Characters: Julian, Balin, Cael, Anthony, Tulgar.
NPCs: Maulgoth, Black Lotus vine.
28 Hammar 1374 - 29 Hammar 1374
1900 XP
No more than an hour after the party had began to bed down to rest after nearly 14 hours of fighting a fearsome creature of the earth bursted into the main floor of their burrow. Melding through the stone walls, its mirrored eyes immediately fell upon Terus. With its great tentacles, the Maulgoth zealously grappled Terus and shifted him into the ethereal plane. The beast sprung in and out of the burrow and shifted Samael as well. The party struggled to fight back, however great teeth of stone rose from the floor and walled the party off from one another in darkness. Bravely, the party summoned protective auras of fire and acid to defend themselves against the beast. Then the maulgoth attacked Anthony and Cael, grappling them with its crushing tentacles. After a great struggle the party outlasted the earthen terror and tunneled through their prison of stone.exhausted and heavily wounded the party fled out of the burrow's subterranean exit into the underground streets of the residential ward. The crept through the caverns for over an hour in a hushed forced march searching for a new place to rest. Balin, while searching through some old cave gardens found a number of odd mushrooms and plants. One in particular, the rare and deadly, Black Lotus. The shadow-vine spoke with a respectful warning of its powerful resin to Balin, and then offered the plant-speaker a gift of 4 of its most poisonous flowers.
The party crept downward and discovered they were in the ancient residential ward of the Dakul Clan. Anthony peered down the great street adjoining many burrows and saw at the end of his vision a barracks structure guarding a large cavern exit out of the burrows. Tired from their traveling the party decided not to investigate and made their way into a second burrow to rest and gather their strength.
