Broken Obelisk Session 16 Report

General Summary

Session 16: 21-07-2025

On the Spelljammer vessel Trix spends time to Identify the books stolen from the library. They find out that the Arcanum Mythallium is not the original work but an analysis of the Nether Scrolls. It does point to the fallen Netherese city of Xyntalhus somewhere to the far south.

The other books seem valuable but mundane only having a value ranging from 10 to 50gp. They decide to duplicate the books and give the Arcanum Mythallium copy to the Thieves Guild. Kaxxa asks Large Luigi for illicit booksellers he recommends and he gets the name of Salazar located in the lesser market. If he wants to travel there's an Archmage by the name of Antarn in the city of Halarahh, in the wizard nation of Halruaa. During their chat Luigi says Aelyx is here and is depressed after having made the blunder of leaving the security system turned off. Kaxxa gets him some drinks and a meal and offers him a job helping them fight the Mindflayers.

Trix visits the Mages Guild to buy the Fabricate spell and after a night of rest he starts duplicating the books. Creating perfect copies of the valuable books to sell or trade to the booksellers.

While Kaxxa is out to The Happy Beholder and Trix is duplicating the books. Ron, Bruise and Torold head over to the Clockworks, a large building decorated with cogwheels and gears on the edge of the Rock. They head inside and meet with the shopkeeper and discuss buying an automaton to protect the child. They purchase a Clockwork Legionnaire, a toy soldier and a Clockwork Raven.

Kaxxa meets up with the bookseller Salazar and describes the book to him. The seller estimates its worth around 500 gp.

Back at the ship they make a plan to fly to Halarahh and get an estimate from the Archmage on what all these books are worth. When they arrive at the city they notice that the place is deserted and there are small bands of armored skeletons in the streets. They fly off to the mage tower on the edge of the city and call out to the mage. A hooded robed figure floats out and after they explain what they want he reveals that the city has been lost during the Spellplague and only undead remain. He says he has been turned into a Lich by the unholy energies against his will.

They follow him into his tower and up to his study seeing that the whole place has been filled with books top to bottom. Laying out the copied books for him he inspects them and says most are valued at 50gp each. The book on The God Killer can go for 100gp and he says there might be more information at the crashed city of Ruins of Xyntalhus.

If they want to make some gold there are magical items and gold stored in Koshtar's Keep, a fortress that belonged to one of the mages that used to rule the city. Down below in the basement there should be a treasury.

They talk to the captain and turn the ships massive bombard on the fortress gates. Kaxxa makes a bet with the captain that he can hit the gates on the first try and succeeds blowing the gates apart. The others all take turns to fire on the inner doors and they destroy one of the towers. The bombartment draws out the skeleton warriors and they rush through the streets. Sailors from the ship take their muskets and start firing on the skeletons to destroy them. Even Nancy happily joins in firing her pistols into the skeletons.

After the skeletons are destroyed and dispersed they land on the roof of the structure and slowly make their way over the rubble of the tower down into the dark stairwell. Ron moves ahead and picks the lock on the door at the bottom. Peeking inside he sees an empty hallway with carpets and tapestries. Calling the others and with Bruise activating the Lightbringer they can see the entire hall. A sandstone structure with blue carpets with strange symbols on them. They move to the back and Bruise kicks in the doors leading to more stairs going into the dark below.

At the bottom they encounter another locked door and hear a growl in the distance.