Entering a Starless Night

Jayde Moon · April 02, 2011, 08:41:28 PM

A group of fearless Stargazers and their allies have journeyed into the depths for some purpose known only to them. What would drive the freedom loving, fresh air breathing, stargazing savages to leave it all to enter the gloomy caverns of the Underdark?

Hard to say. The journey has only just begun:

In the beginning things seemed simple enough... an early battle against strange stone creatures.

But then, stuff started to get CRAZY.

Exhibit A:

WTF is THAT?!?

Whatever it is, it is allergic to Team Nature.

Took some doing, but the bigger they are...

Apparently, while my companions are dying, I'm just snapping pictures like some ignorant tourist.

We made a new friend!

Yarl Kalamakh, a stalwart companion for any with the right amount of coin. Also, in the Underdark, tobacco companies vie for dominance. That was a weak pun joke based on 'packs'.

These things are freaking scary. Also, in this case, I was OMW to save my friend thurr, I swarz!!!

Anyway, the adventure is just beginning. Who shall return victorious from the Realms below? Will our surface enemies keep watch over us and giggle as we are enslaved, tortured, and fed to giant slimes?

Spiffy Has · April 02, 2011, 11:19:39 PM

Silly little Gazers

Aethereal · April 03, 2011, 02:14:47 AM

Wondrous! Do enjoy your time below. I wonder why the last Underdark group didn't have a screenshot thread!

The Old Hack · April 03, 2011, 11:52:08 AM

Beautiful :) And stay alive, Drum. Karrin will be sad if you die!

Zooxanthelle · April 04, 2011, 12:49:25 AM

Our brave adventurers head through great danger to save a friend.

Zooxanthelle · April 04, 2011, 12:53:20 AM

Traversing through great danger, our heroes head to save a friend.

SmashingGiants · April 05, 2011, 08:36:24 AM

More screenshots please!

Blue41 · April 06, 2011, 08:44:32 PM

I was terrified, but here are the screenies I remembered to take.

One good turn deserves another. The Pack sets out for
Sewertown.

So many skinchangers.

On the way out, nostalgia attacks. I stop for a picture.

Spiffy Has · April 06, 2011, 09:36:08 PM

Pissing Crone, Nostalgia indeed. :(

Ebok · April 07, 2011, 02:53:07 AM

I want to go there and visit. :D

Jayde Moon · April 13, 2011, 04:35:59 AM

A faded chalk drawing Drum remembers noting she glimpsed down a side alley as they traipsed invisibly through Sanctuary...

(Got this from an old player I ran across in another community... might be bringing her back...)

Blue41 · April 13, 2011, 07:39:42 PM

More wandering. Just collecting postcards, at this point.

Where the story began, and where saving throws go to die.

Jayde Moon · April 13, 2011, 11:54:44 PM

As they continued their journey in the Underdark, they encountered various unforseen obstacles.

On a rescue of one of the Pack, they entered a ruined city, full of horrific enemies:

Oh, please, let it never wake up...

The floating balls with the eyestalks... they cause nightmares. It is said that these are only the children...

After the rescue, they continued on with their adventures.

Mahzwell waste perfectly good and powerful magicks.

The Pack keeps watch while Drum recovers from a vicious and underhanded attack from a deep orc stalker.

But none of this truly prepared them for that which they had come for...

Jayde Moon · April 14, 2011, 12:03:26 AM

Then they gathered to complete their quest...

The Pack gathers

They descend into a cavernous desert

The feared beholders and their thralls... think they see Drum?

Strange wonders exist below...

What have we found here?

Unnatural and unsettling. We don't like it.

Ambushed! Maddening glares of insidious confusion!

More thralls... but that is no Beholder behind them, in the background...

The squid faces have more than thralls at their beck and call... Leged alone goes toe to toe with a hellish nether beast!

Victory... Drum and Qa'Zar take time to ponder various heiroglyphics.

A fallen Guardian... he can no longer perform his function... may he find rest.

Leged's ultimate wisdom... the secret to defeating all of our enemies. It is stated plainly for all to hear

A Prayer to the Treefather reaches his ears, even from this dark, faraway place.

Thought it was done? We still have to escape. Stoker says it well, but not quite so eloquent as Gandalf did.

did we survive? Did we make it back?

Duh! What's next for our intrepid jungle adventurers? Savage conquerors of the Deep?

Blue41 · April 14, 2011, 05:45:36 PM

Not nearly as pretty as Jayde's, but a few more.

I GOT PROBED BY ILLITHID AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID MUSHROOM

Ambushed (again). http://images.wikia.com/forgottenrealms/images/9/91/Dnd-brain-golem.jpg