| Session Date | March 17, 2023 |
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| Base XP Gained | 2344 |
| Player Notes | ZZ's Notes |
Standing before the ice wall, the party debated their next action, mainly as to whether it was a good idea to try to determine what lay in the pool at the end of the stream. In the end they decided to hazard it because (in good adventurer logic) the alien mind(s) had desired them to throw treasure into the pool, so there must be more there. They now broad jumped the stream and traveled don its west side, where they found a steeply descending, icy cave. ZZ went to scout, protected from slipping by the Bands of Anathro. The tunnel brought him to a cavern with what appeared to be a corpse across the way. He stepped towards it – only to have the ice beneath his feet crumble and tossing him into a deep pit. The rest of the party used ropes of climbing to descend and rescue him. The corpse proved to be a long dead petty Dwarf who had good armor, short sword, and a curious key. The sword was Dwarf-make and named Dragonclaw. Burt identified the latter to be a Key of Opening.
The party continued on to the pool area where they saw another batch of penguins which Dane could not sense as evil. Hans cast minor globe of invulnerability to hopefully protect against mental attack. ZZ, Hans and Sirius felt mental attacks against them but all shrugged them off. A second group of penguins appeared literally from nowhere and menaced the party but did not actually attack. The party began to think they might be illusions. A second mental attack on Hans suddenly compelled him to jump into the water, but he was stopped by Sirius (who could see him despite being invisible). Mordecai then cast dispel magic to remove the compulsion, while Burt cast darkness over the Penguins. Also, Hans had cast airy water from a scroll previously, so the party now dove into the pool where they found two tentacular abominations, Aboleths from the depths of the Underworld. Dane cut a tentacle from one and it was not long before they were both slain. The party did, indeed, find a nice treasure in their watery lair.
Thorough examination of the rest of the cavern area revealed nothing, so the party decided to return to the small secret room in order to rest before trying the teleporter and what came next…