Abyss Modified Session 12, Gnomeward Bound

Out of the Abyss spoilers ahead

After their nights rest the party went to leave their hiding chamber and found a random surface gnome with a poorly drawn map standing in the hallway, very confused. Her name was Thistle and she was very lost. Greetings were had and the group made their way closer to the deep gnome city of Blingdenstone and found a large chamber of murdered mushroom people. As they investigated the mushrooms, they found many of them were crushed and others were cut by some form of freezing blade. They noted none of the mushrooms were edible. 

They made their way to what seemed to be a small outpost of many different underdark outcasts, from orcs, dwarves, gnomes, to elves all living within a small community. The people here also were murdered by something, which the party found out was a drow wight. Battle commenced and the wight called out to something the party could not see. The party charged the undead, the barbarian Kalie threw a wall of water up between herself and the wight, giving the creature a shield against Dinak, whose arrows would have difficulty passing through the wall. Suddenly, a few of the closer buildings exploded as ogre zombies under the wight’s control burst out and started attacking the casters and less protected party members. 

Godric stuck the wight in a holding spell as the ogres tried to muscle down on the rest of the group. Orion leapt through the wall of water to vex the wight. The party made very quick work on the hobbled wight, Orion, Dinak, and Godric ruined his day. The rest of the group worked on the ogres, finding them slow and easy to hit, but they refused to go down. Thistle landed dagger after dagger into the brutes, Xanaphia took a few hits from one of the zombies but filled him full of magic damage. It all came down to one ogre left, and the entire party focusing every attack against it, but it refused to succumb back to death. Eventually a critical hit knocked it down. the party, exhausted finally made it to Blingdenstone, finding a closed gate and disembodied voiced greeting them. Keg vouched for the group, even Dinak the drow, the party was allowed to enter but would have a guard assigned to them while they were in the city. They were led through the tunnels and found themselves finally in a place of safety, but knew the drow behind them were only a few hours away.