The Crypts of Gluttony, Part 10 (Abadius (I) 3rd, 4713 AR)

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The heroes spent a couple of hours looking for the lich's phylactery in the crypts. In the northwestern corner of the assembly room is a hidden trap door that the heroes discovered — it opens through the roof of the area containing the lich's phylactery, the floor of which is 10 feet below. Aranthor joined the heroes around that time, after he was shunted to the Material Plane from the lich's spell.

Phylactery. This crypt contained three stone sarcophagi, each bearing detailed carvings of hundreds of capering skeletons and dancing corpses.

These three sarcophagi were protected by a dangerous trap. When Gryxxa tried to open one of these three stone coffins, the skeletons and corpses carved on the sides of all three suddenly animated and began shrieking in a bloodcurdling manner. Hundreds of little bony arms pointed out into the room, and from their hundreds of outstretched fingers sprang beams of necromantic fury.

One of the sarcophagi contained 11 spellbooks. Each of these spellbooks bears the occasional notation written in Thassilonian, but the actual spells could be identified as normal. The second coffin contained 3,500 gp in mixed jewels, gems, and fine linens, an eversmoking bottle, a golembane scarab, and more spellbooks. The final coffin was itself the lich's phylactery, a fortified magic item in its own right.

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