Session 17: Giant Ants!

The Adventurers return to town to get resupplied and return to the dungeon and run into some Giant Ants.

This is from our November 15, 2023 session. Since our group is scattered around the country, we used Discord for our voice communication and Roll20 for our virtual tabletop.

Continued from: Rats Again and Kobolds

Date: May 13, 3517

Location: Castle Calaelen, Forest of Hope

 

6:30 PM
Everyone had a meal and made plans to head for Zelcor’s Ferry in the morning.

May 14^th
The party went to Zelcor’s Ferry in the morning.  Elron spent most of the day selling off the loot from the last expedition into the Mouth of Doom.  Just about everyone else went shopping for supplies and gear.

By mid-afternoon, Elron paid everyone their share of the loot.

The party decided to head back to the castle and spend the night there in order to get an earlier start in the morning.

Back at the castle, Lark decided to bind to the sword that he found. It turned out to be a Bastard Sword of Crushing; it seemed to be very good at destroying inanimate objects.

Everyone had a good night’s rest.

May 15^th
Back to the Mouth of Doom.

The party started out by rechecking some areas that they had been before, to make sure that Blaze’s map was accurate.

Then they went through the room where they had killed the leeches two days earlier, they were still there and had begun to decay. They went east from there and south after that, to a door that they had passed before.

The room contained a human, cowering behind a shield.  The floor was covered with bones, both human and goblins. There were also weapons and five backpacks.

His name was Gelver and he was the sole survivor of a party that was wiped out by goblins. Someone gave him some food and drink and he offered to remain with the party until they returned to the surface. His lantern was dry and he couldn’t find his way out alone.

The party continued to the right and just before they came to the Temple of the Gods of Chance, Lark, who had gone on ahead, came running back around the corner. He yelled that he had seen a giant spider in the passage ahead.

Right behind him were three giant ants.

Battle began and Elron was nearly bitten in two by one as it picked him up in its mandibles. Everyone attacked that one and he got away just before the ant died. One of the other ants picked up the body and moved back as another ant stepped forward.

Upon seeing this, Gelver screamed and ran back around the corner where Artie was guarding the rear.

 

Continued in Session 18: Giant Ants Continued… and Bandits