'memeber when we used to play D&D? Well we finally played again, on Roll20, and here's what happened...
After resting up and getting some healing potions with the friendly mongrel folk, 'Tok, Mogg and Skogg, the party sent out down a winding passage way towards the temple, directed by Skogg. What they came to was a mass of rubble from a cave-in, but a small tunnel wound its way through the debris. Deciding it was too small for most of the group to travel through, they decided to go the long way around, a second option given by Skogg.
While the rest of the group went back to the mongrel folk village, Grabby scouted ahead, crawling this way through the rubble with a hooded lantern. He eventually came to an open chamber filled with the ruins of an ancient stone structure. He saw a small group of cultists in robes, some wearing helmets adorned with the distinctive ram horns of Orcus. Two of the cultists were guarding a spiral staircase that led deeper into the earth. From another passageway, two bugbears entered the ruins, dragging the carcass of some sort of insectoid creature, with a pale chitinous hide.
After seeing this, Grabby made his way back to the group and reported what he saw, and under Skogg's direction, they left the village and returned to the fungal forest and made their way back towards that had first entered the Underdark. Eventually they came to two passages, one described as, "creature, *animal sounds*, narrow ledge, " by Skogg, and the other, "fire, *animal snort*, fire."
Choosing the arrow/snort/fire route, the party pushed forward to a massive cavern. The cavern stretched across a deep, black expanse, with large platforms of rock throughout, connected by rickety rope bridges. Far across the expansive cavern, a ledge could be seen with a crossbowman standing guard.
Disguised in cult robes, Ander, Boots, and Audrey began to make their way across the bridges, immediately noticing the bridges had been soaked in pitch. Although the sentry had noticed them, he didn't seem to be concerned about their presence. Once they made it to the last rock platform before the final bridge, they had no choice but get their allies across. Ander cast a fog cloud upon the ledge where the guard stood (and they could tell there were more just out of sight) and called out for the others to race across to their position.
Now alerted, but confused, the guards fell back away from the magic fog into a passage way behind them.
Ander, Boots, and Audrey waited for their companions, focussed on a well lit passage way near by with rough stone stairs leading down from above, and the din of several people/creatures making their way down towards them.
Lorintz and Shamus weren't far behind Ander and the others, but Skogg and Break were still far behind, with Grabby in the middle. Soon, several figures made their way down stairs into the light, the first being a bugbear, who fell quickly to several arrows from under, and arcane bolts from Boots. After the bugbear hit the ground, a human guard just behind him help the bolt of his crossbow to a sconce, lighting his pitch soaked bolt, and let it fly at the closes bridge. The bolt struck its mark, immediately igniting the bridge with Shamus and Lorintz on it on fire. Luckily, the two were close enough to the end that they'd be able to run off.
A second guard made his way down the stairs, and following suit, fired another flaming bolt at the bridge that Grabby was just a bout to finish crossing. It too hit its mark. Deciding not to leave his fellow party members behind, Grabby dashed through the flames back towards Break and Skogg as the bridge became quickly engulfed in flames...
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