Timeline

XI

Overview

Entering the Ghostlord's lair, the battle with hobgoblins in the room with a madness causing idol.

Warmblooded inhabitants

The Sphinx-shaped monument was calling to be entered through its open mouth, so that's exactly what happened. While getting in, you noticed that all the sudden a storm was rising up in this dry wasteland, with strong wind and heavy rain.

In the first room a group of hobgoblin soldiers with unarmed fighting style tried to disarm the heroes. After a quick battle, Dulcimer decided to cast Detect Thoughs to be able to scry on the presence of invisible or hiding creatures.

The lair was pitch-dark inside, but when descending to downstairs, the spell triggered with six living beings on the other room. Preparations done, the battle started. More monks and some invisible casters kept the heroes busy for a good while.

This room had a lot of temporary decorations on the ceiling and on the walls, plus a statue of a spherical, tentacle-equipped monster with a big eye and a huge maw.

A picture from the midst of the battle:

• Nix is staring the statue and eating feathers hanging from the ceiling
• Dulcimer gets to Onni's backpack for a tinderbox, holds it up and casts Light
• Lestra attacks hobgoblin clerics from above, standing vertically on a wall
• Onni tries to see in the fog cloud
• Alistar pays attention and is the only one who manages to see something useful

What did Alistar see? He saw a strikingly charismatic female hobgoblin person fighting her way out from the guest room and up to the upper level of the lair.

Other achievements

Two secret doors were revealed. The heroes followed one and found a pool of clear goo with a living dire lion inside it. Nearby, a room with a big black sphere radiating necromantic magic kept lion-shaped incorporeal shaped orbiting. Some undead tentacle dudes attacked you, and you managed to clear the scene and are ready to go.

Developments

The idol in the room where hobgoblins were was identified by Onni to not to go along with the lion theme so evident elsewhere.

So far, no sign of the Ghostlord. I wonder what is going on in here?

NPC's met

• female hobgoblin bard, escaped

Items of Interest

• manuscript of an opera, worth of 1000 gp