THE HEART OF NIGHFANG SPIRE

FEBRUARY 22, 2003

The elves saw the door open. Gwynn was sleeping. Varden and Taliesan didn’t wake him when they and the cougars tracked the invisible intruder down the hallway to the double doors. No point in continuing; he was evidently alied with the huge elder fire elemental guarding the room beyond. They’d slay it in the morning.

We use greater magic weapon, quench and an ice mephit to slay the fire elemental. Afterward, the cougars corner someone invisible in the shaft room but it gets away.

Varden scouts out the shaft and the party descends the 300 feet. Just before Griffon heads down, Reynaud appears and tries to bull rush him down the hole. Griffon hits him with an arrow and feather falls his way down. Reynaud says “good luck in the abyss!” and disappears again.

We find another room full of girallons and slay most of them. The last one speaks, in common, “if Gulthias wants us to clean we’ll clean!” Realizing the party can talk their way out of this one, Varden uses animal empathy to get past the other girallons and get an audience with their leader, a female named Thief the Smart. We broker a truce based on our mutual hatred of the Vampire and Thief loans us one quarter of the key, a safe room to rest in, and a guide, Konk.

The next day Konk leads us into the catacombs where we fight four mohrgs and a wicked tombstone golem. We barely slay them, but not before the golem fells Konk. We heal him and leave off trying to decide whether to go back or go on.