[Myself and Dak are on the trail of the Black Mirror and have arrived in Waterdeep. While waiting for the ship to come in, we are clearing out a dungeon of undead and other nasties.]
DAY 565 (19th Eleint) (September) cont ...
After my very near death experience I needed the remainder of the day to calm my nerves. We then rested at Roge Gelnne's house.
DAY 566 (20th Eleint) (September)
After healing and restoring myself, we headed back down into the haunted cellars of the house of Roge Gelnne.
Whatever this place had been, it was not short of undead. Rooms and corridors of dusty corpses led through to yet more catacombs. Not burial chambers as such, but areas for the collection of the dead. Perhaps a powerful necromancer had once inhabited this place?
I used Stone Shape on doors that Dak could not hack through, and we came to another chamber full of giant zombies and flesh golems. How many years had they stood here silently and undisturbed? Maybe a hundred years judging by the dust that was thrown up as Dak chopped them to pieces.
Another room, and three more golems that met the same fate. We then moved on, down the dusty corridors to smaller room that had a square pool in it. Dak immediately fell in.
This pool was a doorway for an aboleth. I have fought these creatures before (although Fenrir is the expert!) and these pools always lead down into dark watery caverns or flooded halls. I hauled Dak out, but the dwellers beneath had been alerted and we were then attacked by an aboleth and its skum slaves.
Dak felled three of the skum in one wide sweep of his blade. I summoned a polar bear that just barely squeezed into the already crowded chamber. The aboleth hit us with a Lightning Spell.
I summoned some crocodiles next and the pool became a wild frothing turmoil of tentacles and angry animals. I turned into a polar bear and belly flopped in. The aboleth stood no chance. We chased it through to another chamber were it tried to surrender, I think, but since we could not understand its language I told Dak to just kill it. He leapt into the water again and cut it in half.
After all that, we moved on to another chamber full of treasure chests. These contained a large amount of loot that we happily stuffed into our Bags of Holding. This job was finally paying off!
Next though we were attacked by another dread wraith, and it very nearly did for us again. But Dak held it off with magical blows while I used Sunbeam and Hypothermia until the terrible thing was slain.
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