Ruined Tower (Mission)

"Myself, Wivaun, and Takrend left the Last Chance in the morning to invesitgate the ruined tower that had been previously identified on several missions up north. We traveled northwest for an hour and then along the side of the rocky hills after that until we reached a forest that we followed the treeline of. After almost an entire days travel we made it to the tower

Outside the tower we're rocks with lists inscribed in them of various alchemical items and properties. All of these were written in exotic languages such as infernal, draconic, and primordial. None contained any significance so we moved inside.

Once inside we saw many ruined books and heard shuffling in the room above. Upon investigation Wivaun saw a large hunched creature forming powder of some kind. We went up, assuming it was nonhostile, and met Lumpkin the flesh golem. It is incapable of speech though understands it fine. It was grinding pages and notes from it's master. While Lumpkin was not pleased by it I was able to look at the notes and ascertain that they carried no relevant information.

Moving to the third floor, we found a rather ornate gold and platinum mirror. It was clearly magical though we could find no way to activate it or how to use it. Moving to the ruined last floor we found a journal and a scroll. The journal was written in what we assume to be a code of some kind but we could not break it nor find the codex.

It should be mentioned that we searched the walls, which were inscribed with many notes similar to those outside, the books downstairs, and whatever notes Lumpkin has not ground but found no codex.

In hopes of causing the master's return, we assisted Lumpkin the in the destruction of the rest of the master's notes and then spent the night. The master did not return overnight and it was assumed that there was no correlation between the golems time of completion of task and the master's return.

Instead of waiting we stole the mirror by flying it out of the roof of the tower by strapping it to Takrend. We then proceeded back to the Last Chance. About halfway back we took notice of an encampment that I flew closer to and seems to fit the format of the gnoll fort that another group had raided and released Hatha from. Jackals and hyenas were feasting outside which gives me similar impressions.

Upon resting for the night, travel being slowed due to the weight of the mirror, Xarthisius revealed himself from the mirror. We had a brief conversation and it was decided he would come live at the Last Chance and provide scroll work should we provide the material.

We returned the next day with Lumpkin carrying the mirror having been teleported by Xarthisius. He is a powerful magician."

―Agamemnon Fireheart's adventure log