Session 77 - Dec 3, 2020 Report
General Summary
1305 - 1st Moon of Summer (Duama) 5th Day
- The party does some planning, discussions on mushrooms (golden nigght already growing at house) and fungus while Magmabrew arranges for an escort out of the city.
- Brotter, from the bakery Prime Dough, leaves a small box of eclairs for Alethera and Ari in the morning, with a thank you note. The owner for the tavern/inn, Rubric, was going to pass along the party's goodbyes.
- Magmabrew, the party, an escort of guards, and a fancy person with a large book are escorted through the city and down a very large staircase to an underground river with dock. The party, except the book holder (the scribe to check the party out of the city) get into a boat and float downstream with rowers and a guide (steers the boat). After 3 hours of travel and many twists and turns the boat stops. Ari, Roth, and Merri have been playing quiet sea shanties for the duration of the trip. The boat then stops at the entrance to the mine, a staging area for transport. An open cavern with plenty of room.
- The guards then do a sweep of the area and confirm the staging area is safe. They then go back to the boat, and head back to the city. The party then confirms with Magmabrew what is downriver and when boat will return.
- It is decided that Magmabrew will cast the Tiny Hut to cover the door while the party explores the first level of the mine (three levels are listed on the map).
- The party heads into the mines and explores/clears the top level in about 6 hours, finding two sets of stairs down, one to the second level, then one to the third, and one straight to the third level, and there is much discussion on how to cover the entrance and how to make it safe for further exploration.
- Roth sends Olly down to the second level, and confirms a store room not far off the staircase and that the space is far more open and full of natural caverns.
- Roth then casts Sending from the stone and the party heads back to spend the night in the Mini-Mansion at the entrance to the mine in the staging area. During the break time, Roth discusses magical mounts with Magmabrew, Ari reads up on research she did on magical monsters to bring back, Merri looks in the library for Feywilde information, Alethra reads up on fungus, Li does some calligraphy.
- The party gets breakfast and walk with Magmabrew to block the stairs down to the third level and agrees to check in using a Sending Stone at the end of the day.
- At the start of level two, the party finds a store room and blocks the stairs up with some tables, old crates and Roth rigs a bell to ring if the pile is disturbed.
- After confirming one quarter of the map, Roth and Ari see a creature coming out of a tunnel that is not on the map. Roth is confused, Ari shakes off the affect and Merry is able to turn the large creature into a chicken. The party then gathers around the chicken trying to figure out what to do about it, and misses the second Umberhulk that come from a different tunnel.
- The party is in then in various states of confusion and attacks the Umberhulk and each other until Roth is able to use darkness and do major damage. Li then rolls a nat 20 doing over 50 HP damage. The creature dies, and the party harvests the head to put in Roth's bag of holding.
- The party then goes to find the chicken that ran off in the battle, brings it back, blinds it, and ties it feet together. The party then unleashes all its prepared actions and kills the second Umberhulk in 1 round of combat. The party then takes a short rest for an early lunch and hit dice are rolled before this new tunnel is explored.
- Roth send imp Olly down the tunnel, going left at the branch, and a Nothic spots Olly, speaking to the invisible Olly. Olly is very confused and Roth sends Olly to pet space and brings her back. The party then explores down to that cave, with Roth seeing the Nothic, despite a 25 stealth. Ari flies us, and the Nothic, starts a conversation in dwarvish.
- The Nothic, who calls itself Albrecht, tells the party about the yummy moss (a deep green) the glowing moss (bio-luminescent) and some of the creatures it has seen. After some confusion and minor images, the party learns that it killed two umberhulks, but there are still three Hook Horrors, three Cloakers, and a lot of Deep Mantels (cave droppers) that float around the mine proper.
- The Nothic, Albrecht is happy to stay in the natural cave system that it lives in, without the dwarves mining or interfering. The party then bids him farewell and goes back to the split, closing up the left split to leads to Albrecht's set of natural caves (with a small stream of fish and fungus). It was happy to provide samples of the fugus (both glowing and not) to the party. The party offered it rations and some dried food.
- The party is at the split, a little after noon, ready to explore the second area that was carved out by umberhulks.
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