Second Darkness - Endless Night (some spoilers) Help needed

[Tamec]

Heya all,

I've been running Second Darkness this year and my group just finished Armageddon Echo. While I'm prepping for Endless Night (which I've known about this whole time) turning the party into drow to allow them to function underground is not a problem. I just realized that while it is explained why they might have surface gear, I have a slightly different problem. One party member is a druid with a ranger as a cohort. Neither of them have subterranean animal companions.

Anyone have any suggestions on what I can "turn a tiger and a snake" into so they would be functional in total darkness.

Best I can think of is having a dead giant praying mantis (for the tiger) and a dead giant spider (for the snake) on hand for the recorporeal incarnation.

[Tamec]

Thinking about it, that just seems stupid, the party would have difficulty enough adjusting to their new skins, the animals would not know what to do with extra legs and such.

I think I will just have Collars of Cave Running (amulets of darkvision with a 13 week duration) available.

[YogoZuno]

Alternatively, the Druid and Ranger could dismiss their current companions, and grab new ones once they are in the Drow city, or on their way to it. Depends on how they view their companions, I guess...

[Eretas]

Yes, but what kind of companion can be found un underground with darkvision... They are not a lot...

[Tamec]

Thanks for the advice. The Ranger kept his snake, but the druid dismissed her cat in favor of picking up a Giant Lizard, i.e. the cave Gecko that Drow use for roof riding.