Session 41 22/2/1480 DR - The Zhent Portal

XP
20 Zhent Troopers killed, 1 captured: 200x21=4200
Zhent Battleguard killed: 600
Zhent Red Wizard, escaped: 350
1 Zhent trooper escaped: 100
Total: 5250/6 = 875 (EL 13)x1.5 = 1312
Level 11 Quest - Secure Zhent Fort: +600
Total: 1912+36,550=38,462
Need 39,000 for 13th level.

Magical Treasure Found
Paragon Shield of Warding (Lvl 14, PHB pg 245) - Daily Interrupt when adjacent ally hit, reduce damage by 15, v. 21,000gp(!)
Level 7 Desert Rose (AV pg 193), v. 100gp

 Consumable (Free Action)

Expend this reagent when you use a arcane or divine power of up to 5th level. You do not need to use an action on the following round to sustain that power (sustaining it for subsequent rounds does require the appropriate action).

Vanak's Book of Portal Rituals (8)
L1 Hold Portal
L4 Arcane Lock, Knock
L6 Portal Jump
L8 Seal Portal, Linked Portal, Analyze Portal
L12 Reverse Portal

Seal Portal

You close a portal between two locations safely, ensuring that nothing can come through it in the future.

Component Cost: 100 gp
Market Price: 680 gp
Key Skill: ArcanaLevel: 8
Category: Binding
Time: 10 minutes
Duration: Permanent

You sever the magical connections that bind one place to another by way of a portal. The completion of this ritual successfully shuts a currently active portal and seals it. No creature, object, or energy can pass through a sealed portal. The portal is not destroyed, though it becomes both invisible and intangible, meaning that it cannot be perceived or interacted with while sealed. If the portal would normally disappear after a certain amount of time, it does so.
    At the completion of this ritual, make an Arcana check. A sealed portal can be reopened with the linked portal, planar portal, or true portal rituals, but the creature performing the ritual to reopen the portal must make an Arcana check that equals or exceeds the results of the Arcana check you made when performing this ritual. You can remove the seal on a portal you have sealed by performing this ritual on it again.
    The magic of a sealed portal can be detected with the Arcana skill. The level of the magical phenomenon (the seal, not the portal itself) is equal to your level at the time you performed this ritual.

Published in Dungeon Magazine 160, page(s) 27.

Conduits

• There seems to be a range limit for which Portals can be linked, and not every portal can be linked. The Amarindar Southwood Portal seems to have been towards the maximum range for linking to the Darkhold portal.

  8 medium size creatures per day can use a conduit in each direction without overloading it; or 16 Small, 4 Large, 2 Huge, 1 Gargantuan. (Can replace creatures with inanimate objects of similar size, eg a 3' chest would be Small)