Game 50

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**Underworks o the Sootch**

Damian, in the depths below the Sootch, is making his way with David’s unconscious form, under the cover of invisibility hopefully to safety. After a while of traveling deeper and depper, he eventually he arrives at a door. He puts his ear up against the door and hears murmurs from the other side. He opens the door slowly, and sees nothing but an empty room save for a rug on the floor. The murmurs continue to emanate from beyond another door on the opposite side of the room. Damian repeats the process with that door, and determines that the murmurs appear to be heading away from his position. Eventually, they fade and he tries the handle of this door. It is locked. As he makes his way through this door, he sees down the way what appears to be a group of robed figures. To his left is a dead end section that has collapsed in on itself. The torchlight from the figures begins to fade, so Damian resumes following them, while maintaining his distance. He eventually reaches a point where the hallway seems to split off in multiple directions. He no longer hears the voices or sees the light. He chooses a hallway to the Southeast with stairs leading down. As he makes his way down the stairs, he sees the robed figures returning from a passage behind him.

He walks up to a set of big double wooden doors. He hears the figures approaching his location. He decides to choose a place out of the way to hide and wait for them to pass. He tries to get a better gauge of what the figures are saying, but it sounds incoherent. Possibly like an incantation.

“Do you think he’s just about done?” “It shouldn’t take but a moment later.”

Then there is a defusal of magic. “He’s right around the corner!” And the figures are rushing toward him. Damain tries to duck around them using the cover of his invisibility, but one of the figures reaches out and grabs him.

**~Fight time!~**

Leader casts message to summon more Eyes of Merric to him. Damian runs right through them. They attempt various charm spells and rope spells, all of which fail. Magic missiles hit him in the back. He runs through a door onto a rug that diffuses some kind of magic. He turns around and locks the door with his lock picks.

Damian then makes his way into a side room and attempts, successfully, to relock that door as well with his lock picks as he makes his way into a larger chamber. In this chamber there are stars drawn on a surface that have been scratched out with a giant eye to replace them. He exits the room and goes down a set of stairs. Damian sees a metal statue with a twisted gnarled bow. Damian doesn’t recognize it, and as he’s being harried, he files it away in his memory and presses on.

He pushes his way through some rubble to a cavern with a pool of running water. He NOPE, NOPE, NOPES the water and moves on, heading down a passage that eventually wraps back to a passage that meets up with where the fight started. Invisible, he slits the leaders throat, but not before the leader sends one last message saying , *“....He’s here.”*

Damian finds some keys on his person, he grabs them and David, and begins running again as the rest of the Eyes come running back. He goes down a passage towards one of them who lassos him. Damian gets out. Riley is sad that he has not yet killed Damian. The rest of the Eyes show up as Damian is grappled again. There is a flurry of arcing lights that slam into Damian, before all goes dark. Riley will rest easy tonight.

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**Ereb's Fever Dream**

David awakens in a familiar wooden cage to the sound of dripping water. An intense magical fever racks his body, sickly form spell saturation. He drifts in and out of consciousness and has a fever dream where he imagines the putrid sickly pale face of Nalis Jalin, inspecting him for fighting shape in the cages of the fighting pits in the Underdark.

Outside, he sees the stone that he has moved 1,000 times, waiting to be used as a tool. Looking at David with disgust and contempt as the water begins to rise, he is unmoving. The water overtakes David. On the outside is a figure looking at him. It is a raven. Hard to tell whether it's a fever dream or real, David reaches out to it, and everything goes black.

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Aziola continues to watch more bouts between the houses in the arena, each one more fantastic than the last. Lots of summoning is used. The pucks use trickery, the denizens of Evermeet (Court of Winter) deadly precission and frost magics, the Court of Dawn, Cunning intellects and raw might of arcane power thrumming with musical magic and martial prowess . She learns more about the structure of the contest are based on "exotic" locations of the Feywild flora and fauna; alien to the Eladrin and Puck of the Feywild.

Otto and Bjorkas are asked to attend a celebration that evening to represent them.

The group meets up and decides to head back to the inn. Cirrine goes to retrieve Bjorkas, and once the whole group is reunited (save Damian and David)

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Inkeeper “The raven was sponsored by Korrim Balius. Fighting style?

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