Mauser's Journal

## Crystalfist's Guide to the Underdark:

Covers the events from *Out of the Abyss*

* Valkenvelve: The drow city where we were enslaved
	+ Map
	+ Sketches of our Jailers
		- Priestess
		- Bitch Commander
		- Disfigured jailer
		- Hot-headed douchebag boyfriend
* Sketches of Party Members
	+ Ront: Orc
	+ Kruul: Bugbear
	+ Tik-Tik: Thri-kreen
	+ Topsy: gmone sibling to Turvy
	+ Turvy: gnome siblint to Topsy
	+ Buppido: crazy derrow
	+ Eldeth: self-sacrificial dwarven woman
	+ Prince Derrendil: Quaggoth who thinks he's an Elven Prince from an ancient kingdom
	+ Shushar the Awakened: Pacifist frog-man
	+ Stool: Tiny myconid
* Effigy of Minotaurs: we found ancient ruins underground that had Minotaur effigies to an old god
* Hostile Myconids
* People infected with some kind of parasitic mushroom: from a dream/nightmare/vision
* Faerzress: a strange mist that causes wild surges
* Glabagool: sketches and a report about our friendly slime and the dungeon and circumstances where we found him
* Witch Island: a strange island full of hostile witches and one lone hut.
* The witch destroying Topsy, funeral and burning of hut. Shrouding of body and placement into bag of holding.
* Sloobloodop, first impressions and sketch of city. Cultists who attacked us at the entrance.
* Sloobloodop, the destruction of. a battle between cultist frog-men rages while the Demogorgon lays waste to the city.
* Whirlpool and Merro ambush
* Ancient Netherese ruins: location of, sketches of protective runes, layout/architecture sketches
* Ancient statue of Mystra
* Quadrone Modronite: Strange cube creature, got him to agree to help me and help him. He spoke of, "Orderer south west of here, in a maze."
	+ Partial sketch of quadrone clockwork mechanisms
* Sketch of Netherese broach
* Sketch of mummy & tomb, mummy rot
* Sketches and summary of my vision of the Netherese downfall
	+ clothes and architecture from daily city life in the sky castle
* Gravillax the friendly illithid & Skriss the polite trogolodyte
* from Prince Derendil's memories:
	+ Sketches of the evil wizard and the Elven Utopian city of Nelrindevin
	+ Quaggoth surgical/magical experiments by mind flayers
	+ Later notes on how these mind flayer memories may be false magic
* Sketch of ancient Elven sea temple with map, sketches of trolls and (mutated-looking) elven fishdudes
* Darklake and 2-headed hezrou battle
* Gracklestoog
	+ Gracklestoog forge
	+ Corrupted 2-headed giant battle in Gracklestoog, council of stone giants
	+ Gartukar Sunzord, keeper of the flame
	+ Deep King Holgar Steelshadow V and his castle, his wyrmtongued advisor
	+ Keeper of the Flame HQ, Themberchaud's lair, Themberchaud
	+ Erde Blackskull, commander of the stoneguard
* Dancing myconid encounter
	+ Rumpadump (myconid) the sane one, Voosboor (myconid) the crazy one
	+ dancing myconids
* Buppido's evil corpse lair, his ritual, his dead body, the spirit that asked us to return his hand, the severed hand
* Grey Ghost mushroom farm
	+ Black shard in Alchemist's Lab
	+ Derrow Grey Ghost demonic ritual "Amaul, Hathradia, Dorhoon."
	+ Sketch of dourhoon cracked giant statues
* Rubbings/sketch from Netheerese obelisk
* Sketch of vision from shards, Netherese city with wizards, armor and architecture
* Dragon Egg, Themberchaud's flame hatching Puff

* sketch of beautiful Spa steam underdark room
* Drow combat on silken road
* Dryder and fargus rumblefoot,
* temple of khaim Netherese tomb entrance + map location
* Stone diorama of Netherese noble sorcerer drawing & rubbing
* sketch of Mosaic of floating city 1/4 finished
* Brysis of chem was interred
* Websurfers and spectator battle
* sketch of ancient nether house of khaem sigil
* sketch of netherese funeral markings
* sketch of likeness of Brysis of Khaem from wax funeral effigy
* Sovereign Basidia and neverlight grove
* Neverlight Grove
* Sareth's exploded spore head
* Zuggtmoy battle
* Retreat from neverlight with exiled myconids
* notes of netherese history from thunder sword
* sketch and account of jimjar selling map of blingedstone to drow for 2 sacks of gold
* confrontation and Confession of jimjar to selling out drizzt
* Progression of mushroom growth on tiktik
* Battle with Bloody Gnolls, shaman and war chief explores possibility of demonic influence w/ map to encounter. Notes on yeenogu: has a three-headed flail "the butcher" each head has its own attack.
* Homecoming to Blingdenstone
* Swirling phaesrys in battle with stone drow with strange symbol
* battle with corrupted earth elementals, cleansing of smoothands temple, one element with face
* ancient arched entry way of entonmach's boon
* netherese mummy dust vision:
* -Lord of Netherese with crown addressing his noble subjects "Jareth"
* -Crown on goblin king in court with ettin and alchemist's, zoom out to goblin castle, zoom out to labyrinth
* preparations for the battle of blingdenstone
* battle with Royal pudding court
* Revenge against house mizram
* Council of spiders sigil
* Gauntlegrim map & sketches
* beginning of book on How to Train red dragons
* research from gaunylgrim on drow cities, demons, netherese
* Volo, feast with doppleganger assassins
* underdark expeditionary Force formation
* insect slavers ambush, freeing of slaves
* mantal derrith war
* torture of sfirfneblin
* destruction of gem by beholder, demonic form when purple gem fraz'lub'lu destroyed
* sigils and passwords for secret doors in mantel darith
* Peeble's betrayal and the eyemonger
* Bathing in cricket cave
* campfire tales - group talking around campfire and notes about everyone's stories
* Stone giant battle & Yauln - magic giant face in wall that showed us the way and opened a door, said guardian for library, library willed we get there
* midsummer's feast and establishment of Fort midsummer, stories of traditions
* sketch of giant obelisks and fight with Stone Giant dreamwalker, sample text from pillar, stone tik tik
* Veldeskar the learned bespectacled basilisk curing tik tik stone form
* Gates of graven hollow - failed drawing attempt, written description of my inability to sketch it
* Hourm, library galub duhr Library instructions how to concentrate to find what you want
* Masters, ulthar keeper of the past
* Urmas keeper of the present
* Ustov keeper of the future
* account of yalm in ancient past
* netherese underdark records from great library, notes on netherese ruins as pertaining to stone Giants including locations
* Notes on other points in history when demon Lord's were defeated
* Tik tik's vision: Sketch of drow archmage Gromph Baenre of Menzobran reading from book causing phaezris storm and summoning all the demon lords through portals and an account
* Vizcran Divear (creepy drow) and slaad companion, cleave
* Vision of thriving future blingdenstone (note: invest in real estate there)
* Map to Araj tower
* location of nether scroll, vision from library: Netherese ruins - plaza between columns, unsure of actual location
* Vision of orcus resurrecting "cyrog" mother brain and enslaving undead illithid hive
* Vision of Yeenoghu attacking beholder with a pack and marking themselves with blood, somewhere in underdark narrow passages
* old bruenor battlehammer in the library saying "trust the dark elf"
* Vision of demogorgon spreading madness beneath darklake
* Vision of Lolth, spider demon with drow head laying and guarding jeweled eggs in demon web realm, realizing she's being scried
* Vision of baphomet running through same sort of tunnel as yeenogu, in lava filled Cavern with giant Contraption of metal and stone and Magic capable of reshaping the underdark
* Kruul in the future, flame weapon, looking badass, about to clash with Mauser in combat who also looks badass, room gleaming of bright silver, shadowy figure in the backgrounds looming
* meeting with alustriel silverhand
* Council of spiders - anti lolth organization
* battle with Undead illithid scouting party
* Tower of vengeance, altar with symbols, servants, story of Grumph's Vineray betrayal (archmage of Menzobranzen)
* sketch of Elemental Weapons, sketch of fire bitch
* meeting with vizarion daveer disintegrating kruul
* Drow history lesson about elder elemental eye
* ancient Elemental Temple -1500 yrs before netheril
* symbol of Elder Elemental eye before it started making my hand mad
* sketch of vessel runes in Elemental Temple, translation of the one I recognized in Terran: vessel Nane Nadan. Others in abyssal/ignan etc.,
* Grim Disma the hag, caretaker of elder elemental eye temple full of evil glow worm undead
* Resurrection of kruul, summoning text, reference to "Earth" destroyed by ancient eye, phonetics of other languages summoning in deep speech, "kiron" "akima" "hadar" "kaifan" other names of gods, names of elemental lords
* negotiations and battle with order of the Silver Dragon in the Amber Temple
* Amber temple sketches
* Altars, names of ancient gods and what they say
* Grin, New party member
* Battle with the purple worm! flawless victory
* the vast oblivium battle with beholder karazikar in shaft of Bridges
* quadrone "38 of 763" end notes regarding order and the Labyrinth
* Tales from Nelrindenvein overheard from Prince Darrendil and company
* Demonic well from Orcish description, Battle with demonic Orog with Orcs helping led by shaman
* Harvest feast with Iceshield Ocs, title of Demon Slayer
* Sketch of Horn tower, strange ancient symbols
* Cloaker battle in horn, Illithid computer and symbols and sketches of extraplanar squid ships "Nautilus" text of ship I'm in and largest ship
* Mora, Kithyanki (astral plane)
* Undead Illithids and Mind Witness
* Mind Flayer brain extraction chamber sketches and diagram with description of liquids and presumed process.
* Very accurate Qualith navigation chart and plans for outpost
* Yeegogoon battle
* map to outpost 33
* Gallery of angels sketch with angel names and effects
* battle with baphomet and minions at maze engine
* meeting with ayramakos
* Sigil of house that killed mouse's parents
* Menzoborranzen, description and maps, notes on houses and culture and rules
* The plateau with the college, the pyramid, and the mod glow stagmites
* Severa, the Drowish mage college
* Vizeren Daveer's tower and preparation for the ritual
* Summoning Orcus to neverlight grove
* Battle with Orcus, Kruul's sacrifice
* Angry cat-and-mouse with Orcus
* Killing blow against Orcus by Tik-Tik
* Victory Feast
* The rise of Blingdenstone, gateway to the underdark

## Crystalfist's Guide to the Planes:

Covers the events from *Queen of the Demonweb Pits*

* Mulhorrand
	+ Sketch of spelljamming ship
	+ Proto-netherese ruins with scorpion centaurs
	+ City of Skuld, capitol of Mulhorand - crazy laser egypt
	+ Skuld coffee ritual and teas and snack foods
	+ Ceiling heiroglyphs of "star-walker" thri-kreen
	+ Tower of pronouncement
	+ Heiroglyphics of ancient thri-kreen war between Illithids, Star Elves & Thri-kreen (in leaf-ships) "The Unhuman wars" story of the unhuman ones "Ko-kalah"
	+ Ptah brought these species to toril
	+ Seek tomb of aramaster
	+ Aramaster's tomb sketch of stars on door
	+ Story of how Ptah brought the first humans to Toril and then diappeared until his people in Skuld are worthy again
	+ Mululharrandi constellations x12 (copied from tomb) Falcon, Eye, Ibis, etc.,
	+ Pyramid of cultures under thri-kreen, each culture and their ships, all the art that adorned the tomb. Thri kreen > Star Elves, Mind Flayers > Mulharrandi, Phah leaves then war between the three, Elves win ...
	+ Illithid and elves and skinny people battle for giant manta ray city
	+ Stars were created by ancient gods to trap great evils, nekoton mentioned crystal spheres, wanted to fill the empty space with the "phlog"
* City of Doors, sketch of layout, taverns, notes on factions, warining re: prejudice
* Research on Lolth:
	+ Lolth was once the consort of Korralon Lorrathion, if she has a flaw it's that she still seeks perfection in his eyes even if it's in spite of him
	+ Her weaknesses are inconsistent, her poison is particularly virulent.
	+ She is a fiendish maneuverer of the blood war, she has pitted demons against devils and earned the ire of many.
* Seeking Corellon Larethian's aid
	+ Notes on Sylvania and what the outside of the City of doors looks like with maps
	+ Notes on Arvandor and how it works, seasons colors and scents always changing, how direction doesn't matter only intention
	+ The court of Corellon Larethian and his consort, how they keep changing sex
	+ Will help if we promise not to kill Lolth
	+ Trials of Corellon Larethian
	+ Fighting echos of Kruul