OLD SKOOL CAMPAIGN - THE TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL, PT 2

THE HEROES:

• Anton Loyalar: Oeridian Paladin of Heironeous
• Coppyr: Halfing Monk
• Eli Pendar: Flannish Cleric of Pholtus
• Tharn: Dwarf barbarian of the Fireforge clan

The battle continues upon the wall and the roof of the tower.  The heroes defeat the remainder of the guards outside the tower and while Tharn and Anton attempt to enter through the front door, Coppyr goes in through a hatch in the roof.  Eli manacles the unconscious guard that Anton had knocked out and then goes down the ladder to follow his companions.

Within the tower, several more human guards, led by a half orc verteran, seem ready for the heroes and fire crossbows as soon as the doors open, but few hit their marks.  Tharn and Anton enter and take on the guards while Eli comes in from behind and blasts them with Pholtus' holy power.  They find the mercenary Zert within the tower, who also engages them in combat, but when the fight starts to go against the guards, Zert turns tail and runs through a door, away from the fight. 

The heroes beat all of the guards and the half orc is the last to drop.  They search the place and find the belongings of the guards and the veteran, and apparently some of the items they've acquired from their raids.  The heroes collect the sizable sum of treasure and find a secret hatch in the floor that leads down into a tunnel; presumably the way that Zert escaped.  When they investigate, they find the tunnel leads both away from and further towards the temple.  They take the tunnel away from the temple and find that it ends in the nearby woods in a well by an abandoned farmhouse and barn. 

They backtrack towards the temple and the earthen tunnel leads to an area of worked stone that has a concealed door.  Voices were heard beyond the stone door and when they open it to peek out, they see goblins and hobgoblins in the area.  Anton enters the hall and draws the two closest goblins towards the group, where they do away with them easily.  With luck they find that they did not draw the attentions of the goblins and hobgoblins further down the hall, so the group sneak out of the tunnel and towards the nearest door. 

Within they find a temple dedicated to the four elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air and the Elder Elemental Eye.  The see two sacrificial altars, fresh with blood stains from a recent sacrifice.  They search the room but Eli inadvertently steps on one of the elemental glyphs and summons a huge water elemental!

End of session.