# 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