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• Image Placeholder 1 — Dose’s flashback in Vedykar
• Image Placeholder 2 — Ilvara in her chamber
• Image Placeholder 3 — The lift escape from Velkynvelve
• Image Placeholder 4 — The battered winged demon in the tunnels

Session 2 opened three years earlier in Vedykar, Southern Karrnath, Eberron, where a young dragonborn who would become Sarix “Dose” Jorasco was found wounded after a skirmish, clutching a small egg. Yulara d’Jorasco chose to treat him when others hesitated, seeing not a monster or outsider, but a patient still fighting to live. That act of mercy became the beginning of Dose’s place within House Jorasco and his bond with fellowNettle.

Back captives,in Velkynvelve, the escape erupted into open confrontation with Ilvara Mizzrym. The party demanded their gear, refused to return to captivity, and beganfought plottingthrough theirpoison, escape.scourge Sessionstrikes, 1Spider endedVortex, and magical darkness before Ilvara escaped in a swirl of silvery mist. Edric opened the confiscated-gear chest with Knock, Varang and Iragon dragged the wounded back from the edge, Dose freed Nettle, and the group poisedfled for action, their resolve hardening asthrough the Underdark’soutpost dangers loomed.

🧭 Overview

Session 2 thrusts the party into action:with a flashbackcrowd revealsof Dose’sprisoners.

The adoptionescape intobecame Housea Jorasco, then the present erupts into chaos as the group confronts Warden Elvara. Combat, confusion, and cunning ensue as the prisoners fight for their freedom, recover their gear, andfrantic scramble through thespider-haunted outpost.chambers, lift shafts, approaching quaggoths, and demon-choked tunnels. The escapeparty isrecovered fraughtlimited supplies, carried the mysterious chest with hazards—spells,them, spiders,survived a battered winged demon’s stunning screech, and the ever-present threat of drow reinforcements. By session’s end, the party and a ragtag band of NPCs have fledvanished into the labyrinthineUnderdark Underdark,while batteredIlvara’s butvoice alive,echoed withbehind them, ordering her forces to bring the drow’sfugitives hornsback echoingalive.

• The session opened with Dose’s flashback, revealing how Yulara d’Jorasco saved him and helped him earn a place in House Jorasco despite his lack of bloodline or dragonmark.
• The party coordinatesconfronted Ilvara Mizzrym in her chamber and refused to return to captivity.
• Varang hit Ilvara with Inflict Wounds, Vorgrath raged and attacked with his axe, Dose marked and shot her, Edric used Mind Sliver and Magic Missile, Iragon blasted and retaliated, and Aeris attempted to control the battlefield with druidic magic.
• Ilvara’s scourge struck brutally, dealing heavy piercing and poison damage and inflicting lingering injuries on Varang and Vorgrath.
• Ilvara unleashed Spider Vortex, causing severe piercing damage and restraint effects in a chaotic20-foot burst of nightmare spider magic.
• Ilvara cast magical darkness, exploited the party’s inability to see through it, and escaped in silvery mist.
• Edric opened the confiscated-gear chest with Knock. The key was later confirmed to have been upstairs, but the party did not rely on it.
• Dose went below and freed Nettle, reuniting with his drake companion.
• Varang and Iragon stabilised and healed badly wounded allies, including Eldeth, Aeris, and Dose.
• Edric investigated upstairs, triggered the giant spider, survived its bite through Shield and Arcane Ward, and fled back down with a very reasonable hatred of large spiders.
• The party gathered supplies, including roughly two days of rations per character, but long-term Underdark survival remained far from solved.
• The group coordinated a lift escape usingfor roughly fifteen fugitives, requiring multiple loads and tense decisions about who went where.
• Edric insisted the lift,large gatheringchest be brought along because it remained important, and the DM later confirmed the chest was relevant as a vessel.
• Feather Fall was used during the descent to keep part of the escaping group from dying the stupid gravity death.
• In the tunnels below, the party encountered a battered winged demon, survived its stunning screech, and watched Iragon finish it with a decisive Eldritch Blast.
• The session ended with the fugitives running into the Underdark while Ilvara’s forces searched behind them.

The Patient with the Egg

Three years earlier in Vedykar, Yulara d’Jorasco knelt beside a wounded young dragonborn found after a skirmish, his scales marked with ash and blood, his arms wrapped around a small egg. Where others hesitated, Yulara chose treatment, deciding that if he still fought to live, then House Jorasco would fight with him.

Ilvara’s Chamber

Vorgrath stepped toward Ilvara Mizzrym and demanded his axe while the party crowded the doorway behind him. The stolen-gear chest waited inside the room, but between the prisoners and their freedom stood the priestess who still believed they belonged to her.

The Spider Vortex

Ilvara’s magic tore through the chamber in a storm of venomous legs, piercing pain, and restraining force. The escape nearly collapsed there as allies were battered, trapped, and dropped, forcing Varang and Iragon to drag life back into bodies that were running out of it.

The Spider Upstairs

Edric climbed into the upper chamber while the others recovered gear and gathered themselves. A giant spider emerged from the shadows and bit him, only for his Shield spell and Arcane Ward to absorb the worst of the attack before he fled back down with urgent news and excellent survival instincts.

The Lift Escape

The fugitives gathered at the lift while alarms and distant horns echoed through Velkynvelve. With too many people, too little time, and enemies closing in, the group worked through lift loads, Feather Fall, climbing, and sheer panic to get as many prisoners out as possible.

The descendDemon intoin the Underdark, pursued by drow reinforcements andTunnels

Below the echo of horns.

🎞️ Key Scenes

• Dose’creature’s Flashback:head Afree, glimpse into his adoption and acceptance in House Jorasco, settingbuying the emotionalfugitives toneanother for the session.
• Elvara’s Showdown: The party’s tense confrontation with the warden, culminating in a spell-slinging melee and the infamous “spider vortex.”
• Gear Retrieval: The party’s frantic search for their confiscated equipment, culminating in the discoverybreath of asurvival.

• Inventory Management: Digital tools used for tracking items; confusion over what is present in packs.
• Initiative & Targeting: Clarified use of targeting and initiative in the VTT; technical issues with dice rolls resolved by DM.
• Exhaustion & Sanity: Automated and tracked on tokens.
• Movement: Players can move through units but cannot end turn on same square (v5.5).
• Agonizing Blast: Discussion about adding Charisma modifier to Eldritch Blast; technical issues noted.
• Mind Sliver: Causes psychic damage and imposes 1d4 penalty on next saving throw.
• Magic Missile: New rule: one die for all darts at a single target; DM allows rolling for each dart.
• Spellcasting Limits: Only one leveled spell and one cantrip per turn unless specified.
• Spider Vortex: DCIlvara’s 15Spider Vortex forced Constitution save;saves failurein restrainsa 20-foot emanation, dealing heavy piercing damage and dealsrestraining heavycreatures damagethat (28); details need confirmation.failed.
• Divine Smite: Ruled as requiring a weapon and bonus action; party unsure if this changed in recent editions (Needs confirmation).
• Opportunity Attacks inMagical Darkness: AtIlvara’s disadvantage.darkness blocked ordinary sight and darkvision, allowing her to act while the party struggled to respond.
• Scourge Poison: Ilvara’s scourge dealt dangerous piercing and poison damage, causing lingering injury results.
• Varang’s Lingering Injury: Varang suffered residual pigmentation on the chest from poison, with the colour result leaning purple.
• Vorgrath’s Lingering Injury: Vorgrath suffered blurred vision for one day, affecting vision-based Perception and ranged attacks.
• Spare the Dying: Stabilizes,Stabilised doesdying characters but did not revive torestore consciousness.
• Prayer of Healing: HealsResolved at the table as healing up to five creatures for 5 HP each (as ruled).each.
• Preserve Life: Used as a pool of 15 HP divided among bloodiedbadly partywounded members (4 HP each to four people).allies.
• Arcane Ward: AbsorbsEdric’s ward absorbed damage equalduring tothe twicespider wizardencounter leveland plusneeds INTongoing modifier;Foundry appliestracking resistances/vulnerabilities.cleanup.
• Spider Bite: CausesThe nausea,giant imposingspider’s bite caused nausea and disadvantage on ability checks.
• Lift Operation: RequiresThe twolift required operation from above and could not move the whole escape group at the top; Featherfall used for safe descent.once.
• GoodberryFeather Spell:Fall: CanUsed createduring upthe escape descent to 10prevent berries,a eachfatal healingfall 1for HP;part onlyof the group.
• Goodberry: Only one berry was created due to roll.
• Stunningthe Screech: Vrock demon’session’s ability;roll saving/ throwshandling, required.
• Magicaldespite Darkness:the Impassablespell bynormally normalbeing darkvision;able onlyto certaincreate abilities can see through.more.
• Inspiration: PlayersIragon started with one; some used, some retained. Iragonwas awarded inspiration for actions.
• Flashbacks:his Eachactions, sessionincluding tohis openearlier withsupport aof character-focusedVorgrath flashback;and DMthe requestskilling communicationblow foragainst planning.the demon.

• The party escaped Velkynvelve with a large group of prisoners, recovered gear, limited supplies, Nettle, and the mysterious chest.
• AnticipateBehind them, Ilvara Mizzrym’s voice cut through the cavern, ordering the drow pursuitto find them and potentialbring environmentalthem hazardsback inalive.
• Whips cracked, horns sounded, quaggoths snarled, and boots thundered across the tunnels.outpost above.
• EstablishThe safelast andlight unsafeof placesVelkynvelve invanished behind them as the Underdark for possible rest or ambush.
• Check for signs of demonic corruption or madness among party and NPCs.
• Review and update digital inventory and token effects for all party members.

⏳ Cliffhanger

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