Session 50 "Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls"

Recap Session 50: Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

Atop the 100 ft tall waterfall in the sewers below Athkatmon,
the bucket of animated sludge pulled to descend with all the other sludge
flowing down in that direction. As Muffy held onto this sludge, “sludgie” a
voice rang out behind her asking where he was. Where Gram Pelos had just been
standing, now a stranger stood wearing strange garb, covered in unknown glyphs
and dust. Bucky, Rhys, and the cupcake baker/bone breaker Chadwick Huddleton
quickly caught up. A great deal of confusion ensued as the young man introduced
himself as Gram Pelos. He had concepts of things the others barely understood
such as planets, meanwhile the idea of rivers, ships, and bodies of water all
seemed completely foreign to him. He was overwhelmed by all the water, claiming
this to be the wettest place he’d ever been, and even attempted to drink some
of the sludge filled water but the results were not good. Muffy after getting
no where in talking to “sludgie” dumped the bucket out over the waterfall.

Chadwick, having finished what he needed to do down there,
wanted to continue his quest for revenge. His plan: find out more about the
Giant’s Legion, what Evensnow’s connection to it might be, and then smash the
skulls in of those he felt deserved it. You escorted him above ground, when he asked Rhys if he’d
like in on the plan, of finding the connection of the man who had ordered Rhys’
bakery be burned down to all of this, Rhys agreed and so they planned to meet
up again at dusk at Muggy’s…this plan however was in a classic Lucky Seven
fashion quickly abandoned after some more chaos ensued.

First they met up with Dorn and Begbee outside of Balistar's.
Dorn informed the others that Rensig was still inside Balistar’s potentially
talking over matters a little beyond Dorn’s expertise. While filling Dorn in,
Grin noticed an invisible creature nearby. Muffy, emboldened by her license to
magic, started casting a spell to detect magic, and as she gestured and chanted
the incantation, the invisible creature departed. But, they did spot another
small creature tailing them. Having apparently followed them up from the sewers
was a small drow elven boy. Like Dorn, he had apparently spent some time in the
service and care of The Sewer King. The boy had spotted Bucky on The Lucky Seven’s
first adventure, when they defeated the manticore. Being the only other elf he
had seen he wanted to see if she could perhaps inform more about what he was,
but he was quickly overwhelmed.

With only a couple of hours before dusk, The Lucky Seven, pretty
banged up, and now with two new strangers then decided to return to the sewers.
Forgetting Rensig, and the plan to meet with Chadwick, they ventured back down
below. Their plan was to get a little more of the sludge, Muffy seemingly
wanted to create a new sludgie, but returning to the now sludge free alter
where she had first breathed life into the thing, when she tried the
incantation, nothing happened. The group eventually decided to return to the
waterfall, now more or less back where they started.

New Gram did not trust the elven boy, who called himself “The
Poisoner” and went to throw the boy over the edge, but the others stopped him,
instead Dorn himself jumped over the edge, and everyone else followed. After a
battle for their lives against more of the sludge, seemingly unable to ascend
back up the waterfall, Muffy, Rhys, Begbee, New Gram and The Poisoner now stand
on outcroppings of rock in the underground river. The siblings Bucky and Dorn have both climbed back up the waterfall.
Those at the bottom have found that this river of sludge is indeed dangerous
and without the magic of their gnomish bard have rediscovered their problems
with rivers, only this river of the sludge, whatever it may be, appears to be
more a river of death, as any attacks against it directly have been met with a
very hostile response.