Character Roster:

• Xrith'atiril - Fighter 6, Stoneskin, Endure Heat
• Lusia - Cleric 6 AC 0/4
• Thorgard - Dwarf Fighter 7, Stoneskin
• Tatrin - Cleric 5, Stoneskin
• Kyara - Thief 2, Stoneskin
• Delemir - Endure Heat
• Jacob - Fighter 8, Stoneskin
• Josalyn - Cleric 6, Stoneskin
• Briiz - Stoneskin
• Lygan - Stoneskin

Lygan casts Portent, he will subtract 3 on the 9th roll of the game.

We are in Ornholm and will have 20 miles of travel to get to the Nethergrotto.

Thorgard buys 400' of rope. Endure Heat is like Stoneskin against fire and lasts 9 turns/level.

No heavy mounts so its half our move points to get there. We wont get back in 1 night.

Thorgard and Xrith on doors. And Jacob?

We arrive at the Nethergrotto, it is still unsealed. The Acolyte did not come with us. Lusia casts Endure Heat on herself and Xrith'atiril.

We hear the slithering movement in the hole below us. Lusia casts Snake Charm. We are above the hole and above the platform where the snake is. The party is 15' above it. Everyone can see the snake.

• Thorgard blocks the snake from Lusia.
• Xrith also does this and forms a shield wall.
• Tatrin hangs back.
• Kyara goes to the other single ledge and prepares a shot.
• Jacob will be ready up front to receive a charge
• Josalyn readies
• Briiz is in back.
• Delemir casts Endure Heat.
• Lygan nocks an arrow.

We tie the initiative.

Two Giant Snakes come out of the hole. Kyara can fire her one shot. The snake tries to slither up the side.

Must hit AC 5 against the Snake. Lygan hits for 5 damage and 3. Kyara misses.

The Giant Snakes are 15' long and they pull up to try and reach us. Both of them are going to get to the rock we are on. They do this JUST as the Snake Charm spell finishes.

They must have less than 38 hp for it to work. They are both effected! Both Giant Snakes are charmed and enthralled by Lusia's magic.

• Jacob and Josalyn attack.
• Briiz stays back.
• Delemir waits.
• Lygan will attack.
• Lusia stays behind.
• Thorgard attacks.
• Tatrin moves to engage.
• Xrith attacks.
• Kyara will shoot her bow.

We lost the initiative.

Kyara is targeting allies. Delemir and Jacob are being hit by her arrows.

All of our melee attacks missed except Thorgard who hit.

Jacob hit for 11 and Xrith hit for 12, both snakes are dead.

Thorgard goes into the tunnel with his continual light. There are a couple of large sized snake nests. No shinies or eggs. Both are constructed around a shaft, square shaped hole with smooth walls. He cannot see the bottom.

Its quite wide, the chimney here, we believe it leads down to the room with the large table. Thorgard drops a continual light coin to see how far down it goes. It falls hundreds of feet down. Fallen 500' and goes at a bit of an angle. At about 500' it bounces off to the west, where it goes off at an angle. He can still see dim light where it stopped.

Its actually only about 200' down. The walls are a bit darkened but do not have fresh dirt or ash. Thorgard ties off his rope and then we spike in some iron spikes to tie it off. Jacob and company will watch our backs.

We descend down the chimney shaft. The continual light coin has gotten stuck inside a bunch of ash, dirt and junk. Xrith checks the walls but does not find anything when tapping.

When we land, we trigger a collapse and the ash and dirt falls along with the coin and it lands on the ground. We need to use another 100' of rope to get to where the shaft levels off. We get another 40' down to where the crap has landed.

DELEMIR HAS LEFT

We end up in the room with the large table.

In the lower part of the shaft was more rock and boulders that are now spread across the room and onto the rug.

Xrith checks the base of of the fireplace for anything hidden. Lusia looks through the rubble. Thorgard retrieves the Continual Light Coin. Kyara finds a single gem.

• Gem.

We will go to the south west side of the large passage.

Xrith and Thorgard do not have a Strength spell anymore. We push open the southern door and find the chamber with the carvings on the wall. Light spills into the hallway.

We are trying to follow the water trickle. It comes out of the walls on both sides of the hall and going through the south.

Josalyn casts Find Traps.

We are surprised!

Encounter distance is 2“ away.

We continue down the hallway and see some stairs leading down. We can see a tight archway on the east wall about 5' in width. We are about 10' away from the archway.

5 Troglodytes shoot their veined darts at us! They throw 2 darts each. Kyara is not wearing armor. Briiz and Kyara are not being targeted due to their Dex.

One shot on Thorgard, he has a -3 AC this hits with a Javelin…STONESKIN. Next on Tatrin, miss. Two on Xrith, both miss! Jacob is missed twice. Josalyn has two attacks against her, AC 1/4 (-1), One is a hit…STONESKIN. One on Lygan, STONESKIN. Lusia is missed!

They have no more Javelins!

They all utter a shrill battle cry when they leap out!

• Lygan braces.
• Lusia casts prayer.
• Thorgard moves to engage.
• Tatrin shoots.
• Xrith moves to engage.
• Kyara hides.
• Jacob and Josalyn move to engage.
• Briiz shoots.

We win initiative.

Briiz and Tatrin get their shots off against AC 5. Briiz hits twice for 6 and 5 damage. Lusia casts Prayer after 6 segments.

On segment 2 we move up to the Troglodytes but they charge. Xrith hits for 9. Jacob hits for 9 Thorgard hits for 5. Josalyn hits for 9 and 8.

4 of them are dead!

1 attack on Jacob, all of them miss with 3 attacks. Jacob and Thorgard get their next attacks. Jacob does 8 damage and Thorgard does 8 as well.

We can hear many many Troglodyte voices coming from down the passage. A sizable group.

At the exact segment that Prayer finishes, more Troglodytes show up!

We have 8 more Troglodytes coming at us. They are charging! Only 3 of them attack.

One of the 8 has a wrought gold armband!

Big one on Xrith. The other ones are attacking with claws.

Xrith is hit on a 12, ALL HIT! He takes 8 damage, STONESKIN!

Other guys are attacking Thorgard, he is hit on a 19 but none hit. NO HITS!

There is now a swirling melee!

• Lusia charges into melee.
• Thorgard attacks.
• Tatrin casts Hold Person.
• Xrith attacks the big one.
• Kyara goes down the end of the hall to check our backs.
• Jacob and Josalyn are attacking
• Briiz shoots.
• Lygan charges.

We lose initiative. Hold Person goes off on segment 1 of the next round. Attacks against us.

5 attacks on Jacob. AC -5, big guy only hits on a 20, misses. ALL MISS! 2 attacks on Thorgard, 18 to hit. One claw hit, he takes 1 damage. 1 attack on Josalyn, AC 0, bite hits for 2 damage.

Kyara is MOVING SILENTLY to the end of the hallway. She can hear some low Troglodyte voices in the hallway, creeping up. They would have gotten a surprise. She thinks there are between 5 and 10 of them.

Briiz shoots first, 30% chance to hit an ally. AC 5 on Troglodytes. We get +1 for Prayer. Both shots hit for 3 and 1 damage.

Xrith hit for 10 damage against a Trog. Lusia hits for 5 damage. Thorgard did 3 damage. Lygan did 3 damage. Jacob hit for 16 against the leader with the armband, IT DIED!

They must do a Morale check this next round. Kyara thinks the ones to the north are 30' away.

• Lusia does a fighting withdraw
• Thorgard attacks.
• Tatrin finishes his spell.
• Xrith attacks.
• Kyara can drop some caltrops. She covers two square yards with caltrops. 25% chance of slowing

movement for 8 days. Hes throwing down all 20 and then fleeing.

• Jacob and Josalyn will attack.
• Briiz forms a shield wall to the north.
• Lygan braces to the north.

Hold Person finishes against 3 of them, all fail! Prayer makes it worse. Held for 9 rounds.

Jacob hits for 15, Josalyn hits for 6 and 5, Xrith hits for 5. Thorgard hits for 9. ALL are dead except for the held ones.

From the rear a Battle Cry comes! But there are a bunch of Caltrops on the ground. Target number of 12. 20d20 against 11 of them, there are 6 hits against 9 enemies. 1 Troglodyte is hit 3 times. They do 1 damage each and 25% chance to slow. None of them are slowed but they all take 1 damage except one that took 3…actually he is slowed!

They charge into our rear.

8 attacks against 2 people in front. Briiz, Tatrin. Maybe Lygan?

They will have to make a Morale check. 2 attacks on Tatrin, 1 on Briiz, leader is on Tatrin. Briiz hits one for 12 damage. Lygan hits for 5 damage. Tatrin hits for 5 damage.

This wounds the leader and kills the other ones. One attack on Tatrin, AC 4 hit on a 10. STONESKIN! Othe one on Tatrin, a bite and claw hit, actually only claw for 1 damage. One attack on Briiz. 1 claw hits, STONESKIN!

Jacob and Thorgard kill one of the held ones each. There is still shouting inside the room in Troglodyte language.

• Jacob stays in the front to hinder movement.
• Briiz will attack.
• Josalyn charges toward the rear.
• Lygan attacks.
• Lusia engages in melee.
• Thorgard holds the hallway.
• Tatrin attacks.
• Xrith charges toward the back. Toward the big one.
• Kyara will hide.

Lost initiative.

There is a swirling melee. There are 6 attacks. There is a Morale check. They pass and fight on!

The back line. Leader attack Lygan, AC 1, hit on a 16. All 3 hit! He takes 1, 2 and 1, total of 4 damage. 2 attacks on Tatrin, AC 4, claw and bite hit x2, he takes 3 and 5 damage. Total of 8. 3 on Briiz, AC -2. Misses!

Thorgard and Jacob see something in the blackness, at a lower elevation. As though rising from a murky swamp. A Pair of Glowing Red Eyes! Nothing else! It is whispering something…

On the segment a bolt of red energy flashes out of the darkness, a Dark Figure with long hair. Humanoid with black skin, they caught the visage of it and the bolt flew from long taloned hands. Headed straight down the hallway.

Going after the 4 of us. It goes for Jacob! It strikes him unerringly, dealing 9 damage (2 to his armor).

Xrith misses and Josalyn hits for 6 and 7 damage.

Lygan did 4 damage. That kills one!

We can still hear creatures in the chokepoint.

• Jacob charges north.
• Josalyn and Briiz will attack.
• Lygan attacks
• Lusia attacks.
• Thorgard attacks by moving to engage.
• Tatrin attacks.
• Xrith attacks.
• Kyara is hiding.

We win initiative.

Xrith hits for 10. Jacob autohits for 12. Tatrin hits for 7. Josalyn hits for 5 and 8.

We kill all but one, including the leader.

Morale check on the last one, he flees! 8 damage from Jacob, 6 from Xrith, 4 from Lusia. We kill him!

Another bolt flies out from the south. Going for someone that is unarmored. Kyara rolls Move Silently. She steps on a dungeon leaf. Briiz, Lusia and Kyara are potential targets. Kyara is targeted. Kyara takes 8 damage. She is at 3 hp! Stoneskin does not apply.

• Jacob, Josalyn try to retreat around the corner with the caltrops.
• Lygan braces.
• Lusia braces with cover, makes herself a target.
• Thorgard goes into the hall trying to move Lygan.
• Kyara goes into the big hall.
• Xrith also tries to move Lygan into the big hall.

The bolt was not heat damage. We lost the initiative.

Another bolt is coming at us. Kyara is already around the corner. The bolt goes for Lusia, 9 damage. It is not a chaotic creature.

We get around the corner. Lusia and Lygan follow. We are all hiding around the corner.

• Thorgard will cast protection from evil.
• Xrith blows his horn of fog.
• Kyara hides in the fog.
• Jacob will say he recommends against blow the horn of fog more.
• Lusia stays near Thorgard.

We are all inside the Protection from Evil radius. Roll to make sure he doesnt fail to cast. We are good. the spell lasts for 8 turns. The cloud of fog is summoned.

This time we win the initiative.

Nothing has come for us this round.

• Xrith will move south to engage and stops blowing his horn.
• Kyara stays around the corner.
• Jacob and henchmen will move down to engage.
• Lygan moves.
• Lusia advances.
• Thorgard moves to engage.

We advance south down the hall. Once we get lateral with the chokepoint, it looks like a sizable living quarters of Troglodytes. It is so large we cannot see the edges of the wall. There are no Troglodytes inside, it looks empty. We no longer see the glowing red eyes.

It sounds quiet in here and Find Traps is still going. The Troglodyte that was held is now dead.

We see that large room, there are two small hallways going out. Troglodytes were not wearing clothes and had no money, except one had a gold armband.

We do not see anything valuable in the room yet. Xrith and Jacob search for loose stones. We find nothing of value. Xrith finds a secret door in the south east.

Kyara is still in the great hall looking for her caltrops in the dark. She gets them all.

Tatrin heals Kyara for 4 hp. Tatrin heals himself for 3. Lygan is healed for 2.

We search the secret door and Xrith determines that the wall is just pushed, but only from the other side. Magic could open it but no other way to open it.

Not surprised.

We are grouped around by the wall section of the secret door. We turn around and we have a new presence in the room.

5” away from us are 3 sizable Hell Hounds!

• Xrith'atiril charges.
• Kyara shoots.
• Jacob moves to engage.
• Josalyn will charge.
• Briiz shoots.
• Lygan charges.
• Lusia charges.
• Thorgard charges and Tatrin shoots.

Briiz fires first. They have AC 4

2 hits for 10 damage from Kyara! Briiz hits for 2 damage.

Xrith hits for 6. Lygan hit for 8. Josalyn hit for 9 and 10.

All of them are wounded, none are killed.

They get their breath attacks. Single opponent breath weapon.

Josalyn, Lusia, Xrith must save versus breath. Xrith has Endure heat, as did Lusia. 6 damage to Josalyn.

Save for items and against Protection from Evil +2, plus armor. Josalyn has +3 armor. She passes for armor. Rod of Flailing passes. Backpack passes. Mace +1 passes.

Melee attacks. Lygan has AC 1. he is hit for 2 damage! Lusia and Xrith are missed!

Thorgard gets second attack. He hits for 8 damage! He kills one!

• Thorgard attacks
• Tatrin moves to engage.
• Xrith attacks.
• Kyara moves up to the passage and checks.
• Jacob and Josalyn attack.
• Briiz tries to shoot something from behind.
• Lygan attacks.
• Lusia attacks.

Xrith does 10 damage, 8 damage from Josalyn. 2 damage from Lygan. 9 damage from Thorgard.

Another one is dead.

Kyara looks around the corner, she must …ROLL SURPRISE! She is not surprised, but she can hear things coming. They are pretty close like 40' away.

Hell Hound gets a Morale check. It flees in panic! Jacob hits for 16 damage. Thorgard hits for 7 damage. Josalyn hits for 10 damage.

THE LAST HELLHOUND IS DEAD!

• Xrith moves up the entrance to receive a charge.
• Kyara throws caltrops.
• Jacob and Joslayn move up and prepare for a charge.
• Lygan receives a charge and moves.
• Lusia stays in the doorway.
• Thorgard moves up to receive a charge.
• Tatrin stays with Lusia and looks south.

We lose Initiative this round.

We move up half our movement toward the passage. We are grouped up and still have the Protection from Evil. Except for Kyara, Tatrin and Lusia.

We can see a Troglodyte group approaching. 8 Troglodytes! The one up front has an ivory nose piercing. They just have claws. They move to engage. We can see them coming.

Inside the room we are in, Kyara notices that seemingly manifest out of thin air are the red eyes that are in the vestibule to the south. Tatrin also sees them. They can hear Hushed Whispering from the blackness.

Then a moment later. Kyara would have moved 3.6“ approximately where she is now. Kyara and Briiz are effected. Josalyn, Xrith, Briiz, Tatrin, Lygan are to be effected by sleep.

Josalyn, Briiz and Xrith are all effected. We collapse on the ground with all our equipment. The Troglodytes are engaged now.

The Troglodytes just step around the caltrops since the hall was lit.

• Kyara wakes up Josalyn.
• Jacob attacks.
• Lygan attacks.
• Lusia charges at the eyes. She has a continual light coin.
• Thorgard attacks.
• Tatrin casts Light.

Tied Initiative!

4 segments to cast Light. Tatrin also has continual light coin. His coin illuminates the creature in the vestibule. 6' tall lanky women with violet skin and glowing red eyes. She is casting a spell and has rags around her body, she is naked.

Melee attacks. Jacob and Thorgard attack first. AC 5 Jacob hits for 16. Kills one! Thorgard hits one for 6.

5 attacks against Thorgard, Jacob and Lygan.

2 on Thorgard miss. 2 on Jacob miss. 1 on Lygan misses. 1 on Jacob misses. Big one is on Lygan, he is HIT for 3 damage.

Jacob fails his save against Troglodyte smell. he is down 10% Strength.

Jacob is missed. Thorgard is missed. Lygan is missed.

All attacks in the melee. A bolt flies out, Tatrin is hit automatically for 11 damage! Tatrin loses the spell!

Lusia charges into the Hag creature. AC 9. She hits!

Jacob and Thorgard attack again. 11 from Jacob. 7 from Thorgard.

Another Troglodyte is dead. Lusia is in a duel with the creature.

• Tatrin casts Hold Person.
• Thorgard attacks.
• Kyara wakes Josalyn.
• Jacob attacks.
• Lygan attacks.
• Lusia throws holy water?

Jacob hits for 7 damage. Thorgard hits for 2 damage.

Melee attacks from the Troglodytes. Kyara rolls her move silently and fails. Thorgard is missed. Jacob is missed. Lygan takes 3 damage and then takes another 1 damage.

Creature attacks Lusia with her claws. Lusia has AC 0 and is hit on a 12. MISSES LUSIA!

Hold Person goes off, Leader fails and the others fail as well. Only 2 Troglodytes are not Held.

• Lusia throws Holy Water.
• Thorgard attacks.
• Tatrin charges the Night Hag.
• Kyara wakes up Xrith.
• Jacob and Josalyn charge the Night Hag.
• Lygan attacks.

Jacob is down 30% Strength.

We Lose Initiative.

Thorgard attacks first. He misses. Kyara fails her Move Silently. 2 attackers up north, Jacob is missed. Lygan is hit for 2 damage.

Jacob and Josalyn are fleeing, they take parting attacks. Josalyn is missed! Lusia is missed!

Xrith is awakened!

Holy Water will effect this.

Lusia hits it for 7 damage! Jacob hits for 8 and 14 damage. Tatrin did 6 damage. Josalyn does 5 and 7 damage!

THE NIGHT HAG IS DESTROYED!

We kill the Troglodytes!

Tatrin is healed for 2. Josalyn heals herself for 4 and Jacob for 2.

Jacob finds a nice Periapt.

• Night Hag Periapt.
• Ivory Nose Piercing. 300 hp

We do not find any coins.

They have some spare morning stars and 1 combat net.

Thorgard wants to go down the stairs to follow the water. Josalyn casts Find Traps. They wind downwards as we go down the stairs in the south. The water trickle continues down to a flooded chamber.

We are at the bottom of the stairs looking at the water. There are corpses of Troglodytes on the stairs. They are mostly women and children Troglodytes. We pass by 5-6 of each, and are dead for a long time. Their throats were slit.

The room is flooded. We can see into the chamber. It looks like it is 3' deep. The water is black. There are two columns in the back, blackened and cracked from excess heat. It is facing us. The backside of the columns are not as black.

Floating in the water are more Troglodyte corpses, one is wearing shamans garb.

Josalyn casts Detect Magic. There is strong magic on the Shaman but no other magic in the room.

Josalyn throws a continual light coin into the water. It sinks and there are more bodies. There is also copper and silver coins.

Lygan walks into the water with one foot. Lygan goes to grab the coin.

Josalyn can detect that there is also a faint trace of magic coming from both columns. Very residiual and light, like a vestige of music.

When Lygan goes to the shaman he finds a pair of darts.

• 50 pp
• 3 gems
• Key (id 55)
• small vial
• Gold clasp with impressive gems 7000 gp
• Magic darts

Thorgard can see very faint runes on the columns. Something hot was directly applied to the columns. Very faint Fire Giant runes.

We go to the far east room again. Inside that chamber is 3 Troglodyte women cowering with 2 children.

The rest of the group wants to collect them and sell them as slaves.

There is a hollow section and a secret door. We pushes it open. We find a hidden chamber…

There are two chests, one is trapped, mechanical. Something is triggered when the chest is opened.

Kyara does not remove the trap. The key looks like it will fit. Thorgard will pop open the chest with the key.

It unlocks the chest. He lifts up the lid, it opens and inside the lid is a small bolt rack, they do not fire.

• 10,000 sp
• 3500 ep
• 1900 gp
• A Pouch with 80 pp
• A Scroll - with arcane runes

• 12300 cp
• 3500 sp

The south room had a bunch of Troglodyte stuff in it. We did not search it fully.

We start heading back.

We make it back to Ornholm with the treasure and the Troglodyte slaves. They are worth 22 gp when sold.

For the Periapt, people will roll off. Jacob wins the Periapt.

Jacob's new henchman, Esterwhile, casts Read Magic. It says this:

“With a one hand of flame, and another of stone above the lake of fire, the dancing drow's mind is his one worthy treasure. Speak 'rise', and recover.”

Kyara takes the darts.

The vial has a viscous black paste / goop.

The gold bracelet is worth 700 gp.

Gems:

• 70 gp.
• 10 gp.
• 50 gp.
• 350 gp.

Magic Darts are id 178.

Thorgard buys the armband and the piercing.

player shares: 16 platinum 1200 gold 466 electrum

1513 xp from treasure

henchmen xp is 713 PC xp 2183

2250 xp for the periapt id 179 - Jacob keeps it

Xrith pays of 3300 gp for his debt. He is down to 9910 gp debt. He did owe 210 gp upkeep for the hatchling.

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Kyara advances to Thief 3, now has 16 hp!