Chronology - Update

26th of Diyah: After claiming his newly forged rapier of undead bane, Farooq and friends leave the city of Wands toward the Forrowed Mountains on flying carpet. At nightfall, they encounter Bulwar, a clockwork mage, and his mechanical lion. Around the firecamp, he explaims that he is looking to restore his family's honor by confronting his brother, the clockwork mage known as Yusef the Mad.

27th of Diyah: As the rain season pours its fury on our heroes, they locate the Ashraf estate, a palace carved in the mountain site. They found the house deserted and after some exploring, they discover a secret entrance in the library leading inside the mountain.

As they start exploring the caves, the path gave to a huge caver where copper statues came to life and attack them. After a fierce battle, the vanquished the mechanical foes. They explored the west corridor theat lead to an underground stream and lake. The heroes got attacked by a water elemental who was hiding in the stream. They quickly dispatched this threat. Coming back on their tracks, they explored the east bound corridor. As they explored, a mehcanical noise was becoming more clear until they reached a laboratory. In it, various menuals on mechanical devices and an infernal looking machine. As they explored the lab, Bulwar got snagged by the machine and had his arm cut off by the machine. As our heroes tried their best to free their newfound companion, the machine grafted a weird looking right arm. Saladin picked up automatically an evil feeling from that arm. Seeing what the machine does, the group destroys it before venturing on the corridor.

As they moved on, they started to hear manical laughs and mechanical noises. Bulwar was the first to spot the mechanical spiders made out of glass coming their way. He instructed the group to destroy them at a distance since those where designed to explode with a fireball spell when they were destroyed. After dispatching that treat, the group discovered the las cavern and where greated by Yusef the Mad who after some babble bout transfering his soul to the mechanical scorpion below, he jumps, crushing his head on the rocky floor.

As our heroes checked the mad saher, the mechanical scorpion came to life and started to attack the group, unleashing bolts from his numerous weapons and fending off blows with it's adamantite shell. Soon, our heroes had a strategy: Saladin was blasting away with his wand of Magic Missiles, sending force bolts to weaken the joints in the shell, Ramanhi, Bulwar and the mechanical lion where attacking the joints of the shell to break it. After a while, they managed to break the shell and Yusef turned his body to metal in order to have more protection but the battle was slipping from his grasp. He destroyed his brother's mechanical lion and pierced him with its mechanical tail while Ramanhi delivered the crsuhing blow to the mechanical vessel.

After burying the two brothers and removing the Frozen Flame of Kussuth from the mechanical scorpion, our heroes went back into the estate to heal and decide their next move. They have to reach the other side of the mountain, either through the mountain or around it...