Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #160 - Darknessdeep

(G169 21/06/2013 Fri via Roll20 - JF(GM) , AP)

DAY 207 (4 Marpenoth)(October) continued ...

Rather dismayed Fenrir suggested they try the OJB. As they travelled the secret routes that Werner knew they questioned her about Darknessdeep and she told them a little of its social structure;

'De Rosan is the lord, he has courtiers and retainers, servants and slaves. The other lords of Darknessdeep are as evil and corrupt as him. Then there are the powerful wizards and clerics that have come to an agreement with him. Only the evil prosper though. You then have the guards and watchmen, who are all undead now. And at the bottom of the heap you have the citizens. Somehow we get by, scraping a living from the ruins. A very small minority of the citizens plot against De Rosan and are known as the resistance. I am a member. Oh, wait!'

She had spotted something. Arcing across the sky was what looked like a giant fireball. As it grew closer they could see it was a pit fiend, all aflame, flying high above.

It was 'Skinner' she said, a pit fiend that liked to hunt the people of Darknessdeep for sport. His pack would be nearby.

She sent them back and then went forward to lure the hunting pack away.

'Come get me, you swine! Aieee!!'

Fenrir and Corum ran south, but were attacked by a horde of lemures, poorly formed devil-things, gibbering and foul. Fenrir blasted away, sending blood and limbs flying while Corum held them back as best he could with his sword.

When they had managed to disengage from the pack and run, they left over twenty of them dead. Corum was badly scratched up and they were both covered in blood and gore.

They headed in what direction felt like south west. Fenrir was invisible but someone spotted Corum and called him over to his shelter.

'It is not safe to wander the streets like that alone,' he cautioned and gave his name as Zander.

When asked where they were from the said 'Skullport' and in return asked if he could take them to the OJB.

He knew where the Marketplace was and was persuaded to take them there. Fenrir asked more questions about Darknessdeep and was told that some of the sea was inside the barrier, although it was now a sea of blood.

Fenrir asked him about the 'Legend of Fenrir and Corum' and was told that Zander considered it just a myth, something that people with no hope clung to - that some day they would return to destroy De Rosan and change the city back to Waterdeep.

Zander was too young to remember Waterdeep and had began to think that it had never existed.

The OJB was a ruin, but they spent some time digging about and found the entrance to the crypts. Zander lit a small lantern and they went down into it.

The were greeted by an old man's voice nervously telling them to go away, but it turned out to be Cavu, who, as he explained, had been hiding down here for most of the last fifty years.

He'd been surviving on snails and spiders, but the genies had been a 'great comfort' he told them lecherously.

Fenrir and Corum then went to speak to the genies, who were not inside their lamps and were just hanging about. It wasn't too hard for the genies to persuade them to have some fun, so Fenrir paired off with Meshnosha and Corum with Enlessa!

When they were done, the genies said 'Now you must leave!'

The rest of that day the spent taking turns in opening up one of the sealed rooms with a crowbar.