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Friday Night Pathfinder: Escape from Secomber Ruins

Friday Night, the band got back together, and Felix, Corrail, Ally, Don the Magnificent  Zirul (player absent) and the new human barbarian / alchemist Elrick got underway in the ruins below Secomber.

Elrick had taken refuge in a cave while running from the city guard.  It just so happened to be the same caverns that the party was stuck in.

Elrick joined with the party just as they uncovered a Dream Spectre, which was quickly dispatched.  A Cloud dragon then appeared, which Don was able to reach an understanding with.  The party left the caves.

Above ground they emerged into a firefight between Ally's father and the Red Wizard.  The party, all except for Felix, was caught by a huge, concentrated burst of entangle that trapped them.  Felix chased the Red Wizard into the forest until he completely lost him, in fact, until he came across a large enchanted druid grove.  Familiarity drew him in and the glowing spirit of his mother communed with him, telling him that the druids there would help him.  She left for him a cloak of the bat.  The druids there came and placed a ring upon his finger which gave him the missing knowledge of the druid language and gave him a link by which he could learn new druid customs and rituals (and take new druid levels).

Meanwhile, the party slowly got untangle and Ally rushed to her father's side, only to find dying of a magical infliction that they could not heal.  "I am sorry," he said in his last words to Ally.

In addition, nearby was a covered wagon, packed full of riches and various useful items for Lord Rutherford.  Don the Magnificent jumped in and began going through the riches and seeing what the party could use, while the driver and guide Marlowe looked on.

The party sent an invisible pair back into the city to get their horses and camel and then headed towards Waterdeep, with a brief stop-over in Daggerford.  Daggerford found a drunken gnome and drunken alchemist at the bar.  The party started spending their new found wealth on equipment.
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