July 10, 2010: This Little Light O' Mine

== Dramatis Personae ==
* Aria - warforged bard 8 (Westerling)
* Kava - dragonborn paladin 8 (Westerling)
* Mungo - shifter rogue 8 (Westerling/Brighton County)
* River - shifter warden 8 (Westerling/Brighton County)
* Teodahr - elf ranger 8 (Westerling)
* Vitrano - deva avenger 8 (Malringer)
== The Hard Way to Follow an Underground Stream ==
The Hard Way traded their mounts as collateral for a raft and a canoe and set out to find the lair of the Deathkiss Beholder that they prevented from re-entering their reality (see Lets Finish This). Teodahr and Mungo were in the canoe, while River, Kava, Vitrano, and Aria drove the raft. Looking around, it appeared that the tunnel had not always been a streambed, but that at some point in the past, a wall had broken allowing the stream to flow down the tunnel.
A couple of hours after they set out, they rounded a corner to see a light ahead of them on the stream. Shortly there after, they came to a fork in the stream, but were able to see the light bobbing down the left fork. Mungo and Teodahr went after the light, thinking it might belong to someone we could talk with (River's idea). Just as they caught up to the light, the stream hooked to the left in an area of funerary niches along both walls. At that point, the light winked out, water-logged ghouls called lacaedon tried to claw their way onto the canoe and raft.
The skirmish is vicious, with the lacaedon trying to daze and rend, but THW fights them off. The Will o' Wisp adds electrical attacks until it takes some damage and then it leaves.
== Mungo Circles the Drain ==
After a short rest, THW paddles over to the wall and Vitrano opens one of the urns, angering the guardians, shadows and wraiths. A single powerful wailing spirit summons waves of shadows. At one point Mungo is knocked out and begins drifting towards a hole at the end of the tunnel where the channel drains. Aria dives in and rescues him, while River begins attacking with thunderous attacks devastating large groups of the spirits. Eventually the wailing spirit is dispatched, ending the assault.
June 19, 2010: My Favorite Mistake
July 18, 2010: Release the Troglodytes
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