DnD Into the Netherdeep 22

 We enter the rift. Rara goes and touches the rift with her Ruidium corrupted hand, while Yazhi takes a few steps back. Ripples appear on the barrier, but they bounce back, and shut the little area opened by Rara. Rara realises that ruidium is the secret to opening the rift. Rangu uses the ruidium shield, causing the barrier to collect into a pulsating ball. We all take 44 points of psychic damage. Rangu uses the shield to go through the rift. Rangu is in pitch dark cavern, and sees two enormous statues that have settled on the seafloor at awkward angles. Each statue is missing its head. One of the statues has a hand has a claw like hand like its reaching out to something. Both of the statues are covered in ruidiumy crystals that are pulsing. Rangu comes back out, tells us about the statues, then we all go in through the rift. 

We are attacked by two angler fish and a large scary eel. 

Bunch of us go down. Alita remembers that her mom was the head chef at a saloon and she had snuck up into the fancier looking rooms, and found a leather bound book, found a spell about vicious mockery and stole the book, and decided to become a bard. 

Rara goes to an elite library and goes to the restricted section and sees a really tattered book and sees Nerthix.

Yazhi remembers running into a bunch of other kids who faught with him, which was a three vs one fight. While they are kicking Yazhi when he was down, an older drow woman comes into the alley and uses graviturgy to push them away towards the wall and pin them, and scares them away. The woman lifts Yazhi up and takes him to a pub nearby, gives some food. This Drow woman becomes Yazhi's teacher. 

We kill the remaining creatures. 

Rara and Rangu investigate the cavern while the rest of us head out of the rift because of the pressure of the water. They are transported into some kind of room of a child. There's a rocking horse, a cradle and a teddy bear in the room. Everything is corrupted by ruidium. The rocking horse is caked with ruidium, ruidium is spiking out of the teddy bear. There are a couple being attacked by a group of people.