Session 120 - September 29th, 2022 Report
General Summary
1306 - 1st Moon of Spring - Fisten (20th Day)
- The various groups disperse after the dissection is complete. Roth, Alethra and Tristian are invited by the druid from the dwarven city of Blazenthrone to dinner at the gold room with him, and all happily accept Ushra's invitation. Ari goes off to charm the elves Rolan and Navarra, and Ari tries to get access to the teleportation circle in Ofanbelle, or at least do some work for the city which will reduce the cost of her required "donation".
- Merry wanders around playing on street corner, earning 10 gold and hearing rumors about the imminent arrival of a ship of dragonborn and big meeting going on with many important people. Some people thing Lady Marisha is going to retire and her successor is being chosen and some think that one of the heads of the magical schools is going to be kicked out.
- Althera spends the afternoon reading about how to craft exploding arrows and starts to understand the process. Roth visits Julia at the magical university library and recaps the killing of the kraken and the dissection as well as asking for someone to teach him Primordial during the winter. Merry goes to Korfel's and asks him to enchant a small scroll necklace, a symbol of the god Oghma, as a minor necklace of spell storing, which will store up to 3 levels of spells, and will take 4 weeks and 450 gold to complete.
- Dinner is had at the Gold Room and on the way back Alethra and Tristian are left to walk home alone, with Tristian telling Alethra of a druid which specialized in mushrooms. Alethra is very interested and wants to learn about these specialist types, Tristian in orchard and harvest foods, and Lady Marisha of aquatic creatures.
- Ari spends all night out on the town partying.
- At breakfast the party discusses the logistics of travel to try and find Panzar. Alethra pulls out her map and sees the stone marker and owls (linked to Panzar) are about an hour apart, near the slope of the volcano (dormant). They all plan to make preparations and leave after lunch, letting Judith know they will be gone for awhile.
- Alethra does research and messages Tristian for advice (druid magic can change the plants/animals), Merry preps the box and her gear, Roth goes to have tea with Katrina and tells her about the boon he received. Ari tries to buy a spell scroll from Korfel, but he does not have one, as it is not a spell he has access to. Ari then tries to borrow the item which casts the spell from Magmabrew, which is an attunement item which casts the spell once a day and concentration is needed. Ari rolls a 30, so Magmabrew is willing to let Ari borrow the item in exchange for something of great value, the 30 yards of spider silk. Magmabrew asks Ari to message her to let her know if the party is going to be more than 3-4 weeks.
- The group meets at the house for lunch and then takes the 2 brooms, which are now considered encumbered and only fly 30 ft to the barony. Sybil is messaged ahead of time and dinner is had with Soot and Beartrum. Roth casts telepathic bond to let Soot know that they are going to be gone with Beartrum for a bit, and that she can stay and help with the goats.
- Ari casts the teleport spell to the owl clearing and all arrive with no issue. After some discussion of not setting up camp by the owls, Olly flies and finds the stone marker which named the city, and a little ways away Roth cast the mansion. Olly and Beatrum roam around outside the mansion for a bit, with the rest of the party resting for the evening. Olly and Beartrum do return later, after a full search of the area but do not find anything of real interest.
- The group has breakfast and Merry is able to attune to the item and successful cast the spell of find the path, which leads the party in the direction of Panzar. Merry then takes the crate on her back, opens it up and allows Beartrum to go inside. He will be there for a day or two, and can chat through the box and even be feed, though he will be very small. Roth casts the telepathic bond to help with the broom travel.
- The party takes off in the direction of Panzar, with a 99% roll allowing Merry to cast the spell, she knows the city is 65 miles away, and 4 are able to fly on 2 brooms for the day in that direction with the spell.
- Roth sees what may have used to have been a very old path and 3 small blue eggs for Olly.
- Closer to dusk the party finds a small clearing, with a tree half struck dead by lightening and half alive and in bloom. After some checks there is a stream nearby, and a short walk away, a suitable spot is found to set up Ari's version of the mansion.
- Merry lets the party know they are now 28 miles from Panzar, about halfway, and she marks a tree in the direction of the city, in case there are issues the next day. Whole party goes into the mansion. Beartrum gets feed in his box. Ari watches a dance performance by her servants, with Roth and Alethra work on exploding arrow creation with Merry watching (1 success). Beartrum has to stay in the box.
- After a large breakfast the group leaves the cave and sets off on the 2 brooms again, as the spell works for a second day. Late in the afternoon, the city of Panzar is now about 4 miles away and Merry can tell it is inside the cone of the dormant volcano.
- The idea is to lower the brooms (with everyone still on them) to a few feet about the ground and slowly fly towards the entrance to the city, which seems to be a cave entrance which leads to a tunnel. Unsure if the city is just deep in the stone or further underground.
- They arrive at the cave and Beartrum is let out of the box so he can help explore. Roth when he looks into the cave sees some swaying branches.
- Roth sees on the side of the cave a very faint carving in elvish reading "Panzar, For those seeking knowledge of earth and fire." The word fire has some magic on it, which Roth sees when casting Detect Magic. Alethra throws a branch through the entrance and the word fire lights itself up with magical fire. Ari then summons a lion, who walks through the entrance, and again the word fire lights itself up with magical fire. Ari goes through, same thing, and no harmful effects, just a cool little bit of "druid neon".
- As Roth creeps into the tunnel in full stealth, he sees a similar tree to one they fought before, the infamous twice dead tree. Roth attacks and does damage, Ari rides on the lion who does damage and Ari casts lightening magic, which heals the tree. Merry, Alethra, Roth and Beartrum continue to damage the tree, lion is killed and Ari is engulfed in the tree, and unable to fight, so she turns herself into a termite and begins to eat away, as the intelligence of the creature is so low the telepathic bond Roth cast before entering the cave is dropped on her. The tree/creature is eventually killed, but no one can find out what happened to Ari or where she went. Beatrum pulls apart the body of the tree trying to find Ari.
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