I See A Black Ooze Rising

Irgzid leads the party two miles to a cavern he calls "The Burning Pools". He warns that the air in the room is deadly and the pools are acid. The party attempts to run across the room, but before that operation could be completed a very large black pudding attacks. As a painful reminder of the last time the party fought one without ready blunt weapons, the first edge weapon strikes, the pudding splits. Combat plays out similary to the first encounter with a pudding, and eventually the party prevails.

The party travels 8 miles on to a 70' wide cavern, with a hanging forest of stalactites and a deep drop below. There is a narrow ledge that spirals down the wall of the cavern, and hidden in the stalactites is a roper. The beast lashes out and precariously, the party fights and fells the creature. Nesta explores the bottom and discoveres a crumbling petrified forest.

16 miles past the chasm, the tunnel widens into a large cavern nearly 200' across A shimmering curtain of rippling blue light bisects the cavern from left to right and floor to ceiling. The light resembles a translucent membrane that swirls and sparkles like the surface of a pond. The cavern on the other side is visible through this sheen, and the tunnel proceeds around a corner at the far end. Shapes and figures seem to ripple ad writhe along the curtain of cerulean light, and now and then these shapes pass slowly enough to be identified as Olman warriors in battle gear. Their faces forming silent screams and a low whisper fills the room.

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Session Characters: Nesta, Hjalmgerdr, Rudolpho, Vin, Gwendyln, Chiri, Daria, Ortho
Session Loot: 4 large golden idols (3000 gp), skin full of 450 gp worth of trog junk, 11o doses of stannish (15 gp each), 1200 gp, +1 disruption flail, cloak of protection, staff of frost (24).

Note the staff is indeed a staff and not a wand. The base function is similar to the wand of frost entry, but uses staff mechanics instead of wand mechanics.