After licking their minor wounds, the party trudges on through the maze of tunnels running afoul of various traps that ended up spilling into a large cavern and the party pauses trying to figure out how to move forward while avoiding more traps. Gareth ends up sending his conjured pets forward the apparently trigger the remaining traps. In one of the trapped areas, the platinum is found along with a strange holy symbol that depicts a broken arrow. After further careful exploration the party discovers a ledge at the end of the large cavern that drops down into an even larger cavern that extends in multiple directions into the darkness.
As the party repels down into the area and start to discuss how they are going to carefully find a way out of this area, a large purple dragon comes stalking out of the darkness which triggers some choice words from Harl, Gareth, and A’anri. Taking the initiative, Helestina uses her magic to increase the size of both Claren and Enama as they charge to meet the dragon head on to keep it form advancing any further. Between dealing with the large characters the dragon is able to duck behind an alcove using its breath weapon before it ducks back around the corner which greatly reduced the efficiently of the other characters ranged tactics. Soon enough, the dragon realizes it is going to lose this battle and transforms into what appears to be a Drow to try to escape down one of the far tunnels but Gareth does not miss a beat and teleports both Claren and Harl into the tunnel right behind the escaping Drow where the Drow was cut down.
As the party regroups and shakes off the surprise of fighting either a dragon the shapeshifter into a Drow or a Drow that shapeshifted into a dragon. Though, as the corpse of the Drow did not return to dragon form, it was decided the latter was the case. The party did not have much more time to discuss the philosophy of the situation as three dwarves appeared on the ledge of an outcropping in Snow Flurry uniforms demanding that the part needs to return to the city as the Snow Flurries are taking over the mission. After some back and forth, Gareth gets a deep sense of darkness emanating from the supposed Snow Flurries moments before negotiations break down and the dwarves fire arrows at the party. Gareth is able to quickly teleport the three imposters high into the air and each imposter met their end with a sickening splat on the cavern ground, afterwards they reverted to larger squashed spiders.
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PLAYER NOTES: The Rogue player dropped out and I have to say, dealing with traps and other situations where a Rogue would be helpful made this session interesting. Despite our best efforts, a series of traps were triggered and conjured pets had to be sacrificed for the greater good. Then after we think we have a moment of reprieve, a dragon rises out of the darkness to try to eat everyone - even though at the time we did not know it wasn’t a real dragon per say, we still all had some choice Geralt quotes around the table. Then there was the imposter Snow Flurries situation. At first I was excited as it was pretty convincing that the King or the officers of the mine decided to send reinforcements. The roleplaying back and forth was nice but then Gareth sensed darkness in them and all bets were off. I have not puzzled out yet of the duergar and the Drow are working together, if something else is going on, or if it is some underdark shenanigans. We will see - there are some clues but I think the answer is tired into the history of the fallen dwarvem kingdom that Sirabolter was built on top off.
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