The group finishes a rest and moves deeper into the next caverns, where they discover swarms of kobolds, including some turned to vampire spawn. A long and tiring fight ensues.

Vampire sapped my strength and stamina, leaving me gassed for the rest of the day. Halleth, Geran, and Aiden extracted me from some of the worst of it. Nasty close quarters scrap with undead. Surprised we took no casualties.
Long Rest, Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[64]]. Dani remains Female

So. many. kobolds. How do they all fit in such tiny rooms. It's like they never end. We finished camping 3 hours ago and we already are headed back to fortify and sleep. Didn't even find any coin or salvage. Definitely not our best day.

More mop up duty. A room with a cold rune and nothing else within. Put down a zombified beholder and a Xanathar Guild-run pit fighting ring. They didn't have two coppers on the lot of them. Guess they were betting for chores.

A hallway full of petrified statues, one of which was a damn mind flayer and D-Con went and woke it up. It messed with my head something awful, but never got close enough to really do more than give me the nastiest stun I've had in ages. A bunch of other unfortunate souls were reverted back from stone. Some goats, a wererat, two Bregan D'arthe junior operatives. So green behind the ears they were still carrying their equipment from Menzobarrenzan. Oh also restored a pretty tough lizardman and an orc warband leader that looked like he knew the score.

We got them back to the Yawning Portal and connected with folks from around the city that could help get them home. Did you know there's four or five orc or half-orcish shaman in Waterdeep? There are even some merchants that have frequent trade with the lizardfolk from up near the Saltmarshes. This city is full of interesting characters.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100=[[17]] Dani wakes up Male.

Tahn'kai found his way back to the surface and took off. Where to, he didn't say. No note or anything.
On our way to the stairs to the third level, we came across a fellow in a different armor design. Glowing blue lights on this one. Calls himself Gizmo. No magic spears for this guy; he shoots lightning out of his hands. Maybe I should put these reports in a book called "That's Not Something I've Seen Before." Volo's probably already used that title.

As for the third level, the first three rooms were an unremarkable catacomb, some tunnels, and a dead end with some rot trolls and a pack of grick with a grick alpha. I mean I'd never seen leperous trolls that spread disease, but I'm not a troll doctor either.

A little further in, we found and took down a room of quaggoth and a quaggoth thonot, which is some kind of psionic quaggoth? He had a few nifty tricks, but D-Con figured him out just in time.

The new guy—Gizmo—was holding rear guard with Phash and signalled something was moving in the tunnels to his southeast. Turns out it was a draegloth. It was fast, mean, big as an ogre, with four arms and a lot of legs. Talk about your Underdark horror stories that I would've been happier thinking were just made up. All the benefits of a daemon, lots of the benefits of drow, and they do not go down without a real fight.
We got one killed before the other two could close the distance, but it takes some doing to put a pair of them down.

Close combat with several drider, a number of phase spiders, and a whole hallway of quaggoth. Nothing of note to report.

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.

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.

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.

Pursuing the fight into the tunnels beyond the Yuan-ti den. Fighting through the fumes of a cloudkill, Dani dives into a pool where Aidan in Earth Elemental form is fighting what he says is a "giant squid." The adveresary is in actuality an aboleth, which grapples Dani and infects her with it's disease before they cut it down.

Destroying the aboleth, two chulls, and a handful of skum, Dani moves out of the foul pond and up to support Aidan in facing minotaur skeletons and zombie clots. Nocreth and Tigre moved down a separate passage, while Geran was stranded behind the cloud.

Aboleth disease: After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can't regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed only by heal or another disease-curing spell of 6th level or higher. When the creature is outside a body of water, it takes 6 (1d12) acid damage every 10 minutes unless moisture is applied to the skin before 10 minutes have passed.

Traded an unneeded sentinel shield to Eskane Balezta, a Bounty Hunter and sharpshooter with a hand crossbow. These gloves will help me become almost as effective as Tigre at disarming locks, but they will make it virtually impossible for him to fail doing so.

Danifae was afforded the opportunity to meet Glass the Barbarian, something she has wished to do for years. (RIP, Cambria. I miss you, friend.)
While in the mysteriousthe GROWLING GROGHOUSE in Undermountain, she also had a little adventure that resulted in she and some drinking friends saving Durnan from SKALLINDRAX, an ancient black dragon that was trying to take over his brain.

• Adventure Hook: One Good Turn - A mysterious barbarian recently rescued a comrade of yours from the dungeons of Undermountain. You’ve sworn to track this hero down and see if you can repay the favor.
• Story Award: Deep Delver - Your successes in the dungeons of Undermountain have brought you glory in the city above. You earn an additional point of renown. Whenever you return to Waterdeep following a successful expedition into the dungeons of Undermountain, you gain a free healing potion.
• Story Award: Tavern Hero Your actions were noteworthy in rescuing Durnan the Innkeeper from the dungeons of Undermountain. The proprietor of the Yawning Portal has granted you free accommodation and drinks in his inn for the rest of your life and commissioned a portrait of your group to hang in the taproom until the end of time.

Gained one Healing Potion

-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)

While in the Yawning Portal, I had a bottle of wine with Anorak Fireweaver, a Hobgoblin agent of the Lord's Alliance. He and D-Con were talking about evocation theory — you know how those finger-wiggling wizards get when they start showing off their brains—and Anorak showed us this shield that can reflect magic like my Mantle. Said he found it in a Necromancer's Spire near old Zhentil Keep. I figure that would look a lot better over the hearth in my room than that Staff of Power I took off that dead Shadowdusk insect wizard, so I made a sweet trade. Put it up next to that floating Dwarven keg lid shield I got a few months back.

The group finishes a rest and moves deeper into the next caverns, where they discover swarms of kobolds, including some turned to vampire spawn. A long and tiring fight ensues.

Vampire sapped my strength and stamina, leaving me gassed for the rest of the day. Halleth, Geran, and Aiden extracted me from some of the worst of it. Nasty close quarters scrap with undead. Surprised we took no casualties.
Long Rest, Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[64]]. Dani remains Female

So. many. kobolds. How do they all fit in such tiny rooms. It's like they never end. We finished camping 3 hours ago and we already are headed back to fortify and sleep. Didn't even find any coin or salvage. Definitely not our best day.

More mop up duty. A room with a cold rune and nothing else within. Put down a zombified beholder and a Xanathar Guild-run pit fighting ring. They didn't have two coppers on the lot of them. Guess they were betting for chores.

A hallway full of petrified statues, one of which was a damn mind flayer and D-Con went and woke it up. It messed with my head something awful, but never got close enough to really do more than give me the nastiest stun I've had in ages. A bunch of other unfortunate souls were reverted back from stone. Some goats, a wererat, two Bregan D'arthe junior operatives. So green behind the ears they were still carrying their equipment from Menzobarrenzan. Oh also restored a pretty tough lizardman and an orc warband leader that looked like he knew the score.

We got them back to the Yawning Portal and connected with folks from around the city that could help get them home. Did you know there's four or five orc or half-orcish shaman in Waterdeep? There are even some merchants that have frequent trade with the lizardfolk from up near the Saltmarshes. This city is full of interesting characters.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100=[[17]] Dani wakes up Male.

Tahn'kai found his way back to the surface and took off. Where to, he didn't say. No note or anything.
On our way to the stairs to the third level, we came across a fellow in a different armor design. Glowing blue lights on this one. Calls himself Gizmo. No magic spears for this guy; he shoots lightning out of his hands. Maybe I should put these reports in a book called "That's Not Something I've Seen Before." Volo's probably already used that title.

As for the third level, the first three rooms were an unremarkable catacomb, some tunnels, and a dead end with some rot trolls and a pack of grick with a grick alpha. I mean I'd never seen leperous trolls that spread disease, but I'm not a troll doctor either.

A little further in, we found and took down a room of quaggoth and a quaggoth thonot, which is some kind of psionic quaggoth? He had a few nifty tricks, but D-Con figured him out just in time.

The new guy—Gizmo—was holding rear guard with Phash and signalled something was moving in the tunnels to his southeast. Turns out it was a draegloth. It was fast, mean, big as an ogre, with four arms and a lot of legs. Talk about your Underdark horror stories that I would've been happier thinking were just made up. All the benefits of a daemon, lots of the benefits of drow, and they do not go down without a real fight.
We got one killed before the other two could close the distance, but it takes some doing to put a pair of them down.

Close combat with several drider, a number of phase spiders, and a whole hallway of quaggoth. Nothing of note to report.

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.

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.

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.

Pursuing the fight into the tunnels beyond the Yuan-ti den. Fighting through the fumes of a cloudkill, Dani dives into a pool where Aidan in Earth Elemental form is fighting what he says is a "giant squid." The adveresary is in actuality an aboleth, which grapples Dani and infects her with it's disease before they cut it down.

Destroying the aboleth, two chulls, and a handful of skum, Dani moves out of the foul pond and up to support Aidan in facing minotaur skeletons and zombie clots. Nocreth and Tigre moved down a separate passage, while Geran was stranded behind the cloud.

Aboleth disease: After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can't regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed only by heal or another disease-curing spell of 6th level or higher. When the creature is outside a body of water, it takes 6 (1d12) acid damage every 10 minutes unless moisture is applied to the skin before 10 minutes have passed.

Traded an unneeded sentinel shield to Eskane Balezta, a Bounty Hunter and sharpshooter with a hand crossbow. These gloves will help me become almost as effective as Tigre at disarming locks, but they will make it virtually impossible for him to fail doing so.

Danifae was afforded the opportunity to meet Glass the Barbarian, something she has wished to do for years. (RIP, Cambria. I miss you, friend.)
While in the mysteriousthe GROWLING GROGHOUSE in Undermountain, she also had a little adventure that resulted in she and some drinking friends saving Durnan from SKALLINDRAX, an ancient black dragon that was trying to take over his brain.

• Adventure Hook: One Good Turn - A mysterious barbarian recently rescued a comrade of yours from the dungeons of Undermountain. You’ve sworn to track this hero down and see if you can repay the favor.
• Story Award: Deep Delver - Your successes in the dungeons of Undermountain have brought you glory in the city above. You earn an additional point of renown. Whenever you return to Waterdeep following a successful expedition into the dungeons of Undermountain, you gain a free healing potion.
• Story Award: Tavern Hero Your actions were noteworthy in rescuing Durnan the Innkeeper from the dungeons of Undermountain. The proprietor of the Yawning Portal has granted you free accommodation and drinks in his inn for the rest of your life and commissioned a portrait of your group to hang in the taproom until the end of time.

Gained one Healing Potion

-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)

While in the Yawning Portal, I had a bottle of wine with Anorak Fireweaver, a Hobgoblin agent of the Lord's Alliance. He and D-Con were talking about evocation theory — you know how those finger-wiggling wizards get when they start showing off their brains—and Anorak showed us this shield that can reflect magic like my Mantle. Said he found it in a Necromancer's Spire near old Zhentil Keep. I figure that would look a lot better over the hearth in my room than that Staff of Power I took off that dead Shadowdusk insect wizard, so I made a sweet trade. Put it up next to that floating Dwarven keg lid shield I got a few months back.