Paul DMing, Scott: Smudge (shadar-kai rogue 8 / barbarian 2) and Martin (duergar cleric 10); Ed: temporarily running Godzilla "T-Hex" Hercules (dragonborn warlock 10); Dane: Tudo Fleck (dwarf cleric 10).
Last time, the party watched their first Bile Bowl practice and discovered the wonders of a solid gold commode.
This session, they explore the rest of the arena, starting with the three non-VIP bathrooms (men's, women's, and tentacled things). T-Hex finds one stall occupied by a weeping tentacled thing, inconsolable because her grell boyfried was murdered by parties unknown while guarding the left-leg room.
Martin continues to watch the practice match.
Smudge, T-Hex, and (between trips to the concession stand for more rat kebabs and Buddabeer) Tudo snoop into the scoreboard control room. The scoreboard control room attracts little interest from the party, apart from gaping briefly at the three-headed, six-armed goblin operating the mechanism.
They soon go through the door and down the stairs at the southwest corner of the area, and investigate a long narrow room with cauldrons full of oil and murder holes in the floor. T-Hex arcane eyes down one of the murder holes to determine that this room overlooks a very long north-south rough-hewn tunnel that terminates in a closed door on the north and runs a long way south (past a couple closed doors to the east and west) to a ladder leading upward at its southern terminus.
T-Hex and Smudge look around both locker rooms, while Tudo buys more concessions. Both rooms contain the expected athletic equipment, lockers, and benches. One contains a tall guillotine-like contraption with a hoisted smashing head over a striking plate. It's tall enough for a human to stand in. The second locker room has a large magic summoning circle etched into its floor. A lectern next to the chalk board supports an macabre arcade tome. T-Hex stuffs the book in his backpack, just as Smudge notices the sound of something approaching in the corridor.
A translucent blue cubic gelatin plops down the stairs at the north of the corridor and meanders toward T-Hex and Smudge. T-Hex determines that the cube is a non-aggressive floor cleaner easily stepped around, when Smudge hears the approaching boot steps of two ogre security guards.
Together, Smudge and T-Hex dance around the harmless cube to quickly dispatch one ogre and shove the other down a flight of stairs. Tudo arrives just in time to finish off the prone ogre by hurling a rat kabob stick into a rapier wound Smudge had opened earlier. With its dying breath, the ogre pull a glass bottle that it had worn as a necklace and smashed it. A little bat rockets from the smashed bottle, flying north up the corridor, "TROUBLE! TROUBLE! TROUBLE!" louder than its tiny lungs should be able to manage.
The party is not immediately able to pursue the bat, while they take time to free Tudo from the harmless (unless provoked by kebab skewers) cubic gelatin. By the Smudge, T-Hex, and Tudo climb the stairs and round the corner, the wizard Shaheduzzaman and his security staff have abandoned the security booth and VIP skybox. A (formerly) secret door leading down into the long north-south rough-hewn tunnel stands open....
Enemies defeated: two security ogres, a cubic gelatin, several pints of Buddabeer
Treasure: a macabre tome describing several diabolic realms (with annotations)
