[And now back into the Underdark with Fenrir and Reinward, who have entered the Lair of Queen Arachnia and are gathering three keys that will enable them to enter her castle. They are now about to battle the final key holder - Lord Amber!]
DAY 508(23rd Flamerule)(july) cont ...
Fenrir and Reinward had seen the secret lairs of several undead villains just lately and they were becoming experts in this genre of dwelling. Lord Amber's was definitely the finest example they had come across so far with a pit in the middle that contained a tentacled horror with corpses all around it and a large raised area at the back where the Lord now stood, at a long desk piled full of strange devices and treasures.
To top it all there were four pillars of pulsing green light arranged in a square around the chamber, there purpose as yet unknown.
Reinward, as he generally did, used his Wand of Deeper Darkness and his magical blindfold of Blindsight. This tactic inconvenienced his enemies, but also himself and Fenrir as it meant that they could not see what the pillars were doing when the shield was hit.
Fenrir started the combat with a blast aimed at the lich. His blast hit, but he noticed that a strange sort of magical shield that surrounded Lord Amber seemed to dissipate it.
After the attack, the corpses in the middle room started to rise. They both had sharp eyes and deducted that these were the bodies of overworld vampires, probably associates of Lord Bloodwurst dressed as they were in familiar looking full plate armour. They appeared to be controlled by the tentacles.
Fenrir attacked Lord Amber again, but still he seemed shielded. Reinward stabbed at the animated corpses, but it seemed to have no more affect that stabbing tins of beef.
It was not long before they were cornered and Fenrir had to put up a wall of flame to fend all their enemies off. The fire from the wall killed the tentacled thing in the middle of the room and all the corpses fell to the floor.
Reinward, slippery as ever, snuck to the back of the room while Fenrir continued to blast away at Lord Amber. His spells were having no effect and the lich could not get anything to land on the warlock so it returned to its desk in search of a magical item that might help it.
Here it stumbled into Reinward and with a grisly hand it touched the young rogue on the neck. The Slay Living spell managed to penetrate all Reinward's defences and he slumped to the ground dead.
Fernier flew up to rear of the chamber and saw the lich going through Reinward's pockets, probably looking for the device that was casting Deeper Darkness so it could better deduce where Fenrir was hiding.
Fenrir meanwhile was using his detect magic powers and sensed the shield that was protecting the Lord. Eventually he realised that the four pillars were powering the shield and he started to attack them instead, blasting them to bits one by one.
Lord Amber noticed this and cast a Blade Barrier spell that threw back Fenrir for a moment, but the warlock countered with another Wall of Flame.
Lord Amber then cast Blasphemy that dazed Fenrir, but when it tried to finish him off with a Destruction Spell it went wide due to the Deeper Darkness that still engulfed most of the room.
Fenrir cast another of his unlimited supply of Walls of Flame around the lich and it died, crumbling to dust in the fire.
As Fenrir began to loot the desk, Reinward (minus another of the magical rings on his wrist that were blessings from Illmater that could save him from death) came slowly to his senses.
'What did I miss?' he groaned, rubbing his neck.
