Team 2 76-100
Session 100 - (21st January 2021) - Looking into the Brotherhood
Shoboham Zar uses legend lore to look into the Melix Brotherhood and has images of a a grouping of quirky towers on a mysterious demiplane before the vision fades. Sir Terrance lets them know they probably shouldn't go barging into the mages demiplane on their own and they decide to head to Fooks to speak with Talanashta Quedys about their situation. She also warns against trying to gain access to their home and advises trying to find a better way to deal with them.
Session 99 - (14th January 2021) - Disintegrate
The group go to the council and meet Bryden and Rhia, getting Rhia alone they get a message sent to Terrance who makes his way back to the council and prepares to confront Cal in Westport. They quickly get there through the teleportation circle beneath the city and start to search for Cal, finding him asleep in a room at the tavern he was last in. He is very hungover but once he realises he is rumbled he tries to escape and fails, they relcoate him to the other edge of town to some cages below ground. Using greater restoration they return his memory to an unaltered state and he returns to a totally sober form. Cal reveals Ernest was the one who asked him to sign off on the dodgy gold payments and he knows there have been a few but he can't quite remember too well some of the older ones. He knows of the Melix brotherhood but has no direct dealings with them, however he does have an 'emergency contact' he could get hold of in the right circumstances. Making a deal with Terrance and the party he agrees to do this in exchnage for no jail time and resigning from the council, he sets up a signal for the contact and when night comes they all make their way to the edge of town. As Cal waits outside a farmhouse, the others are all positioned in hiding around the area as a dim flash of green light illuminates the area. Two mages dressed in dark green appear and disentigrate Cal before teleporting away. The party notice that the mages had rings that glowed when they vanished and they scoop up the ashes of Cal into a bag.
Session 98 - (23rd December 2020) - A Case of the Crabs
Co op game - add in the mages grabbing ernest
Session 97 - (15th December 2020) - Follow up
The group go to Eldan to see if he has a name for them and he puts them on to Brina, who he is currently attempting to get info out of and failing. Using magic and intimidation, the party assess that Brina had her memory altered and when she access to her original memories she helps them before being set free and fleeing. She describes the person who hired her and it sounds a lot like Cal Moses of the council. They plan on how best to approach the situation and decide to go to Westport to try and get info out of Cal. Tracking him down to a tavern on the far side of the port, David Wunderbar makes another appearance and they establish Cal is quite good at skimming gold from the port for his own pockets but don't get anything solid from him regarding Brina or memory modification. Vorontir makes contact and lets them know she found a ring hidden in Ernest's desk drawer at the guild, when they inspect it they discover it is a ring of modify memory to which they think Cal might be working with Ernest now. Cal proves far too wasted to be of any real help so they let him sleep it off and return to Raux.
Session 96 - (8th December 2020) - Fight Amongst Yourselves
Curiosities of Mas lead to the group seeking out a place to test their abilities against each other and a guard happily lets them use a battle arena in return for coin. Mas spars with Eraz and gets some good shots in but ultimatley Eraz scoops the win. The others are watching from the sidelines and decide to get involved. Zar and Nelia are next to do battle and again the fight is a very close one with nelia narrowly pulling out the win. The last round of fighting is between Lily and Syl and another show of impressive abilities with Lily winning the fight. They leave the arena and prepare to have a spot of downtime before resting, ready to revisit Eldan.
Session 95 - (1st December 2020) - A Very Respectful Business Meeting
After a rest in Frea, the group attempt to contact Talanashta but are not able to get a response. Zar does a scry and sees the shadow of a floating city before being thrown out of the spell, with this info Syl mentions the elven floating city. The group teleport themselves to Raux where Nelia leads them to the northern parts of the city where Eldan operates. The team splits into two with Mas going with Nelia to check out the back buildings and Syl A.K.A David Wünderbar and the others pose as businessmen (and ladies) looking to do work with Eldan.
The meeting doesn't exactly go to plan with Eldan's crew seeing them as targets to rob, the party soon show their power though and they back off and agree to fetch Eldan. Meanwhile round back, the sneaksters break in to Eldan's home and go snooping, finding some coins, gems and ledgers beneath the floorboards of his bedroom, discovering a name linked to the recent payment to the mercenaries from a 'Brina'. When Eldan is summoned, they head back to meet the others in the 'business room' where they manage to convince him to talk alone with them as everyone else gets sent outside. Operation fuck shit up is underway and they team up to subdue Eldan, casting zone of truth, a curse and slipping a cursed ring on his finger for double curse goodness. Strangely, he complies with their demands, telling them Brina approached him out of nowhere with a lot of cash to hire the mercenaries but he can look into finding her for them. The group say they will return in 24hrs for an update and let him go before teleporting away.
Session 94 - (27th November 2020) - Tugging at Threads
Eraz looks into the possibility of extracting elements from the potion of longevity with Novak, Syl takes Zar on a trip to the guild to become a member. They chat with Jeff and Ernest and Syl gets a feeling about Ernest and upon having a chat with him, think he is hiding something. They grab Melvin who has put on a few pounds since they last saw him and go back to the others. They decide to check out what's happening with the ruins and send Nelia a message, she tells them to go to Frea and meet at midnight. The group meet with her and she explains that herself along with Vorontir are part of a mercenary operation who have the task of scaring the dig tems away from the ruins. She also reveals that Eldan was the one who hired them to do so. Syl tells her about Ernest and Vorontir is put on the case.
Session 93 - (12th November 2020) - Round Two
Agreeing to the terms, they have a short rest before the next fight. As they wander around the arena, evidence of recent fights is clear and loged between some hard to reach rocks they see a body that is very much alive, a blue slightly tired looking dragonborn named Shoboham (Zar) who agrees to help fight with them if they get him out of this place.
The crowd falls silent again as they hear a faint whine that gets closer and louder. Suddenly swarms of stirges try to latch on to the group who fend them off expertly, no matter how hard they try the creatures meet their end swiftly. Karnor surprises them, announcing a second round and with another rub of his stone, a chunk of ruined stonework appears in the arena, eight stone pillars with winged beasts carved into them. The party get closer to investigate and as they approach the statues burst open with an array of gargoyles erupting from their stone shells and battle ensues. Eraz summons Zaros to join the fight as he smashes out of the shelter to get involved.
They eventually defeat the creatures although they deal some hard hits before succumbing to the blows. They head to Karnor to get their prize which is a choice of two boxes out of three. They pick two and Mas steals the contents of the third box before they teleport out of there, Lily has her eyes on the red gem and exchanges some words with Karnor as the rest of the group leave to meet in Fooks. They spend some time identifying the items (Potion of Longevity, Ioun Stone of Sustenance, Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments - 1 Jar) before they have a long rest.
Session 92 - (3rd November 2020) - Thirst for Fighting
The group decide they want to get some combat action in and eventually decide to head to Mog and visit Karnor the Orc. He agrees to let them fight to death in the arena and if they survive they get a prize, if they die well... they get to become food for other things. They leave Zaros in a shelter as to not attract any unwanted attention and head to the arena to fight.
A crowd gathers to watch and they shout and bang on rocks, slowly the noise fades into an eerie silence as Karnor raises his hands and summons the dark red stone they encountered before and it glows and then fades. After what feels like several minutes of silence, the ground faintly rumbles, getting stronger and stronger until the ground burts open, scattering rocks as a giant wurm emerges! With some cunning tactics they defeat the wurm as Karnor asks them if they want to fight again for a bigger prize?
Session 91 - (29th October 2020) - The Tiniest Carpet In All The Land
The group settle after taking down the dracolich and have a short rest. Eraz roots around underground and finds the dragons treasure trove, some of it intact and some long since fine. Talanashta gifts them a small flying carpet, before getting Ellis to take the black guard home, she teleports back to Fooks. The group head back to O'pax to stay in their neglected house which requires a good dusting. Heading back to Fooks, Mas gives Caliban some bones from their encounter and asks him to weaponize them. Eraz seeks magical assistance for Zaros and building him his own pocket dimension and Novak sets it up with the other mages for a hefty price. Lily learns the disintegrate spell from Talanashta and prepares it right away. Mas tries to get access to the restricted section of the library but fails to charm the worker.
Session 90 - (22nd October 2020) - Fighting the Dracolich
BATTLE
Session 89 - (13th October 2020) - Magic Carpet Rides
After a rough start, Syl and Lily master the art of the flying carpets, taking several black guard with them on a hunt. They discover a rather empty but beautiful coastline (aside from some very out of place deep crows) and a large peak that has evidence of gloomstalkers being resurrected. They travel back to camp, arriving quite exhausted after a long time being awake and travelling and sleep through until midnight where they get ready to go out another night. This time Talanashta teleports them to the Ravana Pits just a little further north as she goes to check out the gloomstalker traces they found the night before, leaving the group with an additional eladrin named Ellis. They head into the mountains and discover another large stand-alone peak which they circle and approach from different angles. The crater at the top of this mountain is much smaller than the last only 1000ft across and they can quickly converge. Ellis takes lead on looking for tracks and finds some that seem to end where a massive crack in the rock lies. Lily throws a rock down to see how deep it is and upon hearing a splash indicating around 100ft decides to jump on down with Ellis, softening their landings. Zaros zips through the hole with Eraz and Syl launches his carpet down, leaving one super scared guard up top who refuses to go down. They are in a small pool of water in a dark and damp cave network, moonlight shining down from the cracks above and some additional firelight from the party reveal very shiny rock as light bounces around the chamber. They see a full-sized stone carving of a dragon made of this shiny material and detect some odd faint magic from it. Ellis discovers a pedestal around 100ft away from it also made of this material with an orb sitting atop it and Eraz tries to lift it, managing to barely get it off the pedestal and in doing so sending a pulse of bright blue light from it to the dragon where it pulses to the surface. A shout for help can be heard echoing from above as a flustered guard can't quite get the words out. Several cracking, dragging and stomping sounds can be heard above ground and the guard eventually jumps into the waters below. Syl and Lily go up to investigate on the carpet and discover a large dragon although missing large amounts of flesh and slightly disfigured, patches of old blue skin remain. It turns to face the carpet crew with it's empty eyes as they go back underground...
Session 88 - (8th October 2020) - A Bit All Over The Place
Eraz decides to turn his home in Dragontale into a sort of hostel where people in need can find sanctuary and hires a crew to renovate the place. The group plane shift to Elysium, forgetting to warn Lily about the effects that the City of the Star have on people and quickly rushing themselves out of the city, dragging Lily along when she gets the urge to linger and stay. As they escape the pull of the city they send a message to Ashari who appears directly behind them, filling them in, in greater detail of the activities of the Gith. They have freed 'The Eater of Worlds' from the prison layer of the plane and while this poses a great danger it is not a matter for mortals to dabble in. They plane shift back to the material plane, to Odek where they speak with a guard about sending word to the hunting parties in the badlands. Mas steals a large amount of gold off another guard and later that night Talanashta gets hold of the group and arranges to meet them at the Reyak Ruins at midnight. They teleport to Frea and Syl changes into a giant vulture to carry some of the party alongside Zaros to the ruins. After encountering some harmless spirits they are approached by a flying entity that upon closer inspection is a flying carpet with Talanshta on board. They go deeper into the badlands and reach a hidden cave where they encounter many eladrin and black guard readying to go out on the hunt for the necromancers and gloomstalkers. They are shown how to operate the carpets and prepare to explore the southern border of the mountains.
Session 87 - (1st October 2020) - Excessive tagging...and a holiday
The group collect their items from Novak and pay the gold for them, they now have some fancy communication trinkets. As they leave the Fooks School of Magic they are bombarded with messages from varying sources and in various forms. Several messengers arrive and some physic messages recieved letting them know that Kass has a lead on large payments to people that don't exist signed by Cal, Vorontir and Nelia have started a dig operation at the Al'Tea Ruins and are advancing in the ranks of their mercenary company in Frea, Ashari informs them that the Gith released an imprioned being during their attack/diversion on Elysium, Talanashta lets them know that a team of Eladrin are teaming up with the Black Guard in Odek to find the necromancers and gloomstalkers in the Skellakrow Badlands to try and put a stop to everything. This is a perfect time to get away, but before they do they go to the Adventurers Guild where the new members sign up and have a mini tour of the place after interacting with Jeff, Aria and Ernest. Melvin is spending his holiday at the guild with his new found love of snacks, the hottest of dogs. Teleporting to Dragontale in Rayas and Eraz gives them the tour finally coming to his parents house where they and the party are all introduced. Big boy Zaros is shown off before they head off to the Boonpools for an afternoon/evening of relaxin in the hot waters. They stay in the town for the night and go back to the pools the next day while Mas has a look around town to try and find out more about the Tabaxi and more specifically the details of Padfoot Instruments and the rest of his family, learning that tabaxi are more common here than Ethea but still a rarity and they usually travel in packs of 3-5, not much on the family specifically though.
Session 86 - (24th September 2020) - Shopping Episode
There is talk of a holiday or break of sorts as they have been pretty full-on recently, quickly sidetracking into shopping. Novak becomes a party favourite with several commissions and experiments in the works. Bracers of lightning are sold to Alf (the rather large and easily influenced human) and a small interaction with Baxton, another member of his group. Melvin is taught how to play chess by Syl, with marginal success and Mas does some pickpocketing. Lily hangs around with townsfolk and people she knows as the others do their thing. Eraz reads his book, intently...
Session 85 - (15th September 2020) - Mastastic
Dreams happen.....Mas manages to steal loot boxes from the past.
Session 84 - (8th September 2020) - Heading Home
Ashari offers them a way home if they want but heads off to check if anywhere else was affected by the gith while they were here. They are left to their own devices, lotting the gith of their armor and taking in more of the towns surroundings, interacting or attempting to with the townsfolk with little success. Mas goes on a little gold stealing spree after noticing nobody takes notice of his actions, later to discover none of items here are real. They eventually do get Ashari to send them home, landing on the grassy banks near the Bolor Market just south of Raux before teleporting themselves to The Broken Arrow to rest for the night. Nelia leaves the group to assist Vorontir with some mercenary work and Lily is sent to fill the gap. Mas reveals some things about the past and his desires to find out more info, to which Lily mentions she may know a contact dabbling in memory magic. They head into the woods off of Fooks and go to meet Vatica a blue skinned eladrin in a small hut which descends into a much larger underground complex where they agree to take part in a memory experiment involving diving into the mind of Mas to unlock what he forgot. They get into stone beds connected with tubes and a magical gas puts them to sleep...
Session 83 - (3rd September 2020) - Gith Continued
The fight goes on in the streets of Gattan, more gith reveal themselves from the shadows and aggressively fight with the party and guardinals. The general known to Syl reveals themselves and joins the fight, after a lot of fighting the gith regroup and retreat with a plane shift spell, leaving one behind which the guardinals chase through the streets.
Session 82 - (25th August 2020) - Town Under Siege
They head back to the guardinals camp and rest the night before planning some more what to do in the morning. They decide to stay and try to help and come up with a plan to try and bait them out again at the same location as they strategically gather around the tree the portal appeared in last time. A portal begins to open but instead of gith, a spherical object is chucked through exploding a wave of energy and the portal closes. A brief moment of confusion is followed by Ashari alerting the other guardinals something is happening in Gattan - one of the afterlife towns they protect, they gesture to the group to come closer and they teleport there. As they arrive it is clear that something is wrong, the sounds of screams and objects being thrown and/or smashed seem to be coming from the town square and as they race in they see several gith hunting down souls and destroying the town, with a few heavily armoured gith watching smugly from the middle of the road. Leaping into the battle alongside the guardinals they begin to challenge the gith, slaying a few of them before turning their attention to the others further back. Fireballs are thrown out of nowhere at the group as more gith reveal themselves on the rooftops. Syl catches a glance of the commander he encountered before down one of the alleyways before they vanish.
Session 81 - (18th August 2020) - Return of the Gith
A portal opens up, spotted by Colin, and gith start to exit and make a formation. Good old dimension door is used again, this time with much greater effect as a giant fire storm is unleashed on the gith causing mass casualties. Additional gith come through and the guardinals catch up with the party to engage and pick them off as they try to flee back through the portal. Turning one of the gith into a sheep with polymorph, they manage to question one of the knights after a few escape and a few are killed. The interrogation is intense but they fail to gather much traction until geas is cast loosening their tongue beyond their control. They learn of some basic githyanki concepts of pillaging lands and raising their young there as the astral plane is too hostile, they are pretty sure only they can go through their portals but as to exactly how that magic works they do not know. Gith gets chopped up a little and dies.
Session 80 - (13th August 2020) - Back to Elysium
Mas pickpockets in the slums and gets some odd stones in a bag which turn out to be a sort of snack with natural caffeine, sugar and cacao - it does not taste good. The group send Ashari a message and get an update on their fight with the Gith. Deciding they want to go to Elysium they first need a plan of how to safely get there and back, they head to Raux to try and discover a teleportation circle sequence. Eraz meets with Sir Terrance III and learns that teleportation circles are rare at least for the part of the humans capabilities but they do indeed have one. Syl cracks out the plane shift spell for the first time and they all teleport to the City of the Star on Elysium. Having an interesting time getting out with some feeling more compelled to stay than others, they reach the city limits and discover Ashari waiting for them in the shadows. They teleport to the guardinals camp and learn of the gith and their attacks, the guardinals lost their home in a surprise attack by an astral dreadnought (since banished) and they have rebuilt elsewhere. They all hatch a plan and alongside a group of guardinals they set a trap for the gith, who can track powerful magic by casting a level 6 spell and waiting...
Session 79 - (4th August 2020) - The Egg
Heading back to Odek via teleport they go to collect their rewards, learning of another group down south that were not so lucky and were attacked by the creatures not making it out alive. They may be contacted to assist after a plan is put into motion but for now they make plans to go to Raux to sell this egg that is showing signs of getting close to hatching. They get a message from Kass at the Broken Arrow letting them know she's off to Westport and didn't find anything but will continue to dig where she can and details how to reach her in an emergency. Nelia heads to see Reggie and arranges the meeting, a few hours later she meets another goliath, this time with bright purple hair who buys the egg for a reasonable sum of gold. She seems an avid collector of creatures but doesn't give anything else away as she slinks out of the Orc's Armpit after the deal. Mas is introduced to Reggie and asks to put some feelers out for some family stuff in return for his services.
Session 78 - (29th July 2020) - "Teamwork"
The group are about to head back out into the badlands when they spot another group heading towards them, deciding that a team this big could potentially go further in to try and see what's going on nearer the mountains. They stumble upon a small group of sleeping gorgons who charge into battle but with a lot of acid especially they are no match for the large group. Making their way much closer to the mountain border they spot a dim purple light in the distance and decide to get closer and investigate, revealing a humanoid figure and several floating small lights orbiting them. Several large winged creatures appear to be floating around overhead and one of them approaches the groups, with some of them deciding to launch into battle. Colin and Morrigan teleport to the humanoid figure who on much closer inspection is an elvish like woman, thin with wild white hair and sunken red eyes, she rises into the air and continues focusing on a spell while the winged creatures attack trying to scoop individuals into the air. As the rest of the group battle to get into range of the other two, they fight these creatures with some success, killing one before the woman resurrects another creature, curses the lot of them and takes to the skies with the remaining creatures. They head back into the spawned door mansion to rest.
Session 77 - (21st July 2020) - Wraith Bashing
They begin fighting the wraith with drakios and deal some good blows before it summons a giant skeleton made of skeletons with the wraith inside, after taking on the wave of bones they have a short rest before moving onwards into the badlands. They go deeper into the badlands discovering some large holes with imprinted wing and talon marks inside, nobody quite knows what made them or what could have been inside.
Session 76 - (16th July 2020) - Is That An Accordion?
After the fight with the wolves they move further in, discovering a spiders nest which they swiftly burn, scattering spiders into the forest. A few of the party members hear a distant sound and following it closer it sounds like an accordion. They press on discovering a winding trail with proper fence posting that leads to a lit house where the sounds are coming from, sneaking up to it and around it, it looks to be a small party in full swing with several humanoid creatures inside. Syl goes inside and is greeted with cheers from the party-goers who offer him drinks and as the others go in it soon becomes apparent these humanoids can alter their forms to match the groups as they turn into various forms of tiefling, dragonborn and tabaxi. A large ornate golden music box sits on a central table blasting an ever changing tune as they dance and drink and try to convince the others to join them. Mas and Eraz head outside while Nelia and Syl remain inside trying the various wares and trying to ask them questions before discovering they are very drunk and not responding well. Another figure comes down to greet them, much more sober and serious and explain that they have all been cursed and are trapped here. After much detective work and lotting, Syl manages to find a way to free them from the curse and the building (exhausting almost all magical ability) after Mas destroys the music box, shattering it into small fragments. They are incredibly thankful and it is evident they have been there for a very long time based on the currency they had. Syl takes them to Fooks where can figure out their past and gives them 200 gp to be getting on with. They all meet up in Odek before having a long rest. They get a message from Reggie about a buyer for the egg as well as some Chuvonian Guard coming around offering rewards for any information leading to the capture of individuals seen using blue powder or blue pastes. They sign up to go into the badlands that evening with their escort Drakios or 'Drake', a very large and bulky human who takes them via horseback with Eraz choosing to ride upon Zaros. They see a floating spectre emitting a high-frequency noise as it glides in circles around the badlands, they engage with the Wraith and begin battle.
Shoboham Zar uses legend lore to look into the Melix Brotherhood and has images of a a grouping of quirky towers on a mysterious demiplane before the vision fades. Sir Terrance lets them know they probably shouldn't go barging into the mages demiplane on their own and they decide to head to Fooks to speak with Talanashta Quedys about their situation. She also warns against trying to gain access to their home and advises trying to find a better way to deal with them.
Session 99 - (14th January 2021) - Disintegrate
The group go to the council and meet Bryden and Rhia, getting Rhia alone they get a message sent to Terrance who makes his way back to the council and prepares to confront Cal in Westport. They quickly get there through the teleportation circle beneath the city and start to search for Cal, finding him asleep in a room at the tavern he was last in. He is very hungover but once he realises he is rumbled he tries to escape and fails, they relcoate him to the other edge of town to some cages below ground. Using greater restoration they return his memory to an unaltered state and he returns to a totally sober form. Cal reveals Ernest was the one who asked him to sign off on the dodgy gold payments and he knows there have been a few but he can't quite remember too well some of the older ones. He knows of the Melix brotherhood but has no direct dealings with them, however he does have an 'emergency contact' he could get hold of in the right circumstances. Making a deal with Terrance and the party he agrees to do this in exchnage for no jail time and resigning from the council, he sets up a signal for the contact and when night comes they all make their way to the edge of town. As Cal waits outside a farmhouse, the others are all positioned in hiding around the area as a dim flash of green light illuminates the area. Two mages dressed in dark green appear and disentigrate Cal before teleporting away. The party notice that the mages had rings that glowed when they vanished and they scoop up the ashes of Cal into a bag.
Session 98 - (23rd December 2020) - A Case of the Crabs
Co op game - add in the mages grabbing ernest
Session 97 - (15th December 2020) - Follow up
The group go to Eldan to see if he has a name for them and he puts them on to Brina, who he is currently attempting to get info out of and failing. Using magic and intimidation, the party assess that Brina had her memory altered and when she access to her original memories she helps them before being set free and fleeing. She describes the person who hired her and it sounds a lot like Cal Moses of the council. They plan on how best to approach the situation and decide to go to Westport to try and get info out of Cal. Tracking him down to a tavern on the far side of the port, David Wunderbar makes another appearance and they establish Cal is quite good at skimming gold from the port for his own pockets but don't get anything solid from him regarding Brina or memory modification. Vorontir makes contact and lets them know she found a ring hidden in Ernest's desk drawer at the guild, when they inspect it they discover it is a ring of modify memory to which they think Cal might be working with Ernest now. Cal proves far too wasted to be of any real help so they let him sleep it off and return to Raux.
Session 96 - (8th December 2020) - Fight Amongst Yourselves
Curiosities of Mas lead to the group seeking out a place to test their abilities against each other and a guard happily lets them use a battle arena in return for coin. Mas spars with Eraz and gets some good shots in but ultimatley Eraz scoops the win. The others are watching from the sidelines and decide to get involved. Zar and Nelia are next to do battle and again the fight is a very close one with nelia narrowly pulling out the win. The last round of fighting is between Lily and Syl and another show of impressive abilities with Lily winning the fight. They leave the arena and prepare to have a spot of downtime before resting, ready to revisit Eldan.
Session 95 - (1st December 2020) - A Very Respectful Business Meeting
After a rest in Frea, the group attempt to contact Talanashta but are not able to get a response. Zar does a scry and sees the shadow of a floating city before being thrown out of the spell, with this info Syl mentions the elven floating city. The group teleport themselves to Raux where Nelia leads them to the northern parts of the city where Eldan operates. The team splits into two with Mas going with Nelia to check out the back buildings and Syl A.K.A David Wünderbar and the others pose as businessmen (and ladies) looking to do work with Eldan.
The meeting doesn't exactly go to plan with Eldan's crew seeing them as targets to rob, the party soon show their power though and they back off and agree to fetch Eldan. Meanwhile round back, the sneaksters break in to Eldan's home and go snooping, finding some coins, gems and ledgers beneath the floorboards of his bedroom, discovering a name linked to the recent payment to the mercenaries from a 'Brina'. When Eldan is summoned, they head back to meet the others in the 'business room' where they manage to convince him to talk alone with them as everyone else gets sent outside. Operation fuck shit up is underway and they team up to subdue Eldan, casting zone of truth, a curse and slipping a cursed ring on his finger for double curse goodness. Strangely, he complies with their demands, telling them Brina approached him out of nowhere with a lot of cash to hire the mercenaries but he can look into finding her for them. The group say they will return in 24hrs for an update and let him go before teleporting away.
Session 94 - (27th November 2020) - Tugging at Threads
Eraz looks into the possibility of extracting elements from the potion of longevity with Novak, Syl takes Zar on a trip to the guild to become a member. They chat with Jeff and Ernest and Syl gets a feeling about Ernest and upon having a chat with him, think he is hiding something. They grab Melvin who has put on a few pounds since they last saw him and go back to the others. They decide to check out what's happening with the ruins and send Nelia a message, she tells them to go to Frea and meet at midnight. The group meet with her and she explains that herself along with Vorontir are part of a mercenary operation who have the task of scaring the dig tems away from the ruins. She also reveals that Eldan was the one who hired them to do so. Syl tells her about Ernest and Vorontir is put on the case.
Session 93 - (12th November 2020) - Round Two
Agreeing to the terms, they have a short rest before the next fight. As they wander around the arena, evidence of recent fights is clear and loged between some hard to reach rocks they see a body that is very much alive, a blue slightly tired looking dragonborn named Shoboham (Zar) who agrees to help fight with them if they get him out of this place.
The crowd falls silent again as they hear a faint whine that gets closer and louder. Suddenly swarms of stirges try to latch on to the group who fend them off expertly, no matter how hard they try the creatures meet their end swiftly. Karnor surprises them, announcing a second round and with another rub of his stone, a chunk of ruined stonework appears in the arena, eight stone pillars with winged beasts carved into them. The party get closer to investigate and as they approach the statues burst open with an array of gargoyles erupting from their stone shells and battle ensues. Eraz summons Zaros to join the fight as he smashes out of the shelter to get involved.
They eventually defeat the creatures although they deal some hard hits before succumbing to the blows. They head to Karnor to get their prize which is a choice of two boxes out of three. They pick two and Mas steals the contents of the third box before they teleport out of there, Lily has her eyes on the red gem and exchanges some words with Karnor as the rest of the group leave to meet in Fooks. They spend some time identifying the items (Potion of Longevity, Ioun Stone of Sustenance, Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments - 1 Jar) before they have a long rest.
Session 92 - (3rd November 2020) - Thirst for Fighting
The group decide they want to get some combat action in and eventually decide to head to Mog and visit Karnor the Orc. He agrees to let them fight to death in the arena and if they survive they get a prize, if they die well... they get to become food for other things. They leave Zaros in a shelter as to not attract any unwanted attention and head to the arena to fight.
A crowd gathers to watch and they shout and bang on rocks, slowly the noise fades into an eerie silence as Karnor raises his hands and summons the dark red stone they encountered before and it glows and then fades. After what feels like several minutes of silence, the ground faintly rumbles, getting stronger and stronger until the ground burts open, scattering rocks as a giant wurm emerges! With some cunning tactics they defeat the wurm as Karnor asks them if they want to fight again for a bigger prize?
Session 91 - (29th October 2020) - The Tiniest Carpet In All The Land
The group settle after taking down the dracolich and have a short rest. Eraz roots around underground and finds the dragons treasure trove, some of it intact and some long since fine. Talanashta gifts them a small flying carpet, before getting Ellis to take the black guard home, she teleports back to Fooks. The group head back to O'pax to stay in their neglected house which requires a good dusting. Heading back to Fooks, Mas gives Caliban some bones from their encounter and asks him to weaponize them. Eraz seeks magical assistance for Zaros and building him his own pocket dimension and Novak sets it up with the other mages for a hefty price. Lily learns the disintegrate spell from Talanashta and prepares it right away. Mas tries to get access to the restricted section of the library but fails to charm the worker.
Session 90 - (22nd October 2020) - Fighting the Dracolich
BATTLE
Session 89 - (13th October 2020) - Magic Carpet Rides
After a rough start, Syl and Lily master the art of the flying carpets, taking several black guard with them on a hunt. They discover a rather empty but beautiful coastline (aside from some very out of place deep crows) and a large peak that has evidence of gloomstalkers being resurrected. They travel back to camp, arriving quite exhausted after a long time being awake and travelling and sleep through until midnight where they get ready to go out another night. This time Talanashta teleports them to the Ravana Pits just a little further north as she goes to check out the gloomstalker traces they found the night before, leaving the group with an additional eladrin named Ellis. They head into the mountains and discover another large stand-alone peak which they circle and approach from different angles. The crater at the top of this mountain is much smaller than the last only 1000ft across and they can quickly converge. Ellis takes lead on looking for tracks and finds some that seem to end where a massive crack in the rock lies. Lily throws a rock down to see how deep it is and upon hearing a splash indicating around 100ft decides to jump on down with Ellis, softening their landings. Zaros zips through the hole with Eraz and Syl launches his carpet down, leaving one super scared guard up top who refuses to go down. They are in a small pool of water in a dark and damp cave network, moonlight shining down from the cracks above and some additional firelight from the party reveal very shiny rock as light bounces around the chamber. They see a full-sized stone carving of a dragon made of this shiny material and detect some odd faint magic from it. Ellis discovers a pedestal around 100ft away from it also made of this material with an orb sitting atop it and Eraz tries to lift it, managing to barely get it off the pedestal and in doing so sending a pulse of bright blue light from it to the dragon where it pulses to the surface. A shout for help can be heard echoing from above as a flustered guard can't quite get the words out. Several cracking, dragging and stomping sounds can be heard above ground and the guard eventually jumps into the waters below. Syl and Lily go up to investigate on the carpet and discover a large dragon although missing large amounts of flesh and slightly disfigured, patches of old blue skin remain. It turns to face the carpet crew with it's empty eyes as they go back underground...
Session 88 - (8th October 2020) - A Bit All Over The Place
Eraz decides to turn his home in Dragontale into a sort of hostel where people in need can find sanctuary and hires a crew to renovate the place. The group plane shift to Elysium, forgetting to warn Lily about the effects that the City of the Star have on people and quickly rushing themselves out of the city, dragging Lily along when she gets the urge to linger and stay. As they escape the pull of the city they send a message to Ashari who appears directly behind them, filling them in, in greater detail of the activities of the Gith. They have freed 'The Eater of Worlds' from the prison layer of the plane and while this poses a great danger it is not a matter for mortals to dabble in. They plane shift back to the material plane, to Odek where they speak with a guard about sending word to the hunting parties in the badlands. Mas steals a large amount of gold off another guard and later that night Talanashta gets hold of the group and arranges to meet them at the Reyak Ruins at midnight. They teleport to Frea and Syl changes into a giant vulture to carry some of the party alongside Zaros to the ruins. After encountering some harmless spirits they are approached by a flying entity that upon closer inspection is a flying carpet with Talanshta on board. They go deeper into the badlands and reach a hidden cave where they encounter many eladrin and black guard readying to go out on the hunt for the necromancers and gloomstalkers. They are shown how to operate the carpets and prepare to explore the southern border of the mountains.
Session 87 - (1st October 2020) - Excessive tagging...and a holiday
The group collect their items from Novak and pay the gold for them, they now have some fancy communication trinkets. As they leave the Fooks School of Magic they are bombarded with messages from varying sources and in various forms. Several messengers arrive and some physic messages recieved letting them know that Kass has a lead on large payments to people that don't exist signed by Cal, Vorontir and Nelia have started a dig operation at the Al'Tea Ruins and are advancing in the ranks of their mercenary company in Frea, Ashari informs them that the Gith released an imprioned being during their attack/diversion on Elysium, Talanashta lets them know that a team of Eladrin are teaming up with the Black Guard in Odek to find the necromancers and gloomstalkers in the Skellakrow Badlands to try and put a stop to everything. This is a perfect time to get away, but before they do they go to the Adventurers Guild where the new members sign up and have a mini tour of the place after interacting with Jeff, Aria and Ernest. Melvin is spending his holiday at the guild with his new found love of snacks, the hottest of dogs. Teleporting to Dragontale in Rayas and Eraz gives them the tour finally coming to his parents house where they and the party are all introduced. Big boy Zaros is shown off before they head off to the Boonpools for an afternoon/evening of relaxin in the hot waters. They stay in the town for the night and go back to the pools the next day while Mas has a look around town to try and find out more about the Tabaxi and more specifically the details of Padfoot Instruments and the rest of his family, learning that tabaxi are more common here than Ethea but still a rarity and they usually travel in packs of 3-5, not much on the family specifically though.
Session 86 - (24th September 2020) - Shopping Episode
There is talk of a holiday or break of sorts as they have been pretty full-on recently, quickly sidetracking into shopping. Novak becomes a party favourite with several commissions and experiments in the works. Bracers of lightning are sold to Alf (the rather large and easily influenced human) and a small interaction with Baxton, another member of his group. Melvin is taught how to play chess by Syl, with marginal success and Mas does some pickpocketing. Lily hangs around with townsfolk and people she knows as the others do their thing. Eraz reads his book, intently...
Session 85 - (15th September 2020) - Mastastic
Dreams happen.....Mas manages to steal loot boxes from the past.
Session 84 - (8th September 2020) - Heading Home
Ashari offers them a way home if they want but heads off to check if anywhere else was affected by the gith while they were here. They are left to their own devices, lotting the gith of their armor and taking in more of the towns surroundings, interacting or attempting to with the townsfolk with little success. Mas goes on a little gold stealing spree after noticing nobody takes notice of his actions, later to discover none of items here are real. They eventually do get Ashari to send them home, landing on the grassy banks near the Bolor Market just south of Raux before teleporting themselves to The Broken Arrow to rest for the night. Nelia leaves the group to assist Vorontir with some mercenary work and Lily is sent to fill the gap. Mas reveals some things about the past and his desires to find out more info, to which Lily mentions she may know a contact dabbling in memory magic. They head into the woods off of Fooks and go to meet Vatica a blue skinned eladrin in a small hut which descends into a much larger underground complex where they agree to take part in a memory experiment involving diving into the mind of Mas to unlock what he forgot. They get into stone beds connected with tubes and a magical gas puts them to sleep...
Session 83 - (3rd September 2020) - Gith Continued
The fight goes on in the streets of Gattan, more gith reveal themselves from the shadows and aggressively fight with the party and guardinals. The general known to Syl reveals themselves and joins the fight, after a lot of fighting the gith regroup and retreat with a plane shift spell, leaving one behind which the guardinals chase through the streets.
Session 82 - (25th August 2020) - Town Under Siege
They head back to the guardinals camp and rest the night before planning some more what to do in the morning. They decide to stay and try to help and come up with a plan to try and bait them out again at the same location as they strategically gather around the tree the portal appeared in last time. A portal begins to open but instead of gith, a spherical object is chucked through exploding a wave of energy and the portal closes. A brief moment of confusion is followed by Ashari alerting the other guardinals something is happening in Gattan - one of the afterlife towns they protect, they gesture to the group to come closer and they teleport there. As they arrive it is clear that something is wrong, the sounds of screams and objects being thrown and/or smashed seem to be coming from the town square and as they race in they see several gith hunting down souls and destroying the town, with a few heavily armoured gith watching smugly from the middle of the road. Leaping into the battle alongside the guardinals they begin to challenge the gith, slaying a few of them before turning their attention to the others further back. Fireballs are thrown out of nowhere at the group as more gith reveal themselves on the rooftops. Syl catches a glance of the commander he encountered before down one of the alleyways before they vanish.
Session 81 - (18th August 2020) - Return of the Gith
A portal opens up, spotted by Colin, and gith start to exit and make a formation. Good old dimension door is used again, this time with much greater effect as a giant fire storm is unleashed on the gith causing mass casualties. Additional gith come through and the guardinals catch up with the party to engage and pick them off as they try to flee back through the portal. Turning one of the gith into a sheep with polymorph, they manage to question one of the knights after a few escape and a few are killed. The interrogation is intense but they fail to gather much traction until geas is cast loosening their tongue beyond their control. They learn of some basic githyanki concepts of pillaging lands and raising their young there as the astral plane is too hostile, they are pretty sure only they can go through their portals but as to exactly how that magic works they do not know. Gith gets chopped up a little and dies.
Session 80 - (13th August 2020) - Back to Elysium
Mas pickpockets in the slums and gets some odd stones in a bag which turn out to be a sort of snack with natural caffeine, sugar and cacao - it does not taste good. The group send Ashari a message and get an update on their fight with the Gith. Deciding they want to go to Elysium they first need a plan of how to safely get there and back, they head to Raux to try and discover a teleportation circle sequence. Eraz meets with Sir Terrance III and learns that teleportation circles are rare at least for the part of the humans capabilities but they do indeed have one. Syl cracks out the plane shift spell for the first time and they all teleport to the City of the Star on Elysium. Having an interesting time getting out with some feeling more compelled to stay than others, they reach the city limits and discover Ashari waiting for them in the shadows. They teleport to the guardinals camp and learn of the gith and their attacks, the guardinals lost their home in a surprise attack by an astral dreadnought (since banished) and they have rebuilt elsewhere. They all hatch a plan and alongside a group of guardinals they set a trap for the gith, who can track powerful magic by casting a level 6 spell and waiting...
Session 79 - (4th August 2020) - The Egg
Heading back to Odek via teleport they go to collect their rewards, learning of another group down south that were not so lucky and were attacked by the creatures not making it out alive. They may be contacted to assist after a plan is put into motion but for now they make plans to go to Raux to sell this egg that is showing signs of getting close to hatching. They get a message from Kass at the Broken Arrow letting them know she's off to Westport and didn't find anything but will continue to dig where she can and details how to reach her in an emergency. Nelia heads to see Reggie and arranges the meeting, a few hours later she meets another goliath, this time with bright purple hair who buys the egg for a reasonable sum of gold. She seems an avid collector of creatures but doesn't give anything else away as she slinks out of the Orc's Armpit after the deal. Mas is introduced to Reggie and asks to put some feelers out for some family stuff in return for his services.
Session 78 - (29th July 2020) - "Teamwork"
The group are about to head back out into the badlands when they spot another group heading towards them, deciding that a team this big could potentially go further in to try and see what's going on nearer the mountains. They stumble upon a small group of sleeping gorgons who charge into battle but with a lot of acid especially they are no match for the large group. Making their way much closer to the mountain border they spot a dim purple light in the distance and decide to get closer and investigate, revealing a humanoid figure and several floating small lights orbiting them. Several large winged creatures appear to be floating around overhead and one of them approaches the groups, with some of them deciding to launch into battle. Colin and Morrigan teleport to the humanoid figure who on much closer inspection is an elvish like woman, thin with wild white hair and sunken red eyes, she rises into the air and continues focusing on a spell while the winged creatures attack trying to scoop individuals into the air. As the rest of the group battle to get into range of the other two, they fight these creatures with some success, killing one before the woman resurrects another creature, curses the lot of them and takes to the skies with the remaining creatures. They head back into the spawned door mansion to rest.
Session 77 - (21st July 2020) - Wraith Bashing
They begin fighting the wraith with drakios and deal some good blows before it summons a giant skeleton made of skeletons with the wraith inside, after taking on the wave of bones they have a short rest before moving onwards into the badlands. They go deeper into the badlands discovering some large holes with imprinted wing and talon marks inside, nobody quite knows what made them or what could have been inside.
Session 76 - (16th July 2020) - Is That An Accordion?
After the fight with the wolves they move further in, discovering a spiders nest which they swiftly burn, scattering spiders into the forest. A few of the party members hear a distant sound and following it closer it sounds like an accordion. They press on discovering a winding trail with proper fence posting that leads to a lit house where the sounds are coming from, sneaking up to it and around it, it looks to be a small party in full swing with several humanoid creatures inside. Syl goes inside and is greeted with cheers from the party-goers who offer him drinks and as the others go in it soon becomes apparent these humanoids can alter their forms to match the groups as they turn into various forms of tiefling, dragonborn and tabaxi. A large ornate golden music box sits on a central table blasting an ever changing tune as they dance and drink and try to convince the others to join them. Mas and Eraz head outside while Nelia and Syl remain inside trying the various wares and trying to ask them questions before discovering they are very drunk and not responding well. Another figure comes down to greet them, much more sober and serious and explain that they have all been cursed and are trapped here. After much detective work and lotting, Syl manages to find a way to free them from the curse and the building (exhausting almost all magical ability) after Mas destroys the music box, shattering it into small fragments. They are incredibly thankful and it is evident they have been there for a very long time based on the currency they had. Syl takes them to Fooks where can figure out their past and gives them 200 gp to be getting on with. They all meet up in Odek before having a long rest. They get a message from Reggie about a buyer for the egg as well as some Chuvonian Guard coming around offering rewards for any information leading to the capture of individuals seen using blue powder or blue pastes. They sign up to go into the badlands that evening with their escort Drakios or 'Drake', a very large and bulky human who takes them via horseback with Eraz choosing to ride upon Zaros. They see a floating spectre emitting a high-frequency noise as it glides in circles around the badlands, they engage with the Wraith and begin battle.
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