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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boendal2" data-source="post: 8000401" data-attributes="member: 7015844">18th session:Day 206The party left Mantol-Derith and reunited with their troops. As they were preparing for the search for Gravenhollow Eeria heard her father through a sending spell. He asked her to come back and help her tribe. Conflicted Eeria said goodbye to the other PCs. Eldeth gave her the horn Vanya had given her roughly 2 months ago, when they parted ways. It has runes for Vanya and Eldeth carved into it. Tears in her eyes Eeria and Ebert departed to Gauntlgrym.Day 207-215 (skipped)The party descended further down the Underdark. Some PCs trained their giant lizards and talked a bit with Eldeth and the other NPCs.Day 216The PCs were woken up by the screams of Eldeth. Nearly half the troops had bleeding eyes, others complained about dizziness and blurry vision. Eldeth and Vanya concluded that they probably gathered foul/poisoned water and have sight rot. Vanya cast purify food and drink on the remaining provisions. Eldeth told her that they will need a "false candle morel" if they want to heal the disease. The yellow morel grows in warm/hot caves, sometimes close to lava. Otherwise at least half their troops will be blind within a week. Vanya, Tyus and Athut decided to head out, split up and look for the morel. Athut turned into a wererat and sprinted ahead fast. His keen rat senses lead him into and along a warm tunnel. Vanya and Tyus failed their survival checks and took longer to find warm stone to follow.Athut followed his senses into a smaller tunnel as he heard some howling from a cave to the right. The warmth came from the left, so he dashed into the tunnel to the left, ignoring the noises from the other side. He found himself in a small and very warm cave. He found a little gap at the ceiling, leading to a nesting area of an unknown species (meanwhile the howling and continued). Next to a big alien looking egg he found some of the yellow morels described by Eldeth. Suddenly he heard some clicking and scraping. From his hideout he looked down into the small cave as he saw two hooked horrors slide through the narrow tunnel. He started stuffing morels into his (wererat) mouth, while one of the hooked horrors came closer. The hooked horror, in panic that an intruder has made it into their nest started to attack Athut.At the same time Vanya and Tyus arrived on their giant lizards close to the cave. They also eventually found a warm stone wall that they followed. As they dismounted they heard howling and screaming from the tunnel ahead. They prepared themselves for a fight and went into the smaller tunnel. As they wanted to follow the heat, but were attacked by gnolls. Meanwhile Athut managed to avoid all attacks from the hook horrors and dashed out of the nesting area into the small cave and further down a narrow tunnel. Tyus and he crashed into each other, blocking each other's movement.On the other side of the tunnel system a big horned figure approached the gnolls. She sighed deeply, as she knew that she has to fight her way through them to get closer to her destination, the library of Gravenhollow. Muumas Stronghorn, the female minotaur barbarian started to fight the gnolls from the other side. The gnolls stood little chance, but attacked her fiercely.Tyus conjured a Barlgura demon to fight the gnolls. Vanya, realized that Athut already has the requested morels grabbed Tyus and called for a retreat. Together they make it out of the tunnels, letting an uncontrolled demon fight the gnolls. Little do they know, there is also a friendly minotaur at the end of the tunnel. As Vanya, Tyus and Athut rushed back to their camp, Muumas defeated half the gnolls, while the Barlgura killed the others. After the conjuration ended Muumas killed the remaining four gnolls and headed slowly down the next tunnel.In the evening Vanya and Eldeth were busy preparing healing pastes for the troops. Tyus and Athut were guarding the entry to the cave as a minotaur approaches them. They talk and realize, that the minotaur has a vast knowledge in herbalism and could help. They let her through and Muumas helps Eldeth making better healing pastes.GM notes:The player of Eeria wanted to change character to improve roleplaying with the rest of the party (the teenager Eeria didn't always get along with all party members). I used the disease Sight Rot (DMG p.257) and the Hook Horror Hunt (OotA p.32) to introduce her new character "Muumas Stronghorn". Sadly that did not go very well. First off, the party immediately split up to find the morels... secondly they retreated as soon as they had the morels... even though the players knew that there is a new character on the other side of the battle map... Basically that would have killed Muumas out right, so I took some still hidden gnolls out of the game and let the uncontrolled Barlgura do an insane amount of damage to the gnolls. Still, it felt very anticlimactic when Muumas slurped into the camp at the very end of the session. I don't know if I should have GMed something different (not let Athut stuff the morels in his mouth?) or what happened here exactly. I think in 20+ sessions this party has never retreated in a fight... I would have liked a bit more metagaming by my players at this point. Anyways, I hope Muumas finds her place within the group nevertheless.Well... after NOT finding Entemochs Boon and the basilisk eggs roughly 8 sessions ago now Athut didn't take the hook horror egg... Guys... If you ever read this... If you find an egg you can probably hatch it! Damn it, I really liked the idea of a baby hook horror and all the weird stuff that would happen to the party (fun fact: they joked about it at the table but didn't think it's possible.... maybe I should have told them?!)Also the party leveld up and is now level 8.</blockquote>

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