How many psychos does it take to change a continual light stone?

How much trouble can one party get into? Well, let me point out that the elf that traded her soul for power is looking a little antsy...

We continued on into the magic school, Windsong Tower or whatever it’s called. The place was deserted, and Obegard was upset because his book has stopped talking to him—is it good or bad when the voices in your head stop?

We came across this large auditorium, and Obegard became very excited and started saying something about “wizard’s duel”. Before we knew it he was standing on a pedestal at one end of a large pit and there was someone standing on a pedestal at the other end. Actually, it looked just like the guy we’d taken out downstairs!?!?!

We couldn’t get to Obegard but we could clearly see what was going on as he and the other guy madly summoned critters all over the place. It didn’t look good for Obegard because almost everything he summoned the other guy summoned as well, and summoned more of.

When I wasn’t worrying about what would happen to Obegard which, let’s be honest, was most of the time, I was wondering where all these summoned creatures were when we were stuck in a tough fight. When Obegard claimed to be out of spells, how many of these little surprises was he holding back? Note to self—when Obegard completely loses it and has to be taken care of, remember this little episode.

While I was working through scenarios for killing Obegard I totally lost track of what was happening in the pit, and was only brought back to the present by the other guys cheering. Somehow, despite the overwhelming odds, Obegard had managed to kill his opponent.

We continued to search the school and I made sure to keep Obegard in sight at all times. We entered a room with several passages off it and were assaulted by some dude in super heavy armour that was whacking away at us like crazy. It was clear he had some major mojo involved and it was a pretty tough fight, but eventually we managed to beat him down and it was the same freaking guy!!!

Apparently he decided that three times was enough because now he stopped to actually talk to us and said he’d been testing us to see if we were strong enough to face an aspect of Bascerone. Hahahahahahaha! Oh, wait, he’s serious? Are all non-dwarven magic wielders insane?

The thing I don’t get is with Sorsha who approached us calmly to offer help Malakar and some of the others were like rabid dogs “Kill her, Borrow!”, “Silence her so she can’t cast spells, Borrow!”, “Slit her throat!”, “Don’t let her say anything!” but this psycho tries to kill us a bunch of times and they’re all like “Shall we have some tea and scones?” It’s totally messed up.

I’m keeping my mouth shut for now because this guy may be psycho, but he’s a really powerful psycho, and Obegard’s such a nut case that who knows which way he’d go if a fight broke out?

Also, the guy claims to know how we get back to our own plane and is offering us some cool magic items to help us do what he asks, which will cause the school to be cut off from this plane and re-connected with ours, if I understand all that mumbo-jumbo correctly. I’m kind of suspicious that perhaps the magic items won’t do exactly what we expect, but they’re going to be so shiny and my current bling is looking a little dated.