Adventure 43

Party Members:
Hammar – Cleric
Cloverdung – Ranger
Othello – Thief
Gubikla – Magic User
Kavis – Fighter
Bone – Fighter

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Othello uses a rope that was tied off to clime down and look into the shaft one level down.  He sees that there are a couple of puff balls plant things at the entrance so he decides he does not want to get covered in spores so he gets Kavis to swing the rope out so that he can tumble into the shaft on the other side of elevator shaft.  Luckily He misses a puff thing that was in that passageway.  He then catches the rope and ties it off on a good support beam that he finds so the others can slide down.  Kavis uses his hammer as zip line and slides down like a pro.  Hammer thinks that is cool so he ties but trip was a little more jerky.  Gubikla does not trust the rope after the two dwarfs used it so he cast spider clime and climes over.

We see a bunch of star fish like creatures on the ceiling and Othello shoot one and wounds it.  The other star creatures start slowly moving toward the wounded one.  Hammer cast sacred flame and Othello shoots another one.  The wounded one burst into flames and it  ignites the second wounded one.  The star creatures start moving away and down the hall.  The party advances and takes out a few more.  They see a side passage way and a detect treasure spell was pointing that there was some coins down.

We head down the side passage way following the treasure detection and the tunnel was collapsed.  We see a boot sticking out of the ruble.  Hammer ends up taking the boot and after some digging Othello found the remains of a coin purse.  Gubikla gets the other boot.   They both put on the boot they pickup.  Unfortunately nothing bad happened.  So Gubikla made Hammer stand next to him so the he could identify them.   After a quick search we find a worm hole tunnel leading down and to the side.  Kavis hears a humming coming from below.  Gubikla and Hammer go investigate where the star creatures went and Kavis and Othello clime down the worm tunnel.

The star creatures stopped at a dead end of the passage way.  So they come back and clime down the tunnel as well.  Kavis climes out of the passage way and thinks he sees something out of the corner of his eye down the hall but he look down the hallway he sees nothing.  Othello then climes out not thinks nothing as Kavis did not say anything.  He determines that the treasure detection is pointing him down the hallway.  Hammer and Gubikla clime out as Othello start down the hallway.

Othello only made it about 15′ before he is jabbed and bit by a couple of translucent praying mantes like creatures.  One on ether side him.  He takes out his dagger and tries to stab one but fails.  So he uses his spring like ability to retreat.  Kavis advance to attack.  Gubikla cast a chromatic orb against one of them.  One of the creatures attacks Kavis while the other jumps past Kavis and Othello and grabs Gubikla with one arm and punches him with the other.   Hammer swings and misses.  Kavis attacks the one if front of him.  Othello back stabs the one that jumped past him.  He hits and ends up paralyzing the creature.  Gubikla tries to escape being locked in creatures arms but can’t manage to pry himself loose.  Hammer slams the creature with his weapon but it is still standing.  Kavis continues to fight the creature in front of him.  Othello joins this fight by shooting a bolt into the creature.  Gubikla decided to cast frost bolt at the creatures arm that is holding him.   It helps but it does not release him.  Hammer cast sacred flame on the one fighting Kavis.  Kavis then finish’s off the creature and we free Gubikla by killing the one holding him.

At this point we determine that dust is causing Gubikla and Hammer to get sick and loose Constitution points.  We venture forward after the battle following the treasure detection and it leads us to the remains of dead cleric.  after looting his body Hammer cast speak with dead.  We learn that he died of the red dust in the mine.  We also learn that the red ore that was on his corpse was from two levels down on the other side and there was more ore then he could carry out.   We search the passageway and find a larger worm tunnel going down but Kavis hears more humming and decides it was the translucent creatures and does not want to go down that way.  Gubikla decides he can D-Door us down to the passage way indicated to have the ore.

After the d-door we head down the passage way and find the end where it looks like it was more recently mined.  We each take a small rough shallow mining shaft and start mining.   After several hours we each get a good amount of red ore and we get attacked by a group of the translucent insect creatures.  After Othello casting thunder stick a couple of times and Gubikla missing with a Acidic orb.  We nearly collapse the tunnel.  We ended up killing off the ones that did not get crushed by the falling ruble and decide we had pushed our luck long enough and leave by way of Gubikla casting teleport.