Second Age - Session 9

Exiting the temple, the Fallcrest Dragonslayers set up camp near the temple. The night went well, although Kavaki didn't sleep too well and awoke with a mysterious new tatoo of a serpent-dragon around his neck. Unfortunately, the temple disappeared as soon as the sun came up, so they had to wait until the next night until they could go back.

After waiting most of the day in the clearing near where the temple would appear, the Fallcrest Dragonslayers got paid a visit by a dragon. Aglera turned out to be one huge green dragon, and it was none too happy about the Dragonslayers being on it's territory. As it was quite clear that they were outmatched, they agreed to it's demands. Inside the temple, there should be a lot of old books, which Aglera wanted in exchange for letting the heroes live.

Night came, and under the watchful glare of the dragon, the Dragonslayers entered the temple once again. They quickly went downstairs to the room where the wraiths who nearly killed them all had come from. In there, they found a room with a black altar, and no exits.

As they started to explore the room, they set off a trap. The only doors out locked, and water started to pour in through some sort of magical gate suspended in the air. As the water started to rise, two secret doors opened, letting two golems into the altar room. The fight begun, and the Dragonslayers room found themselves fighting for their lives. The magical constructs were obviously very hard to kill, and the rising water was not making things easier. It didn't take long for the entire room to fill up. This of course didn't make any difference for the constructs, but for the Dragonslayers, it was a huge problem. After a long fight, they finally managed to kill the two golems, but they were still stuck in a room filled with water and no air.

Frantically they started to search for an exit or something that could save them. After a long time desperately searching every square inch of the room, they found some magically runes instructing how they could reverse the water gate and empty the room of water. Kudes started working on the gate, while Garel-kai assisted him. Unfortunately, the magic of the gate was hard to figure out, and Kudes attempt to manipulate it created a magical blast, killing Garel-kai, Kavaki and Paavu. Kudes managed to survive the blast and kept at it, racing the almost inevitable. Moments later Kavaki re-awoke, just to watch Kudes fail at fixing the gate and running out of air. So Kavaki was awake, but with no magical knowledge, he could not manipulate the gate and there was nothing he could do but wait for death....

Fallcrest Dragonslayers: R.I.P