Chapter Nineteen: Helping Valygar Pt. 1
After declining Bodhi's offer, we went to the Government District to talk with Tolgerias, a wizard. He offered us a job but wouldn't budge on Imoen's whearabouts. With nothing else to go on, I decided to take the job.
We were to hunt someone who killed a Cowled Wizard. Did the whole of Amn some bloody good, in my opinion. Damned Cowled Wizards with their friend-abducting and "Wow-Look-At-Me-I-Can-Do-Magic-And-You-Can't!" attitudes! Anyway, we went to this Valygar Corthala's house and met his servant, who was glad his master wasn't around. Something about always leaving Gnoll Dung tracks all over the house. We asked if we could look around, and we agreed. We also learned that the Cowled Wizards had had a meeting with him.
We found a bill upstairs, for a pink cabin in the hills. Pink? Odd...
When we got to the hills, we could tell it used to be pink but the rain had run off most of the paint. We met Valygar inside and he explained about how the wizards had tricked us and such. Damn wizards. I agreed to his proposal to go to the Planar Sphere and Jan bid us a fond farewell. He also mentioned something about too many rangers wanting to hack him into gnome steak while he was asleep.
At the Sphere, Valygar deterred a con man, and we entered. After entering this sphere, some Golem attacked us. Thank Brandobaris for dispel magic! The Golem was easy to kill once slowed down.
We killed an imp, how I love their squeaks of protest, then somehow ended up activating the sphere. I hope alternate dimensions are as nice as I imagined them. Would find it funny to watch Minsc play Ring Around the Rosy with little elf-like gnomes.
We met some knights, and as the party talked to them I headed to the back room to investigate. Just my luck, fishmen! I killed them myself, as the others were to prissy about entering a room that smelled like rotten tuna and salt.
After that we encountered halflings. Not the cute little chubby ones like me, but skinny ones with bad hair and a penchant for eating flesh!
They demonstrated by trying to chew Valygar's legs off. They were easy to kill.
Mazzy heard voices up ahead so I went to sneaking, and heard a True Sight spell being muttered. We decided we should make camp for the night.
The next morning, Aerie cast haste on all of us and Minsc, Valygar, and I hid in shadows. As we approached, I heard the spell again.
I backstabbed the wizard halfling while Minsc and Valygar attacked the two druids! Then the others waded in and all was over in minutes. Unfortunately, the wizard cast Confuse on Viconia and she started attacking Aerie!
"Run from the crazy elf lady, my witch!" screamed Minsc. Poor Aerie almost died. Viconia seemed sad she hadn't killed the girl.
We killed some spiders, then I heard voices behind a door. The halflings had heard Minsc's warnings, and were forming a plan. One was a witch, the other a cleric. I stealthily opened the door and snuck past them.
Taking down the wizard was fast. The funny part was the look of shock on the others's faces as I drank a potion of invisibility and killed the cleric! The other two died by Minsc's hands.
Searching the room to the east, there were four golems, one an Iron Golem. We ran back a room and defeated the three who could fit through the door. Aerie had a special plan for the Iron Golem.
She cast Lower Resistance five times from scrolls, Greater Malison, then Polymorph Other!
Just before it died we had to dodge out of the way. The projectile it let out hit the far wall with a splat!
Valygar figured that a Golem could open the door next to the tanks in the last rooms, so we got to building a Golem. Those fire elementals didn't help much, though. However, fire elementals can't resist a good barbecue! Finally found a use for those pieces of meat I sliced off of that red dragon...
After activating the Golem, he opened the door for us.
Then we killed an Elder Beholder, apparently Lavok's ex-boyfriend.
And we battle Lavok. Boy, is that guy ever cranky when he wakes up!
Lavok and Valygar had a discussion after the fight. He asked Valygar to get him some rose-scented bubble bath.