Chapter 1: Escape part 1
General Summary
Day Three
Following the events of the previous night the group begin planning their escape for the following night, when Jorlan leaves the gate open. That day, the drow split the group into their usual work groups: Nuala is sent with Sarith and Eldeth to clean the quaggoth den; Jorrar with Buppido to clean the barracks and outpost in general; Aosi with Jimjar and Prince Derendil are left in the slave pen carving idols to Lolth; Zendagar with Topsy and Turvy to clean the barracks with Jorrar and Buppido; Savarax with Shushar to man the lift with the quaggoths. During the day, the group take their final opportunities to gather resources and information, though the drow are on guard much more today, due to the increasing proximity of the sound outside the outpost. This means that Aosi is closely watched while carving the idols with carving hammers, each time he seemingly completes a carving, the drow smashes the idol, however they refuse to give more guidance. Prince derendil is much less careful with his carving, cursing his current state trapped in this form, limiting his skill and making him more angry and aggressive. When Aosi later questions his history and nature as an elf Prince Derendil becomes increadibly agressive and takes a swipe at Aosi, who manages to dodge out of the way and calm the apparent elf trapped in a quaggoth body. In this encounter, Aosi learns that Prince has no memory of his home and as an elf Aosi knows that it does not exist. While cleaning the quaggoth den, Sarith complains of pain delevoping in his head and begins to speak gibberish. Initially Nuala is able to calm Sarith and he returns to normal, though later in the day it reoccurs and he attacks the work group. Nuala restrains him with the help of Eldeth as he pulls out a sharp piece of stone, which he stole as part of an earlier work duty. Sarith collapses from the strain and ahs no memory of the event when he later recovers and returns to his normal, stoic self, offering no more details on the attack or previous occurences. Nuala is able to recover the makeshift dagger following the fight and hide it from the drow. While cleaning the barracks, where the drow meditate, the twin deep gnomes attempted to steal items from the barracks under persuassion from Zendegar. This lead to Topsy being shot with a drow bolt and being dragged away to the pen with his sibling. During this struggle Zendegar is able to sneak into the barraks and hide under one of the pallet beds alowing him to attempt to steal a rope and gappling hock, though he was unable to hide it on his person, instead storing it next to the barracks doors. At the end of the day the group are fed on their usual thin gruel, which allows them to recover their used strength, but none of their wounds leaving topsy weakened. That night Buppido remains awake with Aosi, refusing to sleep but retreating to give the seemingly sleep after much persuassion. Jorlan, as promised, arrived to release the group from their cell without any conversation before starting a distraction which draws the elite guard out of the tower. At this point Aosi uses the maeshift lockpicks he recovered to release Eldeth and Jimjar, while Savarax breaks his own chains to release him turning the collar into a makeshift club, leaving one pick remaining. Nuala changes into a spider and dodges the falling collar, while hiding in the pocket of Aosi allowing the group to escape the slave pen.Escape
They charge the guard tower overpowering the remaining two guard, throwing one onto the spider net and eliminating the final drow. With the drow eliminated, the group gather equipment from the armory and Aosi moves to raid the shrine tower with Eldeth and Nuala. With the group split, the Quaggoth attacked the guard tower, meaning that the bridge needed to be cut away, leaving them without a route to retreat but free from attack from behind. In the meantime Aosi, using fog, raided the shrine without coming under attack, hiding from the drow in the tower. This allowed Aosi and Nuala to sneak below finding Shoor and Ilvara. Eldeth created further distration to draw away the drown in the tower and Ilvara, this was later aided by a group of demons fighting above and around the outpost. The demons use a powerful screech attack to fight eachother, but the group remain just out of reach and out of harm. The demons are made up of a group of vrock and chasme fighting each other, at the moment seemngly unaware of the outpost below them. In the confusion Nuala and Aosi robbed trapped Shoor in his quarters while stealing back their equipment and the easily carried treasuy in the quarters. On the way out of the tower Aosi distracts the remaining female drow in the Shrine but is spotted by one of the drow guards gathered on the cliff while retreating to the guard tower. This leaves the whole group gathered in the guard tower, trapped, with at least one drow knowing they are there.Rewards Granted
Makeshift dagger.
Makeshift club.
Own equipment.
Silver framed mirror.
Silver headdress with onyx stones.
Two potions of healing.
24gp, 30sp.
Moonstone.
6 chains shirts.
6 studded leather armour.
6 sheilds.
6 hand crossbows.
20 cases of bolts.
6 shortswords.
10 daggers.
4 ropes (100ft)
2 crafting hammers.
2 bags of iron spikes.
Missions/Quests Completed
Escape the slave pen.
Take guard tower.
Recover the equipment.
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