Session 23 - Legs
General Summary
The party spent two days descending the mountain towards the swamps of Crvena Vale. At a crossroads they chose to head towards the ruins of @Xak and inspect the nearby work camps after dealing with Sephadex | Adult Black Dragon.
The path wound down into and through a cave enterance. Inside the caves, S'thom | Grung Gloom Stalker Ranger found strange objects that looked like sticks. A bit further in they found patches of skin and scales. A noise like thunder shook dust from the rocky ceiling, though the sky outside was clear. Gorgoroth Flamesbreath | Dragonborn Psi Warrior realized that the sticks they kept finding were legs of a huge insectoid monster. Dozens of the missing legs were seen along the mile-long path.
Inwards and downwards they pressed until they discovered a huge cavern. Berov | Loxodon Cleric of the Forge shone the lantern insides and revealed the serpentine body of a huge adult behir. S'thom jumped forward and drove her blade into the monster but it did not react. The others moved cautiously foward to get a better view.
Something sprang out of the darkness and swallowed S'thom whole. When the team ran to her rescue, they saw that the adult creature had been dead and rotting for a long time, but one of its offspring had eaten the grung ranger.
Battle ensued. Red | Firbolg Circle of Spores Druid summoned the spirit of a polar bear to help in the fight while Berov guarded Archie Duthane | Human in the back. The bear did a good amount of damage while Gorgoroth tried to keep it from running away and S'thom was ejected from the belly of the beast. Unfortunately, a spell from Renestrae | Eladrin Celestial Warlock recharged the monster's innate lightening powers and it zapped the spirit bear into oblivion.
The monster tried to flee but was locked up by Gorgoroth and taken out by Red. Before they could catch their breath, two more of the beasts arrived. One of them was tiny (either a runt or a newborn) and the other was a large juvenile the size of the one they had just fought.
The party decided to flee and escaped the Thundering Tunnel.
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