SESSION 338: Under da Gulch Pt.1
The basics still work, near death around every corner in the undercity
Day 858 Continued (Under Dry Gulch): The new team proceeded. Sixty feet later another door, “Let me get that” came from Grandeal as he whispered at this door. Into a dusty chamber. Foot prints led to an iron door and to the opposite wall. “Let me get this one as well”, Grandeal pulled out a key from his shirt. “Yes that is a secret passage into the caves. The Master would like us to go into the undercity he believes it is a safer and of more present utility. Also, on the other side is a stairwell that leads to a large settling pool. We need to run past it as it is inhabited by a type of water weird”. That is what they did. Dolec and Chung-Li were a little disappointed when they got around the pool to discover they would be slinking through a relatively narrow sewer, circular and brick lined. They would be going single file. The young wizard said a junction was ahead and that was about the extent of his knowledge.
Coming to the junction they took the turn that lead to another, but smaller, settling pool with two corridors. The first passage lead to a series of gross chambers largely a dead end for detritus and filth, much to the pleasure but under nourishment of the resident giant plague ridden rats. One of the rooms was largely intact protected by a moisture swollen door.
Beyond was a smallish chamber perhaps more of a storage closet the eight hooks from which golden yellowish cloaks hung from supported this. Dolec, Charles and BoB entered the chamber to look for loot under the cloaks. Instead death was found. Some (all?) of the cloaks were covered in yellow mold and it had been disturbed.
The chamber filled with deadly spores.
BoB collapsed to the floor, choking to death.
Death was not far and Dolec and Charles started screwing about.
Chung-Li got them on target, “Bring her out before she becomes mold you twits”.
The fighters complied, which was probably best for them, you can’t just stand in a mold cloud because it did not immediately kill you. Chung-Li administered a potion of ‘Get that Disease Right Put of Ya!”, he was not certain it would work but it was all they had and Biff was getting dangerously upset about BoBbie’s condition. It worked. BoB was no longer almost dead she was just pissed off at receiving novice directions from the leadership team. Good thing her vow of silence held.
Backtracking to the settling pool they went to the other side and up a short flight of steps. Another series of rooms that were less wet filthy except for the two rooms that housed a grey ooze and its loot. The former chamber looked very wet and set off BoB’s ‘ninja-sense’. A well placed test arrow found its mark and activated the ooze. Charles thanked her for likely preventing his death. Beyond was a silt filled chamber, somewhat wet and the latter noted a couple of sentences prior. Biff was certain they were in a pay zone after the ooze, “Time to earn yer coin forest fruits”. The half-orc grabbed Gord and Chung-Li into the chamber and they began sifting through the silt and filth. It was full of ancient Skeldrane gold. “Then damn idiots musta sat on the crappy and counted their gold”, Biff laughed in part because he had not contracted Sewer Fever like his two assistants. Chung-Li and Gord were noticeably displaying diminishing constitution. They still pressed on there were still good adventuring hours left in the day. They fell back two chambers. This room had a semi recently dead adventurer, that they had looted on the first pass, and another short stairwell leading down to a settling pool. Grandeal admitted to vaguely recognizing the dead by suffocation hobo, “Oh, I think I remember him part of a group we hired just about two weeks ago to conduct some exploration of the area. I have to admit though all you hobos are kinda similar…”. Moving on after the pool was another passage that came to a T-junction. Looking at their map they felt that they had reconnected to the main branch so they went in that way to see if they were correct. They did not get to a definitive answer as another side branch appeared.
They took the diversion.
It lead to another settling pool. This time someone posed the question, “Do ya think there is loot in these things?”. “One would risk sewer fever and your friends already look weakened”, Grandeal commented while gesturing towards Gord and Chung-Li. Before any more chit chat could be had an army of hungry mutant frogs burst from the fetid waters.
Egads!
6hrs 40 minutes into the adventuring day...
Team UG (you figure it out): Dolec, Chung-Li, Biff, BoB, Katre, Charles & introducing Gord and Grandeal the Grey
ROLECALL (Bosses in Training)
Dolec Da the Hero (F7) 88101 xp +10% <120000> CRT 1d20/IV
Missing five teeth
Chung-Li the Elven Champion Sorcerer (E7) 143241 xp <250000> +10% CRT 1d8/II
The Henchmen
Biff Bartley the Half-Orc Blackguard (HO8) 130139 <MAX> +5% CRT 1d14/II
‘BOB’ the Unseen (N8) 92246 <180000> +5% CRT 1d20/II
Charles in Charge the Champion (F7) 94414 <120000> +10% CRT 1d20/IV
Franz the Grave Return (Lawful; XXXX) Sword
Critical Wound: Punctured lung (-2 CON)
Mostly DEAD. (-1 CON)
Katre Elf-Girl and Swordsman Conjuror (E4) 18372 xp <32000> +0% CRT 1d8/II
Gord the Scout (R3) 6500 xp <10000> +10% CRT 1d14/III
Grandeal the Grey Seer (MU2) 3250 xp <5000> 5% CRT 1d6/I
RESERVES (Death Recovery)
Ramrod the Cloned Thief - Recovering from death (yet again) 846 start (876)
Bimbles of the now creepy electrical eyes– Freshly not dead (881).
Raul of more facial scars (-2 CHA) – no longer mostly dead (866)
Herbert the Gnome - no longer dead (867)
Elapsed Campaign Time
846 – Everyone Else for reasons.
858 – Carla-Team (at Dry Gulch)
Domain Days
Gormandia: 8 (Start 838)
Bunnland:?
Join us for session Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Nine when we ask the questions:
How long can we dodge death so haphazardly and not have a mortality?
When will the dungeon rust come off?
What will Master Thyber do if we kill one of his star pupils?
Have we ever fought giant mutant frogs before, what do they do?
Tale of the Tape
BoB is now Charles’s double hero after likely saving him from an excruciating death by acidic ooze. She took it as all in a day’s work and a bit of balancing the score for getting her out of the mold closet.
Sewer fever is all the rage, Gord and Chung have gots it bad.
KILLS
Giant rats (23)
Yellow mold – Run Away!
Gray Ooze (for beginners)
LOOT
Platinum broach 500 gp
Ancient gold coin! 2,945 pieces of it
