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• ImageDose Placeholder 1 — Dose’s flashbackFlashback in Vedykar
• ImageIlvara’s PlaceholderChamber 2and —the IlvaraGear in her chamberChest
• Image Placeholder 3 — The liftLift escapeEscape from Velkynvelve
• Image Placeholder 4 — The batteredBattered wingedWinged demonDemon in the tunnelsTunnels

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The party2 began the campaign as prisoners of the drow, stripped of their gear, restrained by anti-magic shackles, and held inwhere the prison outpostbreak had left the party: injured, half-armed, and standing at the threshold of Ilvara Mizzrym’s quarters in Velkynvelve. WithThe suspected chest of confiscated gear was within reach, but so was the helppriestess ofwho Stool’sstill telepathic spores, they began planning a breakout alongsidebelieved the otherprisoners captives.belonged to her.

DuringBefore returning to the chaos of athe horn sounding elsewhere inescape, the outpost,session the prisoners discovered their cell door had been left unsecured. They surged out, fought drow guards on the bridge, recovered keys and scavenged weapons, and pushed toward Ilvara Mizzrym’s quarters, where a large chest was believed to contain their confiscated gear.

Session 2 openedstepped three years earlierinto the past, revealing the story of Sarix “Dose” Jorasco and the moment House Jorasco first chose to save him.

🧭 Overview

The session opened in Vedykar, Southern Karrnath, Eberron, wherethree ayears before the escape. A young dragonborn who would become Sarix “Dose” Jorasco was found wounded after a skirmish, collapsed beside a shattered wagon and clutching a small egg. Many healers hesitated at the sight of him, but Yulara d’Jorasco chosestepped toforward. treatShe him when others hesitated, seeingsaw not a monster or outsider, but a patient who was still fighting to live.

Yulara acttreated the dragonborn who would become Sarix “Dose” Jorasco, and over time she learned his story in fragments. Dose had no clan to claim him, but he watched the healers of mercyHouse becameJorasco with sharp interest. He learned by helping, carrying supplies, lifting patients, observing treatment, and asking too many questions. Against resistance from parts of the beginninghouse, Yulara argued that healing was not only a matter of Dose’sbloodline placeor dragonmark, but of service and choice. Dose was given a place, a name, and a future within House JorascoJorasco.

Back in Velkynvelve, the escapeparty erupted into open confrontation withconfronted Ilvara Mizzrym.Mizzrym Thein partyher chamber. Vorgrath demanded theirhis gear,axe, the party refused to return to captivity, and foughtIlvara throughanswered poison,with poison and violence. The fight became a brutal close-quarters clash around the doorway, with spells, axe blows, crossbow shots, healing magic, and Ilvara’s scourge strikes,turning the room into a desperate struggle over survival and stolen gear.

Ilvara unleashed Spider Vortex, badly injuring and magicalrestraining darknessseveral before Ilvara escaped in a swirlmembers of silverythe mist.group. Varang and Iragon worked to keep allies alive, while Edric opened the confiscated-locked gear chest with Knock,Knock. VarangIlvara eventually escaped under magical darkness and Iragonsilvery draggedmist, leaving the woundedparty backbattered frombut in possession of their equipment. Dose found Nettle chained below the edge,chamber Doseand freed Nettle,him, reuniting with the drake companion whose egg had anchored the opening flashback.

The escape then became a race through Velkynvelve. Edric investigated upstairs and found a giant spider the hard way, the party gathered supplies, the fleeing prisoners pushed toward the lift, and the group fledscrambled throughto get roughly fifteen fugitives down into the outposttunnels withbelow. aFeather crowdFall, climbing, lift loads, shouting, and panic all became part of prisoners.

Thethe escape becameplan.

Below frantic scramble through spider-haunted chambers, lift shafts, approaching quaggoths, and demon-choked tunnels. The party recovered limited supplies, carriedVelkynvelve, the mysteriousfugitives chest with them, survivedencountered a battered winged demon’demon in the Underdark tunnels. The creature’s stunningscreech screech,nearly turned freedom into disaster, but Edric weakened it and vanishedIragon finished it with a decisive blast that severed its head. The party finally slipped into the Underdarkdarkness whilebeneath the outpost, hearing whips, screams, horns, and Ilvara’s voicecommand echoedfor behindthe them, ordering her forcesdrow to bring the fugitivesthem back alive.

• Vedykar, Southern Karrnath, Eberron: The flashbackFlashback location where Dose was found wounded after a skirmish, clutching the egg that would becomelater centralconnect to his bond with Nettle.
• House Jorasco Enclave: The place where Yulara d’Jorasco nursedsaved Dose back to health,Dose, trained him, and foughtargued for his placeacceptance withininto theHouse house.Jorasco.
• Velkynvelve: The drow prison outpost where the party began as captives and where theparty’s escape escalated from a cell break into full chaos.flight.
• Ilvara’s Chamber: The room where the party confronted Ilvara MizzrymMizzrym, fought her, and recovered their confiscated gear from the locked chest.
• Lower Chamber: The area below Ilvara’s room where Nettle was heard howling and later found chained.
• Upper Study / Spider Lair: An upper roomarea investigated by Edric, guarded by a giant spider and notleft fullyunresolved cleared.when the party fled.
• Supply Rooms: Rooms searchedSearched during the escape,escape. where theThe party gathered enough rationsprovisions to add roughly two days of foodrations per character.
• Lift Shaft: The dangerous escape route down from Velkynvelve, requiring operation from abovecoordination and coordination across multiple escape loads.
• Underdark Tunnels: The dark mazetunnels below Velkynvelve where the fugitives encountered the battered winged demon and began theirfleeing flight fromthe drow pursuit.
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• The session opened with a flashback to Dose’s flashback,rescue revealingand howadoption into House Jorasco.
• Yulara d’Jorasco saved himDose after a skirmish near Vedykar, despite others hesitating because he was dragonborn and helpedhad himno earn a place in House Jorasco despite his lack ofhouse bloodline or dragonmark.
• Dose was shown still clutching the egg connected to Nettle, establishing the emotional link between the flashback and the present.
• The party confronted Ilvara Mizzrym in her chamber and refused to return to captivity.
• Vorgrath demanded his axe and taunted Ilvara directly.
• Varang hitstruck Ilvara with Inflict Wounds, Vorgrath ragedWounds and attackedlater endured severe poison damage from her scourge.
• Vorgrath raged, pressed Ilvara with hisaxe axe, Dose markedattacks, and shotused her,Vitality of the Tree to grant temporary hit points.
• Dose used Hunter’s Mark and his hand crossbow during the fight.
• Edric used Mind Sliver and Magic Missile, Iragonthen blastedlater opened the gear chest with Knock.
• Aeris used Acid Splash and retaliated, and Aeris attempted tobattlefield controlcontrol, but the battlefieldroom withlayout druidicprevented magic.Entangle from being useful.
• Ilvara’s scourge struckcaused brutally, dealing heavymajor piercing and poison damagedamage, and inflictingleaving lingering injuries on Varang and Vorgrath.
• Ilvara unleashed Spider Vortex, causing severe piercing damagerestraining and restraintbadly effectsinjuring inseveral acharacters 20-footand burst of nightmare spider magic.allies.
• Ilvara castescaped by using magical darkness, exploited the party’s inability to see through it,darkness and escapedvanishing in silvery mist.
• EdricThe openedparty recovered their gear from the confiscated-gearchest, chestincluding withweapons, Knock.armour, Thespellbook, keyfoci, wasand laterother confirmedpersonal to have been upstairs, but the party did not rely on it.equipment.
• Dose went below Ilvara’s chamber and freed Nettle,Nettle reunitingfrom with his drake companion.chains.
• Varang and Iragon stabilised and healed badly wounded allies, including Eldeth, Aeris, and Dose.
• Edric investigated upstairs,upstairs triggeredand found the giant spider,spider survivedby tripping into its biteterritory through Shield and Arcane Ward, and fled back down withlike a verywizard-shaped reasonabledinner hatred of large spiders.bell.
• The party gathered supplies, including roughly two days of rations per character, but long-term Underdark survival remained far from solved.character.
• The escaping group coordinatednumbered aaround fifteen fugitives, making the lift escape forslow, roughly fifteen fugitives, requiring multiple loadsdangerous, and tense decisions about who went where.chaotic.
• Edric insisted that the large chest be brought along because it remained important, and the DM later confirmed the chest was relevant as a vessel.important.
• Feather Fall was used during the descent to keephelp part of the escaping group from dyingsurvive the stupid gravity death.drop.
• In the tunnels below,below Velkynvelve, the party encountered a battered winged demon,demon.
• Iragon survivedkilled the demon with Eldritch Blast, blowing its stunninghead screech,from andits watched Iragon finish it with a decisive Eldritch Blast.body.
• The session ended with the fugitivesparty runningout intoof the Underdarkprison whilebut Ilvara’snot forcesfree searchedfrom behindpursuit, them.as Ilvara ordered the drow to bring them back alive.

The Patient

Image withPlaceholder: theDose’s Eggflashback in Vedykar.

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

Ilvara’s Chamber

Image Placeholder: Ilvara in her chamber beside the chest.

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

Image Placeholder: Ilvara’s Spider Vortex tearing through the chamber.

Ilvara’s magic toreerupted through the chamber ininto a storm of venomous legs, piercing pain, and restraining force. The escape nearly collapsed there as allies were battered, trapped, and dropped,dropped forcingbefore Varang and Iragon tocould drag life back into bodiesthe thatwounded.

Image outPlaceholder: ofEdric it.discovering the giant spider upstairs.

The Spider Upstairs

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

Image Placeholder: The Liftlift Escapeescape from Velkynvelve.

The fugitives gathered at the lift while alarms and distant horns echoed through Velkynvelve. With tooToo many people, too little time, and enemies closing in,in turned the groupdescent workedinto througha desperate mix of lift loads, Feather Fall, climbing, and sheerpanic.

Image getPlaceholder: as many prisoners out as possible.

The Demonbattered winged demon in the Tunnels

Below the outpost, a battered winged demon shrieked withhard enough force to stagger the fleeing group. Edric weakened it, and Iragon answered with a blast of eldritch force that tore the creature’s head free, buying the fugitives another breath of survival.

• Drow Pursuit: Ilvara Mizzrym survived and ordered the fugitives brought back alive. The party escaped Velkynvelve, but not the consequences.
• Underdark Survival: The partygroup now faces the tunnels below with limited supplies, uncertain routes, and the constant threat of exhaustion, hunger, darkness, madness, and hostile creatures.
• The Chest as Vessel: The large chest from Ilvara’s chamber is confirmed to matter beyond justsimple gear recovery. Its exact purpose remains unknown.
• Nettle Restored: Dose has recovered Nettle, but the drake’s condition after captivity and the full implications of that bond remain important.
• The Giant Spider Upstairs: The upper chamber was not fully explored, and the spider remains alive. Whatever it guarded or nested near was left behind.
• Eldeth’s Request: Eldeth Feldrun still wants her shield and warhammer returned to Gauntlgrym if she does not survive.
• Prisoner Dynamics: Roughly fifteen fugitives escaped together. Their loyalty, fear, usefulness, and future choices may shape the party’s survival.
• Demonic Corruption: The prisonVelkynvelve was already under demonic pressure, and the party has now encountered another demondemonic threat in the tunnels below.
• Character Flashbacks: The DM confirmed the planaim of using future flashbacks to keeptie opening sessions with character-focused flashbacks, tyingcharacter backstories into the present campaign.

Noteworthy Items

The Chest: What began as the suspected container for the party’s stolen gear became something more. The party chose to take it with them during the escape, and the DM later confirmed it had importance as a vessel. What that means remains unresolved.

Nettle: Dose’s drake companion was no longer just a memory from the flashback. By the end of the session, Nettle had been found, freed, and brought back into the present danger of the Underdark.

• Spider Vortex: Ilvara’s Spider Vortex forced Constitution saves in a 20-foot emanation, dealing heavy piercing damage and restraining creatures that failed.
• Magical Darkness: Ilvara’s darkness blocked ordinary sight and darkvision, allowing her to actescape 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: Stabilised dying characters but did not restore consciousness.
• Prayer of Healing: Resolved at the table as healing up to five creatures for 5 HP each.
• Preserve Life: Used as a pool of 15 HP divided among badly wounded allies.
• Arcane Ward: Edric’s ward absorbed damage during the spider encounter and needs ongoing Foundry tracking cleanup.
• Spider Bite: The giant spider’s bite caused nausea and disadvantage on ability checks.
• Lift Operation: The lift required operation from above and could not move the whole escape group at once.
• Feather Fall: Used during the escape descent to prevent a fatal fall for part of the group.group from taking fatal fall damage.
• Goodberry: Only one berry was created due to the session’s roll / handling, despite the spell normally being able to createproducing more.
• Inspiration:Foundry Setup: IragonSeveral wasspell awardedand inspirationdamage forautomation hisissues actions,came up, including hisEldritch earlierBlast support/ ofAgonizing VorgrathBlast calculation and theArcane killingWard blow against the demon.tracking.

• Yulara d’Jorasco: “If he fights to live, then we fight with him.” – Yulara d’Jorasco
• Vorgrath Kael: “Just give me my fucking axe.” – Vorgrath Kael
• Vorgrath Kael: “I’d rather die than go back.” – Vorgrath Kael
• Varang: “Call your goddess. I will show her what remains after fire.” – Varang
• Vorgrath Kael: “Is that it? Fuck you.” – Vorgrath Kael
• Edric Faustin Valemont: “Bippity boppity boo.” – Edric Faustin Valemont
• Ilvara Mizzrym: “Find them. Bring them back alive. I want them to suffer.suffer what they have done.” – Ilvara Mizzrym
• “Your escape has begun.” – Dungeon Master

• Underdark
• Velkynvelve
• Escape
• Drow Pursuit
• Ilvara Mizzrym
• House Jorasco
• Dose Flashback
• Nettle
• Gear Recovery
• Spider Vortex
• Magical Darkness
• Giant Spider
• Lift Escape
• Feather Fall
• Demon Encounter
• Survival
• Rations
• Healing
• Session 2

• ConfirmClarify the full list of escaped NPC prisoners, their current health, and whether any were separated during the escape.
• Track party health, lingering injuries, spell slots, rations, and exhaustion after the escape.
• Confirm ownership of recovered gear and whether all personal items were successfully reclaimed.
• Clarify the exact statuscondition and mechanics of Nettle after being freed.
• Determine how the large chest is being carried and what role it plays as a vessel.
• Prepare Underdark travel tracking: route, food, water, light, pace, watches, stealth, and navigation.
• Track Ilvara’s pursuit and any drow or quaggoth forces following the party.
• Keep the giant spider and unexplored upper room as unresolved Velkynvelve threads.
• Prepare the next character flashback and confirm which player will be featured.

• The party escaped Velkynvelve with a large group of prisoners, recovered gear, limited supplies, Nettle, and the mysterious chest.

•  Their chains were gone, their weapons were back, and for the first time since their capture, the shape of freedom was real.

  Behind them, Ilvara Mizzrym’s voice cut through the cavern, ordering the drow to find them and bring them back alive.

•  Whips cracked, horns sounded, quaggoths snarled, and boots thundered across the outpost above.

• The last light of Velkynvelve vanished behind them as the Underdark swallowed the fugitives.

•  The prison break was over. The escape had only just begun.