ToA: Session 32

Planning For A Party
The D-Squad spend some time discussing birds and dinosaurs and how to best utilize them to get out of Dung-Grung-Lung. After extensive number crunching to figure out the airspeed of a laiden roc, the D-Squad goes to meet with Gru'uk and get some information on her plan.

Co-opting the Coup
Gru'uk takes the team to her personal quarters, where she informs them of the myths and beliefs of the grungs so the group can best figure out how to deal with the mad king without blaspheming Nang Nang. She tells them that a ritual will occur in two days, where the night will open and the goddess Nang Nang will arrive, and it is at this point that all will be present to watch and the king will attempt to bed the goddess. She gives the team some literature that they can study to have a better idea of how to create the desired illusion and trick the king. Afterwards the Squad reconvenes with the CGC to fine tune their plan. After discussing the security they may be facing, and whether or not Gru'uk is a greater threat than Ruock, the king's loyal guard, they decide to assassinate Gru'uk, steal the eyes and get out of frogland.

Assassination 90% complete
Once night falls the two teams enact their plan. The CGC go off to pilfer the eyes, while the D-Squad takes care of assassinating Gru'uk. They find the priestess in her hut, and with a finely aimed eldritch blast Neb removes everything above her lower jaw, doing a nice amount of damage. Somehow she manages to survive losing everything above her tongue, and her guards and healers jump into action. The race is on to take the last shreds of life from the priestess before she can start causing more damage to the squad!

An Extremely Exhausting Escapade
The Squad fight off the healers and guards, and manage to succeed at killing Gru'uk, who frankly had no business being alive at that point anyway. But the guards set off a flare and alert additional grung warriors to come to their aid. With poison flying wildly and exhaustion mounting, the team takes the opportunity to abscond before an insurmountable number of grungs show up to avenge their priestess.

An Even More Exhausting Escape!
The Team rushes towards the border walls, intending to meet up with the CGC and escape. As they run they are fired upon by more grung archers, and see another group moving to cut them off at the pass. The teams are fragmented and the plan is starting to unravel.

'''Will the Squad and CGC make it out alive? Will they be separated and have to deal with the mad king? Will the CGC's theory about the eyes turn out to be false and their streak of being laughably wrong continue? Find out next time on Tomb of Annihilation: ESCAPE!'''

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