Journal of Rollo Lavius 2

Entry #373 - Rust Monsters and Shadows

(G373 13/10/2018 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA48

DAY 411 (19th Tarsakh)(April)

After some discussion it was decided that Veets would take the 'Boatmurdered' dwarves to another area, while Fenrir, Veddic and myself explored this area. Drypp was given as much food and drink as he could carry from the magical supply box and sent back to 'civilisation'.

I was only half listening to what was going on with the dwarves if I'm honest as I was too busy looking at some really fascinating fungus, but then Fenrir patted me on the shoulder and off we went.

Well, I'm sat down now, writing this journal entry by the light of Veddic's everburning lantern. After a good rummage around in this dungeon I'm still not sure who made it.

I think it is the work of many hands, starting with ancient drow possibly, then dwarves or duergar or someone, adding passages where they felt they needed them. There are also crudely hacked out side tunnels, and other passages that may have been done by Stone Shape spells. It's all very interesting, but given how dangerous this area is I think I'd rather be back in the true Underdark and not this labyrinth.

Still, we encountered rust monsters in one of the first rooms. I'd not seen one since Sasserine, but they were the same species. They eat metal and Veddic's morning star was gobbled up by one of them. I turned into a lion to avoid loosing my metal items and between me and Fenrir we killed them all.

Quite a few of the next rooms we explored after that were full of rust monster litter and bones. Even with no monsters around these rooms could still be dangerous as many of the doors and floors were magically trapped. One set off a spell that hurt Fenrir as he passed through a door and later on a floor plate triggered a strange unpleasant mist that luckily did none of us any harm.

As we progressed deeper into the dungeon we encountered a room full of undead shadows. Fenrir blasted most of them, Veddic turned some of them and I summoned crocodiles to distract them. We cleared them out, looted the room and moved on. After a series of tunnels we entered another room that was being used as a campsite by a large group of lizardmen. Fenrir initially thought they were troglodytes and started talking about the sacred beasts and things, but they had no idea what he was on about.

They did not want us to join their camp so we moved back to one of the first rust monster chambers and made camp there for the night.

Fenrir is quite chatty tonight, I think he has enjoyed using his magical blasts to destroy everything in his path and take their treasure. Veddic is as quiet and sullen as ever. He rarely speaks.

DAY 412 (20th Tarsakh)(April)

I was awoken by a commotion from the room to the south. By the time I was on my feet Fenrir arrived from through the southern door and reported that he had just killed seven basilisks and chased away a witch.

As he had apparently dealt with the situation, I went back to bed.