earthbound:session

Sessions 31-35
Sessions 36-40
Sessions 41-45
Sessions 46-50
Sessions 51-55
Sessions 56-60
Sessions 61-65
Sessions 66-70
Sessions 71-75

Session 1

Session 2

travel a day
a portal opens and 2 red caps & 2 pugwampi & 5 other fey drop out of it
- eventually figure out how to kill the red caps – remove their cap and they stop regenerating
- find: magic cloak, 2 arrows - spellstrike ammunition @1st
  - magic cloak - made of brown & grey coyote fur - grants +1 bonus to survival, and some other effect
travel up in to the mountains, Amara leads us to a cave where she goes up to the wall
- “by the orange tree please grant me access”
- architecture is near identical to the Narahan royal crypt
  - distinctive styling
  - also, the magic fading stone door is very similar
- meet 2 young woman: Aead & Jondu
  - red sash around waist; clashes with orange monk robes
  - Prioress Ydonya isn't going to be happy with you
  - “Red Damsels”
- meet one of her mentors: older man - Omaru
- taken to their tree, meet more folks
  - Prioress Ydonya
  - Chasser
  - several other monks
  - Narooj - also has red sash, pregnant
- Amara introduces us allies of significance
- want to see if we should be allies
  - offers an exchange of knowledge
asks us question - asks about architecture and construction of this place
- built by priory in times of old by magics
  - trunk of priory has people who can still make them
  - might be within our range to learn if bound to the pear priory
where do the prioiry's come from?
- when the world was young, power flowed directly from the earth but very hard to master
  - wild and untamed power - burnt out those who tried to use it
  - earth gave gift of 5 great trees - that allowed drawing of power
    - orange, hawthorne, rambutan, mulberry, pear
    - orange used that power to accumulate power and try to do good
what are red sashes?
- Otho explains their a younger splinter that wants to do more
- they are the “Red Damsels”
why does mention of the pear tree make people nervous?
- answer to that one has weight - I'm going to give you a cursory answer
- pear tree is dead. It was killed by the actions of some.
  - Claiming affiliation means you are lying or affiliated with the killers.
  - refuses to confirm if those killers were the red dragons - but next answer does
leaders of the pear tree decided the fruit was insufficient
- decided to tap the root itself, despite warning from the Earth itself
- injured tree, killing it; earth struck back at them
  - caused the cataclysm
  - those who did this became undead - powerful liches
- earth hates everything about the pear tree at the moment
Otho asks what question Omaru thinks we should have asked
- he defers and extends the hospitality of this branch; and his services as an artificer

Session 9

playing with the cube near the orange tree
- get _3_ pings for royalty, instead of one
Try reattuning ourselves to cube
- figure out we are attuned
- figure out there are some abilities we've not figured out how to unlock
  - healing / get out of trouble abilities
    - a raise dead power
- try to understand the cube's power
  - doesn't seem like its draconic in the way red dragon was
dinner & entertainment
next morning
talking with Omaru
- asks why we are carrying something necromantic
- “Red Sky” - group dedicated to stamping out Earth powered things
  - use of necromancy means might not be aligned with them
    - probably means they are backed by one of the LichLords
  - somewhat act like a terrorist org
  - knows where a red sky base is that is nearby
tell us about a “Red Sky” base that is mostly abandoned
- place we can learn more about them; possibly kick it over and learn some
- disrupt them a bit
we decide to go kick it over
Travel about a day away - get their near Dusk
- one large building in center of town
Sneak in to the large building - had been a big covered market
- 4 barbarians with necromantic rage - we kill one and they all turn in to Skeletons
- kill them, loot their lair
  - detect magic
    - alchemy elixir - white
    - alchemy elixir - silver
    - feather token - single use, around communication - bird feather token
    - forked wand -
    - rune stone - +1 potency to weapon
  - 50g cash
  - collection of notes
    - Upcoming Strike:
      - Duke & Duchess of Scalia
      - known for having a magical carriage
        
        carriage runs on gems
        
        a lot of research on how to get an undead in to a gem
        
        found a crypt nearby that turns corpses in to gems
        
        aka the Royal Crypt
        
        they just take a big expedition off to attack it
  - take all the papers
- decide to go help the Royal Crypt
travel a bit towards the crypt
- that night, a cultist stumbles upon our camp
- we chat him up, learn he's been sent back because they need a way to get past the trap
- we gank him, he turns undead, we complete the ganking
travel another day towards the crypt
- plan is to sneak in the back and examine the pear tree more carefully and see what we can learn
- then pop out and kill off the red sky cultists

Session 10

Session 11

Session 12

thinking more about the door with sockets
- mat fit in a particular way, that included the royal arms
Naran royal family had a collection of heirloom items, of which the mat is one of them
- pad of judgement
- seal of authority
- belt buckle of having pants
- statue of courage
- letter opener of getting stuff done
end up choosing to take 7 longswords & steelshields back to sell
head out back to the priory
- tell them about going to the place, finding out the mission, and then going to the crypt
Royal crypt
- in use for centuries
- founded after the cataclysm
- can turn corpses in to gems - put on to wall of stars
- regular rotation of guards - some scholars, some rotated out for political reasons
- insides of crypt rumored to hold royal treasures, but protected
- warns that opening the wrong doors means we might not come out
- Prince was interred there with Ceremony
  - paraded through streets, and then taken to crypt
  - said to still look over us, even from the grave
sell off some stuff
- 2 elixirs, 7 longswords, 7 shields
- buy Tadzio a Staff of Healing
hang out a couple weeks
- waiting for the Staff to be made
- lying low to avoid being hunted in town
looking stuff up in their library
- get sketches of the 5 heirlooms
pass a couple weeks - decide to go to a town in the North West - Sella Dorei - Deci has a friend there
traveling
get attacked by Owl Bear
- track it back to its lair
- poking through owl bear pellets
  - silver dagger
continue traveling, a couple days later noticing something flying overhead
- maybe a dragon? maybe just something big flying really high?
Arrive in Sella Dorei
- very Lasian - no Naran influence
- built in among the trees
- folks seem happy, no beggars, seems very gregarious
- lots of folks seem to have cantrips
  - in the last decade, magic use has become pervasive; and its cooperative
    - more citizens working together, more powerful magics
  - seem to have power sources - not coming from ambient
    - not earth magic
  - strong public education system - teaching magic
  - town built around major wizard's tower in the middle - seat of government
find the inn - The Splintered Heart
find the temple of Irori - turns out where center of education system
Deci & Madaline meet Deci's friend - go to a trivial contest
- win a treasure map from contest

Session 13

Political Party
- Lorry - interested in investment
- Bridgerton - interested in investment
- Fangs - take care of nature
- Sparks - “you wanna goodberry” - drug dealers…
Treasure Map
- Gather folks and touch specific trunk of tree at sundown
- glyph on map
  - Arc! Hand! Prestidigitation! Light! Aura!
Use map, touch a tree - get teleported in to a puzzle dungeon
- first room had a key we needed to get past
- second room we needed to work as a group to get a key
- third room had a mimic, which Deci sat on, and a set of statues that we had to figure out which to illuminate
  - invisible chest
    - 50 gp
    - 5 tokens - metallic, with complicated design
    - magic hat - +1 to arcana & prestidigitation
    - sigil on bottom of chest that lets us teleport out
head back to inn
new Political Party trying to get formed up
- apparently called the Black Badgers
  - Laisan underground?
go to Library
- meet Rebecca - working on her citizen project
  - to get her “Citizen Amulet” that will let her use power
- look up token - one of collection of tokens needed for citizenship
- history lookup:
  - 10 years ago, wizards walked out of the tower and announced democracy will be here
  - democracy is being pruned - growth is being carefully tended
  - wizards have not taken apprentices since then
- there is a puzzle with 6 pegs to get to the 'backroom'
  - notice a puzzle book nearby - “Illuminated Manuscript”
- get in to the back section - can research
  - Dragons, Gods, Priory, Ranting, Places
  - Dragons: At heart, the goal is to convince a Dragon that you are worthy of wielding magical power. Most devise a test to determine whether a candidate is worthy; with the test being as diverse as the Dragons that administer them. Most wizards who pass tend to be lawful, most dragons do not like chaos. Occasionally one of the dragons more bent on human destruction will strike a deal with a human and grant them power if used for destruction. Dragons grant pearls that one eats for the bond. You can also kill a dragon and take its pearl to get the power. Dragon’s produce pearls slowly over their lifetime.
  - Gods: either heretical, or very insightful - divine power comes from people, not gods - gods do their best work when lots of people adore them
  - Ranting: plot to destroy the moon, to possibly destroying the world
  - Priory: orange, mulberry, hawthorne, rambutan, pear - built many of the big cities; jealous of power; membership was often hereditary

Session 14

go clothes shopping
go see a broker - Sherry
- want to get a token
- sousaphone, digirido
  - locked in the bottom of a pool, in a house up in a tree
- rules for acquiring:
  - can't kill any one
  - people can opt out by laying down for 10 minutes
attempting to extra the items from pool in the middle of the night
- use a water breathing
- find a portal from the pond to the pool
- squeeze through, find the items chained underwater, pick the locks
  - pick up the items and swap to rabbit form
  - run off, barely ahead of another person trying to steal the item
dropped off sousaphone with Sherry
- we keep digirido - disguised as a polearm
Go to the Party - new/old political party - Black Badgers
- should not just make home utopia, but spread it to the entire world especially our country Lasia
  - kinda of a new pitch - town is pretty insular
- figure out two relevant back rooms:
  - black badger room - Deci & Otho
  - Opposition room - other parties reacting to black badger's announcement - Madelyn & Tadzio
Black Badger room
- recruiting folk for an expedition
  - seems like they are going to Katheli or nearby
  - trying to get leverage on the Naran's
  - Otho leaks that he knows Bryce
Oppo room
- mostly 2nd tier or less folk
Leaving the party, while crossing a bridge one of the ropes breaks
- Deci rescues a guy who was also crossing the bridge - maybe one of the town archmages?
  - known as Temperance
  - wants to meet with us
  - teleports us to his house
Talking with Temperance
- reveals he is a silver dragon
  - wants to know who we are
  - mentions encountered one of his brethren
    - Red Dragon is named: The Chariot
  - wants to exchange favors
    - many cities are built on ruins of destroyed cities
    - often interesting things to be learned from them
    - we have the power to power the devices they rely on to operate
    - undercity under this city
      - records room
        
        wants us to use our power to refill energy reservoir down there in item
        
        item that lets him collaborate with other dragons
    - feeling generous - will answer a question - recommends a question about mortals, as bigger knowledge is better learned over time
    - we ask about Regalia
      - apparently couple stopped here, and gifted him the “letter opener of getting stuff done”
      - mentions they were heading north, and more of them are likely to be in that direction
    - tells us where to find entrance to undercity - small cave underneath
Head down to the cave - find 2 pairs of kids playing a ball game in the cave - “cave ball”
- play cave ball with them until they get tired and leave
- once they leave, we step in to the alcove, which we passively power, and the elevator takes us down below
Madeline identifies the letter opener
- turns in to whatever tool you need - like “traveler's any tool” but slightly different

Fredickus's replacement is scheduled to be Solicus of Saranae
Deci puts Fredickus to sleep
- loots the books from the sanctuary
  - book on temple logistics
  - book on managing power cannisters
    - how to cast out of them
    - where some hidden cannisters are
      - stored by religion
    - how to fill them up
  - 2 book of records of the priests
  - 5th locked with magical lock
- Tadzio can retrieve the Irori cannister
  - needs to be used in the Cathedral
take the mostly-empty cannister, carefully stored in a protective box we found in the sanctuary
go back to change trains - find the Demon is gone
- take the train on the Blue Line after emptying it at
museum
- hall of earth
  - has a floating globe - we can see a full pre-cataclysm map
  - 2 moons floating around
    - powerful magic that prevents all visitors - no one knows what is on them
    - stories of dragons on moon are a myth
  - next room is Unsettled Earth - 3 exhibits; and doors to the other 3 halls
    - volcanos - when earth gets angry dormant volcanos become active
      - note saying city protected by royal family from volcano eruptions
    - chasms - making big chasms is a way to upset the earth - don't do that
    - wyrms - sent when earth get grumpy - tend to eat everything nearby
      - tend to leave tunnels after them - high risk but high reward
      - purple wyrms are the base, but there are more powerful ones
- hall of magic
  - room of waves - teaches us how to ID power sources
    - mentions 2 power sources - Divine and Earth
      - earth: arcane & primal
      - divine: occultism & religion
      - we think there are 4: earth, draconic, divine, necromancy
        
        draconic: arcane, ???
        
        necromancy: ???, ???
  - room of quiet - about Not Magic
    - small black box of Anti-Magic
  - room of stasis
    - have a table of consumables outside the circle, consumables are long since rotted out
    - talks about stuff on table in the circle, to see if it is real or not
      - about time manipulation
      - looks like the 3 people pushed the table out
    - 3 people in a circle, in very weird clothing - Emily, Erika, Amelia
      - went in when shaking started
      - not sure if safe to leave
      - figure out they will probably die & decompose if leave circle
    - tells stories of politics; games in stadium;
      - mention Olgloom has been working a fantastic project - keeping under wraps
        
        (Olgoom's chasm to the north)
      - Madelina asks about Lambda's, and we get a lecture from Erika
        
        on Lambdas, Abstraction Barriers, and programming
        
        useful for building more sophisticated entities via magic/spells
- hall of faith
- hall of creatures
  - come in and there is a car ride
    - a skeleton charges us and is promptly dispatched
    - we hop on the car for a ride
  - ride:
    - creatures
      - Fire Elemental charges at us - seems fake
      - Gelatinous Cube
      - Nightmare - minions of darkness & evil that invade dreams & cause terror
    - next room: illusions w/ skeletons beside
      - tentacle cat - tentacle cat skeleton & dark naga skeleton attack us…

Session 23

continue on the ride
- fight 2 skeletons - giant cat & naga
- move to the next room
  - fleshy pegasus & skeletal champion – champion fireballs us
    - find another necromancy channel bone
    - story on the pegasus & chariot was the chariot had been enchanted to fly
      - powerful set of warriors who trained pegasus
- examining the cart close – its mostly a reconstruction, around a much older tang
  - claims the skeleton & pegasus body were actual historical artifacts
- Otho extracts the tang
Go on to the next room
- T-rex skeleton
  - Otho tries to quick loot it
  - gets trapped by the T-rex, who has a better athletics check and keeps grabbing him
  - we eventually beat it down
  - find:
    - a magic silver coin - coin tips fate in subtle fashion - “predictable silver piece”
    - pair of time pieces - watches - with sync'd time
    - Otho takes a T-rex tooth
Take the two necromantic bones, tie them on a string, and lower them in to the antimagic box in the Room of Quiet
head in to Hall of Faith
- 20 ft chasm we can walk around - approach “Do you have Faith in your God?”
  - bridge appears and Otho & Tadzio walk across
- bunch of booths
  - Desna, Gorum, Calistra, Ioriri, Gozreh, Cayden Cailen, Iomadae, Pharasma, Saranrae, Torag, Sheylen
  - Booth of Desna - has butterfly glyph labeled “An Adventure Awaits”
    - we touch Madeline and she touches the butterfly
    - it makes a flash in a direction
    - we find the next butteryfly, touch it, and follow to the next one
    - we repeat until we find a secret door
    - find a small room with a thing if you look into, gives you a butterfly mask
  - Sheylen - has magic instrument - “Maestro's Instrument” accordian
go to the Plaza stop
- mostly collapsed
- Statue - erected for donation to the town - dated just before cataclysm
  - Uldoom - elderly man
go to the “Font” stop
- we start exploring and an earthy creature emerges from the floor and attacks
- it tends to disappear in to the ground when hit
  - doesn't live wrong as apparently Otho can only crit on it
- looking in the room - see a window
  - deep shaft, with some light
- 2 doors out:
  - “Font observation room and gift shop”
  - “Font Employees only”
- get in to the observation room
  - explains this is the source of power for the city
    - earth power drawn up and used to power the city
    - “font of power”
    - “emerald ants” you see are things you see that collect earth power and bring it back out
      - had seen Topaz ants in royal crypt - seem very similar
next preparing to go down the elevator

Session 24

take the elevator down
opens to a room with a sign that says “Entering Secure Area”
- notice a well concealed pit trap in middle of room
- note on desk: area secured as per agreement -L
  - blindfold under the note
- Deci starts picking the lock on the door, and sets off a trap “disarming” it
go in to the next room
- and a wheel starts spinning
  - stops on a green spot, which fires off a spell: acid arrow
  - madeline identifies:
    - acid arrow
    - lightning bolt
    - paralysis
    - sleep
    - enfeebled 2
    - blindness
  - otho disables the wheel, which only stops it spinning, so it starts just doing enfeeble
  - madeline notices a sensor in a corner, that is causing the wheel to fire
  - Deci repeatedly flips a table, eventually blocking line of sight of the sensor to the room
Otho unlocks the padlock on the next door
- triggers a scythe blade trap
- disable one of them
- find a bathroom
- find an office - with a spear trap on the door
  - find the operating manuals for the power plant
    - short description for catastrophe planning - fey will lock down in event of failure
      - notes on how to adjust - visit Pascal's - need rhyme:
        
        “The brew is true, everybody loves Pascal's mescale” and hop 3 times
    - ants used as power conveyors - machine that makes ants
      - carrying power destroys ants - so runs continuously
- step out of office, and there is a basilisk
  - hilarity ensues, we eventually kill the basilisk
  - take its blood and coat the guy in the entry way who has been frozen in crystal for 200+ years…
jump over some quicksand, find a control room, go down some halls, through an airlock
open a door in to a room - to the south a tree, to the south a platform over a huge pit
- big mithril tree - not a real tree
  - tree shaped; but clearly constructed
  - ceiling fell in and damaged a chunk of it
  - “The Distributor” was what it was called in the manual
  - musically resonates
- huge pit - deeper than we can see, with a platform going out over it
  - inlayed lines carved in to floor
  - far side as to giant boulders
  - clearly a device
- we fix the device, use the manual and get things set up for sustain mode
  - use the cube to provide an initial chunk of power to start the machine
  - and it spins up, and creates an 'Emerald Ant'
  - it goes down in to the pit and comes up 5 minutes later with a ball of power
    - carries the ball over to the tree, and ant dissipates as it feeds the power to the tree

Session 25

Pass the night, reading the manual
- Ethan the guy we rescued wakes up; is sort of shell shocked
- the walkie talkie activates, and conversation with Temperance happens
  - Archeologists say: were the ripples received in bounds as per the rules of engagement?
  - Temperance said: its good to see things moving in the right direction
  - The Hanged Man notes: Mobilization of the Third Suit. Caution is indicated. Causation or correlation is unclear.
    - (THE HANGED MAN.—Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. Reversed: Selfishness, the crowd, body politic )
  - Temperance says: Information received and appreciated. Archeologists, take heed.
go to the Town Hall stop
- come up from the basement, to find it still in use
  - lots of refugees, and clerks
  - get our deeds registered by the magical system, after we power it up, to the amazement of 2 clerks
  - Tadzio tends to the wounded
- we go back down to the basement
  - go in to the complaints area, find a desk with empty forms
  - go in to the police office - get attacked by a gargoyle
    - when we break the gargoyle, it explodes in to a swarm of gargoyle-insects
  - desi & madeline start exploring the cells while Tadzio heals Otho
    - find a cell with a name tag: Giselle
      - a shadow comes out
      - Madaline examines the body, finds a ring & a tattoo on it
  - find some paperwork on Giselle
    - find she was in for conspiracy to do unauthorized magics - tattoo was for group doing that
  - fine a collapsed hallway to the evidence room
    - dig it out
    - loot it
      - quiver of arrows - slithering killer - 4 arrows, magical - Viper Arrows
      - no-longer-magical wand - wand of finger of death
      - confidential file - links Giselle's group to Olgloom - linking them to terrorist actions
      - 75gp of jewelry
Have a conversation with Ethan
- he's interested in staying in this town, and trying to maintain and run the power grid
- we decide to approach the deputy mayor to try to set him up
- make a deal with deputy mayor
  - power up Town Hall - which includes powering a magic status map in the mayor's office
Head off to Waterfront
- come out of the ground to see a fight about to occur with plagued

Session 26

Session 27

At Lemance - swim out a bit and explore
- notice some some significant power cables going down in to the earth, at the end of the line
- looks like it had some sort of powered thing to keep it dry - which is currently unpowered
- notice a giant eel, but don't engage with it
- decide to come back the next day with water breathing
head back to the town hall
- get a mission to deal with some plaguespawn
- do a crazy rooftop battle, where we just assassinate 3 plaguemages & 2 plaguespawn - get 4 pearls
head to the Courthouse
- discover an entry room - “Truth is the Path of Justice”
- does a Zone of Truth & Faerie Fire each round in the room - each round DC increases
  - earth & divine power perfectly balanced
head to market
- find a bunch of closed stores
- inside one 'coming soon'
  - find a crate labeled “Dragon Eggs”
    - turns out to be blown glass toys
      - 20 “dragon eggs” worth 1gp per
- loot a spice shop
- loot a clothing store
  - find a very nice cloak
head to Arboretum
- find an entrance to a Pear Tree enclave
  - see a painted pear trees in entry - clearly painted by many people
- see a Topaz Ant - painted with word “Aunty”
- find a sitting room
- a supply room with paint - could paint on the pear tree
- find a couple small bedrooms
- see a dead Giant Pear Tree
  - abruptly died all at once
  - Tadzio pulls out cube and starts meditating at tree
    - “Aunty” comes over and starts rubbing against him, exudes a small ball of something & tries to feed him
      - Tadzio eats the nectar like substance
  - in a room, find a wight & 2 skeletal champions that attack
    - one of skeletons is clothed, but no shoes
    - room is setup for a very elderly person (largest bedroom)
    - find a set of books - brilliant set of arcane theorizings
      - initial of author: O
  - Records Room
    - book open on table - “Emergency Procedures”
      - details on how to augment the defenses of this place
        
        mechanism by which you can dump power in to an Aunt to imbue to be a more powerful guardian
        
        requires senior member of order
        
        involves using well to pull out stuff at bottom - and craft it on to the ant (Aunty)
        
        unclear if guardians could be used to attack something adjacent to this place
    - senior member was Olgrom
      - other senior leader codenames: TBD
    - reference to nearby underwater city nearby called Lemantz - separate nearby city-state
    - get a short list of pear tree symbols - to identify places
- Find a secret door in Olgrom's room – and it seems like its likely high danger

Session 28

Session 29

Go to Lemance
- fight a large moray eel - find 3 platinum coins
  - good condition - very precisely pressed
    - pressed with symbol of an underwater nation-state
    - dependent on earth power
come out on the other side of the building on to a platform with some basilisk things
- see 2 pairs of the big balls with a construct
  - theorize its used to generate a magic transport to the underwater city
  - but without power, no way to know where the city is
Head to “Works” stop, but end up at Eastham
Eastham - where temple of Irori was
- come out, find a small room with a fountain
  - “Contribute a gift of knowledge to the fountain”
- come to a room with 3 doors
  - one leads to a short hallway, with 3 rooms each with a spare cot
  - one leads to a formal altar of Irori
    - 4 pathways leading to a central altar with a center column
    - appears to be about personal reflection, not for preaching
  - one leads to a “path of perfection”
    - hallway with 6 doors in it
      - each door opens in to a small room, with a magical stool
      - Otho & Madaline sit on it
        
        Otho: -2 to Athletics, +2 to diplomacy, until make some number of diplomacy checks I care about
        
        Madaline: -2 to Arcana, +2 to spell DC
        
        Tadzio: -2 to Medicine, +2 to Deception
      - Otho is not amused
Works - go and explore, and discover it is sealed - was Public Works of Earth casters
Highland - discover it surfaces on the top of the hill side the looks down on the coast
- try to remember it so we can find it from the surface
Show up in the station - Town Hall
- Tadzio feels like some Demonic presence in the place
- round the corner and see 2 thugs - Deci sleeps them
  - tied them up and tucked them away in a side room
- found another 2 thugs, slept one, subdue the other
  - tied them up and tucked them away in a side room
- rescued the deputy mayor & Ethan
  - had been captured & abused - we had them go up to train
- Find Errtu in a back room, making a fancy big pentagram
  - Otho tries to diplomacy him to surrender. He doesn't, but the Irori enchantment fades
  - we kill him, destroy his minor pentragram
    - go to loot the chest he's been dragging around
      - rune - unclear what it does? (armor rune)
      - 30 gp

Session 30

Sessions 31-35

Session 31

Session 32

Tadzio patches us up
We head towards the tall trees
- cross by climbing up the trees and moving through the tree tops
get to a canyon - climb up the side rather than try to swim up stream
get to the forge, find it occupied
- 2 ogre warrior & Tat Ealosh (ogre variant)
Deci makes a deal to tell stories, and we can use the forge while we craft
- end up fighting them
  - Get a +1 ghost touch great axe off Tat Ealosh
make 4 athame's good on both sides
make our way back to tavern, needing to use an invis sphere as we get back just after dusk
talk to Mosa
- get him to teach us to use athame - best done outside & during day
  - good to have solid imagination & willpower
  - can manipulate the world around you - children of the gods
    - can use to add or remove elements from the world
- takes a bit of time to put something in the blade - stores one item on a side of the athame
  - 1 minute to put something in to; may be able to load faster with checks
  - some materials can't be put in - including cold iron
  - 5 x 5 x 5 cube (like a cube of water), 10 ft thin thing (like a wall), or an object
    - can possibly do up to a 20 ft long thin object (like a pole)
    - multiple objects are hard
- 1-action DC 20 will save to remove an item
- can also do the inverse - and hold an item more firmly in place
  - for example, prevent a space from burning due to a wild fire by fixing its state in place
- can reshape objects at forges
Maith wants to talk to us
- red caps have a problem - one of their neighbors
  - settlement near a large glacier - inhabited & guarded by Yeti - glacier unusually large
  - short while ago yeti's have gotten aggressive and started doing strike parties
  - has gotten a line on a flametonge sword
    - will trade us info on how to get to the Lost Library - Ioriri's opening
    - will give us an IOU to leave in the vault
    - suggests leaving an IOU if we take anything that we intend to return
    - how long to return an IOU - no negotation, or official aspect
      - doesn't know who owns the vault
    - figure out he is holding back one piece of info
      - ie, where to find The Couple
  - library - knows who the caretaker of the vault is; and that they visit the settlement weekly
    - vault is impregnable while he is minding it
  - will get info about the Library & the people of interest if we get the sword from the Vault
- gives us directions to a settlement 2-3 days away - of Brownies
  - contacts: Sir Bon - serves as 1/week justice that advocates disputes between brownies
    - guardian of the vault - plate armor w/ emblazoned items on it
  - Maith will meet us in Brownie Town
- apparently can carry cold iron in a blade - but takes a long time to get in and a long time to get out
  - says Euler
  - apparently takes 10 minutes to put in or take out
Otho is storing the cold iron greatsword in his blade

Session 33

Session 34

Session 35

Sessions 36-40

Session 36

Fight 6 hexagons, with party split, and crush them
go to sleep that night
- wake up in a dream realm, where we are dragonplagued
- land we can see is mountain, not in the fey realm, its 8am
- can see a town down the mountain
- decide to go down the mountain
  - end up having to trigger an avalanche to clear a path
- and we are about halfway down, when suddenly the town goes up in flames, and a flash happens from the tower
  - tower is like a lighthouse
- and we wake up again at the top of the mountain, and its 8am again
- try 2
  - make 2-person sleds, and bomb down the slope and get to the bottom by 9am
  - get in to the smoke at the base of mountain
    - looks like an army had moved through here
  - get close, and can see the city, and plaguespawn encampment outside the city
  - group of plaguespawn
    - tents with Star motif
    - seem mostly brain-dead and enthused to chant “Star”
    - Star in tarot: Loss, theft, privation, abandonment
      - clearly Red
    - Deci disguises herself, and talks our way in
      - meet people – seem to be caricatures – all the same face
    - get to lighthouse - guards ask if we are there to see the Chosen One
      - we say yes
    - taken in to the central room
      - small boy, with the same face, but seems to fit him
      - 2 adults flanking him, with faces that are not his
        
        absolute fanatics - clearly believe boy is personification of Gozreh
      - “Prostrate yourself before Tomas, the Chosen of Gozreh”
      - seem surprised we got here (The Lighthouse) and not taken over by dragonkin
      - otho asks where we are: Inys
        
        says he is the Leader of Inys, the Chosen One of Innis
        
        Inys is a country in the frozen north on the eastern side of the world
    - Otho sneaks behind the curtain
      - altar
      - big jug
      - 2 braziers
      - clearly for blood sacrifice; clearly of Gozreh
    - we jump the guards who would sacrifice him
    - he says now we need to kill the Dragon, to save his people
      - and wills us to have 6th level
  - +2 AC, +2 Hit, +2 save vs Dragon since we know its name and looked it up in the book
  - And we fight the dragon “The Star”
    - size large red dragon
  - Chosen of Gozreh says “Huh, maybe there is another way”
  - And we wake up

Session 37

we get Embalgo to take us to find a Yeti patrol, so we can see what is going on
- the yetis appear confused, and functionally word-salad babble rather than talk
we travel up the mountain
- head to a place where some of the elder yeti's might be
  - larger cave mouth, where we carefully pass a bunch of confused yeti's
    - leads to a door, where there are secret knocks exchanged
    - get let in to the vault
  - talk to the elders
    - help us understand the dream a bit
    - have some yeti locked in - including Embalgo's daughter
we cross over through the portal to Inys - its the at the top of the mountain from the dream
- we do a ping for Naryan royalty, and its pointing due west
- Tadzio's amulet/holy symbol gets a prophecy delivered
  - layers
    - 1 (everyone gets): vision of Tadzio, in his old priest robes, from his last official clergy visit, so dated
    - 2 (senior priests): crisp image of The Couple, also somewhat dated but very clear
    - 3 (high priest): image of putting a lid on a volcano & sealing it
- Deci borrows the crystal ball to try to scry the couple
  - gets a block smart ad, and a message that they are unavailable
get to town
- find out a local city had been attacked, and town has a lot of refugees
  - a city about a valley or two over from here
    - attacked by dragonplagued
    - very hard to get through the pass
- attempt to talk our way in to the keep, to talk to Tomas
  - end up getting guided in by a priest of Gozreh, after waiting a bit
- brought to someone we recognize from the dream, who introduces himself as “The Right Hand of Gozreh”
- we basically tell him we can help with the dragon problem
  - offer the detector of dragonplague
  - offer info of taking out the lieutenant being key to the dragonplagued holding a city
get brought in to a war council
- sounds like the other town was kind of captured
  - did not have the plague spreaders
  - didn't have a commander like the chimera
  - seemed to be a bit different than other attacks we saw
- do some scrying
- basically see the spymaster captured in the town, in the harbor
- the chosen of gozreh offers his craft
  - a 4-5 person submarine
    - requires pilot, motive force, captain, lance-aimer
    - pilot: tadzio (acrobatics)
    - motive: Otho (athletics)
    - captain: Madeline (charisma)
    - lance: Deci (dex attack)
- fight a sea monster in the submarine
make it to the other city
- see big glowing tent
- see half-human, half-fishman wandering around with tridents

Session 38

extract Bob-the-scout from the cabin
- stealth in, carry him back to the sub
debriefing
- forces came from land & sea
- doing something to the populace
- got caught with his head in the tent - forge in tent
  - had Gozreh druids & companions in cages in tent
- lesser fishmen are not as scary
- greater fishmen work in the tent - more than 2, but not a lot
- doing something with a forge
we scry inside, see forge, 3 sea devil brute, lots of supplies, 2 cages (1 w/ wolf, 1 w/ person)
- notice the guard walk through some of the supplies - clearly an illusion
we sneak up in an invis sphere
- talk to a Druid Irisaan - he and his wolf are in separate cages
- some horrible ritual going on, making a dragon bomb
  - bomb apparently is triggered by a druid who is embedded in it dying - his wolf is chained in it as well
- Otho sneaks in, unlocks the cage of the druid
- starts the fight w/ 3 Sea Devil Brutes
  - we drop them
stone eye speaks mentally -
- “why do you help these despicable creatures?”
- “nasty cult of humanity, deserve to be cut down
- I am known as The Star
- Do not interfere with what I constructed, I will use it to destroy the cult
- Madeline makes a deal with the Dragon
  - we will take care of the cult problem
  - if we don't within a year & a day, we will have words
- asks how we came to be in favor
  - Madeline gives a non-answer
we head back to town
plan is:
- convince Tomas he needs to give up his divinity to save his people from the Dragon
- have the Hands detonate the bomb, removing the leadership of the cult
We execute the plan
We invis sphere Tomas and go back up the mountain to the fey realm
We scry the couple just before heading back in to the fey realm
- see the Naran princess dressed in skulking gear, making a deal with unsavory characters unhappily
  - think she is in Mentendon - city on island to the north
pinging nearest Naran royalty from Inys, is due West (aka Mentendon)
Head back towards Brownie Town
- meet the fabulous Darvashay - who Marlene had called to help with the dream issue
  - radiates power
  - it is whose crystal ball we have
  - known as a spectacular troublemaker
we lightly loot Tomas

Session 39

Session 40

Sessions 41-45

Session 41

Session 42

Start investigating the reading room
- the bones in the corner appear to have robes - academic uniform? maybe of irori?
  - appears the bones were broken/tortured - fingers & toes & all long bones are limbs are broken except one forearm
- couple side rooms
  - maps room
    - otho makes copies of maps:
      - world map, avalon, mentendon, some others
        
        basically each major precataclysm city
  - childrens room
    - has toys & children's books
      - story of how there was 1 moon, but then it was split in to two pieces by the god Gorym
- sarcophagus in corner of reading room - “Acution the Educated”
  - knight known for embrace of education for all, and built schools
- location descriptions:
  - 1: foyer
  - 2: reading room
  - 3: basic reference floor & hall of memories
  - 4: administrative
  - location not clear: rare books vault, special requests
- Deci pops open locked drawer in circulation desk - finds very stale 'Blammo Snacks'
elevator has 4 buttons - 1, 2, 3, 4; we started on 1 and reading room is 2
Go to the 3rd floor
- fight a book golem that attacked with non-sense knowledge and fists
- find a camp of a previous adventuring party
  - Telamere & 1 other person - working for Master Raiment
  - other group came in - lead by Acution the Educated; working for Jaundice
- golem guarding a section on random lores
- can use library to act as “Trained in a Lore”, or make any Lore check at +2
- looking up people in the library:
  - Telamere is a well known bard in Mentaden
  - Master Raiment is one of the new power players in Mentaden; lots of power
  - Jaundice - showed up around the same time as Raiment; lots of personal arcane power
  - Acution the Educated -
    - less well know was that he was a junior librarian in the library
- we find the hall of memories
  - glowing globes, that you can touch to get sort of videos
    - Tour of Mentaden
    - Tour of the Seas
      - includes someone sailing in to the abyss
      - includes the major sea ports
    - Tour of the Great Vault of the Library
      - intellectual rather than magical power
      - scroll of Irori
      - oversized shield - very shiny, giant sized - the Great Scale - from a lizard of epic proportions
        
        dragon scale? but not silver or red - iridescent green?
    - Tour of Divinity
      - suddenly in presence of divinity - masked, one half white & one half black
      - avatar of Nethys is awarding a carved staff to a person bowing down to receive it
      - memory from significantly pre-cataclysm
      - gifting of the Staff of the Archmagi to the one who proved herself worthy”
Madalin & Tadzio looks up some stuff
- Moon
  - more movement on white moon rather than red; but wildly speculative
- Tarot
  - find out interpretation is subtly tied to the moon
- Great Library
  - Librarians all trained in braille
    - lots of instructions subtlety over the library
  - had access bracelet
  - only one wing of the Library went in to the fey realm - the non-fiction section
- Naran Royal Artifacts
  - learn about the prince who died shortly after the cataclysm - who we got the cube from
    - rumor says he was killed by Raiment
- Cataclysm
  - entire earth tried to shake off the pesky humans
  - Mentaden had significant destruction, but better off than many cities
    - lost a bunch of ships as if they went in to the abyss
  - doesn't mention Earth power failing
    - more that supply chains broke down as large groups of people stopped being able to work together
- Abyss - pretty much no info
  - most of the info is just about the various ways people have tried to gather info and failed
  - someone asked the Gods, and the Gods did not answer and said it wasn't them
- Archaelogy
  - early civ from just after gods made people
- Fake his Head - there is an undead type that is a headless knight, who wants his head - Dulahand

Session 43

Session 44

Loot from Acatian & the Rakshasa:
- Emerald Grasshopper -
- Full Plate +1 - decorated with his house crest
- Feather token (tree)
Asking Acatian why he was working for them
- woke in Menteden, missing his head
- a powerful skeletal undead told him if he retrieved a book from the library, he'd tell him where his head was
  - Jaundice - powerful wizard caster
  - had been clear he'd been sending skeletons in to try out library defenses; and knew when they were destroyed
- book he was looking for was “Farstriders 783”
  - Jane Farstrider - semi-mythical explorer who had been every where and done anything
says poltergeist needs its junior librarian's bracelet returned
figure out puzzle to get through the door
leads to an airlock room, that can only open when the other door is closed
leads to a room with 2 summoning circles - one large & one medium
- in the large circle is an Axiomite
  - transforms in to humanoid form when we approach
  - introduces herself as Euler
  - asks if blessed by the current head librarian
    - head librarian: Amador
      - Tadzio has heard of Amador - monk in Irori's order - disappeared when library wing was lost
        
        we speculate he is the mortal anchor of the library
  - has not seen anyone but the head librarian for 316 years
  - asks if we can end the agreement, since the head librarian hasn't been paying it
    - we say we'll talk to the head librarian first
head up the stairs
- leads to head librarian's public office
- see a name of “Bryce” on the itinerary
- head through the office, to a conference room
- head through the conference room to a work room
- incorporeal spirit meditating in middle of room
  - talk with him - Amador
  - Emmalyn - asks about how to decrypt her maps -
    - said the info she needs are in journals from Jane Farstrider
    - when asks her direct questions - says need to find a deity that can grant a miracle to revert her
      - know when bargaining, that you are a source of power - entity removing condition gains significant power
  - says he basically pulled the library in to the fey realm, and chose to stay alive by force of will
  - wants a couple tasks done:
    - take book down to Euler
    - summon a planar ally to help guard his door
      - wishes to summon a Choral - Angel - musical angel - bardic angel
      - for 99 years, to guard the place
we summon the angel
- take him up to the head librarian;
  - who asks him some interestingly hard religion questions to verify he is a real angel
- take him down to the entry
  - discover some undead present & fight them
    - hulk, mummy, wight, some skeleton champion
looking at Jane Farstrider's books
- 20 entry points for gods; only 1 exit - signs of 19 gods leaving
  - Urgathoa (god of undead) is the one who did not exit
  - warning to “Do not leave via the exit” - its very bad
- Farstrider 783 is the “unread journal” - extremely powerful curse sealed with an unknown type of magic
  - unknown type of magic was either dragon or necromancy, probably
  - sealed with some condition; which might have come to pass
learn that “Bryce” is Jaundice's real name

Session 45

Learn from Amador that we can get to floor -1 using the bracelet, to get to lower floors we need to do research on floor -1
- there is a book (Ovapaloy's Shadows) in the stacks that will cause some troubles - need to do a ritual every 99 years to keep it subdued
  - doing the ritual is overdue
  - need to find another book with the ritual to close it up
  - access log for stacks to see what people have been researching - to the left and around as you exit the elevator
get down to there, go looking for the log
- see huge shadowy tentacles over a shelf
- figure out Ovapaloy is a demon - we check out the demon section
  - demon in book form
    - doesn't like strong light
    - feeds off of other knowledge
  - need to get book closed to do the ritual
    - need to sever outside influence to close the book
find a bound book in crimson wyrm hide - (wyrms are what earth sends when angry; and that is the biggest type)
looking at the activity map - 4 spots, plus the tentacle area
- first area is anatomy & exercise - notice some sort of miasma
- second area is treachery & betrayal w/ fantastic stories - also notice some miasma
- third area is medicine & alchemy - also notice some miasma
- fourth area is brain teasers & miscellaenous - also notice some miasma
- we cast a light on the book shelf where the 4th area - a sphynx appears and asks us a riddle
- we cast a light on the 3rd book - giant tarantula appears; we drop it
  - realize we need to extract poison from it to free the book - make an antivenom
  - flub the craft check; another tarantula appears - we drop it
- we cast a light on the 2nd book - an illusory basilisk appears; and also an invisible dark naga
  - kill the dark naga, after shenanigans with the rod casting darkness on it and it casting a wall of fire
    - emmalyn almost killed it by pretrifying it
- we cast a light on the 1st book - and discover it disables athletics training in a radius around it
  - shenanigans occur
- with all 4 tentacles disabled, otho jumps on the center platform, closes the book; and we do a ritual to put it to sleep
read some
- learn a bit about the crimson worm book –
  - a group of epic earth creature hunters hunted a crimson worm,
  - used it to create the book trying to get an earth source
  - turned out the book got some of the worm's mind - so not a great idea
And we get level 7 and a chance to retrain in the library

Sessions 46-50

submit our chimes to the library and our access bracelet gets upgraded
take the elevator down
- go through the office, which has instructions about needing to meditate to come in to unity
go in to the meditation room
- seriously magical door
- carpet to meditate on
- meditation seems to be a communal story
get to the next room
- book with instructions for interacting with the vault
- vault is in a time stop
  - keeps things from decaying
  - sort of a generic protection as well
- comes out of time stop for 30 minutes when the elevator arrives
- don't take stuff out of the vault without good reason
- log book
  - sphere of annihilation - in a corner, do not touch - reacts with your mind
we go up the elevator
- find a vampire-monk & skeletal champion – says it is Jaundice and tries to make a deal
  - Jaundice's deal: only wants to read the book, willing to accept a copy of the book, offered to help repair damage he did
  - Otho just attacks
  - we destroy both, and toss them in to the sphere of annihilation
- madeline reads the forbidden book
  - learn dragons are on the moon
  - jane went to the moon, met them, taught them human language
  - madeline destroys the book in sphere despite tadzio & otho's objection
- we get to see
  - original scroll of irori
  - silver dragon scale
  - acorn from the great tree (laisan)
  - some other cool thing Ben will tell us later
  - tadzio finds an account on the day the gods left, they all met in council together and then left
  - otho goes looking for something he can reasonable take with him
    - astrolabe - with note that takes work to translate - more time than we have
  - madeline loots a random farstrider journal
  - tadzio studies scroll of irori - and gets to bank one nat-20
Otho logs in the logbook taking the astrolabe - appears to have been logged in by J.F.
Tadzio logs out the book that was destroyed
Madeline logs out the journal she took
- goes to read it, and finds out it was not a Jane Farstrider journal
- book written by someone deep in the church of Nethys
  - written by someone with his mind shattered
  - will take a good while to digest - several stories interwoven
  - book of magical studies
we go talk to the head librarian
- he suggests we should find a new head librarian, since we might technically be that now since he's dead
- talk a bit about the loss of the book
leave the Library through the portal to Mentenden
- Emmalyn goes out the main entrance to the fey realm
  - she gets a hug from Deci, a romance novel from Otho, a blessing from Tadzio

Session 50

Sessions 51-55

Sessions 56-60

Let the Irori temple know we dealt with the Succubi
when the couple picks up their kid, there is a message for us
- “Be Seeing You. -Jaundice”
arrange rental of our house via the Temple of Abadar - will be earning some income that we can collect via the temple of Abadar
travel through the Library to the Fey Realm
- do dream thing - Deci practices building the drum and summoning the worm
- figure out Astrolabe used for calculating position of Astral Bodies - like the moons
  - can also use for distance viewing
we fight baba yaga's hut (aka mama mimic) full of mimics - 2 mimics and a baby mimic swarm - there is a hut egg underneath
- we put the mimic egg in the bag of holding
rest the night
get to favor
- sell the egg, get tadzio a better healing staff, some other shopping
- run in to Tavashae - he has an entourage
  - princesses' kid gets drawn with a polearm, with Otho in the background
    - kid-size polearm ends up enchanted - +1 glamoured
get back to the the capital city
- go to the Irori temple - get debriefed by the high priest
  - apparently the temple at the volcano got buried by a rockslide
- princesses insist on seeing the king before heading out to deal with volcano
  - we sneak them in to the castle
    - giving a cousin a gift of a signed polearm
  - get them a 1:1 meeting with the King - get him to recognize them & there child as the heir
get teleported to the volcano/temple
Deci summons a purple worm to dig a tunnel to the temple entrance
meet up with the temple guards who had been trapped inside - they take us to the body
- we skim the book, and its useless and in druidic
- get to the vault - use the 7 herbs & spices on the door ; then use the cube to open the door
find the section for fixing the volcano - find out we need to stash a thing in the caldera
- find 2 “lava waders” (lava resistance/immunity to lava damage for finite duration), backup device
- instructions on where & how to activate the thing
- then need to craft a new one; since the old one only lasts a year
next step - assault volcano
get a sending from the Irori high priest
- “The excited witnesses shall attempt to place their thumb upon the scale.”
astrolabe observation: moons are not spherical – maybe a cracked open egg; two halves of the egg

Session 60

Table of Contents

Sessions 31-35

Sessions 36-40

Sessions 41-45

Sessions 46-50

Sessions 51-55

Sessions 56-60

Sessions 61-65

Sessions 66-70

Sessions 71-75