The party came to learn that the fifth level of Undermountain is a druid's forest under the watch of Wyllow and is called the Wyllowood. The druid heirophant charged us with clearing a nearby cavern of a conclave of cloakers, ray-like aberrations from the UnderDark that Danni has significant experience fighting.

We cleared out three of the nasty things from the nearby crystal cavern and Wyllow had one of her* Awakend Elk* show us to a tunnel that had been dug by an umber hulk. Nocreth found trailsign indicating that the deurgar that we hunt went down this tunnel. We have headed down in pursuit.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[33]]. Dani wakes up male.

Traded an unneeded sentinel shield to Eskane Balezta, a Bounty Hunter and sharpshooter with a hand crossbow. These gloves will help me become almost as effective as Tigre at disarming locks, but they will make it virtually impossible for him to fail doing so.

More mop up duty. A room with a cold rune and nothing else within. Put down a zombified beholder and a Xanathar Guild-run pit fighting ring. They didn't have two coppers on the lot of them. Guess they were betting for chores.

A hallway full of petrified statues, one of which was a damn mind flayer and D-Con went and woke it up. It messed with my head something awful, but never got close enough to really do more than give me the nastiest stun I've had in ages. A bunch of other unfortunate souls were reverted back from stone. Some goats, a wererat, two Bregan D'arthe junior operatives. So green behind the ears they were still carrying their equipment from Menzobarrenzan. Oh also restored a pretty tough lizardman and an orc warband leader that looked like he knew the score.

We got them back to the Yawning Portal and connected with folks from around the city that could help get them home. Did you know there's four or five orc or half-orcish shaman in Waterdeep? There are even some merchants that have frequent trade with the lizardfolk from up near the Saltmarshes. This city is full of interesting characters.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100=[[17]] Dani wakes up Male.

Story Award: The Bronze Hrogar, a captain in The Bronze, is pleased with the work you did for him. Your timely intervention has allowed him to put an end to the rash of burglaries in GLIP DAK and allowed Hrogar to save face at the same time.
In future adventures in GLIP DAK, characters with this story award will make Charisma checks with members of the Bronze in GLIP DAK at advantage.

Tahn'kai found his way back to the surface and took off. Where to, he didn't say. No note or anything.
On our way to the stairs to the third level, we came across a fellow in a different armor design. Glowing blue lights on this one. Calls himself Gizmo. No magic spears for this guy; he shoots lightning out of his hands. Maybe I should put these reports in a book called "That's Not Something I've Seen Before." Volo's probably already used that title.

As for the third level, the first three rooms were an unremarkable catacomb, some tunnels, and a dead end with some rot trolls and a pack of grick with a grick alpha. I mean I'd never seen leperous trolls that spread disease, but I'm not a troll doctor either.

A little further in, we found and took down a room of quaggoth and a quaggoth thonot, which is some kind of psionic quaggoth? He had a few nifty tricks, but D-Con figured him out just in time.

The new guy—Gizmo—was holding rear guard with Phash and signalled something was moving in the tunnels to his southeast. Turns out it was a draegloth. It was fast, mean, big as an ogre, with four arms and a lot of legs. Talk about your Underdark horror stories that I would've been happier thinking were just made up. All the benefits of a daemon, lots of the benefits of drow, and they do not go down without a real fight.
We got one killed before the other two could close the distance, but it takes some doing to put a pair of them down.

Close combat with several drider, a number of phase spiders, and a whole hallway of quaggoth. Nothing of note to report.

This place is a maze and I feel like we definitely have been through this room once already. I'm going to have to map this out. Spent a lot of time killing things that I thought we'd killed before, but maybe there's just a LOT of them.

Got a message from a Harper contact, Kalte Snowbound. He'd been paid for a job with a greataxe that he said I needed to see. he was right. I know he's a fighter, not a musician, but since he's a Harper, I traded him that harp we took from Arcturia. I'm pretty sure he'll find someone who wants it.

The group finishes a rest and moves deeper into the next caverns, where they discover swarms of kobolds, including some turned to vampire spawn. A long and tiring fight ensues.

Vampire sapped my strength and stamina, leaving me gassed for the rest of the day. Halleth, Geran, and Aiden extracted me from some of the worst of it. Nasty close quarters scrap with undead. Surprised we took no casualties.
Long Rest, Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[64]]. Dani remains Female

purchased Fritter, the 7-Legged Spider from The Kernel during Liar's Night..
-60 candy corn

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, Sublevel two. D-con and Zayeus stay in the Study to continue searching through the books. Dani, Geran, Tigre, and Orpollo continue to clear the level. In the remaining unexplored room, we are ambushed by a half dozen death slaadi but dispatch them, though we take some wounds.

Proceeding to Sublevel three, we encounter a gargantua set as a guard, but Geran talks our way past. Exploring the western wing of this level, we destroy a balhannoth and find a fine tapestry of long-ago Waterdeep, which Dani chooses to keep for her rooms at The Yawning Portal.

At the end of the hall, we discover a room with 4 pillars that radiate magic from runes of abjuration. Amongst the pillars is a blue dracolich that strikes Dani repeatedly with lightning breath while Geran and Orpollo try to puzzle out why most of our attacks seem to be ineffective against the undead terror. Orpollo works out that the runes are absorbing all but the strongest strikes from Tigre and we set to destroying the pillars in moments.
Though Dani continues to take injuries from the dracolich, it is shattered eventually... though we worry it will reanimate in a few days.

The room the darcolich guarded was the Shadowdusk family vault and it holds thousands of coins and several precious gems.

Found Potion of Cloud Giant Strength

Caverns of Ooze: Met Icthyglurg the Marid and Jaruk the Dao.

Orbiting high above Toril is Stardock, a hollowed-out asteroid used by the Githyanki as a fortress and connected to the Crystal Labyrinth in Undermountain via a magical gate. The ruler of Stardock is a githyanki named Commander Urlon. Urlon hired a 30 or so of us to provide extra security for a conclave he was sponsoring.
It was quiet, easy money for a few days before a massive illithid force attacked. I took off with one set of five while D-con took another. I don't know where Geran, Aidan and Tigre were.

We exploded illithid boreworm attack vessels, prevented an illithid plot to turn Ashtyrranthor, an adult red dragon, against us, and retrieved the Forgotten Phoenix, a skiff destroyed by an astral deadnaught warped by a portal from the Far Realm. A githyanki traitor called Kaaltav attempted to ambush us, but we slew the former githyanki supreme commander.

After a short breather, we regrouped to destroy the illithid nautiloid a spacefaring vessel large than anything I've experienced, doing crippling damage by boarding it and ripping it apart from within. the skiff we used to board the massive ship was destroyed by missile fire, but we were saved from the ship's implosion and the cold of space by a cleverly employed cube of force by the spacer wizard that was on our security detail. It paid well. I'll give them that.

Ganied a Potion of Greater Healing

add potion of vitality, 2 potions of healing

The party came to learn that the fifth level of Undermountain is a druid's forest under the watch of Wyllow and is called the Wyllowood. The druid heirophant charged us with clearing a nearby cavern of a conclave of cloakers, ray-like aberrations from the UnderDark that Danni has significant experience fighting.

We cleared out three of the nasty things from the nearby crystal cavern and Wyllow had one of her* Awakend Elk* show us to a tunnel that had been dug by an umber hulk. Nocreth found trailsign indicating that the deurgar that we hunt went down this tunnel. We have headed down in pursuit.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[33]]. Dani wakes up male.

Traded an unneeded sentinel shield to Eskane Balezta, a Bounty Hunter and sharpshooter with a hand crossbow. These gloves will help me become almost as effective as Tigre at disarming locks, but they will make it virtually impossible for him to fail doing so.

More mop up duty. A room with a cold rune and nothing else within. Put down a zombified beholder and a Xanathar Guild-run pit fighting ring. They didn't have two coppers on the lot of them. Guess they were betting for chores.

A hallway full of petrified statues, one of which was a damn mind flayer and D-Con went and woke it up. It messed with my head something awful, but never got close enough to really do more than give me the nastiest stun I've had in ages. A bunch of other unfortunate souls were reverted back from stone. Some goats, a wererat, two Bregan D'arthe junior operatives. So green behind the ears they were still carrying their equipment from Menzobarrenzan. Oh also restored a pretty tough lizardman and an orc warband leader that looked like he knew the score.

We got them back to the Yawning Portal and connected with folks from around the city that could help get them home. Did you know there's four or five orc or half-orcish shaman in Waterdeep? There are even some merchants that have frequent trade with the lizardfolk from up near the Saltmarshes. This city is full of interesting characters.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100=[[17]] Dani wakes up Male.

Story Award: The Bronze Hrogar, a captain in The Bronze, is pleased with the work you did for him. Your timely intervention has allowed him to put an end to the rash of burglaries in GLIP DAK and allowed Hrogar to save face at the same time.
In future adventures in GLIP DAK, characters with this story award will make Charisma checks with members of the Bronze in GLIP DAK at advantage.

Tahn'kai found his way back to the surface and took off. Where to, he didn't say. No note or anything.
On our way to the stairs to the third level, we came across a fellow in a different armor design. Glowing blue lights on this one. Calls himself Gizmo. No magic spears for this guy; he shoots lightning out of his hands. Maybe I should put these reports in a book called "That's Not Something I've Seen Before." Volo's probably already used that title.

As for the third level, the first three rooms were an unremarkable catacomb, some tunnels, and a dead end with some rot trolls and a pack of grick with a grick alpha. I mean I'd never seen leperous trolls that spread disease, but I'm not a troll doctor either.

A little further in, we found and took down a room of quaggoth and a quaggoth thonot, which is some kind of psionic quaggoth? He had a few nifty tricks, but D-Con figured him out just in time.

The new guy—Gizmo—was holding rear guard with Phash and signalled something was moving in the tunnels to his southeast. Turns out it was a draegloth. It was fast, mean, big as an ogre, with four arms and a lot of legs. Talk about your Underdark horror stories that I would've been happier thinking were just made up. All the benefits of a daemon, lots of the benefits of drow, and they do not go down without a real fight.
We got one killed before the other two could close the distance, but it takes some doing to put a pair of them down.

Close combat with several drider, a number of phase spiders, and a whole hallway of quaggoth. Nothing of note to report.

This place is a maze and I feel like we definitely have been through this room once already. I'm going to have to map this out. Spent a lot of time killing things that I thought we'd killed before, but maybe there's just a LOT of them.

Got a message from a Harper contact, Kalte Snowbound. He'd been paid for a job with a greataxe that he said I needed to see. he was right. I know he's a fighter, not a musician, but since he's a Harper, I traded him that harp we took from Arcturia. I'm pretty sure he'll find someone who wants it.

The group finishes a rest and moves deeper into the next caverns, where they discover swarms of kobolds, including some turned to vampire spawn. A long and tiring fight ensues.

Vampire sapped my strength and stamina, leaving me gassed for the rest of the day. Halleth, Geran, and Aiden extracted me from some of the worst of it. Nasty close quarters scrap with undead. Surprised we took no casualties.
Long Rest, Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[64]]. Dani remains Female

purchased Fritter, the 7-Legged Spider from The Kernel during Liar's Night..
-60 candy corn

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, Sublevel two. D-con and Zayeus stay in the Study to continue searching through the books. Dani, Geran, Tigre, and Orpollo continue to clear the level. In the remaining unexplored room, we are ambushed by a half dozen death slaadi but dispatch them, though we take some wounds.

Proceeding to Sublevel three, we encounter a gargantua set as a guard, but Geran talks our way past. Exploring the western wing of this level, we destroy a balhannoth and find a fine tapestry of long-ago Waterdeep, which Dani chooses to keep for her rooms at The Yawning Portal.

At the end of the hall, we discover a room with 4 pillars that radiate magic from runes of abjuration. Amongst the pillars is a blue dracolich that strikes Dani repeatedly with lightning breath while Geran and Orpollo try to puzzle out why most of our attacks seem to be ineffective against the undead terror. Orpollo works out that the runes are absorbing all but the strongest strikes from Tigre and we set to destroying the pillars in moments.
Though Dani continues to take injuries from the dracolich, it is shattered eventually... though we worry it will reanimate in a few days.

The room the darcolich guarded was the Shadowdusk family vault and it holds thousands of coins and several precious gems.

Found Potion of Cloud Giant Strength

Caverns of Ooze: Met Icthyglurg the Marid and Jaruk the Dao.

Orbiting high above Toril is Stardock, a hollowed-out asteroid used by the Githyanki as a fortress and connected to the Crystal Labyrinth in Undermountain via a magical gate. The ruler of Stardock is a githyanki named Commander Urlon. Urlon hired a 30 or so of us to provide extra security for a conclave he was sponsoring.
It was quiet, easy money for a few days before a massive illithid force attacked. I took off with one set of five while D-con took another. I don't know where Geran, Aidan and Tigre were.

We exploded illithid boreworm attack vessels, prevented an illithid plot to turn Ashtyrranthor, an adult red dragon, against us, and retrieved the Forgotten Phoenix, a skiff destroyed by an astral deadnaught warped by a portal from the Far Realm. A githyanki traitor called Kaaltav attempted to ambush us, but we slew the former githyanki supreme commander.

After a short breather, we regrouped to destroy the illithid nautiloid a spacefaring vessel large than anything I've experienced, doing crippling damage by boarding it and ripping it apart from within. the skiff we used to board the massive ship was destroyed by missile fire, but we were saved from the ship's implosion and the cold of space by a cleverly employed cube of force by the spacer wizard that was on our security detail. It paid well. I'll give them that.

Ganied a Potion of Greater Healing

add potion of vitality, 2 potions of healing