The reduce person was not wearing off so I asked Trask to cast enlarge person on me to break the spell. Takkad and Regal remain small even hours later. We are beginning to think that the reduce person will last until countered. Takkad insists that be reduced is not an issue for him.

Proceeding deeper into the complex we found the caldron room. We didn’t determine what they were creating or cooking in the big magic caldron and it might be better that way. Once we had dispatched the caldron thing and the golem Takkad use gallons and gallons of water to put out the fire and fill the caldron; hopefully this ruins the contents of the caldron. Dispatching the golem was a pretty standard even for us. Not sure fighting became standard but any day that we are all still alive is good. The caldron thing was a challenge because it could freely walk out of combat into the walls and floor. Spiting hot iron and casting spells this caldron thing was difficult because we could not get close enough to hit it. We decided to leave the caldron boy alone in the caldron room so we proceed to move on. Statues filled the next room with the one in the center obviously glowing magic.  This had all of the signs of being a trap. Keeping to the tactics of limiting how many we fight at a time with a chock point once again worked in our favor. For the second time today I dropped my axe to use a weapon different weapon this time it was the Ranseur. It was a little strange being able to attack from that far away without throwing my axe. We should keep one of these for situations just like this, Nolan will likely want one anyway as he can probably use this to attack from his horse.

We soon found out that the caldron thingy would have to be dealt with. Kane was search down a hallway when the caldron thing walked out of the wall and turned Kane into stone. Later found out that this was flesh to stone. Here I am trying to find 4 level spells and this thing it spitting 6^th level spells at us. After our battle with this caldron thing Trask used teleport to take Kane, Rigal, and himself to Korvosa in an attempt to get Kane turned back into flesh (stone to flesh). He also returned with an additional stone to flesh scroll just in case. It can be a little tricky to cast scrolls that are above your capability but with Trask being a pure sorcerer this should not be too much of an issue, as long as he is not the one turned to stone.

Anyway the caldron thing walked out of the wall and turned Kane to stone and then walked back into the wall leaving just a wall of fire behind. The thing reappeared when it heard Trask talk about teleporting out. It looked as if this thing was going to just play with us. That all seemed to change when rolo cast a spell causing tentacles to seemingly sprout out of the floor, either that or we were lucky.  Avia was able to get just close enough get in a good hit to finish it off.

We waited around for a few hours for them to return and then we started to explore the area. Soon after we started to explore the all re-appeared form Korvosa; Kane back to normal self. Down at the end of the hallway we found a room with Thassilonian writing covering the walls, detected that they were magic and realized that I need to stop Takkad from reading any more of the writing. There is some type of strange magic that appears to calm those that read it.  We do not need Takkad under some strange spell!

Off to the left there was a break in the wall, oddly we could see that there had been some resent repairs but they did not cover the hole in the wall. We heard growling coming from deep within the hole so Takkad create a stone wall to cover the broken wall. We were about to move to one of the doors when a dog like thing seemed to walk through the walls. We attempted to engage but it ended up walking back through the wall. At the door near by Kane overheard something in a strange language; they said that the strangers had created a way for them to get out. That was enough of that and Takkad rounded the top and bottom of the walls to match what we have been seeing. Moving from door to door we found a door within a door that contained a wall. The dog like creature appeared again we moved back and closed the outer door. This must be designed to be used with the trapped creatures.