Session 09: It was a Mindflayer, all along Events

Miscellaneous

  The party finds that there was a small cult and a mindflayer was working with Jacoby in a failed attempt to control the white dragon.

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Redfall 06, 2020KC

Widow's Peak, Outding Refuge.     The Ice Mephit are down, and so the party has decided to risk a short rest. They then headed Northwest, where they began to hear a soft cracking of ice crystals. The SE narrow passageway bent to the south.   Then from the ceiling came a large Ice Spider, and it began to attack     During the fight, a second one came from the tunnels to the North. After the fight, the party went E/SE, and then they began to hear some movement and activity going on in the East.     In the East passage, they saw a 30-foot drop, and there was a large White Dragon. The huge chamber has crystals and great treasures -- almost all of it seems buried in frozen ice and Rock. There was a large humanoid; Lars says it is a "Mindflayer." Two Humanoids in white robes are holding up a Human from the village, and the Mindflayer is sucking its brains with one of its tentacles. There seemed to be Dead bodies all around him in piles. When the Mindflayer was released from the hostage, the party saw the two hooded folks throw the body with the rest in a nearby corner. Then enters another humanoid in a grey cloak. It was Jacoby, the elderly groundskeeper. The Mindflayer is wearing a strange helmet with crystals in it, and they all seem to light up in random patterns, which echo a pattern on a little Crystal structure that is on a large Crystal device.    

Lars Heyton:   That is a Mindflayer and the church groundskeeper Jacoby Drexelhand.

    The party decides to loop around and see if the tunnels come back around back by the Spiders.   It worked.     In the midst of the combat Shadow in the Snow tried to communicate with the Dragon. It was in apparent pain as the combat went on -- then the Mindflayer (and the helmet) disappeared. Lars would later tell the party how Mindflayer can come and go to the Astral Plane. The party pried off the smaller Crystal, and it helped the Dragon. He asks for the party to let him rest, and he will let them go. This is Canthenth, the White One.    

Canthenth : When the great Dragon awoke last, it freed many dragons from the earth. He was one of them. He was sent here to destroy the Arcane Forge.   He gave some lore to the story of the gods of Dierde. What he spoke of was how the gods of this realm are the "Forgotten Gods" and the "Dragon That Slumbers" is fine with them; however -- there are the "Outsider Gods," and it seemed they are responsible for awakening the Dragon.   After the Dragon cracked the earth and began to come alive, there was a sacrifice of gods and heroes unlike anything before. They were able to pull the Dragon back down and put him back to sleep…   But it seems that the time may soon be upon us for the actual awakening and the Outsider Gods are not likely powerful enough to handle it.

  The party rescued two villagers and found an exit. They went through the dark, and as morning crept across the land, the party returned to town. As they left Widow's Peak, the effects of the snow and cold began to wane. The winter is now centered on just the mountain, the lair of the White Dragon.        

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