Finding Alakast

Gathering together at the fissure, the group goes back into the caves that Snake and Chul had previously ran through. They find, in what is assumed to be the lair of the giant men, large burlap sacks of silver and gold.

They proceed further into the caves and find a second room of even more giant-sized beds. The caves lead further in and connect to a masterfully worked stone hallway, with metal plates in the ceiling that glow with a soft light as the party approaches. Jonl investigates a door at the south end of the hallway, and as he nears the door it begins to slid up into the wall on its own accord.

Jonl leaps to the side of the door and hears a deep bellowing voice say something, he picks a few words out in Goblin, but not enough to be intelligible. Snake and Morgan lead a charge through the doors and into a circular room where five two-headed giants meet them with morningstars ready. Snake uses his shield to blind the giants with a well-timed flash. The blind giants fall quickly.

As healing is dished out, two silver-skinned winged men approach the room from a hallway deeper in. One of them carries a golden, gem-rimmed chalice of purple-colored liquid. They offer the party a drink from the chalice for rescuing them from their giant captors. The drink from the chalice is declined and questions are raised. The silver-skinned men respond by disappearing.

Salla tosses a glitterball where they were standing and catches one of the creatures in the glitter. Snake and Chul take on the glitter-covered figure. Snake is attacked from behind by two old crones, with green-tinged skin and hair, who appear out of nowhere. The old crones are slain and beheaded.

Continuing to move further into the complex, leaving the northern end of the large hallway unexplored, a strange apparatus is found that is generating the purple-liquid that was offered to them in the chalice. Two more doors lead out of the room, one to the north and one to the south. The party decides to explore the southern option, where Jonl finds a second door past the first, its edges covered in a resin. Standing back, Modisto throws a mage hand to open the door, but he is not standing back far enough and gets caught in a fiery explosion as the door opens. Beyond the door is a dead end.

To the north they find what appears to be some sort of throne room. The throne has triple arm rests, is white marble, and sits on a raised platform in the room. The base of the platform has carvings of six-armed gaunt figures holding a circular object in their lower arms.

Further north, a second room with a throne is found, but this one holds a pentagon-shaped mirror and an odd multi-colored diagram surrounds the throne. No one enters the room, but a slumped figure sits in the throne, who could very well be Alek Tercival by the dark hair and full plate they note the figure wears.

Backtracking, the party finds a finely furnished bed chamber with a loom and several tapestries and rugs decorating it. They find a chest with several valuables and a hidden cabinet with a quarterstaff.

The party decides to rest up and Modisto discovers during this time that the staff is Alakast.

Time passes as the party takes their rest...