Abyss Modified session 5

OUT OF THE ABYSS SPOILERS AHEAD  

Our session started with the party fighting the monsters pursuing their new allies, the survivors. Two vulture demons and a bug demon came out of the tunnel, attacking the pile of survivors. The party watched as the dwarf fighter was taken out in one hit by the bug and the vultures engaged Orion and the other flew around to cut off the two groups. Most of the party spell casters had spells dealing fire damage, which seemed to do minimal damage against the demons, causing the group to redirect their actions. they watched as the orc survivor ran up to the dwarf’s defense and also got knocked out by the bug demon. Dinak got off a few arrows at the monsters, Orion had difficulty connecting any punches or stabs, Godric made use of his booming blade cantrip, Hestia offered the survivors protection within the ranks of the party, Fione launched rocks at the demons, Slim Jim made use of his sneak attacks having found the party once again, Xanaphia blasted away with cantrips, and Annahata followed suit with cantrips. The demons attacked indiscriminately, slashing out at the survivors and the party, they even knocked out the poor koa-toa, but after hearing the worst sound any of the party had ever heard the demons fled back the direction they came from. The party picked up the survivors, healed the fallen, and fled down another tunnel, hoping to create some distance from the demons and the drow most likely close behind as well. Telegar the eladrin asked if the group had made parley with the kobolds and if the way was clear, the party told him, yes on the parley, but the way had been collapsed by a burrowing monster.

They found a rope bridge over a deep chasm a few of the party just ran across while other made preparations to slowly make a rope line across. The party eventually all crossed and cut the ropes once safe on the other side. Godric found more mushrooms gaining around twenty pounds of food for the party. They took some time to rest in a safe and oddly clean cave and took stock of who made it out of the drow outpost, what supplies they had or needed, and found a kobold child had stowed away in their bag of holding. His name was Root, he had eaten a day’s worth of beets from their provisions, and had fallen asleep working on one of the larger beets. His first moments with the party were full of fear as Lady Hestia intimidated him for information. Annahatta stepped in and gave Root motherly affection and attention, finding out he had climbed into the bag during the shaky time in the kobold warrens and wanted to know where his mother was. The party promised the child safety and they would help him find a place to live. Telegar, the eladrin, informed the party he had come down here to save these people before the drow could sell them off, but was captured as well. Fione summoned a nature spirit to make a campsite in the cavern for the party. They took watch and noticed the derro with them was mumbling to himself oddly while staring at a wall. The orc and the dwarf were keeping distance from each other, the deep gnome was quiet, the koa-toa kept quiet as well, and the drow kept coughing throughout the night. They noticed some odd scraping ahead of them in the tunnels during the watch but did not see anything out of place, even after throwing a fire bolt down the passage. Fione talked quietly with Root for a bit. After their rest the group counseled to find out where to head, and after learning the distances between a few of the options decided to head to the koa-toa town of Sloobludop. They feared going to the gray dwarven city or the drow city would get them all captured instantly. Their fellowship of now fifteen mouths to feed made their way into the tunnels that would lead them towards Sloobludop. The party asked Shuushar the Koa-toa if his people were like him, calm and collected. His response was no, his people had hundreds of gods, most of which they made up on the spot, the only stable god was the deep mother, they ate meat, sometimes it was people.

The party was concerned but found the air around them growing humid and moisture collected on the cave walls. They had found steam vents with odd beetles biting at the steam blasts. They watched as the creatures would flash different colors and made strange clacking noises to alert each other when a good vent for food was about to burst. Lady Hestia took the chance to learn their clacks and repeat them, seemingly offending their honor as bugs and they rushed at the party. The party was about fifteen feet up on a ledge and just started picking off the beetles when the walls and floor shook and a Hook Horror burst out and attacked the crew. The group worked well together to slay the hook monster as well as the rest of the beetles harvesting quite a bit of food for the road in the process. Root even threw rocks at the hook monster. They also got to see their new allies carry their weight in the battle, even seeing the weird derro swinging around a wicked hook on a stick.

The group carried on, finding long winding tunnels and eventually on odd almost hammer shaped chamber with large mushrooms along the walls. As Dinak, with shield and silvered sickle out, made his way into the room scouting the mushrooms all started screaming. Having raised the alarm piles of goblins wearing mushroom bark came streaming out of hiding and started attacking the party. Behind the lines of minions stood a bulkier goblin wearing a crown of fungus and was directing his forces to attack the intruders, he was hard to hear with all the screaming. Some of the party started focusing on the mushrooms to silence the screaming, others rushed the line of goblins. Orion made good work on the goblin minions after a few near misses, Slim Jim cast sleep on the goblin boss and the mushrooms behind him, knocking two mushrooms out of the fight. Fione and Root threw rocks into the melee hitting goblins, Godric became a mushroom slayer, Xanaphia was able to keep the wild bits of magic at bay to throw an ice knife wounding a swath of goblins, Annahatta shot a scorching ray swarm at the boss, taking him in the shoulder with one, the other two detonating on the back wall. Dinak was able to take out a few of the goblins as well, having also been hit with the ice knife. Their allies charged in, the Derro Buppido sinking his hook stick sickeningly into the skull of a goblin and slinking back into the shadows, Eldeth and Ront worked together to take out a few goblins and a few mushrooms, Jimjar, Sarith, and Shuushar watched behind to make sure nothing tried to sneak up on the group. Telegar threw a few minor spells into the fray as well, conserving magic incase the party had to flee. The boss finally fell and the party looted the goblin swarm after putting down the still screaming fungus. They found a magic short sword and a pile of sapphires. They also found that Buppido started field dressing the goblin boss, and once noticed hid in the shadows again.

The group gathered up again and Dinak took point, they found a large chamber with pillars spread about forty feet apart. He could hear bashing and banging and could see a very large creature bashing a metal encased chest or barrel against a pillar. He went back to the party to tell them what he saw and Buppido got excited and saying the “breaker was breaking”. Fione and Slim Jim went with him to investigate and Buppido ran into the chamber screaming “breaker is breaking” and they witnessed the metal encased barrel smash into him, making him a stain on the floor. We ended the session there for the night.