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