We played through two short adventures in yesterday's "Down to Erthe" campaign. In the first, the PCs:
Were tipped off that a local gnome potion maker was secretly a dragon who'd been eating people in the city, and opted to break into her shop, slay the evil dragon, and take her hoard for their own
Learned what they could about the gnome, her business, and the neighboring businesses
Snuck into the back of her shop at night, looked around, and found out - as they'd suspected - her shop had expanded into several nearby businesses that had been closed down and boarded up
Encountered guardian spiders - one Medium and one Large - hiding in the webs along the ceiling of the boarded-up businesses
Discovered a treasure horde hidden behind a makeshift wall made of stacked-up stones (from the torn-down walls that once connected the adjacent buildings) and spider webbing; they thought for sure they'd found the dragon's den, but there was no dragon there
Looted the shop of potions, then set them by the back door so they wouldn't have to lug them around while they explored the rest of the layout
Found a secret door connecting to a drow tailor's shop next door, leading them to believe he'd been the one keeping the spiders fed
Explored the gnome's apartment, found it empty
Finally checked out the last corner of the building complex (via a secret door), and ran afoul of a spider swarm
Fought the gnome in her aranea form (turns out she wasn't a dragon after all!), after having just laid a ton of eggs, killing her after a decent fight
Went over to the drow tailor's apartment after deducing he was likely a male aranea and they were both in cahoots - turned out they were right, and they killed him as well
Met up with members of her merfolk tribe (as she did the first night of every full moon), to explain what all she'd learned about life as a human in the past month
Was told a deep aboleth had recently come to the shallower waters and had been slain from the inside by a triton hero wielding a powerful weapon, Galrich's fang, but the triton had likely died and the weapon was still inside the aboleth's stomach
Was furthermore told a group of anguillians (eel men) had been standing guard around the deep aboleth's corpse, refusing to allow anyone but the prophesized next wielder of the weapon, "she who has both two legs and none at all" - an obvious reference to the mermaid PC, whose intellect was housed inside a slain human woman while her mermaid body resides in stasis in a magic amulet she wears (she can "swap bodies" at will)
Agreed to meet the tribe members the following morning to go to the deep aboleth and seek out the weapon
Brought along the other three PCs (and their mongrelfolk NPC adept)
Fought an orca on the way, who slew the mermaid samurai leader of the group meeting with the mermaid PC, then left with its meal
Arrived with the other PCs at the deep aboleth, showed the anguillian cleric she was the next wielder (by briefly swapping bodies in front of him), and then entered the deep anguillian, foillowed (in single file) by her companions
Fought Small and Medium monstrous crabs, a crabman druid (all of whom had eaten their way into the deep aboleth without the anguillians noticing); the druid thought the "godflesh" was all his, and if he ate enough of the deep aboleth he'd gain his godlike powers
Found the weapon embedded in the top of the stomach cavity, and had the human monk retrieve the triton's corpse, then all returned back outside the deep aboleth
Showed the anguillian cleric the weapon, to which he praised the God of the Sea for allowing the prophecy to be fulfilled...at which point he said the prophecy didn't say who would wield the weapon next after "she who has both two legs and none at all" and called for his six anguillian warriors to help him slay the PCs
Fought them off, slaying one warrior and the cleric, at which point the other five retreated back to the deeper depths from whence they'd come, not wanting any further trouble
Galrich's fang swaps between a trident, a longspear, a shortspear, and a stiletto, each a +1 weapon and grants the wielder proficiency in whatever form it currently holds. And the PCs all leveled up to 3rd at the end of the adventure.
