Into the Court of the Wasp Queen
We ended up using our party form to get Charra a portable forge so she can do some work in the evenings while we’re exploring below ground. I used my own for a few healing potions, a Fire Opal of the War Mage, and an Arcane Battery. It’ll let me rejuvenate myself twice a day when I’ve been spell casting for a while. This will certainly come in handy in the future.
Emily let us know the entrance we had previously used to get below had been closed because of trouble of rodents coming through and attacking the city guard. She led us to another entrance, where someone else seems to have come down at some point recently. They’d disabled a spike trap and removed it.
We entered a room with a large water basin, and a few of us noticed something on the ceiling. Between Elodie and Ikki we could tell they were Grey Oozes. Because of spotting them, we were able to get in a surprise round on them.
Ikki’s dart dropped one of the oozes to the ground, as she and I both took to the air. The things were too dumb to understand my mockery, but Elodie was able to take some inspiration from it. She hexed the same ooze that Ikki had attacked, before blasting it. Now it was on the ground, Charra was able to vault the sewer line to kill it. Taras knocked the same one I tried to mock to the ground with his missed Sacred Flame.
Ikki managed to kill one before flying to another. I warned her this is why I never bother to inspire her, before attacking the same one I’d already attacked again. Elodie slammed the one Ikki was beside with an overly powerful Eldritch Blast before Charra killed the one I’d attacked with her shield. The last remaining ooze tried to move away but Ikki’s opportunity attack decimated it.
We were able to get some coins, rusted metal fragments, small bones, and some sort of magical opal off of their corpses. Continuing on, we found an acid trap I was able to disarm. Trying it out with one of my glass vials? It flat out ate through it damn. We found our destination: we’d been following Elodie’s directions as she searched for another card for the deck. It was at the bottom of a pool of water, but anywhere between 60 and 80 large rats were in there as well. We ended up using the Wand of Fireball to decimate the entire lot of them at once, and found another twinned rat tail in their corpses as Elodie found the card.
The chamberlain for the apparent Queen of Newgar DuLevil greeted us then, and asked us to go with him to meet her. I was a bit nervous about this. My last encounter with nobility went, badly. So very badly. Still, we decided to go along with it. I stuck to Charra’s side as we were lead to the queen. Nearly nine feet tall, she was the very definition of High Elf elegance but something about her. I didn’t trust her. Charra introduced herself to the queen. She’s, a noble? A future matriarch of her clan? Miten tämä tapahtui? En oppinut oppiaiheeni viime kerralla? Hän tarkoitti kaikkea minulle, ja kaikki meni vikaan. Ystävät. Voimme vain olla ystäviä. Ei mitään muuta. Ei mitään muuta.
The chamberlain led us into a private room where we could speak about what we would do. After a bit of talk, we heard someone crying for help and raced back out. The Queen was vomiting heavily. Charra held her hair back as Taras and I both cast healing spells on her.
