Monthly Archives December 2016

As the party prepares to deploy the folding boat and pursue the dragon into the inky darkness, the elf (or the ghost that inhabits him?) starts to spout paranoid ideas about the dragon being a sneaky mofo and raises the idea that this is all a distraction. Well, one way to find out is to give the bat wings to the ranger and have him do a flyover of the underground cistern.

Sure enough, the dragon surfaces and snatches the flapping ranger out of the air and under the water. HFS! The group springs into action. The mage deploys water breathing spells for the party and they all jump in the boat while the water walking cleric tows them out to the middle of the cistern. The elf drops his breastplate, grabs his sword and dives overboard to attack the dragon and hopefully save the ranger...

Deciding to investigate the sewers a bit more in hopes of discovering more information about the mysterious golem assassins, the group deploys the folding boat in the early morning hours and sculls upstream. They find a partially covered entrance to an overflow pipe and enter.

Though old, the sewers are in relatively good repair, except in places where they have collapsed. The group searches about and finds that upstream seems less recently traveled than the directions that lead back towards Baytown.

Eventually, the group leaves the sewer area and enters the section of the underground complex dealing with fresh water, culminating in a large underground cistern that measures hundreds of feet across...