July 22nd, 2023
Vita, Dracones 6th, 1194 (Continued)
We make camp in the grick’s den.
Mare, Dracones 7th, 1194
We find a white scaled lizard the size of a horse chained to the wall in a hard to access part of the cavern. Sigmund calms it down long enough for Ty to unlock its shackles. It then tries to run away with Sigmund. Sigmund delivers the killing blow, while grappled, with his revenge knife.
We encounter another group of smelly lizard people. Their area has enough food to sustain a tribe for a significant amount of time. Nearby we find their warren and attempt to communicate and ask about the dwarves. They claim that duergar are not in their warren and ask us to leave. Sigmund wants to negotiate safe travel through their territory and is directed to ask their leader, Kaarghaz. Kaarghaz agrees to not attack us, if we leave his people alone.
We take the stairs down, which are behind a very difficult to unlock door. They lead to a very polished stone worked area. We can hear some faint hammering in the distance. Someone is warning us to leave, but we can’t see them. For 400gp they will grant us safe passage–we pay. Three duergar appear as if they were invisible. Ghared is the duergar that is talking with us. We ask her about star maps and prophecies and she directs us to a place they call the Sinkhole. Ghared and the other two are using this area because of the good forge that Durgeddin left behind. No one else has been here asking questions, so no Tolm. We sell her some of our loot and Ralzer buys some black powder. We bid our goodbyes and head to the Sinkhole.
In a disgusting store room is a gray ooze. In The Lord of the God Kings, the sequel to The Wickedly Weaved Webs, the duergar used a gray ooze in a stone bird bath as an enhanced interrogation technique. The cabal leader, Brezel Largith, wants the summoning incantation for the demon Legiticus the Unceasing and has captured Leera Turnsin, an elven maiden and expert in demonology. Investigator Vale needs to rescue her before Brezel succeeds.
In another area Ty and Graynor feel a similar sensation wot when Ty when ethereal near the calendar and when Graynor visited the Void Realm. The ceiling in the area has some star mapping on it and Sigmund copies it. Sigmund believes these stars are not from this planet’s sky, nor are they the same from Tolm’s ceiling. Ty goes ethereal and sees the same shimmering effect as he did near the calendar. It’s confined to a smaller area; she can see the borders. Her book glows brighter. While we are leaving, what looks like three small arcane tentacles and another pale yellow tentacle with white suction cups filled with tiny tentacles attack us. When we kill them they disappear slowly.
Afterwards, we camp and identify magic items.