November 14, 2009: Hole in My Pocket

== Dramatis Personae ==
* Mungo - shifter rogue 5
* Vitrano - revenant (deva) avenger 5
* Bim - deva artificer 4
* River - shifter warden 5
* Kava - dragonborn paladin 5
* Kristof - human wizard 5
== A Little Errand ==
After returning from the vault of the Faded Legion, the Duke of Malring summons us to ask a favor of us. It seems there is a dispute between an important resident and one of the local adventuring guilds. The guild is accusing a local physician of murder for hiring a group of adventurers and sending them on a mission that was in fact, a trap. The physician, a drow named ?? claims that he found a rift to the Outer Realms (cue spooky music) and hired the adventurers to go and try to close it. 
The Duke would like our band to investigate both sides' claims and verify them one way or another and offers us (some quantity) of cash to do so. The physician offers us an additional amount to close the rift. The adventuring guild offers us the value of any possessions of the guild members that we recover. Seems like a win-win-win.
=== Bugs and Rocks ===
We travel for days/hours into the nearby Underdark, fairly broad, well worn former lava tubes/purple worm tunnels that form a highway. When we reach the offshoot tunnel, we're attacked by giant centipedes and swarms of smaller centipedes, but we prevail at the cost of many healing surges. Pushing farther on, Mungo scouts the next chamber which is roughly oval with openings on either end and large boulders scattered around. Nothing kills him on the way in, but on the way back out, he trips/scuffs his boot/drops a weapon and one of the boulders splits open, and tentacles lash out attempting to drag him back inside and grind him into goo. We defeat the geonids at the cost of more surges.
=== Eye Spy with My Many Eyes ===
Once past the geonids, we find a final chamber where it looks like the previous party met their fate. There are several centipedes that appear to have been warped by their contact with the Far Realms. Hovering behind them is a beholder gauth. Below it, the floor of the chamber is soft and bulgey. 
== Experience ==
Centipedes: Hard encounter 20%
Geonids: Standard encounter 10% 
== Links ==
Previous Session: October 17, 2009 Back to the Faded Legion Vault
Next Session: December 19, 2009 One Way or Another
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