Editing Game-Summaries:2/16/2018 Recollections (section)

==Recollections by Jeroy==
[[Jorg]], [[Cassio]], [[Ember]], [[Ci]], [[Callie]] the bard, and [[Jeroy|I (me?)]] prep for a battle in search for the mage Valas. Based on the research our team has done we are told that the drow are assembling below Old Solace ruins.  Valas is supposedly harvesting rust monster saliva for [https://youtu.be/uIosf0OzhNw?t=73 nefarious purposes].  We head to the entrance of the cave to the east of Solace and find the old ruins.  In our search we discovered two people standing over a small hole approximately 1,500 feet away.  Ember and Ci begin to sneak up on them.  As they approach Ember becomes a mouse to move as quiet as a...umm..[Insert a quiet animal as a metaphor later].  She manages to overhear their conversation in undercommon and realizes they are Drow on watch.

Ci tries to flank them as Ember sneaks up to cast entanglement.  I go with her if the fight is brought upon on.  As we approach (epproach?) Ember steps on a branch which snaps in a loud crack, we freeze.  The Drow turn to us, we have been discovered.  I step in front of Ember and take out [[Soulmate]] as Ci lets two arrows fly over our heads.  Ember casts entangle which ensnares (ansnares?) on the Drow.  Ci's arrows plunge into the eyes of the other Drow killing it swiftly.  The second Drow tries to break free but falls over.  As it lies on the ground I dash forward at full speed and Ci charges to join the battle.  Cassio and Jorg do not run well, more like a light jog but they assure (essure?) us that they are on their way.  Ci draws his spear and with the blunt butt end he throws it to hit the Drow in the head.  He tried to stand again but falls as I continue to charge with all my effort (affort?)  Ember now turns into a bear (druids are entirely tooooooo magical), and tries to sit on the Drow's chest to pin him, but misses.  But in his effort to avoid being pinned Ci is able to knock him out.  I take a crossbow and 20 bolts from the dead Drow, he certainly won't need it anymore, and inspect the hold.  There is a hatch and a small cave opening.  The hatch looks solid but the cave looks as if it will cave in at any time.  We interrogate the Drow and quickly gives up the game that he is with Valas.  [https://youtu.be/fAOoD4755pI?t=20 I gasp.]  According (Eccording?) to the Drow they have been in the cave for 12 hours harvesting the saliva of rust monsters.  Jorg asks what is left on the list of ingredients but he doesn't know.  He tells us that there is a portal a few hundred miles southwest of Solace, and that is the only way from this plane back to their plane but there are hundreds that bring them to this plane from their homeworld.  He also tells us that they are not the only Drow in this plane in search of these ingredients.  We tie him to a tree.

Our group enters the cavern, it is a long earthen (aarthen?) corridor with homes that were once standing free but are now buried.  Only the fronts are visible from these tunnels.  I enter the first house and find a dead rust monster.  The house is filled with barrels of rust monster saliva.  The group decides to break the barrels to prevent them from being used for [https://youtu.be/uIosf0OzhNw?t=73 nefarious purposeses].  We agree that we need to get the other barrels out of the cave and form an assembly line moving the barrels out of the cave.  Suddenly a commoner comes around the corner and sees us.  Callie convinces him to help us move the barrels then quickly and quietly kills him.   As she slowly plunges her knife into him [https://giphy.com/gifs/E90GssJoIqMRW I see a small smile], as if she enjoys seeing the life drain from the [https://youtu.be/Gi58pN8W3hY?t=50 poor soul].  I continue to check each home but have nothing to show for my search except for a [https://www.danburymint.com/prod/F4C/1801-0017/The-Titanic small miniature of ship].  I take it with me as I feel a strong connection to it, as I say to it "i'll never let go."  

The tunnels are becoming narrower such that we must pass in single file.  I stand at the front of the line, reach to charge and defend my friends.  No sooner do I turn a corner are we spotted by a Drow and [https://youtu.be/mLyOj_QD4a4?t=83 the battle is on].  I charge to the Drow and launch a Javelin into his side.  Ember spots a second drow and casts a fireball that burns him badly but he escapes deeper into the tunnels.  As he runs he [https://youtu.be/PTjN36_XXho?t=76 announces our presence].  The Drow I hit with a javelin slams his hammer into the ground and our [https://youtu.be/S74rvpc6W60?t=11 group beings to glow purple].  Ci quickly slices him twice with his sword and dispatches him.  We re-form and move deeper into the tunnel, suddenly a booming voice is heard and a fearsome warrior charges from the darkness, this is Valas' (Valas's?) Champion.  The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIfAkOBMf5A champion] burst through the fire, seemingly unaffected (uneffected?) buy the fire's fury and brandishing two short swords.  My first thought was, "I want those short swords, I will take them when he is dead."  I charge in a barbarian rage and with a powerful [https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-wrBURfbZmqqXu/fullscreen stroke from my soulmate] I cut into his flesh.   Cassio draws his sword, utters something about him "being great at this", slashes into the champion and then shoves him into the fire.  The champion is knocked to the ground and drops his short swords but quickly draws two crossbows.  His bolts fall true and into Cassio's face who utters something about "[https://youtu.be/dhRUe-gz690?t=229 being too good for this to happen to me]" and falls unconscious.  It seems like he is narrating his actions out to someone, but I have no idea who is or would be listening to him.  Ci quickly draws his sword and slashes the champions throat to dispatch him.  Cassio is revived and announces we have nothing to fear now that he has returned" but I feel he is best as a pin cushion for arrows.  

I enter the next room and immediately see another Drow, I launch a javelin in my rage which knocks him back.  A mage suddenly casts a cloud that envelops us in acrid and poison.  It is noxious and other vocab words I find related to "poinson."  Jorg, noble and brave, walks through the cloud tries to speak with Valas, but black tendrils come from the floor and ensnarl (ansnarl?) him.  "It appears he doesn't want to talk" I think to myself, "Perhaps a merging of the minds with my Soulmate could help."  This is a clever way of me saying that I will bash in his skull with my ax.  Nimble Ci dashes through the poison cloud and slashes into Valas, crippling him.  Cassio kills the last Drow and then poses.  I charge through the cloud, draw my crossbow and launch a bolt into Valas' shoulder.  Jorg slips by the crippled Valas and from behind draws a powerful swing that cuts off one of his legs.  The mage is looking to be on his last breath and we feel the battle is nearly won.  Valas in his last desperate act casts out tendrils of lightning that fills the hallway killing Jorg.  [https://youtu.be/Gi58pN8W3hY?t=50 Poor Jorg].  Ci finishes the battle killing Valas and the poison cloud is lifted. I begin to ransack anything I can find.  Trinkets, two potions, a scroll, old clay pots, I could go on forever but I hear from the farther into the tunnel a tense discussion.

We have found a commoner who is scarred stiff.  We approach and speak with him.  He says that he cannot leave as they are harvesting the saliva of three rust monsters by feeding them powered metal.  We tell the towns people to dump the rest of the metal as feed for the monsters and escort the towns people out.  I collapse the tunnel in two places as we leave.  The Drow we tied to the tree was still there as we exited and we camp for the night taking watches over the cave.  I do more pushups.  We speak with the towns folk and ask how they managed to find themselves in a cave collecting rust monster saliva.  They said that the Black Ice Gang approach them in Solace looking for workers.  They offer money and simple jobs with no questions asked.  

We escort the Drow and the towns people back to solace.  As we enter the Magistry a cleric, Tame, approaches and says that the Drow can come no further.  We plead on his behalf that he is a decent fellow that has helped us on our quest and is just a pawn in a game of monopoly.  Tame looks at me confused and I fear my metaphor has missed its mark.  The Drow is taken to lightless, which sounds rather unpleasent, and we are taken to speak with Liandrin.  Cassio can hardly contain himself and I hear a "knock" from within his armor.  She tells us that the last ingredient they need for the chaos curse are beholder eyes which should mean something to me but I am fairly lost.  We recount our tale and she is mildly pleased with how we dispatched Valas.  As we leave we hear a bell from her desk ring and she leaves in a hurry.  We look at each other and take off after her.  She begins to move farther and farther down into the depths of Solace.  So far that we are fully lost, down dozens of flights of stairs.  She ducks into a hallway and into a door.  It is a line of prison cells.

I try to pick the lock but it is magical, even after I kiss my lucky coin, but I am defeated.  Cassio insists we leave but I knock on the door.  We are surprisingly met by Tame, the cleric that took the Drow.  I honestly don't know who was more surprised when he opened the door.  I smile and ask if he needs any help but he only responds "No and leave" as he slams the door.  We find ourselves [https://youtu.be/ViftZTfRSt8?t=11 lost in a labyrinth] below Solace and are faced with the daunting task of attempting to find our way out.  After 10 grueling days we manage to find our way back to the light.  Liandrin is waiting at the top of the stairs, rolls her eyes at us and calls us idiots.  Cassio's armor knocks again.  She tells us that have sent an envoy to the nightshdke kingdom, a quest that is expected to take several days.