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.

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.

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.

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.

purchased Fritter, the 7-Legged Spider from The Kernel during Liar's Night..
-60 candy corn

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.

Story Award: The Bronze Hrogar, a captain in The Bronze, is pleased with the work you did for him. Your timely intervention has allowed him to put an end to the rash of burglaries in GLIP DAK and allowed Hrogar to save face at the same time.
In future adventures in GLIP DAK, characters with this story award will make Charisma checks with members of the Bronze in GLIP DAK at advantage.

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.

This place is a maze and I feel like we definitely have been through this room once already. I'm going to have to map this out. Spent a lot of time killing things that I thought we'd killed before, but maybe there's just a LOT of them.

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.

3 Potions of greater healing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

purchased Fritter, the 7-Legged Spider from The Kernel during Liar's Night..
-60 candy corn

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.

Story Award: The Bronze Hrogar, a captain in The Bronze, is pleased with the work you did for him. Your timely intervention has allowed him to put an end to the rash of burglaries in GLIP DAK and allowed Hrogar to save face at the same time.
In future adventures in GLIP DAK, characters with this story award will make Charisma checks with members of the Bronze in GLIP DAK at advantage.

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.

This place is a maze and I feel like we definitely have been through this room once already. I'm going to have to map this out. Spent a lot of time killing things that I thought we'd killed before, but maybe there's just a LOT of them.

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.

3 Potions of greater healing

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.