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General Summary

1490 DR - Winter - 22, Hammer (1) - Thay, The Doomvault

• After taking stock of their keys, the crew realizes they will need to confront the Wizard south and take her key.
• Xifor makes Huden invisible while he sneaks to steal it, the rest of the team waiting to attack if needed.  The skeletons are using prods to poke oozes, seeming to keep them from moving, and Huden successfully sneaks past and pilfers the necklace from the wizard.
• A skeleton starts walking toward Huden, Xifor, still disguised as a red mage, orders the skeleton to resume his pokey duties, and he obeys thankfully.
• The glyph key opens new areas as the Wizard seemed quite priviledged or high ranking, and after some debate they use a black gate to travel straight to the Immortal Caverns, the central area of the Ooze Grottos.
• Here they encounter some form of lord, a self style master of ooze in red liquid.  He thanks them for volunteering their flesh and soul to him.  The crew tries to pawn off the soup carcasses as a tribute, but he soon sees through the disguise 
• The Ooze master leaves his red pillar, a mass of redish fleshy ooze with his ghostly human form floating inside it and begins drawing the parties flesh toward him, summoning spells that prevent them attacking him and turning them against each other and other horrific magic.
• A cloudkill spell proves the most difficult, buy by luck it begins to blow away.
• Oudman steps back into the other room to try and keep his distance while attacking, but triggers an ooze the color of marble that covers the floor of the cavern.  It's pseudopods are like boulders and quickly smash him down, while it begins encroaching into the other room and pinning the party.
• The Chosen manage to destroy the ooze surrounding the human form, but find inside is actually just mist, that returns a sleeping figure to the central pillar.  The crew recognizes that this was likely some form of lich, and that he will regenerate within a few days...
• Huden opens the white gate to escape, but realizes it is full of hook horrors and other creatures, and advises against that direction.
• The crew dives into the black gate at the last minute to as the ooze covered the floor, retreating to the gatehouse, and learning that it was a lich lord of Thay they defeated, for now.  
• They take a short rest to recover some strength before using the new key to arrive in the Temples of Nature, a part of the secretive and disconnected Temples of Extraction.  There they immediately encounter a force of undead, a Red Wizard Necromancer, and a diseased orc chained to a machine that seems to be draining something from him.
• They were quickly dispatched with Xifors Ruin spell that leveled the field and killed much of the force, even before the eyes of the Dread warrior started to glow.
• Oudman approached the shrine and was knocked back when trying to enter it, while Xifor studies it, but it's like is beyond their ken.  The orc inside seems to have suffered decades of disease, and the crew decides not to investigate further.
• The Necromancer has a glyph key and door key for the Temples of extraction, and they begin to march southward as the room fills with gas and the crew becomes sickened.  It seems to be leaking from the shrine.
• We crowbar the door open only to realize that there was indeed a key on the wizard.
• Lucyan explores the next room with his spider hand, finding a wraith and will o' the wisps guarding the next area.  They decide a straight assault is best, and are locked into combat that sees the group weakened but victorious.  Huden seems the most hurt from a draining strike from the wraith.
• The crew looks at the shrine in this room that holds a young elf, and decide to investigate further
To be continued...

Campaign

The Chosen

Protagonists

Lucyan Kilndar

Level 12 Shadar-Kai Neutral Evil Druid
(Outlander)

79 / 79 HP

Xifor

Level 11 Tiefling-Abraxus (Mephistopheles, MTOF) Chaotic Evil Wizard/Forbidden Lore (COBW)
(Raised by Fiends (Raised by Evil, COE))

/ 54 HP

Yasen Luzar

Level 11 Aasimar CE Hexblade - Warlock
(Expropriated One)

60 / 74 HP

Oudman - Fonkle

Level 9 hobgoblin chaotic evil artificer alchemist
(styx-tuched)

/ 80 HP

Llewellyn

Level 8 Half-Elf (Moon) Chaotic Evil Horizon Walker (Ranger)
(Turncoat)

85 / 70 HP

Huden Golman

Level 7 hooman chaotic evil bard
(charlatan)

/ 38 HP

Report Date

21 Nov 2020

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