The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Twentieth

(20 sessions? Really? Wow!)

After finding ourselves and our ship back in familiar waters (because it was easier that way), we were called back to the queendom of Prevelesence (or whatever that name was), the island run by the Amazon women, and their Drow buddies. Only, they weren't buddies any more, and were in a war with them.

In fact, there was more than one war, in that there was the city of the Drow who were also fighting the city of some undead Drow (or something, like I was paying attention). The leader, whatshername, wanted us to go to the city of the Drow and get a scroll that would enable her to enforce a treaty with the Drow and return to peace. Oh, and there was also a nice sword in the city of the undead Drow that if we could pick up too...?

There not being much else on our plates, we opted for 'yes' and were thus thrust into the Underdark. We first encountered some big bug spider things, and something with tentacles, and for a while it looked like we weren't even going to survive a random meeting with some monsters! Still, we rallied and after taking down half their numbers (okay, so there were only four to start with), we managed to dispatch the others.

Onward into the cave, and we came across a group of undead Drow fighting a group of non-undead Drow. Since we wanted to go to the Drow city, we sided with the non-undead Drow, although to start with they took a few pot-shots at us (and by us, I mean me). Then, after we put down a few, they hung back and saw what we could do... which was kill undead.

However, that didn't enamour them to us, so after some backchat and posturing, we continued to fight and busted some big abilities on them. Not quick, but they were evil and... well, I was good (the rest of my group being borderline evil).

Luckily for us they marked the way home (and only I could speak Elvish - should make for interesting negotiations in the future)... however, I realise now that that's the direction the undead Drow came from...

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