Session 5 - S1E35 - Delirium's Tangle

Drendl Drang - Adventure Captain - Summoned to grand lodge

Grandmaster Torch - A personal favor, one of his business associates Prince of All Minotaurs is missing (Nuar Spiritskin). A collection of papers recently entered his possession that speaks of a great maze beneath Absalom Minotaur went out to go explore the maze. Delerium's Tangle is the name of the maze. Some sort of elven hourglass (Izren's Hourglass - appears in astrological writings) is an artifact we could have at the middle of the maze if we return the Prince.

Starts in the maintenance tunnels below the Ivy District of the town. After an hour of trekking through tunnels, leads to a series of natural tunnels. Total darkness. Find tracks of large insects (beetle) and barefooted humanoids. Make our way through crawlspaces, tunnels, etc. Follow tracks for 2 more hours, and opens into a large blue-stone cavern with a sandy floor. There is a small pool with thick carpets of fungus.

Fire Beetle Encounter

The moment Skaar steps on the sand, 2 fire beetles burst forth and engage Skaar. Brayden's arrow and Aegnor's burning hands kills the fire beetle glands, leaving 10 ft glowing beetle glands. The beetles are wearing a rope harness. Found a beetle nest under the sand. In the nest is a Scroll of Lesser Restoration, and 3 vials of Cure Light Wounds.

Skaar find Minotaur tracks to the northeast, and looks like he was ambushed, not lost in the maze.

The caverns give way to large worked stone and metal fixtures. There are small glass balls that are glowing green (magical illumination). Green tiled terraced stairs lead to an ornate door. Elven runs that are astrological symbols.

S hairless fleshy creature with bulbous red eyes ambles out (race: Morlock).

Basalt labrynth. Inscribed with Elvish text. Also some undercommon scrawling. We chalk the path back on the floor and Skaar chalks "Orcz Rule!" on the floor.

The mages work together to try to understand how the labrynth works. We see a minotaur print. Skaar, overconfident in his dungeoneering, falls into a pit trap.

Upon the floor is the chalk mark showing the way back, and "Orcz Rule" is on the wall. Things are shifting.

There are the remains of a bronze mechanism that is found that has been destroyed.

Brayden, overconfident in his Arcana ability, also falls into a pit trap.

Skaar finds minotaur drag marks, and we follow an hour. We find a concealed door with a tuft of hair. Skaar falls into a spiked pit. We find 6 pathways and shifting walls and floors. As we get closer to the center, we start feeling vibrations in the passageways. There is a bronze door blocking the end of the passageway.

Walking to the door, we are drawn through and extradimensional passage and fight a large worm (15 feet tall). Afterwards, we are warped back in front of the door.

We walk into a room where a Morlock has been slain and there are bloody drag marks. Brayden interrogates the corpose and finds the corpse had its head pulped by a minotaur a couple hours ago.

There are massive and complex machinery by the door and 4 windows to see the cogs, gears, levers and buttons. As Ash tries to fiddle with the machine, a hole opens the ceiling and water starts ruhsing in.

Through masterful intelligence checks, all by one shaft is closed. Skaar uses the intelligence of his fist to trash the machine into submission. ... and the last shaft shaps shut.

Inside of the chamber is an elf tied into a machine with 12 brass chains. It is a large astromechanical machine with three catwalks. He booms down to us as ungrateful short lived creatures.. There is a minotaur strapped to a couch in the northeast corner.

Aegnor tippie-toes across the catwalk and fires a fireball into the mechanism, causing him to plummet downard and impale himself on to the sword he commanded Skar to discard.

We returned the Minotaur Prince, and Grandmaster Torch was thrilled he was returned. However, the Minotaur Prince did not seem like Torch's story lines up. Torch said we are all paid in full on our debts, and was emphatic that we needed to maintain discretion. Leverage....