Chronicles of the Consortium

This is the map of the area directly underneath the Slavelords' citadel in the module: According to the plotline of the adventure, the characters are supposed to enter from either of the locations marked B68 or B13b, which are secret tunnels leading from places in the city above. My lot, however, have circumvented this by entering from the myconid village directly underneath location 3 in the bottom right hand corner of the map as you look at it. This holds one of those trick dungeon monsters so beloved of D&D, which is exactly the sort of thing I don't like. This particular 'gotcha' creature is a mimic in the form of a large rug with a chest sitting on it. I repurposed the room so that the mimic is actually a fungal creation that conceals and protects the way down to the mushroom people. They aren't daft... Sir Blanque, Marion and Destiny emerge into a room made of neatly dressed stone from the lair of the myconid king. This presents them with two possible e

Real life has been extremely busy over the summer, so there has been a bit of a gap in our sessions, plus I still need to write some posts about what we were doing earlier. So here is one we did previously... Marion's hunch about information in the archives of Suderham's mages' guild is a good guess. The partially burned documents that were somehow salvaged from the fortified manor of the hidden volcano island's previous leader turn out to be a useful resource indeed. Sifting through them, Marion pieces some information together about the lava tunnels that riddle the place, or at least enough to place three possible entrances. These are mentioned as the locations to various 'pits' or equivalent into which old Olarek threw anyone who annoyed him, and sometimes just because he felt like it. Marion's reasoning is that these deep tunnels might provide a link to the basement of the slave lords' citadel that could be exploited. The map below is the one fro