Cathedral in the Abyss

Keep traveling for two days through forest and into Celestial rubble. A small valley is formed by the rubble. Dubious spots a ten foot tall frog shaped ogre sized critter. Another slaad. Three fireballs go off centered in the party. I am scouting ahead and out of the effect. Gracie falls and disappears in a lilac cloud of smoke. Several of us react and move to one of the slaad, quickly reducing it to smoke. Dubious is severely wounded and I goto him and use the cure wand. The other two slaad are soon turned to smoke as well. Heal up before traveling another half day. Approach the cathedral. Large front entrance with large stone doors, closed. Parts of the roof are collapsed. Elwin uses his special boots to explore the roof and such. Looks in the various holes. In one, sees a couple of half spider/drow things resting in webbing. On the floor is a statue of Orcus and a pretty winged female. Piles of rubble litter the floor. We decide to try sneaking through the center roof hole. Despite Jian tripping on the rubble, the critters don't seem to notice. Move to a narrow part. Aerrion squeaks up the other side. A half serpent moves toward Aerrion, carrying a half spear that glows. The winged female, a sucubus, flies atop the Orcus statue. As the serpent approaches Aerrion, it calls to the sucubus, which flies down, calling to Aerrion. He moves toward her and she kisses him. Bet he's never done that before. Carifon moves forward slowly and casts something. Sucubus flies up yelling at Aerrion. He draws his weapons. Dubious charges in. My bolt bounces off the serpent. The sucubus tries to influence me but I shrug off her attempt. Aerrion joins Dubious and Carifon in attacking the serpent and they quickly smoke it. The sucubus screams and flies away.

Approach the statue. A bound female lays there. When she is freed, she slaps Aerrion. Gracie sent her(Helena) to help us. Helena is a Pelorian cleric. There is a door leading down. Carifon says it leads to the first guardian. Search the area first. Find the dropped long spear from the serpent. Jian thinks it is very magical. We descend down to a large room. Elwin vanishes. A corpse in light armor speaks query about taking the first challenge. "Choose a door and slay the critter behind." Short version. Carifon says he can go no further. North door - Ugly, Beolith (demon). South door - Beauty, Haliece. Debate. Decide on the north door and open it. A system of narrow wooden paths are suspended about thirty feet above a spiked floor. A spider thing is in the middle of a large chamber. Aerrion charges the demon. Dubious moves forward but gets webbed. I move forward after getting Alicast from Helena. Smack the demon with it to great effect. It responds by bullrushing me and knocking me off the path after I smack it the second time. Moments later, Jian finishes it off, its body falls to the floor and stays, splatting as it hits. We cure Aerrion of the poison he received from the demon. Move through the room. Find a mummy that speaks of a lantern that will guide us to the second test. Find the lantern.

Oosana

XP: Kills - 2250

Loot: Half Spear (Magical) from serpent thing.