Battle for the Vault

Looking at the pedestal with its many buttons and strange symbols, the party was at a loss. With no ideas on how to decipher the symbols, Arthur asked Excalibur for help. In exchange for his ability to teleport to his cursed enemies, he gained the power to read all. Armed with this knowledge, the party could decipher that all the symbols were cut up parts of old Dwarven sayings. With everybody pitching in (and messing up, bringing a statue to life), the party deciphered all sayings and found themselves going down with the pedestal to a round room with 7 doors, all named with a Dwarven clan name. While trying to unlock the doors, Arthur, Kromal and Meicoril were paralyzed however. This left Dashawn and Alruna, who were both a tad too impatient to wait for the paralyzation to end. Trying more combinations, they awoke a Red Dragon and a strange dragon tank harpoon shooting thing™, who then proceeded to give the party one of their hardest challenges yet.

Victorious however, the party eventually unlocked the correct door, giving Kromal the end to his journey. Now armed with his new shield, the party made their escape, while keeping an eye on a greedy human to make sure he didn’t take anything else (no, not the rogue this time… Strange)

Exiting the vault, Alruna found her new amulet weirdly drawn towards Kromal’s shield. Connecting them together unlocked something within the shield.

The party then found an exit, which lead them to the capital of the Duergar. While exploring the house they entered through a secret hallway, the party encountered some strange rocklike grey gnomes. They found out they were slaves to the Duergar and using Dashawn as a helpful translator, the party tried to help them. Some of the Gnomes were against the idea however, and the party was led out of the house by a female gnome, Asani. Arthur however decided to leave a note and a ring bearing the symbol of his noble house with her, so all the gnomes would have somewhere to hide if they ever manage to flee. Exhausted, the party went to rest, waiting on the next morning to start their journey towards the surface.

Before they could attempt to reach the surface though, the devil Kromal made a deal with appeared and violently dragged Kromal along.