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.

Kknutzen, Cael, aasimar bard 13, carrying Terulai.
Bona Fides, Stone,
Bluehell, Deyarus
Simira, Lyria, 12
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 13

2 casting of augury
Hero’s Feast active.
Raksasha gave us a key shaped like Y.
Found box of purple crystal.

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.
Northward still, where forms enlarge,
A lifeless student holds one more.
In the southeast, past the door,
In her boudoir, seek once more,
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

One room to the south(west) with portal. Eric steps through, gets resistance to all damage, and is pointed on by Halaster and takes a lot of damage. Steps back.
South door have two people dancing to a harpiscord playing by itself. Two blue dragon babies? Cael plays also. Eric takes away the harpsicord, Cael stops, dragons gets angry. Nystalancer and Venasorrn.
Dragons killed, a bit of healing, and head north. Erik talks to the flumph and scares it. Double doors lead to stairs going down.
Drow in room w 2 half formed ogres to flies (statues). Vanar Freth, keeps a shadow around.
Erik gets turned into a wyvern and attacks. Is “killed” and turns back. Cael finds another rune and Erik steps into it and becomes a carrion crawler.
Checking doors towards north, man with little clothes and feeblemind. Leaving him behind, moving up the north corridor ending in a door. Two hobgoblins in the room are watching the doors. Secret door.
Through school, several corridors to east, north and west. Two doors w magical locks. The west door, a non-magical shoe w a scorpion in it. The scorpion is actually an umberhulk.
East room, metal helmet on pile of trash, actually an animated armor.
North east door, svirfnebli eating rock. Guffaw Gravelstock. Stone dispels.
Blue lady with wings doing magic.
One room w two-headed rat.
Moving east corridor. Students, dead, one has a key shaped like a U. We now have Y and U.
West corridor, double doors south and north. Erik opening south. Triggers statue/disc trap. Further down, hobgoblin changed into another creature, freed.
North double doors.
Purple tapestry undulating. Finding J key.
UJY
Erik pushes buttons and disappears. The rest finds a secret door in the corridor behind the tapestry.
Stone conjure minor elementals 6, Reaction used, disadv on next attack.
Deyrus, no effects,
Lyria, potion of fire resistance.
Cael nothing active yet.

Hero’s Feast still active for all.
2300 GP, scroll of Polymorph.

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.

KK, Zenith
aultsider, Becky
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano
Len K, Mando, barbarian, minotaur in white shirt and greataxe

3 mindflayers that were saved. Looking for more?
In space. A rod. A book. Cash.

Tome of Clear Thought
Wondrous item, very rare
This book contains memory and logic exercises, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Intelligence score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Manual of Gainful Exercise
Wondrous item, very rare
This book describes fitness exercises, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guide-lines, your Strength score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Back to earth and down the stairs to floor 17.
Saved Dragonborn that was petrified and eaten by a hole in the ground. Aasathra Raghthrok-naar.
This floor seems to have mind flayers up to something. Not part of His plans?
The floor below has a situation with a dragon and cultists. She is planning to remove a lich on the 20th floor. Ezzat, apprentice.
Aasathra was with a group of fairly pompous twats. Bahamut followers. Dragonborn.
Hands over potion of surpreme healing.
Lots of flumpfhs. Illithids nearby. They are lurking. Have made scary worm-thing to destroy githyanki. Keep to the left and don’t go through doors. There is the worm with a lot of teeth and tentacles. Z thinks it is a Neothelid.

The worm is behind see-through walls that you can not walk through.
Extremiton is the big brainy creature with tentacles.
Z notice secret door.
Brave flumph Klania will join us to open doors with tentacles.
2 chest from zirkwood and stonetable. Chests contains piles of platinum pieces. Crystal specta-cles. Potion. Tree-shaped token. Drow dagger, possibly magic?
River of water passing through strange conductors at intervals, transferring energy to “some-thing”. Unnatural. Platform around the edge. Strange noises. Dome ceiling. Water coming from the circle on the east. Alcoves with scrawny creatures with two heads. Appears to be at least 4 of them. No loot.
Watercrossing in centre. Water flowing in two directions. Going north. Some minds behind each door.
Egg is not monetary, we still have a dragon egg in the bag of holding!
potion of acid resistance, quaal's feather token (tree), and a drow-made dagger with silver web filigree.

Quaal's Feather Token (Tree)

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.

Simira, Lyria
MarkM, Jaymes, wiz
Bryan, Lore, cleric
Psiclops, Telvastine, pal
Ian, Morgan, bard

Apple/Potion of Resistance (Cold)
Potion of Heroism
Potion of fire breathing

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

First thing, double door. Framed by carvings of worm ridden skulls. Skeletal hand w continual flame.
Mad Mage greeting us.
Current resident preoccupied. He will give a hint.
To the east… long riddle, keys, some or all. Lifeless student.
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.
Northward still, where forms enlarge,
A lifeless student holds one more.
In the northeast, past the door,
In her boudoir, seek once more,
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
Mage disappears. Trying Northeast door.
Sounds of metal. Fire giants and hobgoblins sorting scraps. Attacking. Kill 2 fire giants and some hobgoblins. Stone and Lyria went down, Lyria healed and giganaughtosaurused.
Two statues, nothing on them, but they seem manipulated by magic.
Door to east, large corridor. Shouting in goblin. Hobgoblins training. Convinced to surrender.
Weird shouty room across the hall. Who’s the boss? Doomcrown is in charge of hobgoblins, through the shrieky rom. Emberosa in charge of fire giants.
Shriekers, beholder?
Double doors, canopy. Someones chambers. Stone statue humanoid. Chest with key in the lock. Mirror in chest. Magic, con save. Cael makes statue turn into himself without clothes.
Across double doors, Becky opens into a short hallway w domed chamber. Covered with mithril. Crystals. 7 alchoves, each lit with a small crystal dome, on the wall above are 6 keyshaped indentations 6 inches long, different keys.
Clockwise: from left to right, going clockwise around the room): an upside-down Y, a backward J with a small loop at the top, an upside-down F, an upside-down U, a V with a small loop at the bottom, and an H missing its top left stem
Back to shrieker room. A spore that looks like a beholder. Corridor to the north, right side door, movement around north door.
Lots of hobgoblins from all directions gets killed. Cael befriends a flumph called Flatwig. Arcturia is kind of blue with spiky bits. Took the head off a mindflayer to study its energy.
Turn right out the door to find her bedchamber.
Wooden trunk with various treasures. In Portable Hole.
There are more creatures nearby, further down. Double doors east. Corridor south, double doors east, black disc of stone depicting bony human hand. Magic. Sealing.
Human man in golden silk. Allussiar? Boudoir. Rakshasa. Willing to provide information on spellbook. And that which keeps her coming back. A key and ?
Just release him, the piece of stone. Hit the seal with the sword.
Y-key. Spellbook through door to the north. There is a chamber with a secret door. Will lead to her library where she keeps her spellbook. The word Palimpsest.
More secret doors will lead to what will let us destroy her.
North door, rakshasa leaves.
Stone goes through north door to room w statue of dwarf. Wall closes behind him, Becky and Cael opens it again.
Statue of nelfashni in the corner. Becky turns into a manticore. Lyria dispels her.
Bookshelves turn around, full of spellbooks.
Another secret door, small niche. Arcturia's Box that cannot be opened. Nalfeshni comes alive and attacks.

KK, Zenith
Bluehell, Deyrus
TaC, Ninlar
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano

Lyria: 1 augury (used)
Raised voices behind doors.
Two githyanki, one has a rod. They have names.
2 Black crystal rods. Crystal vial around the neck. Potion of greater healing. Short corridor south and back. Unlocking north door, meeting mindflayer. Marquox.
Offers money to resque his friends and get them safely to a stardock. Long discussion about whether he is evil. Agree to help, going to one of the other locked doors.
Crystal statue.
Z opened other door, red crystal portal, pedestal with hole for the rod key. Open to eastern room w crystal statue. Activates.
Short fight, going through gate to Stardock. Hot area. Dragon eggs to the south. Treasure pile to the west is fake, but Lyria smells lots. Some to the north, we can also hear a lute strumming.
Lyria dives into the northern treasure pile, on top of two resting young red dragons. They are annoyed.
Lyria goes down repeatedly.
Mama dragon comes in. Lyria is polymorphed into a Lyrianotasaurus.
Dragons killed.
Tiziano and Z go to pick dragon eggs and see new door. Z goes ape and picks two eggs.

Long rest.

5956.14
Potion of Greater Healing

Danny
Dan W
Erling
Snorre
Simira

DDAL04-08 The Broken One
Notes:Player Handout 2: Ring of Spell Storing Ring of Spell Storing Ring, rare (requires attunement) This ring stores spells cast into it, holding them until the attuned wearer uses them. The ring can store up to 5 levels worth of spells at a time. When found it contains remove curse. Any creature can cast a spell of 1st through 5th level into the ring by touching the rig as the spell is cast. The spell has no effect, other than to be stored in the ring. If the ring can’t hold the spell, the spell is expended without effect. The level of the slot used to cast the spell determines how much space it uses. While wearing the ring, you can cast any spell stored in it. The spell uses the slot level, spell save DC, spell attack bonus, and spellcasting ability of the original caster, but is otherwise treated as if you cast the spell. The spell cast from the ring is no longer stored in it, freeing the space. The ring it appears to be a plain gold band, though tarnished and chipped. When the wearer casts an arcane spell they feel cold and faint of breath (an unsettling experience that causes no damage or condition change). A character may attune to this item in 1 minute.

User: Martin
DCI: 4319102791
Character: Maledict
Name: Studded Leather Armor +1
Rarity: rare
Location: Fai Chen

Wondrous item, uncommon While you wear these boots, your steps make no sound, regardless of the surface you are moving across. You also have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks that rely on moving silently. A description of this item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. These light boots are made of supple, green leather and accented with dead leaves. They are constantly covered in muck as if the wearer had been walking through ankle‐deep, bloody gore. No amount of cleaning (magical or otherwise) removes the filth.

Bracers of Defense
Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement)
These leather bracers are stitched with a symbol of an open hand, bloodlessly pierced through the palm with a heart shaped hole. The bracers fill the wearer with the belief that that is love eternal, regardless of creed, nationality, or vital signs. A description of this item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Cape of the Mountebank Wondrous item, rare
This cape smells faintly of brimstone. While wearing it, you can use it to cast the dimension door spell as an action. This property of the cape can't be used again until the next dawn. When you disappear, you leave behind a cloud of smoke, and you appear in a similar cloud of smoke at your destination. The smoke lightly obscures the space you left and the space you appear in, and it dissipates at the end of your next turn. A light or stronger wind disperses the smoke. This long cape is made of light-grey silk trimmed in coarse, black fur. Although it is obviously of high quality, it appears tattered and worn. Instead of smoke, a cloud of stale dust is left behind when the wearer disappears.

Piwafwi (Cloak of Elvenkind)
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

While you wear this cloak with its hood up, Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see you have disadvantage, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, as the cloak's color shifts to camouflage you. Pulling the hood up or down requires an action. The piwafwi loses its magic if exposed to sunlight for 1 hour without interruption.

DDHC-DMM Dungeon of the Mad Mage fl 10, trade w Lyria

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

Your Intelligence score is 19 while you wear this headband. It has no effect on you if your Intelligence is 19 or higher without it.

3x VR potions (Surpreme Healing)

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.

Kknutzen, Cael, aasimar bard 13, carrying Terulai.
Bona Fides, Stone,
Bluehell, Deyarus
Simira, Lyria, 12
Emil, Erik, dwarf barb 13

2 casting of augury
Hero’s Feast active.
Raksasha gave us a key shaped like Y.
Found box of purple crystal.

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.
Northward still, where forms enlarge,
A lifeless student holds one more.
In the southeast, past the door,
In her boudoir, seek once more,
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

One room to the south(west) with portal. Eric steps through, gets resistance to all damage, and is pointed on by Halaster and takes a lot of damage. Steps back.
South door have two people dancing to a harpiscord playing by itself. Two blue dragon babies? Cael plays also. Eric takes away the harpsicord, Cael stops, dragons gets angry. Nystalancer and Venasorrn.
Dragons killed, a bit of healing, and head north. Erik talks to the flumph and scares it. Double doors lead to stairs going down.
Drow in room w 2 half formed ogres to flies (statues). Vanar Freth, keeps a shadow around.
Erik gets turned into a wyvern and attacks. Is “killed” and turns back. Cael finds another rune and Erik steps into it and becomes a carrion crawler.
Checking doors towards north, man with little clothes and feeblemind. Leaving him behind, moving up the north corridor ending in a door. Two hobgoblins in the room are watching the doors. Secret door.
Through school, several corridors to east, north and west. Two doors w magical locks. The west door, a non-magical shoe w a scorpion in it. The scorpion is actually an umberhulk.
East room, metal helmet on pile of trash, actually an animated armor.
North east door, svirfnebli eating rock. Guffaw Gravelstock. Stone dispels.
Blue lady with wings doing magic.
One room w two-headed rat.
Moving east corridor. Students, dead, one has a key shaped like a U. We now have Y and U.
West corridor, double doors south and north. Erik opening south. Triggers statue/disc trap. Further down, hobgoblin changed into another creature, freed.
North double doors.
Purple tapestry undulating. Finding J key.
UJY
Erik pushes buttons and disappears. The rest finds a secret door in the corridor behind the tapestry.
Stone conjure minor elementals 6, Reaction used, disadv on next attack.
Deyrus, no effects,
Lyria, potion of fire resistance.
Cael nothing active yet.

Hero’s Feast still active for all.
2300 GP, scroll of Polymorph.

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.

KK, Zenith
aultsider, Becky
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano
Len K, Mando, barbarian, minotaur in white shirt and greataxe

3 mindflayers that were saved. Looking for more?
In space. A rod. A book. Cash.

Tome of Clear Thought
Wondrous item, very rare
This book contains memory and logic exercises, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Intelligence score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Manual of Gainful Exercise
Wondrous item, very rare
This book describes fitness exercises, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guide-lines, your Strength score increases by 2, as does your maximum for that score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Back to earth and down the stairs to floor 17.
Saved Dragonborn that was petrified and eaten by a hole in the ground. Aasathra Raghthrok-naar.
This floor seems to have mind flayers up to something. Not part of His plans?
The floor below has a situation with a dragon and cultists. She is planning to remove a lich on the 20th floor. Ezzat, apprentice.
Aasathra was with a group of fairly pompous twats. Bahamut followers. Dragonborn.
Hands over potion of surpreme healing.
Lots of flumpfhs. Illithids nearby. They are lurking. Have made scary worm-thing to destroy githyanki. Keep to the left and don’t go through doors. There is the worm with a lot of teeth and tentacles. Z thinks it is a Neothelid.

The worm is behind see-through walls that you can not walk through.
Extremiton is the big brainy creature with tentacles.
Z notice secret door.
Brave flumph Klania will join us to open doors with tentacles.
2 chest from zirkwood and stonetable. Chests contains piles of platinum pieces. Crystal specta-cles. Potion. Tree-shaped token. Drow dagger, possibly magic?
River of water passing through strange conductors at intervals, transferring energy to “some-thing”. Unnatural. Platform around the edge. Strange noises. Dome ceiling. Water coming from the circle on the east. Alcoves with scrawny creatures with two heads. Appears to be at least 4 of them. No loot.
Watercrossing in centre. Water flowing in two directions. Going north. Some minds behind each door.
Egg is not monetary, we still have a dragon egg in the bag of holding!
potion of acid resistance, quaal's feather token (tree), and a drow-made dagger with silver web filigree.

Quaal's Feather Token (Tree)

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.

Simira, Lyria
MarkM, Jaymes, wiz
Bryan, Lore, cleric
Psiclops, Telvastine, pal
Ian, Morgan, bard

Apple/Potion of Resistance (Cold)
Potion of Heroism
Potion of fire breathing

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

First thing, double door. Framed by carvings of worm ridden skulls. Skeletal hand w continual flame.
Mad Mage greeting us.
Current resident preoccupied. He will give a hint.
To the east… long riddle, keys, some or all. Lifeless student.
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.
Northward still, where forms enlarge,
A lifeless student holds one more.
In the northeast, past the door,
In her boudoir, seek once more,
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
Mage disappears. Trying Northeast door.
Sounds of metal. Fire giants and hobgoblins sorting scraps. Attacking. Kill 2 fire giants and some hobgoblins. Stone and Lyria went down, Lyria healed and giganaughtosaurused.
Two statues, nothing on them, but they seem manipulated by magic.
Door to east, large corridor. Shouting in goblin. Hobgoblins training. Convinced to surrender.
Weird shouty room across the hall. Who’s the boss? Doomcrown is in charge of hobgoblins, through the shrieky rom. Emberosa in charge of fire giants.
Shriekers, beholder?
Double doors, canopy. Someones chambers. Stone statue humanoid. Chest with key in the lock. Mirror in chest. Magic, con save. Cael makes statue turn into himself without clothes.
Across double doors, Becky opens into a short hallway w domed chamber. Covered with mithril. Crystals. 7 alchoves, each lit with a small crystal dome, on the wall above are 6 keyshaped indentations 6 inches long, different keys.
Clockwise: from left to right, going clockwise around the room): an upside-down Y, a backward J with a small loop at the top, an upside-down F, an upside-down U, a V with a small loop at the bottom, and an H missing its top left stem
Back to shrieker room. A spore that looks like a beholder. Corridor to the north, right side door, movement around north door.
Lots of hobgoblins from all directions gets killed. Cael befriends a flumph called Flatwig. Arcturia is kind of blue with spiky bits. Took the head off a mindflayer to study its energy.
Turn right out the door to find her bedchamber.
Wooden trunk with various treasures. In Portable Hole.
There are more creatures nearby, further down. Double doors east. Corridor south, double doors east, black disc of stone depicting bony human hand. Magic. Sealing.
Human man in golden silk. Allussiar? Boudoir. Rakshasa. Willing to provide information on spellbook. And that which keeps her coming back. A key and ?
Just release him, the piece of stone. Hit the seal with the sword.
Y-key. Spellbook through door to the north. There is a chamber with a secret door. Will lead to her library where she keeps her spellbook. The word Palimpsest.
More secret doors will lead to what will let us destroy her.
North door, rakshasa leaves.
Stone goes through north door to room w statue of dwarf. Wall closes behind him, Becky and Cael opens it again.
Statue of nelfashni in the corner. Becky turns into a manticore. Lyria dispels her.
Bookshelves turn around, full of spellbooks.
Another secret door, small niche. Arcturia's Box that cannot be opened. Nalfeshni comes alive and attacks.

KK, Zenith
Bluehell, Deyrus
TaC, Ninlar
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano

Lyria: 1 augury (used)
Raised voices behind doors.
Two githyanki, one has a rod. They have names.
2 Black crystal rods. Crystal vial around the neck. Potion of greater healing. Short corridor south and back. Unlocking north door, meeting mindflayer. Marquox.
Offers money to resque his friends and get them safely to a stardock. Long discussion about whether he is evil. Agree to help, going to one of the other locked doors.
Crystal statue.
Z opened other door, red crystal portal, pedestal with hole for the rod key. Open to eastern room w crystal statue. Activates.
Short fight, going through gate to Stardock. Hot area. Dragon eggs to the south. Treasure pile to the west is fake, but Lyria smells lots. Some to the north, we can also hear a lute strumming.
Lyria dives into the northern treasure pile, on top of two resting young red dragons. They are annoyed.
Lyria goes down repeatedly.
Mama dragon comes in. Lyria is polymorphed into a Lyrianotasaurus.
Dragons killed.
Tiziano and Z go to pick dragon eggs and see new door. Z goes ape and picks two eggs.

Long rest.

5956.14
Potion of Greater Healing

Danny
Dan W
Erling
Snorre
Simira

DDAL04-08 The Broken One
Notes:Player Handout 2: Ring of Spell Storing Ring of Spell Storing Ring, rare (requires attunement) This ring stores spells cast into it, holding them until the attuned wearer uses them. The ring can store up to 5 levels worth of spells at a time. When found it contains remove curse. Any creature can cast a spell of 1st through 5th level into the ring by touching the rig as the spell is cast. The spell has no effect, other than to be stored in the ring. If the ring can’t hold the spell, the spell is expended without effect. The level of the slot used to cast the spell determines how much space it uses. While wearing the ring, you can cast any spell stored in it. The spell uses the slot level, spell save DC, spell attack bonus, and spellcasting ability of the original caster, but is otherwise treated as if you cast the spell. The spell cast from the ring is no longer stored in it, freeing the space. The ring it appears to be a plain gold band, though tarnished and chipped. When the wearer casts an arcane spell they feel cold and faint of breath (an unsettling experience that causes no damage or condition change). A character may attune to this item in 1 minute.

User: Martin
DCI: 4319102791
Character: Maledict
Name: Studded Leather Armor +1
Rarity: rare
Location: Fai Chen

Wondrous item, uncommon While you wear these boots, your steps make no sound, regardless of the surface you are moving across. You also have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks that rely on moving silently. A description of this item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. These light boots are made of supple, green leather and accented with dead leaves. They are constantly covered in muck as if the wearer had been walking through ankle‐deep, bloody gore. No amount of cleaning (magical or otherwise) removes the filth.

Bracers of Defense
Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement)
These leather bracers are stitched with a symbol of an open hand, bloodlessly pierced through the palm with a heart shaped hole. The bracers fill the wearer with the belief that that is love eternal, regardless of creed, nationality, or vital signs. A description of this item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Cape of the Mountebank Wondrous item, rare
This cape smells faintly of brimstone. While wearing it, you can use it to cast the dimension door spell as an action. This property of the cape can't be used again until the next dawn. When you disappear, you leave behind a cloud of smoke, and you appear in a similar cloud of smoke at your destination. The smoke lightly obscures the space you left and the space you appear in, and it dissipates at the end of your next turn. A light or stronger wind disperses the smoke. This long cape is made of light-grey silk trimmed in coarse, black fur. Although it is obviously of high quality, it appears tattered and worn. Instead of smoke, a cloud of stale dust is left behind when the wearer disappears.

Piwafwi (Cloak of Elvenkind)
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

While you wear this cloak with its hood up, Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see you have disadvantage, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, as the cloak's color shifts to camouflage you. Pulling the hood up or down requires an action. The piwafwi loses its magic if exposed to sunlight for 1 hour without interruption.

DDHC-DMM Dungeon of the Mad Mage fl 10, trade w Lyria

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

Your Intelligence score is 19 while you wear this headband. It has no effect on you if your Intelligence is 19 or higher without it.

3x VR potions (Surpreme Healing)