the Magnificent Four (plus 2?) paddled a mushroom raft that tasted like chocolate around a submerged lake. The bard swam through a tunnel to a hidden reptilian hatchery, stealing one gold coin and an egg, which was fed to Larry.
They were only eaten a little by Deadly Beast Floaters.
The group chose a likely tunnel to disembark the raft, hoping to find a tribe of dwarves with the deep massage cantrip. Instead, they found the remains of the reptilian race, regressed over millennia to a near-feral state, living in their own waste and communicating by glutteral noises and excreting a foul stench.
After much vomiting, the group was taken to a ruined temple to Calset, where the elder priest of the reptilian tribe claimed them as food. The dragonborn barbarian stepped up, laying claim to the others in her party, which triggered an exhausting 1-on-1 battle with the priest, the barbarian barely surviving.
Stuff… happened. Lol.
In the chaos that followed, and after fixing the statue of Calset in the temple, the party continued on. The bard woke to find a spiderweb ring on her finger. The group chose to walk down the path that didn’t have the massive cat made of fire. Pfft.
Eventually, the group found the others of their strange, cobbled-together party in an alcove looking over what was an illithid city of 75, now grown large with a dark elf encampment, slave corrals, markets, and moat with a large, fortified, open-top pyramid.
Arching and stretching out from the top of the pyramid flashed and roiled a massive, multicolored tear between the planes.
The bard whispered for help from the little spider, Annabelle, then whispered for help again to her ring.
While studying the environment to come up with some plan to get through a hostile, mind-controled city, cross the moat, figure out how to enter the pyramid and fight the big bad and oh my gosh figure out how to close such a huge tear and what are we going to do…
Four large spiders crawled from the dark tunnel, waiting for the plan.
The Tome of Adventures 