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The battle in the previous session continues…

The battle intensified as Brandy fell under a magical charm, viewing the Spirit Naga as a friend. The Naga attempted to turn her against her companions, whispering into her mind that the others intended to kill her and that only the Naga could offer help. Eleanor followed up her spell by casting a Magic Missile at the Spirit Naga, while Pyreece used her clerical powers to successfully turn the Spectral Guardian, forcing the undead entity to move away from the group.

The party continued hacking away at the last of the Troglodytes. As they finished them off, Brandy chased after her Naga friend. She called out to her but received no response. As she rounded a corner and entered a long corridor, she came upon the Spectral Guardian. Without Pyreece around to force it away, it turned around and came after her. The fight was joined by Kipp, Audra and Pyreece. Oglesby crossed the flowing water to get to the fight. When Pyreece came in view to attack, the Spectral Guardian turned to flee. As it retreated, it was quickly cut down.

The Spirit Naga retaliated by casting a powerful Lightning Bolt that struck Pyreece, Audra, and Brandy. While the bolt caused heavy injury, the shock of the attack successfully broke the charm on Brandy, restoring her to her senses. Really angry now, she took off toward the source of the lightning.

Everyone charged the Spirit Naga. With everyone on it, it's Mirror Image alternative targets fell away quickly leaving only the Naga. It died quickly after that. The party searched everyone and then searched the remaining tunnels at this end of this path. North of the Naga was a dead-end with a chest and a pile of clothing. Oglesby brushed through the clothing and found some papers. Most of it was nothing but there was a scroll of Protection from Undead. In the chest, they found 1,500 gold pieces worth of gemstones, a Potion of Extra Healing, and a Serpent's Eye Amulet.

The other paths were dead-ends so they made their way back to the to the underground stream they'd crossed earlier. They recrossed it and followed it east only to find that the shore-line disappeared leaving them no way to continue. There was no visible end in site. Audra, using her boots of levitation, pulled herself along the rocks floating above the water. She didn't see another shore-line to get to so she went back. They decided to go back to the main tunnel and then south and east again.

They continued down this eastern tunnel for a long time. They reached an area where the tunnel split off in two directions. They decided to rest here. Pyreece healed some of the damage they'd taken earlier, using up the last of her healing spells. They gathered all of the items in their inventory that had yet to be identified and Eleanor cast a detect magic followed by an identify spell. They determined what the items were and they split them up. They rested and afterward, Pyreece did some more healing before they set out east again.

They continued along the path for a some distance before it split, with a southeastern tunnel leading to more water, a southern tunnel that they didn't go down, and a northern tunnel that looked interesting because the lighting from there was different and the terrain of the new room was different from the terrain they'd been traveling. They decided to approach that room. As they entered the room, it appeared greenish in tint. There were area's that appeared to be covered in fungus.

Kipp and Brandy split up and took two separate paths around the center pile of fungus and avoiding others piles of the stuff. Oglesby and Audra moved up to where they'd split up and watched their progress. Audra suddenly felt very tired and laid down. She quickly fell asleep. Oglesby tried to wake her but had no luck. That is when they were attacked by three Chasme. At first, they didn't look that tough but the party quickly learned that they had special abilities that were deadly. They caused Pyreece to flee the chamber and a round or two later, Brandy as well. As they were hit by the pincer's, the wounds they suffered were supernatural. They continued bleeding long after they'd initially happened.

Pyreece and Brandy were each wounded and continued bleeding off two hit points every round as they ran away. Kipp had also been injured by the pincers through multiple attacks. He was losing a lot of points every round. Pretty soon, it looked as though he'd sprung a lot of leaks. Brandy's Chasme had moved over to Kipp when she was forced to flee. Kipp finished it off. Along the way, he broke his magical Long Sword. He'd drawn a magical dagger and continued to fight. He retargeted to the other Chasme but fell before he could finish it off. That Chasme retargeted to Eleanor who had been constantly hitting the one attacking Oglesby. She shifted to her new attacker. Just as it appeared they would all die, Eleanor finished off hers and then Oglesby finished off his. Eleanor rushed to check on Kipp but found he was dead. Oglesby used a dose of a potion of extra healing and that stopped his bleeding.

Brandy and Pyreece eventually came out of their spells and seeing their bleeding, each used a dose of extra healing to stop it. They made their way back as quickly as they could. Meanwhile, Oglesby and Eleanor retrieved Audra's sleeping body and Kipp's body from the room, moving them both into the hallway. As they got out of the room, the jostling woke Audra.

The others finally caught up to them. The party carefully gathered Kipp's remains and placed him in their Bag of Holding, vowing to find a way to restore him to life.

Exhausted and mourning their fallen comrade, the group took stock of their situation. While the battle was a narrow victory that saw Eleanor gain enough experience to advance in a level, it came at the devastating cost of Kipp’s life.

This is where the session ended.

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Exp: 7333 + 733 = 8066