Imagine being Bill Gates right now.

You spend 30 years of your life and $50 billion of your own dollars supporting humanitarian causes. You directly save hundreds of thousands of lives in South East Asia by providing anti malaria netting to half of a continent, you drop infant mortality rates throughout the entire developing world by funding vaccine programs including vaccinating 40,000,000 children for polio, and, amongst a plethora of philanthropic endeavors, you fund free educational platforms like Khan Academy so people can have free access to high quality education.

Then after donating half of your wealth to charity and pledging 90% of the remainder to charity in your will..

Arguably doing more to better life on earth for humanity than any other human being to ever live.

You then hop on the internet only to find a million scientifically illiterate fucking imbeciles that are using the very computers you pretty much invented in the first place to call you a child murdering arch villian antichrist because they watched a YouTube video made by some other yokel with the comprehension of a fucking potato.

-Scott Brynan

Wandering the Underdark, traveling to Sloobludop

The party consists of the following:
Lexus the Indomitable, half orc paladin with a steamy past as a stripper
Invictus the Rock, an earth genasi underdark ranger who has lived in the underdark too long, and has little appreciation of the social niceties. He is searching for his lost companion, Wilson the Wise.
Firble Rockhewer, deep gnome underdark druid who think's he's stronger than he is,
Gyaos Pipeswell, a half elf bard with a devil may care attitude,
Flint Ironforge, a war cleric of Clangeddin Silverbrand.
Drusilia Moonwhisper, a drow barbarian

After escaping from Velkynvelve, the party followed Shuushar their guide to Sloobludop, hoping to acquire boats and thus throw off the drow pursuit.

Soon they were ambushed by Smoky Bromwood the bandit, and his four bandit companions. Smoky proved to be a formidable opponent, but was surrounded by the party and brought down, as were his companions. The party was able to acquire some leather and studded leather armor as a result.

A few days later as they roamed through a narrow passage they were accosted by violet fungi , which they quickly destroyed.

In a rocky and uneven set of tunnels they faced a 60' cliff. Firble transformed into a spider and climbed up easily, and was able to throw down a rope ladder to the party. After the party made the climb, they cut the rope ladder and took it with them, as they only had 5' of rope.

Soon afterward they found a pair of young moon elves, who were also escapees from the drow. Lexus and Flint warmed to the two young lovers, but Invictus, Firble and Gyaos viewed them with suspicion, and rather than wanting to arm them, they wanted to see them tied up. After some discussion and conflict, the party agreed to keep them bound.

A few days later the party entered a large chamber, which seemed to be some kind of boneyard. All manner of animal and humanoid bones were strewn about. As the party got halfway through the cavern, 6 skeletons rose up and attacked them. The skeletons were quickly dispatched, but towards the end of the fight, the party noticed 5 drow traders at the far entrance, watching them fight the skeletons. Fearing that the drow would contact the drow slavers they were running from, the party agreed to cut down the silk traders and take their goods.

Fueled by goodberries and a tenacious will to survive, the party traveled onwards, closer to Sloobludop.

First Session- Escape from Velkynvelve

Hello, all! I'm going to post what happens each week on here, and link it via facebook. This way we have a better record of our campaign, and perhaps fewer spoilers from the other group doing Out of the Abyss. THE ESCAPE. The party finds itself thrown together in a prison cell with the following NPC's

JimJar, svirfneblin

 Prince Derendil, Noble elf in a quaggoth's body

Topsy and Turvey, svirfneblin twins

Stool, myconid sprout

Buppido, derro

Eldeth Feldrun, shield dwarf from Gauntlegrym

Sarith Kzekarit, drow accused of murder

Ront, a lost orc, and

Shuushar the Awakened, a kuo toa opposed to violence.

 Their drow captors were Mistress Ilvara, her consort Shoor Vandree, his cousin and priestess Asha Vandree, her former consort Jorlan, and 12 drow, 12 quaggoths, 6 giant spiders and 5 drow elite warriors. Lexus the half orc paladin was ordered to help JimJar and Buppido clean the spider temple, and Lexus said she was sick and needed to return to the cell. At the cell, she pushed him into the cell as he opened it and the party jumped the hapless guard, stole his weapon and killed him. While JimJar and Buppido tried to escape the two quaggoth in the small spider temple, the party rushed out of the cell. They began to cross the rope bridge to the guard tower, and over another rope bridge to get their weapons and gear, but were quickly bottlenecked on the way as drow guards and quaggoths emerged from everywhere. Firble the deep gnome underdark druid managed to strong arm one guard into the spider webs below, and Ront the orc managed to push a quaggoth down there as well. Making no headway the party decided to follow Sarith's example and leap down to the web and then down into the pool, where a hungry ooze awaited them. Emerging from the pool, they ran to the caves under a hail of crossbow bolts. Relying on the underdark ranger Invictus the Rock's pass without trace spell, they were followed in hot pursuit by the drow captors, as Ilvara shrieked that she would follow them and recapture them, no matter what!