Out Of The Frying Pan

Sailing off the edge of the world, into the mistbound realm of the Isle of Not, the party meets with the proteans.  As the friendly shaitan suggested, the proteans can send the party back through one of their primal chaos pools.  The party prepares themselves, and hops through the portal.

Swirling through a vortex of wind and fire, the party comes to in a brightly lit room with four archways.  For golems made of brass attack the party a couple of rounds later.  The brass men put up a good fight, but the party is victorious and loots the room.

Each of the archways is filled with a curtain of fire.  After studying the inscriptions above the doorways, and a couple of divination spells, Lars figures out that there is a numerical pattern clue.  So the party begins to take the doors in the prescribed pattern.

A ghostly visage talks to the party, though a mirror in one of the rooms.  He tells the tale of how the palace is cursed, trapping everyone inside, and that the party is the key to freeing him.

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Session Characters:  Kushii, Lars, Luce, Billy
Session XP:  3200 XP each
Session Loot:  57 SP, 33 GP, 100 CP, 800 GP, brass lamp (1000 GP), 75 SP, 39 GP, three gems (100 GP each), three gems (200 GP each), three gems (300 GP each), three gems (400 GP each).

Everybody Must Get Stoned

Sneaking down into the deepest party of the shaitan layer, the party comes into Obherak's room.  Quickly coming into position, Luce strikes with death-from-above while Billy provides supressing fire.  The party engages, and the two attending shaitan keep the heavies from supporting Luce.  The first two rounds Luce takes a real beating, as the supporting party members struggle to get to him.  Only after one of the attending shaitan falls, is anyone able to help Luce.  Obherak falls next, and the remaining shaitan does not have a chance.

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Session Characters:  Kushii, Lars, Karabella, Luce, William, Hazel, Khazzaur, Itarildë, Billy
Session XP:  2400 each
Session Loot:  bracers of armor +2, large +1 flaming burst falchion, ring of protection +2,  ring of the ram (22 charges), golden circlet (2000 GP), 31332 CP, 14051 SP, eighteen crystal bowls (10 GP each), mithril medallion (300 GP), twenty one everburning torch lanterns, silver coffer (500 GP), incense of meditation, slippers of spider climbing, bottle of air, figuring of wondrous power (onyx dog).

More Shaitan Than You Can Shake A Stick At

The party continues to explore the shaitan lair, in the Golden Bowl.  Moving from wing to wing, off of the main chamber.  The shaitan are difficult opponents, turning the floor to mud only to solidify it the next round.  Moving in an out of the stone, keeps the party on their toes.  But, after adapting their tactics, the party successfully removes the bulk of the shaitan presence.

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Session Characters:  Kushii, Lars, Karabells, Luce, William, Hazel, Khazzaur, Billy
Session XP:  3200 XP each
Session Loot:  6400 GP worth of masterwork tools, weapons, and armor.

The Shaitan Have Hid The Fan

The party makes their way to the Golden Bowl, home of the Jhavuhl-loyal shaitans.  After landing on a sandy beach, the group heads inland through a desert.  Approaching a rocky rise, the party scouts the perimeter of the bowl.  A large stone structure rests at the bottom of the bowl.  Heading down into the valley, the party approaches the building and is challenged by a gynosphinx.  After playing the riddle game, an irritable and impatient shaitan berates the sphinx.  As Lars tries to mediate, the shaitan attacks.  The gynosphinx, fed up with the shaitan, attack her master as the shaitan summons gargoyles to help the attack.  The party is victorious and the sphinx provides some advice about the shaitan lair.

Descending into the tunnel, sealed by a stone shape spell, the party goes down into an enormous chamber with an imentesh protean.  The protean is unconscious, barely alive, imprisoned in the stone cyst floating in the middle of the room.  As the party looks around and discusses what to do, a pair of stonespike guardians attack from two of the four doors.  The guardians are tough, and the party takes a beating before defeating the creatures.

The party destroys the stone cyst, and revives the protean enough that it escapes the shaitan lair.

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Session Characters: Kushii, Lars, Luce, Billy, Hazel, Khazzaur
Session XP:  4600 XP
Session Loot:  1500 GP, six tiger eye gems (10 GP each), topaz (1000 GP), potion of lesser restoration, wand of false life (CL3, 17 charges), wind fan.