Semiramigard Redux
Right after a hard-fought Final Round Harald, Lila, Akim, Heizeiah, Quiteria, and Dawa take off for Semiramigard. We Teleport to the lower city based on some divination evidence (and a lucky 00 on the teleport roll), then walk across an invisible bridge into the might mesa supporting the upper city. We enter a spacious chamber, filled with fungus, and get attacked by spore-sprouting, fungus-possessed trolls. We take them down, then continue our exploring. We encounter a Drowad, which is a fungus dryad who worships Lloth. She and Quiteria talk for a bit in Undercommon, and she reveals that the Rats of Nimrod and the local Myconoid men used to maitain a balance of power in this dungeon. Once the Rats of Nimrod left for Spain the mushrooms took over, then a Beholder showed up and they started worshipping him as a god. Great.
We continue through the dungeon, fighting more trolls and mushroom guys. We find a dragon skeleton in a room that could not admit entry of a dragon, which is weird, and some giant bacteria encased in cocoons. There is a room with manacles and mysterious bloodstains, and lots and lots of fungus, including a beautiful Drowad cultivated hanging fungal gardens. Very classy. After much wandering and tracking we find a secret trapdoor in the ceiling, and head on up into another dungeon level. There we find tons of Myconoid men in a large chamber. Dawa seems to be the only one who can hear them in his brain, which is too bad. We Fireball them and run out of the room once they start telling him to wait for the Eye. Of course, with our luck we run right into the throne chamber of the Mushroom King, a very deep chasm on one side! Behold his armor, coated with Yellow Mold that assaults any who strike him! Behold his Brown Mold covered shield, which sucks the very heat from your bones! Behold the cloud of spores surrounding him, spores so sharp and invisible that they cut the crap out anyone in melee range! Behold the seven saves you must make by breathing anywhere nearby! Yeah, it sucks fighting this guy, and then the beholder shows up, rising from the chasm. Everyone is making 6 or 8 saves per round, Harald employs the awesome strategy of leaping onto the beholder's head and stabbing it. Characters fall like flies, Akim gets turned to stone, Harald slips off the beholder's head, then gets turned to stone, and Lila saves the day. How, you ask? Well, the party made their saves vs. disintegration, but turnabout is fair play, and the beholder failed his save vs same. Suck it, Eye Tyrant!!
Lila Teleports away with stone Harald, since he has the magic key to open the door and all. The rest of the party wishes they had more spells, more hp, and fewer dwarf statues.
