Session 5: The Mine part 2
General Summary
We started where we left off, in the second level of the mine. Our heroes just finished off some zombies and made it down a spiral staircase into the third level of the mine. This level seemed to be less cave-like than the last level. Our heroes noticed some drow and zombies down a corridor. Solto took the lead and ate a Bufos Draconii mushroom. It murdered one of the drow and gravely injured one zombie. Daeran followed suite and also ate a mushroom, his did electric damage that gave our heroes a slight edge. Unfortunately these mushrooms came with a side effect, both Solto and Daeran were distracted for a few rounds, they thought dragons had started attacking. It was a rough battle for Rorick, who took a big hit from one of the zombies. A Drow Araconamancer yelled at the party "You will pay for this!" and then transformed into a large spider and disappeared down a hole in the floor. Kaylin did quite a bit of damage with her longbow, many of her shots stuck true. Mid-battle some Fungus Zombies crawled out of the hole and started fighting. When everyone else was dead a deep horn sounded and the Fungus Zombies retreated back down the hole.
Our heroes explored the rest of this level of the mine. They found three dehydrated health potions and one that was strangely green. They discovered veins of obsidian and after much agreement decided that it was definitely used in some kind of magic. Zanril finally appeared and used his vast bard knowledge to inform the group that obsidian is used to create undead. This might help explain all the undead our heroes have been fighting.
Next our heroes had to figure out how to descend down the hole. They send the Driftglobe down first, they confirmed it was about 80 feet. Zanril had a great idea to create a climbing rig with pitons and rope. All of our heroes descended into the hole without incidence.
Our heroes landed in a smallish cavern that was very hot and had a strong sulfuric smell. Our heroes came face to face with the Drow Aracnomancer. She started to speak to them in elvish. (Poor Solto was trigger happy and couldn't understand any of the conversation) Our heroes were not able to get a lot of information from her but they found out that she serves Kalral and she is terrified he will find out that her operation had been discovered. She became frustrated with all of their questions, turned into a giant spider and tried to restrain everyone with a web. She then went deeper into the mine and instructed the zombies to collect our heroes. Kaylin immediately burst out of the web. Nothing can hold her back.
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