The Halls of Wrath, Part III (Monday, Calistril (II) 10th, 4708 AR)

The heroes continued their exploration of the barracks and training hall. Each of the 20-foot-square side rooms contained bunks.

Chamber of Readiness. The polished granite walls of this large chamber were covered in spidery glyphs. The ceiling rose twenty-five feet high, where a mural depicted a red-headed woman holding a flaming ranseur standing atop a burning tower of stone. Swords and ranseurs rested inside shallow depressions in the walls, glowing faintly to illuminate the chamber. The east side of the room was a solid wall of billowing black smoke.

The heroes used read magic to determine that the glyphs on the walls represented various forms of evocation magic, particularly those involving fire or the creation of magic weapons. The wall of smoke separating this room from the Hall of Testing was a very decorative illusion.

Hall of Testing. A wide avenue flanked by crimson stone pillars ran down the center of this chamber - the ceiling arched sixty feet above and seemed to be made of fire. At the center of the room, a huge seven-pointed star made of silver was engraved into the floor and surrounded by a circle of low-burning flames. The fire burning above was quite real - covering the extent of the ceiling.


A woman awaited the heroes here. She had little in the way of social graces, and when the heroes entered the room she shrieked a battle cry in Thassilonian - something to the effect of "For fury and hellfire!" - and attacked at once. Unfortunately for the heroes, she was not alone - she was accompanied by a demon.

The woman could fly and had a number of illusory doubles inhabiting her space as well. She cast haste immediately before combat began, and then used her cone of cold spell. She favored spells like blindness/deafness. The woman fought to the death.

The demon served as a bodyguard. It used its summon demons ability at the beginning of combat to summon a vrock. The demon also fought to the death.

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