Jaykei - Elkei

Agar decided to share with everyone that he knew how to get to the temple of the Answaru, Jaykei-Elkei which made the decision process (take the priest or no) much, much easier: you just left on your own in the middle of the night.

By daybreak you had made it to the temple, which resembles a very large Scholars' Rock, shown above. Long story short: the temple was magnetic and surrounded by a double rung of other magnets, creating a sort of "levitating" force for the temple. Lodos was able to amplify the field effect, and Agar was able to rotate the temple. This aligned some of the subterranean lava tubes, revealing a hidden passageway beneath the temple.

The passageway had a door in it with a slot for - what else? - the bookmark/key that the priest had been carrying until sticky fingers Silus lifted it. You all blacked-out, had visions, and came to in time to see a dozen or so undead creatures crawling up the passageway's dark depths towards you. A couple of grenades took care of that threat, but you might still be worried about the "shockwave" of horror and despair that you heard rolling through the jungle.

Ever fearless and foolhardy, you journey down into the darkness and find a 5 r 6 foot long bone lashed to a wooden box of the same length. The bone turns out to be the radial bone of a near adult dragon. The box contains a sword carved of dragon bone, hilt and all. Mirella seems to remember something about this being an early practice that the Misarlon used to try to bind runic powers and render them less harmful or dangerous. Farallon volunteers to take the sword. Although inspection has not revealed any runes, the weapon is naturally magic, being made of dragon bone. Farallon was able to detect some sense of deep betrayal and some split between good and evil coming from some force in the sword.

But the passageway lead deeper, and so that is where you went. Three days of journey further into the darkness. Three days further in to the belly of an extinct volcano. The payoff is a three story, 80 room complex built by the dwarves. It appears that here may have been the final staging area for sealing in the greatest evil Palladium has ever known...