Chapter 4: Neverlight Grove

As you all make your way following Rasharoo to the as-of-yet unexplored cavern on this plateau, echoes spill from the misty cavern beyond, a cacophony of wheezing voices that wrap together like some kind of discordant music. The remaining heads planted in the Garden of Welcome behind you begin to croak and groan, joining the horrible song.

Through the mist that shrouds the smaller cavern, you see the parade of creatures responsible for the melody. Their bodies are only vaguely humanoid, with clusters of luminescent lichen and tumescent growths forming chaotic patterns on their decaying flesh, their voices stabbing into your minds, both insane and gleeful in equal parts.

From rocky bed the toadstool rose,
From chaos dark, her love She shows.
Wish! Yearn! Laugh!
The Lady will be wed!
Crave! Hunger! Dance!
Her joyous spores will spread!
Youth is gone, beauty rots,
Araumycos and Zuggtmoy!
Joined together, heart to heart,
Becoming one 'til death do part!
Hail! Hail! Hail!

You see 18 of these figures in the middle of conducting some obscene mockery of a wedding ceremony.

Bildaweer, you don't know anything super specific about Araumycos. You do know, however, that it is a massive single fungus that grows in the Underdark. It's nearly 2 miles tall and sprawls massively between Menzoberranzan and Ched Nasad.

Rasharoo still moves slightly toward the hideous group, very slowly. You hear a faint sound behind you as three more of those zombie mushrooms rise up and pick up Yestabrod's slaughtered body.

Rasharoo looks back to you.

We have to stop them softers. We can't let them do this, I don't know what they plan but it isn't good. We have the numbers. We should go now while they are distracted and end this. End this now!

Cemosfriend, do you forget how mightily your band routed Yestabrod and the others? They fell before you like fungus before the farmer! There is nothing your group can't stand against, especially these mindless things. Rasharoo broadcasts excitedly.