Session 16: Big Money! Big Prizes! I Love It!

(This is a placeholder so I can catch up to where we actually are.)

The next "day" the party heals, rests, and thinks back on their experiences. During the day a Lantern Archon appears. It talks with Orrin about what they'd been doing, then another one appears and the two celestial messengers confer. They disappear for a bit. When they come back, they give the party a pack filled with goodies: some potions, two scrolls of a new spell named GNUSTO, a magical weapon or two, and some other stuff.

Bolstered by their new equipment, the party heads back to the south. In a storage room they find a beaten and tied-up cleric. After freeing him, they learn that he was captured by the troglodytes and was abandoned here. Also, he was sent into the dungeon 10 years before they were, but is not 10 years older than the rest of the party...

Continuing on through a ton of corridors, they find a secret door. They head on through to a trapped door. After disarming and opening the door, they get beat up by the lightning trap on the doorway. They can see that inside is an armory of sorts. A few shocks later and the party gives up on the doorway for the night. They head back to the room where the priest was held captive and run into a pair of wandering trogs. A Color Spray and mighty whacking later, the trogs are defeated without even getting an attack.

They head back to their sanctuary room and rest for the night. Using some pearls provided by the Archons, they Identify an amulet, short sword, and ring.