Blingdenstone

Ooze Extermination

Crystal 🔮 Garden Cavern

• the partyrew enters a chamber, illuminated by giant luminescent crystal growths
  • a gnome statute stands in the cavern, holding a crystal growth
  • the statues face is scowling as if in pain and disgust
• Cynlant attempts to listen for sounds off in the distant
  • he detects something off in the distance
  • the party hushes down, upon which Cynlant describes the sound as “stone grinding on stone”
  • he also hears muttering off in a different tunnel
• Oneshoe and Bon move in to investigate the gnome statue
  • she uses her mage hand in an attempt to wiggle the crystal in his palms
    • it does not budge
• the partyrew debates the various ways to get the crystal
  • Cynlant wants to go invisible and grab it
  • Oneshoe begins to uncharacteristically theorize that the gnome might have encountered a medusa and attempted to look at it through the crystal
  • the partyrew agrees
• tired of debate, Oneshoe attempts to grab the crystal
  • it does not budge
  • she tries again, but notices it seems pressed into the statue
• Oneshoe begins to muse on what would happen to Yl’lib if he were to become petrified
  • a pissed off Yl’lib hops off her shoulders

Menhir Cavern

• the partyrew marches westward through the cavern
  • they descend down a staircase into another cavern with rough walls
  • an ascending staircase is in the north, covered by a cave-in
• a tall stone obelisk like menhir stands in the center
• Cynlant perceives human like shapes in the scraggly rock walls
• Oneshoe performs a ritual to detect magical energies
  • she only detects the faintest sense of divine energy
• Bon summons a spider familiar to climb through a cave-in to the west
  • the spider struggles to slink through the cave-in
  • after passing 60ft, through the spider’s eyes Bon sees some oozes and a small puddle
    • not much of note
• the partyrew returns to the crystal cavern
  • after finding more cave-ins, the partyrew decides enter the tunnel where stone sounds emanate from

Drow Statue Cavern

• after some walking the partyrew enters a cavern with 20+ drow statue
  • the statues are holding weapons and are lifelike
• Yvelia asks Joaquin if he knows what could have caused
  • party members banter that “Oh all drow know each other”
  • he mentions that they it is likely caused by some petrification spell
• a grey cloud floats by, animating the stone statues near
  • a dark malevolence is felt by those in the cloud
• combat ensues!

Animated Statues Attack 🗽⚔️

• Eldeth tries to strike first, but misses both of her scimitar strikes
• Bon transform into an earthy form and fires a guiding bolt
  • the statue slightly recoils
• Oneshoe magically shatters multiple animate and inanimate statues
  • cracks begin to form in the statues
• the statues move in unison, attacking the partyrew’s front liners
  • the mostly miss except for Joaquin
  • Joaquin is bruised
• combat continues back and forth, with more statues gradually animating
• as the partyrew works their way through the statues, Cynlant flies deeper into the statues
  • he stabs his sword into the ground, conjuring a mass of inky soldiers
• Yvelia impolitely casts fireball on top of him, crumbling multiple statues
  • Cynlant is slightly singed
• Bon wildshapes into a horse and dashes into the statues
  • woodland spirits strike out at statues in his wake
  • a few statues strike out at him, injuring him
• Oneshoe casts fireball on statues and only statues
  • unlike Yvelia, she only hits enemies
  • Cynlant makes sure to point this out
• as the partyrew rouses the remaining statues, the evil cloud dissipates into the dirt
• the partyrew swiftly finishes the remaining statues

Aftermath

• Oneshoe inspects the remains of the drow statues
  • she observes military style armor with a crest
  • she decides to pester a seriously injured Joaquin about the drow
  • the crest is an insignia of a drow clan of Menzoberranzan which raided Blingdenstone

The Whispering Chamber

• the partyrew decides to double back to the cavern where there were whispers
• Cynlant goes invisible and flies in
• Bon, still in horse form carries
  • Oneshoe who is carrying
  • Yl’lib who is carrying
  • Kyem who is floating
• the chamber is decorated in the drow style
  • various magical reagents decorate the cavern walls
  • at the center of the chamber, a female drow sits on a zirkwood throne
  • her hair is comprised of many small snakes, who are hissing
  • the drow-like creature is in a meditative state
• Cynlant flies back and informs the party of the medusa
  • after a slight amount of deliberation, Bon charges in with his passengers
• As Bon’s hooves clop towards the drow-medusa, she stands up
  • Oneshoe in her ever amicable ways, begins to introduce herself to the medusa
    • “Hi I’m Oneshoe!”
  • the medrowusa opens her eyes

Medrowusa (Medusa Drow) 🐍 🧝

• the partyrew begins to funnel into the room
• Cynlant strikes first, smiting with divine energy
  • the attack looks strong, but she barely seems injured
• the medrowusa visciously strike out and Cynlant
  • he is hurt
• the medrowusa stands resolute, upon which Cynlant, Bon, and Jim Jar feel something
  • their bodies start to lock up as if turning to stone
  • they all are able to shake it off
• the medrowusa conjures a blade barrier at the entrance to her chamber
  • the mounted stack forces their way through it
  • she also gazes petrifingly at Cynlant
• Ront runs through the whirling blades, becoming bruised
  • he begins to hack away at the medrowusa, bloodying it
• the partyrew continues to hack at her
• Prince Derendil checks the non-existent wind lops her head off like a golf ball
  • Yvelia collects the head

Looting

• Bon immediately runs over and attempts to put on a dress in horse form
  • he fails, but returns to his frail old man body
  • Bon does a little twirl in the drow spider silk dress
• Oneshoe looks through the medrowusa’s desk
  • she finds a note written in elvish
• Cynlant and the others loot the remaining expensive drow spidersilk dresses