Monthly session report: Down the dwarven forgery

So, during my sabbatical I missed a lot. The party had put up base in the city Sundabar. In the Silver Marches region of Faerun. The city has been under siege by shadows in the last few months. The quest has been a continuing struggle against these shadows as well as some side quests cleaning out dungeons.

The session began by Magnum waking up in an alley without any of his gear. He missed the last session, so as is customary he was held captive in some stupid place. This time local street kids had stolen his gear. Unfortunately for one of the kids, Magnums patience was not endless as he threw his hammer through the punks head trying to retrieve his geiser. Yikes! Fortunately, some local priests were willing to raise the boy for free, otherwise he would have been in a more nasty situation.

Meanwhile, Budrik, my dwarven priest of Tyr, was summoned to the town hall by Helm Dwarf-Friend for a quest. He was offered 50000 goldpieces to retrieve the holy symbol of Beorn, that is presumed to be lost in the dwarven forgeries beneath the city. Budrik seeks out a party willing to help him on this quest. By great coincidence he finds a party hanging round in a local pub who are willing to take on this quest for 40000.

The forgeries are normally closed off and guarded, but the adventurers are let in by the city guard. The temerature of the complex begin to rise the deeper they come. After some time, the group is ambushed by three fire mephits. Zull sees this as the perfect opportunity to try out his new cloud kill spell. And with much effect. All three mephits were killed on the spot.

Several levels down we found a sort of anvil or table that had a faint trace of magic still lingering. Connected to the table were two empty sockets where orbs of about 10 cm could be placed. Guessing this would be the best lead to go deeper into the forgery we went looking for the orbs. The first we found in the possession of a bunch of steam mephits. It took some battle, but this one was quickly in our posession. The second was located in a water bassin we found behind a hidden staircase. A careful perception check revealed that the bassin was not empty, so we suspected that there would be water mephits living in the bassin.

Nobody particularly cared for some fresh under water combat, zo Zull summoned a large shark who had the mephits for lunch. The water mephits had the second orb, so we went back to the magic anvil. When the orbs were inserted into the sockets, the anvil table began to drop revealing a round staircase. The staircase led to a big hall, in which the temperature was even higher than in the level above. As soon as we set foot in the chamber we were attacked by 10 medium sized fire elementals. The battle that followed was long, but thanks to the protection spells cast, not too damaging.

The session ended when we defeated the last fire elemental.