Dicing with Death Episode 074

Day 25 (continued)
Georg & Reptar return to the Storybrook Inn in Shirebrook and rest.



Day 26
Georg starts the morning drinking coffee. Then Georg and Reptar head over to a Leatherworker. They contract them to resize the Bullywug Alligator Leather Armor to be Reptar's size. It will be ready tomorrow. They also plan to get Reptar a spear, but there isn't an armorer in town.

Five hours later in the Half-Pint, a group of dwarves come into and come up to Georg and Reptar, asking for help with a mystery. The party agrees, and follow the dwarves back to the mines.

The mines are typical twisting mines with mine tracks. After a little, the tracks cross an unusually straight and tall tunnel. The dwarves say this section of rock was much easier to dig out and came out smoother. The dwarf adds that the real mystery is at the end of the hallway.

It leads to a strange hemisphere room. 15' across 20' tall. In the centre stands a doorway shaped stone archway. The floor and the walls are rather smooth, but not perfectly smooth, smooth like gravel. Georg cautiously enters the room, then walks around the circumference of the room, before walking to the side of the archway. He puts his hand on the side of the arch. The arch itself is made from a white stone, White Soap Stone, very different from those in the mine. The archway and the walls were crafted by tools.

Georg finds no carvings, no engravings. Georg throws a stone though the archway and it just goes though, nothing magical occurring. Georg puts his torch though and nothing magical happens. Georg steps though and nothing magical happens.

Georg and Reptar are left along as the dwarves get back to work. Georg and Reptar continue to study the room. Without Detect Magic, the investigation is at a standstill.

Georg and Reptar return to the Half-Pint in Shirebrook.

Day 27
The next day Georg & Reptar pick up Reptar's armor. Then they back to the mines. He returns to the chamber with the stone archway. Georg detects magic on the archway. A magic mouth appears and says 'Unseal the shadow realm'. A portal opens.

The portal is strong alteration school magic.

Georg steps though.

Though the portal liues a room atop a tower in the plane of shadow. A dimly lit realm leached of color. There is a podium against the back wall, flanked by two small arched windows.

On the podium rests a clear princess cut gemstone, set by it's corners in a collow disc of gold punchured with three smaller round cut clear gemstones, attached to a fine golden chain.

Above the podiumm carved in the stone wall, reads a message:


 * We hide away what we cannot destroy,
 * Drexl the Bloodthirsty's weapon
 * The Amulet of Malkis