The Curse of The Tree of Life Report

General Summary

With the Skulltulas taken care of, they can light up the spider web and climb down. They enter a room with a river flowing through it and a raised floor on the other side. Purah flies up. They notice there are 3 standing torches in the room and after trying different order they manage to open a secret hole in the ground with a broken staircase. With this newfound information, they decide to enter the other door. A room almost fully collapsed greets them. Broken tables and chairs are crushed beneath the rubble. Through another door, they see a series of beds and spider eggs. They blast some fire inside and wait for the cute, little baby spiders to die a horrible death whilst crying out n agony. Nice. With the way save they hold their breath to not choke on the smoke they created and manage to reach the office room. The desk contains some books that form a diary. This place used to be a farm it seems. Going through the other door they enter the bedroom of the woman that was in charge and find some books on farming and Halflings, but Esseria finds the writing strange like it was written by someone that has never met a Halfling in their life. They shove the bookcase aside and find a secret hole which they crawl through. They end up in the first room of this layer and Purah jumps down the secret hole on giant Pygmy's back. In ends in deep water so the other jump right in. They follow a small hallway and end up in a big, hexagonal room. They are confused as they expected a big black cube. Before they have time to think it through, though, a huge spider with thick carapace lowers itself. The fight is tough, especially as the spider starts producing eggs that hatch almost instantly, but they end up victorious in the end. The center of the floor starts moving and opens up. A pedestal with a bigger than usual, green Ether crystal rises up. Brandeth realizes its time to reveal her secret. The party takes it well and can see why she would think some would seek to steal such a valuable item. They activate the Ether crystal and a latch opens up underneath it. Elora teleports in and Brandeth and Suiv help transfer Amyntas' spirit into the crystal. A unicorn-shaped spirit runs into the crystal and it turns into a gold light inside the crystal, beating like a heart. Amyntas projects above the crystal, it seems his soul could not leave this realm just yet, though he is now bound to the crystal. He tells Brandeth to place her emerald underneath the crystal and so she does. Now her emerald, too, has a gold light inside it that beats. She expects she has to leave it behind now, but Amyntas tells her otherwise. This is not the emeralds final resting place so she can keep it until she brings it there. It does, however, contain far greater power than she can probably ever harvest, but she can grow with it.