Burning Ring of Fire

The party follows the invitation and meets with Dilix Mahad, a peaceful Shaitan, not happy with Jhavul's intentions on bringing destruction.  Dilix warns the party about the Jhavul-friendly faction of Shaitan led by Obherak, who want to make Kakishon their permanent home.  And also about Proteans, who after being forced to create Kakishon, are desperate to destroy it.  Dilix offers aid to the party if they need it, whichever faction they choose.  Dilix knows the Proteans have the means to escape Kakishon, but is not quite sure if the Shaitan posses the same.

The next destination, chosen from Rayhan's copy of the map and copious notes, is Isle of the Dead.  Not surprising, the island appears completely lifeless...  except for a cat.  Then somebody did something to irritate a couple of invisible stalkers.  Then, inside what was to be Nyx's tomb, a wyrmskull offers lots of advice and information about Kakishon and those that dwell within.  Venema, the former dragon, tells the tale of Andrathi, who is toasted into the bronze gates.  Andrathi's cat Spooky seems to favor Kushii.

Over on volcano island Artel the azer is busy reforging weapons, but the party makes a nice parley and Artel is willing to help.  He mentions the possibility of a special weapon that could be made from certain crystals that grow on top of a spire in a null magic zone on the north end of the isle.   He would have procured them himself, except the anti-magic makes getting by the undead that dwell there difficult.

Approaching the spire the party notices that it is infested with ghasts.  The ghasts seem to not want to leave the anti-magic area around the spire.  Luce decides to charge in, after everyone notices that Billy is missing already.  Without the use of spells, and some very tentative combat tactics, the ghasts do surprisingly well.  That is until Kushii triple-crits and Khazzaur starts wading through the mob of undead.  Billy makes it to the top of the spire and recovers five crystals to take to the dwarf.

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Session Characters:  Khazzaur, Hazel, William, Billy, Kushii, Lars, Luce.
Session XP:  4686 XP each.
Session Loot:  190 GP, 13 +3 undead bane arrows (8400 GP), a scroll of disintegrate, a +2 mithral buckler (5005 GP), and a periapt of wound closure.  three +1 longswords (2315 GP each), a +2 battle axe (8310 GP), two +1 halberds (2310 GP each), a +1 thundering bastard sword (8335 GP), a +2 rapier (8320 GP), and 4 +1 daggers (2302 GP each) , along with a suit of +2 chainmail (4300 GP each) and +1 full plate.