Web of Undeath:
The party finds them selves caught in a huge web spanning the bottom of the sloping passage. In their effort to escape the web they managed to completely wrap themselves further in the sticky substance. Fortunately for the party the spiders have a more promising food source else where and took there time arriving. The party discovered that the victims in the webs were also undead waiting to be released. The culprit was an escaped experiment of the priestesses of Loth. The bite of this spider aberration not only drained the life force of its victims, but also
infused them with unlife. Also in a room on the other side a pair of ettercaps and their pets took up residence and had an uneasy alliance with the demon spider. In an adjoining room they discovered and elemental pool that is unnaturally still. Around the pool are four pedestals for the four elemental orbs. They also discovered the prison of the one scrying on them for some time. Jurglekip, "Kip" for short, told them they had to recover all the orbs and place them around the pool in their stands before he can be released.

Gnolling Pins:
After a pitched battle with a combined force of gnolls and troglodytes the party followed the sound of a loud crash and shatter. Into the cold tunnels of the gnolls where, every 30 seconds a large ice ball speeds down the hall into the magically sealed doors of Jurglekip's prison. Dodging the ice balls all the way up the passage the party discovers a huge cavern frozen in ice. Crossing the icy floor of the cavern with its crisscrossing ice balls proved to be quite dangerous, especially with the gnoll archers firing at them. Once across they had to climb steep ramps of
ice to get to the source of all the zooming and crashing ice balls. The leader of the gnolls, Greasesakk, was in possession of the Ice Elemental orb and was firing tirelessly hoping to destroy the invading party of adventurers. After defeating the gnolls the party is now in possession of the Ice orb.

Miner Infractions:
The party melted the ice barring access into the mines using the fire elemental orb. After finding that bugbears in heavy armor, with large shields and wielding bastard swords are nothing to sneeze at. They liberated the mines out of the hands of the drow Shulvokk, an exile of her people and now a cleric of Shar. Scarknuckle a monk of the Dark Moon/sorcerer, an elite
assasin of Shar. They rescued a cleric of Selune who was enslaved in the mines and she joined the party to seek justice from her captures. While recovering the elemental orb of earth the party discovered ingots of Darksteel. The process for making this type of steel was once lost, but now
rediscovered thanks to some ancient dwarven texts. The alloy is made from meteoric iron tempered with a variety of special oils.

Leap Trog:
The final elemental orb is within reach. The orb of elemental air is held in the vile clutches of Cesspitle the powerful troglodyte leader. He blocked their arrows behind a Wind Wall created by the orb. His followers netted the party only to find them too powerful to be subdued. Taking to small boats the party ventured across the underdark lake to the rocky isles of Cesspitle and his kin. In the middle of the lake they were attacked by trogs riding giant water beetles. Two of their small boats were capsized and the wizard began to sink until one of his fellows quaffed a potion of flying and pulled him out. By this time Cesspitle had escaped into a crevasse hidden in the
back of the cavern. He cursed the PCs saying, "I curse you in the name of The Devourer! The Devourer will protect the orb and destroy you!" That was the last they heard from him, except for a blood curdling scream of agony and terror. In the narrow crevasse the PCs find a small room with and island in the middle. On the tiny rock isle is a heap of glittering treasure! No sign of Cesspitle, the orb or the Devourer. The PCs sense a trap. The fearless rogue braved the island alone while the party looked on from their boats. Suddenly the Devourer oozes up out of the water behind the rogue. It's special attacks throwing the party into confusion and blinding half of
them. The rogue is grappled, by multiple mouths of sharp fangs, and drawn in to be engulfed. Fortunately the party had the presence of mind to tie a rope around the rogue, and they pulled her free of the Devourer's grasp. After the fight the orb was recovered and now they are off to release Jerglekip from his prison.