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

Bluehell, Deyrus Virran, fighter arcane archer
Bona Fides, Stone, wizard
Kknutzen, Cael,
aultsider, Becky,
Simira, Lyria

The floor originally belonged to one of the apprentices.
Person in the castle, short, big pointy ears.
Zox, gnome. Warns against group names. The Group. Tells us hoboglins are stealing metal from him, we go to chase them away. South and east, or east and south to find them.
Azers running forges in the south. Back to where we entered, past rustmonster, fighting transforming platform that did tons of platform. Lyria went down despite mass cure!
Short rest.
Found Orb of Gonging.
Going back south, killed some metal wasps and found a Dodecahedron of Doom.
Back to the hobgoblin fight place, further south. Cael tried diplomatic approach and was attacked. Killed hobgoblins and dogs. Worm came through without trouble.
Exploring a bit to the south. Many killed beetles and myconids. Found stable myconids, Cael healed it. Offers Cael to potions. Shrink or undo aging? Will regrow the forest.
Chanterella. About the next floor: Where hobgoblins came from. Also, likely firegiants. The retreat of Octyria, one of the most accomplished apprentices. She is a lich. Master of Transmutation.
Descending to floor 14.Octaryacdoom?
Potion of Diminution
Potion of Longevity
166 GP

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.

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

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

Oisín Raleigh (KK), Ninlar (Tac), Tiziano (Fotd), Lyria (Simira), William (Phated)
Lyria: 2 augury

By stairs w William. Tiziano cursing out or a pit trap. Ninlar and Oisín somewhere.
Large room w four pillars. Mine cart, voice says to put all weapons and items there. Four Halaster statues.

To the east is a lava river. East and south to find the others.
Oisin saves Ninlar from painting and gets caught and saved himself.
Exploring corridors trying to find traps and each other.
Meeting up. Ghost possession worshipping Tyr? Do we want to find and kill the Netherskull?
Rambling around not sure what we are looking for.
Ghost reunited with Ninar. Statue w dwarvish writing.

William teleported, finding his way back. Ninlar fell down a pit and jumped back up.

Secret doors south. Paintings. Door w wheel, human skull at the center.
Found the Netherskull! Killed plus a lot of zombies.
Going back north to the sarcophagus to check for treasure. Death rune moves to Ninlar’s face. Dead Dwarf (vampire Zorach Lightdrinker)is angry. Oisìn put fire in the hole and kinda killed it in the end. Leaving behind a nice axe for throwing.

Dwarven Thrower.

KK, Zenith
Bluehell, Deyrus
TaC, Ninlar
aultsider, Becky
Simira, Lyria

Lyria: 1 augury
(Cael carries Terulai)
Floor 16, entry hall. Githyanki crystal statue. Quickly dead. Githyanki fighters come. Also dies.
Doors that doesn’t appear to be possible to open.
Young red dragon with gith rider discover us and attacks. Gith in stalagtites appear to have fireball and attack too.
Looking for safe resting place, get into more fights.
Short rest. Investigating a couple of doors with rod holes and a scrying wall. Found the stairs. Going to door next to pit until next part.
936GP

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

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)

7.3.2026
DM snooze
KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Fenris, Erik
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano
Phated, Bobbert

Lyria: 1 augury
Erik: 2 augury and being gorgon
Notes from dead cultists:
“jian
Caradoc, Feldar, Hong, Khafra, Serenade, and Xandeval
Darkness quench the sun, Darkness swallow the moon, We are nothing but the night.”
Hong is circled.
Bobbert and Lyria hauls the treasure while Erik is chasing women.
Mistress of the bat is to the southeast.
Fighting cultists and vampires.
Vision of man with blade.
South, some pits, lots of doors.
Rough tunnel, more chanting to the north. Lots of cultists blocking door for ritual.
More cultists who turn into shadows and suck the strength out of barbarians.
Going back south. More doors in all directions. Double doors to south, finding mithril chain. Erik puts it on and is attacked by more ghosts.
Cael cast prayer of healing.
Scintilmorn and its original purpose: to destroy vampires and other creatures of the night.
Mithral armor (chain shirt) which has the additional property of granting its wearer darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.
820 gp each
Silver rod with one end formed in the shape of a key

Danny
Dan W
Erling
Snorre
Simira

KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 13
FotD, Tiziano, tortle barbarian, 15
Bluehell, Deyrus, elven fighter arcane archer
Phated, Bobbert, Bobbert, wood elf, scout rogue 15

Heroe’s Feast still active

Opening doors to the dragon. Fight. Tiziano ran out of strength. Cael starts convincing. The oth-ers except Lyria helps. Glyster saved. Moonstar family.

Unwilling to give up hoard, but will reward.

Telling the story of Vanrak. The Lords of Waterdeep ordered him arrested and he fled to Un-dermountain. Glyster tried to go after and stop him. Vanrak and the cultists were deperate and convinced Glyster to be part of a ritual to transform Vanrakdoom to the shadowfell. Vanrak failed and destroyed himself by blade.
Giving Midnight Tears
Midnight Tears (Ingested). A creature that ingests this poison suffers no effect until the stroke of midnight. If the poison has not been neutralized before then, the creature must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 31 (9d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Glyster gives us a Pendant to Shar, valuable. Lots of coins. Electrum and silver. Bah.
Reward from house Moonstar:
In exchange for their help, Helion promises the friendship of House Moonstar, which comes with tangible benefits.

Short rest.
Glyster reluctantly let us see the hoard room. Tiziano running around opening doors and check-ing all corridors.

Descending to next floor 19. Oozy feeling. Effluvium. Eyes carved on the walls and ceiling follow us. Lyria and Cael go invisible.
Further in is a band of pirate orcs around a fireplace. Leader lady talks to us in orc. They start lobbing sylinders at us. We fight back.

There’s a broken pirate ship to the south in a big cavern. There is no treasure and it falls on top of Tiziano and Lyria. Deyrus and Bobbert strips the orcs of plate mail and burns the bodies.
Cael leads way through three water curtains before we find a huge singing fish. He asks to be called “mylord”.
Ichthyglug is a type of genie. Cael thinks Maruk?
He promises riches for a quest. Destroy a lich Ezzact and get his phylactery. Head down a floor. He needs the phylactery to leave this place.
Out of cave, stick to the left.
Going north and then left, there is more ooze and a tentacled ship. We climb it and get attacked by ballistaorcs.
Lyria: Remember to start with Mass Cure next time!

Save the Dragon
Prerequisite: Complete the “Throne of the Coronal” or the “Eye of the Spider” quest
Word reaches Lady Wylynd Moonstar, matriarch of the Moonstar noble family of Waterdeep, that a party of adventurers has had some success in Undermountain of late. She learns all she can about these adventurers before sending her grand-nephew, a well-mannered half-drow named Helion Moonstar, to meet with them. Helion is Wylynd’s heir apparent, and this mission is as much a test for him as it is for the adventurers.
Lady Wylynd is well over a hundred years old and senile, but she has never forgotten the dark blemish on her family’s honor left by Vanrak Moonstar, who lorded over House Moonstar long ago. Vanrak and his small army of Shar worshipers fled into Undermountain to escape punish-ment for their many crimes in the city. It’s Lady Wylynd’s recollection that a longtime ally of the Moonstar family, a bronze dragon named Glyster, was asked or told to find Vanrak and bring him back to Waterdeep to face justice. The dragon found Vanrak but could not wrest him from the depths of Undermountain. Instead, the dragon became corrupted by Shar’s magic. In this evil form, the dragon fought by Vanrak’s side for years, even serving as his mount from time to time.

Lady Wylynd believes it’s her family’s responsibility to free the dragon from Shar’s evil grasp one way or another. She asks Helion to meet with the adventurers and convince them to find the shadow dragon in Vanrakdoom one of the deeper levels of Undermountain, and break Shar’s hold over him. Failing that, they should put the dragon out of his misery. In exchange for their help, Helion promises the friendship of House Moonstar, which comes with tangible bene-fits:
House Moonstar magic item trading (downtime activity). Housemoonstar offers any tier appro-priate items for trade (player choice) this downtime activity can only be done once per charac-ter.

KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 13
FotD, Tiziano, tortle barbarian, 15
Bluehell, Deyrus, elven fighter arcane archer
Ttrpger, Krashinburn, yuan-ti, wild magic sorc 13

Defeat pretend pirates/slaads at great cost. A yuan-ti joins us but don’t know anything more than me. Down the hatch a dead orog in plate hangs up side down.
More dead orog pirates downstairs. And chests and boxes.
Krash finds a mummified elven hand with two valuable rings. Elven silk, engraved box w dragon figurines.
Lyria finds 6 vials. Coins, bracelets, beholder miniature. More gold and a silk pouch w four blue pellets.

Deyrus finds the galley.
Another room with wall paintings of an elf and tentacles.
Cael ritual cast detect magic and find out some of the things we found were magic and found a small hole in the galley. Woke up snoozing hamster Munchkin behind a sending stone. Animal chat about travelling, food and sleeping. Only one person left on the ship?
Found cabins. Another dead orog with a split skull. They do not have brains and brain was not voluntarily extracted.

Front/bridge. Invisible Illithid captain. Ngathrod. Long negotiation whether we should get the helm for him and help him escape to then get the ship or just kill him. Ended up killing.
Out from the ship again, fuddling around a bit finding a dead end with a portal with an arrow on it. Continuing north through winding tunnels we find a sloping tunnel assumedly to the next floor. A side tunnel leads back to the spaceship. Checking a side nook quickly killing an ooze.
Next side tunnel has an altar to Jubilex. When opening the box behind the altar we are surprise attacked by a statue and three oozes. Cael quickly killed the statue, Tiziano split an ooze into three, took some time to be pudding them down.

Thousands of copper pieces for treasure.
Cael did some healing.

Moving south, room with pillars and lots of goo. Creatures on a ledge speaking terran to us. Boss wants to talk to us up north. We cross the goo with great difficulty, Lyria almost drowns. North tunnel to chamber with a bunch or galeb duhr/boulders and a rapping Dao.

Jarûk.
Wants us to get a phylactery from the lich on the next floor. Promise a lot of riches and three items in reward.
Will our heroes take the deal?

What are the Dao's intentions?
Is there even a Phylactory or Lich?
Find out next time on Mad Mage!

1242 GP each,
6 vials of stardust (dream spell potion)
Vial of Stardust
Wondrous item, unique
Any creature that sprinkles the dust over itself gains the ability to cast the dream spell once as an action (spell save DC 15), requiring no components.
4 blue pellets (potions of healing)
Sending stones
Small propeller helmet

Bought potion of surpreme healing.

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

DM Martin
Rolf, Duril, dwarf bard
Dan W, Strri`Krr, fighter,
Erling eKnight, wiz Io
Danny, Arekuuru Ken, firbold monk
Simira, Lyria, h warlock

2x healing potions

DM Martin
Rolf, Duril, dwarf bard
Dan W, Strri`Krr, fighter,
Erling eKnight, wiz Io
Danny, Arekuuru Ken, firbold monk
Simira, Lyria, h warlock

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

3 hrs
Danny, Ken
Erling, Calisto
Dan, StrriKrr
Snorre, Oreon
Simira, Lyria

3h
DM: Martin
Danny
Erling
Dan
Snorre
Simira

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

Bluehell, Deyrus Virran, fighter arcane archer
Bona Fides, Stone, wizard
Kknutzen, Cael,
aultsider, Becky,
Simira, Lyria

The floor originally belonged to one of the apprentices.
Person in the castle, short, big pointy ears.
Zox, gnome. Warns against group names. The Group. Tells us hoboglins are stealing metal from him, we go to chase them away. South and east, or east and south to find them.
Azers running forges in the south. Back to where we entered, past rustmonster, fighting transforming platform that did tons of platform. Lyria went down despite mass cure!
Short rest.
Found Orb of Gonging.
Going back south, killed some metal wasps and found a Dodecahedron of Doom.
Back to the hobgoblin fight place, further south. Cael tried diplomatic approach and was attacked. Killed hobgoblins and dogs. Worm came through without trouble.
Exploring a bit to the south. Many killed beetles and myconids. Found stable myconids, Cael healed it. Offers Cael to potions. Shrink or undo aging? Will regrow the forest.
Chanterella. About the next floor: Where hobgoblins came from. Also, likely firegiants. The retreat of Octyria, one of the most accomplished apprentices. She is a lich. Master of Transmutation.
Descending to floor 14.Octaryacdoom?
Potion of Diminution
Potion of Longevity
166 GP

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.

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

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

Oisín Raleigh (KK), Ninlar (Tac), Tiziano (Fotd), Lyria (Simira), William (Phated)
Lyria: 2 augury

By stairs w William. Tiziano cursing out or a pit trap. Ninlar and Oisín somewhere.
Large room w four pillars. Mine cart, voice says to put all weapons and items there. Four Halaster statues.

To the east is a lava river. East and south to find the others.
Oisin saves Ninlar from painting and gets caught and saved himself.
Exploring corridors trying to find traps and each other.
Meeting up. Ghost possession worshipping Tyr? Do we want to find and kill the Netherskull?
Rambling around not sure what we are looking for.
Ghost reunited with Ninar. Statue w dwarvish writing.

William teleported, finding his way back. Ninlar fell down a pit and jumped back up.

Secret doors south. Paintings. Door w wheel, human skull at the center.
Found the Netherskull! Killed plus a lot of zombies.
Going back north to the sarcophagus to check for treasure. Death rune moves to Ninlar’s face. Dead Dwarf (vampire Zorach Lightdrinker)is angry. Oisìn put fire in the hole and kinda killed it in the end. Leaving behind a nice axe for throwing.

Dwarven Thrower.

KK, Zenith
Bluehell, Deyrus
TaC, Ninlar
aultsider, Becky
Simira, Lyria

Lyria: 1 augury
(Cael carries Terulai)
Floor 16, entry hall. Githyanki crystal statue. Quickly dead. Githyanki fighters come. Also dies.
Doors that doesn’t appear to be possible to open.
Young red dragon with gith rider discover us and attacks. Gith in stalagtites appear to have fireball and attack too.
Looking for safe resting place, get into more fights.
Short rest. Investigating a couple of doors with rod holes and a scrying wall. Found the stairs. Going to door next to pit until next part.
936GP

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

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)

7.3.2026
DM snooze
KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Fenris, Erik
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano
Phated, Bobbert

Lyria: 1 augury
Erik: 2 augury and being gorgon
Notes from dead cultists:
“jian
Caradoc, Feldar, Hong, Khafra, Serenade, and Xandeval
Darkness quench the sun, Darkness swallow the moon, We are nothing but the night.”
Hong is circled.
Bobbert and Lyria hauls the treasure while Erik is chasing women.
Mistress of the bat is to the southeast.
Fighting cultists and vampires.
Vision of man with blade.
South, some pits, lots of doors.
Rough tunnel, more chanting to the north. Lots of cultists blocking door for ritual.
More cultists who turn into shadows and suck the strength out of barbarians.
Going back south. More doors in all directions. Double doors to south, finding mithril chain. Erik puts it on and is attacked by more ghosts.
Cael cast prayer of healing.
Scintilmorn and its original purpose: to destroy vampires and other creatures of the night.
Mithral armor (chain shirt) which has the additional property of granting its wearer darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.
820 gp each
Silver rod with one end formed in the shape of a key

Danny
Dan W
Erling
Snorre
Simira

KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 13
FotD, Tiziano, tortle barbarian, 15
Bluehell, Deyrus, elven fighter arcane archer
Phated, Bobbert, Bobbert, wood elf, scout rogue 15

Heroe’s Feast still active

Opening doors to the dragon. Fight. Tiziano ran out of strength. Cael starts convincing. The oth-ers except Lyria helps. Glyster saved. Moonstar family.

Unwilling to give up hoard, but will reward.

Telling the story of Vanrak. The Lords of Waterdeep ordered him arrested and he fled to Un-dermountain. Glyster tried to go after and stop him. Vanrak and the cultists were deperate and convinced Glyster to be part of a ritual to transform Vanrakdoom to the shadowfell. Vanrak failed and destroyed himself by blade.
Giving Midnight Tears
Midnight Tears (Ingested). A creature that ingests this poison suffers no effect until the stroke of midnight. If the poison has not been neutralized before then, the creature must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 31 (9d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Glyster gives us a Pendant to Shar, valuable. Lots of coins. Electrum and silver. Bah.
Reward from house Moonstar:
In exchange for their help, Helion promises the friendship of House Moonstar, which comes with tangible benefits.

Short rest.
Glyster reluctantly let us see the hoard room. Tiziano running around opening doors and check-ing all corridors.

Descending to next floor 19. Oozy feeling. Effluvium. Eyes carved on the walls and ceiling follow us. Lyria and Cael go invisible.
Further in is a band of pirate orcs around a fireplace. Leader lady talks to us in orc. They start lobbing sylinders at us. We fight back.

There’s a broken pirate ship to the south in a big cavern. There is no treasure and it falls on top of Tiziano and Lyria. Deyrus and Bobbert strips the orcs of plate mail and burns the bodies.
Cael leads way through three water curtains before we find a huge singing fish. He asks to be called “mylord”.
Ichthyglug is a type of genie. Cael thinks Maruk?
He promises riches for a quest. Destroy a lich Ezzact and get his phylactery. Head down a floor. He needs the phylactery to leave this place.
Out of cave, stick to the left.
Going north and then left, there is more ooze and a tentacled ship. We climb it and get attacked by ballistaorcs.
Lyria: Remember to start with Mass Cure next time!

Save the Dragon
Prerequisite: Complete the “Throne of the Coronal” or the “Eye of the Spider” quest
Word reaches Lady Wylynd Moonstar, matriarch of the Moonstar noble family of Waterdeep, that a party of adventurers has had some success in Undermountain of late. She learns all she can about these adventurers before sending her grand-nephew, a well-mannered half-drow named Helion Moonstar, to meet with them. Helion is Wylynd’s heir apparent, and this mission is as much a test for him as it is for the adventurers.
Lady Wylynd is well over a hundred years old and senile, but she has never forgotten the dark blemish on her family’s honor left by Vanrak Moonstar, who lorded over House Moonstar long ago. Vanrak and his small army of Shar worshipers fled into Undermountain to escape punish-ment for their many crimes in the city. It’s Lady Wylynd’s recollection that a longtime ally of the Moonstar family, a bronze dragon named Glyster, was asked or told to find Vanrak and bring him back to Waterdeep to face justice. The dragon found Vanrak but could not wrest him from the depths of Undermountain. Instead, the dragon became corrupted by Shar’s magic. In this evil form, the dragon fought by Vanrak’s side for years, even serving as his mount from time to time.

Lady Wylynd believes it’s her family’s responsibility to free the dragon from Shar’s evil grasp one way or another. She asks Helion to meet with the adventurers and convince them to find the shadow dragon in Vanrakdoom one of the deeper levels of Undermountain, and break Shar’s hold over him. Failing that, they should put the dragon out of his misery. In exchange for their help, Helion promises the friendship of House Moonstar, which comes with tangible bene-fits:
House Moonstar magic item trading (downtime activity). Housemoonstar offers any tier appro-priate items for trade (player choice) this downtime activity can only be done once per charac-ter.

KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Simira, Lyria, aasimar tempest cleric 13
FotD, Tiziano, tortle barbarian, 15
Bluehell, Deyrus, elven fighter arcane archer
Ttrpger, Krashinburn, yuan-ti, wild magic sorc 13

Defeat pretend pirates/slaads at great cost. A yuan-ti joins us but don’t know anything more than me. Down the hatch a dead orog in plate hangs up side down.
More dead orog pirates downstairs. And chests and boxes.
Krash finds a mummified elven hand with two valuable rings. Elven silk, engraved box w dragon figurines.
Lyria finds 6 vials. Coins, bracelets, beholder miniature. More gold and a silk pouch w four blue pellets.

Deyrus finds the galley.
Another room with wall paintings of an elf and tentacles.
Cael ritual cast detect magic and find out some of the things we found were magic and found a small hole in the galley. Woke up snoozing hamster Munchkin behind a sending stone. Animal chat about travelling, food and sleeping. Only one person left on the ship?
Found cabins. Another dead orog with a split skull. They do not have brains and brain was not voluntarily extracted.

Front/bridge. Invisible Illithid captain. Ngathrod. Long negotiation whether we should get the helm for him and help him escape to then get the ship or just kill him. Ended up killing.
Out from the ship again, fuddling around a bit finding a dead end with a portal with an arrow on it. Continuing north through winding tunnels we find a sloping tunnel assumedly to the next floor. A side tunnel leads back to the spaceship. Checking a side nook quickly killing an ooze.
Next side tunnel has an altar to Jubilex. When opening the box behind the altar we are surprise attacked by a statue and three oozes. Cael quickly killed the statue, Tiziano split an ooze into three, took some time to be pudding them down.

Thousands of copper pieces for treasure.
Cael did some healing.

Moving south, room with pillars and lots of goo. Creatures on a ledge speaking terran to us. Boss wants to talk to us up north. We cross the goo with great difficulty, Lyria almost drowns. North tunnel to chamber with a bunch or galeb duhr/boulders and a rapping Dao.

Jarûk.
Wants us to get a phylactery from the lich on the next floor. Promise a lot of riches and three items in reward.
Will our heroes take the deal?

What are the Dao's intentions?
Is there even a Phylactory or Lich?
Find out next time on Mad Mage!

1242 GP each,
6 vials of stardust (dream spell potion)
Vial of Stardust
Wondrous item, unique
Any creature that sprinkles the dust over itself gains the ability to cast the dream spell once as an action (spell save DC 15), requiring no components.
4 blue pellets (potions of healing)
Sending stones
Small propeller helmet

Bought potion of surpreme healing.

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

DM Martin
Rolf, Duril, dwarf bard
Dan W, Strri`Krr, fighter,
Erling eKnight, wiz Io
Danny, Arekuuru Ken, firbold monk
Simira, Lyria, h warlock

2x healing potions

DM Martin
Rolf, Duril, dwarf bard
Dan W, Strri`Krr, fighter,
Erling eKnight, wiz Io
Danny, Arekuuru Ken, firbold monk
Simira, Lyria, h warlock

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

3 hrs
Danny, Ken
Erling, Calisto
Dan, StrriKrr
Snorre, Oreon
Simira, Lyria

3h
DM: Martin
Danny
Erling
Dan
Snorre
Simira