The party was fighting a group of Beetle Swarms that crawled out of the walls as Mara attempted to open a Vecna Reliquary. The swarms grabbed several party members but before they could use their infected bite the heroes kept escaping via teleport or other means. Just as the heroes were eliminating a swarm a group of crossbow wielding Fingers of Vecna entered the hallway at their back. Alhellara positioned her Astral Defenders amongst the crossbowmen.
After another swarm fell a group of Teeth of Vecna followed the Fingers into the hallway and blasted the party with magic missiles. As usual Gofin was soon bloodied. Demin moved up into the fray and soon found himself bloodied and he changed positions with his glove to get out of danger. Meanwhile Mara and Pretis were involved with the last two swarms which were eliminated about the time a flesh golem entered into the rear of the hallway and rampaged through Lythandar and Alhellara. Luckily for the party the standard had been planted and every attack against the golem inflicted fire damage which made the golem move away from the attacker. This was more interesting as the Opportunity attacks from the Astral Defenders also inflicted fire damage.
The Fingers kept up their ranged attacks while the Teeth hexed Gofin, changed places with her and attacked with fire bursts and capricious earth. Of course the fire did less damage as the standard was planted. The golem moved back into the group with slams galore and was soon bloodied which gave it reaction slam attacks every time it was hit. The Fingers fell to attacks from Melisana, Gofin and Demin. Meanwhile the Golem did a critical hit on Mara who had to invoke Bear's Endurance to stay in the battle. The Teeth were fighting with staves and spells but they also fell from scorching bursts and opportunity attacks and the golem finally was defeated. As the party rested they were almost at the end of their endurance from a long day of battles and exploration.
The group decided to head back to the Knowledge Vault they had originally slept in for another extended rest. The rest was uninterrupted and Melisana and Pretis both recovered from the Demon Fever they had contracted. Now it was time to head back to the Reliquaries. With three doors left the group solved the riddle which was a glove, and found the Medial Digit of Vecna. In the northern door they found the scalp of Vecna and the last door revealed a shrunken eyeball. With all of the Relics now in hand the group headed out to investigate the remaining portion of the Adytum.
Going into the western hallway they found two more hallways leading south, the easternmost had cells or chambers leading off to the right and left. These chambers had beds, clothing some wall hooks with various mundane equipment on them. At the south end was a door that was not trapped nor locked. Pretis and Mara led the way into a "chapel". Tipped and scattered pews covered a floor tiled with green and yellow stone. A cracked font to the left of the door had leaked most of its water. At the south end was an obsidian altar, cracked in two places, with the hand and eyeball symbol having been mostly chipped away. The stench of death was strong in the "chapel".
Moving to the other south hallway, cells were again found to the right and left. These cells were somewhat more fancier than the previous ones. Two beds per cell, two armoires usually containing robes and mundane equipment. At the south end was another door. Demin could find no traps and unlocked the door. Opening it with the mage hand the group saw a larger chamber with light from two hanging lanterns, a well made desk, bed, bookcase, armoire and miscellaneous holy trappings featuring the hand and eyeball symbol. Standing in the room was a single human male wearing robes.
Pretis entered and was hit by a Glyph of warding for acid damage, he planted the standard as Demin and Gofin fired ranged attacks at the human figure. From the corners of the room three robed female humans moved around Pretis and unleashed Ruinous Blasts of fire and necrotic damage. The rest of the party answered back with ranged attacks.
Scorecard: The party earned 1429 XP for the nights work and now have 40706 XP and are at 13th level. They need 6294 more XP to reach 14th level.
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