4 January 2019
The Destruction of Sloodublop
Our adventurers begin in Sloodublop having rested after the tasty fish soup of Gloogluglog, son of Plooploopeen. All adventurers are in Plooploopeen's house chillin, except Bree who is outside around the empty Sea Mother's statue. Bree decides to wander over to the gated entrance to the village. When there she sees a single male dwarf-like creature being led in by a returning patrol. He looks a little beaten up, not horribly wounded, but he is being held in the custody of some Kuo-toa. Bree heads back to the house of Plooploopeen and informs her fellow adventurers what she has seen.
Jimjar and Eldeth confirm to Bree that this is indeed a grey dwarf that she has seen and Plooploopeen confirms that this grey dwarf is likely being taken to be sacrificed by Blipbloppod to the deep father God. Plooploopeen hatches a plan to trick Blipbloppod into losing her followers by disclosing her God of the deep father to be a fraud. His plan is to bring our adventurers into her quarry as sacrificial tokens, where the adventurers can then break out, start a fight, and he can kill Blipbloppod, his own daughter. The adventurers are not convinced of this plan and set out on a reconnaissance mission to gather more information.
Ezri transforms into a rat, Cees transforms into an old Kuo-toa male, and Bree casts a ritual to understand the Kuo-toa language. Then all three of them set out to gather more information. They first stop at the docks where there are fewer ships than normal, but nothing else out of the ordinary. They then visit the temple of the Deep Father God. It features a disgusting stinking altar built for humanoid sacrifice. Cees and Bree discover the mud hut where the dwarf is being held by being awkward, and Ezri goes in to investigate in rat form. Before being discovered and chased out Ezri smells the dwarf inside and is able to tell that he is slightly injured, bleeding a bit and under heavy guard.
The three then head back to the Sea Mother temple where Cees and Bree talk with a couple of guards. They learn that more and more Kuo-toa are having strange dreams about a big thing, probably some kind of leviathan monster, that haunts them in their dreams. Also, that the people of the village have been catch less fish recently. Fish stocks are down. The adventurers return to the house of Plooploopeen with this new information.
After further discussion our adventurers agree to Plooploopeen's plan to trick Blipbloppod. The group wants to try and rescue the grey dwarf if at all possible. At news of their agreeing Plooploopeen bows in front of each of them and kisses their feet, then warns them to stay away from the water during the ceremony. The entire group including Plooploopeen then heads to the temple of the Deep Father.
Once arriving the group sees Blipbloppod and many other followers of the Deep Father God preparing to sacrifice the grey dwarf. The whole village of 500 Koa-toa has shown up to witness this, mostly evenly divided between the two Gods. Plooploopeen approaches Blipbloppod and promises our adventurers as sacrifices, but says they need to keep their weapons. Blipbloppod is pleased with this and appears to buy into the lie. The Kuo-toa start to circle in preparation for the sacrifice, like fish schooling in the open sea. Derendil and Autun being tall, notice that some kuo-toa at the water's edge start to disappear into the surf, dragged down by something.