Tantalizing Riches

??+2 November, 595

During the night, Salla wakes up early to find himself well-rested and some of his wounds healed. He lets Kyladrian sleep in the bed the remainder of the night, and the rogue experiences the same effect by morning time. The next morning, the group ventures upstairs into one of the wizard's experimentation rooms. This room contains 3 cages made of the blue force fields. 2 of them contain extraordinarily beautiful women, and the other encases a stairway up to the next level. There is also a control panel with 3 buttons. The women in the cages plea for help to escape, each telling a different story about which button does what, and accusing each other of lying. Each claims to be a nymph, but accuses the other of really being a demon. They explain that they had been trapped by the wizard for centuries, while he was performing his experiments on the force cages.

The group bites the bullet and finds the button which releases the cage around the staircase. So up they go, leaving the two alleged fey creatures to their fates. The next level contains a second labratory, but with several doors built at odd locations in the room. A secret door is found and opened to reveal a room full of treasure, and occupied by a jovial djinni who is friendly, but warns them against entering the room. The party takes a liking to him, and converse about how they can get the treasure out without having to fight him. During the discussion, he provides them with a delicious turkey meal to quech their appetite.

The other doors are explored, and they lead to various force cages, one of which contains a pair of rocky creatures, which shove past and move slowly toward the exit. Some attempts are made to stop the creatures, but they cannot easily be stopped, and eventually they reach the outside of the tower and sink into the ground in the passageway outside. Back to the room leading to the treasure to talk about what should be done. Kyladrian and Baxtor wander downstairs and one of the caged nymphs convinces them to free her. She warmly thanks Baxtor and promises to return the next day to give them their reward. She promptly disappears into thin air. The nymph in the other cage becomes enraged, and transfers into her true self, a demonic creature with feathery wings and long claws. She begins screaming, and it is quite hard to concentrate while spending any time in that room with the caged beast.

The party decides to sleep and heal for one more night.