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.

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, Raven Höod, kenku gloomstalker ranger 16

New sewer-people popping in.
Lots of door checking. Mostly empty rooms apart from a vampire that was quickly killed.In one room, about to grab a golden horn from the wall, Lyria had a vision of a large room with pillars and 6 adventurers tied to them. Lyria was a dragon with necrotic breath getting to kill them in the form of the dragon Umraxal. A voice was telling them to kill the adventurers.
Corridor to the south east: Two obsidian statues, faceless women, holding two silver threads between them. Conjuration magic.
Necromantic shadow curtains cover the wall between them.
Cael steps through the curtain, then Lyria. Double door says, “The shadow is the key”. The rest steps through. The rod we found last time fits the indentation on the floor.
Light shadow of the key on the door.
Piles of skulls and bones, shadowy, grey and miserable. World goes sepia.
Long corridor to the south.
Umbraxal’s lair.
welcome to umbraxakar's lair,
a dragon held in the grip of despair
conjures memories of his departed friend:
upon sunlight's blade, he met his end

Tiziano found the dining room and had a vision of Vanrak, Tiziano was a dragon.
Several visions, all from the dragon’s view.
While the group are discussing visions in the corridor Deyrus checks another door and finds three vampire spawn in a room to the south. A double door leads to Gaston, a yeti and more enemies.
Raven senses the dragon further south. Through some corridors and secret doors, finding an amethyst sarcophagus. After much effort stored in Cael’s portable hole.
Dragon is behind the doors to the north.
1600 GP + Cloak of the Bat

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

KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Arn, MacCabre, wiz evi/artificer
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano
Bluehell, Deyarus

Brave flumph Klania will join us to open doors with tentacles.
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?
Met Marc who was saved in space. His ulitharid boss promised 100 PP and resurrection if we got rid of the gith. Marc took us south and through lots of guards and through the door.
We negotiated with the gith to get them to give us half plates and ally with us against the mind flayers. They would if we killed the worm. Neothilid, 210 feet long worm.
Some exploring.

-250 GP Heroes Feast for short rest. +13 HP.
Party goes the flumph back way while the gith attack the main gate to the mind flayers on signal to noise (gong).
Some grappling, befuddling and bedazzling later we killed the boss and Marc and his friends.
575 GP

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)

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
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

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.

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.

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
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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

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

Lyria: 2 augury
Olucka vulnerable for another 22h.

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

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

Lyria 2x augury

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

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

Kknutzen, 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.

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.

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

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.

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, Raven Höod, kenku gloomstalker ranger 16

New sewer-people popping in.
Lots of door checking. Mostly empty rooms apart from a vampire that was quickly killed.In one room, about to grab a golden horn from the wall, Lyria had a vision of a large room with pillars and 6 adventurers tied to them. Lyria was a dragon with necrotic breath getting to kill them in the form of the dragon Umraxal. A voice was telling them to kill the adventurers.
Corridor to the south east: Two obsidian statues, faceless women, holding two silver threads between them. Conjuration magic.
Necromantic shadow curtains cover the wall between them.
Cael steps through the curtain, then Lyria. Double door says, “The shadow is the key”. The rest steps through. The rod we found last time fits the indentation on the floor.
Light shadow of the key on the door.
Piles of skulls and bones, shadowy, grey and miserable. World goes sepia.
Long corridor to the south.
Umbraxal’s lair.
welcome to umbraxakar's lair,
a dragon held in the grip of despair
conjures memories of his departed friend:
upon sunlight's blade, he met his end

Tiziano found the dining room and had a vision of Vanrak, Tiziano was a dragon.
Several visions, all from the dragon’s view.
While the group are discussing visions in the corridor Deyrus checks another door and finds three vampire spawn in a room to the south. A double door leads to Gaston, a yeti and more enemies.
Raven senses the dragon further south. Through some corridors and secret doors, finding an amethyst sarcophagus. After much effort stored in Cael’s portable hole.
Dragon is behind the doors to the north.
1600 GP + Cloak of the Bat

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

KK, Cael, aasimar bard 14
Arn, MacCabre, wiz evi/artificer
Simira, Lyria
FotD, Tiziano
Bluehell, Deyarus

Brave flumph Klania will join us to open doors with tentacles.
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?
Met Marc who was saved in space. His ulitharid boss promised 100 PP and resurrection if we got rid of the gith. Marc took us south and through lots of guards and through the door.
We negotiated with the gith to get them to give us half plates and ally with us against the mind flayers. They would if we killed the worm. Neothilid, 210 feet long worm.
Some exploring.

-250 GP Heroes Feast for short rest. +13 HP.
Party goes the flumph back way while the gith attack the main gate to the mind flayers on signal to noise (gong).
Some grappling, befuddling and bedazzling later we killed the boss and Marc and his friends.
575 GP

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)

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
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

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.

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.

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
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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

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

Lyria: 2 augury
Olucka vulnerable for another 22h.

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

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

Lyria 2x augury

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

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

Kknutzen, 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.

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.

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