Session 137 - August 24th, 2023 Report

General Summary

Feywild Day 15

• Roth spends most of the day crafting and then completes the sending stone this afternoon.
• Merry goes in the morning to speak with Mirabella about the extra performance, and makes plans with her on the set up and lighting. Merry has to persuade (31) Mirabella that the party is not leaving and this is a surprise in recognition of the wonderful way they have been treated so far. The stage is set.
• Beartrum and Alethra are invited by Corinth to join in a small party to practice dancing before the performance and banquet that night, and Alethra is very nervous about the entire thing, and is unsure of the social dynamic of the 4-5 people who were there. After the Fey dances are learned in the most basic steps for Beartrum and Alethra, champagne and tea sandwiches are served.
• Roth looks at the completed sending stone and casts identify, which shows that the stone is working now. He offers it to the head of the lab, Connell, who is excited and call his mom, forgetting the 25 word limit in the response, but it does work. In exchange, Roth is happy to get a small book on illusion and spatial magic, which Connell can have copies for in a few days.
• The lab group has some bourbon to celebrate and then all go to get cleaned up for the party that evening.
• For most of the morning and part of the afternoon, Merry practices with her musician group, but does leave as soon as the official rehearsal starts for the performance that night.
• The group meets up to get dressed for the banquet and performance, getting ready to be very fancy. Beartrum gets a small card with the phrase "Would you like to dance?" written in Sylvan. Merry asks the party about a distraction and how they can accompany her to raid the office of Mistwalker that she saw in the musican area, as Merry thinks something is going on. Alethra and Roth brainstorm and are ready to help, leaving the tree Oakly and Beartrum to keep the party distracted.
• Roth then prepares a physical disguise of Mistwalker, He then uses his disguise self of Roth before going to the party. Roth then has an idea, and takes an hour to resummon Olly, only this time as a little sprite, with long red hair. Now Olly can speak Common and is able to translate for Beartrum while dancing.
• The rest of the party is at a small low table while passed appetizers are sent around and the party waits for Roth, who arrives about 15 mins late. Olly then chatters away to Bearturm and Oakly and is so happy she can talk to them now. There is much discussion on many things.
• Alethra notices the shin guards on same pages, and give Merry a questioning look, which she does not answer. When Roth arrives he sees what he assumes are two representatives of the Fall Court at a table near the front. Roth suggests he or Merry should be introduced.
• Alethra and Roth chat about the languages that Olly does or does not know, how she remembers and forgets, as well as how to teach her common and the associated headaches.
• The lights of the room dim and the high table are seated, with the Queen giving a welcome speech, announcing the performance, the courses and a special dessert surprise. Merry feels the Queen's gaze on her during that statement.
• The official performance is in 3 parts, done between courses, and the first two are average, with the last one being good, but not great. After that, Mirabella gets Merrys attention, and the crate with Oakley is enlarged in the corner, allowing them to exit, and the music begins. This performance had a much better reception and the Queen seemed pleased.
• As the performance ends, Merry instructs Oakley to dance with certain influential people, and Beartrum goes to ask the Queen to dance, and she agrees. While that happens, Merry, Roth, and Alethra go back to their sitting room. They get changed Roth into his Mistwalker disguise, and disguise self over it, the rest dress in full stealth outfits, and Roth puts on the Mistwalker disguise self, and then Merry makes them all invisible while Roth casts the telepathic bond. Roth mentions the Mistwalked looks very unhappy after Merry's performance.
• The party reaches the music archive and are able to easily enter that library space. Roth uses a wand to cast detect magic, and sees the door to the office has some kind of illusion magic on it. Due to being very good at picking locks, he is able to open the door, getting on the briefest look at a solid brick wall before blinking and it was gone.
• There are a few chairs, a desk, 3 windows, and a small closet in this office. Merry goes to look for hidden compartments of the desk with Roth, which Alethra looks at the 3 windows, one each Spring, Summer, and Fall, and asks what she is looking for.
• Roth finds two locked drawers, the lowest left one seems to be magically locked. Merry then casts her spell, Etherealness, and looks into the lower drawer, seeing a false bottom and a single sapphire, much like the ones used for the windows, this one with a figure inside of it.
• Merry then tells Roth they are opening the drawer, even if the desk will need to be destroyed in the process.
• Alethra is unsure what happened, but is willing to wait, and while Roth and Merry examine the lock, Alethra is confident that with a high enough roll, the alarm spell on the drawer can be bypassed. With Roth being amazing and Merry inspiring him, he is able to hit the 30 DC on the lock, and the sapphire is taken, into Roth's bag of holding, with a small Fey woman seen to be sleeping in the center of the gem.
• Roth then uses mage hand to add the gem to the bag, and he recasts invisibility on himself, and all 3 head back to their sitting room. Roth sets up the mansion so he and Alethra can change and return to the party. Merry goes right back to the party, and is able to drop the spell and appears in the middle of a very good party, mostly with out being noticed.
• Roth and Alethra return and drop invisibility once back in the main ballroom and banquet space. Oakly is dancing, and Beartrum is being fed treats while being admired and Olly is translating. Merry jumps up into Oakley's branches and plays accompanying music.
• Roth and Alethra meet the two representatives from Fall, and are introduced to Rolen and Aurora by Lady Sylvan. Rolen chats about the gates which connect to the human lands, and thinks there may be one in the Fall, but is not completely sure. Aurora offers the group passage, and a visit to court, if they wish to, and Roth is intrigued by this offer, and will discuss it later. Aurora thinks there was a fully open gate, but no idea where it went.
• Lady Sylvan goes to dance with Bearturm, who is very happy, and then is introduced to the two Fall court members, and they are delighted to meet Oakley as well.
• Alethra then quietly leaves, and falls asleep making notes about the various Fey magics that could be distinct in each section of the Feywilde.
• Merry stays until very late, and leave riding Oakley while playing a spooky melody, and Roth and Beatrum soon follow.
• Merry stays in the main room, which is the only space Oakley can fit in. Long rest.

Feywild Day 16

• Roth only sleeps a short time, so he is off to learning about the magics and he will return at lunch.
• Althera is mostly ok, but does have a large cup of tea with breakfast, and then quietly reads.
• Merry, Beartrum and Oakley are all late sleepers and rest around the room until lunch and Roth returns. Olly is delighted to get to spend time with Oakley outside the box and chat all lunch with the tree, and then the tree returns to the box. The idea is that Roth will continue learning and get books, and Merry will arrange an audience with the Queen as soon as possible to present the gem and their findings.
• Alethra and Roth chat about how to teach Olly common, how to outsource that, and what magical research they can get out of it. Then Roth goes back to the crafter and Alethea back to the puzzle book.
• Merry goes to find the page most responsible for the "winning" faction, being directed to a Uriel, who will find a time for them to speak with the Queen and then return to get some time with Bearturm.
• Roth learns his books will be ready the next day, and Uriel arrives in the room with the notice that the Queen will see them the next day, at 6 bells, and then goes to spend some time with the famous owlbear.
• Party continues to have a relaxing day after the late night before, and calls it an early night.
• Mini-mansion and long rest.

Campaign

Thursday Night Story

Protagonists

Report Date

25 Aug 2023