Crimson Sands of Time

Chadderlay will summon his familiar, Mister Fancy, a cat with a black and white tuxedo pattern, and have them scout ahead as stealthy as they can.

Stealth: 7

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Chadderlay will summon his familiar, Mister Fancy, a cat with a black and white tuxedo pattern, and have them scout ahead as stealthy as they can.

Stealth: 21

 Ahead to the east or west?

<read exit or Drow>

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"Angus, there's no time for this, you have to go back," she implored. "The calamity has been delayed, but not averted."

 True.

Alright, I'm assuming the questers in the caves of hunger are heading Drow-wards.  Chadderlay's familiar sees an extremely long and winding icy tunnel of natural rock, opening to a fork.  To the right is a cavern with a fifteen-foot-high ceiling and a smaller, dead-end cave at the back of it. Sticking out of the larger cave’s floor at a sixty-degree angle is a giant-sized wooden spear with its obsidian tip pointing upward. The weapon glows with a faint, cold light.

Lookking to the left fork, Mr Fancy sees icicles cling to the twenty-foot-high ceiling of this ice cavern. Embedded in the south wall is a domed, circular building made of seamless black stone and decorated with faintly glowing constellations. A frost-covered statue of a human wizard stands outside it, gazing outward from atop a three-foot-high stone pedestal. The building and statue rest on a five-foot-high, curved stone platform enclosed by a low wall.

<those who just finished fighting Fhe aspect of father Llymic, I'm working on something for you to unite the two parties again.  I should know what I'm doing by Monday.  Angus, if you want to take the opportunity to level up, go ahead so you don't have to do it later.  Unless you want to delay it for some reason (this was an AL module and declining advancement is very much a thing in AL)

"Mister Fancy has found something of interest."

Chadderlay will follow the path to meet up with Mister Fancy again and have a closer look at the structure with the constellations on it's surfaces.

Perception: 15

Akame follows, keeping back a bit and staying on the lookout for hostiles or anything noteworthy.

Perception 27 

<So, just bypassing the treasure, then? OK, there's more ahead>

You notice trails along the ceiling faintly etched into the ice, leading to the observarion if subtle movement among the icicles.  10 if them seem to be animated.  Probably best to avoid those. 

Exploring the building, it's apparent much of it has collapsed, but the front room is intact—and also free of ice and frost. The remnants of smashed furnishings suggest that the room once served as a wizard’s workshop. Atop a splintered table is a brimstone cube small enough to hold in one hand. The air around the cube ripples, as it seems to be putting out enough dry heat to warm the room.

A drow male sits reading at a desk.

<Anybody in the caves of hunger? >

(Not sure how we're meant to know where treasure is. Unless that giant spear is it? We can double back for it)

Akame can't believe a drow would allow them to just come up without noticing them. They weren't even trying to be quiet. Was this a trap? He spent some magic to detect thoughts of anyone around them.

(Subtle Spell detect thoughts to try to identify any hidden drow or other people in range)

The drow turns from his book to see the sneaking party.  "Topsiders!" He exclaims in undercommon as he points to the group.  Two more male drow rush I to the building from the entrance at the far side if the building.

"Meldirn, Tlaknar: seize them!"

Meldirn casts faerie fire on the party. (Dex DC12) as Tlankar takes aim with his hand crossbow.

<I'll throw up a map in a second.>

Drow initiative 

M 5

T 10

Y 12

<I know, I know, scouts and sneaking and not really doing anything, but yeah, stuff is happening now.>

The drow who was seated (Yilsebek) carries himself with the poise and arrogance of a mage. He wears a spider silk satchel that contains his spellbook (described below), a spider-shaped brooch made of obsidian and engraved with a drow symbol.

Dex save 4 

Initiative 22 

DEX save: 18

Chadderlay's Initiative: 5

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Initiative 19 

 Looks like Akame wins initiative 

<To clarify, the map is suggesting the whole structure is one space, even though it is drawn originally as divided by natural formations.  The blue circle is my attempt to represent that fact.  This means you csn get to the other side through it instead of having to go around to the other entrance through the still unexplored area.

Just imagine the grid lines cover the whole circle >

Additional note: combat has not started. Initiative just means we know how it will start, if it does.

(The other two drow, do they look like fighting types? Are they wearing armor, wielding martial weapons, etc?)

Drow elite warriors

"Stand down. " Akame warns them in elvish. "We didn't come here to harm you but if you attack it'll be a one way ticket to the Abyss for you."