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22nd September 2023 In-game timeline: Start of session: 1490DR Ches 15. End of session: 1490DR Ches 15 Our "Heroes" are mid-battle, having overcome a number of Duergar foes, but knowing their leader is still to come as they can hear him calling and geeing up his 'troops' from the safety of the background. Derrick, in true "Derrick" style, goads Umnik for his cowardice, and jeers when Umnik decides to send in his pet dire wolves into battle rather than face the party himself. Derrick increases this level of taunting by slicing the head off of one of the dire wolves, after Iwee had caused the other to run away for a while though not before Karoshi had taken more damage from a bite. Umnik, getting a little annoyed by Derrick's taunting, not least by Derrick getting his name wrong, deliberately, Enlarges and moves out of the way to allow his other pet dire wolf to return and attack, along with two more Duergar who fire crossbow bolts at Karoshi, one of them ...

25th August 2023 In-game timeline: Start of session: 1490DR Ches 15. End of session: 1490DR Ches 15 Our "Heroes" decide to press on, despite knowing that they are probably being watched and the mine is alerted to their presence. They consider crossing the chasm, despite there being no bridge, but eventually disregard that option. Instead they look for, and find, the secret door heading north and go through that. This reveals a corridor at the back of the arrow slits which caused them some problems on the approach. These defences are now empty, despite evidence of enemies being there previously. At the end of this corridor is a closed door. With perhaps surprisingly little preparation, they just head to the door and open it. The door opens to reveal a sleeping quarters, of sorts. It contains numerous duergar, as well as a large spider-like creature, complete with a duergar rider, on the ceiling. The enemy seems aware they were coming, as evidenced by the number of crossbow bol...