Session 25 Recap

Previously on DnD, you awoke within the Tomb of Baldanay having just had a long rest. Before you stood a door with a strange ancient Assyrian language written on the door. You couldn't make out what it said fully, but you understood it to be with regards to Baldanay. You entered the door and inside you  found yourselves within a large cavernous expanse with several holes in the floor. It was pitch black, until Qelgar cast light - illuminating a floating skull with a single eye hole chained down by nine small chains and one large chain emanating from a large black gemstone on a pillar beneath the skull. The Skull addressed you, and asked you to free it, telling you it was once an adventurer like you until it as trapped and cursed by the black gem below. You were hesitant to help, but while you were negotiating a Death Slaad climbed up the side of one of the holes and attacked. Immediately, Flint decided to try and smash the gems and release the skull. The Skull assisted you with its gem beams against the Death Slaads and urged you to free him so he could release his full power. More and more Death Slaads kept coming and the first one revealed he could fly - and the team decided it was the right idea to try and free the skull. After much battling and hurt, the skull was nearly free when Anton attempted to push one of the Death Slaads into a deep pit. However, it resisted and instead pushed Anton into the pit, knocking him unconscious. By now, nearly all of the gems were destroyed with the one in the centre of the pit being the final one. Stuff did a courageous leap and managed to smash the gem, freeing the Skull. On being freed, the skull floated up, its eye showed a green eye and a black eye and it floated through the ceiling. All of the Death Slaads winked at the players, and disappeared too. You tried to make your way to Anton, but by the time you reached him it was too late. Anton Toma had passed away.