User:Lhynard/Projects/De Exilio/Campaign outline/Summary 5

Dates
Hammer 3 – Hammer 8, 1373 DR

Summary

 * The party arrive in Teshburl again and investigate the warehouse where Szordrin and Nargroth once guarded Walker. They discover a metal disk with the mark of the Interlink Consortium of Bral, which serves as a "portable portal destination".
 * Later that night they are attacked by the Red Rysal, or actually, two Red Rysals. The attackers use non-lethal force. When the party defeat them, they learn that they are wanted for kidnapping of Oma el Catahras and also are suspected by the Red Rysal of having dealings with the Knights of the Shield.
 * Hakam speaks with Oma's father. The party then fly into the desert to visit the lair of the brass dragon Sseth, hoping to learn more about his report of El Sadhara sending an army toward Allu's hidden place. Sseth, however, is feeling the effects of the Rage of Dragons. They provide Sseth with temporary release from the curse by using a rope trick spell.
 * Meanwhile, over the next day, Hakam travels to Memnon to obtain a copper tuning fork from a temple of Kossuth. He returns to Sseth and uses a plane shift spell to send the dragon "on vacation" in the Plane of Fire until the dracorage passes.
 * With Sseth safe for the time being, they fly to the cliffs on the western edge of Calimshan, to enter Allu's palace secretly by way of the same sea cave entrance that splits off to the lair of the blue dragon Yrevkethend. When walking up a sloping tunnel, they are ambushed by an invisible stalker but defeat it quickly with their magics after highlighting it with faerie fire. Assuming it one of the mummy's minions, they consider that the mummy's army may have defeated Allu's hobgoblins.
 * They come upon a scene of a battle, finding goblinoid blood, broken weapons and armor, and the bones of humans and minotaurs. Then they find a group of bugbear zombies and entrap them with a wall of stone. These events further convince them that the mummy was victorious.