In today's "Down to Erthe" campaign session, the PCs:
- Met an informant at the Alehouse, a local watering hole., and played two rounds of darts (loser bought the next round)
- Watched as a skunk was tossed into the barroom area, which sprayed a serving girl in panic
- Had the hengeyoki wu jen PC use prestidigitation to mitigate the worst of the skunk spray odor
- Quickly found out the front doors and side door were both being blocked from outside, saw three male dwarves and a female elf and her dog outside; dwarves were pounding in wedges to keep doors from opening
- Tried (unsuccessfully) for some time to open either set of doors, with no luck
- Dealt with swarms of centipedes crawling underneath the front doors (the result of a creeping doom spell cast by the elf druid from a scroll)
- Had the hengeyokai break a window, too small for them to squeeze through, but it allowed the changeling rogue to shoot his light crossbow through it, and the hengeyokai could now cast spells through it as well
- Also found out the elf druid could cast spells through the window, as a thoqqua appeared in the middle of the barroom area and began setting the wooden floor on fire
- Eventually smashed their way through the side door, and the human monk and human scout fought two raging dwarven barbarians
- Learned the elf druid was only helping them attack the Alehouse because the dwarves had her young daughter captive; they had tried getting the owner to pay protection money but he had refused
- Turned the druid to their side by promising to rescue her daughter, and she was able to turn the centipede swarms on the dwarves (but not until after the hengeyokai, monk, scout, and a kitchen worker had all been knocked unconscious; the mongrelfolk adept ran out of his daily cure light wounds spells quickly and had to resort to several charges from his wand to get them all back on their feet)
- Helped the owner put out the fires, then followed the elf to where the leader - a dwarf monk - had the elf's daughter held hostage
- Surrounded the flophouse room where the girl was being held and lured the monk to open the door by having the mongrelfolk call out in the voice of one of the dwarf barbarians
- Swarmed over the surprised monk, taking him down rather easily
- Reunited elf mother and daughter, took the dwarves' gear, and received potions and oils from the elf druid in thanks for the rescue of her daughter
