Welcome to The Scrapyard

Modokus

Monana

Ena

Minty Pineapple

Leora

Via Rose

Deep in the underdark, as the party rested, Lykus spoke to Monana telepathically and asked her what she thought of Eero’s people. She and he agreed that while there was possibly some truth to the origin of the Quedem, and there was something keeping their lands alive, they both doubted that this meeting of the gods prophesied would actually come to pass.

As they spoke The Barron did his absolute best to get the party noticed by trying to find and mine ore as loudly as possible.

The party continued on and found Yunet and Galvur’s campsite. After their campsite the trail began to meander, like Yunet and Galvur had lost track of which direction they were supposed to be going. Their trail wandered around until they reached a cavern filled with 3-foot tall mushrooms. As the party examined them, these mushrooms glowed a bright blue when touched that slowly faded to a dull lavender before going back out. Via began to run through the mushrooms, but didn't notice a shrieker mushroom before she ran into it. The moment she touched it, it let out a loud shrieking sound that caused her to rear up and yelp.

The party rushed to her aid and upon investigating the area, they found the dead bodies of three mind flayers who appeared to have been killed by Yunet and Galvur. After this point, the trail began to straighten out, like they had regained their bearings.

The group followed them until their path crossed three red carapiced Thri-kreen. With no real attempt at stealth from the party, the enemy was immediately alerted and battle became the only real option. These Thri-kreen were tougher than the green and brown ones the party had faced up until this point. The Barron was downed during the battle and the Thri-kreen using their flight put most melee fighters at a significant disadvantage.

During this fight, a fey-touched gnome, his robotic battle cat, and one of his troll friends came to assist the party. Via was also downed, but eventually the party defeated the three Thri-kreen scouts.

The new gnome, Yoko Mashkin, showed the party where he was living, taking them back to the ruins of the ancient drow city of Etra’Deladra, or at is was known now, The Scrapyard.

Yoko explained that this city was the site of a massive battle between The Webweavers and Lolth’s Faithful, and in the end both factions withdrew from the city. However, many of their slave laborers who were considered too small or impractical to use as fodder in the battle escaped their prisons after the battle was over and took the remains of the city for themselves.

The party approached and found a city in ruins with a hodgepodge of lightsources dotting the city in many different shades of light. The gnomes and goblins who now lived there had set up makeshift defenses and mushroom stock scaffoldings all across the city. The city and the walls surrounding it were covered with graffiti that glowed with bioluminescent moss, leading the darker parts of the city and the caves surrounding it covered in the childishly intimidating drawings of the goblins who lived there.

The party was lead inside where they met with thw city’s leader, an elderly gnome alchemist named Davni. Davni explained to the party that this city is constantly under sige from the drow factions’ scouts as both Lolth’s faithful and the Webweavers want the city back, but cannot commit the resources for a full scale assault without leaving themselves vulnerable to the other faction. So the denizens of this city protect it with the scrap they can find.

Edric asked about the metal that Yoko’s mechanical cat was made of. Apparently it was a metal that only grew in this region, known as Elthedren. The metal had the distinct ability to hold magical memory. The drow of the region had only ever found it here in these mines. Edric made a deal with Davni to give him the secret to infusing living steel in exchange for some Eltheldren to try to infusing into a living state to use as his armor. Davni agreed.

The party split up around the city and learned that their food from the surface was very valuable down here. Much more valuable than their gold and they managed to acquire boots of speed for Edric. Minty, Yoko, and Via all tried the local cuisine, the soup known as ‘boiled mud’ was actually boiled mushroom pulp, but it tasted like mud.

Minty managed to find a cursed black mirror inside one of the ruined houses, which Monana identified a deathlock’s pact boon. Yoko shot it a few times and broke it, releasing a shadow demon. Via immediately ran away and after the demon unsuccessfully tried to possess Minty, the party managed to defeat it.

Everyone rested and the next day Yunet and Galvur returned with the twin adamantine scimitars of a drow scout.

Yunet had noticed Galvur had the ability to absorb one of the senses of creatures he killed, and this was how he was finding his way around the underdark. When Galvur and Yunet had reached the city originally, a day before the rest of the party they had been mistaken for drow collaborators and were attacked. Galvur destroyed one of the city’s defense towers before the city’s inhabitants apologized. He offered to repay them for the tower by killing a drow for them, which they accepted and told him which direction the drow are coming from.

Edric and Davni worked together to infuse the Eltheldren, and with an incredibly high roll, they managed to do it. Edric got a new setr of Eltheldren armor. After some experimentation, Edric realised Eltheldren could learn how to resist damage of specific magical types if the user allowed themselves to be vulnerable to that type of damage first for a while. Edric had Yoko blast him with fire over and over, trying to teach the armor to resist fire. He made come progress and used up almost all the party’s healing resources.

Yoko showed the party his house and the three trolls hie lived with before the party rested again. Minty, Via and Yoko went to gamble with the goblins and lost a little food in the process. The party also realised they were once again inside the divination dead zone.

The party awoke the next morning and the Barron suggested the party continue the direction they were already headed. Lykus asked Yoko where the Thri-kreen were coming from and it was from the southwest, rather than the northwest like the party was planning on going.

The party headed southwest and down, deeper into the underdark. Ena used her primeval awareness to sense what creatures were around within a 6-mile radius. She noticed the presence of our fey party members and Eero’s angelic bloodline. She did not feel the presence of the dragon even thought the battle had taken place roughly one or two miles directly above our heads. She noticed the presence of three aberrations, one fiend, and aproximately seventy undead.

The party continued forward until the ran into a skeleton in the tunnels. Ena dispatched it quietly. The party ran across a second and Edric dispatched it with a thunderous shot from his rifle. Every undead in the vicinity becan to rush the party. There were 4 tunnels to defend and the party was doing a good job, when suddenly through one of the tunnel walls, a Bodak appeared and attacked at the party’s center. The Barron was once again downed by the creature’s necrotic attacks, and Yoko was also downed during the fight. However, Moana’s healing kept them both alive and Edric managed to get the final shot on the undead creature.

The rest of the skeletons were dispatched and Edric identified the Bodak. But what was interesting is that to create a bodak requires an attack that originates from the negative energy plane, something not commonly done. However, a nigthwalker, one of the creatures Eero was shown as being one possible source of the divination dead zone, creates a bodak every times it kills a creature, suggesting a nightwalker may be the source of the dead zone.

## Loot

* 2 Onyx gems [Rectangle and Wand] (Minty)
* 1 Drow Locket (Minty)
* 1 silver metal tree statue shaped like a rose (Via)
* Boots of speed (Edric)
* Elthendren Armor (Edric)