Session 7 - Marpenoth 25 (Day 11)

At noon during the first day of their underdark journey, the party comes under attack when four vrocks and a hezrou demon teleport into their midst. The battle is tough but the party can fight off the demons. The demons teleport away as soon as a vrock and the hezrou are killed.
The party discusses again if they should return and oppose the demon-summoning drow wizard or push through to Maerimydra. Danyx scryes on the wizard and discovers he is trying to open a gate to the Abyss using the life-force of captive drow. The drow wizard is surrounded by other demons, not even those the party already has battled. The party reviews this information and decides this foe is beyond them. So the party sets forth to Maerimydra.

Session 7 - Marpenoth 24 (Day 10)

The party sets out for Maerimydra and travels to the bazaar. There they encounter a mercane merchant and duergar traders. They try to leave this alone but somehow they are compelled to trade with the mercane. The party tries to buy his services to gain access to a gate to Maerimydra but suddenly the mercane attacks the party. When combat breaks out, some of the party members act as if the mercane is their friend or even controlling them. Carolus and Danyx are thrown across the counter and Danyx is forced to flee the scene. A very confusing combat goes on until the mercane changes form and becomes an illithid. The party can hold out long enough to drive off the illithid.
The party descends and enters the common area of the drow outpost. They ignore the inhabitants and although a sense of unease grows on them, they continue and leave the outpost, circumventing the gate and closing the tunnel behind them with a stone wall.
The traveling goes slow and the party sets up camp at the end of the day, shaping the stone around them to keep them hidden.