So, after resting for nine hours, we set off into the dungeon. The general plan: While the god-tree, the god-trees friends, and the god-tree's mother launch an assault on the mushroomy kingdom (
which is totally not a shoutout to anything), we would sneak into the mushroom peoples' base and get all up in their stuff. So, we fought off a bunch of florians (ever seen or read Sonic X? Remember Cosmo? Yeah they look like that) that were dead but they weren't dead because they were
zombie mushroom flower people. We pretty quickly figured out that conventional damage would only slow them down and they would recover themselves from any physical harm, so Calladskor used his blood-scimitar and I used my burning hands spell (only JUST BARELY with my own consent; the DM basically said "Okay Shneeka you used up your last cast of burning hands to clean this up...") and Deadris used his Rebuke Undead and made three of the zombie mushroom flower people his slaves.
Then we explored some oddly lizard-shaped caves, and got ambushed by ankhegs. I almost got eaten, and Deadris' dog DID get eaten. Literally. It got hit for 20 damage... and it only had 6 health. Poor thing. Anyway... Nernas used magic missile spam (apparently the crystal staff he picked up a while ago actually does something other than signify spectral royalty; it shoots extra magic missiles... so once a day, Nernas has the option to shoot up to 13d6+13 in one go) to kill one, Deadris decapitated the one that ate his dog, and I totally critical-shneekattacked the one that had Calladskor trapped in the tunnel. I figure Calladskor would have won if we'd just left him to save himself, but I figured, why not. Plus... critical sneak attack is a lot of damage. Mwehehe. It was fun. The DM described it as ankheg-kabob.
So then we kept exploring and found the Hindenburg derigible of the Mushroom Kingdom. It has AoE con damage effects (which ticked Deadris off; he's getting sick of 'roll to only take half damage' stuff), and it flies. So Nernas used missile spam again (he only used up half of the staff's spamminess earlier) and let me borrow his crossbow... but by the time I got to use it, the derigible mushroom was on the ground, so I COULD have used my sword, but I figured I'd stay back and use the crossbow. Then we won, and I gave the crossbow back.
To be continued. Next time, two people are going to spontaneously generate.