No, He Went to Laerad

We find ourselves standing there after the fight with the specters. RC is unsure what happened to his old party members, but he is unsure if they are still alive or not. For a couple of hours, we continue to explore the passageways, finding another room. Here, we decide to value our brains again. We lose 5 hp maximum again, the number 3 glows, and the ground shakes for a second as we feel the maze shift. Three more specters appear, one of which looks like Simon Fontaine, “Dormaton” a bugbear, and a Furbolg, all of whom RC recognizes. As he fights, Caulkin notices the dagger on his side begins to glow.

As we take down the 3 specters, we see three small feathers float to the ground. We run around and pick up the 3 feathers. As the last one perishes, the ground shakes and we almost lose our footing. More and more pieces of the maze fall down around us as the stone walls fall. Before us, we see a few freestanding pieces of wall and a larger wall-off area in the middle of the larger room. 

Pearl starts to try and identify the feathers. As she does, she feels warmth around her as a voice says, “Pearl, you have been forsaken. There is darkness here, but know that the Lady of Life and Memories is with you.” The warmth is almost like someone has placed a cloak on her shoulders.

• The voice says, “To defeat the darkness, my blessing” as energy flows through her body. “These contain my essence to defeat the evil at hand. You are at a dark place far from the reaches of humanity, but I am watching.” Pearl can assign these 3 feathers to party members as if they were Bless spells. She assigns them to Pearl, Glittr, and Brylwynn. (a 1 time +d4 to any d20)

Caulkin takes a look at the way. The altar and alcoves all look the same. In the alcove where Glittr made the decision for the team, that rune is missing. We try to figure out what to do but are unsure. Pearl tries touching the rune, but she takes 1 point of damage and nothing happens.

RC, Caulkin, and Glittr touch the runes on the alcoves on the door in the order we did in the maze walls. As we do, they turn from red to gold. As we do this, we feel the stone wall with the alcoves slides down into the earth. As this is done, we see a lot of things in this room. There’s a faint glow from sconces on the walls, it is quiet, and there is open sky above the 40’ walls. There is a pillar about 20’ tall in the center of the room, and about 10’ off the ground is a creature chained to it. There are tubes filled with rotted yellow decay. There is a chain around the person’s head, waist, arms, their feet, and so on, pinning them to the pillar. The person’s head seems to be bobbing about as if they were unconscious. The person has long silver hair and on the ground, we see some other things. We see a 5-7’ obelisk at the foot of the silver-haired woman. The obelisk seems to be giving off energy and it is made from obsidian, as it absorbs energy from the room. In front of the stone is a feminine serpent-like creature. She says, “Good! A choice to prove my worth at last! Glory to the hells and long may chaos reign. I can’t wait to wet my swords with your mortal blood.” 

After the battle, we heal up slightly and walk into the room. We see Larael Silverhand tied up with magic.