The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Ninth

After suitable resting, we ventured further in the caverns of the Drow, barely pausing to note that the dwarf fighter had changed into a halfling paladin. We had a drastic decision ahead of us: left or right? We all decided on left, not least because the gnome said to go right.

Then we got zapped. Or rather, I got zapped, as I'm the only one who can do thievery skills, and of course there were traps. The Raven Queen help them if they ever discover traps without me... Got most of them not working, and only got halfway towards dead.

Inside their place was a large room, complete with table, a pantry, and halflings. Yep, halflings, whom the Drow enslaved for their own purposes (basically cleaning and cooking). Now that we were here, the halflings had a chance, and they took it. We stayed hidden as the halflings poisoned most of the Drow (look, Drow are evil, okay?), leaving us just the nightwatch to deal with. Just the nightwatch... and a bad-ass jailer (and his guard chap)! He was a tough take-down, with most of us barely able to hit him (a feeling we would experience again).

With the nightwatch getting nearer to arrival back here, we rearmed the zap trap, but in different squares (that'll teach 'em!), and ventured further, coming across an altar room dedicated to Lolth, complete with more human males, two snakes and two succubi (who liked slipped me the tongue!). More knockouts via magic fire later, we desecrated the altar and the warlord fell through the floor. Eh, these things happen.

Turns out, he found the other passage out, leading to a jail area with the elite female guards, one of whom died as she imparted the message of one of them taken away that we had to save. After getting the others out safely, and finding whiskey!, we went on to one more room, with merely an Angel to deal with. Yowsa! Talk about hard to hit. Turned into a slog once we knocked it into range, and finally put it down. (Yeah, we killed an Angel. It wasn't good or evil.)

After that was another door, which we went through to find ourselves on another island...

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