The Library

AK510-20 Gold Autumn Week 4
[Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Guiding]

Ivellios, Ethan and Var-Jen Tanner decide to tackle the library.
They examine the door to the library closely and discover that there are buttons on it bearing symbols. Ivellios identifies them as the Torlandish alphabet.
He translates the Torlandish inscription above the door as The Three Generals realises that The Three Generals refers to the three greatest military leaders on the history of the Torlandish army. One of whom Ethan says was Tacticus they then remember that there were three pillars in the centurions quarters that bore the names of generals. The bust of tacticus being the only one remaining on it's pillar.
They return to the room and while they are there Ivellios re-examines the centurion's scroll for further clues.
None are to be found, however he notices that the script is too far apart on the scroll and deduces that there may be secret text there. He places Tin Tan in the golden bowl of Tine and use the heat to warm the scroll. They discover hidden instructions on how to open the door as well as a secret arcane spell.
They also discover that the darkwood chest that the scroll came in was in fact a standard bearers chest and had the power to rally warriors in battle.
They return to the secret passage with the library door.
On their way down the narrow passage, they hear an arcane buzzing sound and a strange creature made of molten flesh appears and attacks.
It severely injures Ivellios. Ethan and Tanner are unable to inflict any significant damage on it.
Another appears in front of them and then both lash out with their claws and inflict more damage. Ivellios flees to safety between the others and casts a fear spell at the creatures to no effect. Their weapons have little effect and even Tin Tan the Ashrat finds his firey breath useless against them. Var-Jen Tanner eventually recognises them as Lemures, the lowest of the fallen devils of hell.
Another arrives and Ethan manages to damage it by pure ferocity. Tim resorts to prayer hoping the Gods will hear him.
Another arrives and inflicts more serious claw wounds on Ethan and Tanner. Ethan remembered the 20ft deep spike bottomed pit they discovered earlier. He bull rushes one slightly injured lemures into it. It is impaled on the spikes below and dies. It vanishes and is sent back to hell.
The gods hear Tanner's prayers and bless his mace with the power to hurt the fallen.
Ivellios punches the names of the generals into the door and it slides open.
They are immediately attacked by yet another devil and a hideous blob of a creature that appears to be made of pink ooze in the shape of a magic circle.
The creature lashes out with a blob-arm and hits Ivellios, but the vicious acidic blow glances off his mage armor force field and he narrowly avoids death.
Var-Jen Tim Tanner is using the power of the gods and his skills with the mace to good effect and is slowly beginning to prevail against the devils.
Ethan runs to protect Ivellios and attack the new grotesque foe that they face.
He slams his magical flail into the creature and injures it but is rewarded with a crushing scalding blow to the chest which almost cripples him as a reward.
Ethan and Tim decide to retreat and regroup. Tim starts to heal himself and his companion.
Much to their horror, Ivellios charges into the library to take on the creature. His spells are exhausted but his ring still functions.
After a short but heated argument in which Ivellios cast obscuring mist and dodged around the creature and Tim healed Ethan and himself with the wand, they both return to assist Ivellios.
Within the mist Ivellios calls on the power of the standard bearer's chest and Ethan and Var-Jen Tanner both sing in prayer to the gods from the book of creation and invoke the balance, mind and body. Their effort is in tune with the song and the internal symmetry of their place in the universe and they are bolstered by the resonance of the song.
Rallied by the chest and bolstered by the gods they attack and injure the creature which has been healing rapidly. Ethan strikes hard and inflicts terrible damage upon it.
The creature attacks Var-Jen Tanner but the magical mist hides her from it's vicious flailing arms.
They all attack one more and again the resonance strengthens them and again Ivellios calls on the power of the chest.
Tim strikes well and wounds the creature. The power of Ethan's mighty blows cannot be endured by the pink monstrosity and the flail smashes the creature into oblivion.
They thank the gods and collapse.
They search the libray and narrowly avoid several traps. But they find a library, and alchemy lab a set of 39 first level wizard scrolls a messangers ring and a standard bearer's cloak and the produce of the alchemy lab.