Return To Darkshelf Quarry (Session 45)

Summary

Audra had just disappeared when she touched the energy field in the arch in the room with the hand of one of the thugs they'd just killed. She was still touching his arm when it touched the energy field. When it made contact, both he body and Audra disappeared. What happened to them? One can only guess. Let's find out.

Audra found herself standing in a room with a small Pyramid in the middle of the room, two priests wearing the robes of the Elemental Eye, and a Mud Beast. They were expecting her since they'd thrown a body through the portal already. One of the priest cast a spell at her but it appeared to have no effect. The other priest cast something on the Mud Beast and it grew bigger and he ordered it to attack her. She didn't even need to hear the voice of Sairalinde' in her head to know to move immediately on the priests. She lunged at and hit one of them breaking his the spell he was preparing to cast. Also entering the room from behind them was Glyrthiel.

Brandy showed up through the portal next. She focused on the Mud Beast. The others showed up one at a time. A third priest joined the fight. It wouldn't have been as bad a battle if they'd all come into the room at the same time rather than coming through the portal one at a time. Brandy and Pyreece were held very quickly after they arrived. After that, they were easy targets. Oglesby had stepped through and seeing the cluster of priests, used his ring to go invisible. He moved quickly away from the gate and planned to backstab Glyrthiel. Kipp beat him to it. Kipp, Audra, Oglesby, and Elenor took out the priests and lastly the beast. Brandy fell during the battle but Audra reached her with a Goodberry and potion and got her back up.

They searched for a place nearby to rest. They found a room down a southern tunnel with two beds, chairs, chests and such, There was a cart in the tunnel outside the room. They went into the room and pulled the cart up for cover. They attempted to rest there. About an hour or so into their rest, Brandy, who was on watch, heard the voices of Orcs from the area above. It was obvious they'd come across the bodies and turned to go back for help. Brandy woke the others to let them know. They decided they needed to prepare and drank a bunch of healing potions to get back to fighting strength.

They set up to ambush the Orcs on their return. Several were in the room across from them, they moved the cart back out of the doorway. Oglesby drank a potion of invisibility and moved out to the north, preparing to attack from behind. Kipp decided to move into the same area and take advantage of the shadows to hide and wait. While crossing the tunnel, he saw movement in the shadows of the tunnel to the east. There were a bunch of Orc's sneaking back down the hallway towards them. They didn't see him. Everyone waited on the Orcs.

When they got close to the area where Kipp was hiding, he lunged out at them, blocking them in a thin tunnel, only wide enough for two to fit side by side. Brandy charged into the area and moved to block the second side of the tunnel. Now they were fighting only two Orcs directly at a time. This worked out well. Pyreece, Elenor, and Audra used ranged weapons to attack the front two Orc's. There were 7 Orcs in all. They dropped the first two and two more moved up. From the northern tunnel behind the Orcs popped out two Derro. They fired small repeating crossbows.

Elenor cast a slow spell on the Orc's in the back and the two Derro. It seemed to effect all but one of the Derro. They finished off the two Orcs up front and moved on the Derro. The other three slowed Orcs ran off, slowly of course. They searched everyone and replenished some of the healing potions. Brandy looked through the Northern tunnels that the Derro had come from and found Goblins digging. It reminded them of the mines back in Darkshelf. That's it, they must have returned to those mines.

They went back to the main tunnel and moved East from there. They made it to another tunnel that turned South. There were some more digging sounds ahead and they moved down there, they came upon more Orcs and Goblins. They dispatched the Orcs quickly and then Brandy told the Goblins they were free and to get out of there. They chose to hide instead. Audra recognized the area as the area where they climbed down from the mines above through a ventilation shaft through a couple of grates. They already fought a coupe of Orcs here a week or so ago. They turned West and entered a chamber with a tunnel moving West. That tunnel sloped downward.

That is where they ended this session.

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Exp: 2133 + 213 = 2346