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Fifth Age - Hell on Urthe: Habmor'Anto - The Black Maw

Though they had been defeated by the demon, the priests of Math had orders to hold the party until their inquisitors arrived.  And so the party were dispatched to Habmor’Anto (the Mine of the Dark Mouth as it translates from the Elvish, but known more colloquially as The Black Maw"), a prison mine in the scoured hills somewhere south of the Saura'sira (the Foul Flow, a river, situated not far from the mine of Faugond as Rocky Gap where Brugar hailed from was now known).

Awakening from a drug induced sleep, Hamin and Brugar found themselves wearing iron collars and sharing a cell with a Grey Elf Adept named Ayas and a frail old madman named Corrin, while Yetta was in a nearby cell with four women, only one of whom gave her name, declaring herself to be Midnight, the Shadowmistress of the Covenant, a criminal organisation.

Of Alasha'an there was no sign, though the party eventually learned that she had been manacled in a cell far below wreathed in magic runes to keep her insensate.

Though the work in the mines was hard and fraught with danger, and the iron collars could kill any who tried to remove them, or be triggered at the whim of the cruel Sentinels who stood guard, ne'ertheless, the party plotted escape.

Ayas learned from Varl, a petty criminal and an acquaintance of sorts, that a breakout was planned for that evening, though the day proved eventful besides as the mine was attacked by a work like creature, burrowing through the rock, slaying several prisoners, but allowing the party to hide some of their tools, so that when there was an explosion above, the precursor to a planned riot, they were able to overcome the guards and descend to the lowest levels where they assisted Varl to free Alasha'an, another prisoner Sir Sedakus Crane and a disgraced Sentinel, Vaden Kiang, the former Warden of Habmor’Anto, and with them and Midnight's people, fought their way free of the prison.

Before he departed, Vaden revealed that he had been imprisoned after contracting lycanthropy and recognised that Hamin, bitten by the beastmen, had indeed fallen victim to the same curse, though Yetta had been spared.

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