Scrapyard Exodus

Ena

Minty Pineapple

Leora

Yunet

Via Rose

Yoko Mashkin

Monana

Elysian

In the morning, the party split into its three groups. The Vanguard, the rear guard, and the footpad group.

After careful preparation, the party divided into groups and released the foot pads. It was agreed that the main group would wait 40 minutes before starting their own trek while the distraction party would keep the foot pads in line. Sadly, the foot pads had not been prepared as well as they could have been. Minty, Elysian, and Yunet escorted the footpads south. Thanks to Minty’s excellent shepherding, the party managed to get the foot pads down a significant portion of the tunnel before things went south. As the group traveled, they came to a slightly larger cavern when suddenly they were ambushed. a massive boulder was dropped on top of them, scattering the remaining footpads as two earth elemental and a host of drow appeared at the entrances. Elysian proved his capability in combat by using his vortex warp, fireballs and darkness to overpower the drow, and both elementals escaped.

Meanwhile, the main group began their trek northward after waiting the designated 40 minutes. Ena, Via, Eero, and Yoko lead the train of refugees while Lykus, Leora, Modokus, and Monana head the rear guard.

As they traveled, Modokus recognized a tremor in the earth and sent to the lead group that they were being followed from underground. When Eero received the message, he sent word back to immediately set the charges and collapse the passage behind them. But even as the message was being passed back, two elementals sprung from the earth and began to collapse the tunnel in front of the refugee train. Eero and Via killed the larger elemental, but the rear one managed to collapse the tunnel behind them and escape. The party struggled to find a way to open the collapsed tunnel until Via revealed that she knew how to become a cave badger and made short work of the blockage.

Meanwhile, the rear group began to set the charge behind them. Yoko worked on setting the contraption when suddenly, the distraction group came racing around the bend, but even as they came into view, a drow sorceress came from another tunnel and cast a spell to convince Yoko to set the charge immediately to explode the partry and trap the footpad group on her side of the tunnel. Lykus grabbed the gnome and shoved him behind the rest of the party and a fight commenced. The sorceress and her spiders attacked, and Lykus revealed the sorceress was actually a Yochlol, a demon in the service of Lolth. The party defeated her and her minions and barely set the charges to close off the tunnel before reinforcements could swarm and overwhelm them.

The lead party continued down the tunnel when suddenly a phase spider being rode by a drow shadowblade appeared. The spider grappled Eero and shifted back into the ethereal plane, taking him with it. Eero fought the drow warrior but found he was no match for the seasoned warrior. Then Eero used his aasimar ability and found that it gave him all his mist walking powers back. But even with his abilities back, he was already weak and very close to dying again. The shadow blade was incredibly powerful and he risked being killed. Just then, Eero saw Ena’s amulet was glowing in the prime material plane. He raced to touch it and it sucked him back to the material plane. Sadly, Ena was sent back to limbo.

The train of refugees was getting close, but even collapsing tunnels behind them, the drow were getting closer and closer on their tail. The party was an hour away from their destination when the earth elementals appeared again and collapsed the tunnel in front of them. The party was almost spent and were now soon to be surrounded, so Eero made the decision to collapse the tunnel behind them and seal themselves in to get a rest before preparing to fight their way out. Elysian used the last of his spells to contact Lysander Brantley from Luracia and asking him for help.

The party rested for a while and regained some of their resources before preparing for their final confrontation. They could hear the drow surrounding them. All the fighters pushed to the front of the train and Via shifted into a badger and removed the rubble. A hail of drow arrows assaulted the party, shifting Via back immediately form her badger form. The party charged in with Yunet, Lykus, Eero and Leora rushing into the fray in melee while the rest assaulted the drow with ranged attacks. The battle could have gone either way when suddenly Red Thri-kreen burst through the wall and attacked. At the same time, the shots of gunfire from luracian rifles could be heard battling the drow reinforcements further in the tunnel.

Acasius appeared and immediately downed the remaining drow, besides the shadowblade who had reappeared and downed Eero. Luracia had arrived, and the battle now looked like it would go the party's way.

Running XP Total: 22,920