The Sinister Spire – Turn Results 16

A search of the Skum yields only 4 tridents. A search of the immediate underwater area by Turok revealed a few large cavities under the water’s surface. They were apparently the lairs of the Skum. A search of them revealed a small, locked coffer and a magical pearl found within a drow skull. Clint managed to open the coffer and found that it contained 96 GP and a sealed vial of magical dust. Banjo identified the dust as Dust of Dryness. The he also determined that the pearl is:

Pearl of Undercommon

Aura moderate divination; CL 7th
Slot head; Price 600 gp; Weight –

Description:

When you place a Pearl of Undercommon upon your tongue (a standard action), it is absorbed into your mouth until you speak the command word “blacktongue” to release it. While it remains absorbed, the pearl grants you the ability to speak and understand Undercommon. In addition, while the pearl is active, it can be used to produce a command effect once per day (Will DC 11 negates).

Construction:

Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, command, tongues; Cost 300 gp

(Items have been recorded on the Treasure tab of the character summary but I will need to know who will be carrying/using what.)

Banjo and Clint spoke to both the fighter and the cleric. The sorcerer/rogue duo were able to convince them that they would be better able to complete their goal after a vistit to town. They assured them that rest, equipment and information awaited them ahead. Securing the mind controlled Dargoth and Thurstan in the middle of their marching order, the party continued along the Oceanbridge. Near the end of the bridge, the party gets their first clear view of the city of Pedestal.

The wide, sloping base of a massive column is built up with streets, walls, and hundreds of elaborate structures. A few glimmer with faint illumination, and here and there, lanterns shed green illumination in small pools separated by gulfs of shadow. Portions of the small city are completely collapsed and obviously abandoned, though others show clear signs of habitation and upkeep. A great wall surrounds the lowest edges of the city, and upon that edifice, hundreds of rusty spikes point toward the cavern’s high ceiling. Rotting heads adorn scores of those spikes.

(See Map of Pedestal in PBB References section.)

The road continues to the south of the city. After a few hundred feet the road passes a gate,

Dark stones sag over an open gatehouse. The gaping arch reveals a rubble-strewn roadway, a low barricade of pile debris, and an ominous cityscape beyond, where shadowed buildings lean above sloping cobbled lanes illuminated by green light from glowing lanterns.