06 The Shard of Greed

Tsadok marched on, finding pillars which Iradil sensed as magical. "Witchcraft!" he snarled. Iradil sensed magics around two old, shabby tapestries, that still had some value. In the rod holding them up was concealed a magical wand.

Battling more nupperibo devils, Tsadok was contemptuous of Iradil. Shikoba interjected, "I'm also half-drow as well!" which caused Tsadok to sneer, "It isn't contagious, is it?"
Opening a door to yet mroe devils, Dariz swiftly closed it and asked, "Want it opened or closed?"
Iradil favoured slaying the devils, rather than leaving them behind at their backs, so swiftly replied, "Open!" to which Tsadok commented, "Huh? The drow's finally making sense!" and readied his magical cold iron ranseur.

Within a larger room an invisible imp and two fire elementals, The Suzerain of Little Erebus issued challenge. Tsadok asked what to do, Dariz asked Tsadok to be quiet, "I'm busy talking to the voices in my head!" His demands and Iradil's contemptuous approach swiftly escalated to battle.

Deeper through the dungeons was a magical rift siphon maze, focussing magical extraplanar flows of energies through rune inscribed metal plates. Tsadok sought to pull the metal plates from the wall, slow and straining work, so quickly turned to shattering them. As his earth breaker thundered on to the iron plates, ringing loudly through the maze, a hellhound skulked through to pounce on the party, breathing fire.

Dariz and Iradil dodged out of the flames, the others burnt by the deluge of fire, with Hellov drawing on divine magics to heal the raw wounds.

The worked stone walls shifted to rough caverns, a gray ooze and freshdreg attackers were encountered.

Beyond their caverns, the party found connections in to sewers. A lost fisherman from the vessel the party had explored spoke, from a hidden position, of how he was Lockerbie Brast and had sought to deliver a broach to his wife, Liza Jane Brast, in Magnimar. Iradil had found the broach on the sunken ship, he shared with Lockerbie Brast that they would return it. With some persuasion, Lockerbie Brast revealed himself, shared what he knew of the surrounding rooms, then accepted that he should be laid to rest and gifted peace.

After eels, derro dwarves and prisoners who they rescued, the party came upon a powerful derro mage, then a 7 pointed altar of red and gold crystals.

The altar was guarded by two ferocious shriezyx, attacking with  claws and bits, webs and venom. Defeating these, bloodied but victorious, the party claimed the next shard of the Sihderon, the Shard of Greed. Tsadok took the shard, refusing to let others inspect or take it, "No! I'm holding on to it!"

On returning to Magnimar, Sheila Heidmarch placed an ioun stone in the shard, countering the curse within it. Tsadok focussed on the Shard of Greed and had a vision of a statue, affording the party insights in to their next destination.