Through Ultan's Door

There won't be a game this week, as I'm giving a paper at a conference. We'll pick back up 5/4. I'll have a brief recap of the last session and an updated map of the first level of the south wing up soon. Aleksandr Revzin Eric Boyd Chris P. cole longAnthony Huso Joshua Blackketter Cédric Plante

Downtime Thread I'd like to start a downtime thread here for things the party wants to do in Rastingdrung. So post here with proposals, inquiries, investigations, and so on. Also relevant, if that money is burning a hole in your pocket: https://plus.google.com/106146496996956180494/posts/TqES9HuYsDV

The Take The party beat a hasty retreat from a tense situation last session, and finally emerged from the White Jungle with a haul of a sort. The session consisted of mostly logistics, and then a lot of traveling without any encounters (ten checks with a 1 in 6 chance: no 1's). The party bought themselves more time in Rastingdrung by paying off their blackmailer (the apprentice Almurek, the beast master), and emerged with a captive from the Summer Palace who seems to have vital intelligence. We will handle the interrogation in another thread, as well as the identification of the magical objects. Here is the take: Fearsome Origami Soldier 500 XP Cavimesh 200 XP Marulu 300 XP 3 Crystal Bowmen 150 XP Bust of Agamara 600 GP Bust of Melocthes 600 GP Painting of X 1200 GP Massive Archon Chess Set 1000 GP Agate Encrusted Goblet 500 GP 2 Crystal Longbows 1200 XP

MAPS!!!! (1) Top view of the Summer Palace, as seen from the Great Stairs. Shows North and South Wings and Gardens. (2) South Wing Level 1 (3) South Wing Level 2 (4) South Wing Exterior Level 3 (Where play starts)

Summer Palace: The Cliff's Notes The hanging Summer Palace was built by the spiderlike Chittering Masons for the Incandescent Kings at the height of Zyan’s civilization. The party learned of its existence very early on in the campaign (Session 8?), when interrogating a captive, Ulantanu, whom they hauled from Wishery to the waking world. In addition to its presumed unparalleled riches, the party has sought it because their patron, the child witch Adriana, one of the apprentices to the Chatelaine of Storms in Rastingdrung, has reason to believe that the great palace library contains a magical tome that is lost to the waking world. It is called Evocations of the Doomed City. The party found the location of the Summer Palace from the Chittering Masons. Arriving there, they found that the Summer Palace was encased in a fine mesh sphere of magical qualities. They opened the brass valve at the top of the sphere, and took the grand winding staircase down through a column of trees, destroy