The Source of Feathers

The journey through Ilotha continued last night.  Last session the party had defeated fifteen harpies outside of an old temple.  They made their way toward the entrance and opened the hefty stone door to the massive temple.  It opened into an enormous round room with twenty doors.  Each door had an elven ruin on it.  Things like earth, air, fire, water, elk, wolf, and tree.  Their first instinct was to look for a door with a ruin that had an animal with wings but there was none.  Argon, Tyr’s goliath cleric, used a wand of conjure fey, that they had found earlier in their travels, to conjure a fey dire wolf.  He used the wolf to seek out Selena the kidnapped shop keeper they were seeking.   The fey dire wolf led them to the door with the ruin for air.  The door was trapped and Tyr’s shapeshifter monk rogue, Finn, botched his disable trap so the group was pierced with darts that shot out from the walls before they could open the door. 

They proceed up some stairs until they came to a door that lead into another massive round room.  This room contained three doors that were unmarked.  Argon again asked the fey dire wolf to seek out the right door.  Again the door opened into a stairway.  Finn proceeded up the stairs triggering another trap that released a poisonous gas.  This last door led into another massive round room at the top of the temple.

On the far side from the door was a half angel bound and restrained in the skeletal hands of an enchanted statue.  She was gagged and obviously worse for the wear.  It was obvious that she had been through some kind of torture.  There was nothing else in the expansive room.  Above them there were holes in the ceiling where parts of it had crumbled away.  Tannis, Argon, and Gaunt stayed close to the wall near the door while Finn stealthily snuck over to the bound Selena.  Finn removed her gag and asked her what the situation was.  She quietly and quickly explained that her kidnappers had taken her to try to force her to send them to another dimension that they wanted to conquer.  She told him that they would be back any minute.  Then through the ceiling came two fallen angels.  Finn quickly gave Selena an invisibility potion since he couldn’t free her at the moment and the party got a surprise round against the fallen angels who weren’t expecting intruders. 

This set off an intense battle that pummeled the party.  The angels’ weapons delivered intense blows bringing each party member near death more than once.  Many rounds were used up taking healing potions instead of attacking.  Finally, Finn, still near Selena, asked her if the fallen angels had any weaknesses and she told him that they didn’t but they were resistant to anything that isn’t a magical weapon.  This was a valuable piece of information for the party as none of them were using magical weapons and they needed to regroup and come up with a new strategy.  Finn tossed Gaunt, Hal’s halfling barbarian, his magic vampiric dagger.  Tannis, Carter’s ranger, took a round to coat his arrows with a potion of sharpness to make them magical.  Gaunt was near the “gold” angel which was 75 feet in the air.  This didn’t do him much good since he couldn’t reach her with a melee attack so he dropped the magic rope that they had and commanded it to tie up the “gold” angel and dashed back towards the “black” angel which was closer to the ground to see if he could get a shot at her.  Tannis started to do some serious damage to the angels with his enhanced arrows.  Argon dealt some damage with his spells.  What really helped was that the “gold” angel failed her dex check and was tied up by the magic rope and came crashing to the ground.  Gaunt dashed over and finished her off with a couple of stabs from the magic dagger and a bash from his magic shield.  Argon finished off the “black” angel by casting shatter and exploding her head.  For their trouble the party got to take the weapons the angels had (all of which dealt massive damage plus radiant damage); a long bow, a great sword, and a trident.  They then unbound Selena.  Argon cast dispel magic on the statue holding her and they were able to break it away to release her.

The trip back to town was uneventful and they returned Selena back to her shop/home.  Then they headed to see Ri-el and Ki-el to let them know they were successful and to collect Argon’s ram.  They then all went back to Selena’s shop where she thanked them and led them into her basement where she would perform the ritual to send them back to the realm of Ravensrest.  She drew a magic circle on the floor and performed the ritual.  The party asked if she could send them back to exactly where they had come from and she said there was no guarantee that they may wind up somewhere within a couple of miles from where they came from.  They began to feel like their bodies were collapsing in on themselves and they began to travel through the dimensions….

Next time we find out where they land and what will happen when they encounter Lord Falafel again.