The party returns to the library to take a long rest. They hatch a plan to confront the amber golem from two fronts. The paladins will go to the great hall and attack the golem after busting through the door while Roger will fireball him from behind through one of the fissures. Lideydri recalls seeing Kasimir communing with one of the sarcophagi after she reconed the fissures from the day before.
The party splits up and Roger waits for the signal, being the paladins entering the room. When Bjorn attempts to open the door he finds it locked. Lideydri attempts to push the door open with brute strength but fails. Bjorn gets impatient and begins pounding on the door with his warhammer. He smashes down the door which causes the amber golem to disappear. Roger enters the room and looks around. He is smashed back into the fissure by some unseen force. Bjorn hears something heavy approaching him and he takes a blow to his beard.
Gilly gives Roger a healing potion and Kasimir uses a firebolt in an attempt to find where the golem is within the room. Roger returns with a fireball in hand. Bjorn and Lideydri attempt to fight the golem but find him difficult to hit. Bjorn takes a couple more hits (crits) and backs away. Lideydri steps up and attempts to fight the invisible menace. The golem changes position and Lideydri searches for it. Bjorn is hit a few more times but stands his ground. Lideydri flanks the golem and the paladins make some solid hits with Bjorn knocking some amber off the golem with a crit. Kasimir crits the golem with a firebolt. Gilly springs into the room over Kasimir's head and searches through a pile of treasure. Bjorn is hit again and goes down. The golem turns his attention to fighting Lideydri. Roger and Kasimir continue to cast firebolts at the invisible creature to learn its whereabouts. Gilly searches two more piles of treasure before giving the dwarf a healing potion (and gains inspiration). The golem appears in the room, its spell concluded. Lideydri lands a final blow and the golem falls to the ground.
A quick search of the room reveals a obsidian sceptre, a golden chariot, a skull with red gems in the eye sockets, some jewelry, many coins, a rapier with a pink crystal hilt and 15 copies of Snow Dwarf and the seven Wights. The paladins urge a long rest after this brutal fight as they have cast all their healing spells to make it through the battle.
Refreshed and regrouped in the library, the party heads back down the stairs and into the great hall. They take the western hallway and find a large corridor with an open door to the north. Inside they find 4 one-eyed Nothics. Bjorn attempts to communicate with them and then feels as if they are trying to enter his mind. Roger blasts them with two fireballs and Kasimir adds another which quickly dispatches the creatures. They find two amber sarcophagi and one destroyed. They communicate with the two remaining tombs and decide not to accept their dark offers. They head out to explore more here.
Bjorn finds the closest door, opens it, find three more sarcophagi and closes the door. He heads on down the hall to check on the next door. Gilly, however, reopens the door and goes in. Something sinister slashes her two times causing dark necrotic wounds. Before she can react a large toad like creature, black and evil, appears and slashes her two more times before she falls to the ground. Roger casts a lightning bolt at the fowl creature. The lightning hits its mark but the Death Slaad just turns its gaze from Gilly to Roger and seems to make a toothy smile.
Lideydri readies her action, then Bjorn and finally Kasimir rounds out the first turn order.
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