The Underdark

Mantol-Derith

Team Chaos

A Gargoyle Attacks!!

• the drow lead away their imprisoned fellow

• the local Zhentarim leader approaches Oneshoe

  • Ghazrim DuLoc and his slightly disabled beholder

• Oneshoe clumsily tells him about the partyrew’s hunt for Gravenhollow

• roar above, gargoyle swoops down in from of drow entourage, and attacks

  • everyone is surprised

• CARL reacts first, blasting at the elemental with a thunderous pellet

  • the drow and zhentarim are extremely taken aback but such a foreign weapon

• Oneshoe saunters out of the beholder’s anti-magic sight to shatter the Gargoyle

  • it does not to much
  • CARL cocks his gun again

• Droopy cocks his sword in imitation of CARL

  • his sword is unignited until he makes it adjacent to the gargoyle
  • he slices twice, causing the gargoyle to look crumbly
  • as Droopy takes a step back, the gargoyle bites at him
  • he raises his sword, deftly parrying the attack and narrowly missing a counterattack
  • Lucile fires of three bolts of light at the Gargoyle
  • Droopy shouts scattily how he “cracked” the gargoyle

• Ally moves in to range and fires two eldritch blasts

  • Droopy yells for her to “crack it good”
  • her first blast goes wide and fizzles in the antimagic
  • the second blast barely tickles it

• the Beholder’s eyes lurch in to motion

  • a cacophony of rays fire
  • it shrugs off paralysis, but manges to get charmed and pulled telekinetically

• Ghazrim shouts puzzled at the drow about the peculiarity of the situation`

• the drow negotiator orders her guards to down the gargoyle

• the guards manage to serious hurt the gargoyle

• CARL makes a bead, and successfully crumples the gargoyle

  • the drow spy falls 20ft, landing with a loud crunch and shriek

Gravenhollow Compass

• Ghazrim removes a ring from his flinger and begins to hand it to Oneshoe
  • star ruby in a ring, the white star-shaped symbol in the ring acts as a compass towards Gravenhollow
  • he informs them that it is a 60 days travel and marks a rough location
• Oneshoe dons the ring, gazing deeply into the ruby
  • she questions how to better carry favor in the library
  • he suggests that they find the keepers of the library
• Ghazrim then follows up by supplies
  • Oneshoe graciously thanks him
  • Ghazrim then turns away and orders his underlings to clean things up

Team Order

Leaving the Drow Encampment

• team order thanks Zilchin Galeptin
  • Yvelia offers the partyrew’s help within reason
• Cynlant quickly looks over the spell scroll of locate object
• team order sees one drow lead by two guard drow in chains
• eventually they meet up with team chaos
• Oneshoe tries to give a rundown of the events that have occurred
  • it is not brief in any way
• Yvelia finds that she is missing a silver key
• Cynlant schemes about making spell scrolls
  • he also starts showing off his brand new bag of devouring
  • CARL feeds a meat ration to the bag

Stone Finding

• Yvelia casts locate object
  • it leads the partyrew back to the drow warehouse
• CARL and Oneshoe both notice a hiding svirfneblin
  • Oneshoe messages him in gnomish
  • he is scared and his name is Floobius Flint
  • she promises to help him
• the drow wizard from earlier leads the partyrew back in
  • he says it was such a pleasure last time, that he’ll be hapy to do it again
• Oneshoe and Cynlant message back and forth
  • Cynlant jokingly alters himself in to a gnome, since Oneshoe claimed she was the only drow in the partyrew to Floobius
• Yvelia detects the object is within the warehouse
• Yvelia schemes with the various party members to have Oneshoe distract while CARL sneaks in invisible
  • the drow are confused by gnome performing and start calling for her to be removed
  • CARL sneaks towards the door completely undetected
  • as they push the door a glyph lights up and explodes
  • it knocks the guard at the door down
  • the lead drow negotiator from earlier and a more bloodied spy appear
  • “WHO DID THAT”
  • CARL begins to pickpocket everyone and everything in hunt of the gem
• the lead drow negotiator orders for the partyrew to be thrown out
  • CARL picks one last pocket as the partyrew is thrown out
  • Oneshoe is bummed that the partyrew will likely never be let back in

Stone Handling

• CARL claims to not have found anything
  • Cynlant scoops up CARL, who attempts to bite
  • their teeth do nothing against
  • Yvelia asks Cynlant if he smells anything
  • CARL screams out *“BETRAYAL!”
  • Cynlant asks Oneshoe if she knows dispel magic
  • CARL yells out “FUCKER!”
• CARL continues to yell profanities
  • Oneshoe attempts to slap CARL
  • it stings
• Yvelia begins to dig through CARL’s pockets
  • they fight and squirm the entire time
• Cynlant carries CARL away, so Oneshoe can incapacitate them with a hypnotic pattern
  • Mr. F’s Minions (Yvelia, Ally, Kyem, and an unseen servant) dig through CARL’s pockets
  • it takes them a few seconds until Yvelia manages pull it out with a mage hand
• Oneshoe tries to persuade Floobius to come out of hiding
• Cynlant considers identifying the stone, but stops himself before touching it
  • he intuits that contact with the stone would likely afflict him
• after some though Cynlant decides to cast identity through Soup
  • the enchantment is similar to magic jar
• Cynlant questions Yvelia’s intentions with the stone, moreso Mr. F’s
  • to her knowledge he isn’t going to use it to invade the Underdark
• Yvelia and Cynlant go back and forth on how to handle selling the gem
  • they plan to tell the duegar they were attacked by a gargoyle
  • the partyrew managed to steal the gemstone from it
  • if the drow appear looking for it, they will blame the glyph explosion on a fake magical affliction Oneshoe has

Fake Appraisal

• as the party makes their way to the duegar, Yvelia stops to place the gemstone in the vault
  • Cynlant is apprehensive at first, and makes Yvelia promise that she will show the real gemstone before it is sent off
  • a semi-feral CARL attempts to dive in the vault, but is stopped by CARL
• Cynlant holds CARL back with a stick
  • he decides to stay back, but send Ront and Droopy in his stead
  • Cynlant begins to fly above CARL and
• Oneshoe and Yvelia agree to lie together
• the duegar guards say only 2 are allowed
  • Droopy pipes up and says he can stay back with Ront and Ally
• Oneshoe and Yvelia are lead into the duegar warehouse