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

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.

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.

The Logging Camp

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.

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.

Two House Freth casters are executed. In the maze-like tunnels beyond, we find a cavern of minotaur attempting to summon Baphomet. The leader carries a strange war horn that Dani chooses to keep with her.

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

Cleared out bandits, bugbears, goblins, grells, a trio of brain puppies, and similar nuisance monsters. Personal effects indicate a number of the goblinoids were employed by the Xanathar. Recovered a passcode for a Xanathar Shield Guardian at the Stairs access to 2nd level. Passcode is "Sylgar." The name of his goldfish? Everyone knows that.

D-Con and Dani allied our group with a revenant of Halleth Garke. Friar Garke was a 5th level priest of Waukeen, but was betrayed by a fairly amatuer adventuring party. Stole his holy symbol and weapons, broke his limbs, and pushed him into an abandoned well. Unprofessionally grisly, cruel, and left behind one very pissed off loose end. Halleth has been a huge help as rearguard, sentry, and protecting our flanks.

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)

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.

Dani rejoined the crew to delve into Shadowdusk Hold. We cut up some grell and nothics, learned about how the Shadowdusks used to be an important Waterdhavian family, and how most of them seem to be Far Realm-twisted insane mages. We've cleared the first floor of Shadowdusk Hold of aggressive creatures and are proceeding to the second floor.

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.

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.

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.

The crew dented and broke up some flying cutlery & cookware in an abandoned kitchen, raided a wizard's bedchamber for some blank books, and then—following Halleth's lead toward one of the 4 "Fine Fellows of Daggerford" adventurers that murdered him on the floor above—cleared out a slavery operation run by Yek the Tall, saving 8 humans and half-elves. D-Con removed Yek's Circlet of Human Perfection, revealing that Yek was actually a goblin. The treacherous miscreant had lied to us about keeping slaves. I stove his head nearly in with the haft of my axe and left him to the bugbear's entertainment for justice. We do not abide depriving peacable humanoids of their right to be free.

The freed men and women were healed and fed (wish I could cast goodberry), then escorted back to the lift up to the Yawning Portal. We're keeping the priesthood that patronizes the place quite busy with basilisk-victim depetrifying and fattening up starved slaves and the like.
The adventurer Copper Stormforge (NE male shield dwarf scout), formerly of the Fine Fellows of Daggerford did not fare as well and perished while in the torture devices of Yek the Tall. Technically. Cause of death: pissed-off revenant's holy justice.

Our ecletic crew continued to explore the Arcane Chambers of the second level, finding a lot of trash, but also a mage named Rizzeryl (NE drow mage, male and of no house.) & quasit familiar (that I split in twain like all demons should be), a pack of wererats (don't look at me, I want'd to put them all down. 'Twas Geran that insisted on removing the curse on the trio caught in his hypnotic pattern.), but also some half dozen rust monsters, and a zombified beholder.

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

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.

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.

The Logging Camp

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.

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.

Two House Freth casters are executed. In the maze-like tunnels beyond, we find a cavern of minotaur attempting to summon Baphomet. The leader carries a strange war horn that Dani chooses to keep with her.

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

Cleared out bandits, bugbears, goblins, grells, a trio of brain puppies, and similar nuisance monsters. Personal effects indicate a number of the goblinoids were employed by the Xanathar. Recovered a passcode for a Xanathar Shield Guardian at the Stairs access to 2nd level. Passcode is "Sylgar." The name of his goldfish? Everyone knows that.

D-Con and Dani allied our group with a revenant of Halleth Garke. Friar Garke was a 5th level priest of Waukeen, but was betrayed by a fairly amatuer adventuring party. Stole his holy symbol and weapons, broke his limbs, and pushed him into an abandoned well. Unprofessionally grisly, cruel, and left behind one very pissed off loose end. Halleth has been a huge help as rearguard, sentry, and protecting our flanks.

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)

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.

Dani rejoined the crew to delve into Shadowdusk Hold. We cut up some grell and nothics, learned about how the Shadowdusks used to be an important Waterdhavian family, and how most of them seem to be Far Realm-twisted insane mages. We've cleared the first floor of Shadowdusk Hold of aggressive creatures and are proceeding to the second floor.

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.

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.

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.

The crew dented and broke up some flying cutlery & cookware in an abandoned kitchen, raided a wizard's bedchamber for some blank books, and then—following Halleth's lead toward one of the 4 "Fine Fellows of Daggerford" adventurers that murdered him on the floor above—cleared out a slavery operation run by Yek the Tall, saving 8 humans and half-elves. D-Con removed Yek's Circlet of Human Perfection, revealing that Yek was actually a goblin. The treacherous miscreant had lied to us about keeping slaves. I stove his head nearly in with the haft of my axe and left him to the bugbear's entertainment for justice. We do not abide depriving peacable humanoids of their right to be free.

The freed men and women were healed and fed (wish I could cast goodberry), then escorted back to the lift up to the Yawning Portal. We're keeping the priesthood that patronizes the place quite busy with basilisk-victim depetrifying and fattening up starved slaves and the like.
The adventurer Copper Stormforge (NE male shield dwarf scout), formerly of the Fine Fellows of Daggerford did not fare as well and perished while in the torture devices of Yek the Tall. Technically. Cause of death: pissed-off revenant's holy justice.

Our ecletic crew continued to explore the Arcane Chambers of the second level, finding a lot of trash, but also a mage named Rizzeryl (NE drow mage, male and of no house.) & quasit familiar (that I split in twain like all demons should be), a pack of wererats (don't look at me, I want'd to put them all down. 'Twas Geran that insisted on removing the curse on the trio caught in his hypnotic pattern.), but also some half dozen rust monsters, and a zombified beholder.