Session 43 - September 19, 2019 Report

General Summary

World Date Fall, Second Moon, Ruamil (9th Day)

• The group travels with the duergar trader, Joran, and his party for another 2-3 hours. They party stops a ways away and Roth casts "Comprehend language" to get the instructions on the "toll booth" that they are taking out.
• Roth is able to speak with Joran, and learns about the ability of the people they are fighting, and that they likely would not be able to communicate with the other duergar by the lava bridge.
• Roth leads the way to 150ft away from the bridge over lava and he sees 2 figures on one side of the bridge, which Roth hears them complaining about food being bad.
• Baeshra casts spite growth and Roth takes a shot from far away, trapping the 2 duergar within the spell, and the arrow taking down almost 1 of the lower duergar guards at the bridge.
• The party then takes their time to kill off both of the duergar guards at the bridge, but hears them call for aid from 2 other people "Ummir" and "Amdren".
• Baeshra and Roth hear something nearby, but do not perceive anything, with Scarlett and Tim the Golem guard the rear of the party, while the party moves forward, with spite growth keeping the other duergar off the bridge. The party learns that the duergar can enlarge themselves and go invisible.
• As the party moves forward, the main duergar warlord sees Mary and hits her with a javelin, as spite growth is still up on the area around the bridge, preventing anyone from crossing.
• Baeshra then drops spite growth, and Ari runs across the bridge, but by then the duerger warlord has both enlarged and gone invisible. The party is able to figure out the vague direction in which the warlord went.
• With Ari on the bridge, the warlord is suddenly visible, and flys out over the lava, taking 3 strikes at Ari, knocking her unconscious, and she falls down on the bridge. Baeshra see the boots that the warlord are wearing have little wings on them, and casts dispel magic. The warlord falls into the lava.
• After a few more hits, by Merry, the warlord dies in the lava. Scarlett runs over and heals Ari, bringing her back to consciousness.
• Baeshra then summons two giant eagles to try and pick up the body of the warlord, as Baeshra wants the boots of flying. The first eagle misses the body, taking some fire damage, and the second eagle is able to scoop up the body, dropping it next to Baeshra.
• From the body of the slightly charred warlord duergar, Baeshra takes the winged boots, and Scarlett takes his magical hammer, and she delighted.
• Ari and Roth find the chest where the warlord stored his "tolls", Roth is able to unlock the chest, finding 150 gold and a +1 chain shirt of dwarven make.
• The two bodies are examined, finding 15g and the leather armor. The third lower level guard body fell into the lava before it could be examined. Baeshre and Ari cast detect magic and identify to determine the boots are magical, the war hammer is magical, and the chain shirt is +1.
• The party takes a short rest, rolls some hit dice, and waits for Joran and the traders to come up to the lava bridge. The traders after an hour join and are surprised to find the party in one piece and all the bodies already disposed off.
• The party then offers the traders 15 g and the +1 chain mail shirt, which they happily take. The traders then accompany the party to the turn off, about 45 mins down the path. The party is told that the scorpions seem to be coming from that direction.
• Roth asks Joran about the time, and he pulls out a pocket watch, telling Roth it is 2 hours until dinner. The item is a great curiosity to Roth, who is unsure about it, Joran telling him the device is used to keep track of time when away from the cities, and was gnomish is nature. Joran is not sure if they exist on the surface, but suggests Roth seek out a gnomish crafts person.
• After following the path for an hour, there is a break in the path, and Roth believes that the party should go to the right, which John confirms with his compass.
• The tunnel then ends, and Roth slowly pokes his sword through the stone, which turns out is an illusion. The party then enters into a large cavern very similar to the area where they started out early that morning.
• From this area, there is a 15 ft wide staircase, leading upwards for at least 25 ft. to a lighted area. Roth goes up the stairs first, going up about 45 ft, and ending in a 30 ft by 30 ft square room, full of random debris, lighted with 4 magic flames in each corner, with a 10 ft wide staircase on the other side, guarded by two giant scorpions.
• Combat begins, and Roth gets one arrow/bolt off and then runs away, leaving Baeshra at the front of the party on the stairs. The giant scorpion then took almost half of Baeshra's health, the second one unable to also go down the stairs.
• Ari then casts thunder-wave, pushing back both the giant scorpions into the room, and Baeshra casts fireball in the room, lighting everything on fire and killing one of the giant scorpions.
• Scarlett then rages and uses her new war hammer to kill the second scorpion, finally happy she got to hit something.
• The party goes into the room and sorts through all the items that were pushed around and tries to find items of use. The party finds a total of 85 gold and 1 jade piece worth 75 gold in the various pieces of eaten bits of under dark monster and duergar. Also, random pieces of stone are scattered along the floor as well. The blast from the fireball blew everything out of place.
• Merry casts the tiny hut, allowing the party to rest for the night, with the golem, Tim, keeping watch on the path down to the under dark.

Rewards Granted

Winged Boots, Warhammer (psychic), 150 gold, +1 dwarven chain shirt, 15 gold, jade gem worth 75 gold, 85 gold,