As the golem crashed his way through the hole in the floor, we backed up into the tunnels and set up an ambush point. Sneaky guy cast magic on my sword so I could hurt it, devil girl made me and paladin fast, and paladin blessed us with regenerative energy.
It was focused on the item, so it was easy to get it to go where we wanted. It try to follow me, but paladin kept hitting it and halting its movement so it couldn't, forcing it to stay in nature boy's moon beam. It so focused on paladin that it not even hurt me that much. We eventually turn it into scrap.
Nature boy grabs container, and turns into bird. But, big rod pop out of him. Apparently it can't be transformed. But, helpfully, that get it out of container easily.
We go to exit, where we see Meepo hiding. Apparently, one of the three great generals, Taurath, a beholder was floating in sky, directing people to find us. We sneak out and slowly make our way out of area. We bluff baddies into thinking we also searching for us, so we able to get away.
We go to Ohlo to have him look at rod. He say it the Master Control Rod, and in addition to being rod of great magics, it have something to do with tower defense system. To be fully activated, it need ring of someone in guild to activate it, which Ohlo has. So he activate it so devil girl could use it.
But that make us wonder, if item needs ring to be unlocked, did bad guys have ring? They take it from dead mage, or is there traitor mage around? Or did they not know it need ring.
Anyways, we go back to council, and tell them we reunite dwarf twins. We say we not able to see Lord of Ruins, but we able to keep item away from baddies. We leave out part where we have item.
They pay us with bag of holding full of platinum, and 2 superior healing potions each.