The Eladrin Rouge calls herself Rylene and requests to join our party. She says she’s been following us since we left Brindol, and after watching our fights and seeing our resolve wishes to help us on our journey. I vaguely recognize her from the village I grew up in, but I still have my reservations, as do the others in my group. She offers to scout the path in order to gain our trusts, so we agree to her company conditionally.

We make our way into the catacombs by heading down the stairs to the north. We enter a room filled with mushrooms that have varying degrees of danger. Luckily we were able to identify them before posing any immediate risk to ourselves. As we explore the cavernous room we stumble upon a Rage Drake. He doesn’t immediately cause our party too much danger in and of itself, but it was troublesome maneuvering around the mushrooms and attacking. The noise from our battle though alerted another unseen Rage Drake that proceeded to attack us. Since we had the first one pretty well contained, the second one was a little easier to handle. Once the Drakes were conquered We looked around the room a bit. Rylene picked some of the sleeper mushrooms and gave me one to hold onto. Then, we proceeded to climb the ropes we saw in the south-west and north-west areas in the room. Once Rylene and myself made it up the ropes, we were attacked by two goblins with crossbows. We made quick work of them after Lihi and Raiann flanked them.

From the landing we headed through the western door and into a room with what looked to be a magical mural. It had a sheen to it that made it look too well kept for such a run down place. While we were inspecting the mural an Ochre Jelly seemed to appear from it. It took us a while to get into this battle, it was a trial that we didn’t expect. We were extremely surprised by the fact that it split into two pieces while we were attacking it. Before we could finish it off we were flanked by 2 Specters which aggravated our dire situation.

While we were pretty beat-up after vanquishing our foes, we decided to continue with the expedition a little longer before getting some rest. Rylene continued south from the mural and followed the hallway to what appears to be the resting quarters for the goblins. We were able to catch them by surprise and took them out relatively easily given their numbers, but not without sustaining some wounds.

While successfully defeating the enemies, we needed to find somewhere safe so we could recover from the last couple battles. After a bit of discussion, we decided it would be best to leave the catacombs and look for a place to rest above ground. After inspecting the entrance to the castle and determining that it was not inhabited by anything that touches the ground (hopefully there aren’t any ghosts or other hovering beasts about), we decided to hole ourselves up inside. Rylene and myself kept watch while in our trance state. The rest of the party awoke at approximately 9pm.