Session 23

A Series of Tubes
17 Eleasis(Afternoon) - Like a half hour later that afternoon

Ralkor sends his owl familiar after the fleeing drow to try to figure out where they went. The party follows more slowly. The owl locates a side room with a small ceremonial pool and several dead dwarves. The party checks the room and finds that the dwarves are the ones killed and replaced by the doppelgangers.

Ralkor wanders towards another room and finds a pit leading down, guarded by two driders and two of the fleeing drow warriors. He sees one of the mages just disappearing as he jumps into the pit. Ralkor was a bit ahead of the rest of his group and could have been in some trouble here but the other three young adventurers had very good initiative rolls. Kaia and Nespip rush in to engage the driders and the party makes pretty short work of them. Kaia does almost die, though, so Ralkor turns her into a giant ape. The two drow flee by jumping into the pit during the fight.

Nespip and Sebastian, apparently thinking the pit was safe to blindly jump into for some reason, leap down. They are saved from taking some serious damage only because the drow had filled the shaft with the web spell to slow pursuit. Ralkor clears the web, somewhat slowly, using firebolt.

Once the party has climbed down the shaft they find themselves in a similar-looking level of the catacombs. They continue to search for the escaping drow but take several missteps--they scout down the wrong side passage twice, they take some time to deal with a lone drow they find staggering about (it’s the drow who fell down a pit in the fight last session). When they do find yet another tunnel leading down the drow are long gone.

The party begins to climb down the hole but are stopped by the arrival of King Bruenor and Catti Brie. Bruenor thanks the party for their efforts but tells them to stand down. The pit, according to him, leads out of the catacombs and into the Underdark. He and Catti Brie will go after the thieves themselves in the morning; Bruenor assumes they are headed towards Menzoberranzan which is a long trip through the Underdark.

In the meantime Bruenor plans to step up his plans for the party to get help from the various factions. Due to the theft of Maegera and the imminent departure of its king Gauntlgrym can no longer spare any soldiers for the mission, so faction support is even more important (assuming the party wants soldiers for a proper expedition). Bruenor was planning a feast in several days to introduce the party to the faction agents but he will invite them to a dinner tonight instead.

And we leave off there, a short update for a short session (our first online session). Until next time when we find out if the Young Adventurers can make a good impression at a party.