Session28

**The Continued Search for Marigold in Level 8 of the Dungeon World**
 * 9/21/2013**

Having passed through the large red crystal door leaving the ifrit behind, Thorn leads the group carefully into the next hall. There are 3 strange colorful portals in a long hallway. The first along the right side of the wall is red, then a little farther down on the left is green, and then one at the end of the hall in purple. Thorn chooses red, going in first with the rest of us lined up to follow behind him. He passes into a large square room. In the center is a massive statue of some foreign bestial demon... it has 4 arms, 2 horns on it's head, and is exceptionally anatomically correct... Kneeling before it is a bull-headed, beautifully exotic armored, 9 ft tall figure in prayer. It looks up as the green glow of a portal lights up in the corner of the room, silhouetting Thorn's appearance... "I thank you, my Lord..." He tilts his head slightly looking at Thorn and glances at the statue, "Could you have not sent one... slightly bigger?" Erevin steps into the red portal next and appears beside Thorn, glancing up at the huge figure approaching them, "What is that?"

Wren slips her hand into Kale's and nods to him as they step through the portal together. The enter into a large square room with 3 portals, including the one they came in through. One on each wall, but none are lit up in color... they appear to be entries only. The fourth wall has a stairway leading down. In the center of the room is a large pentagram. After a brief scan of the room, she glances up at Kale, "Soooo I guess we didn't follow everyone else..." He nods to her, "It certainly doesn't appear that way. The portals don't seem to be working as a way back out... and that circle certainly looks like more your kind of expertise than mine." She nods to him, still holding hands, as she walks along edge of the pentagram to look it over, "It appears to be some sort of magic against evil made to keep something in... there does seem to be something or... someone inside... though I've no idea what... Now granted the last two things we've come across that were trapped inside didn't cause us harm... but this doesn't look at all the same... I think we should probably just leave that alone. Don't disturb the markings... it looks like it would break the enchantment." He nods to her and they move carefully around it to go down the stairs.

Yuki looks at Posy a little nervously, "They held hands... Will you hold mine?" Posy grins at her and nods, taking Yuki's hand in hers. They step through together. They enter into a wide corridor gapped away from the other side by darkness as far as they can see down... on the other side is 3 large circles with more colorful portals along the wall behind them. There are 3 circles... one green, one red, and one purple. In the middle of the other side is a single slightly green tinted elven man dressed all in green. The 9 ft tall creature vanishes as it moves toward Erevin and Thorn with an evil laugh. They can see a purple portal on the wall across the room now that he isn't blocking it. Erevin takes out the half dz vials of holy water from Yuki and smashes them into a puddle on the floor and the two of them move slightly apart, putting their back to a wall and waiting to defend the other, leaving the puddle open in between them. Yuki and Posy exchange a glance and whisper back and forth for a moment. Yuki steps forward and shouts across the 50 ft gap to the elf on the other side, "Yoo Hoo! Hello! I'm Yuki. This is Posy! We're lost in the dungeon! Are you a good guy or a bad guy?" She flashes him a bright, winning smile. Posy nods beside her, "Yeah... we're girls! Poor defenseless girls!" The elf turns and smiles at them as he shouts back, "Well Hi! Beautiful and defenseless girls! ...despite that she has a huge axe..." Yuki nods and shouts, "It was her father's!" Posy shouts over, "I'm just holding it for someone! We got separated!" "So...."Yuki calls out sweetly, "Do you know how to get out of here? Cause we're kinda lost!" He smiles at her, "What do you mean by 'out of here'? I know how you can get to this side..." "Oh?" She leaned forward, showing off her best side, tucking her shimmering hair behind her beautiful ear, "What's on that side? Besides 'you', of course." She beamed radiantly into his eyes. He gestures at the wall behind him at the colorful portals, "The portals... and the treasure is here." He steps to the side to reveal a treasure chest sitting on the ground. Posy beams at him brightly and flutters her eyelashes, "Oh treasure! What do we have to do for treasure?" She winks at him flirtatiously. He smiles, "All you have to do to get to the treasure is survive to get to this side." Yuki bubbles brightly, "Oh! Well how do we do that, Mr... Charming... Handsome... Elven Warrior?" Her voice becoming breathier and breathier on every word. "Oh... as beautiful as you both are..." He hazards, beginning to fall victim to their charms, "I'm not supposed to reveal the secret of getting to this side of the room." Yuki and Posy sigh heavily and lean together with sad, defeated faces. Posy cheers up a little and flips her hair, "Oh! Could you at least give us a tip?" Yuki nods happily to Posy and turns back to the elf promisingly, "A tip would be okay, wouldn't it?" Yuki charms him, using her beautiful body to entice him further. Little hearts appear in his eyes and he sighs, smitten, "You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in the dungeon." Yuki blushes and giggles happily, "Oh PISH...SHAAAW! Aren't you sweet!" He stares at her, enamored, "I suppose there wouldn't be any harm... the secret is merely that the right person has to step into the right circle." She flips her beautiful hair back, baring her pale, white alabaster shoulder while batting her lovely blue eyes at him, "Annnnnd....how do we determine the right person, oh you... HANDSOME man?" He beams at her, securely in the palm of her hand, "I will tell you, oh Beauteous creature... for one kiss from each of you." She looks at him a little confused, "I would have to be close to you for that..." He nods to her, "I will have to rely on your word..." She looks down into the chasm filling the gap between them, "But it's dark... and treacherous... and I'm scared!" He nods to her, "I will light the way for you, oh Beauteous creatures if you will but agree to my proposed bargain..." "One kiss..." Yuki smiles at him and ponders, "...on the cheek?" He nods reassuringly, "I am just the Guardian of the Pass. I can not harm you in any way." Yuki and Posy smile at him, nodding and answer in unison, "O-Kay!" He walks over to the green circle and steps on it, lighting up a green bridge across the chasm to their side, "You may want to be careful!" Yuki pauses with one foot on the bridge, "Okay... Why?" He smiles at her, lit up in green, "There is another guardian in the room... and I only tell you that because you are the most beautiful adventuress that I have ever seen." Yuki nods, still paused in place, "Oh! So there are two of you... so you're friends?" He shakes his head, "I have no control over the other guardian, oh love of my heart... it is not swayed by heaving bosoms or flowing hair." Yuki blushes and giggles, "Oh! You noticed my bosom! How sweet! ... but you'll protect us, wont you?" "If I leave the circle... the bridge will disappear while you're standing on it... You wouldn't want that, would you?" Yuki shakes her head and starts crossing the bridge carefully with Posy following directly behind her. Mali fades in through the portal to join them, "Hi you guys! Wait! I'm coming!" She glances across the dark gaping chasm to the handsome, muscular elf lighting up the green bridge path, "Wow! Look at that!" The elf beams, "And yet another beauteous woman!" Yuki looks back, "Oh! Mali!" She gestures for Mali to hurry and continues across, Posy behind her, and Mali quickly stepping onto the bridge behind them.

Wren and Kale walk down the stairway hand in hand. It leads down to a hallway with a red dragon head carved into the stone and then a green dragon head carved at the other end where the hall hooks to the right with another set of stairs leading down. Neither of them good with traps, they decide to go in and hug the wall closest to them to walk down the hall. Wren steps out and Kale steps after her as the red stone dragon maw opens and fire blows fiercely across the whole hall. Kale quickly tries to cover Wren's body against the wall with his own to protect her and takes the brunt of the hit, both of them left with burns marks and singing. They continue down the hall together and he stops her before they get to the next one, "Maybe they only go off once... let me go first to trigger the next one. I should be safe for the next one." They look at the green painted stone dragon head ahead. She looks at him a little nervous, "Are you sure?" He nods, chuckling, "Of course I'm sure." He lets go of her and walks around the corner of the hall to the stairs and the green dragon maw opens up to roar out a thick green gas, Kale disappearing from sight within it. Wren waited, her breath held, trying to see him through the fog.

The bull-headed armored figure reappears whipping his sword through the air toward them with a blue glow waving off of it... an icy cone of cold washes over both Thorn and Erevin chilling them to the bone. Erevin charges forward, slashing in, and drawing the beast's attention while Thorn uses a burst of speed to tumble behind it. It swings it's giant sword back around to gash Erevin across the chest! Erevin goes back into him with both swords hacking away. Thorn whips out both of his blades slashing deeply from behind it. It roars in pain and frustration as some of it's old wounds already begin to close, and turns away from Erevin angrily toward Thorn.

Yuki continues to cross the bridge, smelling of flowers and perfume when, behind her, a shadowy guardian reaches out from the darkness to pass through Posy's chest to the other side, sapping her strength with chilling cold. Mali's eyes go wide as she sees the shadowy hand come through Posy's back. Yuki hears Posy gasp out and turns to see the shadowy hand retracting. She turns urgently back to the elf, "Is that your friend? Can't you do something?!" He stays in the green circle, "If I move from here... the bridge will disappear... Come to this side!" She nods quickening their pace, "We're coming!" Mali leaps over Posy onto the rail of the lighted green bridge to attack the shadowy guardian from behind, but it brushes it's hand against her, sapping out her strength with it's chilling touch. They run across the bridge, the elven warrior stretching out his hand to gracefully pull Yuki to the other side. She glances around to be sure Mali and Posy are off of the bridge and she pulls the elf toward her off of the circle to drop the bridge. He wraps his arms around her waist and hugs her. She hugs him back happily, kisses him lightly on the cheek, giving him a radiant smile, "Thank you!" He nods to her, "Certainly!" She glances around him to the treasure chest, "That doesn't happen to have rubies in it, does it?" He looks back at the chest and then back to her, "I have no control over what is inside the chest... in fact I don't even know." Yuki frowned, "Oh... well it looks heavy... Could you carry that for us?" She bats her long, lustrous eyelashes at him. He goes over to the chest curiously and tries to pick it up, but it doesn't budge. He shakes his head at Yuki. She smiles at him, "Would you mind being a Dear and opening it for us?" He looks at Posy, "Wait... wait..." He moves over closer to her and leans in. Posy kisses his cheek. He looks over to Mali. She smiles, "Well... I'm really short... You'll have to come down here." He goes down to one knee and she leans in and kisses his cheek. He returns to the chest and opens it... there's a a bright flash of light... and he disappears. The girls quickly gather up the treasure and find a ruby crystal key. Yuki tucks it into her ample and perfectly priestly bosom for safekeeping.

The greenish chlorine gas dissipates around Kale who is still standing on the stairway. He's coughing a bit and waving it away behind him. Wren calls out, still a bit worried, "Are you alright?" He coughs a couple more times, "Whew! Wow, that stinks! ...No kisses from me for awhile." Wren laughs, relieved he's unharmed. She leaps out into his waiting arms as he catches her, spinning around to put his back toward the dragon head... They stand embraced for a moment on the stairway, but nothing happens. No more gas. Wren breathes with relief until she looks down the stairs at the blue painted stone dragon head awaiting them in the next hall. She turns to Kale, "Maybe they're triggered by stepping on the floor... and that one looks like lightning... that's going to hurt... mmm maybe we can try flying so we don't touch the floor?" He looks down at her questioningly, "Do you think you can carry me in all of my armor?" She looks over his plate mail and glances up at him a little unconfidently, "Sure." He raises an eyebrow at her, but she embraces him warmly and lifts them both slowly off the ground. He's heavy! The hallways don't offer a lot of extra height, so she flies them horizontally, supporting him on top of her. She struggles, barely able to breathe, and drifting lower toward the floor as they reach the end of the short hall... but they make it and she sets him down on the stairs, catching her breath and leaning against him, "We need to get you some lighter armor...so heavy!" Down the stairs, they find a big square room with a treasure chest in the center and a single green portal, "Oh... green for the way out. That seems reassuring for us." She walks around the treasure chest looking at it carefully. There seems to be some sort of magic trap on it... she frowns, realizing she forgot to include dispel magic in her daily slot of spells, "Well... we'd either have to open it and see what happens or leave it behind." Kale looks at the treasure chest and over to the portal, "Well... do you think it has something valuable in it? Or do you just want to go through the portal and leave it?" She looks at the chest again and then slips her hand into his, shaking her head, "Nothing valuable enough for our lives... so let's just leave it." He glances to the chest again and then back at her, "Why don't you stand back over there and let me open it?" She shakes her head at him, "Because it's not worth your life either..." He looks a little longingly at the chest again and she giggles, "If you're going to open it... at least try to duck out of the way or something." He nods to her and gestures for her to move back. She moves way back and waits nervously, watching him go over to the chest. He opens it and there is a bright flash of light blasting him off of his feet as he tumbles to the ground! "KALE!" Wren rushes to his side, falling to her knees beside him and sending out her witchy hex heal through her hands. His eyes are glassed over, dazed. The wounds from the fire trap above close over a bit on him, but he remains stunned. She sits him up, letting him rest, and gathers the treasure, finding an emerald crystal key. She helps Kale to his feet, though he is still dazed, and stringing his arm over her shoulder and putting her arm around his waist, she gets him to walk through the portal with her.

The massive bull-headed figure turns to Thorn, swinging angrily down with a sword that's bigger than the halfling, gashing him severely. Blood pools on the floor at Thorn's feet as he barely manages to stay standing, gasping for breath. Erevin swings both of his swords into it's back, defending Thorn, mercilessly striking multiple gashes. It roars out and steps perfectly open for Thorn. Thorn engages his speed boots and lunges back in heroically, barely alive, and rends him open with two amazing strikes! It topples to the ground as Thorn quickly steps under him to Erevin's side to avoid being squished. Thorn and Erevin, both ragged and bloody gratefully pop open the emergency healing potions that they got from the witch. There is a purple portal on one wall, a stairway going up on another wall, a door on a third wall, and on the floor is a treasure chest. Erevin picks up the massive sword the beast was wielding while Thorn investigates the treasure chest. Finding a magic trap, he uses some powder and a magic eraser to alter it to be safe. Among the gold and gems inside, they find an amethyst crystal key. Yuki heals Posy and Mali, restoring their sapped strength. They finish gathering treasure and choose the green portal in the room. They join hands and go through together, coming out into the room to join Erevin and Thorn. Yuki immediately sends out a warm wave of healing over everyone seeing that both of the guys are still badly wounded and Thorn is covered in blood. Thorn blinks at the 3 girls suddenly in the room with them, "Whoa, where did all of you come from?" Yuki beams at him, "Hi Thorn! Are you guys alright?" Thorn nods and points at the body on the floor, "You should've seen the other guy." Erevin nods, holding the enormous sword across his shoulders, "He was wielding this!" Mali gazes up at him, "Oh my, Lord Erevin... that's a big sword you have!" Yuki turns away, stifling a giggle.

Wren and Kale appear in the room through another portal. Yuki beams at her, "Wren!" and then looks at Kale with concern, throwing out another warm wave of healing over everyone. Wren cheers at her in thanks and tells everyone that she and Kale found treasure with a green key inside. Thorn quickly denies finding any treasure, but Erevin nods and tells her that they found a purple key. Yuki shakes her head denying finding any keys. Mali looks at her a little shocked, "Yuki!" Yuki sighs, "Alright.... Fine!" She reaches into her ample cleavage and pulls out a sparkling ruby key. Thorn investigates the door in the room and feeling untrustful of seemingly no trap... he makes everyone back up. Kale is still stunned and being led by Wren. Mali looks up at her, "Mmm we should talk." She nods at the flirty witch, hoping for some good tips. Wren giggles and nods to her. Yuki beams, "Oh! We should go shopping for some ... after dinner wear, ESPECIALLY after Myth Cormranth!" Mali giggles at her and nods. Thorn shoos everyone back further and we go to the other side of the statue. The overly endowed, anatomically correct statue...

A bright flash of light goes off at the door, sapping away some of Thorn's intelligence. He opens the door to see a hall with another door and some colorful lights coming from a set of stairs. He carefully steps in and goes up the stairs to find two more doors. He can hear a couple of the girls still chattering back in the other room and assumes they must be admiring the statue, so he looks over each of the doors. They don't seem to be trapped or locked, so he opens the one on his right. Big sparks of lightning light up the hall. The tiny hairs shaved down on Thorn's head stand on end and his skin is blackened, but he goes to the doorway and holds up his thumb to us that he's alright! "I'll go check the other one now..." He goes back in and not finding any traps, he opens up the door ready to spring aside! We glance from the statue toward the doorway to see an explosion of fire light up the room from the stairs. Thorn comes rolling out, smoldering and black, "I'm okay! I'm okay! ...Ow that hurt... I'm okay!" He hops back up "Whee!" and runs around until Posy tackles him to the floor, and Yuki heals him. We go up through one of Thorn's newly opened doors to find a room with three large colorful spheres. Red, Purple, and Green... and up the stairs is a strangely tiled floor with various zigzag patterns of the three colors on different tiles. Studying it for a moment, we decide we need to hold a sphere and step on only the matching color of tiles through the room to the other side. Discovering a box with three keyholes on the other side, Erevin, Mali, and Posy return for the keys. Thorn has to tickle Yuki to get her to give up the ruby key. Wren shakes her head, "Wait... I don't like this plan... if using the keys ports you to somewhere else, that's going to leave the rest of us here." We carefully arrange 3 groups to get across together, each group holding one of the spheres. Kale carries Wren, Erevin carries Yuki princess style with Mali sitting on her lap, and Posy carries Thorn standing on her shoulders. The plan goes well. We turn the three keys all at the same time... Erevin with the green, Thorn with the purple, and Mali with the red. A bright flash of light and we're all transported.

Erevin, Thorn, and Mali are in three separate corners of the room, each trapped behind a barrier of a color that matched the key they used. Thorn is trapped in a corner near the group, but Mali and Erevin are trapped in the opposite corners across the room. Everyone else is near 3 colorful spheres. Red, Green, and Purple... and on the other side of the room are three matching colored pedestals. In the center of the room is a large spiraled staircase that goes up to another pedestal. Shuffling in the room, several skeletons begin advancing toward us.

Posy rounds some of the skeletons up and shatters bones with her great axe, colorful bone bits flying out. Thorn moves up to the edge of his barrier, pacing as he waits to be released. Yuki picks up the red sphere and casts sanctuary on herself. The skeletons move in, swinging their bony claws amuck into our group. Mali anxiously awaits her release, using the waiting time to put up her defensive spells. Kale swings his sword into the skeletons lumbering in, while Wren picks up both the green and purple spheres remaining and takes flight over the skeletons, heading across the room. Erevin paces along the edge of the barrier after kicking a rock that bounces off of it. Posy shatters one of the skeletons. As Wren nears the pedestals on the other side, a skeleton materializes next to them out of thin air. Yuki wraps her arms around the red sphere and runs as fast as she can out and around the spiral stairway, heading toward the pedestals on the other side of the room. As she passes by several skeletons with her sanctuary spell, she is surprised as one of them reaches out and grabs her with one of it's bony arms! Strange mystic guts pulsate inside this one's ribcage. It pulls her into it's embrace as she screams out, "ERE....VIIIIN!!!!!" and a 3 foot tongue comes out of it's mouth to lick her. A completely disgusted Yuki screams, throwing her arms out defensively, "KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII...YAH!!!!!" The saliva off it's tongue seems to numb her skin slightly and for a moment it's almost a pleasant bliss, but she fights it off, screaming again, "GET IT OFF ME!! GET IT OFF ME!!" Erevin stands at the edge of the barrier, banging his fists in frustration and worry. Wren quickly lands behind the skeleton, dropping the purple and green spheres into their pedestals, "Erevin! Save Yuki!" She points beyond the spiral stairs. Bow drawn, he runs toward her as soon as the barrier in front of him drops. Rounding the corner, he sees Yuki fighting the arms of a skeleton as its monstrous tongue licks along her soft, sinuous body. Erevin looses an arrow into it as he continues towards her!

Several skeletons swarm over Posy, clawing her viciously! She shatters another one. Thorn leaps out past the now dropped barrier and moves in to strike into a skeleton, aiding Posy. Another skeleton materializes by Wren! More skeletons swarm over Kale, clawing into him! One of the skeletons at the pedestals turns around and slashes into Wren with both of it's fiery claws! Yuki thrusts her arms forward defensively with the red sphere still in her hands, and closes her eyes tightly, turning her face away and screaming as she sends out a powerful wave of divine love burning into the skeleton holding her captive! Mali calls lightning down while standing behind the red barrier, bolting down into the skeleton holding Yuki, blackening some of it's bones! Yuki manages to avoid most of the lightning, but her hair stands out on end, "MY HAIR!!" Kale smashes another skeleton and another appears next to Wren! Wren screams out, "They just keep coming!" She takes flight, heading toward Yuki being clawed by the skeletons as she goes. Erevin leaps up onto the stairway sending out a barrage of arrows that sink into the skeleton's pulsating mystic organs, spraying goo out on Yuki, who screams...disgusted beyond reason! Seeing Wren coming toward her, she cries out for the witch as they reach out their arms toward one another, Wren coming closer in flight. But too late, in one deadly blow, the skeleton rends Yuki's body open, raking its claws viciously across her chest. Its long, tongue leeching the blood from her flesh. Yuki crumples to the ground, and for a moment it looks like she's dead, but a small flash of light goes off around her body for a brief second and she appears to still be breathing. The red sphere falls from her hands and rolls...slowly towards Wren.

The skeletons swarming over Posy and Kale continue to slash at them with their fiery claws! Posy and Thorn continue to team up, shattering more skeletons and sending them to reappear at the pedestals. Wren sees Erevin moving in to get Yuki, so she picks up the red sphere rolling toward her and flies back to place it on it's pedestal, releasing Mali from her barrier, and all of the reappeared skeletons vanish. Erevin strides with purpose toward Yuki's unconscious body, sending out another barrage of arrows as he moves in. The third arrow takes the head from the skeleton's body and it topples to the ground. Mali and Melloran move in to help the others with the remaining skeletons as Erevin, fearing the worst, scoops up Yuki gently, "Yuki?" Looking her over, she seems stabilized and breathing despite her grave wounds. Wren lands next to Erevin, laying her hands on Yuki's arm, sending in healing magic and hexes and stepping back worriedly, tears running down her cheeks. It had sure looked like they lost her for a moment.

Yuki opens her eyes to see Erevin's face looking down at her as he held her in his arms. A sweet...almost nostalgic smile crosses her lips, "Ere...vin..." He breathes with relief, "You gave us quite a scare there." She blushes slightly and nods, "...sorry... The dungeon isn't right, Erevin..." He shakes his head, "Of course it isn't right, it's a living dungeon!" She shakes her head, "No, no... it isn't right... Did I die?" Erevin nods to her uncertainly, "It looked like it." Wren's voice coming from behind Yuki at the same time, "It sure looked like it." Yuki turns to see tears still sliding down Wren's worried face and tears fill her own, "Awww...Wren... ...sorry..."

Kale makes it over to them after helping to dispatch the last of the skeletons, scratches all over his body. He puts an arm around Wren, "Are you alright?" Scratched up herself, she wipes away her tears, nodding, and then shakes her head. She hugs onto him, looking him over concerned, "Are you?" He nods and hugs her closer.

Yuki turns back to Erevin, "When I went down... I showed up in this... cavern... this vast cavern... I couldn't even see the end of it! ... but in the center was this big... red sphere... powerful! It said I wasn't ready yet." Erevin looked at her curiously as she told her story, "Like... the mind of the dungeon?" She nodded to him, "And there was like half a dozen gods, frozen and encased around it... like their energy was feeding ... this thing... like it was feeding off of their divinity!" Erevin frowned, "So... we're going to have to go free some gods..." Yuki looked up at him a little uncertainly, "Oh Erevin... besides the gods, there were hundreds... and hundreds... of people... elves, dwarves, halflings, humans... all the way down this cavern trapped in smaller capsules like the gods... farther than I could see." Erevin nodded to her, still listening. She continued on, "He said there is no death in the dungeon... no right or wrong, there is only... The Dungeon." Erevin nodded, comforting her, "Alright." Thorn wanders over to check out the treasure chest while everyone is entranced with Yuki's story. Erevin peers at her curiously, "Can you guide us to it?" She shakes her head, "It was like the center of the... planet... and all I know is it was this big cavern. Everyone looks around at each other like it didn't need to be said... Level 30. Yuki ponders a moment, "So... I guess we don't have to worry about being dead then..."  Wren glances over to her, "Oh... that's kind of creepy..."  Thorn nods from over by the treasure, "If it's alright with you... I'm not going to push that theory."  Wren nods up to him in agreement.

Thorn stands up, "Who would put a big empty treasure chest up here? It's so empty... there's nothing in it!" Everyone turns to look up at him. Kale and Erevin go up and shake the treasure back out of him into the chest.

The Collected Treasures So Far! * 27,000 gold and gems 1) Bracers of Armor +4 2) Longsword +2 Giant Bane 3) Battle Axe +2 4) Scabbard of Vigor (Once per day Standard Action can endow a weapon when pulled from the scabbard to the wearer's preference... Up to +4 for 1 round or as low as +1 for 10 rounds or some combination in between) 5) Undercutting Axe +1 Giant Bane (also once per day Swift Action after an attack can cast a ray of enfeeblement on the creature struck for -11 STR for 7 rounds) 6) Ricochet Hammer +1 (Can strike multiple foes with a single throw - if multiple attacks, can roll to rebound to additional targets for each add'l attack) 7) 12 Searing Arrows +1 (Red) (also 1d6 fire dmg for 3 rounds) 8) 12 Tangle Arrows (Green) (+1 Seeking arrows that transform to Sticky Goo when they hit, entangling the target, and becoming tough and resilient upon exposure to air) 9) Ring of Retribution (charred bone ring) (once per day 30' radius 10d6 fire dmg - Reflex 14 for half - User Has No Saving Throw!) 10) Cauldron of Brewing (+5 alchemy - no fire needed - keeps liquid inside heated precisely to desired temp - from room temp to boiling - and maintains it indefinitely - only remains slightly warm to the touch on the outside) 11) Red Glass Campfire Bead (Creates 2 ft pile of burning logs - lasts for 8 hours or until extinguished - have to wait twice as long as the bead is used to be able to use it again.) 12) Mask of Human Form (mask merges thinly with the face and makes the user appear human, including height change - lasts as long as the mask is worn - once removed, have to wait twice as long as the mask is worn to be able to use it again..) 13) Sniper Goggles (Ranged Sneak Attack from any distance) 14) Silver Rod studded with tiny rubies (Lesser Intensify - Can raise the max number of dice +5 levels on any 1st through 3rd level spell - *have to have the levels to be able to use the extra dice)

Yuki sends out a wave of healing over everyone. We follow a stairway down to find another room with a single pedestal in the center. A shiny button on top of the pedestal reads #9. We make camp, go through the magic items, and using watches... we sleep and wake undisturbed. Rested and healthy... we press the button!

A flash of light! We appear in a giant ice cavern with stalagmites and stalactites. Several nordic looking ice giants sit in a circle in the room with a bubbling giant cauldron in the center. Marigold and a couple of adventurers are tied to a spit and are being turned above the cauldron. The giants turn and look at us with our brilliantly lit entrance. *DING* a loud bell sound dings in the air! We are now Level 8!! Woot!!