• 2018.09.06
• Present: Alex, Carlos, Chris B., Corey, Ryan
• Party:
  • 😈 Fisty McKnuckles, Tiefling Fiend Pact Warlock
  • 🛠 Dug "Doorbane" Hammerhound, Dwarf Cleric of the Forge of the Silver Flame
  • 🛡 Tumutch Dijon, Human Pallock of the Forge of the Silver Flame
  • 🦆 Ducky, Gnome Necromancer
  • 🎸 Pankas, Wood Half-Elf Bard of Whispers

tl;dr: The gang descends into the underdark.

1. Reunion

2. Ettin

3. Umberhulk

The gang is gleefully looking at their loot.

Darin: What'd you guys find? Hey, did you find my artifact?

Ducky turns around and shuts the vault on Darin and the Minstrel. Dug wields Lock Pick and uses Door Magic to lock the vault shut.

Darin continues to just knock on the door and be like, Um, hello? I think you accidentally shut the door. It seems to be locked. Did you find my artifact?

Dug starts gaslighting the crap out of Darin.

Dug: No, you shut us in here. Why'd you do that?

Tumutch (starting to panic a little): Why'd you do that! Help us, please! Go get help!

The gang looks into the chest at the ladder descending into the dark.

Tumutch gets a small glowing pebble from his rock sack and drops it down the chute to judge how deep it is. They wait for several long uncomfortable moments before hearing it hit bottom.

Tumutch: Um. I'm going to need that stone back.

Ducky starts climbing down the ladder. She gets to the bottom, and Fisty is there! She shouts up the ladder and tells everybody to come on down!

They all climb in and Doorbane shuts and locks the chest behind them with the magic of Lock Pick.

Everybody has a little old reunion with Fisty and they're all really happy to see each other again.

Ducky: Hey, you don't need to kill any of our friends now do you? Cause the last time you disappeared and came back you tried to kill Yarno.

Fisty: Oh, no, I don't need to kill any of our friends. I just need to kill .... people. It's cool.

So with nowhere else to go, the party forges off into the dark with Thatso scouting ahead.

Thatso hears some faint snoring, and some slow rhythmic counting, and then sees the tunnel open up into a huge clearing. And in that huge clearing is a gigantic two-headed creature. One of the heads is asleep and snoring. They second head appears awake and alert.

The group decides to go on through the chamber and see what happens.

What happens is that the awake head sees them immediately, glares at them and shushes them, and tells them to take the tunnel to the right and to go quietly.

Ettin: Shhhh! Go right. Don't wake him up. He's an asshole. Just go quietly.

Everybody tip-toes so stealthily and quietly past the ettin. Except for Tumutch and Dug, who stomp and clang in their heavy armor. Especially Dug the Walking Armory.

Ducky rolls her eyes and conjures a floating disk.

Ducky: Sit on this and shut up!

They all make it past the ettin and into the tunnel to the right.

Tumutch, who can speak and understand the Orcish that the giant is speaking, sneaks back in and talks to the awake head. The awake head confesses that the sleeping head is just a real jerk, and he only gets peace from him when he's asleep, but it's also really boring.

Tumutch offers to get a book from the ettin's chamber, which happens to be through the tunnel to the left that it had been guarding.

So Ducky and Pankas sneak quietly into the chamber. Dug is there to because he's still sitting on the floating disk.

What they see is mountainous bookshelves, and on those shelves are books three to four times taller than a human. They're gigantic. We can't get those down without there being a huge noise. They're way too big!

Defeated, they leave. Tumutch tells the giant that they failed him, and the giant is sad, and they leave him there all sad and bored and lonely.

faint snore, rythmic counting sees a half-sleeping ettin tip-toe through wake half is like, shush, go right, don't wake him up, he's an asshole dug and tumutch STOMPING through the room SIT ON THIS DISK and BE QUIET tumutch goes to talk "bored" pankas (and ducky and dug) go to get him a book bookshelves are way too tall. books way too big. walk away. saaaad giant.

They continue down the right hand path.

Soon the tunnel widens and they find themselves at an underground pool of nasty, dark, jello water being churned by a waterfall.

This water does not look delicious or safe. They keep walking.

Suddenly the odd crunching and throbbing within the walls gets a lot louder, and a huge insect gorilla smashes out of the wall and attacks them!

Pankas is stunned by the creature's gaze, and so is Thatso.

Dug sprints forward, conjuring up a spiritual weapon, and connects with the creature, but then also gets stunned. The creature hits Dug and then burrows away back into the wall.

Everybody is like, What the hell was that thing?

Fisty unsheathes his Bone Dagger 🎸☠️ and readies himself.

Tumutch makes himself all glowy so that he can see because it's really dark down here.

Ducky readies a spell.

And then the umberhulk smashes back through the wall like the Kool Aid Man. Dug immediately attacks and casts Spiritual Guardian, while Ducky uses the Bloodshadow Tome to mind spike the crap outta the thing right before it turns and wails on Dug.

Tumutch smites the bejeezus out of it and then Ducky goes in to whop it with her staff and actually connects and beats the shit out of it.

Achievement: Ducky actually physically hit something for actual damage!

A second umberhulk smashes though the wall (OHHH YEAHHHH!) and smacks the crap out of Pankas, who reacts with a might booty clap.

Umberhulk #1 focus on the little annoying gnome that has been mind-spiking and staff-whopping it, and it snatches her up and retreats back into the wall. Ducky has been gnomenapped!

Fisty flies away a little bit and summons four nupperibo. Huge, obese, filthy, gelatinous, hideous, foul and smell creatures from the pits of hell. A cloud of filth and vermin surrounds them, and they start gnashing at Umberhulk #2 from behind while Tumutch charges in and smacks him real good from the front. Things are looking bad for Umberhulk #2!

Meanwhile, Dug runs after Ducky.

Dug: Unhand my gnome!

And he basically kills the creature dead and rescues Ducky like a hero.

Dug and Ducky return to the weird stinky demon/umberhulk melee, and Ducky magic missiles the umberhulk to death, which is awesome, but that leaves the demons, which Fisty did summon, but over which he has no actual control. So the demons start beating up and wailing on the reserve while they all give Fisty the side eye.

Fisty: Seemed like a good idea at the time!

So they keep on fighting the demons until they slowly pick them off one by one.

the end?