Kids DND - To Save Gruuga

Bonito Greentree - Halfling Druid - Dendiss & Bonito were friends at church. Sophie is her cousin
Sophie Tumblebelly - Halfling Druid - Sophie's cousin
Zook Folker - Gnome Sorcerer - knows the others from church
Dendiss Doh - Elven Paladin - Grew up in the church
Gruuga Grummel - Half-Orc Barbarian - from same church
Gruuga did not show up in church this morning...that is not right...he is always there...maybe he was sick...the group goes to check out why at his house...Gruuga's Mommy has not seen him since yesterday and she is worried...the group decide to go find him...they go home for weapons & supplies from their parents. Last Gruuga's Mommy knew he had gone out into the woods to pick flowers by the cave.
Bonita - Sword big curved one (Falchion) Sophie - Sword curved one not as big as Bonitas (scimitar) & a first aid kitZook - stick with a metal ball on it (morningstar)Dendiss - big stick (heavy lance) & a first aid kit
They go go the cave to look for Gruuga. He is not there. They hear all sorts of noises from the cave. They notice stairs going down into the cave and glowing moss. They go down the stairs as they curve around to the landing.
They find a big iron door (rm 10)...Dendiss goes to open it...It looks like a dwarven door. Sophie stops to listen to the door hoping to hear Gruuga...the others listen too...the girls here something moving around inside...the boys don't hear anything...Sophie decides they need to get in...Dendiss tries to open the door and it is stuck...he kicks it...and hurts his foot. Sophie rams the door...and head butts it...she backs off seeing stars...Dendiss hits it with his big stick...and barely scratches it. Zook calls them all crazy and goes closer to check the door...Dendiss yells who is in there...Sophie yells open the stupid door...Zook pulls on the door and it creaks a little bit...they all decide to try together...Dendiss falls down...the other 3 link together and pull the door open. They see a whole nest of spiders.Sophie tried to close the door but it is stuck open.
A spider tried to bite Sophie...and missed...she shoots at it and misses...Zook swings his stick and misses...Bonito swings her sword hits the floor right beside one...Dendiss scrapped the tip of his stick on the floor...Spider misses Sophie...she tries to stab it...and falls down...Bonito starts thinking about having another animal come to help...Zook swings his stick and hits six of the spiders...Bonita starts to feel something weird but it stops...Dendiss throws an axe...and misses...Six spiders bite Sophie...she shoots and misses...Bonita swings her sword and kills them all.
They look around the big room and see a platform in the middle and a door on the north side (rm 5).Dendiss goes to look at the door...it is stone...it looks dwarven made too...Dendiss decides it will take team work to open the door...they try to pull and discover it may be locked...they search for a key. Zook stands there watching them...Bonita tries to twist the handle to get it to open...Dendiss hits the door with his big stick...Sophie head butts the door... and passes out...Bonito picks up Sophie like a baby...
They decide to go back to the other hall and follow it to another door (rm 1) Zook pulled on the door and it came off in his hand. A Lizard type man starts yelling at them. Dendiss asks what he is saying...Sophie looks at him like he is stupid...Bonito wonders if he is friendly...The lizard picks up a pointy sick and starts yelling at them...Bonito tries to put the door back up but it is not working...Dendiss is thinking this guy is crazy...time to defend ourselves and picks up his big stick...and Sophie readies her bow...Zook stands there looking at them all like they are stupid.
Sophie tries to shoot him in the eye...the arrow wizzes past his head...the Lizard gets angry and starts yelling more...Zook swings at him...Sophie tries to apologize...the lizard throws his stick at Bonito and it hits the door by her head...she keeps trying to put the door back up...Dendiss tries to stick him with his big stick and misses...Sophie comes to the realization that the lizard does not understand her...Zook hits him in the head with his stick...the lizard tries to attack and misses...Bonito goes up and swings close with her sword and misses...Dendiss runs up and swings hislance at him and misses...Sophie swings her sword and misses...Zook swings his stick and misses...Bonita swings her sword and misses...Dendiss swings a hand axe and hits him...blood splats all over the group...the lizards falls dead...Sophie passed out again.
They head over to the east door made of iron...it appears locked. Bonito picked up Sophie again and prayed for her to feel better...a small amount of light covered Bonita and Sophie wakes up feeling a lot better...Sophie tries to open the door...it doesn't pull open...she decides to try the south door (rm 12)...Bonita helps her and they get it open and jump back just in time for a rock to roll past them and hit the opposite wall...Sophie goes in to look...there is an anvil, a forge and a kiln on the far side of the room...Bonita goes back into the previous room...Zook goes to check out the forge...Bonita comes back...the forge is warm like it was used recently...Sophie opened the kiln and a little bat like creature snapped at her and grabbed the door and pulled it closed...they opened both doors...the creature got mad yelling stupid kids go away and tried to close the door again...said this is my home leave me alone...Dendiss decides the creature should be left alone...he grabs Sophie to stop her from opening the door again and pulls her away from the kiln.
Zook goes to look at the southeast door (rm 9)...Bonita says creepy little thing lets leave it alone and find another room...Zook tries to open the door and it is locked...he thinks to pick the lock and Sophie kicks in the door...the room beyond is empty...they all search the room...Dendiss and Sophie found rocks that did not quite seem right but left them behind...they decide there is nothing in here and go back to the previous room.
They decide to check the northeast door...Dendiss chops at the door with a throwing axe and makes a dent...Zook opens the door...there is a hallway beyond the door...the hallway goes down to a deadend...they search the hallway and find nothing...they go back to the previous room.
They decide to check the south door (rm 7)....Dendiss chops at the door and Bonita opened the door...they all look into the next room and see another forge, an alter, a shrine, a fireplace,a loom and a cage...everyone except Dendiss hears crying coming from the cage...they go to check out the cage...there is another bat like creature crying in the cage...Bonita asked him what was the matter...he tells her that they left him in here...she tried to open the cage and doesn't get it..Sophie manages to open the door and tries to pick him up...he bites at him and says to just leave him alone and leave the door open...Sophie closes the cage and he says you are as bad as that big green ugly...Zook asks which way he went he points to the southeast enterence and they all run off to that door...Sophie said sorry and opened the cage back up for him...
Bonita opened the door...and there was a long hallway that was so long they can't see the end of it...they all start down the hall...Bonita sees foot prints in the dirt that look like Gruuga's footprints...she points them out to everyone and they follow them down the hallway for about 10 min and they come up on 2 hallways headed north...
They start talking about splitting in two groups...Zook refuses to split up and follows Bonita...they all end up checking the second hallway...it is another long hallway...Zook suggests they all look for the footprints...Dendiss saw the footprints that go down and come back...they decide to check the first hallway...
About 30 feet down there is a big arch entering to another large room (RM 6)...they look into the room...they look around and Bonita spots Gruuga's footprints all over the place...Sophie and Bonita yell GRUUGA!!! there is no answer...They head for the big wooden door to the west...
Zook tried the door knob and it was stuck...they all start attacking the door...Dendiss pokes the door with his lance and there is now a hole in the door...Zook thwackies the door and it does nothing...Bonita hits with her sword and widens the door a little bit...they continue hitting it until the door falls down...there is a large broom closet...Zook searches the closet...Sophie tries to fly on a broom...Zook decides there is nothing in here and suggests that they should try the other door...Sophie and Dendiss take brooms and they head to the north exit...
Zook tries the door and it is locked...he searches the door...and they all proceed to beat down the door...there are two hallways the first going north and the other headed west and then north again...
They decide to go west and then follow it north and west again...to the end...there is a door ahead of them to the west and another to the north...Dendiss looks at the wooden door to the west and the others look at the stone door to the north...Dendiss opens the west door (rm 6) and hears a click click click and jumps backwards...the floor under where he was standing opens into a 20 ft deep pit with spikes on the bottom...as he is looking at it the floor closes back up...Dendiss jumps over the spot on the floor into the next room...the others try to follow him...Bonita makes it...Sophie and Zook keep tripping the door and jumping back out of the way....Sophie finally makes it across....and Zook tries again...he jumps 7 ft across the 10 ft area and floats down to the bottom of the pit...Sophie saw a sparkle of light around Zook when he missed...he spots a ladder across the pit and then the door closes on him...The others search for rocks...Bonita finds a rock and puts it on the door...and it opens the door in time for Zook to scramble out of the pit...again on the wrong side...Zook tries to jump again and finally makes it...there is a big empty room...they search the room finding nothing and head out the south archway (rm 11)...
They walk through the archway into a huge room...in the corner is a big furball...they look at the furball and Sophie, Zook and Bonita think it may be a big spider...Dendiss has no clue...Bonita goes to get a closer look at the furball...the boys head for the northwest door...Bonita thinks they should leave the spider alone...he looks hungry and wants to be left alone...Sophie tries to shoot the spider and her bowstring breaks...Dendiss hits the door with an axe and Zook tries to open the door and discovers it is locked...they all commence to beating the door in and find themselves in a hallway heading off to the east...they follow the hallway around to the north and east again passed a door to the south and into a big wooden door...they go back to the door to the south.
They open the door to find a nasty looking monster in the room calling them more food and spot Gruuga in the corner in a cage...Gruuga is crying saying it plans to eat him...Zook declares not today and runs up hits the monster...Dendiss tries to poke it with his big stick...the monster grabs a big axe and swings at Zook and misses...Sophie & Bonita swing their swords and miss it...Zook swings again and misses...Dendiss misses with his big stick and sticks Sophie in the shoulder instead...the monster scrapes his axe on Bonita's armor...Sophie hits the monster with her sword and Bonita misses again...the monster doesn't seem happy...Zook swings again and misses...Dendiss stabs at the monster and misses...the monster attempts to attack Zook and runs right passed him...Sophie tries to hit again and misses...Bonita misses...Zook hits the monster again...Dendiss knocked his big stick off the monster's armor...the monster back hands Sophie with his axe and throws her 5 ft and she hits the wall and passes out...Bonita moves Sophie away from the battle...Zook misses...Dendiss misses...the monster tries to hit Dendiss and misses...Bonita charges at him with her sword and stabs it through the monster's chest.
Gruuga is crying in the cage...Zook goes to opens the cage to let Gruuga out...Dendiss checks Sophie can not figure out why she is passed oug...Bonita picks up Sophie and they head back to Gruuga's Mom.