Underdark
Journey to Grackle Slut
Day Nineteen Continued Continued
Cambion on the Pyre
- cynlant loots tigil’s armor
- stabs her decapitated corpse with the burning spear of her staff
Walk back to the mining encampment
- oneshoe “why are you such a big scaredy cat nivram
- nivram “I don’t know, it just happens sometimes”
- “is it the same fear you have when you talk about them”
The Mining Encampment
- guards attempt to stop the partyrew on their return
- oneshoe karen’s out for a little
- cynlant, bon, and yvelia show proof of the deed (head and wings)
- annia the foreman
- the guards begin to put the slaves back to work
- buppido murmurs “never should have helped the damn duergar”
- partyrew decides to not start shit immediately
- captain confirms the paryrew’s passage to the city has been secured
End of Day Nineteen
- partyrew and some of the guards drink together
- cynlant begins flirting with annia, foreman of the mines
- he asks her about slavery in the underdark
- she confirms most major races participate in it
- bon “is there money to be made in slavery”
- annia and cynlant eventually slink off
- oneshoe shows minor illusion puppet show for nivram of the past adventures
- cynlant is thrusting to his like his life depends on it
- busts while talking to the party via rapport spores
- yvelia tries to scheme her way into getting a pistol
- disguise self and pistol inspection
- oneshoe fears for the treatment of the slaves if something goes missing
- and if the guards would know
Day Twenty
Morning After
- cynlant performed well with annia
- cynlant tries to trade her a necklace for a pistol
- annia doesn’t have control of weapons
- she gives him some information about the city
- don’t commit crime
- stay within the darklake district, the only place where outsiders are permitted
- she tells him its ok if he uses her name and clan within the city
- cynlant asks if bon has ever changed his thong
Departure
- captain of the guard summons the guide for the party, gunther ironhead
Day Twenty and Twenty One
- mostly uneventful
- Sarith develops a rash that spreads up his neck
- bon, cynlant, and oneshoe try to heal his rash
Gracklstugh
Entering Crackle Slut
The Approach
- Sarith’s rash grows back to where it was
- patryrew makes plans for the city
- meet up with the dragon cur
- say goodbye’s to nivram
- a hellish reddish glow burns in the distance
- the sharp smell of manufacturing wafts over the party
- giant stone walls surround the city
- stone speaker igram of clan carngorm
- zornbane is in the northwestern part of the darklake district
- there are 19 clans in the city
- blade bazaar is a market
- buppido is excited to return home to cleft district
Gates of the City
- gunther approaches the guards
- in dwarvish
- tells the guards how the partyrew helped protect the mining camp
- the guards interrogate the partyrew about the purpose of entering the city
- lets them through the city without too much effort
Initial Crackle Slut
Securing Lodgings
- buppido disappears off into the city
- golborn (boulet in dwarvish) lair is the only place that will accept outsiders
- golborn is near the hold
- gunther is racist towards drow :(
- really cute gooddbye between oneshoe and nivram
Golborn Lair
- bon and stool stay outside
- the inn is built into a cavern
- damp, dark, and cramped
- orcs, smurfblin, and other underdark races are drinking in the center
- 9gp per day for board and food
Blade Bazaar
- list of rules posted
- no stealing
- bartering allowed
- no selling items to vendors
- oneshoe approaches Boat in a Box
- skiff ruderton is working the stall
- 800pp for a boat
- various shops
- forge and flame weapons
- gorgo’s adventuring gear
- potions and alchemy
- cynlant tries to have platemail resized for droopy
* yvelia pays the 50gp cost
* few hours wait
- leather literature
- tatted up duergar selling books
- oneshoe purchases Fungus is Fun Stuff book, which confers advantage to nature and survival checks to harvest mushrooms
- joaquin renounced his lolth worship
- alchemy shop
- tiefling that speaks common
- various potions
- extremely over priced potions (about 3x)
- is interested in buying pink mushroom off of (haha) bon
- oneshoe registers the party for a trade license
- talks with a duergar woman isla henstak
- she might have a job for the party
- quest for isla henstak
- bag of coin and other valuables from the surface
- wonders how the derro are getting the items
- offers routes, goods, or favor
- the boyscouts gather at the stall
- plan to sell surface mead and or acid
- vials are 4gp
- two guards start looking at the partyrew and gesture in their direction
- oneshoe goes to gamble
- Bookie Smalls, smirfblin with a filthy top hat
- bets are 25gp, 3 chests with one containing 25gp, another with 50gp and the last is empty
- oneshoe bets, and wins 50gp
Arrest and Imprisonment
- bon and oneshoe try to sell some gems to blingdenstone
- the two guards from earlier approach bon and oneshoe
- bon is wanted for murder (because he drew from a deck)
- a guard grapples oneshoe
- bon wildshapes into a rat, the guards throw 8 javelins and shoot at him
- stool wanders about, and is collected by cynlant and yvelia
- bon’s wildshape immediately ends, and 5 javelins are sticking out of him
- 15 guards surround oneshoe and bon, and put them in manacles
- they’re dragged into prison
- cynlant consults his patron on how to get oneshoe and bon out of prison
- the dragon most revered is the wyrm smith, a red dragon that keeps the forges lit
- messages Kur
- bon creates animal sounds near the guard
- cynlant’s type is duergar women
- oneshoe acts like she was just the translator for him
- bon makes a very unconvincing statement on why he didn’t convert the murder
- cynlant rapport spores bon, telling him to detail what he was doing in sloopbludoop at the time of the supposed of the murder
- she offers the freedom of bon and oneshoe if they can find the source of the corruption in the city
- the derro droki might be interfering with the council of savants
- council of savants
- oneshoe and bon are barred from leaving the city
- guards will be monitoring them
- she also asks for the partyrew to investigate the empty scabard killers
- a guild of assassins within the city
- mysterious wounds are appearing on dead people
- the murder duergar was a member of clan shattersteel
- droki
- might be spreading madness throughout the city
- a derro dressed in rags
- with two tentacles from a displacer beast
- carries a large satchel
- oneshoe and bon are placed on parole
- a magical shackle is placed on both of them
- they are given badges that allow them to travel pass the dark lake district
- badges should only be used when necessary
- erdee blackskull is the quest givers
- the empty scabbards are in the west cleft district
Shattered Spire
- cynlant, yvelia, and the rest of the partyrew head over to the shattered spire
- a derro in a booth ushers the partyrew over
- Kur, the dragon derro, buys the table a round of stout
- gives the location of illiquid colony
- two duergar start fighting in the tavern
- ront and cynlant break up the fight
- eventually they settle down and look around really confused
- cynlant asks Kur how to handle or prevent the madness caused by the demigorgon
- cutting it off at the source is the best way
- Kur gifts cynlant a dragon vessel stirring
- produces 1 magical potion or generic economic liquid a day
Oneshoe and Bon adventures
- down by the docks, bon and oneshoe go to relax
- a lone duergar stands on the edge of the pier
- two duergars appear out of invisibility, one of them stabs the lone duergar
- the knife glows as it feasts on flesh
- oneshoe casts hypnotic pattern and incapacitates all three of the duergar
- she ties them up while bon gets the guards
- the weapons disappeared by the time the guards get there