Our heroes ventured deeper into Speaker Durmoot’s basement. The basement was in a state of disrepair, the floor lifted and invaded by ice from RedWaters. The corpse of a giant carrying a lute could be seen among the ice, it’s head exposed to the wine cellar, the rest encased.
Deeper, our heroes encountered a room that had been dressed up to look almost like an infirmary, beds containing villagers, in varying states of decay and mummification, others alive and being ‘tended’ by a slime copy created by the abomination deeper inside. A copy of Largo could be seen devouring the corpse of a villager.
When dispatched, these copies withdrew into an icy chamber, where finally our heroes met the creature terrorizing Dougan’s Hole – an Oblex. During the ensuing battle the Oblex generated more copies of its previous victims, and assaulted the minds of our heroes, stealing their memories. By the end only Lynnaea remembered why they were even there in the first place.
Vorryn was happy to receive the Psi-Crystal after our heroes defeated the Oblex (no thanks to him) and set off into the wilds of icewind Dale to repair the Id Ascendant.
Vorryn mentioned the repairs could take weeks – and if our Heroes happened to be in the area, to feel free to stop by for a visit.
It took days for Dougan’s hole to come even close to a recovery – the oblex had resided in the town for decades, and people could barely remember what happened during that time, which had become a blur. Many were seeing each other for the first time in years. While they certainly appreciated what our heroes had accomplished, they were eager to see our heroes leave, and return to some form of normalcy.