There and Back Again

Modokus

Monana

Ena

Minty Pineapple

Leora

Yunet

Via Rose

Yoko Mashkin

The party, after healing from their encounter with the undead patrol and the Bodak leading them, continued their trek southwest, deeper and deeper into the underdark. As they went several miles farther south, the tunnels began to become more narrow and more damp as fungi began to become present on the walls, narrowing the passageway. At this point, Modokus faintly heard the second song from the dream, the more chaotic screeching sound that had played beneath the ¾ rhythm song.

Monana decided to cast Augury since they were outside the divination deadzone. She cast the spell to see if continuing forward was the best option, but as she was in the middle of casting it, the spell failed. The divination deadzone had somehow encompassed them again.

The party went to high alert, assuming the nightwalker, or whatever was causing the divination deadzone, was closing in. They took a defensive formation and decided to head back towards The Scrapyard. They moved slowly and cautiously through the underdark, but they didn’t encounter the nightwalker. However, Modokus noticed the party was being followed by two drow. The party continued on until they reached a steep incline they would need to climb. As half the party had reached the top, the drow struck.

One of them hurdled a magical stone which Modokus caught, but was unable to throw back before it burst open and released an angry earth elemental. The drow priestess unleashed a cloudkill spell on the party that nearly killed several of them before Ena and Edric managed to kill the pristess, ending her spell before the rest of the party breathed in the fumes. Eero, Lykus and Galvur dealt with the earth elemental even as it spawned smaller elementals and hurdled them into the party's ranks. Eventually, all enemies were vanquished and no party members were downed, but it was close for a few.

The party looted the drow for a magical whip, two adamantine shortswords, two earth elemental eyes, and one earth elemental core. They headed back to the city without further incident, and there they rested.

While everyone was resting in the city, Via went exploring on the north side and discovered a blue mushroom that had the same kind of buzzing energy as the Quedem citadel. When Via touched it, she wished it was a flower, and suddenly, it transformed into one. Via came back and showed it to Edric, who was able to identify the magic in the flower’s transformation is likely limbo energy.

Still with no other leads, the party headed back out the same direction they had gone yesterday. They travelled out farther into the fungal growth this time and got deeper in this time before they could use divination again. Edric began blasting at the foliage with his fire bolt, and Modokus noticed once he did this, the second screeching melody suddenly went quiet. It was likely the party’s presence had been noticed. Monana used augury to see if this was the right way to go, but her cards gave her the woe omen, meaning this was course of action was unlikely to give the party the results they wanted.

At this point, Edric’s dossie from the investigation suddenly filled itself out fruther, as the investigation had concluded. The crystal was deemed to have been phasing in and out of the shadowfell, and while Luracia would not be sending a large strike force to handle this incursion, they did plan on sending an investigation taskforce.

At this point the party decided it was time to head back. As the party was almost back, they found themselves surrounded by skeletons once again as a migrating herd of undead crossed their path and surrounded them. The party tried to stay still, but they were spotted and attacked.

The party took up defensive formations again and this time instead of a Bodak leading the herd, three wights and a wraith pushed to the center of the party and fought them. It was a close battle with several party members being downed and Minty needing to abandon her defensive position to heal, allowing some skeletons to slip past Lykus into the main fray. The wraith one-shot every party member it hit, but eventually, Leora’s holy smite tore through the wights and Modokus was able to defeat the Wraith.

Monana crushed the skulls of the skeletons to ensure they couldn’t be raised again, and the party returned one last time to the scrapyard, where Edric desperately tried to find an actual bed, but was unable to.

The party rested and prepared to head back to the surface, but Galvur said he wanted to continue on. He stayed in the underdark while the rest of the party turned around and headed back up the two and a half day trek to the surface again.

## Loot

Ena: 1 adamantine shortsword

Edric: 1 Adamantine shortsword, 1 earth elemental core, 1 Drow snake whip

Minty: 1  Earth elemental eye

Via: 1 Earth elemental eye