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Addermarch Campaign - Session 10

Battle with Darkmantles: in which the party fights darkmantles for Uligium.

Featuring: Yvan Greenrabbit, Drou, Fazoth de Brune
In Taelgar: May 14, 1715 DR to May 15, 1715 DR
On Earth: Sunday Feb 16, 2025
West Stonewolds Caves

The party battles darkmantles for uligium and travels back towards Roscombe.

Timeline

  • May 14, 1715 DR, morning: Over fried-mushroom pancakes in Zibzig Sparkscale’s lair, the kobold inventor shares directions to an uligium cache and warns of “lurkers above the water.”
  • May 14, 1715 DR, midday: Reaching a pool-filled cavern beyond a chasm, the party is plunged into magical darkness as four darkmantles drop from the ceiling; Yvan’s fiery surges, Fazoth’s lightning-guided pseudodragon, and Drou’s tenacity shatter the creatures. Heated glass lures fresh uligium from the tunnel walls.
  • May 14, 1715 DR, late afternoon: Guided back to the surface route, they pacify the ogre and wolf at the cave mouth with Fazoth’s Calm Emotions and escape unharmed, bearing four vials of uligium.
  • May 14, 1715 DR, night: The heroes trek eastward and camp in open farmland en-route to Roscombe.
  • May 15, 1715 DR, evening: After a day’s march and a stop in Brantor to deliver their alchemical prize, the party arrives safely in Roscombe.

Cast of Characters

  • Drou – elven bard-monk, hand-to-hand specialist in the dark
  • Fazoth de Brune – human warlock-alchemist; pacifies foes, guides lightning
  • Yvan Greenrabbit – halfling wild-magic sorcerer whose heat and fire attract uligium
  • Zibzig Sparkscale – chatty kobold “Master of Light & Shadow,” breakfast host and guide
  • Ogre & Wolf – dim-witted cave sentries calmed during the escape
  • Darkmantles – ceiling-dwelling ambushers defeated at the uligium pool

Places

Narrative

Friday, May 14th, 2 Robert I

We begin in the morning, as the party wakes to the smell of fried mushroom pancakes and a smoky tea being prepared for breakfast by Zibzig Sparkscale. The kobold wizard is in a chatty mood, discussing the magic that he will invent, with time, and asking for help for memorable names for the spells he will be discovering. Grateful for the party’s help with the cave fisher the day before, Zibzig gives them directions to another source of Uligium he knows of, and the way out of the cave. He does warn them that the uligium is defended by strange predators who lurk over the water.

The party follows the directions, finding their way to a cavern with a chasm to one side, across which lies a still pool of water and a small tunnel. As the party approaches, suddenly impenetrable blackness falls as the party attacks the darkmantles. Four of them detach from the ceiling to attack; Yvan surges with magical power as he fires bolts of fire blindly into the darkness. Meanwhile lightning crackles from Fazoth, as his pseudodragon uses its blindsight to aid him in the fight. Drou struggles to get a purchase on the enemy in the dark, but eventually the darkmantles are defeated. With magical energy still ricochetting around Yvan, he approaches the tunnel, heating a glass bottle with his hand and attracting the Uligium.

Following Zibzig Sparkscale’s directions, the party returns to the cave entrance without trouble. At the entrance, the ogre and his wolf still stand guard, but Fazoth’s Calm Emotions spell keeps them indifferent to the party for a moment as they flee out of the cave.

With their four vials of uligium, the party heads back torwards Roscombe, traveling for the whole day before camping in the fields.

Saturday, May 15th, 2 Robert I

The party spends the day traveling, arriving back at Roscombe in the evening.