The Search for Freedom: We Have Conjured Them

We explored a lot of dungeons this session. Guest post from AlphabeticalAnonymous: We rejoin our party of intrepid adventurers in the town of Birshada. There we had recently learned how to climb through mountainous terrain, but were stumped in their quest to reach Aegea (the land of the dead) and destroy the evil lich Kamazol by several puzzles. These include a gnome who asks us to guess his initials, someone named Gnimsh who is looking for an unknown keyword, and the "high priest of Bane" who also wants a word we don’t know. Hoping that the answers may lie in the next dungeon, we head south. Alas, in the desert we are caught in an ambush with 6 lesser demons and 8 fire sprites. The demons have some serious magic and are smarter about using it: along with several castings of "Hail Storm," they first paralyze Tyrion and then turn Becket, Durkon, and Kizke to stone. The survivors make a forced march back to Birshada, fleeing all encounters, to pay 3,000 gold to revive their companions.…