(G547 11/01/2024 via Roll20 - JF, KT, AP(GM), AD) YI-B2

 (G547 11/01/2024 via Roll20 - JF, KT, AP(GM), AD) YI-B2

[Myself (Rollo), Reinward and Fang have teleported from Yag Island to a mysterious dungeon on a quest to find the "Stone of the Sparkledingles" that Felia our resident magical shopkeeper wants us to find.]

DAY 619  (12th Uktar) (November) cont ...

In the next room we came to we battled and killed a bunch of Otyugh. They are nasty beings with many tentacles, but we had fought them before and knew what to do.

We searched the room for treasure then moved on.

The dungeon we were in was a maze of rooms and corridors, the design of which made little sense, with corridors switching back on themselves, doors leading to dead ends, rooms with multiple doors that led to more meandering corridors. Each room was carved out of rock, and usually undecorated. The beasts that lived in the rooms were sometimes so large that there was no way they could ever leave. How had they go there? What did they eat? It was a very interesting eco-system and I drew maps and took lots of notes as we went.

Anyway, the next random corridor we came to had a trap that Fang triggered. A heavy flail came swinging at him, but he dodged out of the way just in time. Reinward, who sometimes forgot that it was his job to seek such things out, then went forward and started being more diligent in search for further traps.

On we went, T-junctions, dead ends, sometimes doubling back to follow other corridors and doors we had previously walked past. We came to some flooring that had mosaic patterns on it. It seemed harmless to me, but Fang tried to throw Reinward across it. He landed badly, and after that they stopped mucking about.

The next door we came to we heard buzzing behind, and as usual we avoided what we assumed were Hell Wasps. We went back to where we had fought the chain devil and found another door we had not opened yet. Reinward Blinked a quick look through the door and some screeching shadows came at him. These nasty monsters then came at us, able to merge through the walls to strike at us. I knew of these beings and knew that they were dangerous. One poked at me from the wall and I felt much of my strength drain away. Reinward threw his magical daggers at them as they appeared.

One got Fang, and his strength was drained but I then boosted him with a Bull's Strength spell.

This was Reinward's battle. While me and Fang could not do much to get at them, one by one Reinward dispatched them with sneaky daggers. Well done, Ren!

We explored the room the monsters had been in and found a hidden chest. Me and Fang were still weak though, so we teleported back to the Barrow and I asked Sylvia and Veddic to please prepare Lesser Restoration for the next day.

I'm writing this in my journal now in our room in the new Keep we have built. Lavinia is asleep in the bed while I write at my desk. I think she knows I've been off having adventures, but so far I have not been told off.

DAY 620  (13th Uktar) (November)

In the morning I met the others down at Felia's shop and we teleported back into the dungeon.

Once more we started exploring corridors and rooms, listening at doors and looking our for traps. Sometimes we would come across a portcullis which we would try and lift up and if that didn't work then Fang would noisily chop it down.

Eventually we came to a large chamber that had a giant spider in it. It was so large it almost filled the room. I have fought these things before and it is best to not get too close so I sent in several waves of crocodiles. Reinward threw his magical daggers and Fang even tossed in an axe or two. Dangerous as a massive spider is, it was too unintelligent to realise the crocodiles were not the real threat and it was soon vanquished.

In the next chamber we came across more Otyughs and we defeated these just as efficiently. Fang charged in and held them off while I did my damage with a Flaming Sphere in their rear and Reinward, as ever, threw his deadly magic daggers. I went in with my scimitar towards the end, just for the fun of it. I even managed to kill one of them.

I was left even more curious as to the ecology of this dungeon. What did the spiders eat? Did they eat the wasps? And the Otyughs, why were there so many of them? I suspected there was a mad wizard behind all this - after all - there usually was!