Text by Paul O'Connor, Dungeon Master
With a locking door the team spent an uneventful night, with the only moment of consequence being Dee Dah curling up with Jenny, striking a spark of jealousy with Blah.
After a bit of debate the heroes decided to go down (the other choice being, "up"), and after several hundred yards travel they found themselves in a tall chamber where the floor had collapsed to natural caverns below. The walls of the chamber told the story of Blue Noggak Dungeon -- a dwarven community founded centuries ago to mine the mountain, and which for a time collaborated with human traders (building the now-demolished Blue Hills Castle) before falling into decline after a war over precious ice opals.
With some floating and glowing, the gang investigated the natural cavern through the wrecked floor. Slimy and wet down there, and getting wetter -- a natural spring gushes from the rocks and sends a trickle down the sloping tunnel. Khostov dispersed a flock of stirges with his pipes.
Lots of arguing and making of loud noises before the group decides to press on down the tunnel, with Arthur getting tangled up in a net by ambushing Kua-Toa ... but it wasn't long before the fish-men were routed, and their arch-priest's tongue fed to the owlbear cub. Three other hapless fish heads were taken prisoner. (Don't call them guides!).
But as the literal fog of battle lifted, Jenny said, "Where's Farrah?" and Khostov remembered that he'd failed to spot something during the melee.
How does one pronounce “Kua-Toa”?
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