The party explores Maggdoth's Castle and the level surrounding it. We encounter some stone giants, one of which Dani arm wrestles and wins.

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

The party finds and destroys Halaster's apprentice Trobriand.

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

We finished off the Nycaloths guarding the exit to the 10th level, but not before Nocreth disappears in a cloud of smoke. I don't know if he was banished or summoned to some other duty, but I was really counting on him to watch my back. (Dan M. left the campaign.)*

As we entered the level now called Murial's Gaunlet, we found hallways of broken mirrors guarded by a drow skeleton that had lost it's arcance ability, but was still attempting to use a wand of the warmage. Long deceased adventurer or wayward student of the arcane arts wandered down from the magister's school? we couldn't tell...

Then around the next corner, we found a temple to the Spider Queen guarded by three banshees. Undead banshees dropped most of our group with their screams, but the righteous fury of Ellistraee kept me on my feet until the last of them withered under arrow shots and eldritch blasts. I don't think I'll hear right for weeks.

Geran and Aidan discovered two deceased adventurers here and returned them to life. It's amazing they made it all the way down here equipped as they are. Takes a lot of luck to survive using rough leather armor and mass produced, market-grade weapons. Servicable for hunting your typical humanoid bounties or working caravan guard duty, yeah, but for delving into somewhere like Undermountain? Insanity.

The party finishes exploring Maddgoth's castle and moves on to the Slitherswamp

Clearing the last of House Arvryndar from the Troglodyte Warrens, The party proceeds down into the Maze Level.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[55]]. Dani wakes up female.

The Logging Camp

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

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.

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.

Descending into the fourth level, we encounter a pair of ettin and a tunnel of piercers. We meet a mad human calling themselves The Alchemist. They offer us potions of their invention in exchange for materials gathered from elsewhere in Undermountain and a warning about drow posted to the east.
The party avoids a conflict with a number of Xorn and close in on this remaining force from House Aruvyndar when we encounter a room with a half dozen ropers.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[09]]. Dani wakes up male.

We find mirrors that make shadow copies of our party members. A brief struggle disables the nasty contraptions. Exploring the corridors, we eliminate two or three dozen goblins and bugbears, then track down a party that had been charmed, knocking out the blackguard that held them entranced. The Thayan wizard ran through a portal, but we couldn't make it work. I'm sure that's not the last we've heard from them.

We recovered a bronze mask shaped like the visage of Halaster Blackcloak. (50g) Keeping it with us in case it's useful later.

Assigned to guard duty for Junior, JB's experiment? Kid? Golem creature? Who knows what the hell D-Con actually counts as. Beats me, but Parts is a member of Bregan d'Arthe, so he's okay. Good spellslinger and handy in a fight.
He wanted to go meet a contact for a bottle or two of Zzarr down at the Yawning Portal Inn and I didn't mind that. But then he goes and promises some folks—that he just met!—that he'd venture into Undermountain with them. Couple might know what they're doing, like the archer and the genasi. The tiefling is completely wet behind the ears.

I mean, this is not too inconvenient since I had a contact I needed to check on in Skullport, but I was expecting 8 easy and boring hours of drinking ale. Messing around in an insane arch-wizard's tower? That's dumb, and worse if that insane arch-mage is Halaster Blackcloak.
Anyway, I paid our money to Durnan, the Yawning Portal's owner. Like you haven't heard of him. You better believe I used my expense account! ...so our strange crew was lowered in a big tub on ropes and pulleys to the first level of Undermountain.

First thing down there, one of them found a one-way secret door to the north side and left an unscouted passage behind us. This is going to get bad. Then Parts the wonder-boy falls through a door when trying to open it with his Thieves Tools. A door with stacks of plates on the other side. The racket is an alarm and within a minute, there's a doppleganger and some human bandits running around in cast off vampire spawn clothing. Not very convincing and they all died pretty fast, but a nuisance all the same. Pulled a few usable items off of them, but no real treasure.
How's Parts follow up with an encore? Decides to sit down in an ancient alabaster throne carved like snakes and gets poisoned half to death. I was thinking this was going to be a looong night, but I might have just been pulled into active dungeoneering duty for a few days or a week.

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.

The party explores Maggdoth's Castle and the level surrounding it. We encounter some stone giants, one of which Dani arm wrestles and wins.

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

The party finds and destroys Halaster's apprentice Trobriand.

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

We finished off the Nycaloths guarding the exit to the 10th level, but not before Nocreth disappears in a cloud of smoke. I don't know if he was banished or summoned to some other duty, but I was really counting on him to watch my back. (Dan M. left the campaign.)*

As we entered the level now called Murial's Gaunlet, we found hallways of broken mirrors guarded by a drow skeleton that had lost it's arcance ability, but was still attempting to use a wand of the warmage. Long deceased adventurer or wayward student of the arcane arts wandered down from the magister's school? we couldn't tell...

Then around the next corner, we found a temple to the Spider Queen guarded by three banshees. Undead banshees dropped most of our group with their screams, but the righteous fury of Ellistraee kept me on my feet until the last of them withered under arrow shots and eldritch blasts. I don't think I'll hear right for weeks.

Geran and Aidan discovered two deceased adventurers here and returned them to life. It's amazing they made it all the way down here equipped as they are. Takes a lot of luck to survive using rough leather armor and mass produced, market-grade weapons. Servicable for hunting your typical humanoid bounties or working caravan guard duty, yeah, but for delving into somewhere like Undermountain? Insanity.

The party finishes exploring Maddgoth's castle and moves on to the Slitherswamp

Clearing the last of House Arvryndar from the Troglodyte Warrens, The party proceeds down into the Maze Level.
Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[55]]. Dani wakes up female.

The Logging Camp

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

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.

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.

Descending into the fourth level, we encounter a pair of ettin and a tunnel of piercers. We meet a mad human calling themselves The Alchemist. They offer us potions of their invention in exchange for materials gathered from elsewhere in Undermountain and a warning about drow posted to the east.
The party avoids a conflict with a number of Xorn and close in on this remaining force from House Aruvyndar when we encounter a room with a half dozen ropers.

Long Rest; Blessing of Corellon d100 = [[09]]. Dani wakes up male.

We find mirrors that make shadow copies of our party members. A brief struggle disables the nasty contraptions. Exploring the corridors, we eliminate two or three dozen goblins and bugbears, then track down a party that had been charmed, knocking out the blackguard that held them entranced. The Thayan wizard ran through a portal, but we couldn't make it work. I'm sure that's not the last we've heard from them.

We recovered a bronze mask shaped like the visage of Halaster Blackcloak. (50g) Keeping it with us in case it's useful later.

Assigned to guard duty for Junior, JB's experiment? Kid? Golem creature? Who knows what the hell D-Con actually counts as. Beats me, but Parts is a member of Bregan d'Arthe, so he's okay. Good spellslinger and handy in a fight.
He wanted to go meet a contact for a bottle or two of Zzarr down at the Yawning Portal Inn and I didn't mind that. But then he goes and promises some folks—that he just met!—that he'd venture into Undermountain with them. Couple might know what they're doing, like the archer and the genasi. The tiefling is completely wet behind the ears.

I mean, this is not too inconvenient since I had a contact I needed to check on in Skullport, but I was expecting 8 easy and boring hours of drinking ale. Messing around in an insane arch-wizard's tower? That's dumb, and worse if that insane arch-mage is Halaster Blackcloak.
Anyway, I paid our money to Durnan, the Yawning Portal's owner. Like you haven't heard of him. You better believe I used my expense account! ...so our strange crew was lowered in a big tub on ropes and pulleys to the first level of Undermountain.

First thing down there, one of them found a one-way secret door to the north side and left an unscouted passage behind us. This is going to get bad. Then Parts the wonder-boy falls through a door when trying to open it with his Thieves Tools. A door with stacks of plates on the other side. The racket is an alarm and within a minute, there's a doppleganger and some human bandits running around in cast off vampire spawn clothing. Not very convincing and they all died pretty fast, but a nuisance all the same. Pulled a few usable items off of them, but no real treasure.
How's Parts follow up with an encore? Decides to sit down in an ancient alabaster throne carved like snakes and gets poisoned half to death. I was thinking this was going to be a looong night, but I might have just been pulled into active dungeoneering duty for a few days or a week.

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.