Session 95 Echoes of Conquest

The Order of the Phoenix, who have spent over 24 hours in the ziggurat knows as the Tomb of the Shattered Sun continue on its investigation on the third floor of the ziggurat. The third level of this ziggurat was only level of the tomb that was Black Legion themed. Anything to do with the Zavabu empire and their pantheons had been changed. The party also discovered that this is where the Death Knight known as Abraham Harker has been hiding for the past 500 years. The Order discovered Harker war room and a room of worship that had dire consquences if you did not pay their devotion to the queen of the dragons known as Thanika five headed dragon with Black, white, green, copper, and silver heads.

As the order moved to the 4th chamber they discovered what seemed to be the quarters of some of Harker's troops. Cots, footlockers, and tables for recreation were in this room. The cots along with the footlocker were in a prestine orders with the tables in the center of the this chamber. Food and dice could still be seen on the tables for who knows how long. What caught the orders attention is this room was at the north end of the room. Five figures stood motionless. As the order continued to move towards these figures they notice one of the figures was a badly beaten half-elf chained to the wall. On a officers table next one of the cots was his armor, equipment, a lute, and a rapier. Dimmir checked out the statues of roman legions on the east and west walls. Marik would join him as well. Dagon and Conan went to the half-elf to investigate who he was. The half-elf name was Lucien and once revived asked if they were there to finish the job that the undead creature had started. Lucien would tell the party that he had this creature defeated begging for its life before be hit in the back of the head by someone. Arceven meanwhile went to the investigate the four motionless figures. A look of astonishment on his face as he seemed to know what these figures were. Each figure were dressed in the robes of the Order of the Phoenix. The colors faded due to who know how long they have been in this ziggurat, but still recognizable. As he continued to the creatures Lucien while donning his armor and equipment found a small liver object the shape of a small apple. Lucien picked up this object several time as he donned and searched through his equipement. Each time he held the object a reddish orange light would flash on the chest of each creature. The more Lucien held the object the hotter the object got to the touch almost burning the hand of Lucien. Arceven would tell the party that these four creatures are tied to the Order of the phoenix. Arceven would eventually take the object and give it to Dimmir. Once Dimmir held the object the item became cool to the touch again and activated the four creatures who marched to Dimmir reporting for duty. Giving there names.

The Order continued to Chamber five where in this circular room stood 12 statues of what seemed to famous people of the Black Legion Empire. One of the Statues dressed in his roman armor was Abraham Harker. In the center of the room was a pedestal of white marble . The Murals of the walls depicts the rise and fall of the Zavabu Empire including the destruction of the great city of Atlantis. It also shows the rise of the Black Legion Empire to include mortals kneeling before the Queen of the Dragons. . Once in the chamber the doors closed trapping the party in the room and the voice of Abraham Harker could be heard "Only those who recall the truth of the Empire shall walk unscratched beneath the eyes of the dead." Then the eyes of the 12 statues in this room began glow with each one asking a questions one at time. For each wrong answer the whole party would suffer fire damage. The Order would get 7 of 8 questions right that would open the door to the 6th Chamber.

The sixth chamber would have tiles on the floor laid out in a certain order in the Black Legion number system numbering I -X on the first row and XI-XX on the second row of tiles. This same pattern would duplicate until the end of the chamber. The voice of Abraham Harker would once again sound off warning the the party to pick the correct Legion that would lead a path through the tiles. Choose wrong and suffer the consquences. The first question was of course the III legion Abraham Harker legion that he commanded during the War of the Ancients. This chamber proved to be changeling as several valuable healing potions were used to keep party members alive. Question in this room talked about past legates who led these legions that Harker respected The legions that he didn't respect were given riddles for there questions. The party eventually was able to solve the and find the secret path required to get through this room which opened the door to the 7th chamber.