Havere - Chapter 1, Session 6: Into the Black Heart (Part 2).
General Summary
The Bumbling Idiots continue their infiltration of The Black Heart's Sewer Lair.
First, after a short rest, they chase down the Drow Mage that had escaped into the other room to be confronted with not just the mage, but three berserker-types. Greg casts Hypnotic Gaze and incapacitates everyone but a lone half-orc berserker who is too filled with rage to realize what is happening. The party quickly dispatches of the rest of the berserkers, tie up the mage, and decide to interrogate her. They learn, much to their dismay that this may not be the only cell of Black Heart and that killing Thorddus Blackfoot would not necessarily grant them control of the criminal organization. They convince her not to attack them if she wakes up then knocks her out and hides her under a bedroll.
The Bumblers then travel north to a mysterious hallway which ends in a dead end. Morgan finds that the wall to be a fake, but the party doesn't figure out how it works.
They then find the door the Blackfoot entered after he had dropped them into the Chuul pit, but the door is heavy and protected by a complicated lock that needs a key. So they move on.
In the room directly to the West they use their excellent vision to see that there is a band of Duergar waiting wearing plate mail and tabbards with Dwarven-like runes they don't recognize. They decide not to disturb them. They continue and run into an intersection. To the West is the band of Duergar. To the North is a ominus locked wooden door with a note that says "Keep out" in three different languages, and to the South is a sewer-way heading to what sounds to be a mess hall and/or kitchen. The party heads south.
Xenia stealthfully scouts out the room to the south and it is indeed a mess hall/kitchen. She scouts out who is occupying the room, but is interrupted by a fresh recruit that has finished his meal and is on his way out. The party hide, then follows him, kills him, and stashes the body.
After that, they pretend to be more new recruits and one-by-one lead people out of the kitchen, murder them, and stash the bodies - well all except for the last recruit who they feel pity for and just knock him out. On that final patsy they find the key to Thordus's Office.
They open the door, and a battle ensues. The Orc Shaman in the room blesses Thordus and his honor guard. Morgan tries to cast a sleep spell that is quickly counter-spelled by Blackfoot himself. The honor guard grow to large size and block entrance to the room. Thordus orders his guard to unblock the door way, and shoots a jet of fire out of his prosthetic arm catching Carnival, Morgan, and Greg in the blast.
Himo and Carnival shift their positions so they are not likely to get caught in another blast and continue to deal with the honor guards.
Greg casts heat metal on Blackfoot which starts to cause him great pain so the Orc shaman summons a spiritual spear to try to break Greg's concentration. He is not deterred and dodges the on-coming attack.
Morgan sees this and decides to enter the office to deal with the shaman himself. He casts blur on himself and sprints into the room in melee range of the shaman, but he is hit critically by a guard on his way. Thordus seeing the pocket mage make for his shaman decides he must defend the holy man, and proceeds to attack Morgan. Morgan, being slight of statue, easily dodges the punches from Throdus's now burning hot metal arm but cannot dodge the kicks from is metal leg.
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