his effort only speeds Allanon’s death as the Charnel Lord has his way dragging Allanon into the Hunger of Hadar Findo has unleashed into the pit. The floor trips again and Findo ends up in the rat room. He clears it out with a burst and is flipped up into the original room by Tinverton once again. He tells the group that Allanon has died and he needs to recover the corpse in order to raise the poor mage. The trip the floor once again and Findo goes back in to defeat the Charnel Lord from afar. The group recovers the body and the items from the poor drow’s corpse and sabotage the trap so no one else triggers the deadly trap.
As they move north into the hallways, Grundor appears suddenly after following them through the wildness and the carnage of bodies the group is leaving in its wake. The group moves northwards into another hall with several dark mirrors and is attacked by two Dark Creepers, 3 Hellswords, and bolts of fire from the mirrors. The group manages to dispatch the Hellswords and Creepers only to find a Flameskull using a crystal ball to spy and attack the party. After dispatching the Flameskull the party the group takes a small rest and continues into the depths of the Pyramid.
They come upon a large room with four large monoliths crackling with energy. The Head of Vyrellis goes nuts seeing her undead body imprisoned within the energy field. The group destroys each monolith freeing the body but as the approach it, the trap springs and her head imbeds itself in her old decaying body. Suddenly the body attacks the group with magic of razors, ice storms, and waves of force severely injuring the group. Battered and injured the group defeats the body and recovers the head of Vyrellis. After healing Findo Vrinn before he dies the group retreats to the room of the Flameskull for an extended rest.
