# Fourth Dive Going to help defend the dwarves in their night mining outpost as promised. # Herbal teleportation and dwarven cannons (S14 - 02/06/2024) - to the smithy in the city - Paracelsus manages to convince the party to do a detour via the southern apothecary shop - it is on the way - could have some much needed potions or ingredients for them - Herbalism shop - same eerie look inside - Paracelsus steps in - he disappears from the view of the ones outside - Quake sends Lump inside - he disappears from the view of the ones outside - Lump can see Paracelsus inside - Baz keeps an eye out - Quest stays with Quake for now - Herton keeps an eye out - the shop is the same as before - doctor bag is still looted - corpse ashes are still on the floor - potion is still brewing - inspecting the shadows - male and female - no burnt equipment - not normal fire - around th figure on the floor is glass - from a thick potion bottle - origin looks like where an old brewing stand was - inspecting the potion - floating islands in the liquid - magical fire aura - hard to know more - Quake tells Paracelsus that he doesn't have the time to identify - after careful handling the potion is retrieve - Paracelsus and Lump get out - the others can't be seen - no clues if it is the same place - after a moment they both enter back - Paracelsus is excited about that thing - party decides to test it together - to mark the place Paracelsus leaves a scalpel - after coming back out the scalpel is here - Paracelsus wants to do one last test - needs someone with good eyesight - Baz "volunteers" - going through both appear with no party on sight - Baz confirms it looks like the other version of the shop on the north-west side of the city - Baz goes back through - Paracelsus stays just to mark on the wall (3a) - as he tries to go through he stays in that side - after quite a few tries Paracelsus manages to come back - Paracelsus marks this side too (3b) - party is informed on that teleportation stuff - screaming girl in a hole - still screams but a different person - says something different - asks for help in infernal - Quake shouts back > who are you ? - it answers asking who we are and why we seek help in this forsaken place - party decides to maybe come back later but not now - in an intersection - an intact building is aflame in eldritch flames - flames are not hot - Baz throw a stick to the building - it bounces - not on fire - Paracelsus places his hand in the fire - succeeds a con save - nothing happens > maybe lets not do more - *maybe Quest should learn that the leash thing will **not** happen* - the spokes smithy - smokes stacks can start to be seen - it is getting late into the evening - pulsing lights blue lights - Paracelsus perceives it matches his heartbeat - veins across the ground - blacksmith shop - series of barricades outside - a few cannons are here - one fires - a large monstrosity falls - a voice can be heard shouting "all clear" - party crosses the rift towards the smithy as the night falls - a dwarf hails the party - Quake answers that we are here to guard them - Dwarf asks if we are the ones from the Amethyst Academy that were sent by Elouise - Quake corrects that we are here on behalf of the Amethyst Academy not part of it - the dwarf is armored and has some vials of poison - party advances to the outpost - female dwarf starts talking - - name is Gertrude - we are late - we are not allowed to use the guns yet (trust issue) - that shift is not calm at all - monsters - husks - ratlings - and more... - try to limit light usage - attracts more monsters - most people should be fine without it - Herton is not - male dwarf leads Herton inside - hands out Googles of Night - *Herton now has darkvision !* - Quake places Lump outside - Paracelsus goes towards the fallen husk - Herton follows him - after opening the its sternum he extracts an Ethereal Transfusion - Herton notices some movement going towards them - Paracelsus is too busy to notice - rest of the party notices - *fighting script* - Baz - zoomies to the rift - Baz shoots one of the rift haze husks - Paracelsus finishes extracting the Ethereal Transfusion - Gertrude - rings the bell - all the miners starts running out of the rift - one of the dwarf groups lights up the cannon on the northern group of haze husks and obliterates a couple of them - Quake slaps one of the northern haze husts - Quest uses the rid to cast flamestrike on the southern group of haze husks killing all but one - northern haze husk group marches forward - Herton - drags Paracelsus out - holds a booming blade - south eastern haze husk - ambushes Herton and Paracelsus - Herton hist one of them - they all miss Herton and Paracelsus - Baz - aims at one that is swarming Paracelsus and Herton - gravely wounds it - rift haze husk group marches to the ladder - southern haze husk group dashes on the other side of the rift - Paracelsus - moves a bit - all opportunity attack misses him - throws a potent solvent (casts corrosive blast) - 2 husks die - when they die they explode threatening with shards of delirium - Gertrude - orders the cannons to be shot - one fires - the seconds one is not fired as the dwarves swear at Quest standing in the middle if the shooting line - Quake - crits one down - moves Quest out of the cannon sightline - Quest - casts spirit guardian - starts flying over the husks (in the cannon sightline again) - northern haze husks move towards the cannons - Herton - shoves Paracelsus out of reach - moves out of the way - the poison breath weapon doesn't affect them - south eastern haze husks - swarm Paracelsus - all miss Paracelsus - Baz finishes one husk off - rift haze husk group moves in the spirit guardian and dies - Paracelsus - dons his mask - throws a bio-hazard at his feet surrounding him and the husks - Paracelsus is immune to his own spells - undeads are affected by Paracelsus's poison - Gertrude - cannons are shot obliterating even more husks - Quake slaps a husk near Baz - Quest - comes near Baz engulfing the husks - eldritch blasts one of them down - Herton - vortex warps Paracelsus to safety - climbs down to the rift - all the ones that surrounded Parcelsus then explode - *got saved from 3 explosions thx Herton <3* - Baz finishes the last one - shards are removed from Herton - party is to give all the shards to the dwarfs - our pay is with the Amethyst Academy so no double dipping - Paracelsus goes and tries to inspect a husk that did not explode - Paracelsus walks into the spirit guardian - *why would i assume that Quest would hurt Paracelsus* - Quest could not see Paracelsus when casting - Paracelsus is damaged by the spirit guardians - Quest deactivates the spirit guardians - powerful damage (crits) and radiant damage prevented the explosion - harvests 2 more for the Ethereal Transfusion - the miners start working again - Gertrude throws the shards in the forge - to melt them - helps removing meteorite impurities - can be molded into weapons after - still very dangerous to wield - Quake asks Gertrude about the delirium dagger - she doesn't know who made it sadly - watches are taken - Paracelsus gives aid again to the rest of the party - everyone is able to short rest - Paracelsus proposes the Ethereal Transfusion to the party - everyone refuses the "dead juice" - *for now* - Lump is starting to get *a bit* drunk - Paracelsus identifies the potion from the herbalism shop - it is a potion of fire breath - loud wails can be heard through the streets - from the west - *fighting script* - Quake is surprised - Paracelsus - warns the party from noises coming west - dashes through the camp - Quest - flies in the camp - holds an eldritch blast - unpredictable haze husk - runs to the edge of the camp - gets blasted away - Baz is surprised - Herton runs in the camp - Gertrude - rings the alarm - gets near the cannons - Quake - moves in the camp - slaps impatient haze husk - Paracelsus - steps forward - casts hypnotic pattern on impatient haze hulk - Quest blasts away unpredictable haze hulk - unpredictable haze hulk - runs in - picks up the cannon - chucks it at Quest and Herton - Baz - dashes atop the building - misses with his bow - miserly haze husk - runs in - slams Gertrude twice - Herton - reduces the cannon - repositions it - drops the reduce - cannon is back up - Gertrude - runs to unpredictable haze husk - spears unpredictable haze husk - dwarves run to the new cannon position - impatient haze husk is incapped - ***Session ends at the start of a new turn*** # A very long night (S15 - 09/06/2024) - Spokes Smithy - *fighting script* - *sorry missed part of it, apparently both hulks saved the blindness :/* - Baz shoots unpredictable haze hulk - miserly haze hulk - hurls a chunk of his own flesh to the group - the party and some of the dwarves save but 2 dwarves die - Paracelsus loses concentration on the hypnotic pattern - Herton - second wind (still half healing) - misses unpredictable haze hulk with booming blade - dwarves - Mordekai ambushes unpredictable haze hulk nearly taking it down - Gertrude charges unpredictable haze hulks and finishes it but it stays up because of mutant fortitude - drunk dwarf point blank shoots the cannon at the unpredictable haze hulk blasting it of completely - some people around the hulk takes the shrapnel of the shot - othe dwarves drop the cannon balls and pick up their picks - Impatient haze hulks - is no longer under the effect of the hypnotic pattern - misses a flying Quest with flying tendrils - goes invisible - Quake misses miserly haze hulk with a chilly slap - Paracelsus - throws a poison needle at miserly haze hulk - does damage but not sure if full (will study them after combat) - Quest blasts back miserly haze hulk - Baz misses a shot - miserly haze hulk - does not recharge his flesh - runs towards Quest angry about being pushed back - misses Quest with his slams - Herton hold his blade for a threat - dwarves - Gertrude throws her axes to the miserly Haze hulks - drunk dwarf gives Gertrude a thumbs up - favorable dwarf throws a javelin towards miserly haze hulks - dwarves form a protective line in front of Paracelsus - Mordekai finishes of impatient haze hulk - Herton reflexively slams his blade in the corpse - impatient haze hulk - latches on Herton with a tendril - reels Herton in towards him - drags Herton 20 more feet being dragged away - Quake misses chilly slaps impatient haze hulks - Paracelsus - moves towards Herton - throws a healing word on Herton > try no to dodge that one - crits impatient haze hulk - not as much damage as expected - yep... they are resistant to poison and not undeads - Quest blasts impatient haze hulk - Baz - kitty cat runs to Herton - starts slicing the tendril holding Herton - casts shield of faith on Herton - Herton slices at the tendril holding him severing it - dwarves - Gertrude - grabs her axes on the miserly haze hulk corpse - runs towards Herton - throws her axes towards impatient haze hulks - Mordekai heads back into the office - rest of the dwarves stay in the camp - impatient - haze hulk turns invisible again - Baz hears its direction of movement - Quake holds a slap - Paracelsus - tries to administer Herton an ethereal transfusion - Herton doesn't want it - Paracelsus shows its effect on his own body gaining 5 temporary hitpoints - Quest holds a blast - Baz - hides - tries to listen for impatient haze hulk - it seems like it is now in the south - Herton still adamantly refuses the ethereal transfusion - Paracelsus hands Herton the potion of fire breath - another turn passes - Quest and Quake see a chimera diving down from the north - Quake crit chilly slaps it - strategic chimera - swoops towards Paracelsus and Herton - hits Paracelsus with a horn - Herton shields the claw - Baz - runs to strategic chimera - sneak attacks it - Herton is surprised - dwarves > the cannons are normally really good for this kind of creature ! gods damn you Fred ! - Gertrude - no axes right now - runs to the chimera - fails to climb on it > Mordekai you might need to come out - Mordekai - leaves the room - fires his bolt at the chimera - impatient haze hulk - latchs onto Quest with a tentacle - reels Quest in - moves dragging quest 20 ft away - Quake misty steps towards Quest - Paracelsus - crits a shocking grasp on strategic chimera - moves away from it - Quest blasts to death impatient haze hulk - strategic chimera - tries to fly away - Baz finishes it of as it tries to get off - *there are more husks coming in* - Baz - runs back in the camp - throws a dagger to a husk - Herton moves in the camp and dashes - dwarves - Gertrude - runs back into the camp - grabs spears - chucks them destroying one - Fred (the drunk cannon blasting dwarf) runs into the face of the husks - other dwarves run in the building - Mordekai slams the door shut and starts reprimanding the fleeing dwarves - Quake - starts running back in the camp - Lump fires a crossbow - killing towering haze husk - it explodes - it downs Fred - Paracelsus throws a poison needle at a husk - Quests finishes that husk - the last 2 husks dash towards Baz and Herton - Baz - spare the dying Fred - attacks one of the husks - Herton - moves away from the husks - gusts Baz away from the husks - dwarves - Gertrude > get your buts out here ! Fred's gone down ! - picks up 2 spears - chucks at one husk killing it - moves towards Fred - Quake chilly slaps the last husks - Paracelsus misses the last husk - Quest finishes the last husk - another group of husk rushes in and surrounds Paracelsus - Baz - climbs up the roof - casts sanctuary on Paracelsus - shoots one of the husks - sorry i was busy doing the meme lost part of the combat but tldr Paracelsus got away - Quest casts spiritual guardian blasting some of the husks - husks miss some of them - Baz holds until Herton gets away - Herton - moves away - Baz fire is bow killing one - Gertrude - pulls spears again - throws them at the last husk - Paracelsus throws a needle at the last husk > please try to keep it alive ! - Quest kills the last husk - Baz goes to tend to Fred - he has a large chunk of delirium in his throat - Baz manages to pull it out - Baz administers him a potion of healing - apparently that is a normal bad night - Paracelsus starts studying some of the corpses - chimera looks like a normal - no sign of corruption - not a common sight in the wild - haze hulk - it's an aberration - no resistances (i guess i was doing full damage they just are very beefy) - no immunities - Quest brings back Gertrude's axes - they are very fine work - apparently she made them ? - Mordekai makes poisons - Paracelsus goes to see him ignoring social queue warnings to exchange poison knowldge with him - Baz tries to help carrying the corpses - not good enough - Gertrude griumbles and mostly carry them herself - Baz mutters a few prayers - Paracelsus - knocks and enters > hello, apparently you do poisons, do you mind exchanging some knowledge on it ? - Mordekai is reluctant at first - Paracelsus sweetens the pot as asked by offering a few samples of his poison needles as they work on undead - Mordekai says maybe later but the party is working guarding them right now - Paracelsus say he'll be back once the day is up as this is the end of the mission - short rest attempts - Baz keeps watch not taking a short rest - Baz hears noises coming from the north - kicking of stones - Baz hides behind a cart trying to see more - *fighting script* - Baz - comes back to the party - stealthily - tells the camp that stuff is incoming - Paracelsus - moves to the center of the camp - holds a poison needle - dwarves get to their station - Quest - flies to Baz - sees some of them and blasts - Herton - moves to the center of the camp - casts armor of agathys - Quake - moves to Quest - sees some of them - self-serving, protective and pale delirium dreg dashe closer - decisive warp witch - hover forward - disapears from sight - Baz - shoots at a dreg - mentions to the canoneer to move the cannon northward - Paracelsus goes to help the canoneer - Gertrude - goes to the pallissades - duck behind them > don't go into the darkness, let them come to us - Quest blasts back a dreg - Herton moves out of the cannon line of fire - Quake misses a chilly slap - self-serving delirium dreg - moves into vision - Paracelsus finishes to aim the cannon and fires - *nat 20 !* - ***101 damage !!!*** - pale delerium dreg - comes into view - recklessly throws a spear on Paracelsus and misses - Baz - shoots pale delerium dreg - hides again - incomprehensible delerium dreg moves to protect pale delerium dreg - Paracelsus continues to help with the cannon - dwarves - Paracelsus finishes helping woth the cannon - pale and incomprehensible delerium dreg are blasted - Quest blasts one of them back - selfish delerium dreg stay off the cannon sightlines - Herton dodges - Quake holds a slap - protective delerium dreg misses Mordekai with a spear - decisive warp witch - goes through the wall straight into the camp up to Baz - Quake's slap goes straight through it - Baz - disengages - moves away and up - finishes of protective delerium dreg - simpering delerium dreg misses Mordekai - Paracelsus - throws a poison needle at the decisive warp witch - it goes straight through - it *should* have damaged it even if it was undead - Paracelsus mentions is might not be here yet - Gertrude attacks decisive warp witch - it goes straight through - Paracelsus bickers with her about warning her about it not being corporeal yet - Quest misses decisive warp witch - Quake slaps simpering delrium drg - protective delerium dreg - teleports right to Paracelsus - spears Paracelsus - decisive warp witch - moves in the space of Herton - starts possessing Herton - Baz shoots down simpering delerium dreg - Paracelsus - shocking grasps protective delerium dreg - moves away - Gertrude > sorry dragon dude i don't know how to deal with this - moves to protective delerium dreg - finishes it of - Quest stays put - Herton - possessed - moves to Paracelsus - attacks Paracelsus with his axe - Quake stays put # A new partnership (S16 - 23/06/2024) - Spoke Smithy - *fighting script* - Baz - asks Herton what is going on - the warp witch is the one answering - Baz steals Herton's spell casing focus - moves away from Herton who misses the opportunity attack - Paracelsus - shocking grasp Herton - asks everyone to bring him down non lethaly and get ready for the witch - Quest misses Herton with a dagger - Herton - still possessed - runs out of sight outside - Quake - Lump still sees Herton - dashes all the way to Herton - Warp witch - doesn't recharge - Herton saves the mutate host - Baz - kitty cat dashes towards Herton - knocks Herton to 0hp - the warp witch comes out of Herton's mouth - the warp witch sees in this world now - Paracelsus - dashes to see Herton - sees the witch - points it to the rest - Gertrude waits in case of more - Quest - moves closer - eldritch blasts the warp witch - Quake chilly slaps the warp witch but no damage (necrotic) - warp witch - doesn't recharge - wails but everyone saves - flies away after an attack of opportunity from Baz - Baz - asks Quake to protect Herton - runs after the warp witch - finishes the warp witch with the rapier - Herton is dragged with to the camp - Paracelsus feeds him a healing potion and an Ethereal Transfusion - Paracelsus asks where Baz left the warp witch and goes towards it - soft flickering flame from a lantern on the floor - it feels very cold the closer his hand is - *fill tongue scene* - tries to pry some barricade to use to transport the lantern - Mordekai sees him and asks what he is doing - Paracelsus mentions he is trying to move the lantern but he doesn't have tools like tongues for it - Mordekai mentions that we are in a forge and it has tongues - Paracelsus asks for some - Fred, the drunk dwarf, hands him some - as the lantern is moved it casts no shadow - Paracelsus starts analyzing it - it appears as if it is seeing in the ethereal plane > **Spectral lantern** > can reveal ethereal plane and uncover hidden glyphs > dial on to that can be tuned between ethereal, normal and off with a bonus action > when ethereal it doesn't act in the normal world - Herton heal a bit more with another healing potion - Lump is toying around with a crossbow half-drunk - Gertrude gets all the dwarves back to work and starts to work on a new cannon to replace the exploded one - short rest is had - Paracelsus shows his new fancy lantern - Lump goes in and out of the reach of Herton's detection - Herton realises he has a needle mark on his thigh > oh this is hell - Baz explores a bit - glimpses of ratlings around - sounds of something large being moved in a building - they are tearing at the corpses of the husks and hulks - some shards of delerium are taken too - they are not aggressive - Paracelsus studies some of the corpses - Hulk - CON 16 - no vulnerabilities - Husks - CON 10 - no vulnerabilities - Dregs - no resistances - no immunities - Gertrude finds Paracelsus very weird for doing that - sun goes up - 2 figures can be seen approaching - the dwarves seem happy to see them - it is Reginald and Elouise - they say hello to all the miners before going in the camp - Elouise casts cure wounds to Fred - Reginald asks if they were any losses - no peoples - a cannon was dinged - Reginald and Elouise praise the party for what they did despite being "surface dwellers" - Herton mentions that this is a proof of the strenght of the potential deal with the Amethyst Academy - Gertrude also tells the party they earned her respects - the dwarves agree to sign the paper for the partnership - the note was mentioned - Reginald is happy it worked - Paracelsus asks how we can communicate appart from him doing sending - Reginald hand a modified sending stone - it works albeit the city jamming - stuff like teleportation or sending works well only for shorter distances - the Dwarves invite the party in the office to sign the papers - they move off the table Mordekai's experiments - Paracelsus looks if he started to look at the needle - not yet - Mordekai mentions he saw Paracelsus interrested in the cannons - yes but too big and impractical - Mordekai offers to sell at a fair price stuff that goes boom - Paracelsus mentions it is more the poison knowledge exchange he is interested in - Mordekai will look at Paracelsus' craftmanship before - the papers are signed and firm handshakes are given - Mordekai thanks the party and mentions that a dwarve's trust is as strong as their steel - Baz is sleeping outside - Reginald and Quake - some exchanges about maybe helping for a fancy eyepatch - Mordekai mentions it can be done for a price - party departs with the objective of going to Eckerman Mill through the herbalism shop - towards the herbalism shop - there is a purple glow from a building window - *desc* - it is a former tavern - a big shard is embedded in the wall - the bar is sturdy - shattered bottles around - a table has a fresh bouquet of purple flowers in a vase - a single intact purple barstool - a heavy purple chest in a corner - Quake tries to pull the cristal with mage hand - it is stuck into the wall - the hand is stuck to it - Quake unsummons the hand - Quest tries to dislodge it with an eldritch blast - it was a mimic - *fighting script* - Baz - shoots tiny mimic - jumps on the bar - Herton holds his axe at the ready - virginial mimic - was the vase of puple flowers - misses Baz with a pseudopod - Quest eldritch blasts tiny mimic - sexy mimic - was the barstool - pseudo pods and grapples Baz - Quake - attacks the purple chest - is was curt mimic - Paracelsus - goes to the window - blows a powder towards sexy, virginal and curt mimic - only sexy saves - the rest are diseased because of pestilence - tiny mimic stumbles towards Baz - Baz finishes tiny mimic - curt mimic - diseased - dashes towards Quake - Herton - engages virginal mimic - booming blades virginal mimic - virginal mimic - is diseased - attacks Herton who shields - Quest - gets away from the diseased curt mimic - blasts it away 20ft with eldritch blast - sexy mimic bites Baz - Quake slaps curt mimic - Paracelsus bacterial barrage sexy mimic as it is diseased - Baz - steady aims - crits sexy mimic - wails from the grave virginal mimic - curt mimic - fails against the disease again - move to Herton - misses with the pseudopod - Herton booming blades to death curt mimic - virginal mimic - fails against the disease - misses Herton with a pseudopod - Quest blasts to death sexy and virginal mimics - Paracelsus starts to investigate the dead mimics - no resistances - immune to acid and prone - Quake tries to look if there is anything salvageable here - nothing of note - Herbalism shop - everyone enters - separated into 2 groups - Paracelsus and Herton are at A - Paracelsus looks through the lantern and see the other group while they are at B in the shop - Paracelsus will take notes of the tries - Baz, Quake and Quest are at B - if going all together it did not happen - after a few tries Quest manages to go though when going alone - Quake and Baz are still trying but to no avail - when holding hands it never worked - hard to predict when going alone - each time they entered and left the they became feinter in the ethereal view - it was try based not time based - not everyone had the same brightness - they need to no longer glow to be able to retry ? - towards Eckerman Mill - Baz sees a vision from his youth - he is a 10 year old - a much cuter kitten fur - looking wet under the rain - ducking into a hopefully abandoned house - cold and shivering - the rest of the party only see adult Baz reacting to a vision - party asks if he is ok - Baz is for now locked into the vision - after a while Baz comes back to his senses and explains he had an old memory - Eckerman Mill - *end of the session*