Prison area generated by Ai
How did the Noir Party Contingency end up in an Underdark slave pen?
It all started when we thwarted a Zhentarim plot to turn the Auratellian Kingdom into their puppet state, by turning the weakest heir into their slave, by having them drink from a tainted noble chalice by the noble guard Siamorph. This was around a year or so ago.
Fast forward to a few days ago when Gereg, Verbren, Narrandera, and I arrive in Auratella to attend Lady Lex's wedding. We were met by Lady Lex at the docks she was accompanied by our newest party member Aeshar'threa, a drow rogue and bard.
We were also surprised that the Electrum Factory had come to the kingdom and created a manufacturing factory on a floating island above the kingdom.
The three boys along with the bachelor who was accompanied by a couple of guards went out on a hunt for their party. According to Gereg during the hunt, they ran into a gigantic mountain goat. Aeshar and I joined Lady Lex and her sister along with a guard for her bachelorette party. We started drinking at a tavern, our next stop was an Auratellian cavern spa. That's all I really remember the rest of the night was a blur.
The wedding itself was lovely up until the bouquet toss... That was when our old enemies made their move. A glass orb landed and shattered in the middle of us releasing some type of knock-out gas. Suddenly we were surrounded by a a wall of force trapping us with the gas. We were trapped and unable to get away, all we could do was watch as the Zhentarim terrorized the scene their leader Pereghost stalked Kureal, Lady Lex's now husband. That was the last thing I saw before blacking out.
When I woke up I was in a solid metal cage with only a single opening. I sit deprived of my weapons and armor. I can hear the others in their cages as well. Lady Lex would taunt them then get hit by another dose of knock-out gas. One day I managed to grab one of the guards by the throat when he looked through the opening, the other two bashed my arm forcing me to let go.
After a few days of travel, we were nearing the Zhentarim home base until... the group transporting us were attacked themselves.
Once the sounds of battle ended that's when I saw it in the opening of the cage... skin dark as coal with eerie red eyes peering at me, the face of a drow. They spoke to each other in undercommon for a few moments.
The next thing I knew I was pelted by arrows laced with drow poison. Sometime later when we woke up we found ourselves here in the Underdark salve pens, with several other captives. I lashed out at Aeshar... I hope she will forgive me for doing so, sometimes my anger gets the best of me.
Prisoner Scarlett generated by Ai
On our first day here we were forced to perform menial tasks, while I was dumping some foul water from a container an electrum piece flew out of it. I caught it and hid under my arm taking it back with me back to the pen.
Gereg managed to find a gold piece, but Narrandera sadly failed in his task and received several lashes on his back. Verbren brought back a rusty iron bar, Lady Lex came across a shadow lance weaver spider. It seems to becoming her little companion.
Sadly Aeshar received the harshest of all the labor tasks. She was forced to break down a stalagmite with a rock. As the rock in her hand broke down it revealed a flint core, she plans to create a makeshift dagger from it.
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