# Chapter 5: Ank'harel and Cael Morrow # session 37 (23/04/2023) - temple of the mentor - Jamil's quarters - offers the party to join the cobalt soul - there are perks - official cobalt soul robes - support from the soul as long as we are right in our claims - rooms in the temple to stay - works in any of the enclaves - *etc...* - and duties and rules - don't hide information - not applicable to previous non criminal jobs if keeping secrets is needed - don't abuse the name of the Soul in personal or shady dealing - answer calls for help if you can - help sharing knowledge - Lucy accepts - asks Jamil if he knows a way to include the robe in the Shiftweave - just will it inside - Lucy tries and the cobalt soul robe uniform is added to the collection - *nice, welp time to add it on the desc and start doing fashion again :D* - Figuel accepts - Cali stays an outsider for now - Quiwynn didn't answer - *James not present in the session so idk* - asks the party if they wish to participate - party accepts - meet tomorrow morning after some rest - in the inn - Lucy is making progress with Luggage - middle of the night - Lucy hears some noises - Armored thugs go to James' room - Lucy wakes Cali and Quiwynn - combat script - Cali slams the door open - thugs are carrying James in a bag - Lucy wakes James up - Cali does monk shit - James discussion - *fill later* - James and Lucy gives - earrings are earrings of message - apparently Lucy is able to use them - Cali, Figuel and James take one - planning for the day infiltration of the consortium - go to teh cobalt soul - tell them the ETA - grab some supply - go to the bazard - *improvise* - detour by the temple - Figuel asks for books about the Moonweaver - Iwo talk - prisonner name is Kaela Darkhaven - she/her - high ranking member of the consortium - young age - small red rash - less than Lucy - talked about consortium research - Ruidius - Plane of dreams - extract funds for their research - Kaela is more in the "aquisition" branch than the research one - Lendan (Quiwynn's mentor) is trapped in the dream world - consortium has more Ruidium items - calm at first but had emotions sometimes - didn't know what it is to have ruidium in your mind - Iwo gives Quiwynn 3 potions of healing - Lucy borrows a light crossbow - today's token is a feather token - to the bazzar - 2 ruidium elephants are wrecking havoc - Rerosha is in the middle of them - Lucy pushes Rerosha out of the elephants reach - Akil falls to the stay on Rerosha's shoulder and fall to the ground :D - Cali stuns an elephant - the elephant resists psychic damage - Figuel casts wall of fire - hurts the elephants - kills a commoner - starts a fire in the market stalls - traps Rerosha in the middle of the ring of fire - Figuel goes giant elk - Cali gets stomped down - Lucy potions Cali up and James pulls them out - Cali creates rain to put up the fire in the stalls - kaiju battle between elk figuel and elephant - Quiwynn 50cal. - Figuel revives the burned commoner - Lucy asks Rerosha if she is ok and what she knows > you saved me again - elephants came from the first eclipse direction - Akil is a jerk as usual - Rerosha hugs Figuel and says thank you - Lucy stealths ahead to scout - Khelkur and Irvan discussing - Jewels in front of them - last job before joining the rest of the group for Irvan - Lucy casts detect thoughts on Irvan > the arm is nice but i would love not to have to do the heavy lifting - lots of alcohol barrels ready to be set on fire - party prepares an ambush - *plan* - Figuel kool-aid - James near Figuel - Cali and Lucy preparing through the windows - Cali eldritch maul - Lucy coats the dagger of venom - Quiwynn prepares a snipe - Cali smashes through the window - Khelkur spawns an earth elemental - Figuel gets comboed back into himself - Figuel polymorphs Khelkur into a cat - Lucy barges in, grabs the cat by the scruff - Quiwynn 50cal. - Satzrak comes up and blasts Lucy - cat escapes Lucy's graps - Quiwyn summons Linda (bear) - Satzrak kicks (with pleasure) Khelkur out of being a cat - after being stopped from leaving Irvan attacks Figuel - earth elemental downs Figuel - Khelkur throws a ruidium bomb to the melee - leave a could of ruidium 20ft in radius - damage and exhaustion, only half damage on save - save when exploding and when ending a turn in the remnent cloud - Lucy snaps and activates Psychic Overdrive - voice becomes echo-y - permanent white noise in the mind of all linked characters - static electricity of red sparks lifts some of the hair - ruidium marks climb all the way up to the eyes - marks on the visible arm are pulsing - eyes become red - seems to get faster - Lucy feeds Figuel a potion, it has an effect on Figuel, and gets out of the cloud - Quiwynn gets out of the cloud and with Linda mauls down Satzrak - Irvan goes out and past Lucy who (non lethally) brings him down - James mauls down the elemental and gets out - Figuel gets up and goes out - Cali chases Khelkur but he dimension doors out - Lucy opens the trapped door in a frenzy and rushes downstairs - Cali and Quiwynn follow after her - ask if Lucy is ok - Lucy ignores them - downstair rush - no one down here - no secret entrance (25 investigation) - loot - Arrows: - 5x Ruidum Tipped Arrows - Target takes usual damage + DC 20 Con Save or become Corrupted+Gain level of exhaustion and take 2d10 Psychic damage. - 5x Blinding Arrows - Arrows with a small clay head with an opening inside, containing a reactive chemical. On hit, the chemical releases a bright flash, blinding the target until the start of your next turn. Deals bludgeoning damage. - 5x Exploding Arrows - These arrows explode on hit. Target takes usual damage and All creatures (including target) within a 10ft radius must make a 15DC dex saving throw or take 2d10 fire damage. Ignites non-worn, non-carried flammable materials. - 5x Phosphor Arrow - on Hit grants the effects of Fairie fire to the target until the end of your next turn. - 5x Torpedo Arrow - Travel Unimpeded underwater (No Disadvantage or range penalty) - 10x Ruidium Crystals (Acts the same as Dose of Dust) - 10x Exploding Proximity Mines - Takes 1 minute to setup, Explodes when a creature enters within 10ft of the mine, Each creature within 20 feet radius of an exploding mine must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d6 piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Any other mines in the Radius have a 50% chance of going off. Can be submerged. Setting up the mine requires a DC 6 Sleight of hand roll. - Lucy stays down a bit longer inspecting the books while calming down - no tome 3 of tusk love - finds a Manual of Flesh Golems - *added it post game to the inventory to not forget, posted here for clarity sake* # session 38 (30/04/2023) - first eclipse - ground floor - loot stuff - Quiwynn looks in the big box - pots and pans - Figuel is standing on a fine wine case - 8x Good wine: 1d8+8 temp hit points, Action to drink, DC 12 Con save or become drunk (Poisoned) - 6x Rare wine: 2d10+8 temp hit points, Action to drink, DC 10 Con save or become drunk (Poisoned) - James looks at the jewelry box - 500gp worth - Quiwynn calls Luggage - he comes in with Akil trapped in his mouth - Akil leaves after failing to drop a shit on Quiwynn - James warns to leave the place as it starts taking fire - *should have wetted the barrels* - Irvan is on Linda - *so many nat 20* - James saw someone lighting the first eclipse on fire - party runs to them - they were atop the building - red robed figure - *fight script* - Lucy shoves them down to teh street and goes melee - Figuel moorbounder it up and runs to them - Quiwynn 50.cal - Cali prevents them form fleeing and drops them unconscious - Lucy climbs up and spots Khelkur way away - Lucy starts chasing in his direction - *skill challenge - 4 success before 2 failures* - Cali runs (accrobatics - fail) - Quiwynn makes a bloodhound out of Linda (perception from linda - success) - James recalls a warehouse to the north (history - success) - Lucy thins out the itinerary (insight - success) - Cali tracks Khelkur down on the ground (survival - success) - *success !* - streets in the north of the bazar - Khelkur s in sight in the front - *fight script* - Lucy overdrives - Khelkur spots her and nearly blasts her down - Figuel jumps on the roof - Cali runs after him and hits him - Lucy shoots him in the back - Cali prevents him from running away - Figuel pounces down on Khelkur - Cali makjes his knee an ex adventurer - Quiwynn start interrogating - Quiwynn moves the arrow in the knee - mentor is in the building where Cali had their tattoo - shows a knock to enter without traps - building has a white flag - guards are called to take Khelkur away - Ironhand Sem is leading the patrol - Sem recognises us and believes us - Lucy is to give a proper report and explanation later - short rest discussion with Irvan - warehouse is near the haunted shrine - flag building is the hospital - Irvan seems resigned - his arm can sometimes be controlled by higher ups in the consortium - Galsariad is corrupted as hell - *it seems like Irvan has a (one sided) crush on Galsariad* - Ayo has a spear of Grummsh and it seems like she is listening to it - Maggie is no longer her usual jovial self anymore - Irvan needs to go down - he says it's the only way to remove the corruption their party is plagued with - he doesn't belive there is a way for the Mighty 5 to go down without the consortium - the party convinces him that the consortium is going down and that they must find another way - the Cobalt Soul might accept them if the party helps and the Mighty 5 are truely willing to change - when the pary goes to save Quiwynns mentor they will try to get the Mighty 5 to listen and come too - Irvan shares Maggie's poem - a way for the party to know they come in good faith towards the Mighty 5 to help them escape the consortium's grasp - a proof for Maggie at least that the party didn't kill Irvan and that he is on board with it > In the desert's heat, under the sky so blue, > The Vermilion Dream delves into secrets anew. > Their council of masters, with tongues so silver, > Seek knowledge forbidden, with passion they quiver. > > But caution, dear friends, for danger abounds, > And treachery often within their hallowed grounds. > Trust in your instincts, your heart and your might, > And beware the shadows that lurk in plain sight. > > For the city of Ank'harel can be both boon and bane, > A place of wonder, but also of pain. > Yet amidst the chaos, a hero may rise, > A shining beacon, lighting up the skies. > > So keep your eyes and ears open wide, > And let your courage be your guide. > For in this city of mysteries untold, > Adventures await, for the brave and the bold." > > *poem penned by Maggie Keeneyes* - Lucy write a deposition - only containing true statements - painting the Mighty 5 as much as possible as victims of the consortium - Irvan reads it and gives corrections if needed - Irvan is escorted to the temple of the mentor and the cobalt soul - temple of the mentor - the racist guard is back - swap to cobalt soul clothes to show him we are to pass - he doesn't let Linda and Luggage pass - Irvan is shown to Jamil and Iwo - as long as he is true in his words and intention he will be taken care of - Lucy gives a copy of the deposition that was written - the ruidium shortsword that Irvan used to wield is given - still barehanded by Lucy - a report with what happened is handed - a note that Lucy took in the basement is shared > Master Khelkur, > > Our attempts to gain access to the rift have been disastrous. An aboleth haunts the Drowned City. It slaughtered all but one member of our last expedition. The creature calls itself Alyxian—certainly not an aboleth name, but not one I am familiar with either. But know this: Cael Morrow is where we must focus our efforts, lest the Allegiance of Allsight claim the only known source of ruidium for itself. > > Our key to the rift is lost, but we have a spy in the Drowned City searching for it. Meanwhile, we have decided to secure a new headquarters. Please see that First Eclipse is cleared out—and quickly—before the Hands of Ord search the place. > > Humbly, > > Master Dendarron - pary takes off towards the hospital - hospital - lots of bodies - Cali goes invisible - downstairs - crying noises - Quiwynn and Figuel going - 16yo boy is the source > they attacked us, Joanne and Fred - willing ppl to be experimented on for power - they snapped and attacked everyone here - he is the last one left - tentacles were coming out of the bodies - upstairs - slamming on a door noises - Lucy, Cali and James going - Lucy sees big stuff (sorrowsworn) slamming on a door - Lucy back in teh stairs - sorrowsworn follows # session 39 (07/05/2023) - hospital - first floor - *fight script* - sorrowsworn resist bludgeoning damage even if magical - James doesn't want a hug - giant husk come and tries to smother Lucy but she can't be - Lucy shoves a Sorrowsworn in the room in the side and closes the door - Cali kneecapped the husk - James opens another door - desc - barricaded door with a bookshelf - beds - dimly lit - ppl inside - Female inside > i'm not letting you harm him - 4 ppl inside - eerie tranquility - woman clad in red - Larthul - at the door - rapier - emblem of teh consortium - she was here during the assault on the Yuanti prisoner wagon with Kelkhur in the background - nurse - red robed - old sick elf - Lyndon - ruidium all the way over him - glowing dim red - perfusion of healing mixture - Lucy asks for identification - ppl in the room are protecting Lyndon - Quiwyn pushes the bookshelf down on the woman with the rapier - Sorrowsworn comes out and embraces Cali - it can tighten the embrace when taking damage - Cali gets out of the grapple - Quiwynn steps on the bookcase and threatens the nurse for explanation - Lyndon tried to help - took the corruption for master Adrin - one of the 5 leaders of the consortium exposed in the early days - Lyndon is trapped in a mental realm - nurse is trying to regenerate his flesh but it comes out corrupted - nurse thinks its a race against time to save Lyndon - the curse can be aleviated by transfering it - something Lyndon was able to do before with his magic - the husks and sorrowsworn were the result of a failed transfer - Lyndon has the blisters and ruidium crystals all over himself - visibly aged from last time Quiwynn saw him - Quiwynn asks if Lucy can do something - detect though - failed CHA save - exhaustion - 2d10 psychic damage - barren lands - figure in the distance - approach - body here in some sort of coma - spectral figure - Lyndon is trapped here - deal with the corruption to save him - has maybe but a month - selfless to allow - Quiwynn thankful about it - Lucy got very tired and a big nose bleed from it - Lucy confronts Larthul with her presence in some places with Kelkhur - one of the 5 concil leaders - moderate branch of the consortium - were exploring too deep about ruidium - Larthul will stay here protecting Lyndon - seemed geniune about it - groundfloor needs to be cleared - ground floor - wriggeling corpses - *fight script* - Malleables grow when hit by psychic damage - *oops sorry* - Figuel Force chokes one - Cali monk shit - Quiwynn 50cal - James tis but a scratch - James find the same healing device the nurse was using - back to the first floor - telling Larthul that it is cleared downstairs - *missing the end of the session sorry, wasn't able to take notes and headache i had makes it too fuzzy so might need help here* - iirc party was planning what was next # session 40 (14/05/2023) - hospital - first floor - Figuel nags at Lucy as she says she is fine even though she is bleeding from her nose and ears - long rest is taken - Lucy breaks a chair in her sleep - party prepare robes - James summons unseen servants to help - fantasia moment - breakfast - Lucy restyles James to make him less recognisable - red turban - mustache wax and a goatie - hairdo, bang covering the left side of the forhead - Cali contacts the cobalt soul - got the address - need to talk to the informant before barging in - to the warehouse - party is being followed - Cali goes invisible - clumsy dark hooded figure - it's Prolix - wishes to speak in private - private talk in a tavern - 7h link between Cali, Figuel, Prolix and Lucy - Prolix feels being targeted - Prolix thinks he is being framed for the lifedome attack - Prolix's sachel got stolen and found back in teh crystal chateau - Prolix found a ring in his pocket - silver and red - thinks it was laced in his pocket - Lucy isn't able to feel it react - James identifies it as a ruidium ring of water breathing and walking - asks if the party can help him proving innocent - leaves the ring in the pary's hand - 2 informants outside the warehouse - Bending Branches is one of them - 50-60 ppl of throughput - Cali invisible - Figuel spider in Cali's pocket - Lucy redesigns James - warehouse time - Cali escorts Figuel to the door - Figuels scoots under the door > that's not good... - *desc* - warehouse full of crate - awful lot of red robed people - person in chains in a cage - big forcefield - no familiar faces - spiderclimb on the ceiling to see better - ppl in a room discussing - Aradrine the Owl is here - high ranking ppl too - grunts - ppl in cages - lot of ruidium, like 3 crates - someone forging weapons - too much to deal with right now - Lucy will send the report to Jamil - search for the Mighty 5 - Figuel circles above the city - locate object on the spear - giant eagle - Mighty 5 not in suncut, sigil, sand herald, circlet or guided - Cali hears a summon from Jamil through the stone - temple of the mentor - Jamil has good news - Jamil found a way for the party to head down to Cael Morrow - went to seek an audience with Jamon - surprised that the party knew him - Jamil took Irvan to Jamon - the mention of the party to Jamon help Irvan's testimony - Jamon is worried about an insider in the allegiance - party would become special investigators from the hands of ord - othority of Jamon - outside intervention might be needed over the allegience - they might not enjoy - remain steadfast - Irvan is no longer with the cobalt soul - annoyed that the mighty 5 will not be invited down - Jamil hopes Irvan will join back with the soul - Jamil warns the party of dangers - mission order - step 1: meet Pr Insight at Cael Morrow and earn her trust (don't trust her) - find the traitor if possible - step 2: find the keys to the rifts - Ruidium comes from a rift to the "Netherdeep" - *he said the name !* - keep safe - 1000gp on success # session 41 (21/05/2023) - prep shopping - Lucy - Dust of Dryness - Orb of Direction - Orb of Time - Quiver - Rope of Climbing - Potion of Healing - Healer's Kit - 50gp - Figuel - diamonds - James - Potions of Healing - Cali - Potions of Healing - Quiwynn - Potions of Healing - to the Maw - protestors are on the Plaza - 20 to 30 ppl - they have banners shield scrolls > let the past die in peace ! > the citie's memories cannot be disturbed - guards are there too blocking them - frustration and wearyness - bracing for impact - Lucy spears the party in the crown to go through - one protestor locks eye with Lucy > are you working with them ? - tense and cordial exchanges - they are against the cael morrow excavation > should have stayed like it was, burried - heard from others it was bad - tinfoil hat discourse - trusts fred the flat earther more than researchers - stink bomb kid - holding a ready to explode smoke/stink bomb - Lucy surprises him by talking in his head - Lucy snatches the bomb as it's dropping - kid wated to make some mess here, turning the protest into a full blown riot - his father, fred, asked him to do so - kid is talked into standing down - Cali drowns the bomb into water defusing the explosion - paper givens to the guards - guard is looking a Lucy with doubt at the start - eyes widen at the sight of Jamon's name - party passes through - Busted Guard high-five session - down in the Maw - spiral - crates and stuff - leader of the excavation here orc from before (Hakzorne) - another orc here (Gortag) - ppl died > why are you here - Lucy mentions that Pr Insight might need some help - waivers are signed to go through - Hakzorne shamelessly copied the one Lucy made last time when going down - Luggage signed too - corridor - James got a skype from the aboleth and is seeing blurry - 2 guards in the end - halfling - Nadiya - human - Kal - hub - Pr Insight - red tiefling - black hair - blue eyes - she/her - second group passing through - Mighty 5 passed before - after some discussion Lucy helps Pr Insight relise that they used forged papers - *Lucy starting to give a seminar on forging and its detection isn't exuding trust vibes* - Pr Insight asks the party to recover a tablet on the south of the ruins to be "trusted" - once that is done Pr Insight will cooperate with what the party needs - Lucy grumbles - ppl not knowing paperwork - not being able to detect simple forging - proposes to teach ppl once they are done because this is embarassingly bad from the allegiance - in the ruins - *apologies for the not very precise locations but i don't know the name of the places we went* - Quiwynn got a skype from the aboleth - the aboleth is a liar ? - sizzle told her - Lucy thinks sizzle can be trusted on that as it likes its "exclusive ownership" of Quiwynn - square - outside on the bottom right red veins - Lucy concentrate on it - blonde curly hair man flash - James find a scroll of teleport - Olara is at her bar outside - tunnel going down - water arround running faster - mesh pulses more - light cube sparking in the ground a lot - Lucy can't identify it - James picks a random stone on the ground - barrier collapses - giant shark and 2 swarms of fish (sorrowfish) descend on the party - *combat script* - Shark can take psychic damage - Shark regens on its turn - James swims top the shark with its new ring - Quiwynn feeds sizzle - Figuel removes the entirety of the water that juste collapsed in with Control Water - Shark flopped on the ground and became useless - water to the knee - sorrowfish swarm still hurted a lot swimming in knee high water # session 42 (28/05/2023) - Cael Morrow - collapsed forcefield tunnel - Figuel brongs the water slowly in to about being crushed at the end of the spell - Lucy gets a skype from the Aboleth - **REDACTED** - Party asks what happens as the comunications were cut of > it showed me something that happened before - Lucy slowly calms down - Quiwynn goes to talk to Olara at the bar - Olara has been there for many years - Olara knows of the Aboleth - strange creature - damaged mind - thoughts clouded - praying to any god - moans about being a hero, being forgotten - keeps repeating - party buys wine, potion of healing and potion of heroism - party stops to take a drink - very old bottle of wine - like more than 1000yo - Lucy pulls out a straw to sip it - Lucy gives her Celebone to Olara - Olara goves a bottle of wine in return - continuing south - dried hallway - illuminated by torches - water was drained - door - side room - Cali scouts it - used to be a library with a grand dome - full of water - rubbles - window intact - broken clay tablets - mentions of Correlion - birth of orcs - James and Lucy find unbroken tablets - Figuel detect magic some necromancy - Lucy searches one of the piles - tablets light up - 3 ghosts appears - 2 males elves at teh back - 1 female orc near Lucy - James and Lucy are possessed - in a magnificent library - sense of urgency and impending doom - James is in the body of the elf - Lucy is in the body of the orc - feeling of familiarity - flashes of memories - first time meeting - thriving jungle city - growing up at school - orc community being welcomed in the city - scene drifts - chaos in the library - ppl running through the streets in desperation - spires now crumbling - trying to stow away books - preserve as much of history as possible - city being evacuated - 3 of us staying being to protect what can be - gazing at a nearby temple of Prolon - 100s ft tall figure - looming and seething over the city - malevolance taken form - reverberating primal laugther - Lucy and James looks at the temple - can talk between themselves - 2nd elve puts a hand on our sholder - impending doom feeling - Alyxian brandishes a spear above the temple as to stop the colossus from smashing it - profound sense of loss - burning determination as history is preserved through the sacrifice - post possession - divine dome of energy above the temple - strange red substance inside of it - Nashara the orc - place used to be the royal library of Cael Morrow - settlement was blessed by Correlion - they wish for the city to remembered - Figuel asks his friend if these is what they wanted - silver ray descends on the temple - Lucy records their testimonies - they succeeded on their mission - talk about Alyxian naming him the Apotheon - Cali got a skype from the aboleth - going back to Pr Insight - swarms of Sorrowfish are eating the corpse of the shark - the smell the party and heads towards it - *combat script* - figuel squid ink - the fish have blindsight - the fish resist psychic damage - Lucy shoving party out of the stunning swarm # session 43 (11/06/2023) - Cael Morrow - going back to Pr Insight - *combat script still* - dust of dryness around James to remove the swarm stunning him - at Pr. Insight - Xot shakes Jame's hand - reports are given - not the repository - not what she wanted - still good information - one question reward - the red rift - the netherdeep - expedition was organized - by Galeokaerde - good friend of Insight - more hardy than a lot of others - last heard of at the royal library - key of the netherdeep - red crystaline lair - only permitted Riven Frostwind in - month or so ago - had a ruidium trident - closed as soon as they went through - detect thoughts - genuine - worried about her friend - she is acompanied by a shield guard - short rest - Scribbles shows his collection to Lucy - Lucy find a ring of the ram, a superior healing potion and an old Cael Morrow scarf - traded the talking deck of cards and her last oopstone - Xot pulls James aside > i don't swing that was - Scribbles repeat stuff that is weird > ungrateful wretches - etc - James gives his sleep routine to Xot - back at the library - noise in a door - large footsteps - James opens - *desc* - big room - rotting wood - waterlogged books - Pr Galeokaerda - doesn't want to be disturbed - working on some books - Galeokaerda asks Crescent her shield guardian to escort us out - party still lingers - Cali bluntly asks her if she works for the consortium - Galeokaerda becomes aggressive - Figuel telekinesis her against the wall - Galeokaerda nearly downs Figuel - Lucy goes mad at the sight of it and goes overdrive - starts attacking Galeokaerda without care for herself - Galeokaerda alway rebukes Lucy - Lucy rebukes Galeokaerda in return - sickening radiance - Lucy goes down - the party finishes Galeokaerda and Crescent shortly after - aftermath - Lucy gets healed back to consciousness and immediately goes down again with the damage from gaining exhaustion - Lucy reaches corruption lvl3 - red blisters all across her left arm - in a catatonic state staring at her arm - not anwsering - party loots the scene and takes notes about what happened here to report it after # session 44 (18/06/2023) - Cael morrow - at the library - Lucy just stares in the void and at her arm sometimes looking at ppl talking to her - Cali inspects the books Galeokaerde was reading - lives of the citizens of Cael Morrow pre sinking - layout and architecture of the buildings - something about a villa - Valerion Villa - meeting place within the city - where nobles gathered - Galeokaerde had - a tablet of teleportation - amulet of the shield guardian - party but Lucy debates about the procedure to follow - get back ? - continue ? - take the night down here ? - Figuel stands Lucy up - Lucy looks behind him - equips the left glove from an evening dress - long going up to above the elbow - burgundy colored, with gold accents - made out of silk - completely clashes with her current outfit - going back to Pr Insight - at Insight's > is everything ok ? - Lucy really doesn't look fine - Cali tries to lie saying yes - Insight saw through it - you sound like James on his arcdhelogy essay in second year - Insight was in the whisper link of Lucy - she had a message form Lucy telling that the party found her friend Pr Galeakaerde - she felt the link go very static and uncomfortable before violently snapping - Xot asks if James is fine - yes - James asks about the aboleth's influence - ppl going mad - Scribble is a lesser case - someone else went mad and attacked the rest of the researcher while bellow on the extreme case - party escapes before telling Insight what really happened promissing a report - to the Palace - Quiwynn write a very short report - gives it to the guards - Party will be summoned tomorrow with a carriage - Figuel buys a vest with a 100 pockets for Shira - Step Aside Tavern - Figuel casts Lesser Restoration on Lucy - no big effect - Lucy accept the glasses of water - James offers his room for Lucy to stay in comfortably - James opens the door to see ppl in the room - after a short discussion James realise these are the debt collectors - James punches their ring leader in the face - *combat script* - Lucy auto-pilot - only shoves ppl around at the start - gets attacked - start reflexivly attacking anything that seems aggressive to herself or the party - finishes a few of them - Cali calls for guards - Figuel seems to snap and casts heat metal on the champion - room smashed and starting to burn - James is locked in the room against all of them - Figuel destroys the door with the ring of the ram - Quiwynn orders Luggage to protect Lucy - champion escapes - Quiwynn runs after him and lets him go - Figuel transforms into a flying dino and chases him down - Cali runs after him - James stays to salvage his room - Lucy stays there hiding from potential new aggressors - champion begs for mercy - Figuel's blood thirst seems to finally subside - champion is spared and he'll do his best to make James' debt clear - guards finally arrive on the first floor - Lucy starts attacking one of them - Cali is back and managed to calm Lucy down - on of the guard recognises Lucy and stops the troop from taking down Lucy as she stands down - party runs after the champion - Lucy stays in auto-pilot - she attacks the reinforcing guards - Cali calms her down to her catatonic state - some of the guards recognise Lucy and let that pass - Cali butters up the owners - 200gp - they don't ban us - Cali inquires about the price of buying the inn - he would have to talk to his husband about it - Quiwynn escorts Lucy to the room and sets her on the bed - next morning - description of the changes - breakfast talk - Summon to the palace - carriage picks us up - Gemeshega receptions the party and escorts to the lair of Ja'mon - Ja'mon's lair - Ja'mon, Jamil and Shira are here - lvl up to 9 ! - *end of the session* # session 45 (25/06/2023) - Ja'mon/Davosa's lair, the Treasure Rock - beautiful and cozy room - fresh fruits - Shira has made a lot of progress in her sorcerer training - talk stuff - arm of the betrayer - worry if the relation changes - aboleth - interesting - should look at it for more information - rewards - 1000gp for the traitor mission - 3000gp on the next mission - gift exchanges - Shira gives Figuel a statuette of Jamon - Figuel gives her Shira the 100 pocket vest - Lucy gives Shira a hand made illustrated child guide to sign language - Shira wants to come but she can't - farewell talk - to the maw - small boy hands a leaflet - weird figure on it - unveiling secrets, bla bla bla - date: today during the evening - the stuff that MAGA Jeff was supporting apparently - taking note of it - aboleth first - Cael Morrow - the party informs Lucy she has to inform Insight about what happens to Galeokaerde - messing around with Horkzorne - Pr. Insight lab - quieter than usual - only Insight her, no sign of Xot or Scribble - Lucy informs her about want happened with Pr. Galeokaerde - not believing Lucy at all - through a long exchange of semantics and rethoric Insight agrees to wait until teh party comes back again - Lucy will then do all the depositions needed - the reports will be written - circle of thruth will be used if needed - if at that time Pr. Insight trusts again Lucy she offered to do forgery detection classes as a consultant - mainly for Pr. Insight and her students - Insight suggested to extend that to a full lecture ppl could attend - maybe the hand of ord will also join in - Insight notices that James has the ring - the one used to frame Prolix - Insight is really not trusting the party about the origin they claim for it - as per the previous agreement with Lucy she lets it slide for now - it will be part of the report she gives back up while the party trudges the depths - the party agrees that it will be part of the talks once they come back up - Aboleth talk - old and dangerous - corrupted some of the scientists that descended here - Lucy sounds crazy when she tells Insight that they are going to try to talk to it - Insight insists on the party comming back alive - no promises but we'll do our best - James did some stuff in the dormitories in his time - he was quite the roudy student - Cali goes out and uses the visage to shout to bait the Aboleth - a Death Embrace comes out attracted by the sound - *more fish accompanying it....* - this time Lucy isn't the one pushing ppl out of them as she is swarmed - when freed Lucy throws a shard with a filament of red energy attached to her hand - very short head ache from everyone around - Lucy is now where the shard landed - it transferes damage to the stuff it is embracing - James can take an ungodly amount of attacks from the fish and the Death Embrace - rest of the party deals with is swiftly - Cali skypes aboleth - ***Redacted*** - Cali asks Lucy to try to contact the Aboleth - Lucy begrudgingly skypes aboleth - ***Redacted*** - the party is summoned to the sea of kelps to parley # session 47 (20/08/2023) - Cael Morrow - Kelp Forest - loot - 568gp (Lucy) - ruidium shield (Figuel) - figuel heal time - noise in the tower near where the Mighty 5 were spotted - they are hauling heavy rocks - they found a Corellon trapdoor (like Lucy) - party goes to the rift - to the rift - *desc* - sunken ruins of the palace - gaping rift - red light - black energy - rift - jagged ruidium - James and Lucy go in - James placed his hand in the rift - the protecting film dissipates damaging everyone - party swims down in the rift - ruidium inventory - James: ruidium ring - Figuel: ruidium shield - Quiwynn: ruidium shortbow - Cali: ruidium arrow - Lucy: herself - Cali falls over from the pressure - Cali is healed on the way back up - lets go to the temple before, necklace might need an upgrade - to the temple - Mighty 5 are in front of us - they all seem at least a bit corrupted - all of them are tired - Galsariad is nearly as corrupted as Lucy - force field around the temple - the Mighty 5 are failing to go through it - James detect magic - divine abjuration magic for the wall - party make themselves known - Quiwynn can pass through > With the embrace of Corellon's chosen, the unblessed find solace; let the touch of the blessed guide them through the light's embrace. - Cali and James pass through - Ayo grapples Lucy at the tip of her spear - *back and forth sorry too invested to do the perfect transcript...* - Ayo is trying to threaten the party through Lucy so she can go through - Lucy tries her best to ignore the threat and sits up in the water - Lucy then Figuel try to get through the thick skull of Ayo that the party isn't here to get in their way - Ayo didn't understand that Lucy was not planning to prevent them from going down but wanted to make it so they officially could - Ayo is full of sunken cost fallacy towards the consortium - Ayo is willing to not be a hero and was ready to strike Lucy if she tried to move - Lucy doesn't remember the Ayo of her childhood, stubborn and wanting to lead, but not someone considering murder - Dermy tugs on Ayo from behind - Ayo says that Lucy couldn't understand as they are corrupted - Lucy has a sour laugth and show her own corrupted left arm > at least you had the choice - not laugthing anymore Lucy tells her that out of everyone here she is the one with the least choice about it - it is her own self and essence that is corrupted - to the point she creates ruidium - Lucy points that it is quite the opposite - Ayo is the one with choice here and quite the hypocrite for thinking otherwise - Ayo really didn't like that - Maggie intervenes and separates Ayo from Lucy - Maggie agrees to an alliance as she views the party as blood brothers - Quiwynn makes everyone pass through the barrier - in the temple - *desc* - dry - resonating atmosphere - quiwynn eating noises echo - Maggie gave her bread and pastries - lavish scultures - breath taking mozaic floor - depiction of 2 verdant crescent moons and 4 pointed stars - red cristal shard growing from the center of the temple - life size statue of Corellon - very fancy - faint touches of red on the cloak - eyes with a mix of wisdom and compassion - vision - familiar sensation - air shifts - pristine temple - aged curly head warrior kneeling - Alyxian - older than all the other visions - weary form - transcendental sense of resolve - stares the statue > Whatever it takes > Even if it costs my life and soul i will do what it takes to protect them - back in the temple - Ayo inquires about the Jewel of Three Prayers and if it changed - Lucy tries to trick with her own and fails - the Jewel of Three Prayers changed on its owned - Lucy feels a pull to the crystal - Lucy goes up to it and touched it - ***REDACTED*** - a profound stillness grows in the temple - the red cristal fractures loudly and shatters - shards flares splitting crimson light - transulcent image apparates for a moment, Alyxian - determination and impatciences in his face - stares at Lucy - dissapears with the glow of the light - the crystal finally explodes - only Lucy takes the blast - the shards and veins on the floor starts to receed - Lucy sits on the groud crosslegged and concentrate - all the ruidium starts converging towards her - after a while all the ruidium is is absorbed - camping for the night - Lucy asks if someone wants to volunteer for some tests as she feels news stuff - Galsariad obliges - Lucy casts Mind Sliver - Lucy pulls a though from her head - Ayo asks what was that about with the crystal and what Lucy saw - Lucy asks Ayo to wait until the morning for that as she still has a lot to process - Lucy pulls a notebook from James bag and starts writing in it - Figuel preps some food for the night with the last of our fancy food - Figuel tries to get a watch with Dermy - Lucy crashes down on the floor after writing for a bit with the notebook to her side and doesn't take any watch - **usual notebook:** ??? - **official looking notebook with crest on:** ??? - **black book with silver linings:** ??? - ***level up to 10 !*** # session 46 (06/08/2023) - Cael Morrow - prep to get to the sea of kelp - link up for 7h for everyon but Cali - Lucy hiches a ride on shark Figuel - to the sea ! - aboleth broadcasts his bitterness - passing by the red rocks surrounding the rift - collapsed guard tower - James and Lucy explore - James licks a rock - Lucy sees a Symbol of Correlon under it inscribed onto the floor - inner circle is a trapdoor - not trapped just pold and stuck - James opens it - cylindrical room - divine evocation magic glyph - armory - one sword and one shield - Lucy mage hand shenanningans - Shield too heavy - Lucy pulls the sword out - the trap is triggered - flash of holy light - Lucy is down - James heals Lucy - attracted unwanted attention - *combat script* - Slithering bloodfins - Cali stuns one - Figuel turns one into a fish - Quiwynn gets swallowed by the third - James picks up shield and sword - Fish is finished off - items - sentinel shield - frostbrand longsword - Lucy tries the shield - 39 perception - too much to see and bear - shield back to James - *maybe use it during watches ?* - kelp forest - big garden - 2 sinister and sinuous creatures guards - Lucy says they are here for the summon - the guards asks for the party's weapon - they leave Sizz alone as it is not cooperative - guards escorts the party through the crumbled gargn that isthe kelp forest > they were right those who speak my follies [...] i shall leave a ñark of fire on this world - face to face with the aboleth - description - ruidium veins - corrupted looking - side mouth - too many eyes > intruder of my domain why are you here - claims it is Alyxian - doesn't remember summoning Lucy - Lucy tries to persuade it it summoned the party - 21 not enough - *combat script* - Aboleth tries to enslave Lucy but fails - Lucy tries to ask Perigee for guidance as she is near her tolerating limit for the Aboleth - screaming is the only answer - it was the Aboleth trying to trick Lucy - Lucy snaps and starts going after the Aboleth - spawns were dealt with - Cali manages to talk through the Aboleth - the jewel of 3 prayers helped their case - Cali manages to calm Lucy down barely - Lucy mentions they are being observed by the Mighty 5 - detect thought - Aboleth remembers swimming around the rift - 2 presences in the head after that - primal aboleth - external persence that is overpowering with feelings and thoughts - ppl harvesting the mineral makes the aboleth suffer - only the person with ruidium managed to pass through - make so everyone in the party has some ruidium at the ready - Aboleth wants its suffering to end - Aboleth is put down