3 May 2019

Our adventurers begin at the end of the Three Stooges comedy hour of a fight that ended the last play session. Our party stands in a room with 4 dwarves. One is wearing a grey cloak and immediately in front of the party, while three others are farther away standing next to the cauldron of 'mushroom fertilizer' above a mushroom grow pit. Two of the farther three managed to convince the third to just chill out and stop fighting. So for the time being at least the violence has abated.

Shuushar appears from the rear and begins conversation with the nearest dwarf, wearing the grey cloak. Shuushar explains that we saw the sign of safe harbor, and we have no wishes to violate this, rather we come in friendship and simply seek information. We learn that this dwarf is called Lorthio and they are the Grey Ghosts. The discussion is not very productive and Lorthio seems a bit hostile. We learn little else, because mid-conversation, three giant spiders appear on the ceiling behind the three far dwarves. At this the three far dwarves scuttle into the mushroom grow pit and the party finds itself in combat. There are two giant spiders and one very giant spider and the party kills them with little trouble and takes no damage. Howver, during the fight all 4 dwarves manage to escape through a side door after shrinking themselves, with what the party believes to be pygmywort.

Having vanquished the spiders and lost the dwarves the party checks out the mushroom grow pit and finds some goodies; 16 pygmywort mushrooms, 16 unknown mushrooms, 20 days of food rations, fire lichen, and 20 crossbow bolts.

The party then moves into a side room containing the makings of an alchemy lab. They search and find money; 2pp, 15gp, 27sp and 5cp. They also find goodies which Bree takes; recipe for Alchemist Fire, recipe for Vial of Acid, ingredients for 2 Alchemist Fires, and ingredients for 4 Vials of Acid. Addionally, they find potions of healing and a potion of firebreath. They find an incriminating document written by Gorglak.

The party then heads off in the direction the spiders came from. After wandering through some tunnels the party encounters some massive wooden doors that have been propped open, and they pass through them. After a while they hear noises and strange incomprehensible voices coming from a room full of the familiar glowing magical mushrooms. The room has a large mesa in the middle of it upon which the strange voices appear to be emanating. Kais sits upon the mesa and tries to concentrate on a single voice. At this he takes a small amount of psychic damage and is prompted to ask a single question. He asks how to stop what is leaking into the Underdark and receives the following answer.

"Whoever wants to kill the tree has to chop out the root. The root runs in many places. He who has conquered three layers of the abyss wishes to conquer Gracklestugh."

In a different voice, Kais hears a scream:"The dark prince is here!" The party analyzes these statements and tries to connect the dots. They conclude that the term 'Dark Prince' refers to one of three different beings; Demogorgon, Orcus or Graz'zt. Thanks to Caius and Autun each remembering a few relevant pieces of lore, the party eventually decides that Graz'zt must be in Gracklestugh

The party still can't determine exactly what the room is about. But it is not just noises from the city. Bree casts Comprehend Languages and tries to have the same experience as Kais. She manages to take damage, but is not prompted to ask a question.

The party continues past the mesa and encounters a forest of mushrooms blocking their path. Many of the mushrooms look chewed on and have holes in them. Kais pokes one and centipedes and spiders emerge. Bree casts bonfire on some far mushrooms, which then gets a little out of hand. Oh no, a mushroom forest fire. Spiders and centipedes run out of the burning mushrooms past the adventurers.

Kais uses magehand to make a fire break, like a magical plow, and pushes dirt around to extinguish the fire and open a path through the mushroom forest. With this they progress through the mushroom forest.

Their next encounter is with a group of myconids dancing in a room. There are three adults, five children and a couple spore servants. Voosper is their adult leader and very gregarious. He is a friend of Zuggtmoy and hasn't been to Neverlight Grove in a long time, but wishes to go there and partake in the giant wonderful feast that is soon to occur there. The party is wary of this, but befriends a tiny sprout named Rumpadump that is not interested in any of the dancing or his compatriots. Rumpadump knew Stool and is saddened to hear that he fell in battle, but is happy when Kais and Autun suggest Rumpadump can join them.

Voosper explains that the feast will not be in Gracklestugh because there is no forest here, and they must return to Neverlight Grove. At this the party has learned enough and while Caius and Bree perform a distraction, the rest of the party makes their leave with Rumpadump.

Rumpadump is now an NPC member of Stool's Irregulars.

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Prior: 26 April 2019, All: Play_Sessions, Next: 10 May 2019

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Inventory

Gained

• 16 pygmywort mushrooms
• 16 unknown mushrooms (later identified as bigwig (embiggen))
• 20 days of food rations
• fire lichen
• 20 crossbow bolts
• recipe for Alchemist Fire with ingredients for 2
• recipe for Vial of Acid with ingredients for 4
• 5cp 27sp 15gp 2pl
• 2 potions of greater healing
• Potion of fire breath
• an incriminating letter

Lost

cost of rooms (?)

Party inventory (excluding Gained and Lost items above)

• 59cp 476sp 112gp 17pl -cost of rooms
• misc gems worth 15gp
• 7 gems x 2gp each
• 5gp of gems

• all of our original possessions, except disposables

• Potions of Greater Healing, 1 each (4d4+2)
• 2 potions of healing
• 2 gourds of antitoxin (gives 1 hour of advantage on saving throws against poison)
• 1 flask of holy water (carried by Autun)
• 11 unicorn hooves (goodberry)
• spell component pouch
• diamond worth 300gp
• 2x spell components for Find Familiar
• 7 pygmywort mushrooms

• bag of holding
• scroll of Protection From Fiends in a box of surface wood
• one pair of spectacles of darkvision
• a Quiver of Ehlonna (carried by Kais)
• Bree's Book of Shadows
• bag of magical rubies for delivery

• thieves' lantern (carried by Kais)
• pouch with incense (worth 5gp)
• a Dwarvish recipe book
• a Dwarvish poetry book
• a bone flute
• a strange hourglass (worth 2gp)
• bracelet (silver) worth 6gp
• silver hand mirror
• small wood box
• silver headdress
• 3 rings with gems (from dead drow)
• 2 longbows (one kept by Kais, one kept by Autun)
• necklace with 3 headed flail
• decorated quiver (5gp)
• drow underwear
• a bunch of hairpins (fished out from between the teeth of the elf-Quaggoth)
• fishing tackle x4 (4gp)

• plush purple velvet cloak (worn by Autun)
• shield (carried by Caius)
• silvered sickle (carried by Ezri)
• 1 studded leather armor (kept by Kais)
• 1 bag of pitons (kept by Kais)
• 2 short swords (kept by Kais)
• 3 daggers (kept by Kais)
• 1 hand crossbow (kept by Kais)
• 1 bag of caltrops (kept by Kais)
• some rope: mostly hemp + 50 feet silk rope (1GP & 10GP)

• 24 +1 arrows
• some arrows
• some spears
• some crossbow bolts

• 200+ rations
• a lot of salt
• a lot of fish
• blue cap mushroom spores
• water orbs
• shambling mound debris (tinder)

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Prior: 26 April 2019, All: Play_Sessions, Next: 10 May 2019