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6/12/2020

Session 15: Diving Down a Magical Well

by Cali Zendyr

Nuru, one of the monks, goes into the well first and reports that there's a small air pocket and something magical that glows blue and red. Quell borrows her sandstorm goggles and looks ridiculous, but will be able to see.
 
There is an error message that plays in the old tongue: "Failure, licensed mage required." It plays audibly throughout the well. Quell comes across what looks like a lit up number puzzle with gems.
 
Wulf comes across a body dressed like Nuru. He's dead. Wulf then finds the townsfolk past a wall. They're unconscious, some tied up. There is a magic-y guy pacing and yelling about how "it should have worked". He calls a woman a blood sacrifice and she calls him an idiot. Wulf sneaks back toward the safe house and sees the party in the square on the physical plane.
 
Cali attempts a backflip swan dive, but instead does an ungraceful belly flop. Quell surfaces upon feeling the ripples, and tells us about the puzzles. We all have a very confusing conversation about prime numbers.
 
Jade swims down to help, and there's a "magic restored" message. The gems sink down and Wulf appears on the material plane, along with the rest of the town.
 
Wulf pulls us up by the rope and tells us about the blood sacrifices in a panic. As he's telling us about it, "bad snake man" appears and tries to convince us he's a good guy who needs our help. Wulf growls though, and we don't believe him. Then, we roll initiative.
 
Jade casts suggestion to get information. Quell zaps him. He calls Wulf an idiot barbarian, and Cali makes a yell sound and shoots him square in the face, killing him. Quell zaps his corpse. {don't fuck with our Wulf, bitch}
 
Quell, Cali, and Jade search the body and talk about how they got there. "What brought you here?" "Boats."
 
We find out a little bit about why Jade is out in the desert all the way from Dria. She was contracted to curse someone out here.
 
Wulf and Nuru run toward the townsfolk and find the body Wulf saw before. The townsfolk emerge, relatively uninjured. Wulf invades their personal space in concern. He tells them what happened.
 
Jade wants to go back to the well to look at all the magic-y stuff, so Wulf gives her a ride down the rope. They take a look and determine it'll be best to fill in the well, and some villagers head out to build a new well instead. We head back to the lighthouse and open a chest which expels poisonous gas upon being opened. There's a crystal shard, and yet ANOTHER "shattered heart" themed letter from Egil. We still don't know who these are addressed to.
 
Cali reads it aloud and hands it to Jade. Adders kiss is a plant poison, as Jade tells us. We then all talk about why we were heading to Dria (or not, in Jade's case), and Quell thanks Wulf for not telling on her for sneaking onto the boat.
 
Jade suggests potentially trying the portal, and we discuss the dangers. We decide to come back after we finish the shard mission, and try it then.
 
EOS

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  1. Session 1: Scaling a Lighthouse
    08/?/19
  2. Session 2: Sleeping in the Lighthouse
    8/14/19
  3. Session 3: Finding Anaka's Apprentice
    8/21/19
  4. Session 4: Anaka and the Town Feast
    9/04/19
  5. Session 5: Fighting a Ghost in a Clearing
    9/18/19
  6. Session 6: Meeting the Revenant
    10/9/19
  7. Session 7: Tasha Bloodsail and Her Magic Mirror
    10/23/19
  8. Session 8: Killing a Gang
    12/04/19
  9. Session 9: Making Things Right
    1/22/2020
  10. Session 10: Getting Sappy on a Ship
    2/12/2020
  11. Session 11: A Raccoon Named Kama
    3/4/2020
  12. Session 12: Killing Lady Loaka
    4/11/2020
  13. Session 13: Lizards in the Desert
    4/29/2020
  14. Session 14: Jade
    5/20/2020
  15. Session 15: Diving Down a Magical Well
    6/12/2020
  16. Session 16: Himbo Rights
    7/17/2020
  17. Session 17: Liya Takes Our Blood, and Quell Explores Her Backstory
    8/17/2020
  18. Session 18: Nyala, 5-Star Travel Guide
    8/28/2020
  19. Session 19: Haunted Cairns and Rock Spiders
    9/19/2020
  20. Session 20: Stumbling Into Politics
    10/31/2020
  21. Session 21: Wulf Meets His Pup
    11/21/2020
  22. Session 22: Fighting Zombies in the Woods
    12/05/2020
  23. Session 23: Burying A Suicidal Dead Guy
    12/24/2020
  24. Session 24: Hey, Your Husband's Dead... Here's a Steak!! ...It's Not Your Husband... to be Clear...
    1/02/21
  25. Session 25: Ghostie Tirga da Narei Got That Drip
    1/23/21
  26. Session 26: This LEAF is a BOAT?! (oh and also we're being hunted)
    2/6/21
  27. Session 27: Jade Communes With the Fog
    2/27/21
  28. Session 28: Fighting Oozes In An Abandoned House
    3/20/21
  29. Session 29: Wulf Learns The Dangers Of Mishandling A Corpse
    4/17/21
  30. Session 30: Jailbreak
    5/01/21
  31. Session 31: Wanted, Inaccurately
    6/05/21
  32. Session 32: Ghosts and Mammoth Meat
    6/19/21
  33. Session 33: Jade Is A Monster Fucker
    7/10/21
  34. Session 34: Do Seagulls Have Fangs?
    8/07/21
  35. Session 35: Facetime With Tasha (oh, and Jade is a double agent)
    8/21/21
  36. Session 36: Wulf Dreams of Puppy Piles
    9/11/21
  37. Session 37: Wulf & Jade (separately) Bond With Tulan
    9/25/21
  38. Session 38: The Gang Sees A Psychic
    10/09/21
  39. Session 39: Exploring a Ghost Ship
  40. Session 40: Olav is... Not Dead?
    11/13/2021
  41. Session 41: CALI IS NOT POOR OKAY
    12/11/2021
  42. Session 42: Wise Old Egil
    01/15/2022
  43. Session 43: Christmas Morning, Via Egil
    02/05/2022
  44. Session 45: 44 didn't save
    3/12/22
  45. Session 46: fighting a waiver (that means dragon)
    04/03/22
  46. Session 47: Hole-ception, Donut Hole if you will
    4/30/22
  47. Session 48: Scry City, Bitch
    5/14/22
  48. Session 49:
    6/4/22
  49. Session 50: Sink or Wind
  50. Session 51: Scouting Our Meeting Place
    8/27/2022
  51. Session 52: Battle on the Beach
    10/01/22
  52. Session 53: Wulf Sneaks onto a Ship
    10/15/2022
  53. Session 54: Wulf Is Not Allowed Near Windows
    10/29/2022
  54. Session 55: THERES A TROLL (Beast) IN THE DUNGEON (outer fields)
    11/12/22
  55. Session 56:
    12/10/22
  56. Session 57:
    01/15/2023
  57. Session 58: Quell is Cali's Imaginary Friend
    01/28/2023
  58. Session 59: SECRET TUNNELLLLLL
    02/11/2023
  59. Session 60: I'm gonna dip you in butter
  60. Session 61: We're Looney, We're Tuney
    04/1/23
  61. Session 62: The Mother Herself Said She's Alive!
    4/8/23
  62. Session 63: Wulf DoorDashes Rats
    6/10/23
  63. Session 64: Are We Dead? Are We On A Boat? Will There Be Meat?
    7/1/23
  64. Session 65: Cali wants the Tea
  65. Session 66:

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