Well, this wasn't a long distance marathon, we didn't cover a lot of ground. Maybe it was more of an escape room.

Whisk and Zilch and ___ the Ranger (played by Cara Jean) decided to see what was on that second level discovered by the last crew to muck about in the Enlandin tunnels. Here's what happened.

• We stopped by and visited the Kobolds. They were happy to have a visit. Their message to Chantarelle was along the lines of "come back and let us show you the fabric we're making now, we have solved some texture issues and it's a lot better."
• We stuck our head in the room with the webs, just long enough to lure one skeleton out of there. We had it chase us down the hall, and eventually the stretch webbing snapped. Killing it wasn't hard, but when they hit they do pack a wallop.
• We went into the "elevator room". We closed the door. Now there were crates there! Our deduction was that this teleported us into a room in a different part of the complex, presumably Level 2.
• From there we traveled down a hall, found a room with a carving of a dragon in it. Behind a curtain was some kind of shadowy figure we couldn't identify, but it was hostile and we fought it until it dissipated.
• The next room had a 3' diameter sphere of cold flame in it. It was possible to touch it and not be burned, but if you played with it too much, there was magical force damage of a more invisible energy tingle variety. Not safe to ignore, but not always lethal.
• We bumbled about trying to get out of the room again, and each time we approached a door on a wall, it leapt to another location at a different cardinal point.
• Using curtains, curtain rod, trying to "hide ourselves" from the sphere when we approached the door almost worked, but we no sooner touched the doorknob than the whole door would still jump to a new location.
• Finally after a lot of bad rolls and clumsy time wasting we figured out that if you walk straight through the not quite illusory ball of fire, as you are approaching the door, it stays put and you can open it.
• We checked out the east exit of this room and it was a dead end. We ran out of time and retraced our steps to the north exit, and went back to Dirtwater.

Whisk and Tenly went to see what they could find out about the next few rooms in the Southeast area of the tunnel, near the necromancer's quarters.

• Whisk is not very finessed when it comes to lock-picking, but Tenly can kick in a door like gangbusters.
• There were two zombies in a corridor that seemed to be
• 1) an elf from a months ago lost adventuring party and
• 2) a ribbet that had recently attacked the Councillor and was fought off. Isaac the Wizard, Tenly related, found out that this ribbet's last memory of having gold in its palm was from selling a fancy dagger to one Edith the antiquities trader in Dirtwater. (More on that later)
• They decided not to be lethal about this. Tied up the two zombies and dragged them with them. Tenly's really strong -- it wasn't that much of an encumbrance and they wanted to see if they could find out more about the ribbet's motive, and maybe give closure to next of kin or something for the elf.
• They went further, exploring a couple more rooms, and came upon a chest. It was in an alcove of an otherwise empty room, but was guarded by some snakes. One of the snakes was smashed to smithereens by Tenly's hammer after Whisk used blighting strikes to reduce its vitality. The other snake retreated into the walls.
• Again, brute force was far more effective than Whisk's lock picking so the chest was pried open. In it were some bones, which before they coalesce into a skeleton, were dispatched by Whisk in a montage of many ranged magical attacks. Then we saw beneath them an Arcane Cloak.
• EPILOGUE: Back in town Whish talked to Miasmus and to Emily.
  • The two zombies were left in Miasmus' care. This was presumably to be locked up to reduce danger to others. The idea was to see if we could extract the elf's identity somehow and notify whomever that the body had been found, providing closure. Not to try to reanimate or de-zombify.
  • Whisk sought out Edith, and representing that he had "contacts' or "clients" from the Antiquities Studies program in Cleverly Named on the Spot (but hence forgotten) University, he convinced her to bring out for inspection 3 daggers. One was most likely the one that the ribbet sold her based on reports of what Isaac saw. She wanted 8 handfuls of gold for it, if his contact at the Univ. is interested in a purchase. They will connect again in a week or two to discuss at the Sharpspur Tavern.
  • Whisk didn't reveal that he knew it was sold to her by the ribbet, that it was killed, or that it's zombie remains are in the hoosegow in Dirtwater now. This may be a dead end, or not. This could depend on what Miasmus, Isaac, and the councillor decide to do.

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