Abyss Modified session 11: Fish, bridges, and radishes

Our session began with a new adventurer making their way into the underdark, a triton storm herald barbarian named Kalie had accidentally made her way into the depths of the underground and ran across the party. Slim Jim, Xanaphia, Orion, and Kalie made their way along Keg’s path and came across a chamber with strange splashing sounds, a moving light, and harsh voices speaking in a language they did not know. The party recognized the language as something their old companion Buppido would speak during his mumblings. They looked around the corner and watched a group of derro, strange underground twisted fey dwarves. There were four less important looking ones and one with a long pliable pole with a light on the end of it, swinging it back and forth causing fish to leap out of two small pools. The derro would catch the fish, bite off the head, and put the rest in their pockets. After watching the derro at this for a few moments the party was noticed, Xanaphia tried to persuade the derro to let them pass and Root, their kobold child companion, translated for her. They realized the derro were mad and combat was had. Kalie made good use of her trident, impaling on of the derro and flinging it at its allies and disturbing the fish. Orion decapitated a few of them, Xanaphia threw necrotic energy at the others, melting one’s flesh and exposing its lungs. Slim Jim attempted a few shots with his bow, but the derro were evasive. Kalie stabbed the derro with the lung problem, ending him there. the group turned to the leader of the derro in time to be hit with a lightning bolt from the mad derro. No one likes being hit with a lightning bolt so they returned the attack tenfold, breaking his body and looting the corpses.

They made their way further into the tunnels, eventually hitting a chamber with a vast cavern with a single long bridge spanning the gap and hundreds of stalagmites and stalactites filling most of the chamber. The bridge had no rails, and seemed to be way longer than they could see, even with special dark vision and other sights. They started their long trek across and started to hear strange buzzing and saw something strange at the edge of their vision, a large horse sized fly like creature known as a chasme. As they observed, it clung to the side of the bridge and another creature, a large red gorilla with metal bracers on its arms approached from the far side of the bridge. The two demons conversed in a strange language and they both noticed the party. The group descended on the strange chasme and Orion stunned it with stunning strike, letting the rest of the group team up to hobble it. the strange ape creature ran up and bit Kalie, then smashed both fists into her. It continued its wild bite and smash combo but fell to the party’s onslaught of attacks, in the process knocked Kalie unconscious. The Chasme died terribly still gripped to the bridge and did get to make one good attack on Orion, dealing its normal damage as well as necrotic damage, draining Orion’s vitality.

The party made the rest of the way across the bridge and Keg took them to another on of his hiding holes. They slept the night, their allies watched for trouble while they slept. The next morning Eldeth and Roke had difficulty waking, they both had become dreadfully exhausted from nightmares they had and were unable to travel. Keg remembered they were close to a place that had magic panacea radishes. The group left their allies to rest while they took a few hours to make their way to a dead underground city that was supposedly uninhabited and had no guardians according to Keg. When they arrived, he led them to a large broken church with a large fountain in the center of the courtyard. Water from the surface fell here as well as long vines from above. As they took one of the radishes, which were moonlight pale, with mage hand the doors behind them slammed. A strange figure to them, a human looking woman with a lion’s body where her legs should be accused them of stealing her wares. The party all gave Keg a stink eye and explained their friends were sick. They traded with her for some of the radishes. They had tried to offer her the medusa head but it had started rotting and when Orion pulled it out the thing was dripping on the church floor. Strange gremlin adjacent creatures came out and started cleaning. One gave Orion a bucket so the head would not drip on their floor. The party was happy with their transaction and left to return to their friends and saw hundreds of small gremlin-ish creatures play acting being peasants in the broken city, pretending to be vendors and patrons. They made it back to their friends and gave them the panacea, healing them of their exhaustion. The party had a pile of extra as well as seeds for hopefully making more plants on the surface.