Session 45

• Bord will also blip back in, naked and without any of his equipment or money.
• NARINN Blips out

• Gorrazar Sheet DND Beyond Sheet

Gorrazar Ramza, is a Leonin orphan raised in a remote desert mining city named Zahhak. He was a simple Monk Healer turned folk hero after helping overthrow the local government ruled by an evil corporation. Gorrazar's next adventure led him to uncover the mysteries of the local ancient Aurales ruins. After these events, Gorrazar and his party disbanded and went their separate ways. Following his contribution to the rebuilding of Zahhak, Gorrazar set out on his own, leaving everything he knew in pursuit of adventure. Not longer after this, while walking through a particularly dense forest, a wave of MISTS rolled into the area around Gorrazar. For a few moments, he could not even see his own hands in front of his eyes. Blinded, all he could hear was the cawing of crows, or perhaps ravens around him, and the flap of their wings. Then a voice, trumpeting around him, louder than anything he had ever heard before. A female voice, ringing with authority from on high:   "Find and protect my wereraven on Terus. She will soon be tested. Head to the city of Zyn."   Then, just as quickly as the mists and the voice appeared, they were gone. And Gorrazar found himself in a noticeably different forest, on the edge of a lake.   He saw a sign written in common pointing to "Zyn: Drow City of the Underdark."   He followed the sign and found a path below the surface of the earth, meeting no living thing along the way. He traveled through this "underdark," following the signs to ZYN, and arriving there 3 days later.   He did not know much, but he could tell this was no where near Zahhak, and a part of him suspected he may no longer be anywhere close to his realm. He had long ago heard the elder monks speak of portals and mists transporting travelers to distance lands, parallel realities that intersected with their own world.   Still, something about the voice he heard not only sounded important, but pleading. And while he was not sure what exactly he was supposed to do, he thought he would at least see if he could find this "wereraven."

ZYN

• Group awakens to find Narinn has disappeared
• Bord reappears in the bird Vrae's room, naked and afraid, he takes an emo shower than heads down after the rest
• Da'ath heads down to breakfast first, spots a LEONIN MONK who introduces himself as Gorrazar, a traveler who just arrived from another plane (Henry's guest character)
• The rest head down and meet Gorrazar who is drinking with Da'ath, Gorrazar says he is a MONK who was traveling through a forest when mists arrived, saw many black feathered birds, and a godlike voice that told him "Find and protect my wereraven on Terus. She will soon be tested." He then arrived on Terus and made his way to the Underdark to find this wereraven
• Vrae tries to attack him (because she's crazy and suspicious) and Gorrazar handily knocks her back 15 feet using his expandable quarterstaff thing (his own custom homebrew)
• She reveals she is a wereraven, but is not trusting this newcomer
• Elasfar sits back, annoyed at the antics of some members of the group
• They take Gorrazar into the group (T'nin reluctantly as he hates that there are 3 monks now)
• Lukas the half-gnome / half drow enters, and they tell him they are ready to head out. They follow him to the northern gate of Zyn and exit into the tunnels of the Underdark

UNDERDARK TUNNELS

• Lukas informs them at the first sign of trouble he will be hiding or escaping, did not sign up to fight for this group
• T'nin immediately manacles Lukas to himself so the half gnome/drow cannot run away, much to the chagrine of EVERYONE ELSE
• Almost battle ensues as everyone argues with T'nin about releasing their guide, with T'nin countering that their guide is going to ditch them
• They get the key from T'nin and free Lukas, who is not thrilled but continues to lead them on, telling them to be stealthy and quiet for the rest of the trip
• The tunnels are slowly going downward, and instead of the gaping caverns they traveled through to the south of Zyn, these tunnels are winding, splitting tunnels, sometime 5 feet wide, sometimes, 10 feet wide, never very tall, very claustrophic
• They travel without incident the rest of the day, before Lukas the Guide calls it as they enter a 20x20 chamber, saying it is time to camp
• As they divy up watch assignments, Lukas disappears into a bottle (White Wine Bottle from Miraxalim actually), revealing later that the bottle and its ability is a boon from the creature he made his Warlock Pact with, a Djinn in Domunz
• Gorrazar says he heard there are Hook Horrors in the Underdark, which unsettles the group, worsened by Da'ath mentioning DRYDERS in the Underdark

• They take watch, and prepare to long rest, with Elasfar taking two watches as always due to him being an elf who only needs to meditate for 4 hours
• In the night a mist begins to build up in the tunnels, as well as them sensing heat, and hearing/feeling trembling and shrieks distantly in the tunnels
• No one notices that although it is the second night of the Lycan Full Moon, Vrae DOES NOT TURN into a wereraven due to the moon's effects

• On the second day of travel, the tunnels are full of the mist as they continue on
• Da'ath eventually loses track of the others and wanders down the wrong path at a fork in the road
• Eventually the group realizes he is gone and backtracks to find him, with Belgar using his Druid tracking to follow the footsteps
• Da'ath unfortunately rolls shit Survival and continues FORWARD instead of backtracking, making it a much longer path for the others to find him
• They are now about a DAY BEHIND having spent most of the day going back to find Da'ath
• Once they find him, huddled outside a fog shrouded chamber with an eerie red glow, they turn to go back and discover the tunnel is completely blocked by a viscous grey ooze behind them
• Soon enough, they realize the ooze is alive and slowly moving forward, and they flee into the chamber
• When they arrive, 6 smaller oozes fall from the ceiling, and the fog lifts, revealing liquid magma bubbling in the middle of the chamber, and an exit on the far end

• They handily take out the smaller oozes, as Lukas flees into his bottle once more to escape the battle (pissing off Belgar and T'nin, the former of whom puts the bottle into his backpack)
• The ooze that was blocking their tunnels turns out to be a GIGANTIC OOZE that damages Vrae's Halbert when she attacks it, and Bord's use of Thunderwave to kill it blocks the tunnel behind it, effective blocking the route back to the path Lukas was trying to take them on
• As the giant Ooze enters the chamber, the group flees, with Elasfar staying behind and activating (for the first time, much to the surprise of the players) his ARMS OF THE ASTRAL SELF, which allow him to safely knock loose the rock barrier around the magma, allow it to fill the chamber and block/destroy the giant ooze (which can only move 5 feet at a time currently)
• Elasfar then catches up to the group, which saddens T'nin as he hoped the Monk would sacrifice himself so he could be rid of him
• They flee north, into unknown tunnels knowing they cannot go back
• Lukas leaves the bottle and is annoyed and scared, as he does not know where they are or how to get back
• Da'ath assures/threatens Lukas that he will find a way

• DA'ATH will potentially BLIP out, as will BELGAR
• NARINN will blip back in.