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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.