I’ll be there around 6:30 to open, so can help if you’ve still got a couple of questions or parts you’re unsure of.
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Still stuck at work 
Thank you for the great game yesterday @xaosseed 
! It was a fantastic introduction into the world of D&D!
@UtilityBeastEU @aiouh because you asked about it, my discord: sameold0269
It was our pleasure
Without you we would still be sitting in the Dungeon having no clue where to go to 
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With thanks to Vaeril - @vaeril, Hilas - @UtilityBeastEU and Cpt. Mundrie - @aiouh for venturing into The Hole In The Oak for the safety of the wider community.
At the request of Elena the Arcanist some wandering adventurers set out to find the wizards lair by a big oak out in the swamp and see how dangerous it might be.
After considering enlisting some henchmen and deciding they would rather not split the loot, the party hiked out past the old skyburials, out past the mudpool shrine and after some tense negotiations with a tabaxi hunter, found a mysteriously dry patch in the middle of the swamp with a great gnarled old oak growing on it.
Venturing down into the hole they found by it they squeezed past some grasping vines, argued with some root faces, trading a famed discus for some answers. The root faces told them that to find the wizard they needed to go back through the roots and the other way. They ranger was unwilling to hazard the roots again and so they set out to find another way around.
They trekked on to a big cavern and thence to a mysterious carved arch with a corpse in front of it. Searching the corpse and archway found the corpse was definitely dead from a big slice and the arch had nothing obvious to it. Some wandering troglodytes struck up a shouted conversation through the archway but with neither group will to cross it, our heroes wandered off to find another route.
They found a room full of mysterious sand, a spectral fight between man and giant lizard and then arrived into a big hall full of work statues with many doors. Searching there yielded little beyond trails.
The next door they tried revealed another corpse and another arch - they rummaged through the corpses pockets, found some coins and then decided to leave this arch alone too. They decided to try the door on the other side of the hall… and found another arch! A sharp eyed party member spotted the glint of eyes above it then the ferocious halfing charged into combat. Some unlucky misses by the giant spider and a critical hit from a longbow lead to a resounding victory and the party pressed onwards through this arch.
Marching past a statue and some mirrors they came to a large room with a big rug - and decided to head north, away from their stated goal of the passage beyond the roots. A careless step and the rogue vanished, snatched away to the bat cavern by an unseen magic circle. The ranger and fighter press on a little, finding a locked room with some troglodytes and after a tense but informative conversation around a scarcely opened door, they too decide to step on the magic circle to follow and find their comrade.
The rogue appears elsewhere - in a new part of a familiar bat-stinking cavern - and choose between three doors ahead of them. Skirting some beetles feasting on a kill they squeeze arduosly through a tight, slimy crevasse. By the time they had emerged into an cavern full of stalactites with another door they heard noises on the far side and opened it to find the ranger and fighter just appeared.
They made their way back down the bat cavern, retracing their steps past the sand, the dead spider and carefully around the rug until they entered a passage where an illusory image of the wizard sprang to life with a halting and partially complete welcome. Deciding they had fulfilled the letter of their mission by finding out about the place and being right beside the entrance, they climbed out and hiked home to be paid.
Everyone gets 60gp payment from the arcanist and 2 gold, 14 silver each as their share of the coins found on the dead dwarf.
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Thanks again for DMing, it was really fun! Crazy how far we made it in just one session 
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