The glowing eyes we saw last time turned out to be a fetchling named Amber, to whom Caillte spoke in Shadowtongue before switching to Common. Amber asked if we were going to steal from them, and if we knew the Blightsteel Dominion was the bad guys. She explained that the Blightsteel Dominion had been sending people to delve into the dungeon, who often came out looking sick, and often stole from the fetchlings.

She took us into the underground town they renamed “Umbral Haven”, vaguely mimicking Mirage Haven, and said the first six layers were the old city. We went into Solariel’s Ward, to an inn, and each took a room for the night. Caillte was fascinated by the showers, and tried to figure out a way to improve the water pressure.

The next day, Amber brought us to the seventh level below ground, past a scary black market she warned us not to go to if we wanted to be safe. She explained that there are rumors that there is a god down in the tunnels, and that the corridor down into them is called the Night’s Passage. We then ventured into the depths underneath Umbral Haven in search for a cure for the Boiling Plague—our mission.

Almost immediately the tunnel branched into two corridors: one with mysterious mist, and one without. We went into the one without.

Not too deep into that corridor, we ran into a bunch of void zombies, who turned into larvae when they died. Nuhlra stomped on one as it tried to crawl back into a tunnel slightly to the north. Before we followed the other larvae, we found 20 gp in the tomb the void zombies had likely come out of, which went into the party stash. Then, carefully checking out the northern tunnel, Nuhlra and Caillte (not Zygomatic since they don’t have darkvision and their jellyfish lamp does not reach that far) saw a sleeping creature that resembled the larvae enough for us to draw the conclusion that it was probably an adult version of whatever had infected the zombies, and decided to steer clear of it.
With the only option left being going into the mist, we send Aisling in first—who came back out confused and like nothing happened. Nuhlra went in next and felt like she walked forward the whole time but came back with the others. After some investigating it turned out the mist contained an illusion, and Nuhlra broke the runes that kept it in place.

Next we tried to squeeze through a narrow crack in the wall, but Nuhlra and Caillte got stuck, and then we decided to move on even though it hurt emotionally.

Finally we came upon a chest with a padlock, and when we tried to open it the chest revealed itself to be a mimic and attacked. Nuhlra got stuck pretty quickly and fell unconscious, but Zygomatic stabilized her. After a hefty combat, Caillte was able to strike down the mimic with a mediocre shortbow shot, and we all took a rest to patch ourselves (and Aisling) back up for the next leg of the adventure.