My players continued exploring the mysterious castle last night. And it went a little rough for them. They encountered a pit fiend and some barbed and horned devils in the lava pits that are adjacent to the castle. Those they managed to dispatch without taking any serious losses. The battle was long and there were injuries but no deaths in the party.
The adventurers made the fatal error in attempting to rest for the night within the castle. Despite taking serious losses in the past from this choice they again believed that they were safe to do so. Soon they met with some of the guardians of the castle. Four skeletal guardians arrived with a priest wearing a white robe, a monk wearing a blue robe and a witch wearing a red robe. The skeletal guardians were powerful fighters. Two had arrows with paralysis poison. In this exchange the party cleric was slain as was the red witch and the monk from the castle guardians group. The party wisely disengaged and fled the dungeon to lick their wounds.
The party later returned to the castle after getting their cleric raised and their wounds healed. They rested in town long enough to recover their wounds and their spells. And then they proceeded to head down a spiral staircase they had found much earlier in their travels.
The next level of the dungeon had walls painted blue. They quickly discovered that residents of this level appeared to have electrical forms of attack. They killed some volts and solved a puzzle involving a peculiar dome.
