Emil, Erik, dwarf, barb
Martin, Tiziano, tortle barbarian
Kknutzen, Cael,
TaC, Olucka, dark gnome mix,
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric
3x augury in next 24h.
Currently still on floor 6
Team found a sword in the head of a dragon.
Crystal crown from cradle. Story-like item?
Treasure chamber of green dragon, polymorphed.
Looking for a bronze dragon galistae.
Lyria and Erik meet up with Cael and Tiziano. Going through a portal (opened by wings) we killed a nycoloth and saved a weird bluish guy named Oluck. Erik and Oluck continued on attacking a drow, who escaped down a corridor. Erik followed for a bit; the rest returned. No clue to what floor.
Portal effect: Once within the next 24 hours, the target can use its reaction to reduce the damage it takes from one source by 10d6.
Walked through east door, duergar south.
Exploring unexplored room, finding tools and explotions, going back to duergar.
Long tunnels to a slope, next floor.
Floor 7.
Umberhulk-dug tunnels.
Throne with blue quartz stones. Noise from a tunnel, chiseling and humming.
Giant Gravillock, chiseling stone. Semi-friendly. Family is nearby and don’t like strangers.
Exploring narrow tunnels, finding another exit upwards.
Large stone pit with more giants. Mithril spindle in the middle. Looks like a castle on top.
Exploring tunnels, back to pit w castle. Cael and Tiziano fly across with a rope. Lyria falls down climbing. Cael gets her back up with dimension door. Into castle.
Text: Knock knock. Trapdoor to next floor in the castle.
Windows to courtyard, statue of plump wizard with helmet and sword.
Rooms have coins in the doors. Throne room, someone passing.
Going around. Armory. Metallic creature destroying furniture.
Room w tridents and letters TUOYAW. Tridents attack, also statue and metallic creature. Statue is roper. Diamonds inside.
Scroll of mass cure wounds
Potion of invis

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.

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.

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, 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

Kknutzen, Cael, aasimar bard 11
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
TaC, Olucka, duergar rogue lvl 13
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard

House Ayvrundar is eradicated.
Derus falls from the roof onto Erik.
Floor 10.
Lyria, 2 Augury
Erik 1 Augury
22 hrs Heroes Feast
6,5 hours oil of slipperiness
Drow of house Freth leaves.
Water fountain, statues of gods.
Troglodytes celebrating to the west.

Door to the south. Temple under restoration. Erik tries to deface a statue of Lolth and is paralyzed and fell down.
Through the next door is a hallway, and further a sick bay. We chase away the sick drow. Storage room next, with a tunnel up north. We go back to check the north door.
North door in hallway leads to council room-ish? Door to bed chamber, and spider room. Tunnel from here leads to some of a maze, one dead end, one tunnel to the storage room. Comes out in a gallery. A cold room with undead to the north, Lyria scares them away. Dead end w dead dwarf and magic gauntlets up north.
Tunnel back, turn further north. Empty Troglodyte lair? Come back round to where we were before, cleaning up a room of zombies eating dead bodies. Moving back further north looking for the “Apprentice” creature. (Muriel)
Long corridor with doors.
Door 1, Eilistrae altar. Hymn playing. The Hymn is the key. D-minor.
Door 2, room of darkness, Vhareun.
Door 3, bloodstained altar, Selvetarm
Door 4, Kieransalee, goddess of undeath
Door 5, oozes, Ghaunadaur, a god of subterranean horrors,
Altar, two hook horror statues beside the dais, mirror carved to look like Halaster. “Flattery will get you everywhere”. Erik flatters the mirror and a gate opens to a corridor. Erik steps in, and ends up in a shaft, falling 60 ft.
Exploring quarters to the north. Mirror gate with Etched into the bottom of the mirror’s stone frame are the letters T-U-O-Y-A-W.
North, end room with statue. Touch to teleport. Statues in love.
Big room with floor of skulls. Skulls crushing when walking on them. Investigating door to the south. Large room with pillars, and two large drow creatures. In the next room, a Statue of Eilistrae should be holding something. A sword?
Following corridor east and north. Circling around to the large skull room, there are lifelike statues of drow warriors.

The opposite door leads to a large exercise room with a large mirror (gate) to the north. Four dead dwarves in a half circle. Lump in the chest or one appears to be a big emerald with a small imperfection in it shaped like a spider. Worth a decent bit.
Erik not crying and begging for Greater Restoration to be able to heal after going through a gate.
4825gp
Gauntlets of Ogre Power.

Retrieve a Runestone Fragment
Volothamp Geddarm introduces the characters to a friend of his: a young captain of the City Watch named Jalester Silvermane.
Jalester tells the characters that he wants a fragment of the Runestone saying its recovery will help to ensure Waterdeep’s security. He describes the Runestone as a large, glowing, disk-shaped gem with Halaster’s rune floating in it. It was created by Halasar and secreted away in the depths of Undermountain
He does not mention a monetary reward for delivering a Runestone fragment to him; instead, Jalester offers the characters his lasting friendship—which can bring many benefits, considering his position in the City Watch.

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

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!

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

Kknutzen, Cael, bard 12
Emil, Erik, dwarf barbarian 12
TaC, Ninlar, cleric paladin 12
aultsider, Becky, paladin,
Simira, Lyria, cleric 11

2 castings of augury
Erik 1 augury
Terulai 6 charges
11th floor, house Freth. Caught Zress again, freed Troglodytes, and moved on to floor 12. Low fog over the floor.
Following glow of light into hoard of minotaurs. Found drow allies house Freth. Guide to fortress. See matron. Visitor from Shadowdusk. Free escort through this floor as well as getting the matrons brother to answer questions. Some info about floor below, mechanical creatures, another failed apprentice.
Some information on dragon Glister, shadowdusk may know more. Family from Waterdeep, two down here working on alliance with Freth.
Where is Vanrakdoom, now part of shadowfell. Glyster, bronze dragon is probably there, possibly corrupted.
Tend to avoid the floor, skipping to 19th and continue from there. 17th floor an up here to avoid the shadowfell. From here there is less problem descending. Can not travel directly. Can travel to 19th floor from this one. The gate that weeps blood.
Go less direct traversing descend to the 14th floor and find the gate there.
Make sure we are out of their way on their floor and they will stay out of our way.
We are also looking for fragment of rune stone.
Metallic spider. Iron spider.
Drivvin Freth guides us to the next floor. Warning about bore worm at descent. It may ignore us if we stay out of our way.
Moving through chasm, worm comes. Ninlar takes attack of opportunity and gets hurt. See some mechanical creatures, insects, rust monster. Lyria checks side tunnel, gets attacked by rust monster. Finding a heap of metal, dead hobgoblin. Big childlike people asks us to kill hobgoblins for trying to kill them. Going south, Becky, Erik and Ninlar attacked group of hobgoblins. Lyria sleet stormed the main crowd making fighting difficult. The others killed them anyway and returned. Childlike people let us pass to a tunnel leading to a “Palace”?
Up, follow tunnel to the assumed palace, finding disembodied hobgoblins. Mechanical crabs coming towards us.
Continue through tunnell. Finding metal castle. Ninlar broke in. Giant badger talking to Cael. Zox lives here. He is big. Lots or hair and not hair. Big ears. Sticking out. Friends with metal ones, burny ones.
Safe combination: Prairie dog, wombat, badger, armadillo, wombat.
Gold and a book missing the cover.
2050 gp each.

Cael played the D tone on his instrument and portal opens. Erik goes in. Symbol of Anarath.

DM Martin
Corgibutt, Sera, asimaar barbarian
Dan W, Strri`Krr, fighter,
Erling eKnight, sorc Psyche?
Danny, Arekuuru Ken, firbold monk
Simira, Lyria, h warlock

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

Spider woods, phase spiders, Gmerk
Black flower hill, grave ruins, hands, old guy
Polderswale, orcs, mound

Danny, Ken, druid
Simira, Lyria, warlock
Snorre, Oreon, druid
Dan W, StriKrr, fighter
Tsukuyomi, Shirou, ranger

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

Danny
Dan W
Erling
Snorre
Simira

3x VR potions (Surpreme Healing)

Espen E, Tobriam, wizcle
Danny, Ken, firbolg monk
Dan W, StrriKrr, gith fighter
Erling, Callisto, elf wiz
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric

Emil, Erik, dwarf, barb
Martin, Tiziano, tortle barbarian
Kknutzen, Cael,
TaC, Olucka, dark gnome mix,
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric
3x augury in next 24h.
Currently still on floor 6
Team found a sword in the head of a dragon.
Crystal crown from cradle. Story-like item?
Treasure chamber of green dragon, polymorphed.
Looking for a bronze dragon galistae.
Lyria and Erik meet up with Cael and Tiziano. Going through a portal (opened by wings) we killed a nycoloth and saved a weird bluish guy named Oluck. Erik and Oluck continued on attacking a drow, who escaped down a corridor. Erik followed for a bit; the rest returned. No clue to what floor.
Portal effect: Once within the next 24 hours, the target can use its reaction to reduce the damage it takes from one source by 10d6.
Walked through east door, duergar south.
Exploring unexplored room, finding tools and explotions, going back to duergar.
Long tunnels to a slope, next floor.
Floor 7.
Umberhulk-dug tunnels.
Throne with blue quartz stones. Noise from a tunnel, chiseling and humming.
Giant Gravillock, chiseling stone. Semi-friendly. Family is nearby and don’t like strangers.
Exploring narrow tunnels, finding another exit upwards.
Large stone pit with more giants. Mithril spindle in the middle. Looks like a castle on top.
Exploring tunnels, back to pit w castle. Cael and Tiziano fly across with a rope. Lyria falls down climbing. Cael gets her back up with dimension door. Into castle.
Text: Knock knock. Trapdoor to next floor in the castle.
Windows to courtyard, statue of plump wizard with helmet and sword.
Rooms have coins in the doors. Throne room, someone passing.
Going around. Armory. Metallic creature destroying furniture.
Room w tridents and letters TUOYAW. Tridents attack, also statue and metallic creature. Statue is roper. Diamonds inside.
Scroll of mass cure wounds
Potion of invis

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.

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.

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, 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

Kknutzen, Cael, aasimar bard 11
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 11
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 11
TaC, Olucka, duergar rogue lvl 13
Bluehell, Derus, elf, fighter/wizard

House Ayvrundar is eradicated.
Derus falls from the roof onto Erik.
Floor 10.
Lyria, 2 Augury
Erik 1 Augury
22 hrs Heroes Feast
6,5 hours oil of slipperiness
Drow of house Freth leaves.
Water fountain, statues of gods.
Troglodytes celebrating to the west.

Door to the south. Temple under restoration. Erik tries to deface a statue of Lolth and is paralyzed and fell down.
Through the next door is a hallway, and further a sick bay. We chase away the sick drow. Storage room next, with a tunnel up north. We go back to check the north door.
North door in hallway leads to council room-ish? Door to bed chamber, and spider room. Tunnel from here leads to some of a maze, one dead end, one tunnel to the storage room. Comes out in a gallery. A cold room with undead to the north, Lyria scares them away. Dead end w dead dwarf and magic gauntlets up north.
Tunnel back, turn further north. Empty Troglodyte lair? Come back round to where we were before, cleaning up a room of zombies eating dead bodies. Moving back further north looking for the “Apprentice” creature. (Muriel)
Long corridor with doors.
Door 1, Eilistrae altar. Hymn playing. The Hymn is the key. D-minor.
Door 2, room of darkness, Vhareun.
Door 3, bloodstained altar, Selvetarm
Door 4, Kieransalee, goddess of undeath
Door 5, oozes, Ghaunadaur, a god of subterranean horrors,
Altar, two hook horror statues beside the dais, mirror carved to look like Halaster. “Flattery will get you everywhere”. Erik flatters the mirror and a gate opens to a corridor. Erik steps in, and ends up in a shaft, falling 60 ft.
Exploring quarters to the north. Mirror gate with Etched into the bottom of the mirror’s stone frame are the letters T-U-O-Y-A-W.
North, end room with statue. Touch to teleport. Statues in love.
Big room with floor of skulls. Skulls crushing when walking on them. Investigating door to the south. Large room with pillars, and two large drow creatures. In the next room, a Statue of Eilistrae should be holding something. A sword?
Following corridor east and north. Circling around to the large skull room, there are lifelike statues of drow warriors.

The opposite door leads to a large exercise room with a large mirror (gate) to the north. Four dead dwarves in a half circle. Lump in the chest or one appears to be a big emerald with a small imperfection in it shaped like a spider. Worth a decent bit.
Erik not crying and begging for Greater Restoration to be able to heal after going through a gate.
4825gp
Gauntlets of Ogre Power.

Retrieve a Runestone Fragment
Volothamp Geddarm introduces the characters to a friend of his: a young captain of the City Watch named Jalester Silvermane.
Jalester tells the characters that he wants a fragment of the Runestone saying its recovery will help to ensure Waterdeep’s security. He describes the Runestone as a large, glowing, disk-shaped gem with Halaster’s rune floating in it. It was created by Halasar and secreted away in the depths of Undermountain
He does not mention a monetary reward for delivering a Runestone fragment to him; instead, Jalester offers the characters his lasting friendship—which can bring many benefits, considering his position in the City Watch.

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

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!

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

Kknutzen, Cael, bard 12
Emil, Erik, dwarf barbarian 12
TaC, Ninlar, cleric paladin 12
aultsider, Becky, paladin,
Simira, Lyria, cleric 11

2 castings of augury
Erik 1 augury
Terulai 6 charges
11th floor, house Freth. Caught Zress again, freed Troglodytes, and moved on to floor 12. Low fog over the floor.
Following glow of light into hoard of minotaurs. Found drow allies house Freth. Guide to fortress. See matron. Visitor from Shadowdusk. Free escort through this floor as well as getting the matrons brother to answer questions. Some info about floor below, mechanical creatures, another failed apprentice.
Some information on dragon Glister, shadowdusk may know more. Family from Waterdeep, two down here working on alliance with Freth.
Where is Vanrakdoom, now part of shadowfell. Glyster, bronze dragon is probably there, possibly corrupted.
Tend to avoid the floor, skipping to 19th and continue from there. 17th floor an up here to avoid the shadowfell. From here there is less problem descending. Can not travel directly. Can travel to 19th floor from this one. The gate that weeps blood.
Go less direct traversing descend to the 14th floor and find the gate there.
Make sure we are out of their way on their floor and they will stay out of our way.
We are also looking for fragment of rune stone.
Metallic spider. Iron spider.
Drivvin Freth guides us to the next floor. Warning about bore worm at descent. It may ignore us if we stay out of our way.
Moving through chasm, worm comes. Ninlar takes attack of opportunity and gets hurt. See some mechanical creatures, insects, rust monster. Lyria checks side tunnel, gets attacked by rust monster. Finding a heap of metal, dead hobgoblin. Big childlike people asks us to kill hobgoblins for trying to kill them. Going south, Becky, Erik and Ninlar attacked group of hobgoblins. Lyria sleet stormed the main crowd making fighting difficult. The others killed them anyway and returned. Childlike people let us pass to a tunnel leading to a “Palace”?
Up, follow tunnel to the assumed palace, finding disembodied hobgoblins. Mechanical crabs coming towards us.
Continue through tunnell. Finding metal castle. Ninlar broke in. Giant badger talking to Cael. Zox lives here. He is big. Lots or hair and not hair. Big ears. Sticking out. Friends with metal ones, burny ones.
Safe combination: Prairie dog, wombat, badger, armadillo, wombat.
Gold and a book missing the cover.
2050 gp each.

Cael played the D tone on his instrument and portal opens. Erik goes in. Symbol of Anarath.

DM Martin
Corgibutt, Sera, asimaar barbarian
Dan W, Strri`Krr, fighter,
Erling eKnight, sorc Psyche?
Danny, Arekuuru Ken, firbold monk
Simira, Lyria, h warlock

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

Spider woods, phase spiders, Gmerk
Black flower hill, grave ruins, hands, old guy
Polderswale, orcs, mound

Danny, Ken, druid
Simira, Lyria, warlock
Snorre, Oreon, druid
Dan W, StriKrr, fighter
Tsukuyomi, Shirou, ranger

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

Danny
Dan W
Erling
Snorre
Simira

3x VR potions (Surpreme Healing)

Espen E, Tobriam, wizcle
Danny, Ken, firbolg monk
Dan W, StrriKrr, gith fighter
Erling, Callisto, elf wiz
Simira, Lyria, tempest cleric