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