You all drop by the psion offices, and Sha'an's stubbly twentysomething face greets you at the door.
"Ah! Hello. My sources--" Sha'an looks around furtively. "--tell me that there is another dungeon off a good way to the north, on the coast. First, I should probably tell you what I found from that last memory."
Sha'an begins telling you a tale.
"This is but one of the tales of which the people speak...
Once, there was an old prison out in the woods. It held typical, rowdy inmates in, for some reason, large, open cells. They never escaped, somehow. Anyway, the warden was a pretty dark-minded guy. He was a dwarf, and after running the jail for about ten years, he became interested in the concept of necromancy. Every night, he would go to his study and read from an old spellbook he'd found somewhere. Eventually, he was consumed by the power and went stark raving mad. He cast an extremely powerful spell on the entire prison, killing all the inmates, guard animals, and guards, quickly reviving them as the undead beasts you saw in the catacombs. I think there was some kind of ghoulish being near where you found the memory; that was probably the dwarf himself.
This tale means little on its own, but I found something in it. There was a mention of a powerful wizard, likely the source of the spellbook, and I spotted a little map with a circle on it when he was being discussed; I find it likely that the map marked the homeland of the wizard, probably a castle or something. I'd like you all to go try to find a memory inside of the old wizard's domain.
Thing is, this wizard was what is called a "domain wizard", and he was apparently obsessed with the ocean along with necromancy. His temple is probably flooded or something, so I'm giving you five this, and I need it returned."
Sha'an pulls out a little glass bottle.
"I found this bottle in a rummage sale at a wizard's academy. This thing is supposed to hold infinite amounts of air in it, which means that you guys can breathe out of it." Sha'an presses it into Talc's hands. "This thing cost me around seven thousand gold pieces. Don't ask why I spent 7000 gp on something I'm lending to some adventurers that I probably won't use anyway. You owe me the cash if you lose it, though, so be careful with it."
Sha'an hands Fist a map. It shows the local area in a pretty decent imitation of scale, and has a big X on it around where the temple is supposed to be.
If you need to do anything in town, do it now.
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Topic: Dungeons and Dragons 3.5: Memories of Twin'kaali (Read 21306 times)