The World of Yön

Session Date:  September 7, 2007.  Campaign Date:  5 to 6 Brighor 1460 TR.

1. With Krall’s recovery, the heroes return to the abandoned dwarf mines and work their way back down to the third level.  With some foresight, Sinjiin has Allyrianna open the trapdoor to the third level as he rolls a flaming sphere through the opening, incinerating two of the six small fiendish monstrous spiders (CR ½ each) just below.  The survivors are quickly lose that status as the rest of the party all but falls on them and hacks them to bits.
2. The activity draws the attention of the twelve medium fiendish monstrous spiders (CR 1 each) still surviving nearby.  A protracted fight leaves them in a state only a true arachnophobe could love.  A search of the floor reveals a simple silver ring later identified as a ring of protection +1 and a wand of cure light wounds (22 charges).
3. The heroes open the trap door to the lowest floor which has two, huge oval caverns with forty foot ceilings festooned in webs.  Three large fiendish monstrous spiders (CR 3 each) drop from these webs on the players.  Their preternaturally tough hide yields but little to their blows but persistence and magical firepower pay off and the spiders are destroyed.
4. As the last of the spiders are hammered to pieces, a human male warlock (CR 6) releases a sickening eldritch blast, striking Sinjiin in the chest.  Arrows and spells harass him as he uses a charm to overcome Sinjiin’s weakened will and turn him to his side.  It avails the warlock little, though:  before Sinjiin is able to do much to aid the warlock, arrows and magic missiles kill him.  The heroes find Krissa, cocooned in webs and paralyzed and sickened by spider venom and terribly abused by the warlock, but still alive.  Cart discovers a hole in the ceiling of the webs, which were burned away by Sinjiin’s magic to free the warlock’s body.  Searching the body revealed items that were later identified as an amulet of natural armor +1, a chain shirt +1, a cloak of charisma +2, a ring of protection +1, and a masterwork spear.  Finding a way to get up to the hole in the middle of the ceiling proves to be difficult, but when the heroes manage it, they find a bag with 900 gold pieces, a small pouch with a 600 gold piece topaz and a 130 gold piece tourmaline, and a wand later identified as a wand of call lightning (10 charges).
5. The party heals Krissa of her worst injuries and returns her to Harvale for further rest and recovery.
6. When she recovers, Krissa describes her horrific tale and her quest for the Rod of Draconic Binding, a minor artifact that allows a dragon and the rod’s wielder to share minds.  The rod had disappeared from Elyzhar a bit over two centuries ago.  It was intended as a training tool, allowing an Elyzhain sorcerer to experience a dragon’s perspective more closely, but it had an unfortunate side effect that a particularly strong-willed individual might dominate the dragon and gain control over it. When this secret got out, much blood was spilled as various clans fought to claim the rod for their own use or to prevent its use.  The rod was lost in these struggles until rumors reached the ears of Elyzhain sorcerers visiting Ninetowers heard of a dragon with a rod-bearing rider raiding villages in the hills north of the Crimson Plains.  She was unable to confirm these rumors.