This week, the party continued to the laboratory's workshop, having Shivra walk the pointed surface in the disposal room over to the door, unlock it, and deactivate the angled floor panels, allowing the rest of the party to cross. Within the workshop they found a headless monstrosity - Vrikus's swollen body - with a heavily-armored brain in a jar attached to it. This turned out to be the brain of Lazlow "Laz" Dirgwyn, another foe from their past. Ctenmiir activated the monstrosity, and it rampaged through the party, dealing serious damage to them and chewing through many of their healing surges, but they managed to bring the beast down. Afterward, Laz asked them to bring him (it?) with them, and Amnon stowed the jar in his pack.
Next, the party returned to the main hall and ascended, heading up a circular walkway while under attack by wyverns and their dread zombie archer riders. The archers and wyverns tried to push the party off the walkway, but failed, and the party reached the aerie at the very top of the tower. There, a dracolich swooped in and attacked them, giving them no time to rest. This proved a very difficult battle, and Shivra was taken down twice, but the party managed to win in the end as the dracolich's overconfidence got the better of it, despite most of the party's horrible luck with dice rolls for most of the encounter.
With the dracolich defeated, the party is now left in the aerie, a number of barrels filled with Doresannic shards their only company. They have yet to decide what to do with the barrels, but their next destination is obvious - only an observatory with a midnight blue marble dome remains for them to explore now. It would seem their encounter with the vampire himself draws near...
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