Caverns of Ooze: Met Icthyglurg the Marid and Jaruk the Dao.

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

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.

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, Sublevel 3. Rooms 30b, 31a, 31b. Toe-to-toe combat to destroy 4 death slaadi, 4 gibbering mouthers, 4 star spawn grue, 2 star spawn manglers, 2 eldritch horror hatchlings, and a will o' wisp.

Dani is subjected to the maddening effects of the Far Realm breach. She gains a from of indefinte madness: "I can't take anything seriously. The more serious the situation, the funnier I find it."
Orpollo casts greater restoration on Dani and she gives her two of her misshapen diamonds to replace the diamond dust. (-200gp)

In the next rooms, we face off with the death knight Zalthar Shadowdusk and destroy him utterly. He guards a room with an immense black obelisk within. When we topple the obelisk, we find a small yellow frog trapped within. It speaks to Dani telepathically, saying it's name is Tezca-Zyanya. It does not remember how it came to be trapped in here and hitches a ride on Dani's shoulder while it seeks a way out of Undermountain.

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.

The party finds and destroys Halaster's apprentice Trobriand.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[50]]. Dani wakes up male.

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.

The Logging Camp

Caverns of Ooze: Met Icthyglurg the Marid and Jaruk the Dao.

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

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.

Level 22: Shadowdusk Hold, Sublevel 3. Rooms 30b, 31a, 31b. Toe-to-toe combat to destroy 4 death slaadi, 4 gibbering mouthers, 4 star spawn grue, 2 star spawn manglers, 2 eldritch horror hatchlings, and a will o' wisp.

Dani is subjected to the maddening effects of the Far Realm breach. She gains a from of indefinte madness: "I can't take anything seriously. The more serious the situation, the funnier I find it."
Orpollo casts greater restoration on Dani and she gives her two of her misshapen diamonds to replace the diamond dust. (-200gp)

In the next rooms, we face off with the death knight Zalthar Shadowdusk and destroy him utterly. He guards a room with an immense black obelisk within. When we topple the obelisk, we find a small yellow frog trapped within. It speaks to Dani telepathically, saying it's name is Tezca-Zyanya. It does not remember how it came to be trapped in here and hitches a ride on Dani's shoulder while it seeks a way out of Undermountain.

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.

The party finds and destroys Halaster's apprentice Trobriand.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[50]]. Dani wakes up male.

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.

The Logging Camp