Session Thirty Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 30, February 3 2020

Introduction

We continue at 9:30AM on the 21st of Tenrilden with the party having reached the underground river flowing from Lungmold's village. Unfortunately, Dirtcrust's raft has disappeared and moving against the deep and treacherous flow of the waterway will be dangerous ...

[I hit the wrong thing when I tried to save and lost most of my write up....So here's the short version until I can re-do it.]

WE discover that the bank ends and it won't be safe or easy to travel the river without a boat.

A dead miconian is found on the bank and is an elder from Lungmold & Dirtcrust's village. His body is translucent and we see tentacled blobs moving around inside the body.

Velkin sends the spider to scout ahead and it soon returns letting us know it saw nothing to help us.

Velkin climbed over the river and brought ropes.

The spider acted odd, then fell down and burst open and 5 baby carrion crawlers came out. Velkin managed to light the spider on fire but the 5 carrion crawlers paralyzed him and started feeding on him.

the rest of the party crossed the river and helped knock crawlers into the fire, but both Rallion and Oskar were both paralyzed. After the crawlers were dispatched and we recovered, Velkin noticed several holes in his skin.

We made it to Malgrim, the gnomes built a wall with stairs, that we climbed up about 150 feet. A well fortified gate was there. It cost 200 gp to enter. (Rallion paid this fee.)

We went into the dwarven mine tunnel and thanks to the bioluminescent plants, we no longer needed the lantern. We finally came to the main gate, and it cost another 200 gp to enter. (Rallion paid this fee.)

A young gnome guide, "Billy" whom Velkin spoke to in thieves' cant took us to a gnome alchemist. We used her fear of snakes to get a good deal, thanks to her fear of Oskar. We got healing potions, ingredients for Kauri to make more sleep poison for Velkin, and cure disease potions, and a purgative to help Velkin avoid death by carrion crawler eggs. We also learned that two weeks ago that drow are here looking for us. (Rallion paid for it - 5,200 gp.)

Rallion used the scepter to heal Borthan, but he ran in fear.