Adventurers:

• Daffodil – Basilisk
• Aryn – Wizard
• Yivenna – Thief
• Calgor – Priest

Creepy guy that Aryn knows enters the tavern and beckons her to finish quest and takes us to the shadow roads. We exit to an area that has a high plateau, an extremely bad stench, and in the distance is a floating city. Location is called Black Lotus Mesa, there is a tomb there that contains the Book of Secrets. Zulthus Ka – dead king whose tomb this is. There is a very nice door with a giant hole in the wall next to it. There are boot tracks leading into the opening. Aryn notices that there are scorch marks around the opening from an explosion. Hallway that heads North and South, we go South. We find a room covered in dust with a dead body skewed by a giant spike. East and West walls have carved murals of serpent people fighting an army of humans, elves, and dwarves. Yivenna notices that there are pressure plates on the floor that have not been activated. We search the body and find 27gp, set of engraved bone dice (25gp), short sword, and thieves’ tools. There is a door at the far end of the room that rotates, party struggles to open the door but finally succeeds. They enter a small hallway that heads East and West, the East leads to the front door. West leads to a revolving door that Calgor opens easily. Opens into a spade shaped room with urns in the corner and a sarcophagus in the middle. Yivenna finds a trap on the sarcophagus. Shadows start to detach from the walls.

Calgor heals Rowan who awakens and says, “My god, what have you done.”

Combat

• Daffodil swings obsidian club striking one shadow
• Yivenna – swings short sword and misses
• Calgor shoots the one next to Yivenna
• Aryn uses magic missile and hits
• Shadows attack Daffodil and Yivenna, they miss Yivenna and hit Daffodil
• Calgor shoots the shadow in front of Daffodil killing that shadow
• Aryn uses magic missile and misses
• Daffodil throws their boomerang missing the shadow and hitting some urns
• Yivenna attacks with her short sword and hits
• The shadow strikes back and misses Yivenna
• Calgor shoots the remaining shadow killing it.

Yivenna inspects the lid but is not able decide how the mechanism works. The party ties a rope around the lid and attempts to pull it off successfully. They hear the lid fall followed a clank and a hiss. A door swings shut, and the room starts to fill with gas. Daffodil is caught on the gas side, everyone else on the other. Calgor was able to open the door, pull Daffodil through, and shut the door. The party turns around and heads back to the open and to explore to the north. The find a pillared corridor that has a pulsing pale light coming from moss that is around the ceilings. There are a multitude of jars and urns that litter the floor and alcoves. While looking for traps they notice a swarm of bats on the ceiling. They find a corpse of another adventure in an alcove entangled in the glowing moss. Wherever we step the moss starts to pulse a different color. We loot the body for 19gp, a fine silver dagger, and a ring with a white pearl like stone and a spidery web of black cracks which Daffodil puts on. We turn the corner and find a door which Calgor opens. The door reveals a large rectangular room with another door on the far side. The walls are lined with bas reliefs depicting an eldritch apocalypse. Urns and jars lay scattered across the floor, the far door is basalt and Yivenna finds a trap in the middle of the room along with a trap on the door. Yivenna disables the pit trap in the middle of the room. We see a body in the bottom of the trap, it is 20 feet down. The party lowers Yivenna into the pit to loot the body, Calgor fumbles with the rope a bit. Yivenna retrieves chain mail and a longsword from the body. While this is going on Daffodil and Aryn must pass a Charisma check which Daffodil fails. Daffodil is starring at the seen on the wall, they are engrossed in this scene, they can almost hear the battle, smell the blood in the air, it is like they are there. Aryn comes up and startles Daffodil, but Daffodil can still hear the voices in their head. Daffodil now has an overwhelming urge to collect strange and disgusting trinkets like scrapings of dirt where they sleep and teeth from enemies they kill. Daffodil starts playing with the contents of urns near them. Yivenna attempts to disarm the door trap and Aryn tells her to stop as she notices a glyph of warning on this door. Aryn throws an urn at the glyph triggering a deafening thunderclap and Daffodil takes damage. From the shadows in the room and whatever was in the jar comes together into a wraith serpent type form. Daffodil attempts to speak to the ghost in reptilian who says, “You have disturbed the king and will now pay with your lives” and as it says this, the light goes out. Yivenna lights a flare rod. The ornate silver dagger that we found starts to get shinier as the wraith appeared. Aryn brandishes the dagger, and nothing happens.