Bickering, bickering… where are we?

Down stone tunnel to the entrance of a cavern.
Many crab / ogre creatures are detected within the room. The party backs up thinking that no treasure is to be gained.
Back to the main intersection and down another large hallway.
Two crab like creatures appear at the end of the hall. Da’Nog kills one with the first blow. Brain matter spews from its head. The other creatures strikes Ronj with the same might nailing his foot to the floor.
The creature is then dispatched by Greenleaf. beyond the dead creatures to a passage that leads to a room with a brass ladder that leads up to the ceiling at the end of an auger. Thud cranks the crank of the auger and the ceiling begins to move up. As he continues a passage is cleared to the ladder. Thud ascends the ladder and discovers a room that the group has previously been in. He descends and the passage is sealed.
Back to the intersection and down the last hallway.
The hall leads to a stone tunnel. It slopes down and becomes slippery.
A black pudding is detected on the ceiling and surprises half the group. Max uses his polymorph and turns the pudding into a large catfish.
The group continues on.
Down into a cavern where water fills the passageway. Three crab creatures emerge from the water and the group is attacked. Timmy makes his debut with an arrow in one of the creatures.
The group bickers awhile as to camp and eat the catfish or move on. Zappa voices his discontent at eating something that used to be a black pudding. The group argues a bit more and then decides to move on…
Back to the winch room and up one level.
Down a tunnel to a room with another owl bear chained to the wall. Max tries to free and is surprised by a larger owl creature. The larger monster is killed by arrows from Jimmy & Timmy. Zappa frees the other owl bear.
The group moves on some feeling disgust at the lack of profit found.
A large room is discovered with a large raised platform in the center. In the center is a pit being used to hold prisoners. There are six or eight guards on the top of the platform. Max uses a chain lightning speel from a previously found scroll to fry all of the guards. The 18th level chain lighting is impressive as it jumps from figure to figure. Several dwarves are freed from the pit. Into a room that is dark. Upon investigation many orcs are discovered sleeping. Da’Nog begins to cut throats as they sleep. After 8 or 9 one of them hears the gurgling of a cut throat and awakens. When the lights come up over 30 orcs and 4 ogres are seen. Max uses the last fireball gem from the helm and uses his staff to double the effects. All but four orcs are killed. The last four charge the group. Ronj, Thud and Da’Nog kill three of the orcs and Max polymorphs one of them into a turtle with his wand.

5 comments to Bickering, bickering… where are we?

  • Zappa  says:

    No way in hell would I willingly eat a fish that was once a black pudding.
    I don’t care if it is never getting transformed back into black pudding, the fact that is was at one time black pudding makes it uneatable in my opinion.

    By the way, nice use of the polymorph Max, that saved us a possible sticky situation.

  • CMdaDM  says:

    profit? prophet?
    “steenking dwarves? we don’ need no steenking dwarves”

    But you have them anyway…

  • CMdaDM  says:

    …would that then be ‘mock’ turtle soup?

    hmmmmm

  • Max  says:

    Mmmmm.
    Turtle soup.
    Perhaps Zapa would prefer Blood Pudding…

  • Zappa  says:

    I enjoy the finer things in life and Blood Pudding is not in that category.

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