Partly Cloudy

On entering the parallel that resembled Tovag Baragu Prime the party was immediately attacked by humans with robes on.  The group found themselves sort of backwards as the rear of the party was set upon first.  Pretis planted the Standard and the battle was on.  Soon four more Teeth of Vecna appeared and cast fire burst spells into the area of the party.  This caused considerable damage even with the Standard activated.  The group arranged itself to assail the Teeth but some found themselves hit by magic missiles and other area spells.


 As the battle continued Pretis found herself unconscious amidst the party and the Teeth pressed their attack and slid the party members together so that further area attacks affected each party member.  The group continued to assail the Teeth, blinding one, and dazing several others.  Mara knocked several Teeth prone and swiftly eliminated them.  Demin found himself switching places with a Vecnian not of his own doing as the group discovered other traits that were used by the Teeth.

After a moderate battle the Teeth were eliminated and Pretis regained her footing after Alhellara spent a healing word.  A search of the bodies found 1,000 GP in gems and a Holy Symbol of Divine Light +4.  Following a short rest the party decided to ignore the buildings beyond the circle and examine the arches.  Melisana and Lythandar followed the usual procedure.

N - Objects seemed twice as far away
NE - Objects seemed 10 times closer
E - Strahds castle
SE - Sheen of violet ripples
S - Objects seemed twice as far away
SW - Objects seemed 10 times closer
W - Curtain of black darkness
NW - Necropolis

The only active portals were the South one that the party entered and the NE portal.  When Melisana stuck her head through the NE portal she saw a space that didn't seem familiar.  There was no circle of standing stones but a hallway stretching southwest with niches in the side walls.  At the end of the hallway a pallid yellow-green light shone from an opening.  The walls were mortared slabs but the 10' ceiling  appeared to be carved out of sedimentary rock.  Small alcoves line the walls each containing a small statuette.  The floor and walls were covered with signs of battle, scorch marks over scorch marks, blood stains on top of blood stains.

Melisana returned to the Tovag Baragu parallel and the group decided that this portal was probably the path that Iuz had followed.  Demin sneaked through the archway and found that the alcoves held statues each having no left eye or left hand.  These were obviously various guises of Vecna.  Moving down the hallway Demin peered into the next chamber where he saw some ghouls feeding on carrion and some onyx statues which were also missing a left eye and hand.  The rest of the party also moved into the hallway, Gofin looked back to find a stone archway that had a black curtain across its portal.

Scorecard: The party earned 500 XP for the battle with Vecna's Teeth and now have 33,441 XP.  They need 5559 more XP to reach 13th level.