session 26 (19/07/2025)

date is 27th Uktar 1519DR

• Jezz and Royston depart from the party
  • Jezz to Little Tartarus
  • Royston to chase future conquests
• Council chambers
  • Laeral Silverhand is talking with someone in the chamber
  • desc
    • explorer outfit
    • cravate
    • fedora
    • 6ft tall
    • 190lb of muscle
    • glasses
    • copper hair and fine mustache
    • potted plant on his belt
  • seems like a big conversation
    • Lady Silverhand notices the party's presence who will wait
    • conversation was about a tree older than gods
  • asks about the other 2
    • had other obligations and wont be joining us
  • Nybarg asks if Laeral noticed the time loop
    • yes she is aware
    • not too affected by it
  • Laeral calls the mission still a partial success
    • not what the party believes
    • they were still able to delay them
  • Laeral presents the gentleman
    • Adam's character
    • name is Nash Adair
    • scholar of the world tree in Candlekeep
    • sent here to search for some corruption within the walls of Waterdeep
    • requires some assistance in it
  • Nash asks for presentations
    • Nybarg
      • gives a handshake
      • not the firmest
    • Vincent
      • presents himself
      • mentions he has a sister in Candlekeep

        oh her...

      • hard to miss apparently
    • Calcine
      • Nash bows
      • Calcine goes closer
      • presents herself
      • hands him a chef snack
  • Nash mention his plant is a future awakened plant
  • Nash and the party bows out to Laeral
  • Nash mentions that the next stop is the necropolis
    • it is in the city of the grave
    • the goal is to find a grove beneath it
• City of the dead
  • Vincent does a bit of a tour guide description of it
  • need to find the necropolis and the grove bellow it
  • when entering the noises of the city seem to disappear
  • Nash tries to look for it
    • guidance and bardic inspiration
    • Nash tries to follows vibrations he feels
    • shadows seem to cling to surfaces wrong with shadow tendrils
  • party looks around for clues
  • Nash uses his ring of x-ray vision
    • to check inside crypts
    • the dead are normally dead
  • Vincent continues his descriptions
    • victim of a great fire
    • Nash mentions he dislike fire
    • Calcine extinguishes her hair
    • Nash says it is ok for her to keep it
    • Calcine asks about the produce flame attack
      • throws it up flare style
      • some fungus start a deafening shriek
      • after the moment of surprise they are recognized as weird here
      • Nash did not like the cantrip with the plant on his side
  • party feels something
    • Vincent has a weird feeling
    • similar to the wild magic zone
    • Nash sees something weird on the plants
      • the shadows pushing and expanding through the ground
      • roots are exposed
      • ground looks unnatural
    • large broken statue
      • similar to a smaller scale guardian
      • broken weapon
      • toppled over
  • party see something
    • daylight
    • ethereal individuals
    • doing prayers
    • some basic stuff
    • no big rituals
  • pulse was getting weaker
  • party turns back
    • the growth from before has accelerated
      • the path seems blocked now
      • brushes piling up
      • earth and grass moving to prevent passage
      • bramble appearing
    • Nash proposes to split it open and for the party to follow
    • Calcine offers to blight it open
      • Nash doesn't want it to be don't in front of the pot of awakening
    • the shadows are also pulled in the same direction as the plants
  • party experiments with how to get through
    • fill later
    • they taste a bit of blood from Vincent
    • the plants uproot and go for the party
    • fighting script
      • Calcine
        • guiding bolt hits the first shambling mound
        • pulls Vincent back
      • first shambling mound
        • moves to Nybarg
        • slams and grapples Nybarg
      • Nash
        • whips second shambling
        • moves back
      • Nybarg escapes the shambling mound
      • Vincent
        • pulls the other instrument
        • hidden ace confusion first shambling mound
        • moves behind Calcine
      • second shambling mound
        • moves towards Nash
      • Calcine
        • toll the dead second shambling mound
        • pushes back second shambling mound back
      • first shambling mound is confused
      • Nash
        • whips second shambling mound
        • moves back
      • Nybarg
        • shoots second shambling mound
        • hides
      • Vincent
        • starry wisps second shambling mound
      • second shambling mound
        • moves to Nash
        • slams Nash
      • Calcine
        • toll the dead second shambling mound
        • moves in front of Vincent
      • first shambling mound is confused
      • Nash
        • moves away
        • get slamed
        • rages
        • reckless attacks second shambling mound
      • Nybarg
        • shoots second shambling mound nearly dead
      • second shambling mound
        • moves to Nash
        • slams twice and grapples Nash
      • Vincent
        • mocks to death second shambling mound
      • Calcine
        • toll the dead first shambling mound
        • pushes first shambling mound back
      • first shambling mound
        • acts while confused
        • slams Nash
        • Vincent silvery barbs a crit
        • still confused
      • Nash whips first shambling mound
      • Nybarg
        • shoots first shambling mound
        • hides
      • Vincent starry wisp first shambling mound
      • Calcine
        • toll the dead first shambling mound
        • pushes back first shambling mound
      • first shambling mound is confused
      • Nash whips first shambling mound
      • Nybarg
        • shoots first shambling mound
        • hides
      • Calcine toll the dead first shambling mound
      • first shambling mound moves confusedly
      • Nash whips first shambling mound
      • Nybarg shoots first shambling mound
    • brambles stopped growing but is still large and covering the area