jordie1892

Baum now has the drider gland, dragon heart and giants spine: Drider Gland - Levitate and darkness spell Dragons Heart - Flight, Produce a breath/Flame, Long Life Giants Spine - Long Life, Regeneration. Matt/Greboths characters were staying out of sight. Lavendar went to kill Arn but was stopped by a second spell. Baum looks up to see Jarlaxl (drow mercenary leader) was responsible. Jarlaxl and Baum know each other. Jarlaxl levitates into the middle of us, and threatens Baum to leave, however Baum must leave Lavendar behind. Jarlaxl got us to fight Lavendar as a test. We beat the shit out of Lavendar and kill her. Jarlaxl states that whilst Lavender was not a good person she was good at what she did. It shows Drow respect warriors. Jarlaxl picks up Lavenders Axe with one hand, which shows how strong he is. Gives it to Breadbin. Azum promises to act as a member of Bragen D'Erth and is given a necklace/pouch with 2 effects: Levitate - once per long rest Contains a coin of bragen D'erth which can be used with thieves guild. Azum promises that once Baum is defeated, he will go back to the underdark to join with Bragen D'erth. The group travel back to Slema and into the Tavern on a quiet afternoon. Jeremy and Miranda are happy to see everyone, particularly Arn. The main group joined a local militia and took out a cult in the early sessions. There are now proper kings guards, who regularly see and hang out with the group. Guard Captain Foundry Finds us at our table in the tavern. We update him on what happened, and a group of people overhear that we killed Lavender and join us at the table. They are keen to hear about the underdark and what we did. We got the posh guard twats to leave and resumed talking to Captain Foundry. Captain Foundry shows a royal parchment which says there have been a series of attacks on villages east of Slema; St Julians, Paceville, Mosta (the coast). The reports suggest they were attacked by the scourge and ghouls. These are unconfirmed reports, it could just be bandits. There is a reward for investigating the attacks all the way to Mosta, requesting eye-witness testimonies from us. Breadbin persuaded Captain Foundry to give us fresh supplies, horses, carriage etc. Father Richards is the local priest, who would be good to talk to about facing undead. Cereny (from thieves guild) might have information about how we can counter the time stop spell in exchange for the coin.

I'll leave my notes here, have probably missed something... Arn the Bear was saved by Matt with a Spare the Dying spell. The Party headed back to The Swan in Slema, where people were surprised to see them. They learned Baum and Lavender teleported to the swan, stayed for a few days and then left. The party met Azum, who informed the group that Baum is a wannabe sorcerer who has zero magical powers. He collects magical artifacts to gain power. He has collected at least 3 artifacts including the Dragon Heart and Giants Spine, by tricking groups into helping him retrieve the artifacts, then betraying them with a Stop spell. The next artifact Baum is going for is from a Drider, which will give him the Darkness spell, as well as levitate. A gnome called Ceryni from the thieves guild beckoned us over. He gave us information and direction son how to get to the Drider. As part of the agreement, the group each promised a 3%share of their treasure. As Azum had no treasure to offer, he instead fought a man who owed money to Cervni. Cervni gave us the following advice: It's dark, so dark vision is very useful Everything is trying to kill you and eat you If you see drow you are already dead. Just run. It goes deep, chances of finding a way out are slim. Leave a trail After shopping for some essentials, we headed to the Underdark. We were given the instructions: Walk for 1 day, go right at the fork, walk for another day, go right at fork, walk for one more day, go left, circle the city of Menzobaronzon and find the dryders We entered the Underdark, holding a rope as to not get separated, then left a trail until we came across a cavern. This was about half a days walk. In the cavern we ended up fighting a giant crab. The fight generally went very well, and we did a lot of quick damage to the crab, however a huge thunderwave spell from Cal did huge amounts of damage to the party, particularly Azum, who got sent flying and left with only 3 hp.