Session 17: Underdark: Axlintar part 1
General Summary
Our heroes start the day back in Black Crystal, Solto has convinced the party to adventure after a magical item located in the Underdark.
After buying supplies, Solto shared the pages in Magic Items for the Crossbow User with his party. Our heroes travel by horse a day and a half to arrive at Lightfalls. Solto convinces a farm boy, Lucas, to join our heroes, he neglects to tell Lucas exactly where they are headed. Solto agrees to pay Lucas 1 gold each day. Lucas ran off to his farm to prepare, he returned a few hours later with 30 days of food in a massive back pack, no weapons in hand. Our heroes spend the night in Lightfalls. They take off bright and early and decide to leave the horses at Lucas's farm. Zanril Vensandoral is able to read the map in Magic Items for the Crossbow User and points out that he thinks they are looking for a teleportation circle. They spend the day hiking to the general location. Daeran, Rorick, and Zanril agreed to scout the surrounding area for clues while Kaylin and Solto made camp. They were extremely lucky and found a stone circle covered in underbrush. Rorick sensed some residual magic around it. They headed back to a poorly constructed camp and set up a watch schedule.
In the morning our heroes headed out to the stone circle. Rorick casts detect magic again and sees that there is still magic around the circle. Solto remembers that he has two spell scrolls of Teleportation Circle, Rorick reads the first spell scroll, it sparks but nothing happens. Zanril casts Guidance on him to give him a buff to try again. This time Rorick succeeds. In a flash of light, our heroes find themselves in a large, dimly lit cavern. Some druegar guards approached and questioned them. Daeran loudly announced that they were there to kill the spider queen, the druegar were a bit put off by this announcement. Our heroes were able to talk their way out and headed into the city.
The first tavern they found was The Mask of Fortitude, they questioned the bartender a little and then ordered some food. While our heroes were eating, four drow approached and threatened them, word apparently got out that they had threatened a spider queen. They eventually left after being talked down. Our heroes then headed up to the The Spider Queen's Loft and found one of Alistair Bandy's golems. They had a nice chat with Ethan the bartender, it seems that the inhabitants of the city are a little afraid of the guards and it is easier to enter than to leave the city.
Daeran and Solto decide to dress up as drow and question Ethan, they don't get very far he seems even less willing to talk to drow. Our heroes decide to venture to the southern part of the city to find Alistair Bandy.
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