Previously on Reclaiming Orathos

The old man Eldrich the Elder wants you for something dirty, and you decide his heart's in the right place. So you take the job: slip into the Gwyndinas sewers, find a mad scientist, and buy his blood-soaked experiment — the first step toward gutting one of Laewendas's inner circle.

First, the wasteful alchemist west of the Colosseum. Silithane blows three hundred gold on bottled chaos (whatever you do, don't mix the green vials with the pink — they explode), and healing potions go round for everyone.

Then into the rain-soaked dark you go — Eldrich himself in tow, the squires Braille and Jallic at your side — straight into a screeching tide of mushroom men. Thalia tries diplomacy ("That is incredibly racist!"). They're fungi. So you fight. Sixty-five of them: Drak the immovable roadblock, Magra two-shots-one-kill, Silithane untouched all night, Thalia's 153-damage crit. A glorious massacre.

The last spore falls. But the mad scientist's still out there, deeper in the dark — and two mushrooms just washed loose into the city. God help them.

SUMMARY: A 150-200 word energetic present-tense Session 18 recap saved to the Recaps folder, ending on the unfound mad scientist and the two mushroom men loose in the city.