Discovered a dozen or so Drow all of one House (House symbol not identified yet) had desecrated a temple to Dumathoin and using it as a temple to the Spider Queen. This was obviously the source of all of the driders and who the quaggoths and phase spiders were protecting. The priestess, mage, and house captain evacuated via teleportation magic, but we cleared the rest of them, including the yochlol she summoned.

After resting we searched the nearby areas, finding a vein of pyrite along with some chunks of ore in one of the Quaggoth rooms and the house drow elites had some weapons in good enough condition for resale.
We unfortunately also found 4 prisoners who were likely killed in their cells while we were in the combat in the next room. We did find Myra Moonshadow, a sun elf wizard locked in another room, but uninjured. She seems a little too interested in the ancient history of the drow's flight into the Underdark. Geran and Aidan are unnerved by her. I'll stay wary too.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[43]]. Dani wakes up male.

We cleared out a House Auvrandyr torture center / pleasure room adjacent to where the priestess was performing her sacrifices, taking two females of House Auvrandyr prisoner. Their gear is forfeit as is those of their family and warriors that we killed. Both women gave us information to secure their safe-conduct to Skullport and being ransomed rather than executed.
We learned that there is a sea hag coven on this level and that House A intends to invade Skullport. We'll need to reduce their forces further to prevent the attack giving Bregan d'Arthe a fourth front to fight on in Skullport. Moving on, we then cleared Driders from a hallway, one who dropped Dani into unconciousness for a few seconds. They hit hard. Where this tunnel intersects the river, we found a puzzle scratched into the rock. It indicates if we walk up the Saurgath River, we can find pirate treasure, but downstream is Skullport.

Heading northeast, we have discovered a small tunnel where a ritual summoning was performed. Several Barlgura guard the treasure. We moved in to engage them.

One of the more interesting evenings we had on the first few levels of Undermountain. Geran's Hypnotic Pattern put 3 of 5 Barlguras into a stupor, allowing us to focus on one of the demons and destroy them without taking much in the way of injuries. In a chest that was rigged up and hidden in the ceiling, we found a modest treasure in coin and valuables hidden by the pirate captain the riddle downstream mentioned. The Captain was a mouldering skeleton, so we're going to keep an eye on his legacy for him.

Down stream, we discovered a coven of Sea Hags. All three were civil, even if they did not extend the gifts of Hospitality, but we shortly learned that they had been predictably deceptive in their true answers. They had not eaten a humanoid in quite some time as they'd sworn, but we did find a young lad of about twelve, Devlin Stormshore, chained up in a room they obviously used as a larder. There was a nasty, foul-mouthed and poorly-mannered little goblin there. I didn't catch his name, because he resumed hurling verbal abuse and casual cruelty at the lad Devlin and Aidan of all people executed the mean little creature on the spot. Imolated him while the little bastard was manacled to the wall. I didn't know he had it in him.

The hags came rushing in behind with their pet giant crab familiars, obviously intent on preventing our emancipating the boy. Another Fantastically timed Hypnotic Pattern from Geran and we were able to destroy them one at a time with great ease. They'd amassed another modest collection of treasure, though guarded by the figurehead of a ship that screamed bloody murder at us for taking it. The coins and gems seem just fine.

Gained 1 potion of water breathing
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[37]]. Dani wakes up male.

The crew pushes in to cut down the Auvrandyr drow priestess of the spider queen, slaying several of her drow retainers and capturing the house captain of her guard in the process. Dani thought leaving the traitorous Marta Moonshadow caged was no bother to Dani, but Geran and the others insisted on trussing her up and taking her with the other prisoners.

While clearing the remainder of the abandoned dwarven buildings where Auvrandyr had made camp for the invasion of Skullport, we discovered a strange room with some kind of magic fish on the wall. Geran solved the puzzle and collected a Elemental gem (emerald / water). In yet another building, we freed a captured drider (who has happily joined us since we have already accepted Norreed into our company) and a drow cook named Rizryn. Now that he is houseless (and seeing his two compatriots die quickly when they attacked D-Con), the cook decided signing on with Bregan D'arthe sounded like a great idea.

Bringing our coterie of followers and prisoners of war, we continued water walking down the Sargauth River, courtesy of Aiden's ritual magic, when we discovered three middle-sized ships full of Zhentarim Thugs and Zhentarim Martial Arts Adepts attacking Skull Island, a section of Skullport held by the Xanathar's Guild's Thugs.
Enemy of our Enemy and all, we chose to take down the ships rather than allow the Xanathar's Guild a stronger presence in the town.

At last count, one boat was burning within a wall of flame, another had begun to spew keelboats full of Zhent thugs to attack us, with some faerie fired and others incapacitated from Geran's hypnotic pattern, while a trio of other thugs were dealing with Aiden in Giant Octopus wild shape. Things are not looking good for the Zhent's assault, despite one ship's worth of keelboats landing on the shore and readying to assault the fortress wall.
Gained 1 potion of healing

Approaching Skullport, the party encounters an invasion by Zhentarim thugs and martial artists against Skull Island, the harbor defenses of Skullport. Aided by Aidan & D-Con's waterwalking, we surprised the invaders, taking many of them hostage. They were turned over to Bregan d'Arthe aborad Jarlaxle's ship.

After dropping off the prisoners of war and reconnecting the three bregan d'arthe members recovered to the garrison around SKullport, we resupplied and recuperated a short while before moving back into the caves.
Purchased a Shield from the Bregan d'arthe armory. (-10g)

Cleaned out a chimera nest, recovering a small pile of coin. Encountered the posted guards of the hobgoblin Legion of Azrok. His captain and partner, Lurana, promised 1,000gp and free passage through their desmense if we hunt down duergar thieves of Clan Ironeye who stole Azrok's dagger of blindsight. They were last seen stopping in for resupply at a tavern called The Black Tankard before heading deeper into Undermountain.
The next morning, the party shops at the "Gob Gobbler" the trading post for the Legion of Azrok. D-Con and Geran note that the proprieter, Kinrob, received a delivered parcel. Geran figured out that the bundle was an infant goblinoid. D-con and Aidan spirited the bundle away, but the shopkeeper noted the missing lunch parcel and confronted Geran & Dani as he shapechanges back into his true form as an oni!
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[82]]. Dani wakes up female.

The shopkeeper is an oni. What the hell? Thankfully, Geran decided to respond to this new threat by casting greater invisibility on Dani and then retreating to shoot from cover. Between D-Con's defensive magics and Dani being invisible, the oni never scored a wound on either of them before they destroyed it. Geran and Tigre talked our way out of the mess with the hobgoblin captain of the watch, who didn't take kindly to one of the bugbears feeding goblin children to an oni.

As we began to hunt through lower Skullport looking for a trail to follow the IronEye clan and retrieve Azrok's dagger, we ended up in a tavern brawl with a deurgar and spectator that work for the fish (Xanathatr's guild) and as we emerged from the back door of the Black Tankard, we were accosted by a dozen Thayan warriors. We neutralized them and continued out of Skullport until we regrouped on the edge of town and prepped to descend to the 4th level.

Descending into the fourth level, we encounter a pair of ettin and a tunnel of piercers. We meet a mad human calling themselves The Alchemist. They offer us potions of their invention in exchange for materials gathered from elsewhere in Undermountain and a warning about drow posted to the east.
The party avoids a conflict with a number of Xorn and close in on this remaining force from House Aruvyndar when we encounter a room with a half dozen ropers.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[09]]. Dani wakes up male.

Past the hallway of ropers, the party meets Darribeth Meltimer, a Chondathan mage. After a short discussion, it becomes clear she has been down here too long and has become a little bit mad, discussing everything with her toad. Aidan and DCon begin to suspect the toad familiar is not what it seems. DCon destroys the quasit-in-toad-shape with a burst of magic missiles. Though this traumatises the poor mage a bit, it does allow the party to convince her to return to the surface. A visit to the Hospice of St. Laupinn, a temple of Ilmater, and a donation from DCon provides a greater restoration for Danibeth, restoring her sanity.
Dani sponsors Daribeth's coach fare back to Amphail to find her wife and Daribeth gifts Dani a rope of climbing in return.

Returning to the caverns we prowl through until we are ambushed by a pair of House Aryvndar sentries and a number of quaggoth. The sentries make good use of their innate spells, but we win through, moving in to destroy the outpost on the other side.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[10]]. Dani wakes up male.

We continued to search the 4th level for a passage downward, but ultimately decided that the only way to proceed lower into Undermountain was the River Sargauth. WE found a couple toolsets in the possession of a trio of driders that we dispatched, but the rest of the day was a snooze.

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.

Moving into the 6th level of Undermountain, we find the umber hulk tunnel leads into a series of passages and chambers built by the Melairkyn dwarves as a temple to Dumathoin. Aidan uses locate object to confirm that the dagger of blindsight and the deurgar thieves. A hard fought, pitched battle begins against a dozen deurgar and several cloakers, but in the end the party evicts them from the High Temple, recovering Azrock's dagger and a small fortune in valuables the dark dwarves had pillaged from this once great dwarven stronghold.

The crew explores the last of the lost level, with a tense fight against 4 umber hulks and three minotaurs that saw Nocreth seconds away from death. Danni also flirted with her demise when a behir struck her with its lightning breath TWICE.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[53]]. Dani wakes up female.

The party explores Maggdoth's Castle and the level surrounding it. We encounter some stone giants, one of which Dani arm wrestles and wins.

Upon entering the Slitherswamp, D-Con blunders right into a bullywug patrol, which leads to a running fight spread across the caverns, including bullywug, giant toads, giant frogs, carrion crawlers

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[94]]. Dani wakes up female.

Finished off the bullywug onslaught, including a handful of giant crocodiles.

Dani, infected with the cursed disease of an aboleth, is taken back from the Slitherswamp to visit Wyllow the archdruid in Level 5: the Wyllowwood. Wyllow casts Heal to remove the aboleth's skin disease from Dani in exchange for 1,600 gold total, 800 of it donated by other party members. Dani rendered her payment with 75 10gp gems: 60 blue quartz chunks, 6 banded agate, and 9 moss agates.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[87]]. Dani wakes up female.

We destroyed a laboratory built by the scorpion man, Muiral, saving the adventurers trapped there for his experiments. We also looted an ancient dining hall and found the scorpion man's stash of extra-spell components. It is insane that this feels normal.

Through the next doors, the crew discovered a shrine to Eilistraee and Danifae spent a few moments in prayer. Placing a sword in the statue's hand, it began to dance, then pointed to the East by southeast. Dani, D-con, and Aidan were given a minor charm from the statue, the ability to cast bless (1st level) once.
Setting our path in that SxSE direction, we began to clear rooms. In a Ballroom, they encountered two mutated drow, science experiments crossed with giant spiders. Hideous things that could turn to vapor, but died easily enough.

The next hallway led to an encounter with four drow guards, one of which, Sornssnozz, turned on his compatriots, telling us he was a plant by House Freth. He also warned us of an ambush by three phase spiders in that same room, so he's already proved valuable.

Sorn is working with a House Freth Assassin and has agreed to introduce us so we can ally together to wipe out the rest of House Aryuvndar on this floor... include Matron Mother Aryuvndar. He says she has an enormous number of demons and elites guarding her. It is sure to be a challenge.

But first he showed us into a very nice guest quarters and dining room that had clean, working plumbing. I have missed certain creature comforts from Waterdeep while stalking these hallways. D-con, Geran, and Danifae are already hatching a scheme to turn these guest quarters into our forward operating base for the rest of our delving into Undermountain.

The House Freth infiltration team of Sornozz and Xaraann A'Daragon brief us on the presence of a fight club down the hallway. It is supposed to be a location for the honorable practive and drill of combat techniques, but Drinrith —Matron Auvryndar's niece—is haughtily beating down weakened males for her own sport.

Xaraann and Danifae approach to engage Drinrith in a duel, but the party fails to stick to the plan, dropping Hypnotic pattern and a fireball on us. Xarraan is livid, as he should be, and Aidan expends some rapidly depleting healing to bring the Freth agent back to fighting shape and to placate his ire.

In the next room, we discover an interrogation chamber, where Drinrith's consort and a pair of drow elites are torturing Tazirahc Oussar, a Freth conspiritor. We dispatch the elites, but D-con takes Kereth the warlock into custody, despite Dani's protestations.

Discovered a scroll of hold person in the servants' quarters on that hallway.

Discovered a dozen or so Drow all of one House (House symbol not identified yet) had desecrated a temple to Dumathoin and using it as a temple to the Spider Queen. This was obviously the source of all of the driders and who the quaggoths and phase spiders were protecting. The priestess, mage, and house captain evacuated via teleportation magic, but we cleared the rest of them, including the yochlol she summoned.

After resting we searched the nearby areas, finding a vein of pyrite along with some chunks of ore in one of the Quaggoth rooms and the house drow elites had some weapons in good enough condition for resale.
We unfortunately also found 4 prisoners who were likely killed in their cells while we were in the combat in the next room. We did find Myra Moonshadow, a sun elf wizard locked in another room, but uninjured. She seems a little too interested in the ancient history of the drow's flight into the Underdark. Geran and Aidan are unnerved by her. I'll stay wary too.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[43]]. Dani wakes up male.

We cleared out a House Auvrandyr torture center / pleasure room adjacent to where the priestess was performing her sacrifices, taking two females of House Auvrandyr prisoner. Their gear is forfeit as is those of their family and warriors that we killed. Both women gave us information to secure their safe-conduct to Skullport and being ransomed rather than executed.
We learned that there is a sea hag coven on this level and that House A intends to invade Skullport. We'll need to reduce their forces further to prevent the attack giving Bregan d'Arthe a fourth front to fight on in Skullport. Moving on, we then cleared Driders from a hallway, one who dropped Dani into unconciousness for a few seconds. They hit hard. Where this tunnel intersects the river, we found a puzzle scratched into the rock. It indicates if we walk up the Saurgath River, we can find pirate treasure, but downstream is Skullport.

Heading northeast, we have discovered a small tunnel where a ritual summoning was performed. Several Barlgura guard the treasure. We moved in to engage them.

One of the more interesting evenings we had on the first few levels of Undermountain. Geran's Hypnotic Pattern put 3 of 5 Barlguras into a stupor, allowing us to focus on one of the demons and destroy them without taking much in the way of injuries. In a chest that was rigged up and hidden in the ceiling, we found a modest treasure in coin and valuables hidden by the pirate captain the riddle downstream mentioned. The Captain was a mouldering skeleton, so we're going to keep an eye on his legacy for him.

Down stream, we discovered a coven of Sea Hags. All three were civil, even if they did not extend the gifts of Hospitality, but we shortly learned that they had been predictably deceptive in their true answers. They had not eaten a humanoid in quite some time as they'd sworn, but we did find a young lad of about twelve, Devlin Stormshore, chained up in a room they obviously used as a larder. There was a nasty, foul-mouthed and poorly-mannered little goblin there. I didn't catch his name, because he resumed hurling verbal abuse and casual cruelty at the lad Devlin and Aidan of all people executed the mean little creature on the spot. Imolated him while the little bastard was manacled to the wall. I didn't know he had it in him.

The hags came rushing in behind with their pet giant crab familiars, obviously intent on preventing our emancipating the boy. Another Fantastically timed Hypnotic Pattern from Geran and we were able to destroy them one at a time with great ease. They'd amassed another modest collection of treasure, though guarded by the figurehead of a ship that screamed bloody murder at us for taking it. The coins and gems seem just fine.

Gained 1 potion of water breathing
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[37]]. Dani wakes up male.

The crew pushes in to cut down the Auvrandyr drow priestess of the spider queen, slaying several of her drow retainers and capturing the house captain of her guard in the process. Dani thought leaving the traitorous Marta Moonshadow caged was no bother to Dani, but Geran and the others insisted on trussing her up and taking her with the other prisoners.

While clearing the remainder of the abandoned dwarven buildings where Auvrandyr had made camp for the invasion of Skullport, we discovered a strange room with some kind of magic fish on the wall. Geran solved the puzzle and collected a Elemental gem (emerald / water). In yet another building, we freed a captured drider (who has happily joined us since we have already accepted Norreed into our company) and a drow cook named Rizryn. Now that he is houseless (and seeing his two compatriots die quickly when they attacked D-Con), the cook decided signing on with Bregan D'arthe sounded like a great idea.

Bringing our coterie of followers and prisoners of war, we continued water walking down the Sargauth River, courtesy of Aiden's ritual magic, when we discovered three middle-sized ships full of Zhentarim Thugs and Zhentarim Martial Arts Adepts attacking Skull Island, a section of Skullport held by the Xanathar's Guild's Thugs.
Enemy of our Enemy and all, we chose to take down the ships rather than allow the Xanathar's Guild a stronger presence in the town.

At last count, one boat was burning within a wall of flame, another had begun to spew keelboats full of Zhent thugs to attack us, with some faerie fired and others incapacitated from Geran's hypnotic pattern, while a trio of other thugs were dealing with Aiden in Giant Octopus wild shape. Things are not looking good for the Zhent's assault, despite one ship's worth of keelboats landing on the shore and readying to assault the fortress wall.
Gained 1 potion of healing

Approaching Skullport, the party encounters an invasion by Zhentarim thugs and martial artists against Skull Island, the harbor defenses of Skullport. Aided by Aidan & D-Con's waterwalking, we surprised the invaders, taking many of them hostage. They were turned over to Bregan d'Arthe aborad Jarlaxle's ship.

After dropping off the prisoners of war and reconnecting the three bregan d'arthe members recovered to the garrison around SKullport, we resupplied and recuperated a short while before moving back into the caves.
Purchased a Shield from the Bregan d'arthe armory. (-10g)

Cleaned out a chimera nest, recovering a small pile of coin. Encountered the posted guards of the hobgoblin Legion of Azrok. His captain and partner, Lurana, promised 1,000gp and free passage through their desmense if we hunt down duergar thieves of Clan Ironeye who stole Azrok's dagger of blindsight. They were last seen stopping in for resupply at a tavern called The Black Tankard before heading deeper into Undermountain.
The next morning, the party shops at the "Gob Gobbler" the trading post for the Legion of Azrok. D-Con and Geran note that the proprieter, Kinrob, received a delivered parcel. Geran figured out that the bundle was an infant goblinoid. D-con and Aidan spirited the bundle away, but the shopkeeper noted the missing lunch parcel and confronted Geran & Dani as he shapechanges back into his true form as an oni!
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[82]]. Dani wakes up female.

The shopkeeper is an oni. What the hell? Thankfully, Geran decided to respond to this new threat by casting greater invisibility on Dani and then retreating to shoot from cover. Between D-Con's defensive magics and Dani being invisible, the oni never scored a wound on either of them before they destroyed it. Geran and Tigre talked our way out of the mess with the hobgoblin captain of the watch, who didn't take kindly to one of the bugbears feeding goblin children to an oni.

As we began to hunt through lower Skullport looking for a trail to follow the IronEye clan and retrieve Azrok's dagger, we ended up in a tavern brawl with a deurgar and spectator that work for the fish (Xanathatr's guild) and as we emerged from the back door of the Black Tankard, we were accosted by a dozen Thayan warriors. We neutralized them and continued out of Skullport until we regrouped on the edge of town and prepped to descend to the 4th level.

Descending into the fourth level, we encounter a pair of ettin and a tunnel of piercers. We meet a mad human calling themselves The Alchemist. They offer us potions of their invention in exchange for materials gathered from elsewhere in Undermountain and a warning about drow posted to the east.
The party avoids a conflict with a number of Xorn and close in on this remaining force from House Aruvyndar when we encounter a room with a half dozen ropers.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[09]]. Dani wakes up male.

Past the hallway of ropers, the party meets Darribeth Meltimer, a Chondathan mage. After a short discussion, it becomes clear she has been down here too long and has become a little bit mad, discussing everything with her toad. Aidan and DCon begin to suspect the toad familiar is not what it seems. DCon destroys the quasit-in-toad-shape with a burst of magic missiles. Though this traumatises the poor mage a bit, it does allow the party to convince her to return to the surface. A visit to the Hospice of St. Laupinn, a temple of Ilmater, and a donation from DCon provides a greater restoration for Danibeth, restoring her sanity.
Dani sponsors Daribeth's coach fare back to Amphail to find her wife and Daribeth gifts Dani a rope of climbing in return.

Returning to the caverns we prowl through until we are ambushed by a pair of House Aryvndar sentries and a number of quaggoth. The sentries make good use of their innate spells, but we win through, moving in to destroy the outpost on the other side.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[10]]. Dani wakes up male.

We continued to search the 4th level for a passage downward, but ultimately decided that the only way to proceed lower into Undermountain was the River Sargauth. WE found a couple toolsets in the possession of a trio of driders that we dispatched, but the rest of the day was a snooze.

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.

Moving into the 6th level of Undermountain, we find the umber hulk tunnel leads into a series of passages and chambers built by the Melairkyn dwarves as a temple to Dumathoin. Aidan uses locate object to confirm that the dagger of blindsight and the deurgar thieves. A hard fought, pitched battle begins against a dozen deurgar and several cloakers, but in the end the party evicts them from the High Temple, recovering Azrock's dagger and a small fortune in valuables the dark dwarves had pillaged from this once great dwarven stronghold.

The crew explores the last of the lost level, with a tense fight against 4 umber hulks and three minotaurs that saw Nocreth seconds away from death. Danni also flirted with her demise when a behir struck her with its lightning breath TWICE.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[53]]. Dani wakes up female.

The party explores Maggdoth's Castle and the level surrounding it. We encounter some stone giants, one of which Dani arm wrestles and wins.

Upon entering the Slitherswamp, D-Con blunders right into a bullywug patrol, which leads to a running fight spread across the caverns, including bullywug, giant toads, giant frogs, carrion crawlers

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[94]]. Dani wakes up female.

Finished off the bullywug onslaught, including a handful of giant crocodiles.

Dani, infected with the cursed disease of an aboleth, is taken back from the Slitherswamp to visit Wyllow the archdruid in Level 5: the Wyllowwood. Wyllow casts Heal to remove the aboleth's skin disease from Dani in exchange for 1,600 gold total, 800 of it donated by other party members. Dani rendered her payment with 75 10gp gems: 60 blue quartz chunks, 6 banded agate, and 9 moss agates.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[87]]. Dani wakes up female.

We destroyed a laboratory built by the scorpion man, Muiral, saving the adventurers trapped there for his experiments. We also looted an ancient dining hall and found the scorpion man's stash of extra-spell components. It is insane that this feels normal.

Through the next doors, the crew discovered a shrine to Eilistraee and Danifae spent a few moments in prayer. Placing a sword in the statue's hand, it began to dance, then pointed to the East by southeast. Dani, D-con, and Aidan were given a minor charm from the statue, the ability to cast bless (1st level) once.
Setting our path in that SxSE direction, we began to clear rooms. In a Ballroom, they encountered two mutated drow, science experiments crossed with giant spiders. Hideous things that could turn to vapor, but died easily enough.

The next hallway led to an encounter with four drow guards, one of which, Sornssnozz, turned on his compatriots, telling us he was a plant by House Freth. He also warned us of an ambush by three phase spiders in that same room, so he's already proved valuable.

Sorn is working with a House Freth Assassin and has agreed to introduce us so we can ally together to wipe out the rest of House Aryuvndar on this floor... include Matron Mother Aryuvndar. He says she has an enormous number of demons and elites guarding her. It is sure to be a challenge.

But first he showed us into a very nice guest quarters and dining room that had clean, working plumbing. I have missed certain creature comforts from Waterdeep while stalking these hallways. D-con, Geran, and Danifae are already hatching a scheme to turn these guest quarters into our forward operating base for the rest of our delving into Undermountain.

The House Freth infiltration team of Sornozz and Xaraann A'Daragon brief us on the presence of a fight club down the hallway. It is supposed to be a location for the honorable practive and drill of combat techniques, but Drinrith —Matron Auvryndar's niece—is haughtily beating down weakened males for her own sport.

Xaraann and Danifae approach to engage Drinrith in a duel, but the party fails to stick to the plan, dropping Hypnotic pattern and a fireball on us. Xarraan is livid, as he should be, and Aidan expends some rapidly depleting healing to bring the Freth agent back to fighting shape and to placate his ire.

In the next room, we discover an interrogation chamber, where Drinrith's consort and a pair of drow elites are torturing Tazirahc Oussar, a Freth conspiritor. We dispatch the elites, but D-con takes Kereth the warlock into custody, despite Dani's protestations.

Discovered a scroll of hold person in the servants' quarters on that hallway.