Operation Parameters
| Date |
1492 DR, 27 Nightal
(08/12/2022)
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| Soldiers |
Halar, Aceso, Valas, Aujirgix, Lark |
| Status |
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| Casualties |
None |
Objective
Investigate those being imprisoned at Caer Callidyrr, and are branded with the sign of the eleven.
Observations
Remove curse does nothing to those affected
The whole dungeon they were kept in felt dulled in a sense... colors, smells, etc.
One of the kenkus with were providing gifts is locked up in the dungeon
There are other types of marked (marked by the sign of the 11). Not just the ones in the snow that pray and wait for death. There are some who want death by violence, some are crying, there was a cannibal, etc...
We saw a young women one we saw had eyes bleeding black, who was really hard to approach and for those would could, it caused harm mentally.
Two others had something (3 grubs) growing in their stomachs.
Aceso banished one of the two, and it caused the whole area to become less dull, and the other had the grubs explode from it stomach. The women, and cellmate beside her transformed into some sort of monstrosity. When they died, then seemed to turn to shadow, and disappear.
Lark shadow seem to stand up, run away, and potentially sucked all the energy from a guard...
Banishment ended, and the other person returned... stomach was back to normal - seems the grub was gone.
Aceso used "Dispel Evil and Good". All these people remember being in a warm field... with their family and other people... in the glorious shade of a tree. They want nothing more than to go back. To the point where they start praying to "to who would ever listen...". Multiple of them mentioned this. All of them had miserable lives before (some because of the war), and were willing to pray to anyone for relief...
Werewolves update from the capital: caught two men near the castle; poaches and furs - led us to you all. Arrested 3 mens; killed 2; interrogating 1 last one. They did get this "butcher": rumour is that he took his own life. Hopefully his apprentice has some information;
The 4 important people from the Lord's Alliance are present at the embassy. 3 women with
Lady Vajra (The last blackstaff) - black hair
Laeral Silverhand (waterdeep) - white hair
Storm (younger sister of Laurel) - white hair
last one is unknown
- short sorts
- red cloak
- greaves
- breast place - symbol of the tree, and the women underneath.
Follow up
Investigate more about this field of happiness, beneath the shadow of a tree.
Preparation Details
As I get close:
their pupils would dilate
symbol of a circle over a equals sign
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Detect magic:
- no auras
Aceso heals him
- small wounds seem to heal (still the same)
Detect Evil and Good
- Nothing
Greater Restoration:
- he begins to cry... pulls the knees to his chest... crawl into a ball
- in the fetal position. Deep sobbing
- bated breath... hard to speak
- Are you alright:
I don't know...
- The last thing I remember is: struggle...
- I don't know. Sometime in the city.
- He thinks it's the 11th (it's the 23rd currently)
- Last, he remembers:
He was in his home crying...
The woman head turns and puts her hand toward us pawn up.
- first movement we've seen
- symbols scarred on her
- on her shoulder blade... almost look like a loaf of bread. A tattoo -- faded, old.
Also, if one dies by the scream of another, they don't chain. (Based on what we saw at the outpost)
The cultists don't have a shadow
- including the old man
DO NOT KILL THEM. If you murder them, the weapon that kills them seems to eminate a deadly scream
at 500 feet away, Virgil shoots the third one. the scream still hit them.
- it seems to come from the bow itself. the thing that killed the person.
Greater Resto helped for a period:
charmed?
cursed?
Operation Details
Night before... sailors have started to go missing at Cobh
Something might have been brought back from Blyth... Car Callidyrr is investigating... will let us know if they need help
Jacob's fact of the day:
birds can swim
hush hush on this one
major passed it along
- apparently, we might have drawn some attention
- important people as we call them
- lords alliance...
- go on up there to the embassy
- will try to stall you... wait for the other folk
- he didn't say one way or the other
- first one goes the glory
- "red tape"... will take everything that they find.
We are going to see what we can learn.
Jacob got us permission, all the paperwork
scout is going to get us at the embassy and escort us there
folks from Lord's Alliance
- keep it professional
- lords: are an end to a means folk
- appearances matter.
We teleport to the embassy
Taylor is making his way around sweeping.
- hustles over and opens
- expects the other guests around sunset... (Lord's Alliance)
- offers us breakfast - very fancy
Talah (first scout)
just outside... too stuffy inside.
she considers the "camp" -- a dungeon of where the enemies of crown were kept
- she seems nervous...
- the gentleman inside makes her nervous
Anything we should be concerned about:
don't fall into the sewer... the muck
never been in there before
believe whoever is in charge... directly reports to the king
- guards are often different - no one wishes to stay too long
- rumours:
- guards that have been in that place are happier when they left... almost forgetful
- those who are stationed there are hand-picked by those in charge
As we approach, we won't be going in the map gate
- keep the entrance to yourself
- side walls... to external sewers and then making our way in.
- this passageway is private and patrolled.
15 to 20 minutes until we start to see the wall.
veer to the right. 100 to 200 yards out.
seems to be a large drain pipe (9 feet wide)
Space opens to a large aqueduct... maybe under the worf quarter
- terrible odor...
- occasional guard
- large iron door in the distance; two guards out front
- smell seems to be dulled with every step
- colors and fire seem dulled... less saturated.
Talah turns back.
Nothing from detect magic.
Two guards
- form rank and separate.
- in front of us is a spiral staircase going down
- bring nothing out of here.
Comes to an open room
guard at the entrance
Sgt McMuller:
asks who the leader is
Aceso nominated
dozen or so of them locked up
feeding them, and keeping them alive
Only been here 3 or 4 days
- seen some weird shit
1. Timothy won't the bodies
- a tiger: the disposal
2. Found little bird fellow poking around
3. One cell he cannot get within 10 feet of
4. One of the soldiers -- spent 8 months on the battlefield
- doesn't remember anything about the combat; horrors of the war -> all completely gone and forgotten
Bloody spikes
might use this area to interrogate enemies of crown.
Looks across to Timothy cage - "Phillip" passed a day or so ago.
- normal at first... after a day... seems to go right back as he was
- for the most part: something about dream
- some of calling. (maybe related to dreams? sleeping?)
- will get us a report (or ask)
There is a tiger across the way.
Going south toward the goo covered cell:
- movement speed is reduced by 30 (weight of the world on his shoulders)
- Aujirgix tries to get closer
- brown cloak over his head
- corpse of another there (7-8 months)
- beneath the robes is young woman... early 20s... scarred from within the fire
- rattle of chains
- beneath her eyelids... pools of black - eyes devised of any color: fear
Aujirgix can enter:
- She cannot see -- pulls hood down
- is someone there... "please help me".
- "I don't know... haven't heard another voice in so long"
- girl stands moves to the iron door - presses up against it
- she doesn't remember anything
- at homing doing best to survive
- and then was here
- dreams: only nightmare that I have every night.
- the seers haven't been kind to me
- lost my sister a few months ago: relive those days over and over
- miss her family
- cannot see.
- touches Aujirgix... hurts her head
- feels so good to have another touch
- she wishes to go home; wants her family back; wants to love again
- will pray to WHOEVER will listen
- Aujirgix retreats.
Lark remembers that it was hard to approach the people praying on the side of the road as well
faints reports... the people that founded the fort - fought something like this
bleeding eyes but were not human: were from the plain of shadow
She's been here 5 days
picked her up in the raids
raids of werewolfs
- found that one
- her eyes were not black when they found her.
- that's new
- she doesn't seem to be the cultists
- found her starving wanting to kill herself
- has a brand on her (dot over 11)
- some are acting crazy - death by violence
- some are crying... starving, etc
- the other ones starting showing up.
- there was a cannibal as well
- ate the folks he was locked up with
The guard on the opposite side of the room straightens up as we approach the cells on the other sides
two men
- 30s
- heads shaved
- praying
- don't speak – mouthing something
- cannot hear it
Tiger pressed up against the Cage... is locked on Kai (owl)
There are 4 guards in here; plus the 2 at the door + patrols.
They are saying:
you think you hear a word... or if it's just the breath leaving his lips
- maybe it is elvish
- sorry... (elven word for sorry)
Checking them out:
terrible heath, but nothing really jumps out
their abdomen
- there is kick from inside their stomach
- could be big... could be 3 football sized object inside.
Tap on Lark's left shoulder
- her shadow is dancing; her shadow isn't exactly in sync. Almost delayed?
- voice in her: we just played a few games together -- that's all.
- sounds like the person she met in the darkness
- "I just want to bear witness"
- kill the bird, and we can talk
These people do seem to have shadows.
Valas:
depends on how close they are... parasite... type of relationship
Aceso banishes the creature:
Water around:
- grows more pure
3 grubs explode from the non-banished one stomach.
they attack Halar.
Woman (black eyes) pushes to the bars... turns into something?
outstretched hand... black goo shoots out into Lark
PULLS her across the room
Valas throws a fireball at the transformed woman
- blows out the wall
- man in the wall beside him starts screaming...
- growing wider, and another head growing out
Valas gets harpooned by the woman’s other hand
Lark hits the woman:
black eyes pool from its eyes
Lark's shadow stands up!?
the weight (slowness around it) disappeared now that the woman has turned into whatever this monster is
Lark's shadow RUNS... makes it way past the tiger in the Cage
The screaming creature transforms into another monster with two heads.
Killing the woman turned her into a puddle.
We fight this 2 headed monstrosity
people going down and up.
toppled over and turns to shadow... disappears.
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Initiative would end:
Aceso still concentrating on banishment
person re-appears
- no distended stomach
- the skin around his stomach is still stretched, but distended
- seems to be gone (lost a lot of weight)
Remove Curse:
doesn't curse does nothing.
Dispel Evil and good:
he would blink
the scar of the sign of the eleven unchanged.
Where am I.
I was walking in a warm field with me family.
it was the place after this one.
it is a blur. A war. being hungry, afraid, running through the straights
- memory of the fields.
- I wish to go back; send me back.
I'm onto your tests demon... send me back.
wants to go back.
ripped me should from the happiest place he's ever been.
"bow his head and begin to pray..." "to who would ever listen..."
Halar pushes him up against the wall
- keeps trying to put his hands together to pray -> muttering under his breath for help.
Apparently, they burn the bodies, and
Bob is a skeleton with no water in him; looks like a mummy
-
They usually set the bodies on fire, and dump the rest in the river
Something has sapped all of them power from this body; no muscle left.
seems the bird is alive
it's the birds that gives the gifts... usually has a black skull
bird wants out.
Guard asks if we want to start protocol wave mother
- flood the place, and destroy the place
Speak with Dead (3rd)
We could hear that prayer again from skull.
- Can you tell me the last things you remember happening?
- you killed my friend
- Can you tell me if anything significant happened or was happening to you during the period proceeding (your last memories / blacked out / got controlled)?
- that field was so warm.... the shade so refreshing
- was there anyone else you know at this tree other than him or people he knows
- there were so many people smiling faces...
- 3 ladies in white at the tree
- many women wore white and grey
- Before the field - what was your life like
- miserable
Aujirgix
- thinks that maybe that lady in white who emanating light in Horsa had black / bleeding eyes, but not sure.
Sounds like the guards were giving them the rough and tough in the past, and never triggered anything.
not sure what has changed...
About a dozen other guards show up, and help clean up, and re-enforce.
As we exit, the terrible smell is back.
- meet Tahla
- she stays quiet
Back our way back to the embassy
- asks about Werewolves
- Tahla: caught two men near the castle; poaches and furs - led us to you all
- arrest 3 mens; killed 2; interrogating 1 last one
- they did get this "butcher": rumour is that he took his own life
- hopefully his apprentice has some information
- royal interrogator is a vicious man.
We would make our way back to the embassy
- fix our appearances before we make it back
- Tahla doesn't like Taylor for some reason
Immediate chatter of women as we enter
the guests have arrived.
3 women with Stark white hair, one with black
Lady Vajra (The last blackstaff) - black hair
Laeral Silverhand (waterdeep)
Storm (younger sister of Laurel)
last one is unknown
- short sorts
- red cloak
- greaves
- breast place - symbol of the tree, and the women underneath.
Laurel:
thank you for service dwarf
Aceso provides them a basic report:
"They will root out the darkness... they will purge it no matter the cause or what it takes..."
