Stonehell: The Lost Levels - The Power of Fireball

 Session 160 was played on 7/23

Karl, Dwarf 8 (Julia)
Boris, Cleric 5 (Jeff)
Kili, Cleric (Matt)
Joho, Mystic (Chris)
Ool, Mystic (NPC)
Morgana, Mage 5 (Reggie)
Daton, Fighter 4 (Jay)

Heading back into the lost level via the caves, the party explores around some new areas, and come to a door they hadn’t tried yet. It wasn’t locked, and they could hear some voices on the other side. Opening the door, there were 6 large trolls sitting around a far too small table, playing some sort of card game. One troll, in a green visor, turned and said “No room, seats full. Go find another game.” Joho closes the door with a muttered apology. Karl says “Elf that!” lights a nate-bomb, and kicks open the door, lobbing the bomb into the middle of the table.

2 of the 6 trolls are burned to a crisp, the others rise up and rush to the door, getting in each other's ways. One grabs hold of Joho, and bites him hard. Joho in return rips out his heart. The other badly burned trolls are quickly cut down. The room is searched, and a bunch of blackened gold coins are recovered.

A bit later, the party finds a secret door that opens up into a large worship space in which a bunch of lizardmen are engaged in a ritual. Morgana tosses in a fireball, incinerating all but one that is clinging to life with 1hp. Kili soothes his pain with a healing spell, talks to the lizardman, gets the location of their hidden treasure, and then crushes the lizardman’s skull.

The next notable room was a large vaulted chamber with several stirge nests tucked up among the crossbeams. Morgana lobbed another fireball, killing all the vermin, and setting their nests alight. Once the flames had died down, with the lingers smell of burned sugar filling the air, they recovered the treasure that hadn’t been destroyed by the flames.

After the stirges, they come across a massive room tiled in white (right side) and red (left side). At the far end was a massive throne, flanked by 3 giant iron statues. Karl makes it up almost to the throne, and is grabbed by one of the iron golems. The metal of the golem was literally burning hot, and the construct tossed the dwarf hard, bouncing him back across the room burned, bruised, and bloody. Begging for some healing, Karl crawls from the room back to his friends, and after a few potions, they decide to head back to the surface.

Gains: cloak of fire resistance, 6,100gp, and 6 pieces of jewelry
Kills: Trolls, lizardmen, and stirges
Losses: