The Edwardsville Chronicles - session 2

Our party finds itself at the boarded up entrance to the Edwardsville Copper Mine after their rather difficult descent down the steps when they are greeted by a mysterious Elf that seems to have arrived at the Mine around the same time. The Elf identifies herself as Kayleth, who found herself in her home woods, in the company of a mysterious man who sent her on a quest to find the Edwardsville Copper mine and open the door. For some reason, she found that every time she tried to abandon this quest, she would find herself unconscious and another day’s travel closer to the Mines. Now that she arrived at the same time as our adventurers, she joins them as Flanders, seemingly not himself, uses his axe to destroy the door. The group descend into the mine with the bard keeping watch at the entrance, while the halfling seems to have skulked off mysteriously.

Descending into the Mine, the group of heroes find a main mustering area filled with equipment and bodies long since dead. There is evidence of cannibalism as the men who survived whatever happened had to revert to extremes to survive hoping for rescue. Searching for Judas’s friend, the party finds no evidence as they begin to search the mine until they are set upon by a group of giant centipedes. They do battle, vanquishing the insects, and coming out none the worse for wear.

Continuing to search the mine, the group eventually splits up with Kayleth, the new addition, scouting out ahead and finding the mess hall. She sends Larry in, who is interested to see if they have any good kitchen supplies but he is attacked by a foursome of Grey Oozes. Larry is nearly killed, but Aggie and Kayleth manage to kill them all. They then head down to another hallway where they hear noises and find a pair of Quaagoths, ape-like humanoids with grey/green fur feasting on a giant centipede. They notice one is carrying a strange jug with magical runes on it, but they are discovered before they can make a plan and the Quaagoths attack. After a rather harrowing fight with Flanders and Larry both nearly being killed, the heroes overcome the two Quaagoths. They claim the Alchemy Jug (for that is what it turned out to be) for themselves. In addition, the group collects a sum of coins that the Quaagoths have collected looting bodies.