Feywild Ruin

Are heroes are standing in and before a 30 foot long pit, the bottom studded with spikes, with a shimmering area seemingly creating a bridge across the pit.  Unfortunately the bridge seems to disappear as a character moves across it.  Gofin had learned this firsthand as she fell into the pit.  Demin determined to follow climbed the wall along the north side of the pit, he made it to the last square of the pit and then fell onto the bridge which disappeared.   Demin fell to the bottom of the pit taking damage from the spikes and force damage from the bridge.


Next up was Pretis who took a running jump from 15 feet onto the bridge.  She leaped up and over the pit just as the shimmering disappeared.  Lythandar then crossed using the rope thrown across the pit by Pretis.  Gofin determined that with effort she could push a spike shard up through the shimmering bridge.  Demin tried to climb out but failed and fell back into the pit. 

Meanwhile Mara had retreated to the Dark Laboratory to retrieve a table, which was longer than 10 feet.  While in the chamber she noticed a Skull headed mithral key on a rope around the neck of a dead Bodak.  Melisana joined her and they pulled the other two Bodaks out of the room but found no other keys.  Mara collected all three tables from the room.

Gofin and Demin succeeded climbing out of the pit and forcing their way through the bridge, with the aid of Pretis and Lythandar.  Pretis continued on down the passage to find a dead end leading east while another passage headed north.  Alhellara attempted to cross the pit with the rope but was swallowed up by the disappearing bridge.  Melisana made her way across while Alhellara climbed out of the pit with aid.

Mara then wedged two tables over the bridge and started moving across slowly moving one table ahead of the other all the way across the pit.  In the long wait time the other members of the party explored the northern passageway.  This led to a 30 by 30 chamber the floor of which was covered by filth and detritus.  In the northeast corner was a wooden door and across from it was an archway filled with grey mist.  It was determined that the door led nowhere, probably couldn't be opened, there was nothing magical in the room and no concealed doorways.

Finally Mara joined the group as Lythandar noted that the arch was probably the way out as he stepped through.  Others followed, lastly Mara trying to take a table with her.  The whole party, sans table, found themselves back in the three arched hallway where mystic runes covered the walls and grey mist filled the arches.  Lythandar again stepped through the western arch, was pushed back into hallway with a lurch and found himself standing before another wooden door.  This door stood half open, and a dusty silence hung in the air.

Pretis pushed open the door and beheld a room, the same shape as the Dark Laboratory although this one had the shattered remains of vats(?) spread across the floor, joined by a mass of glass shards, broken crockery, and rotted wood that stretched from wall to wall.  In the southeast corner was a door partially open.  Entering cautiously the group spread out around the chamber, wary of enemies, Melisana surmised that this was a later time as the vats were smashed.  Finding nothing magical or any other exit the party moved to the far doorway where a stairway led down.  Lythandar and Melisana were searching for a key but found none.

Gofin moved down the stairs to find a hallway leading east with a 30 foot long pit set with rusted spikes.  There did not appear to be a shimmering bridge here and Gofin descended into the pit on a rope made here way across the the far side climbed out and saw the passage continue.  The rest of the party followed after which they again found the 30 by 30 foot room with an impassible door and and grey mist filled arch.  Stepping through they again found themselves in the three arch passageway.

One arch remained and Pretis moved forward to step through, returning with a lurch and finding herself before a wooden door.  Luminescent gray moss grew between the stones of the wall.  Flickering firelight shone beyond the door.  Pretis opened the door and beheld a laboratory in rotting shambles.  Sheets of red-gray mold lined the walls, and an oily black fungus was consuming the remains of a few large tables.  Three stone vats stood within the room, the middle one filled with mold.  There was a Quickling standing in the west center of the room.  Pretis moved in toward the eastern vat.  Gofin and Melisana followed spreading to the center while Lythandar moved toward the center vat.  The Quickling moved behind the western vat.  

Two more quicklings appeared flanking Melisana while two scarab swarms clambered out of the vat and attacked Pretis.  The first Quickling zoomed around the room attacking Lythandar and Pretis.  Melisana cast written in fire to cause damage to all the creatures, while Lythandar and Alhellara pushed all the creatures into a group surrounding Mara.   The zephyrs disappeared from sight as the scarab swarms continued their assault.  Mara shook the earth and soon the battle was over.  

Melisana looked into the center vat and tried burning the fungus which just left a residue on the bottom of the vat.  Lythandar searched the western vat and came up empty but Melisana found a mithral key with a faceted gem head beneath the detritus in the eastern vat.  The mage hand removed some red mold where the party thought the exit door was and behold there stood an open door.  This door led to a rubble slope leading down to the south.  Pretis moved to the bottom where she found a 30 foot pit, a thick layer of dripping yellow-green fungus covering its floor.  Melisana tried throwing a rock into the pit which just raised a cloud of spores.  Lythandar tried to burn the fungus but it was apparently too wet to burn.

 Scorecard:  The party received 1343 XP for the bridge pit and the encounter with the Quicklings and Scarab swarms.  They now have 61057 XP and need 7943 more to reach 16th level.  Lythandar has claimed the skull bracers.