Abyss Modified Session 9, It's raining Flumphs

After a few weeks of sickness, I was able to run an adventure again, con crud Influenza sucks. 

Also these write ups will contain spoilers to the Out of the Abyss adventure

We were down a few players due to schedules and picked up a new friend. Our adventure picked up where the last one ended, two dead drow, the corpse of a gibbering mouther, and no sign of the rest of the ambushers. Godric returned to the chamber, having scouted back the way they came and found Keg the kobold merchant and an aasimar cleric named Malva in the tunnels. Keg had been harassed by drow and Godric and Malva helped him refill his cart with the spilled wares. The rest of the party was resting in the cave when they got back. Telegar asked the party about the rod they were given by the Companion and realized that the drow they had escaped early on might actually still be trailing them and were about a day behind them. Telegar informed the group that the leader of the drow took his earring and they could use the rod to keep an eye out on where the drow squad might be. 

Keg hired the party to help him navigate near the city of Blingdenstone, knowing the way he could guide them and knew what was ahead. He also paid them in advance, giving everyone a magic item to help on their journey. Keg also bonded with Root, their orphaned kobold friend, Root showed Keg the bag of holding he kept sleeping in and got to ride in Kegs wheelbarrow of items. The first chamber they found had three ogres that usually made travelers pay a tribute if they wanted to pass, if refused the ogres would eat the travelers. Keg mentions he had more apprentices that usually would help make the trek easier but the tribute is high. The group saw the ogres eating a huge sized beetle, ripping through the carapace with their slime stained hands and eating sinewy meat. 

Xanaphia dropped an ice knife into the beetle, stabbing out shards of ice into the ogres. Combat was had, Orion approaching one ogre and trying out there new sword, Godric threw up a hex on the same ogre while getting rushed by the other two. Slim Jim took advantage of the melee and launched a few arrows into the fray while riding on the wheelbarrow while keg made haste across the chamber, trying to avoid the ogres. Slim Jim noticed in the back of the cave by the exit there was purple mist they knew to be the Faerzress, the Underdark wild magic permeating some areas. Malva made good use of her mace as well as her spiritual weapon, bashing away at the ogres. Two of the ogres ended up falling after hitting the party a few times and Slim Jim tossed a silent image of an orc into the mist, causing six fearful Flumphs to fall out, confused and scared they started screaming while flailing about the chamber. Their flailing caused the mist to spread in the chamber. Keg got his cart halfway across the chamber before Slim Jim tried to case disguise self while engulfed in mist. 

The explosion shook the cavern, the secondary blast from the cart full of magic items shook it again. Keg was thrown from the blast, Slim Jim was on fire, and in the space of the cart was the amalgamation of the wild magic and chaos, a large purple gelatinous cube with the five remaining flumphs trapped within its mass. Keg shakily got to his feet and ran to the pile of characters not there, represented by one figure instead of eight for sanity sake and was healed by Telegar. The party panicked realizing that Root had been on the cart when it exploded. The remaining ogre was shocked by what had just happened and fell quickly to the redoubled efforts of the party. They refocused the efforts on the cube, fearful to use magic on it knowing it was created by wild magic. Orion got stuck within its form and Slim Jim kept evading its advances. Orion was very close to dying but was saved at the last moment by the efforts of the party. The cube fell, and silence permeated the cave. They searched the rubble and only found a ten-foot pole and eventually saw the wheelbarrows wheel rolling back towards them. Before they could start mourning the loss of their tiny kobold friend, they noticed a tail wagging out of the bag of holding on Keg’s side. 

Their companion was safe… for the moment.