Sand fell outside the magic dome encircling the Arena as the party inside regrouped. After a bit of talking, a young tabaxi, Mist, entered the space, recognizing Quill as her best friend from home. Daisy Daisy, a half-orc, arrived next, along with their newly formed echo duplicate nicknamed "Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy." Finally, as Aella began to wonder if there would be anyone else, a half-elf walked into the space. Aster removed their hood, revealing a unique cataract eye with a moon. Aella was instantly intrigued and believed this stranger to be a sign from her god Sehanine, much to their confusion. The group traveled down the stairs to a series of tunnels forming a hypogeum under the Arena. There were many doorways, most containing some otherworldly creature. Having activated Detect Magic, Aella befriended the sentient gas "Arthur." The group then encountered a huge, lobster-like creature with large pincers and a helmet with holes. It turned towards Mariana, after which Aella stood between the two. In response it grabbed her with its pincers and threw her.

• Hypogeum- the tunnels under the arena
• Kind of falling apart a little bit
• Symbols on the door frames, don't understand (probably thieves cant but we don't know that)
• Circular tunnels through the stone(3ft diameter), roughly in the direction of where the fight had happened, slightly curved, smooth stone, almost polished. There are several that pass through the one tunnel, it goes level then curls back up, there are more going in various directions. This passage is not falling apart. There is a magical trail through all of the tunnels, evocation magic, similar to the magic from the eyeball orbs
• Possibly Gazers might be what was digging the tunnels
• Larger chamber- probably used as a sort of stables, its where animals were kept for performances, there should be a bar or something on the sections off of the chamber but they have been removed
• Five doorways in the chamber, three open, two collapsed, more smaller areas, essentially containment areas, detect magic stuff, one of the smaller areas has a noticeably cracked arch. Only Aella sees: in each doorway, there is a slight shimmer of magic–it reads like some kind of containment, there might be an effect that is projected into the enclosure-it probably keeps them pacified
• There are four open, marked three of them with a light blue exclamation mark
• Second doorway-a brain sitting in the corner, it is just there, it isn’t decaying. 
• An invisible sentient gas? We named it Arthur
• Four more closed doorways
  • One is empty
  • One had a mass on the floor, it is a creature with no eyes, it looks asleep, with three enormous tendrils, beige light brown skin, a slight pool around the head, its drooling or something. If the mouth that they see is the mouth, the entire head would open, roughly cow-sized
  • Empty but looks like a gazer hole went into it
  • One on the ceiling, like a weird chandelier, looks almost like a fungus, slightly transparent, blue tentacles snake up and hold it to the ceiling 
• Might be a place where they keep all the creatures that aren’t meant to be there
• Next open one is empty– probably housed one of the creatures they fought previously
• Something with two enormous pinchers, it is titanous, it is larger than a cow, closer to a hippo size, looks like a lobster in a way, colored like sand with moss in it. Looks like it's built for survival. Almost a slight lack of magic. It has a thick neck and a head with a helmet that has holes. It feels old, it looks almost like a real creature but something is off. It's looking at Aella with solid black points and tiny beads like a lobster eye. It has a tail that ends almost like a fin. It shifted so Aella became larger, it stood up with spindly legs, the front legs longer so rising like a gorilla. 
  • Tentacles emerge from the holes in its face, forming almost like beards, like how snakes feel the air, the tendrils snake towards the party and then slightly towards Mariana. It starts specifically making towards Mariana, the stone cracks slightly under its weight. It can probably sense a sort of magic, Quill magically learned it doesn’t really care about weaponry, something specific is needed to pierce the armor, still don't know what it is. 
  • Attempted to talk to it in common, abyssal, primordial, deep speech
    • It heard deep speech, it looked down at Aella, she tries to question it, it's hard to get a read on it. She asks who was its master, it looked at her and undulated its neck which seemed like it shook its head at her. It then ignored her and started going back to Mariana. Aella ran in front of it and it grabbed her with its pinchers. It’s fast, it has her in its grasp, brings her up to its face and the tendrils extend(con saving(Success)) and surround her face, and then threw her.
  • Daisy sees– it looks like it molts 
  • 10 ft reach. It took some damage and it expanded

"There's something, with your eye..." -Aella, looking at Aster's eye with Detect Magic

"There's something with my eye?" -Aster's response, looking back into Aella's glowing eyes

 

"She's finally lost it" -Rey, about Aella talking to a sentient invisible gas

• This was originally to be the first episode of season 2 due to all the new character introductions before the list was reorganized to better fit the overall story.