Session 22: The Mona Dun Report

General Summary

The party found themselves in a new and unexpected region of Korris which they learned was called The Mona Dun (The Womb of Twilight in the Drow language).  After having defeated some kind of black, acidic slimes, they took some time to collate all they had learned from their conversation with Tontrell Moldknuckle, a traveling deep gnome merchant and tinkerer, before descending into the fungal forest apparently known as The Beryl Mycillium on spiderback.     After walking for some while, the party stumbled over what appeared to be a village of drow elves and after determining that they didn't seem immediately bloodthirsty, engaged in some conversation about who these people were and what they were doing here.  The town of Gloomshade apparently was set up and administered by House Dziet, one of the great houses that sits on The Covenant (some kind of governing body), and focuses on the production of distilled spirits made from some kind of fungus harvested nearby.  Richard and Etsudo engaged a young drow girl in language lessons while Aja and Willona sussed out a bit more information from the citizens of the village.  Mizuho was on high alert through the entire exchange, refusing to drop her guard for even a second.   Deciding that the next logical course of action was to try to make their way to the Sea of Shards to try to locate familiar ground in a port of some kind, the party set off into the Beryl Mycillium intending to traverse as much distance on the relative safety of the roads as they could without coming too close to the city of Endan Dun at the heart of the forest.   Without daylight to give them a sense of time, they eventually stopped to rest in another village by the name of Sporehaven (also flying the crest of House Dziet) and took rooms at the Three Torches Inn.  Still very anxious, Mizuho refused to sleep in the building for fear of a dagger in her sleep and a compromise was reached where Richard and Willona would sleep in the room while the others would rest and keep watch from the roof of the Inn; feigning some cultural tradition of doing so.     During her rest shift, exhaustion overcame Mizuho and had a disturbing dream while she slept that seemed to project into the minds of her sleeping comrades.  Mizuho forcibly woke herself by biting down on her hand in the dream and came awake with a silent, breathless, scream.