KK, Eljin, ranger
Martin, Amestris, wiz?
Fiddlersgreen, Kibble,
Emil, Elwood, sorcerer
Simira, Lyria, cleric

Kknutzen, Zenith, tiefling rogue 11
FotD, Tiziano, barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
TaC, Olucka, duergar rogue lvl 13
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard evoker

Lyria 2x augury

Stepping back from Waterdeep into the Skull Room.
Looking for Muiral, spider creature.
South from skull room – Z looked at statue and was stunned, worked as key for the double doors. Crashed parlor, purple lanterns hanging from the roof. Spider webs. Old room, not used in a long time.
Nothing of interest to be found. Unlocked double doors to the south. Large room with balcony. Alchoves with bones to the south.
Z flies up to check the balcony. Enormous statue of Lolth in half spider form. Something hiding? Bone piles start moving, combat. Invisible Muiral cast spells, statue comes alive.
Halaster greets us.
Sword from Muiral, regular.
Checking rooms around.
Potion of greater healing.
3rd room has mirror gate with blanket over it.
Stone frame with skulls of adventurers.
Arcane lock. Leads to stairs. Not floor stairs, leads to Troglodyte area.
Z climbed the chimney and found a cave with a chest. 100 PP, Thieves tools, oil of slipperiness.

Total rewards:
276 GP each
Potion of Greater Healing
Oil of slipperiness

Corgi, Deeju Sei
Erling, Callisto
Danny, Ken
Dan, StriKrr
Espen, Tobriam
Simira, Lyria

Potion of Animal Friendship
Potion, Uncommon

Potion of Healing
Potion, Common

Potion of Greater Healing
Potion, Uncommon

Spell Scroll of Lesser Restoration
Scroll, Uncommon

Kknutzen, Cael, aasimar bard 13, carrying Terulai.
Bona Fides, Stone,
Bluehell, Deyarus, human arcane archer
Simira, Lyria, aasimar cleric 12
aultsider, Becky, paladin

-Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 13
To the east, where shadows feast,
Use keys of magic, six at least.
In robes of stone, two keys hide,
Another in a tankard wide. -> found
Northward still, where forms enlarge, -> found
A lifeless student holds one more. -> found
In the southeast, past the door,
In her boudoir, seek once more, -> found
The final key, your fate to tweak.
Collect the keys and you can pass with ease,
Or else you all will turn to dust and cease
Fighting fire giant.
Lyria - 2 castings of augry
21 hr duration (Hero's Feast): cael, lyria, becky, derus, stone
7 hp, immune poisonedd and frightened, res to poison
Keys: UJY
Stone conjure minor elementals 6, Reaction used, disadv on next attack.
Deyrus, no effects,
Lyria, potion of fire resistance.
Cael nothing active yet.
Giants dead.
Dwarf statues w tankards. Key. H.
Halaster w robe. F + v w circle.
Long rest.
Save feebleminded guy. Alex Gaspar. Was assistant of Arcturia. New assistand mindflayer.
Using keys will disintegrate the floor.
Going north, kill another fire giant. Sarcophagus. Here lies Lulz Klangphorn, trapsmith. He is survived by his work.
Cael picks up the skull, metal is grinding. Running out, returning the skull, metal stops.
Sliding down the stairs to next level. Halaster disappointed.

Dan, Stri’Krr
Corgi, DeejuSei
Danny, Ken
Espen, Tobriam
Erling, Callisto
Simira, Lyria

Potion of Greater Healing
Scroll of Alarm

Kknutzen, Cael, bard 11
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
Martin, Tiziano, tortle barb 11
TaC, Olucka, lvl 13

Don’t trust Ayrundar. Offer halfling slaves for killing scorpion guy Muriel.
Warning guy from house Freth. Free fellow spy before murdering the leader.
One fight done with undead and scorpion guy, scorpion guy ran away.
Floor 10
Lyria has 2 augury.

Entering torture room with 3 drow and one spy drow prisoner, straight attack. Mage dimension doors.
Trobriand, previous apprentice of Halaster, is building an army of constructs, ring for controlling them and have crafted rings of lesser power for his apprentices. (see handout)
Next room is empty, Lyria finds a scroll case in the fireplace.
Moving down towards the main room where the leader is. Olucka strays off and encounters many spiders and drow. Erik moves down and sees some spiders. Double encounter.
(Drow matron name Vlonwelv)

Purple drow
Many Pink Giant winged spiders
Blue drow (3 remaining, how many?)
3 pink non winged spiders
Drow lady in white dress
3 Green regular drow
4 red Giant spiders
2 ally drow (Zaron and?)
1 scary spider with name
More pink giant spiders climbing
Szress, prone drow, murder drow
7 Purple drow
3 purple drow mages
5 purple lizards
2 yellow drow
3 red shooting drow (6 from start)

Some was let to run.

Locked in lieutenant and freed halfling slaves.
Mithril plate armor from lieutenant.
Scroll of Hold Person

DanW
Danny
Erling
Espen
Simira

Gemstone Necklace
Trinket, common
This gemstone at the center of this rather homely necklace glows as a light spell. This is the extent of its enchantment.

Saved orc Larga from the yuan-ti. Ixaxa Purple cloak (Phlan) is held captive in the hills by the orcs?
Orcs owe debt of honor.

Bought 3 greater healing potions

RIP Lyria

DanW, StriKrr
Danny, Ken
Espen, Tobriam
Erling, Callisto
Simira, Lyria

Kknutzen, Zenith, tiefling rogue 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard evoker 11
Emil, Erik, dwarf barbarian 11
aultsider, Becky, human paladin 11,

Lyria: 2 augury
Erik: 1 augury
Erik and Becky falls in our laps.

Following tunnels east towards drow house Freth. Tearulai warns of troll up north. Encounter invisible troll, kill it. Two drow watch.
Talking and meet with Orl Telenna. House Ayvrundar are gathering for a last stance?
Main house Freth is on Floor below.
They can offer a potion of surpreme healing. Leader has some gloves that are valuable.
Coming from south west.
First encounter troll with abcesses that expelled insect swarms. Lots of drow combat below, Zress (sister or daughter of Erik’s sparring companion?). Some friendly drow, some chasme, hezrou, lots of unfriendly drow.
Long battle.
Some back and forth about letting Zress live or not, ending up keeping her alive. Erik gives her to the drow.
Potion of Surpreme healing.
Spidersilk gloves with bloodstones.
Erik got some poison, 20 doses shared within the party as a story item.
Drow Poison (Injury). This poison is typically made only by the drow, and only in a place far removed from sunlight. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.
20 doses
bonus action to apply

DM snooze
Kknutzen, Cael, bard
Bona Fides, Stone, shadar kai,
TaC, Ninlar, cleric
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 10
LF, Baine, dwarf life cleric 9

Lyria: 2x augury
11 hrs damage reduction

Ninlar falls into the swamp
Baine goes down a slope in a bucket, rope snaps, falls down into the swamp on Ninlar.
We’re going to kill the bullywug slaad kind.
Going northeast. Spectral naga fighting yuan-ti. We are yuan-ti? Fighting Naga, Lyria coming to herself, naga dies. It was back in time, the bone naga that we killed earlier.
A mirror surrounded by interlocking gears in a dead end to the north. Another portal? There’s a rune within the portal. Rune means war?

Moving north. Lots of bullywug and frogs.
Slaad, short chat. Will not leave. Hydra comes in. Both died.
King has headband that is magical. Headband of intellect. Ninlar cast aid on Ninlar, Cael and Lyria 20 hp.
Platinum holy symbol snake with fang.
Lyria found hydra poo hole.
Return to bullywugs. Ungrateful, but gives us a jade thingy.
Akademy of wizards not far below. Nerds, they may have more knowledge of Vanrakdoom.
Ninlar tries to turn the ghost, she flies away.
Going south in circles looking for the naga. Found some undead, flesh golem and a raven on its shoulder.
Human nerd and minotaur skeleton appears. Knows about Vanrakdoom far down.
Naga tends to keep to the east.
23 floors. Vanrakdoom is not on floor 9. Below the 16th floor.
We borrow the raven to find the last naga, it’s in a hidden tunnel we avoided. Killed quickly. Statue makes a hissing noise, Stone touches it and gets to ask a question. He asks where the dragon is.
“Beyond where a mind can survive unprotected where you may face Waterdeep once more. “
We’re on LEVEL 9!
Lobby with alarm spell, waiting room. Notes on doors with “Wait here”, “W/C”. A floating arm, of Manshoon. People clean up in the bath. Halaster comes out and asks us to join the school. Stone joins. The rest are asked to clean up after a student that summoned a chain devil.
Ask for the way to Yarack.
Cael gets his scarf signed by Manshoon.
We move into the school and south, Cael gets hit by poison dart. Boy and half-ogre in a room, tells us to go further south to double doors.
Aid will last.
Session about 2 hrs.

Kknutzen, Cael, bard
Bona Fides, Stone, shadar kai,
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 10
LF, Baine, dwarf life cleric 9

Eric, 1 augury
Lyria, 2 augury
Once within the next 10 hours, the target can use its reaction to reduce the damage it takes from one source by 10d6
Going south in school.
Erik appears through a door, he’s walked for days from the Giants.
Stone get told off by Halaster and failed his exam.
Erik opens a door and talks to a mindflayer. He wants the brain of Spite Harrowdale, human male. He has information about financial values in exchange.
Double doors, se golem and woman and floating brains.
More double doors. Erik opens doors and it kreeks open. Quiet room, copper tubes, labelled: Turbulence, Violence, Karstis, Yarek, Spite, Skrianna, Vacant, Cephalossk, Vacant, Nylas, Halaster, Wormriddle, Guest Lecturer.
Double doors, another set of double doors, room w cells, down to the statue, turn right (west), open door, use eyes.
Lyria checks the dragonboen statue.
Inscription: Follow the rules. Obey your instructors. Don’t be this guy.
Cael cast greater restoration. Drakthar Steelclaw. Erik makes him free the goblins. They get the directions to outside.
He cast darkvision on Cael.
Found room with bloodied curtains and a body. False wall to the north, bone devil. Erik barters for a contract.
Kill devil, Halaster appears. He is in a good mood. Stone asks about the library.
Through south door, secret door, tunnell, secret door.
Return to professor and take the other exit, double doors on …
Leading us a long way around. Erik stays behind. Stone’s room for rest? Training room w statues. Keep in mind sometimes surrender should be an option. Kitchen. Corridoor to library, do not enter unaccompanied.
Cael conversation w Halaster about dreams. Vanrakdoom? Talk to the mindflayer?
Resting in Stone’s room. Cael sends a lovely map to Erik. Stone returns for a rest, finds a note. Note to Elan from little brother? Drow house House Tanor’thal.

Meet co-student on the way out. Spite Harrowdale. We tell about the mindflayer.
Professor Wyrmriddle does transmutation.
We go back to the dead body of Yarek, and open the south door.
Portal: A stone arch embedded in the middle of the southeast wall has the image of an open book carved into its keystone.
Cael also finds a secret door.
Volcano.
Reactivating the portal, new rune. Going through all of them. Moving on through secret doors and decide to descend the stairs.

Kknutzen, Zenith, tiefling rogue 11
FotD, Tiziano, barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
TaC, Olucka, duergar rogue lvl 13
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard evoker

Lyria: 2 augury
Olucka vulnerable for another 22h.

Sneak past troglodytes, Derus loses his backpack with a lot of noise. Trogs are distracted and we sneak on into a corridor by the river that ends in a stairway downwards. We descend to floor 11.
Elvish voices discussion having seen something, superiors.
Drow fight.
Ventred, Obsidian scarab w symbol of house Ayvrundar (spider baby people).
List of names/guard rota?
Lots of tunnels. Troll head and limbs spread around. On closer inspection they start twitching.
Tiziano accidentally teleported into a tunnel during battle with troll limbs and troglodytes. Grappled by something mystical.
Killed troll that killed troglodytes, grapplecreature escaped.
Secret doors to temple, feels peaceful.
Balhanoth?
Altar with chest behind. There are tomes on the altar. Bottom filled with coins. Scrolls.
A muddy dagger of Venom found among guano and drow intestines.
Olucka sees a lot of drow up a tunnel, and a quicksand/swampy area. Illusions. Drow are undead, easily killed. One real drow got away w rope trick?
Dispel magic, grapple drow. Ol Thelena, House Freth.
West, false acid pool. Gateway to House Freth area, a lot of fighting there, creature does not pull a lot of people there.
Lyria asks shield about aberrations, and get directions southeast-ish. We go back to the cavern with pillars and altar. Secret door and statue of Laogzed.
Olucka found monster in one of the side rooms.
Lyria went down, greater healing potion by Derius.
Discussion about whether to move on, short rest or long rest. Tiziano wants wait in place for hours to long rest to save a healing potion. Lyria and Z are well and wants to move on. TDB next time!

Teacup, Locket, bard,
Dan w, Flint, Wild magic barbarian
Akupuff, Mousse, fairy
mlouden, Blackwing, aaracockra ranger/rogue
Simira, Lyria

Efficient quiver
Orb of Time
Scroll Pass without Trace

DM KKnutzen
Espen, Vaec, they/them, changeling
Ian, Cirric,
Bryan, Rastan, barb
Liam, Camilla
Simira, Lyria

3 soul coin charges

Dan, StriKrr
Danny, Ken
Espen, Tobriam
Erling, Callisto
Simira, Lyria

768 cursed treasure

Martin K, Zherxiz, gnome Waterdhavian artificer
Emil, Espen Hansen, goliath,
Martin fotd, Tizian
Simira, Lyria
Robert, Lervathra

Kknutzen, Cael,
YesAdMan, Stronghammer, orc, plate, paladin, w horse and sprite
FotD, Tizian,
Bone Fides, Stone, shadar kai,
Simira, Lyria, aasimar, tempest cleric 10

2 augury
1 damage reduction 12 hrs
From floor 7 to floor 8
Galistae, bronze dragon went down to confront Vanrak, got corrupted.
Precipice, marshy area. Humid.
Ghost Yoastal. Shadowkeep?
Favor to find rest. Snakes, nagas. Point southeast.
Allies. Three?
Two drow, charmed. House Freth’s. Nagas can charm people, they have a gathering.
Big bony ones, allies? Freeing slaves, killed one naga and a bone naga. Other one dimension doored away.
Talking to bullywugs.
Their king is a Slaag. He is towards east.

Martin, Tiziano, tortle barbarian
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric
Kristian, Felix, tiefling
Bona Fide, Stone, shadar kai
Charlie, Jack, human fighter

Looking for a bronze dragon galistae.
Jack, Felix and Stone showed up through a portal.
Investigating room across. Stone found secret room w treasure. He mage handed the potion on top, Lyria tipped over the rest but managed to catch most of it. Chests of coins. Counting coins, taking as much as possible. Potion of Firebreath.
Moving on through the next couple of doors we have completed the circle of this floor. Explored dusty room we passed last time.
A corridor on the west side led to a stair going down.
Stone forgot to take the coin on the first door. Furnished room, a 5” bottle with a ship in it. Portrait of mad mage above. Stone and Jack carrying the bottle.
New door, no coin! Giant fiddle in the corner. Man trapped in it? Felix pushes the fiddle over and breaks it. Naked wizard, Zartem. Was drugged at dinner and trapped. Not hungry.
Maddgoth, a wizard lives here. Zartem comes with us.
Bedroom, canopy bed, chest of drawers. Smelling of charcoal. Charred corpse in the bed, not identifyable. Surroundings not firedamaged. Puff of smoke and giggling in the hallway. Can’t find anyone.
Next door, no coin, no traps. Mindflayer standing completely still, tentacles wiggling. Tiziano had mind conversation with the sword of the mind flayer. Several voices, confusion.
Zartem moves down the corridor to a door and opens it. A voice in our head says, “It was fun while it lasted”. Room, console with 3 levers (up, down and middle pos.). Brass buttons in pentagram w descriptions. “Do not press”.
Levers: Courtyard(up), light (down), heat (up), music, roof, fog, lockdown, do not press.
Fight w Zartem, hiding greatsword under the cloak. Naked wizard w greatsword?
Invisible draconic creature (Stone see it).
Naked wizard falls, revealing a grey slaad. Lyria chases the draconic form, large dragon.
Metallic clunking noise. Mechanical creature coming from North. Big metal hunk is floating in the air. Was killed.
Running after invisible dragons.
Giant fairydragon! (three) Jack kills it.
Checking room, portal, guy with torch. Lyria casts augury and gets voice in head. “I don’t think you should come through here just yet”. Recovers all spent spell slots!
Platinum coin door. Stained glass M.
Master bedroom, big creature snoring loudly. Lyria finds nothing in the wardrobe. Wands from portraits activates on Detect magic. Easy kills.
Tiziano’s sword critted.
Stairs down, one each way, choosing left.
First door silver coin, second no coin. Coin door, clean and boring storeroom.
Piles of clay bricks w auras. Lyria builds a medium chest who is a mimic. Small room w oven, further door to corridor.
Locked door with no lock.
Room in corridor with no coin. Hardwood cabinets. Metal creature. Left.
Room no coin, bathroom. Reading material. Homunculus metal creature. Stone talks to it. Opens door. Wands, orbs, stuff. Stone framed mirror decorated with yawning homunculus. Furniture made from Spellbooks, manage to free 12 between Stone and Felix.
Homunculus hands magic helmet to Stone (who hands it to Lyria, who attunes to it).
Maddgoth's Helm (story item)
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a humanoid)
creature attuned to the helm and wearing it has immunity to all damage while inside Maddgoth's castle, on its roof, or in its courtyard. If the helm is taken from the castle, it turns to dust and is destroyed.
Potion of Fire Breath.
703 GP
Pet mimic chest disappears after one hour.
Lyria is devastated.

Martin, Tiziano, tortle barbarian
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric
Bona Fide, Stone, shadar kai
Kknutzen, Cael,
Emil, Erik

2x augury
Reaction 10d6 damage reduce
Maddgoth's Helm
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a humanoid)
A creature attuned to the helm and wearing it has immunity to all damage while inside Maddgoth's castle, on its roof, or in its courtyard. If the helm is taken from the castle, it turns to dust and is destroyed.

KK, Eljin, ranger
Martin, Amestris, wiz?
Fiddlersgreen, Kibble,
Emil, Elwood, sorcerer
Simira, Lyria, cleric

Kknutzen, Zenith, tiefling rogue 11
FotD, Tiziano, barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
TaC, Olucka, duergar rogue lvl 13
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard evoker

Lyria 2x augury

Stepping back from Waterdeep into the Skull Room.
Looking for Muiral, spider creature.
South from skull room – Z looked at statue and was stunned, worked as key for the double doors. Crashed parlor, purple lanterns hanging from the roof. Spider webs. Old room, not used in a long time.
Nothing of interest to be found. Unlocked double doors to the south. Large room with balcony. Alchoves with bones to the south.
Z flies up to check the balcony. Enormous statue of Lolth in half spider form. Something hiding? Bone piles start moving, combat. Invisible Muiral cast spells, statue comes alive.
Halaster greets us.
Sword from Muiral, regular.
Checking rooms around.
Potion of greater healing.
3rd room has mirror gate with blanket over it.
Stone frame with skulls of adventurers.
Arcane lock. Leads to stairs. Not floor stairs, leads to Troglodyte area.
Z climbed the chimney and found a cave with a chest. 100 PP, Thieves tools, oil of slipperiness.

Total rewards:
276 GP each
Potion of Greater Healing
Oil of slipperiness

Corgi, Deeju Sei
Erling, Callisto
Danny, Ken
Dan, StriKrr
Espen, Tobriam
Simira, Lyria

Potion of Animal Friendship
Potion, Uncommon

Potion of Healing
Potion, Common

Potion of Greater Healing
Potion, Uncommon

Spell Scroll of Lesser Restoration
Scroll, Uncommon

Kknutzen, Cael, aasimar bard 13, carrying Terulai.
Bona Fides, Stone,
Bluehell, Deyarus, human arcane archer
Simira, Lyria, aasimar cleric 12
aultsider, Becky, paladin

-Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 13
To the east, where shadows feast,
Use keys of magic, six at least.
In robes of stone, two keys hide,
Another in a tankard wide. -> found
Northward still, where forms enlarge, -> found
A lifeless student holds one more. -> found
In the southeast, past the door,
In her boudoir, seek once more, -> found
The final key, your fate to tweak.
Collect the keys and you can pass with ease,
Or else you all will turn to dust and cease
Fighting fire giant.
Lyria - 2 castings of augry
21 hr duration (Hero's Feast): cael, lyria, becky, derus, stone
7 hp, immune poisonedd and frightened, res to poison
Keys: UJY
Stone conjure minor elementals 6, Reaction used, disadv on next attack.
Deyrus, no effects,
Lyria, potion of fire resistance.
Cael nothing active yet.
Giants dead.
Dwarf statues w tankards. Key. H.
Halaster w robe. F + v w circle.
Long rest.
Save feebleminded guy. Alex Gaspar. Was assistant of Arcturia. New assistand mindflayer.
Using keys will disintegrate the floor.
Going north, kill another fire giant. Sarcophagus. Here lies Lulz Klangphorn, trapsmith. He is survived by his work.
Cael picks up the skull, metal is grinding. Running out, returning the skull, metal stops.
Sliding down the stairs to next level. Halaster disappointed.

Dan, Stri’Krr
Corgi, DeejuSei
Danny, Ken
Espen, Tobriam
Erling, Callisto
Simira, Lyria

Potion of Greater Healing
Scroll of Alarm

Kknutzen, Cael, bard 11
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
Martin, Tiziano, tortle barb 11
TaC, Olucka, lvl 13

Don’t trust Ayrundar. Offer halfling slaves for killing scorpion guy Muriel.
Warning guy from house Freth. Free fellow spy before murdering the leader.
One fight done with undead and scorpion guy, scorpion guy ran away.
Floor 10
Lyria has 2 augury.

Entering torture room with 3 drow and one spy drow prisoner, straight attack. Mage dimension doors.
Trobriand, previous apprentice of Halaster, is building an army of constructs, ring for controlling them and have crafted rings of lesser power for his apprentices. (see handout)
Next room is empty, Lyria finds a scroll case in the fireplace.
Moving down towards the main room where the leader is. Olucka strays off and encounters many spiders and drow. Erik moves down and sees some spiders. Double encounter.
(Drow matron name Vlonwelv)

Purple drow
Many Pink Giant winged spiders
Blue drow (3 remaining, how many?)
3 pink non winged spiders
Drow lady in white dress
3 Green regular drow
4 red Giant spiders
2 ally drow (Zaron and?)
1 scary spider with name
More pink giant spiders climbing
Szress, prone drow, murder drow
7 Purple drow
3 purple drow mages
5 purple lizards
2 yellow drow
3 red shooting drow (6 from start)

Some was let to run.

Locked in lieutenant and freed halfling slaves.
Mithril plate armor from lieutenant.
Scroll of Hold Person

DanW
Danny
Erling
Espen
Simira

Gemstone Necklace
Trinket, common
This gemstone at the center of this rather homely necklace glows as a light spell. This is the extent of its enchantment.

Saved orc Larga from the yuan-ti. Ixaxa Purple cloak (Phlan) is held captive in the hills by the orcs?
Orcs owe debt of honor.

Bought 3 greater healing potions

RIP Lyria

DanW, StriKrr
Danny, Ken
Espen, Tobriam
Erling, Callisto
Simira, Lyria

Kknutzen, Zenith, tiefling rogue 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard evoker 11
Emil, Erik, dwarf barbarian 11
aultsider, Becky, human paladin 11,

Lyria: 2 augury
Erik: 1 augury
Erik and Becky falls in our laps.

Following tunnels east towards drow house Freth. Tearulai warns of troll up north. Encounter invisible troll, kill it. Two drow watch.
Talking and meet with Orl Telenna. House Ayvrundar are gathering for a last stance?
Main house Freth is on Floor below.
They can offer a potion of surpreme healing. Leader has some gloves that are valuable.
Coming from south west.
First encounter troll with abcesses that expelled insect swarms. Lots of drow combat below, Zress (sister or daughter of Erik’s sparring companion?). Some friendly drow, some chasme, hezrou, lots of unfriendly drow.
Long battle.
Some back and forth about letting Zress live or not, ending up keeping her alive. Erik gives her to the drow.
Potion of Surpreme healing.
Spidersilk gloves with bloodstones.
Erik got some poison, 20 doses shared within the party as a story item.
Drow Poison (Injury). This poison is typically made only by the drow, and only in a place far removed from sunlight. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.
20 doses
bonus action to apply

DM snooze
Kknutzen, Cael, bard
Bona Fides, Stone, shadar kai,
TaC, Ninlar, cleric
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 10
LF, Baine, dwarf life cleric 9

Lyria: 2x augury
11 hrs damage reduction

Ninlar falls into the swamp
Baine goes down a slope in a bucket, rope snaps, falls down into the swamp on Ninlar.
We’re going to kill the bullywug slaad kind.
Going northeast. Spectral naga fighting yuan-ti. We are yuan-ti? Fighting Naga, Lyria coming to herself, naga dies. It was back in time, the bone naga that we killed earlier.
A mirror surrounded by interlocking gears in a dead end to the north. Another portal? There’s a rune within the portal. Rune means war?

Moving north. Lots of bullywug and frogs.
Slaad, short chat. Will not leave. Hydra comes in. Both died.
King has headband that is magical. Headband of intellect. Ninlar cast aid on Ninlar, Cael and Lyria 20 hp.
Platinum holy symbol snake with fang.
Lyria found hydra poo hole.
Return to bullywugs. Ungrateful, but gives us a jade thingy.
Akademy of wizards not far below. Nerds, they may have more knowledge of Vanrakdoom.
Ninlar tries to turn the ghost, she flies away.
Going south in circles looking for the naga. Found some undead, flesh golem and a raven on its shoulder.
Human nerd and minotaur skeleton appears. Knows about Vanrakdoom far down.
Naga tends to keep to the east.
23 floors. Vanrakdoom is not on floor 9. Below the 16th floor.
We borrow the raven to find the last naga, it’s in a hidden tunnel we avoided. Killed quickly. Statue makes a hissing noise, Stone touches it and gets to ask a question. He asks where the dragon is.
“Beyond where a mind can survive unprotected where you may face Waterdeep once more. “
We’re on LEVEL 9!
Lobby with alarm spell, waiting room. Notes on doors with “Wait here”, “W/C”. A floating arm, of Manshoon. People clean up in the bath. Halaster comes out and asks us to join the school. Stone joins. The rest are asked to clean up after a student that summoned a chain devil.
Ask for the way to Yarack.
Cael gets his scarf signed by Manshoon.
We move into the school and south, Cael gets hit by poison dart. Boy and half-ogre in a room, tells us to go further south to double doors.
Aid will last.
Session about 2 hrs.

Kknutzen, Cael, bard
Bona Fides, Stone, shadar kai,
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 10
LF, Baine, dwarf life cleric 9

Eric, 1 augury
Lyria, 2 augury
Once within the next 10 hours, the target can use its reaction to reduce the damage it takes from one source by 10d6
Going south in school.
Erik appears through a door, he’s walked for days from the Giants.
Stone get told off by Halaster and failed his exam.
Erik opens a door and talks to a mindflayer. He wants the brain of Spite Harrowdale, human male. He has information about financial values in exchange.
Double doors, se golem and woman and floating brains.
More double doors. Erik opens doors and it kreeks open. Quiet room, copper tubes, labelled: Turbulence, Violence, Karstis, Yarek, Spite, Skrianna, Vacant, Cephalossk, Vacant, Nylas, Halaster, Wormriddle, Guest Lecturer.
Double doors, another set of double doors, room w cells, down to the statue, turn right (west), open door, use eyes.
Lyria checks the dragonboen statue.
Inscription: Follow the rules. Obey your instructors. Don’t be this guy.
Cael cast greater restoration. Drakthar Steelclaw. Erik makes him free the goblins. They get the directions to outside.
He cast darkvision on Cael.
Found room with bloodied curtains and a body. False wall to the north, bone devil. Erik barters for a contract.
Kill devil, Halaster appears. He is in a good mood. Stone asks about the library.
Through south door, secret door, tunnell, secret door.
Return to professor and take the other exit, double doors on …
Leading us a long way around. Erik stays behind. Stone’s room for rest? Training room w statues. Keep in mind sometimes surrender should be an option. Kitchen. Corridoor to library, do not enter unaccompanied.
Cael conversation w Halaster about dreams. Vanrakdoom? Talk to the mindflayer?
Resting in Stone’s room. Cael sends a lovely map to Erik. Stone returns for a rest, finds a note. Note to Elan from little brother? Drow house House Tanor’thal.

Meet co-student on the way out. Spite Harrowdale. We tell about the mindflayer.
Professor Wyrmriddle does transmutation.
We go back to the dead body of Yarek, and open the south door.
Portal: A stone arch embedded in the middle of the southeast wall has the image of an open book carved into its keystone.
Cael also finds a secret door.
Volcano.
Reactivating the portal, new rune. Going through all of them. Moving on through secret doors and decide to descend the stairs.

Kknutzen, Zenith, tiefling rogue 11
FotD, Tiziano, barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
TaC, Olucka, duergar rogue lvl 13
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard evoker

Lyria: 2 augury
Olucka vulnerable for another 22h.

Sneak past troglodytes, Derus loses his backpack with a lot of noise. Trogs are distracted and we sneak on into a corridor by the river that ends in a stairway downwards. We descend to floor 11.
Elvish voices discussion having seen something, superiors.
Drow fight.
Ventred, Obsidian scarab w symbol of house Ayvrundar (spider baby people).
List of names/guard rota?
Lots of tunnels. Troll head and limbs spread around. On closer inspection they start twitching.
Tiziano accidentally teleported into a tunnel during battle with troll limbs and troglodytes. Grappled by something mystical.
Killed troll that killed troglodytes, grapplecreature escaped.
Secret doors to temple, feels peaceful.
Balhanoth?
Altar with chest behind. There are tomes on the altar. Bottom filled with coins. Scrolls.
A muddy dagger of Venom found among guano and drow intestines.
Olucka sees a lot of drow up a tunnel, and a quicksand/swampy area. Illusions. Drow are undead, easily killed. One real drow got away w rope trick?
Dispel magic, grapple drow. Ol Thelena, House Freth.
West, false acid pool. Gateway to House Freth area, a lot of fighting there, creature does not pull a lot of people there.
Lyria asks shield about aberrations, and get directions southeast-ish. We go back to the cavern with pillars and altar. Secret door and statue of Laogzed.
Olucka found monster in one of the side rooms.
Lyria went down, greater healing potion by Derius.
Discussion about whether to move on, short rest or long rest. Tiziano wants wait in place for hours to long rest to save a healing potion. Lyria and Z are well and wants to move on. TDB next time!

Teacup, Locket, bard,
Dan w, Flint, Wild magic barbarian
Akupuff, Mousse, fairy
mlouden, Blackwing, aaracockra ranger/rogue
Simira, Lyria

Efficient quiver
Orb of Time
Scroll Pass without Trace

DM KKnutzen
Espen, Vaec, they/them, changeling
Ian, Cirric,
Bryan, Rastan, barb
Liam, Camilla
Simira, Lyria

3 soul coin charges

Dan, StriKrr
Danny, Ken
Espen, Tobriam
Erling, Callisto
Simira, Lyria

768 cursed treasure

Martin K, Zherxiz, gnome Waterdhavian artificer
Emil, Espen Hansen, goliath,
Martin fotd, Tizian
Simira, Lyria
Robert, Lervathra

Kknutzen, Cael,
YesAdMan, Stronghammer, orc, plate, paladin, w horse and sprite
FotD, Tizian,
Bone Fides, Stone, shadar kai,
Simira, Lyria, aasimar, tempest cleric 10

2 augury
1 damage reduction 12 hrs
From floor 7 to floor 8
Galistae, bronze dragon went down to confront Vanrak, got corrupted.
Precipice, marshy area. Humid.
Ghost Yoastal. Shadowkeep?
Favor to find rest. Snakes, nagas. Point southeast.
Allies. Three?
Two drow, charmed. House Freth’s. Nagas can charm people, they have a gathering.
Big bony ones, allies? Freeing slaves, killed one naga and a bone naga. Other one dimension doored away.
Talking to bullywugs.
Their king is a Slaag. He is towards east.

Martin, Tiziano, tortle barbarian
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric
Kristian, Felix, tiefling
Bona Fide, Stone, shadar kai
Charlie, Jack, human fighter

Looking for a bronze dragon galistae.
Jack, Felix and Stone showed up through a portal.
Investigating room across. Stone found secret room w treasure. He mage handed the potion on top, Lyria tipped over the rest but managed to catch most of it. Chests of coins. Counting coins, taking as much as possible. Potion of Firebreath.
Moving on through the next couple of doors we have completed the circle of this floor. Explored dusty room we passed last time.
A corridor on the west side led to a stair going down.
Stone forgot to take the coin on the first door. Furnished room, a 5” bottle with a ship in it. Portrait of mad mage above. Stone and Jack carrying the bottle.
New door, no coin! Giant fiddle in the corner. Man trapped in it? Felix pushes the fiddle over and breaks it. Naked wizard, Zartem. Was drugged at dinner and trapped. Not hungry.
Maddgoth, a wizard lives here. Zartem comes with us.
Bedroom, canopy bed, chest of drawers. Smelling of charcoal. Charred corpse in the bed, not identifyable. Surroundings not firedamaged. Puff of smoke and giggling in the hallway. Can’t find anyone.
Next door, no coin, no traps. Mindflayer standing completely still, tentacles wiggling. Tiziano had mind conversation with the sword of the mind flayer. Several voices, confusion.
Zartem moves down the corridor to a door and opens it. A voice in our head says, “It was fun while it lasted”. Room, console with 3 levers (up, down and middle pos.). Brass buttons in pentagram w descriptions. “Do not press”.
Levers: Courtyard(up), light (down), heat (up), music, roof, fog, lockdown, do not press.
Fight w Zartem, hiding greatsword under the cloak. Naked wizard w greatsword?
Invisible draconic creature (Stone see it).
Naked wizard falls, revealing a grey slaad. Lyria chases the draconic form, large dragon.
Metallic clunking noise. Mechanical creature coming from North. Big metal hunk is floating in the air. Was killed.
Running after invisible dragons.
Giant fairydragon! (three) Jack kills it.
Checking room, portal, guy with torch. Lyria casts augury and gets voice in head. “I don’t think you should come through here just yet”. Recovers all spent spell slots!
Platinum coin door. Stained glass M.
Master bedroom, big creature snoring loudly. Lyria finds nothing in the wardrobe. Wands from portraits activates on Detect magic. Easy kills.
Tiziano’s sword critted.
Stairs down, one each way, choosing left.
First door silver coin, second no coin. Coin door, clean and boring storeroom.
Piles of clay bricks w auras. Lyria builds a medium chest who is a mimic. Small room w oven, further door to corridor.
Locked door with no lock.
Room in corridor with no coin. Hardwood cabinets. Metal creature. Left.
Room no coin, bathroom. Reading material. Homunculus metal creature. Stone talks to it. Opens door. Wands, orbs, stuff. Stone framed mirror decorated with yawning homunculus. Furniture made from Spellbooks, manage to free 12 between Stone and Felix.
Homunculus hands magic helmet to Stone (who hands it to Lyria, who attunes to it).
Maddgoth's Helm (story item)
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a humanoid)
creature attuned to the helm and wearing it has immunity to all damage while inside Maddgoth's castle, on its roof, or in its courtyard. If the helm is taken from the castle, it turns to dust and is destroyed.
Potion of Fire Breath.
703 GP
Pet mimic chest disappears after one hour.
Lyria is devastated.

Martin, Tiziano, tortle barbarian
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric
Bona Fide, Stone, shadar kai
Kknutzen, Cael,
Emil, Erik

2x augury
Reaction 10d6 damage reduce
Maddgoth's Helm
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a humanoid)
A creature attuned to the helm and wearing it has immunity to all damage while inside Maddgoth's castle, on its roof, or in its courtyard. If the helm is taken from the castle, it turns to dust and is destroyed.