. Caves of Chaos

25th Eleint 9:45 am.
After some discussion about whether or not to put the two pieces of the dagger together, Mathers slams the hilt onto the blade. A pulse of dark energy bonds the dagger whole again. Mathers examines the dagger and reads some of the arcane marks on the dagger. He believes it is the bloodhorn blade, an evil dagger that is extraordinarily sharp and shoves its victims 15ft with a burst of necrotic energy. Weary from their last battle the group takes a long rest. They squeeze as much of the blood from their clothing and armour that they can. They heal wounds and stretch muscles, sharpen blades and tighten armour. By 4am they are ready to continue exploring the Well of Demons in search of answers. Where are the slaves? What does Maldrick Scarmaker need with them? How do they open the door to the Inner Sanctum? What is Paldemars involvement with the gnolls?

The group travels north to the area where they previously met the ghosts. A short corridor ends in a strong door carved with the face of a minotaur. They enter to find a small room, opposite the door, and along the sides of this chamber jet black curtains hang from hooks set into the ceiling. Mathers and Gandor approach. Gandor pulls back the curtain to see what is beyond. He immediately disappears, and the curtain falls back into place without a sound. Mathers asks if anyone else wants to see what is beyond the curtain. Darkface steps forward and he suddenly disappears. Surina grabs Rayronds shoulders and the two of them step past the curtain and into a large room beyond. Rayrond disappears from sight, and Surina feels dizzy for a moment. She glances around the room and sees a long corridor with several pillars supporting the ceiling. The room is lit with no discernable source by a slowly pulsating blue glow from above. On each side of each pillar hangs an eight foot tall mirror attached with a bronze frame. In the mirror immediately before Surina she can see Gandor and Darkface standing infront of another black curtain. According to the angle of reflection they should be standing just to her right, but no one else is in the room with her. Panril follows, leaving Gandor’s dog and Mathers in the curtained room. He too disappears.
Gandor and Darkface find themselves transported to the front of another curtain; this one about 40 feet wide, behind them a long room supported with pillars similar to the room Surina and Panril were left in. Gandor pulls this curtain aside to reveal an altar crafted from brass. It is flanked by two gray stone minotaur statues. And in the corners two Boneshard Skeletons as soon as Gandor opens the curtains they move in to attack.
Meanwhile Panril glances around the room beside Surina, his gaze rests on one of the mirrors and he too is teleported behind Darkface and Gandor. Surina feels dizzy again, but for some reason is not teleported.
Gandor summons his Drake, and the three battle with the skeletons. Panril makes the mistake of looking around and is suddenly teleport again, but his time to a new location.
While the battle with the Boneshards rages, Mathers comforts the dog, whispering gently “I am going to eat you, yes I am. Good boy”. He then stands and lights the curtains on fire.
Where has Rayrond gone? Panril finally discovers the answer. Rayrond finds himself in an odd shaped room devoid of windows, doors or other means of egress.
A very hungry looking Gnoll snarls at him and reaches for his spear. Thinking quickly Rayrond hurls a shuriken at the Gnoll wounding him before the Gnoll can attempt to gut him with its spear. He stabs at the now drooling beast with the bloodhorn blade. The blade sinks easily into the Gnoll’s flesh and then with a sudden burst of black energy throws the Gnoll back against the stone wall. Suddenly a rage washes over the Halfling and he wants nothing more in this world then to dissected the beast before him. With a deep guttural snarl he leaps on the surprised Gnoll and starts to stab him again and again with the dark blade.
Panril teleports into the room to see the Halfling elbow deep in Gnoll.

Meanwhile Mathers finally enters the Hall of Enforced Introspection. He glances at a mirror and gets teleported behind Panril. He notices that Rayrond seems to have the Gnoll at his mercy so he attempts to find a way out of the room. Finding nothing obvious he resolves himself to crouching on the floor leaning on his mace and watching the Halfling battle the Gnoll. With each stab of the dark blade the necrotic force tries to push the Gnoll through the stone wall. Finally the battle ends with Gnoll blood dripping down the walls. Panril says a quick prayer to heal Rayrond. As Rayrond notices his fight over he turns towards Panril, snarls once and rushes dagger first at his friend and comrade. A surprised Panril feels the blade stab into his side and then he is hurled back ass over tea kettle to the back of the room. Mathers deftly dodges the flying priest and thinks to himself “Now this just got interesting!”
He stands and sees the murderous rage in Rayronds eyes. Without a seconds hesitation he lets loose a devastatingly effective blast of arcane energy. Within a few seconds Mathers has blasted the life out of the angry Halfling.
Panril heals the Halfling and Rayrond seems to be back to normal.

Back at the altar one of the skeletons brings his scimitar down onto the drake. Gandor attempts to blast the other with a tundra wind from his staff. The icy cold wind blows through the skeleton without much effect. Darkface fires several arrows into the first skeleton . The battle continues and once the first skeleton is bloodied it bursts little boneshards enfused with necrotic energy in every direction. The blast destroys the summoned Drake. A severely wounded Gandor finally backs away from the skeletons blast range wisely it seems as each skeleton burst again with boneshards when they are destroyed. Gandor and Darkface rip down the curtains and attempt to cover the mirrors. They quickly realize there is no way to affix them to the pillars, and not enough fabric to cover all the mirrors anyway.
They bring their attention back to the altar. Resting on a sheet of black fabric is a simple mask made of black wood. Gandor shoves it into his pack, and then notices the indentation of a minotar hand in the brass top of the altar.

Surina and Gandor discover through yelling that they are in the same room and that the rest of the party is missing. Darkface closes his eyes and walks arms outstretched before him, towards the southern wall. He finds a smooth spot on the wall as if many hands have worn down the stone after hundreds of years of using the wall to navigate through the room. Gandor stays at the altar, he places his hand on the indentation of the minotaur hand. Surina yells out that a dead Gnoll body has appeared on the floor before her. Darkface follows the wall until he comes to Surina then he intentionally looks at the mirror in which he can see Gandor. He is teleported into the Oubliette of the Empty Mind with the rest of the party. He tells Rayrond to stand on the spot where the Gnoll body was. A minute later Gandor places his hand on the indentation again, and Rayrond is teleport back beside Surina. The rest of the party follows suit and they close the doors to this room and find a place to rest.