2-5-2011 The way of Mui Wan

After a most refreshing rest we decided to return to exploring. We encountered a large room with a collapsed floor. Below was dark and foreboding, so we decided to span the gap and try to reach the door beyond. I used my stone rope to create a mock bridge to give us a walkway to cross. Over I went. Areli was next but I guess his paw pads got stuck in between the lengths of the stone rope causing him to fall. Instantly waves of horrid undead Wights lunged for him hungrily. We swiftly dispatched them and pulled a grateful Areli up. The door on the other side was strong but we managed to open it and expose the room beyond. It was empty except for having the right side of the stained glass window we encountered earlier in the room with the Troll, dominating one wall. We did find another copy of the Book of Master Mui Wan here. Perhaps this was once another meditation room.

The stained glass window of Master Mui Wan

The room below the on with the caved in floor was empty of anything of note. (Well besides the Wights). There was a single long passageway out to a room with two doors and two statues one on each side. The hairs bristled on the back of my neck as a sensed powerful traps and locks on both doors.  My friends and I did figure out the placement of the statues would unlock and disarm the doors without too much fuss. Each door revealed a single chamber beyond with items of worth each behind an invisible wall of force. Remembering that we would need the necklace with the correct color stones installed we returned to the level above to find them. 

Back upstairs we continued to search for the stones we would need. There we found a storage room with LONG forgotten food and supplies. But also hidden in the room was the final stone we needed to use the necklace. We eagerly returned to the Statue room and I slid through the barriers with no challenge. We were rewarded with some of the personal affects of Master Mui Wan. 

With all the loot collected we started back on our way to the surface. We continued to where the corridor again became a rough natural cavern. A chamber just beyond led us to the resting place of 2 adventurers, Part of our rescued Half lings party before they encountered the Blade Troll. There were two other passages from this chamber and we explored along a long section until we found a section that obviously was a temple to some strange deity. Longing for home we decided to return to the rough cavern and follow the path that our rescued adventurers  had taken from Ptolus. 

A long journey it was to the island, Great adventure, but it was good to be finally home.