Session 63: We Find the Big Cave

The party kill the demons in the central cave and wade into the tunnel going north and discover a huge cave that looks like the cult's main operation.

This write up is based on our Sunday, March 1, 2026 session. Written by our scribe Carl, with edits and additions by myself. Since we are scattered around the country, we use Discord for voice communications and the Roll20 online tabletop to connect with each other.

Continued from: We Rescue the Slaves

Date: May 21, 4433
Location: The Tunnels under the Temple of Frigga

12:20 PM
We were in the midst a fight ongoing.  A couple bullywug slaves ran off away from the battle, and Natalie hoped they were not going for help.

The demons came out of their stun state and layed into the party. More bullywug slaves came from the tunnel on the left, looking terrified (whether at us or something that was chasing them we did not know at the time.)

We were taking control of the fight, pretty much, when Shadow heard some or maybe a LOT of incoming footsteps from the tunnel. He yelled to let us all know that more trouble was on the way.

We moved to be ready to meet the onslaught, and waited for the music to start.

Aefir ran to the tunnel as more demons emerged. Fortunately for us, these demons were lesser types and not nearly as tough as the two we had just battled (plus the Vrock).

Beneddar dropped a foul smelling cloud of mist or gas into the tunnel, and the cloud moved down the tunnel.



Well, and well again.....these can teleport....and in fact some did, bypassing Aefir.

A blast of cold from Arkhelm showed us that not all of these demons were the wimpy ones.  A couple were legitimately tough. Fortunately, so are we.

Sure enough, pretty soon it was just us... battered but unbowed.

Our goal is 'the book', and we think it is with the head priest, and down below.  So... down the tunnel past the dead demons. The poison cloud had long since cleared.

We went quite a ways, and got to an area that stank of demons. Hopefully the ones we just put down, but careful is as careful does.

We came to some stairs, and went up. 

This was an area that Reebo had explored in his very early investigation. After confirming we knew where the stairs led us to, we headed back to our fight room and onto more unexplored territory.

Early afternoon by now, or so our stomachs told us.  Moving northish from our fight room, we were soon wading in warm water. Water with a current leading down to a hole in the floor... that marked the top of a waterfall that we had seen from below.

Going up the stream, away from the waterfall, we spotted some bullywugs and a lighted area.  Greenish glowing area, lots of visibility.  Demons and a few priests also.

Discussion back and forth led us to retreat to the rear, going to our demon fight room.  Beneddar cast Leomund's Tiny Hut as a ritual (save those spell slots) and camouflaged us as best possible. A long rest would do us all a lot of good.

During our down time, two demons came through and went off into a tunnel to the east without noticing us.  We did, semi-surprisingly, get a rest and our spell slots back. Just at the end of our rest, six of the lower level acolytes from the temple came into the room. They were looking for us and were here for reinforcements.

We would need to be careful with them, they were hardly more than kids and would be killed quickly by the demons we had been fighting.
 
We went back to the entry to the BIG flooded room with LOTS of demons, priests, bullywugs, and who knows what else...

The acolytes blessed us and were standing by to heal as best they could, and contribute whatever was possible to the upcoming fight.

To be continued.