Exploring further, the party finds a room with a sarcophagus. Detecting Undead, Lars prepares his spell to control undead. Opening the lid, the mummy immediate falls sway to Lars' persuasion. Nubkaura Inyotef VII is your typical cranky mummy, he enjoys defiling the grave of his traitorous sone. Lars strikes a new deal with Nubkaura and he agrees to help the party.
The Mummy warns the party about a few gargoyles that are guarding a storage room. Ready for the surprise from the ‘statues’, the party makes short work of the guardians, and wishes they had been guarding better loot.
With the mummy's guidance, the party arranges an ambush for Khair al Din, the resident priest. Knocking on the door, posing as one of the hapless rubes, they momentarily distract him and get the drop. Quickly moving through the underground lair of the One source guild, the party passes up some sahuagin in an sea-filled cave. Then they find the temple room, and a few smelly corpses and a few smelly ghouls hiding among them. The ghouls never stood a chance.
Then the party finds a water filled cavern, with a rope and wood bridge crossing over to a rocky outcrop with an elaborate stone door. While crossing the bridge, a weird-looking mutant eye of the deep, strikes out of the water at the party. Lurking up to the bridge, it is unable to pull Luce into the water. The party finishes off the beast quickly before anyone has to go for a swim.
Taking a bit to get the stone door to open, the party moves into the hallway and locates Rayhan. Healing him, the party gets Rayhan back on his feet, and they move forward to the door at the end of the all. Searching around the room, Father Jackal enters the room and combat ensues. With a loud howl, Father Jackal summons help and pulls a giant bear out of a sack at his waist. Lars hits the bear with a bead of force, while Father Jackal continues to dance around the edge of the summoned spiked pit. Then another door opens and the ugly twisted form of a skeleton head in a veiny gelatinous blob with a base of tentacles wanders in. Using the last bead of force, Lars gets the emkrah trapped in a bead of force, while Father Jackal falls into and jumps out of the spiked pit. Now with all their focus on the jackalwere, he succumbs to the mighty prowess of the Little Rascals.
Lars starts to communicate with the Emkrah with his bizarre other planar knowledge. Eventually Lars figures out that the Emkrah wants to eat the corpse of Father Jackal, and Lars agrees so long as the Emkrah leaves the party alone. Once the force wall drops, the Emkrah eats the corpse and heads out the stone door.
The party finishes exploring the lair and encounters the captain of the Sunset ship. After introductions are made, and the party finds out the captain's plan to ruin Father Jackal, the captain offers the party 40,000 GP in rubies to feed a vial to the Emkrah. The party negotiates the reward up to 45,000 GP, and agrees to get it done in 7 days. It is at that time the Sunset ship will sail away for another 7 years.
The party heads out after the Emkrah...
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Session Characters: Kushii, Lars, Luce, Billy
Session XP: 7200 XP each
Session Loot: wand of cure moderate wounds (37 charges); +2 full plate, +1 greataxe, obsidian and gold unholy symbol worth 140 gp, three potions of shield of faith +4, tan bag of tricks; +1 breastplate, +1 battleaxe, throwing axes (6), gauntlets of ogre power, key to one source temple and the prison cells
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