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.

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.

Combat in the Hall of the Dark Seldarine resumes, with Aidan and Dani holding back the retrievers and giant Lizard mounts while D-con temporarily disappears. After he joined us again, we finished off the last combatants in this room, including a pair of drow elites, a yochlol, and two more retrievers guarding the doors to the south.
(Seriously, Gary. I know we're a very strong party but this is a bit much.)

Aidan dashes back to the prisoners' cage where one of the halfing entertainers has been struck down by it's drow guard. The blessing of the Earthmother grants him the ability to revivfy this poor halfing and give her a second chance at life.

In the next vestibule, we discover another pair of retrievers, another priestess, more elites and a mage. The priestess casts silence in the doorway to foil attempts at counterspelling, but Dani throws the last of her necklace of fireballs into the room, which but one or two of the dozen occupants were able to avoid the full brunt. The priestess' concentration falters and we push in to clear this up.

It takes using about half of our healing potion stores, Dani's Righteous Rage to keeep her fighting when she should've dropped, and every spell the casters had available to finish this room. D-con, Aidan and Dani are all on the verge of collapse from their wounds.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[37]]. Dani wakes up male.

Exploring caverns to attempt an entry from behind the temple of the Spider Queen, we find a few outlying sentriesand a dozen ghouls that must be put down. Discovering the last handful of Muirial's troglodyte mercenaries, Dani deceives them into responding to a hoax threat, clearing them from our path.
Several magical traps were somehow too difficult to avoid, taking out Aidan's earth elemental wildshapes and a good chunk of Dani's health.

We opened a secret door into the temple and opened combat with a moderate fireball (3 remaining beads for 5th level), but will have to contend with silences, cloudkills and a number of other unknown challenges as we attempt to assassinate the matron mother of house Ayrvrundar.

Dani donated her gem-encrusted bowl so that Aidan could cast Heroes' Feast.

Defeating that last remaining guards, we engaged the matron mother of House Arvryandar... but must continue to press the fight if she is to be ended.

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

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 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.

add potion of vitality, 2 potions of healing

Sending her Greataxe +1 to the Bregan D'Arthe Armory. There's really no need to carry two magical greataxes around.

Sold Two Coils of Hempen Rope (+2g), Bought two coils (100 ft) of Silk rope. (-20gp)

-20 hours Season 12C 89 hours total. 49 hours Remaining

Add 30 Downtime days from Season 12C Dm Rewards (Manual of Bodily Health + 30 Downtime Days) (-20 hours)
Added Item, 1 level, and 10K gold from same (Very Rare Reward +10.000gp) (-20 hours)

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.

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, 2nd tier

found a potion of invisibility, scroll of flesh-to-stone

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

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.

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.

Combat in the Hall of the Dark Seldarine resumes, with Aidan and Dani holding back the retrievers and giant Lizard mounts while D-con temporarily disappears. After he joined us again, we finished off the last combatants in this room, including a pair of drow elites, a yochlol, and two more retrievers guarding the doors to the south.
(Seriously, Gary. I know we're a very strong party but this is a bit much.)

Aidan dashes back to the prisoners' cage where one of the halfing entertainers has been struck down by it's drow guard. The blessing of the Earthmother grants him the ability to revivfy this poor halfing and give her a second chance at life.

In the next vestibule, we discover another pair of retrievers, another priestess, more elites and a mage. The priestess casts silence in the doorway to foil attempts at counterspelling, but Dani throws the last of her necklace of fireballs into the room, which but one or two of the dozen occupants were able to avoid the full brunt. The priestess' concentration falters and we push in to clear this up.

It takes using about half of our healing potion stores, Dani's Righteous Rage to keeep her fighting when she should've dropped, and every spell the casters had available to finish this room. D-con, Aidan and Dani are all on the verge of collapse from their wounds.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[37]]. Dani wakes up male.

Exploring caverns to attempt an entry from behind the temple of the Spider Queen, we find a few outlying sentriesand a dozen ghouls that must be put down. Discovering the last handful of Muirial's troglodyte mercenaries, Dani deceives them into responding to a hoax threat, clearing them from our path.
Several magical traps were somehow too difficult to avoid, taking out Aidan's earth elemental wildshapes and a good chunk of Dani's health.

We opened a secret door into the temple and opened combat with a moderate fireball (3 remaining beads for 5th level), but will have to contend with silences, cloudkills and a number of other unknown challenges as we attempt to assassinate the matron mother of house Ayrvrundar.

Dani donated her gem-encrusted bowl so that Aidan could cast Heroes' Feast.

Defeating that last remaining guards, we engaged the matron mother of House Arvryandar... but must continue to press the fight if she is to be ended.

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

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 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.

add potion of vitality, 2 potions of healing

Sending her Greataxe +1 to the Bregan D'Arthe Armory. There's really no need to carry two magical greataxes around.

Sold Two Coils of Hempen Rope (+2g), Bought two coils (100 ft) of Silk rope. (-20gp)

-20 hours Season 12C 89 hours total. 49 hours Remaining

Add 30 Downtime days from Season 12C Dm Rewards (Manual of Bodily Health + 30 Downtime Days) (-20 hours)
Added Item, 1 level, and 10K gold from same (Very Rare Reward +10.000gp) (-20 hours)

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.

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, 2nd tier

found a potion of invisibility, scroll of flesh-to-stone

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