The Adventure!
Day 1, hour 12 Noon
After a tenday of travel, the adventurers finally made it to their destination with the aid of their gruff ranger guide Deltin.
Deltin was simply supposed to lead the adventurers to the dungeon mouth, but when a rockslide blocked his way and crushed his mule carrying his payment, the adventurers offered him a spot in their group to help make up for his loss. He accepted because he wanted nothing to do with clearing out rubble for 30 days. They offered because their mentor loaded them down with preparative equipment and felt they could have someone to lighten their load.
So with a new partner in tow they entered the cave mouth (rogue first of course).
Session #1 map
Room A1: Nothing special other than a steady rush of air travelling through the cracks in the doorways. They opened the Eastern door only to see an inky blackness beyond the threshold. Krieg used his 10' pole to poke into the darkness and found that he could not pull it out. Now they understood the meaning of the warning they'd been given "Once you enter there is no turning back." But they came here to do a job, so in rapid succession they entered.
Room A2: They examined their new surrounding and got to work. They heard a short series of coughs so Dalron went to investigate while Dugan began using his Detect Evil ability (an ability he puts to used almost constantly). They discovered a few orcs that vehemently wanted to be left alone. The group decided that a combat was not necessary and moved on into the Eastern most door.
Room A7: A giant pile of trash and a horrible smell greets them here. They don't even enter the room. So they move on to another door from room A2.
Room A8: They find a dead orc in this room. Krieg investigates the body and finds wounds about the body. Consensus agrees that these could be caused by stirges, but they aren't 100% sure.
Room A9: One at a time they enter this room. First is Thunderclease and then Dugan. Then everything goes black around them. Something attacks Dugan and a crazed combat ensues. Although they had trained for a year for this, their eagerness to do battle gets the best of them. Before the end of the combat, everyone except Zorak and Delting had been knocked unconscious. The combat was horrendous and the damage great. When the octopus thing had been defeated (they still do not know what it was), they had to spend a full day to recover.
Much time was spend discussing how to avoid another catastrophic fight with those things.
Luckily for them Caldera had supplied them with spikes so they could keep the doors held closed because at some point in their rest they had heard a fight going on and some yelling where the orcs were. Later they returned to check on the orcs only to find them slain. They did a quick check to make sure that whatever killed them was no longer around. Nothing showed up on Dugan's "radar", so they continued...
Room A10: The moment they open the door to this room hundreds of rats with glowing red eyes swarmed through. Once again a 10' pole proved itself to be quite useful, for it saved him from being overtaken at the time. This combat did not cause as much havoc as their first one, but when the smoke cleared it appeared that several of their front line had numerous rat bites. After some investigation, one bite on Dugan looked particularly nasty. Krieg feared it may have caused an infection.
Room A16: Empty room for the most part. The group travelled on.
Room A17: Dalron was about to investigate this room when he was besieged by a swarm of stirges. He was quickly able to get out of harms way while Thunderclease made quick work of the vermin. But not before a grapplefest ensued with the last one that had drained alot of blood from Krieg. It was then decided that Krieg will hang back for the time being.
Room A18: This was determined to be the nesting room of the stirges.
After a tenday of travel, the adventurers finally made it to their destination with the aid of their gruff ranger guide Deltin.
Deltin was simply supposed to lead the adventurers to the dungeon mouth, but when a rockslide blocked his way and crushed his mule carrying his payment, the adventurers offered him a spot in their group to help make up for his loss. He accepted because he wanted nothing to do with clearing out rubble for 30 days. They offered because their mentor loaded them down with preparative equipment and felt they could have someone to lighten their load.
So with a new partner in tow they entered the cave mouth (rogue first of course).
Session #1 map
Room A1: Nothing special other than a steady rush of air travelling through the cracks in the doorways. They opened the Eastern door only to see an inky blackness beyond the threshold. Krieg used his 10' pole to poke into the darkness and found that he could not pull it out. Now they understood the meaning of the warning they'd been given "Once you enter there is no turning back." But they came here to do a job, so in rapid succession they entered.
Room A2: They examined their new surrounding and got to work. They heard a short series of coughs so Dalron went to investigate while Dugan began using his Detect Evil ability (an ability he puts to used almost constantly). They discovered a few orcs that vehemently wanted to be left alone. The group decided that a combat was not necessary and moved on into the Eastern most door.
Room A7: A giant pile of trash and a horrible smell greets them here. They don't even enter the room. So they move on to another door from room A2.
Room A8: They find a dead orc in this room. Krieg investigates the body and finds wounds about the body. Consensus agrees that these could be caused by stirges, but they aren't 100% sure.
Room A9: One at a time they enter this room. First is Thunderclease and then Dugan. Then everything goes black around them. Something attacks Dugan and a crazed combat ensues. Although they had trained for a year for this, their eagerness to do battle gets the best of them. Before the end of the combat, everyone except Zorak and Delting had been knocked unconscious. The combat was horrendous and the damage great. When the octopus thing had been defeated (they still do not know what it was), they had to spend a full day to recover.
Much time was spend discussing how to avoid another catastrophic fight with those things.
Luckily for them Caldera had supplied them with spikes so they could keep the doors held closed because at some point in their rest they had heard a fight going on and some yelling where the orcs were. Later they returned to check on the orcs only to find them slain. They did a quick check to make sure that whatever killed them was no longer around. Nothing showed up on Dugan's "radar", so they continued...
Room A10: The moment they open the door to this room hundreds of rats with glowing red eyes swarmed through. Once again a 10' pole proved itself to be quite useful, for it saved him from being overtaken at the time. This combat did not cause as much havoc as their first one, but when the smoke cleared it appeared that several of their front line had numerous rat bites. After some investigation, one bite on Dugan looked particularly nasty. Krieg feared it may have caused an infection.
Room A16: Empty room for the most part. The group travelled on.
Room A17: Dalron was about to investigate this room when he was besieged by a swarm of stirges. He was quickly able to get out of harms way while Thunderclease made quick work of the vermin. But not before a grapplefest ensued with the last one that had drained alot of blood from Krieg. It was then decided that Krieg will hang back for the time being.
Room A18: This was determined to be the nesting room of the stirges.
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