• Xrith'atiril - Stoneskin
• Morganna - Phantom Armor
• Fulmok AC 5/7 MV 12“
• Anthrys
• Thorgard
• Tatrin
• Risten - Invisible
• Fandilas - –Stoneskin–
• Honji - Stoneskin

Morganna will make herself invisible. Fandillas owes 873 gp upkeep and 400 gp for Honji.

Thorgard can fly and attack on his hippogriff.

Campaign Anniversary! 4 Entire Years…

The weather is cloudy.

We head to the Nethergrotto entrance and it is uneventful. The party goes down the regular entrance hole instead of the chimney. Descending takes 8 turns.

Fandilas casts Strength and gets 18/50.

We will head south from the main cross passage.

Thorgard, Xrith and Fandilas on doors.

We push open a strange wooden door. Find a chamber 50' deep, 30' wide. pock marks on the wall. Staining on the walls.

We are not surprised. Morganna has a weasel familiar so we are only surprised on a 1.

There are 3 suction cup footed lizards (Subterranean Lizards) that have formed a horde of Troglodyte corpses. The room smells of waste and decay.

They are 3” away.

• Thorgard moves up to receive a charge.
• Tatrin casts Light.
• Fulmok hides in shadows in order to backstab.
• Anthrys holds the door.
• Xrith braces for a charge.
• Morganna holds the door.
• Risten hides while invisible.
• Fandilas casts Mirror Image.
• Honji uses Wand of Fear.
• Glimmerwing flies around the corner.

We lose initiative.

The Subterranean Lizards charge at us. Xrith hits for 7 damage, Thorgard hits for 15 damage. One is severely damaged.

Thorgard and Fandilas is attacked twice.

Thorgard has AC -2, missed! Fandilas has AC 0, 1 hit but he has Stoneskin! He keeps the Mirror Image casting.

Honji targets 1 of the Lizards. It Fails! It freaks out.

Tatrin casts Light, the other one fails and is now blinded! Fandilas gets 4 images, now there are 5 of him.

Thorgard strikes the one blinded by the light, it takes 7 damage.

• Fandilas attacks.
• Honji backs off.
• Thorgard attacks
• Tatrin moves to engage.
• Fulmok attacks from shadows.
• Anthrys
• Xrith attacks the one that is not blinded or feared.
• Morganna gets an angle on the blinded one.
• Risten chills.

The feared lizard backs away.

Xrith does 5 damage. Thorgard does 10 damage. Fandilas does 14 damage.

It is killed.

Blinded Lizard attacks Fandilas, other one on Xrith.

Blinded Lizard misses. Xrith is hit. for 8 damage on 2 dice, his armor absorbs 2.

Fulmok fails his hide in shadows. It has AC 5 (blind one, so he misses).

Xrith did 5 damage and Fandilas did 16 damage.

Two lizards are dead.

• Fulmok does a fighting withdraw.
• Morganna withdraws.
• Melee for everyone else.

Thorgard did 17 damage and Xrith did 9 damage to the corpse.

There are a bunch of Troglodyte corpses and there are two doors.

We tap along the north wall and Fulmok searches.

We see that there old smeared hands on the north wall, they look like smears of hands in swirls and decorative smears. Different colors. Dark Purple and red, black and gray. They stop at a height of 8'.

Tatrin casts Find Traps.

Fulmok listened on the east door and there are no traps.

Fandilas does not see any letters or runes and the symbols are very simple minded. Fulmok listens at the south door with Thorgard and Morganna. They dont hear anything.

We go through the east door.

Inside the room to the east are 4 7' long stone bedframes with long gone bed frames. There are nests of dirt and rubble that look laid upon but the room is empty.

We go back in the main room to make use of Find Traps.

In the south door is another 4 bedframes of the same size. We think it may be children that were in this area due to the finger painting on the wall.

We will search all 3 rooms thoroughly.

Thorgard is searching specifically on the stone beds.

We find nothing additional in the main room. In the East room we find hidden behind a nest, a pouch that contains coins. Not very old but has a familiar stench. In the south room, Thorgard found an old pair of little statues like crude stone soldiers about 1' long each. Toys…

• 90 gp
• 1 gem
• Pair of statues of Fire Giants (250 coins each).

Thorgard carries the statues for now. We dont see any words on the statues on them. We rest for 1 turn.

We will go through the south door.

We find through the door, the same hall. This hall has alcoves containing a stone statue of a hand holding either nothing or fragments of bone. Below each hand statue is more bone. Bones were from different animals. There are Fire Giant runes running along both walls along with water trickling out of cracks down the hall.

Thorgard tries to examine the hand and looks at a tiger skull. The stone statue is built firmly into the alcove and there are no seams or anything.

We check each one down the hallway.

The Hallway ends in a great collapse, huge boulders that could not be moved by a half giant and they go up to the ceiling that is 20' high. We dont find any other passageways just the collapsed tunnel. Most of the boulders are the stone of hall we are in, partially worked and some are from the ceiling above.

Thorgard finds that none of the hands are movable. He believes that the collapse was intentional and done by someone unskilled. It looks like it happened a couple hundred years ago. He notices that one part was a big stone door.

We travel south toward the Lake of Fire. No blacksmith works at the anvil anymore.

The west passage from the lake curves downward. It goes farther than we can see with our light.

Xrith has a continual light ring and his weapon drawn. This is the first time weve been here and we fill a slight gust of wind, the ground slopes down gently.

We are not surprised.

We suddenly hear the shifting of some kind of large entity in the darkness up ahead. Something big has moved in the passage. It is out of our light.

• Fulmok stands back.
• Anthrys stands back.
• Xrith drinks a potion of Strength.
• Tatrin casts Prayer.
• Thorgard takes a step forward.
• Honji will ready his wand.
• Fandilas casts Blink.

We lose initiative.

It has 3 segments on us. We hear the heavy groan of several large monsters that have become agitated. Several footsteps landing on the stone.

As we prepare, a 5 Headed Hydra approaches with its clawed legs and mouth open.

It is at 4.8 inches away.

Tatrin casts Prayer on segment 5, goes off on round 2. Fandilas casts Blink, which takes 1 segment. Xrith drinks the potion on segment 9. Honji has his wand out.

Creature continues its charge as Thorgard steps forward. Honji can blast it with the wand as it charges into Thorgard. The Hydra must save against fear. It needs a 14 and FAILS! It immediately stops its charge.

It is at a distance of 4.8, Thorgard is at 3“ from it.

• Fulmok charges to short range and throws a javelin.
• Anthrys hangs back.
• Xrith charges the Hydra.
• Morganna moves to engage.
• Risten moves up.
• Fandillas charges.
• Honji stays back.
• Glimmerwing stays back.
• Thorgard charges and Tatrin moves to engage.

The feared Hydra runs off into the darkness.

We go into pursuit rules as Tatrin finishes Prayer. Fulmok moves up 12” along with Fandilas and Morganna. They are going full speed ahead!

We come to some stairs that go downwards. They change to a purple obsidian color rapidly and the cool air becomes a dominant force. The slope of the passage goes more sharply down. We are running quickly after the creature.

Fulmok and Fandilas catch up to it and Fulmok throws a javelin.

They can freely attack at +4. They can hit AC 5.

Fandilas hits for 13 damage, he slices a neck open, killing one of the 5 heads! Next round Morganna can engage it but she stays 6“ back.

Next round, Fulmok and Fandilas continue to attack.

They freely attack it. Fandillas attacks and does 14 damage. There are 2 heads left.

This round it is no longer magically feared. It will try to use its flame breath on them. They must save with armor and DEX bonus. Prayer is still active. They both FAIL THEIR SAVES!

Their gear must save versus fireball.

Fulmok. Javelin saves. Shield fails. Armor fails. Backpack is destroyed. Thieves Tools save.

Fandilas. +4 Elven Chain saves. +2 Longsword (id 2) IS DESTROYED! (Rhinock / Ithimyr's blade) Ring of Shocking Grasp saves. Backpack saves. Iron holy symbol saves. Quiver saves.

Fandilas uses Shocking Grasp and misses, Fulmok hits one of the heads for 1 damage.

The rest of us arrive next round. Fulmok withdraws.

The Hydra is fleeing. Fandilas can take another swing, he does for 7 damage which destroys one of the heads, Morganna destroys the final head!

THE HYDRA IS DEAD!

We are in a slightly wavy tunnel with obsidian walls. No end to the tunnel. Heal Fandilas for 3 and Fulmok for 6.

We start mapping the areas we missed. It has a smooth texture but not crystalline. Looks igneous. Thorgard knows that this is the rock seen in large portions of VERNUM!

3 in 6 chance for Thorgard to know the depth. He thinks we have gained 200 feet of depth.

There is 4000 ep locked away in a chest.

The +2 Longsword is actually NOT DESTROYED!

After an hour of mapping we return to the corpse of the Pyrohydra, we go 80' past it and find two things:

We see a cliff type of thing that does not take up the whole passageway. There is a dropoff with two sides that ramp down sharply, like two ramps on the top of a cliffside. We cant see the source but somewhere in the distance, beyond the edge of our light is a blue green glow that comes up from the great beyond.

When we get to 3” of the cliff, Tatrin casts Find Traps. No traps detected.

There is an opening, or cave in the passageway where we can walk down either side. We can see in the distance that tunnel gets slightly wider. The ceiling gets higher as well. The blue green glow comes from a cavern opening.

Xrith examines the hole with continual light and can see that it opens quickly. It opens into a large space, like a large cavern room. Thorgard can tell that this tunnel has been burrowed out.

We could just walk in but Tatrin will drop a continual light coin down and see if there are any traps. Thorgard examines the walls inside as well for cave ins or avalanches.

They were not carved by tools but look stable. They see that the cavern opens up into a large one. It does not reach the ceiling due to it being so large. There are shiny bits on the floor, concentrated in little piles. Like shiny metal rocks, like tin and iron.

We decide to enter the cave. Xrith holds up his light to look at the ceiling.

We see the ceiling finally, which is 60' in height. The metal on the ground looks like maybe raw iron, tin, copper and lots of minerals and metal. Dumped out of a barrel? Its all loose. As we look at it, Morgana's weasel tenses up like nothing before. It releases a muffled pain and noise, in extreme agitation and fear.

Its looking up into the darkness but we dont see anything.

• Thorgard will form up a front line.
• Tatrin readies his staff sling.
• Fulmok readies his javelin.
• Anthrys readies her sling.
• Xrith readies for a charge with Thorgard.
• Morganna says its up at a 45 degree angle.
• Risten is doing what Morganna is doing.
• Fandilas casts Fly.
• Dragon stays on his shoulder.
• Honji backs up 20' with the wand.

3 segments for Fly to be cast. Fandilas finishes Fly.

There is a sudden noise. The Sounds of great movement, heavy thudding against stone. Like the sound of a train over railroad track but muffled. It is getting louder.

Bursting into the room is the MAW OF AN ENORMOUS PURPLE WORM!

Anthrys will shoot, AC 7. He misses.

On segment 10 it is in melee.

Fulmok hit for 1, Tatrin hit for 6, Anthrys miss. They damage it but they are inconsequential. It brings its maw down on us. It brings its head down on one of us.

Xrith hits for 11 damage.

Xrith is attacked. He has AC -2, he is hit on an 8. IT MISSES AS HE DEFLECTS THE BLOW!

The 50' long creature brings around its tail, into our party.

The stinger comes down on TATRIN, AC 4. He is hit on a 2. The stinger does 2d8, must save versus poison or die. TATRIN SAVES!

Thorgard gets second attack for 8 damage.

• Morganna will chuck darts at the Purple Worm.
• Risten shoots a Magic Missile.
• Fandilas reads Polymorph Other.
• Honji fires his wand.
• Glimmerwing tries to backup.
• Thorgard drinks a potion of Fire Giant Strength.
• Tatrin reloads.
• Fulmok moves silently.
• Anthrys shoots.
• Xrith attacks.

It will take 2 segments for Fandilas to get the scroll out. Goes off on segment 7. The Purple Worm IS FEARED!!! By the Wand! It is effected, segment 2 for Magic Missiles, 10 damage from Risten!

The potion was in a backpack so it will take a couple segments.

Xrith deals 17 damage!

Morganna deals 1 damage. It goes to move away in fear.

Xrith does 9 damage and Thorgard does 17 damage, WE SLAY THE CREATURE!!!

Thorgard gathers 200 coins worth of PURPLE WORM.

The rest of the group starts to dissect it, Xrith starts to search the room.

Lair Treasure:

• Gems x8
• Copper 8000 cp
• No Silver
• No Electrum
• Gold 3000 gp
• No Gems
• Jewelry x3
• No Magic Sword
• Magic Item plus Potion

• We find a flask of heavy liquid. Oil.
• Brass chain with 6 copper coins dangling from it. Twice as many bits of rectangular brass pieces that also

have crude holes. Like Troglodyte jewelry. They think its a robe of useful items.

This was a big featureless cave with bits of loose metal around, there was some stagnant water in the cave. There are 3 tunnels in the back of the cave, one goes straight down, one goes up and the other loops around.

The group leaves and heads out.

We make it all the way back to the surface.

Fandilas will cast Identify. He gets 2 checks, He does not know anything about this item.

Risten will try on the necklace. He puts it on, and Risten notices that it is an ornate gold chain with golden orbs. Its a Necklace of Missiles! There are 3 globes, 3 Fireballs. Risten claims it.

The night goes by without incident.

Fandilas is healed as is Xrith and Fulmok.

We make it back to Ornholm the next day.

There is no magic on the Fire Giant statue. Thorgard will take them to Holt in Ornholm. Holt believes that this item should be left only in our memory, something of that strength may be our only hope. He pays us 100 gp for each statue.

Distribution of loot:

• 100 gp
• 150 gp
• 100 gp
• 10 gp
• 60 gp
• 10 gp
• 650 gp
• 50 gp
• 50 gp

• Silver ring with gems 11000 gp with exceptional gem.
• Wrought gold coffer 1100 gp
• A gold pendant with gems 4000 gp

Thorgard puts a drop onto his finger and rubs it. It leaves a coating on his finger but doesnt come off easily. Like an Oil of Cold Protection but the sensation is not of temperature, its like a numbing sensation.

POTIONS MUST NOW BE TRACKED TO DETERMINE IF HE CAN MAKE THEM.

We sell the oil. Its 5000 gp.

Risten takes the necklace of missiles. ID 192

Fulmok buys the coffer for 1100 gp Tatrin buys the pendant for 4000 gp

player shares: 3116 gp, henchmen get half, Fulmok and Fandulis get items as part instead.

The Purple Worm was a random roll for level 8 dungeon

1175 xp for henchmen

3907 xp for ALL 4457 xp for Risten

We must take a penalty because we have 42 levels.

564 xp for henchmen

1875 xp 2139 xp for Risten

Morganna levels up Risten levels up

- Risten: 4457 → 2139- Other PC: 3907 → 1875- Hench: 1175 → 564

Risten has 16 hp. Morganna has 18 hp with familiar.

This coming sunday DL 2 for Voltendo. And next Wednesday Strength quest for Fandilas.

Xrith owes 810 gp He pays it and cuts down on his debt.