#42 - A Long Trek Through Mushrooms

The party continued on down the passage.  They had entered this passage on the north side of the Kobold lair. 

Gevin decided to leave the party and return to the surface.  He wanted to explore the ridge above, and look to see what he could learn of the forest between the ridge and the mountain.  The prisoner at the Cyclops camp had told them there were strange plants in the forest.

Samm, Perra, Windsor, and Jhunter continued on. 

The passage ended at a large cavern.  This cavern was completely filled with giant mushrooms, the size of trees.  It was like un underground forest.  They found that they could travel either by walking beneath the mushrooms, or atop them on the forest canopy.

They found a worn trail through the mushroom forest, and decided to travel beneath the canopy along that trail.

They came to a clearing where they were ambushed.  A Driver firing arrows from a distance on top of the canopy.  As they responded to this attack, to giant spiders joined the fight against them. 

Perra, Windsor, and Samm were all badly injured in this fight.  They killed the giant spiders.  Jhunter scored a critical hit with a fire bolt on the Drider, sending her into retreat.

They rested for an hour, and when they began to move again they were confronted with a mysterious voice, not spoken, but coming directly into their heads.  They were surrounded by mysterious creatures of some sort, communicating with them telepathically.  These creatures were myconids.  Friendly, curious, sentient mushrooms, looking to converse with visitors and learn about the outside world.

In the safety of the Myconid troop, and in the company of their leader ("The Sovereign"), they rested.

From the Sovereign they  learned that the appearance of the kobolds first started about a year ago.  The kobolds are gathering at the mountain for some reason.  The likely come from far to the west, across "The Great Dark Sea".  A kobold had once told The Sovereign that in his home land there were "7 cities of Gold". 

South of the Myconid camp, there is a cliff that drops down into a deep canyon.  There is a river in this canyon that runs west to the Great Dark Sea.  There is likely a trail or road that turns north from this river that is the main route for the kobolds to get to the mountain. 

Gevin is re-united with the party.  He had left the ridge and returned to the passage, and then down to the cavern.  He was found there by the Myconids, and brought to his companions.  He had seen details of the blight in the forest above.

As we leave off, Myconids are escorting the party along a safe route to the cliff.