The sudsy fst expedition group ran into a nice snafu right off the bat as we explored a floating crystal and accidentally released a Hezru realm demon who, from his prison, charmed Berggitta into smashing the crystal. With a few divine T'oerr enhanced divine thunder strikes with my hammer and Brauns flaying maul of death attacks, we sent it right back home but not before it had allowed an undead dwarf demon thingy to escape a rift he made....but, we took care of that issue easily. And thus we progressed onwaard to find ourselves in an Indiana Jones Raiders of the lost ark style setting where not one but TWO huge boulders chased a majority of the group down a stair slide way and into a spiked pit filled with a gelatenous cube (MRRRAAAAAAHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Thankfully the group was able to maneuver their fall to avoid the spike pit of death, let the boulders kill the cube and proceed onward to kill 2 other cubes in the preceeding hallway, a hallway in which we found a bag of holding with some goodies in it as well as the bones to a 1st edition palladin I had played (and lost to a gelotenous cube.......darn YOU CUBES!!!!!!!). Packing up the bones and our loot we continued to a door, which was an illusion, that obscured a dark area which turned out to be the mouth of a VERY large (yet, as we discovered later, MOSTLY intelligent....ok, it speaks, who knows how intelligent it acctually IS here, ok....)toad. After Braun wrestled with it's tongue for a bit, he ended up dragging the thing around by it's own tongue and I split it's lip with a nice critical throw from the dwarven thrower. Once we cleared the air, made sure we weren't on the menu and I healed the toad, we found ourselves in a nice sacred grove, the resting place and prison of the forgotten god of life: Peytun (who, as chance would have it, is MY diety's brother). We freed Peytun, gave him some goodies from our recent bag aquisition, promised to spread word of his return and raise his followers to regain his powers for the upcoming battle against evil. In return, he charged us with an enormous task; the care and protection of the last gold dragon on this plane of existence, which hatched right before our eyes! So, now we're on our way OUT of the caverns of murder, get back to the town we started at, pay off our debt to the loan shark, avoid/destroy any red drakes, and use the remaining funds from our venture (there's LOTS left after we settle up!!!) and start building temples and spreading the good word about, "PEYTUN! GOD OF LIFE AND BROTHER TO THE ALL MIGHTY T'OEER! SAVIOR OF THE LAST ONES, NOW RETURNED TO HIS PLACE IN THE CELESTIAL COSMOS AFTER CENTURIES OF IMPRISONMENT BY EVIL!" So, how will the sudsy fist expeditions fare in their gaurdianship of this sole surviving hatchling? Will they be able to bring about a resurgence of faith in Peytun? What will become of the Red Drake invaders?
Oh yeah, we also found an ancient (HUUUUGE!!) chromatic dragon skeleton, untouched by time that, no matter how much we smashed it, it restructured right before our eyes without even a scratch. Side note, trash mouths horns are uneven, so we took some of the dragons claws with us and are gonna fashion a strong lil horned helm type deal for em, Braun had the horns of the demon boss we dropped crudely on his already horned helmet but Peyton made it a perfect graft so he looks AWESOME now (besides only wearing a loin cloth this whole time that is), we have a Gryphon to go pick up, Peytun left us the toad as a steed (can seat 4 dwarves easily and has a magic crown with some kewl lil tricks), some nice lil magic items to identify, another ginormous gem, an army of little gems and a dragons hoard (no magic items in it though) and misc other loot scattered in stash points along the way. Lastly....trashmouth nearly knocked himself unconscious headbutting what he thought was an enemy but was only an illusion and hit the wall instead.
Lastly, Berggitta now has self conscious confidence issues regarding her face (after all it's been blasted with fire, dunked into an acid pool and burned yet again after that experience then, was charmed by a big ugly demon) and may have a thing for Braun after a certain lazic incident with another gem we found....no more details on that subject unless you happened to have been there