Players (Characters)
Scott (Rain)
Jeremy (Grokk)
Catherine (Amber)
Tony (Roland)
Rachel (Horkina)
DM: Tom (Garlen)
The party awoke and began moving methodically through the complex. Before leaving the caves, Rain noticed the sound of a creature flying. Some glitterdust revealed a quasit, who fell quickly. The party recovered a wand from his corpse. To the south, the complex became more regular -- rooms, rather than caves. Several of the rooms were filled with thugs engaged in everyday tasks -- eating a meal, sharpening weapons, playing cards, and the like. The party cut through half a dozen rooms like this, interrogating a couple of quick-to-surrender thugs and leaving them tied up.
Rain searched a revolving door and found a small switch hidden on the upper lip. The switch disarmed a set of blades that would otherwise cut anyone who passed through the door. The party moved through the door as quickly as possible, and encountered the infamous Triel Eldurast. She attacked Horkina with her flail, causing significant pain, but she couldn't withstand the level of damage the party dealt. As she crumpled to the ground, Amber stepped forward to stabilize her -- the government of Cauldron would want to interrogate her and punish her for her past crimes. The party recovered three more wands of water control, as well as several other wands, from Triel's stash.
Rain discovered a secret door leading to a small chamber behind some arrow slits. Several thugs stood ready to fire arrows into an adjacent hallway, but they were unprepared for melee combat. The group decided to search for an entrance to a similar chamber on the opposite side of the hallway before walking through the hallway itself. Moving through a barracks and some storage rooms, the party eventually found the opposite chamber, and the battle played out much the same way, with the thugs falling to a series of axe and sword blows.
A secret passageway led into a large room in the west. The walls curved in a strange pattern, almost as if the room had been formed by a series of bubbles growing into each other. A mud slaad stood in the shadows at the far end of the room. As the party moved to surround it, it screeched loudly, causing serious injury to the group. Grokk and Horkina bashed it with their axes while Rain and Garlen poked holes in it, and it fell to the ground. Amber healed the party while Rain gave the thing an extra stab to make sure it stayed down. Underneath a nearby table, several gems and coins were wrapped in a magical cloak (later identified as a cloak of Arachnidia; Garlen went on to wear it through several adventures.) Roland could tell this room had been used to construct magic items involving conjuration, abjuration, and necromancy.
The rooms to the south led into a web-filled cavern. Several spiders and ettercaps fought within the webs. Roland spent several minutes in Hell Hound form, biting through the webs and cutting paths for the rest of the party to follow. In the farthest cave, a bald halfling stood ready for battle alongside a harpoon spider. Amber cast a spell of silence on the halfling while Horkina cut through the webs and attacked the spider. The halfling tried to attack with his dagger, but Grokk and Rain brought him down. Amber stabilized him while the party finished off the remaining spiders and gathered bits of treasure, including his keys and two more wands. His keys allowed access to his spellbook (which Roland borrowed) and the seventh wand. The party discovered the final wand in a pit full of bloodbloater oozes, which died to several potions of alchemists fire.
The party returned to Cauldron with all eight wands and two prisoners. The floodwaters were beginning to rise, but Amber, Jenya, and a few clerics from the temples of Kord and Pelor used the wands to bring the floodwaters down. Triel Eldurast and the halfling, Skaven Umbermead, were executed in town square the next morning.
Shortly thereafter, the party recieved a set of invitations to the Demonskar Ball, a party hosted by the Aslaxins at the upscale Coy Nixie. Grokk's invitation showed a crater with a claw coming out of it, which indicated he should dress as the famous demon Nabthatoron. During the reenactment of the famous battle, Zachary Aslaxin, dressed as Surabar Spellmason, smashed "Nabthatoron" with a glowing stick that represented the famous weapon "Alakast". Many drinks and fun stories were shared by all.
The party reached level 7.
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