Session 78 – “Ride the worm wind”

Map of the pyramid tomb

Map of the desert

Location(s)

• The desert

• Tomb of the djinn

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 88

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Went through the portal and journeyed through the desert

  • Had prepared a sled to carry our things

• Reached two pillars in the sand

  • Remains of a road and way stones lead away from it

  • Followed the old road

• Encountered a giant sand worm and fled

• Reached some hills where we camped during the heat of the day

• Continued our journey and reached a fallen obelisk

  • Road splits here

  • Inscriptions on obelisk:

    • “Road of kings”

    • “City of gardens” (the left path?)

    • “Tomb of [some name]” (the right path?)

• Continued travelling to the left and reached a statue in the sand

  • Inscriptions on tablet of statue:

    • “Look on ruins of great city and despair”

    • “Great magic”

    • “Mens works”

• Dernard and Kaya fell into a sink hole, the others followed after them

  • Were in a huge dome under the sand

  • Found a building in the dome

  • Found a golden, sealed door in the building

  • Found some inscriptions in the building

    • “Sacr Al Gimi”

    • “Amdula”

    • “Bismila and Duvan”

    • Later discovered to be passwords for golden door

  • Read the inscriptions on the golden door (via Read Magic spell)

    • “Do not disturb the vanquished one”

    • “He is the treasure that must be kept”

  • Encountered a water spirit (or something) above ground that answered three questions

    • Who is the vanquished one? Sacr Al Gimi

    • How to open golden doors? Pass right hand before them and speak his name

    • Last question wasted because Nigel is Nigel

  • Entered room behind the golden door

    • Walls of light blocked the path

    • Blue = ice magic, yellow = lightning, red = fire (probably)

    • Nigel got temporarily frozen

    • Used the passwords to get though the walls

    • Found a giant oil lamp

    • Unsealed the lamp and summoned the Djinn

    • Wants to lay waste to the land (already a desert, so no issue?)

    • Djinn left

• Climbed out the sink hole again to return to the pyramid

  • Encountered a ghost in the sand dunes