The Underdark

End of Fourth Day of Travel

• the partyrew talks about their plans for Gracklstugh

• Ront prepares a darklake schwarma with mushroom sauce

  • It is okay by Yvelia’s standard

• Cynlant asks Yvelia about her delusions of grandeur

  • She seems to have no qualms about
  • Bon places his schwarma sauce decorated horse head over Cynlants shoulder
    • he says they should just leave her as is

• Oneshoe speaks with the generals

  • they are on the same page about the partyrew’s detour

• the partyrew sleeps uneventfully

Fifth Day of Travel

• the partyrew do their morning routines

• once it is time to depart, Bon conjures a portal on a tree

  • willy wonka style
  • Cynlant pushes Oneshoe through first
  • the tunnels outside of the city are uncharacteristically quiet

• the partyrew members don their badges of the deep king

Gracklstugh

• the partyrew marches their way towards the city

  • Cynlant notices unguarded and open gates they partyrew approaches
  • he goes invisible to peek through the gates
  • it is empty

• in a sudden twist, Bon calls for the partyrew to be tactical

  • the partyrew decides to stop by the Overlake Hold on their way to the king

• Yvelia sends her herald, Kyem ahead of the partyrew to find the king

  • Oneshoe carves a slide whistle for Kyem

• once in the city proper, they see turned over barrels, damaged carts, and long blood stains

• Soup flies above and scouts near the partyrew

  • Cynlant looks through his eyes to see ten floating tentacled monsters
  • Yvelia also looks through Kyem’s eyes, seeing more floating tentacled monsters
  • Oneshoe squints and sees them off in the distance
  • Bon, is able to identify the creatures as mindwitness based off of their descriptions

• the partyrew decides to stealth through the city

• through Soup’s eyes, Cynlant sees multiple destroyed bridges between the north and south part of the city

  • on the bridges duegar and derro stand together facing the northern half of the city
  • the derro are in chains

• the stone giants following the partyrew try to crouch down

Northern City

• the partyrew sees a barren blade bazaar and abandoned Overlake Hold

• Oneshoe leads the group in to the hold

  • it is a mess, with paper and destroyed furniture stewn about

• Cynlant and CARL dig through the papers

  • Cynlant finds Bon and Oneshoe’s arrest records, then stuff them in to his pocket
  • CARL finds that the most recent document is from about a month ago

• through Soup’s eyes, Cynlant sees dwarves forging and the Wyrmsmyth walking through the southern half of the city

• Cynlant sends a message to Higram, who tells the partyrew to make their way to the southern half of the city

• suddenly, a loud crash sounds outside, prompting Oneshoe and Cynlant to dash outside

  • while dashing, Cynlant attempts to knock of Yvelia’s crown
  • it doesn’t fall, prompting a look of pure disappointment from her

• the partyrew steps outside to see a mindwitness, mindflayer 🦑, three duegar, and four derro attacking the stone giants

• combat ensues!

• Bon uses guiding bolt and instantly crumples the one mindflayer

  • as Oneshoe begins chanting horse Bon!, Bon drinks a potion causing his head to transform into that of a hook horrors
  • Bon’s children move into position, starting to salivate

• the mindflayer glares at Cynlant before attempting to blast him with a lightning bolt

  • the bolt starts to form, pointed at Oneshoe, but Cynlant quickly reacts and slams his shield down
  • magical scales form a sphere around Cynlant’s shield, completely blocking the blast
  • Oneshoe thanks Cynlant, who asks her to “kill this fucker”

• Ront brutalizes a derro

  • he repeatedly bashes him with his mace
  • the first hit causes the derro’s flesh to rot
  • Ront’s mace hyucks flesh large amounts flesh
  • Ront knocks the derro unconscious with the but of his mace

• once he’s done with the derro, Ront bludgeons the remaining mindflayer

  • just before he can land the killing blow, a magical shield apparatus

• Droopy boxes the mindwitness in a box of force

• Glabagool fires off an ooze blast at the mindflayer, but it goes wide hitting the mindwitness’ prison

• the anti-paladin derro strike in unison at the stone giant in front of them

• the duegar also strike in unison at the stone giant in front of them

• the mind witness poises one of its eyes

  • it whispers telepathically to the partyrew “you will join me”

• Yvelia and Ally move together, conjure darkness, then start eldritch blasting

• Oneshoe shoots a psychic lance at the mindflayer, but it waves it off as if nothing

• CARL begins to flank one of the duegar, then strikes at him with a flurry of paws and dagger

  • they manage to bloody the duegar

• Cynlant stabs a hole clean through a mindflayer then turn to another enemy

• Slicer slices a duegar in half

• Francine francines a derro

• Bon conjures woodland beings, wildshape into a nebulus horse with a hook horror head

  • he gallops around, having his woodland beings strike at them

• combat continues

• the boyscouts continue to eviscerate the enemies

• Yvelia conjures a hound of ill omen inside of the mindwitness’ bubble

  • it is immediately zapped into a shadowy mist by

• Oneshoe magically grasps the mindwitness, choking the life out of it

• the partyrew all cast remote attacks on the mindwitness

  • it is slowly burned to death

• Bon and Oneshoe revive the knocked out combatants

  • they are under control of the brain
  • they are beyond saving

• Cynlant and Ront carve of pieces of the mindwitness

  • they cook it into a fine calamari
  • Yvelia enjoys the calamari

• Bon, Slicer, and Francine hold the combatants at claw and gunpoint

• Oneshoe begins to investigate the prisoners

  • Oneshoe detects the thoughts of one duegar
  • they work for Qualax
  • after the treachery of the council, the king ordered all derro killed or enslaved

• Yvelia tells the prisoners that they may petition for their lives

  • one insults Yvelia, who has Cynlant and Slicer kill execute them

• eventually, one of the prisoners share information about a hidden tunnel to the whirlstone caves

  • they continue to spill the beans

• Oneshoe fights against executing the prisoners

  • most of the rest of the partyrew wants them executed

• Cynlant kills another duegar during the deliberation

• they agree to exile them

  • Cynlant, Bon, and Yvelia decide to brand them
  • Oneshoe protests, but it doesn’t stop anything
  • Yvelia uses minor illusion as a stencil so Ront can brand the remaining derro’s
  • the brand is the head of a jackal

• Oneshoe is very upset at the result

• Oneshoe acts like she casts disguise self but she doesn’t have it prepared

  • Yvelia exclaims that they missed a derro
  • Cynlant grabs Oneshoe, then shaves her eyebrows off

• the partyrew finally releases the branded prisoners, who run out of the city