Cauldron

Trixie and Smily check out the corner of the cavern, and see a steaming cauldron. A form emerges from the cauldron, claiming to be Vard. "Your existence will no longer be tolerated." He uses a smoldering eye attack on Kynareth and Rhadhar. The battle is on! The cauldron hisses, and a troll appears and attacks Kynareth. Falcon attacks with a Ray of Frost. Vard retaliates, but misses. Kynareth attacks and hits for fire damage. Skelder hits both the troll and Vard. Friar Jim uses Turn Undead, hitting both Vard and the Troll, and pusing them and the cauldron into a nearby creek. Vard is also immoblized as Trixie attacks, bloodying him.

The trolls attack Skelder, dealing some damage, and Falcon returns the favor. Vard shakes off his immobilization and attacks with a baleful eye. However, he does no damage. Kynareth teleports next to Vard, and sends a bolt of lightning at Vard, which misses. However, he then teleports to the trolls, and hits them. 

Another troll appears and attacks the bard.  Skelder attempts to jump in the cauldron, yelling, "Great deeds require great sacrifices."  However, he is pushed away with some psychic damage. Friar Jim releases the power of the sun, killing one troll, damaging all enemies and stunning them as well. 

Rhadhar leaps to the attack, but another troll appears from the cauldron and attempts to attack Friar Jim, but accidentally hits another nearby troll. Bo Jangles hits a troll, and Falcon hits as well. Skelder attacks Vard, causing major damage. Friar Jim attacks with Searing Light, blinding Vard. Rhadhar takes advantage, attacking with shrouds. Both trolls attack the bard, and he responds with a dirge of inescapable doom. 

Skelder, wanting to get into the cauldron, discovers that we need a scroll to perform a ceremony on the cauldron. We don't seem to have that. Skelder attacks Vard, stuffing his head into the cauldron and killing him. Friar Jim heals Bo Jangles, who uses his Magic Mandolin of Magnificence to discover a door behind us in the cavern, a possible hiding place for the scroll we need. Falcon uses a shock sphere, which misses, fortunately, because he also would have hit some allies. Kynareth also attacks using an area spell, hitting Bo Jangles and Friar Jim. Friar Jim, rattled from the attack, misses. Kynareth is hit by a troll, and retaliates with dual lightning strike, killing 2 trolls. Skelder kills the final troll, and we use the key from Vard on the door.

We find the scroll, and find out how to destroy the cauldron. We destroy the stone cauldron. In the vault we find a life force amulet (worth 1,600,000 gold) +4 magic scale armor, +3 lightning mace, 1,080 gold, jeweled statue worth 2500, 1000 gold emerald and fire opal, and black pearl worth 500. 2 mithril rings (15,000 each).  We find Sun Wrath, the sword which we can return to the Baron, who gives us a prize goat from his herd. His name is Kenny. He follows us and carries our load, giving a +1 movement bonus. 

Rhadhar gets amulet

Kynareth gets armor

Friar Jim gets the mace

the other 3 get 12000 gold each.

Kenny will be the team goat and mascot.