(G174 16/08/2013 Fri via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP)

(G174 16/08/2013 Fri via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP)

[These notes added later. Back at Waterdeep where Fenrir and Corum had just arrived back
at the Artemel Villa.]


DAY 213 (10 Marpenoth)(October) continued...

Fenrir and Corum were instantly spotted by the Artemel Villa house guards and the captain
shouted 'Arrest them!'

Fenrir was indignant at first and said
'Lets not embarrass ourselves, we defeated Gilliard De Rosan where the Grey Hands could not.
Don't let this get unpleasant.'

The Captain was a rough, tattooed looking fellow called Haven who seemed interested in this
since as he said 'The Lord hasn't been telling us anything of what's been going on.'
He also said Fenrir could find him in a nearby tavern after his working hours if he wanted
to tell him more.

As they talked though Bresnoss Artemel came out of the main building. He was a tall, bald
man with long hair at the side. He also had ten more guards with him and he shouted
'Don't just stand about! Arrest them!'

Fenrir went invisible and flew up onto the roof.
'Get Tanya out here. The warlock is using magic!' shouted Artemel as his guards took Corum
into the house.

Fenrir watched for a while from behind a chimney, but was slightly beaten at his own game
as an invisible flying wizard cast a dominate spell on him. A middle aged woman appeared
and gave him a small smile and asked him to follow her inside, which he was compelled to
do.

He was thrown into a small room and locked in for the night.

DAY 214 (11 Marpenoth)(October)

Around about three in the morning Maliantor arrived to take him away.
'Thanks Tanya, I'll take it from here.'
'Looks like a flight risk' said the other wizard, but released the Dominate spell none-the-less.

Maliantor took Fenrir back to the Blackstaff Tower and made him a cup of tea in a small kitchen
in her quarters.

They talked for a long time, Fenrir telling her about what had happened in Darkness Deep and
Maliantor telling him about what she had learned. With all the information added together
she thought that Fenrir and Corum had been in a 'bubble' in Hell, a special area created by
the Vengeance demon especially for De Rosan. A world where the villain thought he was the
ruler of everything, but a complete work of fiction created by the demon. That was why the
world seemed fainter and more ghostly further away from De Rosan and also why the portals
they tried didn't work.

She gave three hundred platinum coins to Fenrir and bid him farewell also adding that something
odd had happened to Corum and he would be staying a bit longer.

Around six in the morning Fenrir arrived, in disguise, at the OJB and met Nestoone in his
office. He went up to Corum's room and sent Raya on some errands (an expensive mithril shirt
being the main thing on his shopping list).

Raya and Veddic were back! A few days after Fenrir and Corum had vanished they had been
bagged up and thrown off the back of a cart in Dockward.

At noon, while he was eating his lunch, a quasit appeared at the window and asked to be
let in. It said its name was Rick-de-Ben who said he had been sent by 'the boss' to reward
him. He could have any of the magical items he had found in Darknessdeep and Fenrir went
for Jandor's Ring. (Later he learned that Corum had also been given something;
'The Darknessdeep Amulet'.)

Fenrir spent the rest of the day in Corum's room, resting and recovering from his ordeal
in Hell.

DAY 215 (12 Marpenoth)(October)

In the afternoon of this day Corum arrived back from the Blackstaff Tower saying that he'd
been in long talks with Maliantor who had been poking and prodding him. He took his boots
off and flopped onto his bed.
Apparently some vague magical power that had lain dormant in him had been awoken by spending
days in a very magical part of an alter plane. Maliantor was greatly interested in him as
he did not fit into any sort of Wizard, Cleric or Sorcerer category but was a type of
Spellcaster she had never seen before.
Corum wasn't very interested in his new skills though, being more interested in his bed
and his pillow.

The other thing of note today was that a female gnome called Hazalender came looking for
him. When Nestoone turned her away she said she could be contacted at the Dragon's Head Tavern


Fenrir chatted to Nestoone and Dwerry a little bit, but otherwise the rest of his day was quiet.


DAY 216 (13 Marpenoth)(October)

Cavu came to see them today. He said that the notes Gertrude had left him had told him to
come and look for them at the OJB today.

He said he had some people he could hire for a trip to the Undermountain to look for Barndal
but wondered if Fenrir and Corum would be interested. After some discussion they agreed on
the following party:

1 Fenrir
2 Corum
3 Raya
4 Veddic
5 Cavu
6 Nestoone
7 Dwerry

For the rest of the day they made plans, got everyone together and purchased supplies, which
included:

14 cure light wounds potions
14 blessed bandages
14 acid jars
14 alchemist fires
35 sun rods
280 rations
2 everburning lanterns
2 crowbars


DAY 217 (13 Marpenoth)(October)

In the morning they all sent letters to whomever they thought best and made arrangements for
their absence. Fenrir sent a letter to Giselle.

They then made their way to The Yawning Portal, Waterdeep's most famous entrance into the Undermountain.

It was after lunch when they arrived, but they kept quiet when asked what their quest was.
They entered the Undermountain via the well, lowered one by one, at the cost of a gold each, by the
staff of the Yawning Portal.

And so here they were! I feel like I should be starting a new chapter of a heroic legend. I feel
like it should have capital letters.. oh what the heck.. 


                THE UNDERMOUNTAN
               
From the room at the bottom of the well a narrow corridor lead to the Hall of Pillars. Raya went
first, checking for traps and things as she went. She spotted a gold coin on the floor and startled
a rat which scampered north.
There was also the skeleton of a snake wrapped around a pillar. Corum whacked it with his sword
but nothing happened.

They went west from here and entered the Hall of Mirrors. Raya checked for traps again and at the
last mirror she glanced into it and was suddenly attacked by a duplicate of herself!

The 'Evil Raya' was quickly defeated though and vanished. Veddic then went up to destroy the
mirror with his morning star. When he struck it though, it vanished and two 'Evil Veddic's appeared!

These were much tougher to deal with. Veddic fell over with a miss-timed swing of his chain and
the first 'Evil Veddic' cast Inflict Critical Wounds on him.

As the fight continued the second one also cast it on him, bring Veddic an inch away from death
and collapsed bleeding on the floor.

Cavu jumped past and was hit as he went to help Veddic. The others shot arrows down the corridor
at the enemies and the duplicates were finally destroyed by blasts from Fenrir.

They poured potions into Veddic and got him back onto his feet. Meanwhile, Dwerry at the back
had seen four strange looking Drow coming up on them. She shouted an alarm and they turned to
face this new threat.

They were drow, but with a strange white pallor and gibbered with madness as they came. They
were easily defeated by Fenrir's blasts and Corum's sword, but once on the floor they lay
motionless but appeared not to be dead.

Corum tried to chop one's head off, but it was like a magic force was keeping this strange
being together. He then poured oil on it and set it aflame and although it burnt it was not
reduced to ashes and continued to gaze on him with a disturbing malevolence.

They decided to leave them alone after that.