Session 88: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

General Summary

21-22nd Unndilar 836PD   21st Unndilar   The Master Crafter, Jenthiel Boulderaxe, helps to procure some spell scrolls of Greater Restoration and 2 Lesser Restoration (1,000 gp). She informs the Unbroken that the Amulet that Orlando holds will be able to Find the Path to the World Anvil, travelling the Underdark will take about a week but she recommends that the party meet with Dunai, the Head of the Slayer's Take in Kraghammer to find out more on what to expect in the Underdark.   Orlando asks to talk privately with Jenthiel, he shares his discomfort with being back in Kraghammer due to its discriminations of non-Dwarves during his early life. And whilst he understands the importance of the mission to the World Anvil, he confesses that he struggles to reconcile the religious iconography of the All-Hammer Amulet, which was a symbol used by those that persecuted his kin and their faith.   Jenthiel emphasises with him, she reassures him that Kraghammer is continuing to change for the better, becoming more tolerant, inclusive and is hopeful for the future with others such as Orlando being able to craft and practice their faith in Moradin freely. Orlando exchanges his Gnomish symbol of Moradin, a Gear, and invites Jenthiel to dinner at his family’s house, to which she accepts both.   The party visit Dunai, a taciturn eladrin, Leader of the Slayer’s Take outpost in Kraghammer, which is a guild of monster hunters Head Quartered in Vasselheim. Their information is measured, sharing directions and paths, highlighting where drow dens can be avoided by crossing lake that’ll take a couple of days to traverse. The party purchases a Bag of Colding (4,500 gp) a Swan Boat Token (10,000 gp) and Wind Token (250 gp). He considers the party’s trek to the Elder Brain colony a suicide mission, but welcomes their stories and any trophy harvesting if they survive.   Orlando guides the party back to his family on the Top Slab for them to spend the night. They all receive a big and warm welcome from his ‘Mama’ Kelly-Anne Boom and ‘Memaw’ Boomhilda Boom. Quill and Sabali stuffed themselves with Gnomish hospitality, Raphael played his charms to Mama Boom’s amusements and Orlando’s embarrassment! The Master Crafter graced the Boom’s home with her company and some fine dwarven ale, an important gesture of the progress the city must continue to make. For all of the Unbroken it was an evening to remember what they are fighting for.   22nd Unndilar   After a hearty breakfast at the Boom’s, the party travel down to the bottom slab of Kraghammer, to enter the Underdark through the Greyspine Quarry. By mid-morning they reach the beginnings of the Underdark and follow the steps where they were told by Dunai. Quill summons his riding spirit Goat, Buckraa, but the sound of its hooves echoes down the tunnels, alerting a nearby Drow patrol.   A Shadow Blade cloaks the Unbroken in darkness and peppers them from cover, and the Priestess channels dark magic to harm Simeon. Several elite warriors attack Sabali, but his shadow senses help him to sense what’s close to him despite the blinding darkness. Orlando break’s a Drow’s concentration of faerie fire on Quill, and Zeni ignites a ball of fire on 4 of the Drow from her new staff, briefly illuminating the darkness of the cavern. Raphael fires his eldritch magic into the Shadow Blade before they completely vanish…