We arrive at the dark lake,and continue towards Gracklesterge, the duergar city of blades.Walking along the black sandy shore (she's a singer),we spy an island about 60 feet off shore. The sorcerer janakka transforms into an aquatic hybrid and swims out to the island. He notices footprints in the sand and then hears a voice. Hello it's me (Adele what you doing here ) are you looking for something,are you lost. Raven the monk wades out and decides it's difficult going. Alionous the drow senses that something is not right, as janakka seems to reel from some sort of magical attack, and let's loose a poison bolt from the Handcrossbow and down drops the woman. A creature emerges from the water near the sorcerer,who lets loose fire from his hands and retreats to a safe distance,another emerges. Raven makes it to the island to engage with these creatures. Thamial the rogue steps up and lets loose with his bow,but misses. At last one creature down. The other disappeared in to the water,and attacks the drow,injuring her badly. A slash from the rogue and a couple of hits from the drow ranger, and it disappears into the water. The monk, sorcerer, and rogue decide to kill the woman and her evil intentions,who turns into some sort of hag. We make it to the island and while the drow ranger does the important work of finding food and water the rest search the island. The monk spots a part sunken sarcophagus that he swims out to and removes the lid to reveal a skeletal bodie. The only things surviving are a set of braces, short sword and boots. The sorcerer detects that they are all magical and devide it amongst the party. And all we wanted was food.
Onwards to the city of blades. We continue for a few days without incident. The drow spots a long boat out at distance. The next time we think we see it is caught in a whirlpool. We continue along the path and see four kuotoan's coming on to shore. Our friendly kuotoan goes to speak with them,and finds that the kuotoan city of shloobadoop has been attacked and deviated by a large fiend that sounds from discription to be demigorgon. We share some of our supplies with them and continue. Nearing Gracklesterge we hear somebody coming up behind us. We conceal ourselves and see five drow come past us to Gracklesterge. Again the sorcerer becomes an aquatic hybrid and swims to the jetty of Gracklesterge to get a boat. He makes a deal with duergar and gets a boat for all of us. We row back to the jetty and are asked by one of the duergar if we are escaped slaves.(what could make him think that ). Right we Need transport out of here and a roof for the night. We make our way to the bizarre.crash bang wallop (what a picture what a photograph). A two headed stone giant. To be continued. ......
