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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6901067" data-attributes="member: 11146">[ooc]We're going to take this live again.  I mulled thing over on the weekend and hadn't thought I would have time, but something unexpectedly fell off my plate today, leaving room to resume things here.  Work on my end remains all-consuming, with no time, really, for me to post during the workday.  That's okay; we can enjoy a viable game without needing to post multiple times per day.  That said, I note we've suffered a loss of material.  I'll recap from memory: The group escaped its drow captors at Velkynvelve, and, with the kuo-toa fellow prisoner Shuushar as guide, made its way from Velkynvelve to the nearest known civilization in the Underdark, the kuo-toa city called Sloobludop.  The group set a fast pace most of the time, which meant less opportunity for foraging (you ate ant larvae at one point, and rocktopus flesh) and stealth, but you managed to put more distance between yourselves and drow pursuers.  You haven't seen any drow pursuers since your escape, but the group narrowly avoided capture by kuo-toa guards.  You'd just come to the edge of the Dark Lake and were near Sloobludop when a second group of kuo-toa led by an aging priest named Plooploopeen (don't look at me, I didn't write this stuff) cut you off at the mouth of the tunnel that led to the lake.  The group parlayed with Plooploopeen and his eight kuo-toa guards, the outcome of which was that Plooploopeen enlisted your aid in dethroning his daughter, Bloppblippodd (insert eye roll here), and re-taking Sloobludop. Plooploopeen promised each of you a boon in exchange for your service, and hinted that inside Sloobludop there is treasure from which the boon will likely come. Plooploopeen additionally stated his daughter is leading a kuo-toa cult and has been offering live sacrifices to her chosen god, the Deep Father.  Culturally, this is a hardship on Sloobludopians, who traditionally worship the Sea Mother.  Plooploopeen appears distressed.  Plooploopeen and his contingent took you beneath the water of the Dark Lake to their hidey hole, a hollowed geode on the bottom of the lake.  Plooploopeen cast some sort of water breathing spell on the lot of you to help you swim to the depths of the lake.  Once you were inside the geode, however, there was a rocky crystal shore, a patch of dry level basalt, and air to breathe.  You ate and took a long rest.  If memory serves, the group quit the geode and swam back to the shore of the Dark Lake.  If we did something after this point, I forget what it was.  Solace and/or Kamael might have entered and scouted Sloobludop, but I can't say with any precision whether this occurred or if we were leading up to it.  I think the sanest course of action would be to actually be NOT to leave the geode yet.  I prefer to pick up inside the geode, let you ask questions and converse to get back into the swing of things, and to maybe formulate how you want to approach Sloobludop.[/ooc] [MENTION=6799753]lowkey13[/MENTION] [MENTION=33284]Yavathol[/MENTION] [MENTION=40413]GlassEye[/MENTION] [MENTION=23484]Kobold Stew[/MENTION] [MENTION=23298]industrygothica[/MENTION] [MENTION=6829052]Wrex[/MENTION] (in case he's around, but I kind of doubt he is...he's been busy at work)</blockquote>

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