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.

The party continues to wage war on the scores of House Auvryndar forces in the Hall of the Dark Seldarine. In the chaos, one of the drow guarding their prisoners, a band of halfling entertainers called The Sing-Alongs, enters the cage and cuts down a hapless halfing. Aidan wildshapes into the form of an air elemental to cover the distance and save his hin cousins.

We down the last half dozen of their troglodyte brutes, as well as eliminating over a dozen drow warriors, and several pair of Retriever fiend constructs. Many of these are dropped by waves of missiles from Geran's swift quiver, Tigre's precise sneak attacks, and Zayis' barrage of eldritch blasts. The best of the results, though is one of Vlonwelv's youngest daughters, a priestess of the Spider Queen, falling to a combination of Dani's greataxe and D-con's Steel Wind Strike.

The party is still combat effective, but it is beginning to look like we will not have enough in the tank to complete this task in this one day.

The Logging Camp

The band continues to clear the lost level of Undermountain, destroying the duergar raiding band wherever they are found.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[01]]. 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.

Hallath was patient while we rested a bit after the debacle in the privvies. He was really trying. The pacing was steady the whole time we were bandaging up, rehydrating, etc.
Then he was off at a quick jog, trying to work us back through the tunnels to find a way northeast of Rex's room.

We found where the fourth target was holed up. Hallath had told us she was a priestess of Shar.. we didn't know that she'd hired a drow assassin, a dwarven tough, and a blackguard paladin of Shar. It was a tough fight working through and the drow assassin's poisons dropped Danifae for a few seconds, but Aidan pulled her back up and they finished the fight. Halleth completed his task of vengeance as the priestess died and he reclaimed his holy symbol of Waukeen. His vengeance completed, Hallath faded into dust. Aidan & Dani collected his ashes into a phial to be returned to the Church of Waukeen.

Long Rest, Blessing of Corellon = [[78]] Dani remains Female

Proceeding down to the 23rd level of Undermountain, the crew enters the Mad Wizard's Lair. After navigating a few magic traps, they come face to face with Arcturia, the lich and Halaster's apprentice of transmutation magic. She is frightening to look at, but D-Con struck her with a meteor swarm and Geran followed it with a firestorm, destroying her before she could cast anything. Her 12 spitting mimic pets were more trouble than anything she tried to do.

We continue to explore the level known as Murial's Gauntlet. There is a drow temple here, complete with a stone golem effigy of the Spider Queen that we destroyed. The adamantine pick I took from that deurgar several levels above has come in handy for destroying these malevolent statues.
There are, however, two blessed rooms sanctified to Ellistraee.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[63]]. Dani wakes up female.

The party rests the evening in a side passage that D-con makes secure with alarms and a Leomund's Tiny Hut.
Gerand returns to the surface on his own business for a time, and the adventurers continue to explore, finding and eliminating two dozen of House Freth's armsmen.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[82]]. Dani wakes up female.

The band continues to clear the lost level of Undermountain, destroying the duergar raiding band wherever they are found. After breaking down two ancient helmed horrors and exploring the tomb of the ancient Melayrkin King (Melair) the crew recovers the King's corpse (and his ensorcelled sentinel shield), bearing him to the doors of the Vault to open it to us. Inside is just an oracle and another one of Halaster's teleportation arches. We return the King to his resting place and close the secret doors behind us.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[53]]. Dani wakes up female.

Pressing the attack against House Aryvundar's defenses in the courtyard of Murial's gauntlet, we strip the dead of their equipment and retreat to rest in the Yawning Portal.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[14]]. Dani wakes up male.

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.

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.

This dungeon system gets weirder and wierder. Started in a long hallway with the "forcible disassembly" of two animated ballista. They were there to guard [[INFORMATION REDACTED.]] The logistics for the supply line and the contracts on the distribution will take time to arrange, but the benefits are obvious.
We also found a pack (flock?) of owlbears (they tried to eat us), a magic potted plant (it didn't do very much), dragon bones (they didn't do anything at all), and a boring library because the only book that hadn't fallen to scraps was a spellbook. There were some funerary urns and, whatever D-Con does to see magic, he spotted one of them glowing. Had a pouch of magic dust. He says it's only enough for one use.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[53]]. Dani wakes up Female.

The party completes their fight with Halaster, destroying the Mad Mage (temporarily.)

Danifae finds a strangely fashioned pistol amongst the Mad Mage's assortment of oddities and applies her Opal of the Ild Rune to the weapon.

Dani also used the elemental gem (emerald / water) in the final fight with Halaster.

Beyond the temple complex is a series of caves inhabited by three naga, one a dead bone naga and two spirit naga. One of the spirit naga has a Rod of Rulership with which they have charmed a number of weak-willed creaures like several trolls and minotaurs.

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, Sublevel 3. With the dracolich felled and the vault looted, the crew patches Dani up so we can try to locate and secure the dracolich's spirit gem to prevent it being recreated.

In a room with a strange statue that morphed it's appearance, we fought two of the Shadowdusk family: a female who'd turned herself into a death knight and a male archmage who had been turned insectoid by the effects of the Far Realm. They had a slaad, an alpha grick, and some Far Realm creatures summoned to make the room more formidable.
In the fight against the greater star spawn emissary, Dani relied on her Rage Beyond Death ability for the first time.
With half the party seriously wounded, D-con and Geran cast Invisibility on us so we could retreat, take the portal network back to The Yawning Portal adn Waterdeep, and rest before we attempt another attack against the ignoble House of Shadowdusk and their Far Realm allies.

Gained potion of healing
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[71]]. Dani wakes up female.

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.

The party continues to wage war on the scores of House Auvryndar forces in the Hall of the Dark Seldarine. In the chaos, one of the drow guarding their prisoners, a band of halfling entertainers called The Sing-Alongs, enters the cage and cuts down a hapless halfing. Aidan wildshapes into the form of an air elemental to cover the distance and save his hin cousins.

We down the last half dozen of their troglodyte brutes, as well as eliminating over a dozen drow warriors, and several pair of Retriever fiend constructs. Many of these are dropped by waves of missiles from Geran's swift quiver, Tigre's precise sneak attacks, and Zayis' barrage of eldritch blasts. The best of the results, though is one of Vlonwelv's youngest daughters, a priestess of the Spider Queen, falling to a combination of Dani's greataxe and D-con's Steel Wind Strike.

The party is still combat effective, but it is beginning to look like we will not have enough in the tank to complete this task in this one day.

The Logging Camp

The band continues to clear the lost level of Undermountain, destroying the duergar raiding band wherever they are found.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[01]]. 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.

Hallath was patient while we rested a bit after the debacle in the privvies. He was really trying. The pacing was steady the whole time we were bandaging up, rehydrating, etc.
Then he was off at a quick jog, trying to work us back through the tunnels to find a way northeast of Rex's room.

We found where the fourth target was holed up. Hallath had told us she was a priestess of Shar.. we didn't know that she'd hired a drow assassin, a dwarven tough, and a blackguard paladin of Shar. It was a tough fight working through and the drow assassin's poisons dropped Danifae for a few seconds, but Aidan pulled her back up and they finished the fight. Halleth completed his task of vengeance as the priestess died and he reclaimed his holy symbol of Waukeen. His vengeance completed, Hallath faded into dust. Aidan & Dani collected his ashes into a phial to be returned to the Church of Waukeen.

Long Rest, Blessing of Corellon = [[78]] Dani remains Female

Proceeding down to the 23rd level of Undermountain, the crew enters the Mad Wizard's Lair. After navigating a few magic traps, they come face to face with Arcturia, the lich and Halaster's apprentice of transmutation magic. She is frightening to look at, but D-Con struck her with a meteor swarm and Geran followed it with a firestorm, destroying her before she could cast anything. Her 12 spitting mimic pets were more trouble than anything she tried to do.

We continue to explore the level known as Murial's Gauntlet. There is a drow temple here, complete with a stone golem effigy of the Spider Queen that we destroyed. The adamantine pick I took from that deurgar several levels above has come in handy for destroying these malevolent statues.
There are, however, two blessed rooms sanctified to Ellistraee.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[63]]. Dani wakes up female.

The party rests the evening in a side passage that D-con makes secure with alarms and a Leomund's Tiny Hut.
Gerand returns to the surface on his own business for a time, and the adventurers continue to explore, finding and eliminating two dozen of House Freth's armsmen.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[82]]. Dani wakes up female.

The band continues to clear the lost level of Undermountain, destroying the duergar raiding band wherever they are found. After breaking down two ancient helmed horrors and exploring the tomb of the ancient Melayrkin King (Melair) the crew recovers the King's corpse (and his ensorcelled sentinel shield), bearing him to the doors of the Vault to open it to us. Inside is just an oracle and another one of Halaster's teleportation arches. We return the King to his resting place and close the secret doors behind us.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[53]]. Dani wakes up female.

Pressing the attack against House Aryvundar's defenses in the courtyard of Murial's gauntlet, we strip the dead of their equipment and retreat to rest in the Yawning Portal.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[14]]. Dani wakes up male.

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.

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.

This dungeon system gets weirder and wierder. Started in a long hallway with the "forcible disassembly" of two animated ballista. They were there to guard [[INFORMATION REDACTED.]] The logistics for the supply line and the contracts on the distribution will take time to arrange, but the benefits are obvious.
We also found a pack (flock?) of owlbears (they tried to eat us), a magic potted plant (it didn't do very much), dragon bones (they didn't do anything at all), and a boring library because the only book that hadn't fallen to scraps was a spellbook. There were some funerary urns and, whatever D-Con does to see magic, he spotted one of them glowing. Had a pouch of magic dust. He says it's only enough for one use.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[53]]. Dani wakes up Female.

The party completes their fight with Halaster, destroying the Mad Mage (temporarily.)

Danifae finds a strangely fashioned pistol amongst the Mad Mage's assortment of oddities and applies her Opal of the Ild Rune to the weapon.

Dani also used the elemental gem (emerald / water) in the final fight with Halaster.

Beyond the temple complex is a series of caves inhabited by three naga, one a dead bone naga and two spirit naga. One of the spirit naga has a Rod of Rulership with which they have charmed a number of weak-willed creaures like several trolls and minotaurs.

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, Sublevel 3. With the dracolich felled and the vault looted, the crew patches Dani up so we can try to locate and secure the dracolich's spirit gem to prevent it being recreated.

In a room with a strange statue that morphed it's appearance, we fought two of the Shadowdusk family: a female who'd turned herself into a death knight and a male archmage who had been turned insectoid by the effects of the Far Realm. They had a slaad, an alpha grick, and some Far Realm creatures summoned to make the room more formidable.
In the fight against the greater star spawn emissary, Dani relied on her Rage Beyond Death ability for the first time.
With half the party seriously wounded, D-con and Geran cast Invisibility on us so we could retreat, take the portal network back to The Yawning Portal adn Waterdeep, and rest before we attempt another attack against the ignoble House of Shadowdusk and their Far Realm allies.

Gained potion of healing
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[71]]. Dani wakes up female.