Dungeon of the Mad Mage: ...and all of your heads explode

The party regrouped in Waterdeep, and spent some time selling off loot, shopping for magic items and high quality diamonds. They actually found nothing of interest after rolling poorly on the merchant tables, so they used their old teleport network to take a detour through Neverwinter. Here they bought some gear and a diamond to resurrect Szivem. Initially Groin began the ritual on the high street in front of the temple of Lliira, but on rolling a 1, he had to retreat inside before a procession of nobles. Still many people gathered to witness the miracle[1] and the temple gained new followers.

After a well deserved long rest, the adventurers once again descended into the Dungeon. They explored the rest of the mansion, going through the chambers of a noble couple, abandoned in a hurry. They saw and heard signs of being watched. Twice they encountered Star Spawn Larva Mages materializing from thin air. They fought the first one, to general disgust at all the worm-related happenings.

However when the second one appeared, Groin just banished it back into the void.

Finally, on the third level... BOSS FIGHT! Two mages, one knight, one death knight and some lower level mobs.

The fight started off with a Firestorm by Ireth, counterspelled by a mage, counterspelled by Szivem. This mostly cleared off the lesser mobs, and Brienne's charge almost killed a mage in one go, who got scared and teleported away. But then a slaad cast a Fireball on the party coming out of invisibility, the death knight threw his own fiery ball, and so when the second mage cast her psychic spell, 3 heads exploded! Luckily, Brienne was still up and went all in on the death knight, killing it. At this, the remaining mage teleported away and the slaad went back to being invisible. The two surviving dwarves quickly beat down the remaining knight, and retreated with their fallen comrades.

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Our next session was mostly smalltalk after 2 months of a hiatus, and administrativia in-game.

First, resurrections. The party had one diamond in hand for Groin to use, but they couldn't locate another in any of the major cities. So they visited the temple of Umberlee, where the head priestess accepted the job for an exorbitant amount of gold and a future favor.

Second, a meeting with Mirt the Moneylender, who had procured for them an antimagic armor. After much deliberation, they decided on enchanting a studded leather armor for Tari.

Finally, the party descended into the dungeon for a quick fight before we ended the session. I obliged by having a sacrificed mage birth a star spawn from his dead body. They immediately decided to try out the antimagic armor, which was nice, because all this boy was intended to do was to drain some of their resources. The armor worked just fine, and the star spawn was hacked apart with the adventurers surrounding it and beating at it with their now non magical weapons. 

[1] And the naked sorceress, undressed for ritualistic purposes