Story so far
What happened
After shopping at Dartfang Forge, the party followed Krivahn’s map to a ruined shrine. Three corpses and a riddle explained how to feed three stone chests: by spell, by distant sting, and by fang. The party struck all three correctly. The chests unfolded into mimics but remained calm, creating the rare possibility that the puzzle had actually been solved without disaster.
Then the altar erupted with red light and dragged Reese through a portal mid-sentence. In the confusion Roland fired at a mimic, broke the truce, and began the disaster everyone had apparently missed. The guardians merged into a massive corrupted creature and nearly killed Valen. At the critical moment, the Storm Wraith crossed overhead and Rhogar rappelled into the clearing, joining the fight and the party with all the restraint of a man who had rehearsed his entrance.