A Hole in the Earth

The Strangers With Weapons enter Omu and must find a way inside the Tomb of Annihilation.

## Major Plot Points

* SWW headed south to Omu. Along the way, they found four red wizards camping. Over roasting sausages and marshmallows, the wizards discussed how their mistress sent them north out of Omu to track down an escaped slave named Sudsy.
* Voloth, Peggy, and Bigsby posed as red wizards to infiltrate the conversation. Thanks to a forged document, Bigsby convinced the red wizards to give him their sausages. One named Kyle refused his advances.
* Sudsy, posing as a beggar, showed up to kill his would be captors.
* Voloth came in hot and attacked one of the red wizards.
* The group killed three of them and then took Kyle alive to question him with Sudsy.
* Kyle said that the red wizards were in Omu investigating the Death Curse. They were in search of nine puzzle cubes hidden in different shrines. They believed they formed a key to unlock a door, which the Soulmonger would be behind.
* Sudsy then killed Kyle but was convinced not to rub his taint on Kyle’s face by the party.
* The Strangers With Weapons introduced themselves to Sudsy. He agreed to join the party if they helped him kill red wizards.
* Sudsy revealed he was a slave and that the red wizards would force soap into his mouth and he’d have to clean his masters’ taints.
* The SWW made it to Omu the following morning. Earthquakes had sunk it 150 feet into the ground.
* The first thing they found was an old guard gate that served as the kingdom’s entry point.
* Several messages were written on the wall inside the gatehouse.
	+ Beware the frog monster
	+ Why won’t it die?
	+ Fear the fangs of Ras Nsi
	+ The puzzle cubes are the key. I’ve gone in search for them - V
	+ The snakes are not what they appear
		- Yeah, no shit
* The second area the party discovered was a campsite of about 28 dead red wizards. They had been burned by the Yuan-Ti.
* Peggy used a Comprehend Languages scroll found in the camp to read the Ancient Omuan writing around the forgotten city.
* The Kubazan Shrine was the first one the party discovered in the city. The group found a giant frog monster dwelling in the pond outside of the shrine. They heeded the script, “Kubazan urges to tread without fear and give as much as we take.” Bigsby bravely approached the giant frog statue in the middle of the pond and took the key to the shrine from its mouth while replacing it with the hard candy he stole from Syndra. He successfully overcame any intimidation by the giant frog monster. Once inside the shrine, Peggy and Bigsby flew on her broomstick over a pit of stakes to collect their first puzzle cube.
* The next area was Shagambi’s Shrine. The first room had four statues of Omuan soldiers who appeared to be missing their spears. The group went into the basement of the shrine and fought off two kamadans. They then found an armory and used the spears from it to complete the statues. The puzzle cube was theirs.
* The SWW found a vegepygmy chief, eight of his followers, and their pet thorny about to sacrifice a grung over a pit of lava. The vegepygmies were making an offering to the Chultan jungle.
* Sudsy used thaumaturgy to make his voice three times louder than normal and convinced the worshippers that he was the voice of the jungle. He told them to free the grung and that the chief should sacrifice himself, which he promptly did by walking into the lava.
* The grung, named Grub-Grub, came to Omu to help find Queen Maxima’s crown since Dungrunglung has sworn fealty to her. The party convinced him to go home.
* The SWW then went to an abandoned campsite where they found bodies that looked deformed from poison or acid. A letter at the camp read that these people were in search of the Eye of Zaltec and they believed it to be in the Tomb of the Nine Gods in the northern part of the city. The adventurers planned on searching the nine shrines to find their puzzle cubes to open the door.
* The party moved along to I’Jin’s shrine. The SWW successfully figured out the puzzle floor and navigated the maze inside that led to the shrine’s cube.
* An overturned wagon surrounded by weird flowers intrigued the party enough for them to check it out. A chwinga named George was hotboxing under the wagon. He liked Bigsby and his trickster magic enough to give them the Queen’s Decree or the Rosetta Stone that translates Ancient Omuan to Common. He warned the party that the red wizards were investigating the shrines too and that a dragon lived in the city’s amphitheater.
* Upon arriving at Wongo’s Shrine, the SWW found Valindra, who they rescued from red wizards in Episode 5, leaving the shrine with its cube. The party and Valindra agreed to work together to collect the puzzle cubes.
* Valindra shared that she knows the Yuan-Ti are patrolling the city and that they control the zombie dragon. She also said she believed the black obelisk marked the entrance to where the soul monger was being hidden.
* The PCs moved on to Papazotl’s Shrine. Voloth successfully forced the door open. Peggy solved the riddle posed in the shrine and was gifted its puzzle cube.