The Seventh Session

After finding the magic sword in the wall of Old Man Grenkins' closet, the group began to leave, when Halrek noticed some strange tracks in the dust near the bookshelf. Investigating, the group found that the bookshelf was a hidden door, which surprisingly none of them commented on the cliche of. Yief pried the door open enough for the rest of the group to help open it fully, revealing a tunnel leading under the mansion. Following the tunnel, it opened into a large room with walls that had a blue-silver shimmer and glitter to them. A small stream ran through the room, reflecting the shimmer back on the walls, making them appear naturally luminous. After Nul shot off a fireball into the stream without warning, nearly burning Aoth, Shag ventured in to dip his hand in the water, which made his hand wet and chilly.

They then went through a small tunnel that was only big enough for Shag and Nul to go through, but Aoth still went first to prioritize their safety, crawling on all fours. Coming out into a smaller room with some mining equipment, he moved some rocks with great struggle so the others could drop down from the tunnel into the room. After dusting off a patch of the wall, they noticed some hastily carved Dwarven markings, which Nul translated to a warning of an intruder who the writer claimed would use the Mythril for the wrong purposes. Leaving the room, they went through another crevice from the main area of the mine, where they found a large network of tunnels, caverns, and caves of varying sizes and directions, most of which looked untouched and entirely natural in its formation. Making sure to leave markers so not to get lost navigating the labyrinth, they explored for a time until a repeated low rumbling caught their attention. Following the direction of the rumbling, they ended up back in the main chamber, hearing the rumbling beneath them. Going through the last cave entrance, they came to a spot where a hole had been blown in the ground.

Nul dived down with Yief's rope tied around his legs, flipping everyone off as he jumped. Shag quickly cast featherfall to make sure he wouldn't get hurt, and Nul's landing was softened. Seeing a man surrounded by large beings, he attempted to communicate with the party above the hole using sign language to no avail. Climbing back up in annoyance, he told them what he saw, prompting Halrek to go down next to sneak up and see what was going on. Aoth followed, ready to spring into action to help Halrek should anything have gone wrong. Discovering the large beings were Mythril golems, Aoth beckoned the group down. Once together, they took forever to make a plan, allowing the wizard to create another golem. Halrek threw 2 darts at the wizard's head, causing him to go "Oh, fuck!" and fall on his face. The golems then turned and charged, while the party all ganged up and attacked the wizard, repeatedly adding more "oh, ow, fuck, why" to his painful muttering, until finally he stood back up, thinking it was over, and getting promptly missed with a dart from Halrek, making him go "oh that was close!", then hit directly in the forehead with another dart, making him go "oh that was much closer!" and killing him. The golems disintegrated and the group discovered 2 curved matching short swords that Nul sensed were magic. Yief took one, while Shag took the other.

Navigating back into the mansion, they searched the whole building and discovered Grenkins had recently discovered the Mythril mine and planned on smithing new armor and weapons for the local guild and bringing the ore to the town to help boost trade, before being discovered by the wizard and evidently stalked and killed for the mythril.

Going back to the town, they were cut off and attacked by the Ebony Shadowhunters. After a quick scuffle in which they actually went a whole round without dying, the leader activated runes on his sword and paralyzed Aoth, but before the other hunters could activate the runes on their weapons, Vissella and the captains of her fleet arrived with Jim Jeffries, causing the hunters to flee. They quickly found that Shag had been poisoned, and took everyone to Mira to get healed. After a day of rest on the Dragon's Wing, they prepared to set out by rowboat for the town of Reth in Midfall with Vissella, Ragnar, Lyn, Bashak, and Haldes.