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2nd Level gets weird / knocking on the Drow Fortress door
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OPEN QUESTIONS
FOR THIS GAME
GAME NOTES
We shove Thug9 into the columns and he is blinded, with the NW statue activating instead of the NE like last time. Exploring to the east, we find tons of petrified creatures sorted by type. We try the west and find a clutch of 4 owlbears. We retreat to the large room to the NW.
This is a huge dwarven room stocked with posed dragon skeletons. Jitters sends in a zombie & Flappers to try and trigger a response but there is none. Turns out the big room is a museum of dead dragons, complete with plaques; Draconis Goldenus.
Beyond that room, we find the skeletal remains of a Tiefling clutching a quarterstaff and a pack laying on an altar to Dumathoin. All the gear is falling to dust.
The owlbears break down the door and we are forced to fight them in the dragon museum. Mira's Spike Growth softens them up and they get slaughtered quickly.
Back in the owlbear lair, we find a secret door concealing a regal Elf alabaster sarcophagus in a secret room with a plaster top. No treasure & non-magical. Beyond that is a room with broken funerary urns that contains a magical Pot of Awakening.
We enter a sloping passageway and are hit with a magical ball trap that whacks us hard. Beyond that, we find a bloodletting spa, -what kind of elves lived here?!
The complex dead ends in an office with a desk, books and more funerary urns. In the office, we find a Burnt Spellbook & Dust_of_Disappearance. We take a LONG REST.
We have a huge breakfast with the Scroll of Heroes' Feast, then descend to the 3rd_Level and head east. We immediately find a catacomb full of quiescent, armed skeletons and a rotted corpse which had experienced a violent neck-exit of some sort.
We find a door guarded by four quaggoths which we bait out and slaughter. The door they guarded leads to a small antechamber with enslaved Troglodytes mining for minerals. Gimbal asks in undercommon where the Drow are and they indicate through the western double-doors.
We free the trogs and throw open the door on a Drow sacrifice party being held in a defiled temple of Dumathoin...
TREASURE
- Pot of Awakening - Mira from funerary room
- Dust of Disappearance - Ceol from funerary office
- Burnt Spellbook - Jitters from funerary office
FOES
- 4 Owlbears - dragon museum
- 1 big magic bowling ball - funerary room
- 4 quaggoths - Drow Fortress
- 4 troglodytes - Drow Fortress freed
SESSION MAP
NEW QUESTIONS
- Should we find worshippers of Dumathoin as allies?
SYNOPSIS
- We complete exploration of the 2nd Level which gets very weird. We have a big breakfast and begin our assault on the Drow Fortress