Following a restful and uneventful night in the new instant fortress our heroes pressed forward on the path of the next piece of the artifact. Proceeding down corridors and to the right the party once again encountered a room with suspicious fungi, following the old adage that you really ought to avoid being fooled 3 times consecutively by the same method the group carefully identified the shriekers from a distance and picked them off quietly with their bows.
Proceeding ahead having gained the element of surprise the group entered a chamber housing several scum featuring an outcropping jutting into a large dark pool. Feeling certain that this would be a fateful encounter the group prepared themselves then quickly overwhelmed the inattentive inhabitants. investigating the pool the dwarf jumped into the water while holding his trusted 9'9 pole which the fighter managed to catch in time to prevent him from sinking to its bottom. Expecting an aboleth the dwarven cleric instead discovered the pool to contain many more scum in a state of agitation. Using the cleverly devised signal the cleric was lifted to the surface before be he could skewered by the javelins of the scum and after some discussion and stinking cloud placed over the surface of the water it was determined that there was nothing in the room that merited the difficulty of fighting the scum in their preferred environment.
Backtracking a bit then proceeding onward the group magically walked over a large pool filled with disgusting leeches then encountered a very deep ravine spanning a swift subterranean river. While the fighter through he was on balance quite capable of jumping across the ravine to form a beachhead for the rest of the group to cross it was decided that the goliath would fly over and form a rope bridge using his magical rope of entanglement with the fighter on the near side. Having accomplished that the dwarf started to shimmy across when he was attacked by a previously unseen large arachnid who inhabited the upper reaches of the chasm. The spider managed to entangle the dwarf in its sinister webbing, but the dwarf valiantly struggled against the only thing preventing gravity from dashing him against the rocks and rushing waters far below as that was at least preferable to being meal. Succeeding in a defeating his foe with a mighty blast of his wand the dwarf started to fall backwards into sweet oblivion John Woo style when quick thinking by the goliath and an incredible feat of reflex and athleticism by the fighter resulted in his being lasso'd and saved. Afterwards the dwarf decided to reevaluate his life choices for several months and will probably just stay in the back and not do anything for a while.
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