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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9619855" data-attributes="member: 27780">Another fairly short session where everyone turned up punctually. Having finally learned the source of the fungus taking over the mountain and the name of its master, the group's next objective was clear. They still spent several days heading back to Tu'narath, making sure their superiors were briefed on the problem, getting a reassurance that if Xhagevoxhab turned out to be too powerful for the group to handle they could planeshift out and call in backup, then shopping for some more weapons that dealt with the scarlet children's regeneration. Then it was back down into the depths of the mountain for several miles of twisty tunnels and wandering monster encounters. In chronological order, this consisted of: Yellow mold, which was easily spotted and bypassed without incident. A pair of giant slugs mating, ripped into tiny chunks by the Binder. Some fungus-infected darkmantles as they grew closer to the source, which did manage to infect the drow before falling and required them to break out the healing magic for the first time. Some equally fungus-infected Digesters, which broke out their acid attacks straight away and managed to do some real damage before dying. Some fungus-infected Phantom Fungus (yo dawg, I heard you like fungus, so I infected your fungus with a different kind of fungus) which were easily spotted by the Binder's blindsight, which meant it seemed like she was slashing at air to the other PC's when they caught up with her. Of course, at their level of experience, guessing it was invisible enemies was no stretch at all, so the sniper simply dropped a scintilating sphere far enough behind her that she was just out of its radius and zapped the rest of them. This pattern continued when they crossed the river and entered the city of J'bhulgolboth, slowly exploring along the north side, facing two more gangs of kuo-toa along the way, but neither of them were any challenge. Admittedly they are overlevelled for this adventure even using the scaling guidelines and are no longer struggling to deal with the disease & regeneration puzzles the fungus presented at first, but this is almost too easy. I find myself sorely tempted to find out if 7 12-13th level PC's could actually take down a CR 18 monster like Xhagevoxhab in a fight. Still, I should be able to string the adventure out another session or two before being forced to make that decision. I do particularly want to make sure they have the cloaks that let them go underwater before they leave the area, so I can run Death of Lashmire/Seekers of the Silver Forge later, as they're a pair of connected underwater adventures involving gith that I'm particularly interested in running from the githyanki perspective.</blockquote>

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