Session 25

9/2/1654BM

The group wakes up for the morning, a pensive attitude in the air but this wont stop a quality breakfast. Greta makes some scrabbled spiced eggs with lions mane mushroom, as well a pomegranate is cut and enjoyed. Libra makes the choise to attune to the orb of discord, and the curse wands are passed out. The group leaves their horses and makes the hour walk to the cave entrance. Now in the day light they are able to see much better, a cave opening with wooden barricaded structures placed up inside it, a entrance area open. Unable to see any people at the moment they take a last few minutes to talk out plans, the potential for great danger of a revived old dragon. Alar uses ghost to scout ahead in the area, two bronze dragon born are playing a game of human chess and spot ghost right away, making noise and alerting the other dragons in the area, so knowing this the group rushing in to take down the guards at the entrance, if being quiet doesn’t work might as well be loud!

Greta opens up the attack, storming into a house and almost killing the iron dragon born inside, Alar uses a bolt of flame and then a powerful toll the dead spell to kill one of the guards that spotted ghost. Joenes runs in and the house and kills the one Greta wounded. Two more dragonborn are seen, two gold ones who seem less on guard but still they pick up spears and get ready to defend, Daren holds his eldritch blast ready, Greta instead of turning around simple runs thought the wall, with a total lack of grace and runs towards the guard left. Alar kills the last bronze guard with a burst of flame. Joenes, following like Greta bursts through the wall of the home and runs further down the cave. One of the gold dragonborn swings at Pascal with the tea pot they were holding. Daren uses his eldritch blast to harm on the gold ones, Greta finishes it off. Flynnic strikes in and smashes in the head of the last one with his pan. A quick fight to warm them up, but still yet five dragonborn are dead. They go and explore the area a bit, Alar finding a few coins, burnt incense stick and a small idol of the platinum dragon god. They also go further into the cave and see a large door like structure. It’s a set of circles, seven in total with each circle having the seven types of metallic dragons and they can be rotated, it is assumed that some combination will open the door. They try a few combinations before realizing the need for an actual key, but having found the combination was, from the top to bottom: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Iron, Bronze, Brass, Copper. But needing a key they look around, Flynnic and Joenes having no luck but Alar, with almost a lucky sense finds it in a double false drawer in one of the houses, and so after a good few minutes they open the door to the dungeon. Daren takes a precaution and disguises himself as a male gold dragonborn, hopeing to fool any possible dragonborn along the way, he leads the party into the dungeon, always being the fist to check around corners and the like.

As we enter the dungeon a smell of ancient times and decay fills the air, a trepidation that something about this place on a fundamental level wasn’t not meant to be unsealed, and yet they continue onward. A pattern of systematic clearing of rooms, Libra putting his tremor sence to use to detect if a room has someone within before breaking down the doors and clearing them out. The first room is empty of people, a chair and tables, the appearance of dishes and a bin that holds them, seeming of a simple kitchen, Daren quick to think grabs the dish bucket as a potential prop and distraction if encountering others. Libra detects in the rooms, which is a structure look like bedrooms, they open the ones that are unoccupied and find them sparkly occupied, straw mats on the ground and few personal effects, in one room two creatures are sleeping, and in another one is reading, this demined before the doors even opened. Greta and Joenes prime them selves ready for those sleeping and Daren for the one reading, with lightning fast precision Daren cuts off the head, Greta and Joenes both swing in with weapons and kills all in one fell swoop, three dead Yuan-ti lie their, these are humanoid snakes also called a Naga, from the ones Daren killed his Spector is filled with spiritual energy and Jimmithy is formed under his direction. They continue their systemic style of raid, passing a weapon room and stealing them all, daggers, swords, and spears. Going further in they get to another door, deteching life, bracing for it, killing the Yuan-ti instantly and then looking inside, it’s a food storage room and the Yuan-ti was taking a smoke, a bowl of loose tabaco beside him and some loose food, bread and apples.

Continuing further, they go down a staircase and delving even deeper into the dungeon ahead of them. Going down with care they get to the bottom, see a wooden barrier that, when peered thought shows a large natural cave, which the group promptly leaves alone. they continue further down the hall, getting into a room that the first section contains some spell components but and a small table, but the next room has a line of salt on the floor and inside are a good pile of bones, which wen seen have at least a few full skeletons, but letting skeletons lie in their graves the group leaves them. Going further they see a large hall and Daren spots six dragonborn of different metallic colors playing some dice game, he approaches slowly, and with his disguise and bin of dishes as prep, but expecting combat he to is also ready and the rest of the group waits behind the corner. Going in the dragonborn are to focused on their game, but looking over and spotting that he isn’t familiar they quickly ask “name?” to which he responded in a quick fashion “Jorvan” and knowing something isn’t right all of them jump out of seats and draw daggers on them to attack him at once, yet expecting this all to go down the group rushes in to match their foes, Daren kills one off the bat with his sword, and Greta charges in and kills another in a single blow, Alar uses fire bolt and toll the dead but it seems to have little effect, Jimmithy kills one with his spirit powers, Flynnic swings and misses but causes them to be off balance, then Pascal bits the head off another, but spits it out promptly. Alar finishes one other, Libra uses a mind sliver and kills one more until the last is killed by Flynnic with his pan, the fight over in a few second before it hardly begun, and the dragonborn doing little counterattack, blood pools on the floor as even more death enters this space, looking at the bodies Daren sees a similar metallic stripe, assumed to be a ranking metal and so adds it to his disguise self spell. A small room to the side appears to be a kitchen, Greta finding and keeping a variety of the foods stored there, and behind it a bedroom for presumably the cook. Going further down the hall the see a small hall to the right and go down. One room is filled with spell components and quite valuable ones as well, in addition a few spell scrolls that are taken, also behind that is a room filled with cultivated mushrooms, but more pressing matters occur and so they press onwards, they also find a butchery room, Greta taking a large steak from it, into another room continuing they go into a large save, seeing a river and small island on the river. Two Yuan-ti Naga are washing clothes in the river, running at them with the aim of death the group continues, also seeing the three large snakes on the island rock. Pale white and almost appearing to lack proper eyes these large snakes but still a threat. Flynnic moves in quickly and brandishing his wand of lightning bolts he managed to hit both a snake and a Naga, the Naga bursting apart instantly and is dead the snake behind just pissed off and all three snakes start to charge, Daren uses eldritch blast to hurt one snake, Jimmithy moving with spiritual speed and hitting the same one. Libra uses mind whip to shatter the brain of one snake, making it slow and sluggish. Greta runs up and hits one of the snake that is approaching the group, the snake tries to attack Jimmithy but does little damage to his spectral form, Joenes moves up into position. Flynnic goes and kills the second Naga, hitting with his crashing pan, Pascal close behind to aid with his lightning spark, Daren moves in and him and Jimmithy work and kill one of the large snakes, now just two more to go. Alar uses a burst of flame to attack and then tolling the dead he manages to hurt the ears of this beast, dealing a force of damage to it. Libra uses a mind sliver to stun the snake again. Greta goes and hits the snake hard, but not hard enough as it still lives. The two snakes come together and both wrap around Greta biting and constricting her, taking a good bit of damage, but she has yet to show her anger and so is still fine. Joenes runs to get her out and slays the second snake in the process, only one more stands. Flynnic runs in and with heroic might, a little luck and help from pascal completely shatters the skull of the last snake at once. the cave now silent, and the river soaking up bits of red blood, they take one Naga and one snake corpse and put them into the portable hold, for Alar to study later.

Exiting this area of cave they go out to the dungeon once again, the hall way and able to smell old blood from one room, Libra unable to sense a person inside but as they enter they see a dragonborn in the corner, quickly dispatched by a fire burst and eldritch blast, but what lies on the ground is more startling, the corpse of a young green dragon, Flynnic stays outside to keep Pascal from looking, they find a journal and the dragonborn was composing a drawing, this mangled corpse, baily together but having been torn, it’s a horrific sight, Greta quite uneasy at this sight, as in her mind this dragon was a kid, a kid who was taken and killed, and for what? Alar, not letting the macabre nature of the situation stop him goes to collect the last remains of the blood from the dragon as well as a few choice scales. Those who can read draconic take a quick look at the journal and learn how the dragon was captured, vivisected and then studied, they choose to leave out the details to Greta when translating, for the horror of this needn’t be revealed when other threats still lie. Leaving the room with a far changed tone, death pervasive and on the mind of all here.  They continue further, now seeing a large set of ornate doors ahead, assume it to be a chamber of their adversary they leave that area for now. Seeing a sole door, trying to open it and finding its locked. Yet a lock is simply an obstacle for them, one that needn’t be solved with a key, so with a very strong push from Greta they break the door down, stepping in small jets of fire go off from a floor tile trap, so Joenes goes first in line, the room is like a spiral going in, with a strange and confusing design. In the middle a plinth with a large crystal ball, Daren and Libra both understanding what this object is, Daren places his hand on it and trying to scry on the dragon they are to face, yet seems blocked by its native power. With difficult Greta manages to lift the whole Plinth off the ground (orb still attacked) and place in into the portable hole. Going on ward the see a room with more spell scrolls, but none made just materials to make them as well as some stuff for painting, paints and brushes plus loose canvas, a small little depiction of a forest scene seems to have been left half finished.

They go to the set of rooms on the other side of the hallway, going down they see a room, Libra detects someone alive in their and opening it they see a sleeping brass dragonborn who looks injured, and for once mercy is shown and he is left to be. They find a meeting room, tables and chairs as well as an old map diagram with some points marked in Kest, stuff on both peninsulas. The map appears off, the geography doesn’t match to the modern map that Flynnic has and some features are missing. They go further, Libra senses someone and they prepare, Daren stabs a guard who is reading and he dies at once, yet he was Infront of a set of bars and a white dragon born is there, Daren talks to him but when asked a question the dragonborn opens his mouth and shows that his tongue was cut out. Daren uses message to communicate with the prisoner, Greta giving him some bread and they talk a bit. His name is Tharan Ixus, He was captured and brought here after he was out hunting, they give him a sword, some armor and a shield and let him leave the dungeon, advising him of its simple path out. He thanks them greatly, is given some ham for the way out by Greta and goes away with his newfound freedom. Further on they come into a nicer room that looks like a breakroom of a kind and some doors to its side. One of them contains a large wooden bowl on top of it containing a large dark ball on top, scarily smooth, and Dark-green in color, a silver band in the middle, looking at this curious and yet strange and ominous object. Daren is unable to recognize it, Libra with a deep look sees and guesses at it, perhaps this is a ball large enough to fit a human body, perhaps this ball would be used to cast the spell “clone” a powerful necromantic spell that can bring someone back from death. Confused but wanting it, it goes into the bag. In the other room they see a check, prying the lock open and inside another box. In their lies a golden idol, a figure that while looking at it transforms into Daren but with a smile on its face, with a sense of unease they piece together that this may be the exact same idol that they had gotten from Hlyenna before, which they had sold off a little more then a month ago. Confused and worried, but again taking it. Going cross the hall there are a set of bedrooms, and with the same practiced efficiency they clear all the rooms, life stollen and taken as they kill all those in the room. At this point they stand in front of the door, the prediction from the mage, that their would be “5+1” mages frightens them, no mages seen yet but clear signs present of their existence.

Music

Dungeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2NAblVD70Q

Combat music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7cioftmKs

Session 26

Standing in front of the wide doors they take a last few moments, trying to get any information ahead of time before the battle, the doors with too small of a crack to be seen into, but Alar turns into a small aphid and so crawls under the door, up the wall and then back, able to report the sight of what is inside. A large central dragon, made of bone and wrapped in green animating flame stands looking towards the back of the room. Its bright gem eyes shining and reflecting the low torch light.  Four cloaked figures are present. A green, a yellow, a red and a purple cloak. A set of eight large pillars exists to hold the high ceiling ups. In-between the pillars are paintings of metallic dragons, with later identified as the seven former metallic dragons and their names. Mestoli’ap, the dragon of brass. Rozend, the dragon of bronze. Heposaltil the dragon of copper. Ferisi’us the dragon of iron. Argenta’is the dragon of silver. Rusamar the dragon of gold. And lastly in the middle is Bahamet the dragon of platinum. In the back of the room as well is a semi complete set of bones, but not draconic in look more serpentine. Alar coming back and reporting it all, the hand of fate reconsiders for a second their plan, does the last few spell castings, gets health potions and spell scrolls ready and makes last prayers before this. they use a stick of dynamite to open the door with a blast, entering in with great speed. The dragon turns and says at once, in an ancient and creaking manor. “who dares interrupt our ritual?” to which Daren in clever manor responds. “were the hand of fate, and you time has come to and end”. Argenta’is responds in kind “I am Argenta’is, dragon of silver reborn. Surrender now and your soul will be used for a better purpose”. Daren in turn says “my soul is already taken, prepare to have you flame extinguished!”. And with that the fight stats. Greta having been transformed into an Ape comes charging in as planned, trying to grapple this gargantuan dragon, and does manage to pin Argenta’is down. The pillars erupt in ghostly necrotic fire and those close to them take a small amount of damage but hold firm. Joenes goes up and makes his attacks, hitting with powerful strikes. Argenta’is able to bit him back even while stuck in the bind. Libra holds out the orb of discord and calls on its power, trying to take the strength of this ancient dragon, yet seemly a powerful ability saves it from the sapping of energy. He then puts out a mind sliver and attacks the intelligence of Argenta’is and uses a twinning magic to also hit the purple wizard. Alar uses a conventional fireball and Ghost teleports Greta to the other side of the dragon to get a more advantageous attack. Argenta’is flies up a bit  and lets out a howl, one that touches and caresses more then the mind but the very soul. This howl strips the life from Libra, making him short circuit and fall to the ground. Greta as well looses her ape form and reverts back. Daren and Flynnic both are almost effect but by the cusp of will they hold on to life. Flynnic brandishes his wand of lightning bolts and unleashes a bolt at Argenta’is. The wizards make their moves, the purple one uses a chain of lightning to hit Joenes and Greta. The yellow wizard uses a heating of metal on the armor of Joenes, but it will do little as fire is of no great effect to him. The green wizard casts Bigbie’s hand and swings it into Greta, her being punched hard. The red wizard casts an aura on Argenta’is himself. Daren rushes over to Libra, and stuffing a scroll of light down his mouth brings him a little health and back to being conscious. Argenta’is shouting over “I was born before the very earth that formed you civilization was made” and Daren snaps back “you also died before that so what does it matter?”. Greta goes into a rage and turns away from the dragon, attacking the red mage behind her. The Lair once again pulses with deep green flame light around the pillars. Argenta’is hits Daren and Joenes with his bites. Libra sees the spell effecting Argenta’is, and uses dispel magic to rid the effect of it, a wave of slowness fills the bones of Argenta’is as the effect of Haste wares off. Alar using ghost summons a wall of fire, diving the battlefield into two, Greta and the wizards behind one half and everything else on the other. Flynnic uses his lightning bolt wand once again, hitting the dragon square on.  Daren instructs Jimmithy to use a light scroll and help Libra, and Jimmithy does so as asked. Daren stabs Argenta’is and uses his new blade to impose psychic trauma, causing the next attack to be stumbled and ineffective. Joenes uses this to hit with an off hand attack. Greta slams her hammer into the red wizard, killing him, quickly turning around she pulls out the quasar hammer, running through the wall of fire which Alar takes down, she strikes with a burst of light and flame at Argenta’is. Area of the chamber fill with magical darkness and some of the mages are trapped and hard to see. Joenes is distracted and fails to hit mighty Argenta’is. Libra uses a third spell scroll of light to heal himself, and teleports back to some cover with dimension door. The purple wizard tries to uses counter spell but libra uses a counter counter spell to make a successful way to safety. Argenta’is has taken some serious damage at this point, but still holds strong. Trying to attack Joenes outright but not in full success. Alar goes and uses fireball in the darkness to hit the two mages inside, Ghost uses a flame burst to hit the dragon, but misses due to the pure chaos of the battle. Argenta’is uses a mighty goutte of green flame that rather then burn, chills on to the bone. Daren and Joenes take the brunt of it. Argenta’is saying “we were delayed but will rise again”. Flynnic saying “you fell one and you will fall again!”. Flynnic uses the last change on his lightning wand and goes into the sphere of darkness, hitting the two with lightning, Pascal adding to the bolts strength. Purple wizard calls out a chain of lightning again and hits Greta and Ghost both on, both take a moderate amount of damage. Daren using a powerful spell, Physchic lance to cripple the mind of the dragon, Libra having used his spells to make his mind vulnerable already. Argenta’is is crippled and unable to move with any grace of strength. Daren, also hurt drinks his health potion. Greta goes and strikes the purple mage down in retaliation, hitting with her hammer and crushing the body. This time able to see that the body falls but makes no noise as the cloak is empty, but saving the questions for later, a dragon still needs to die. Argenta’is, still not done with tricks lets out a second howl, this one less powerful than the first but still taking vital energy away. Joenes, Greta, Daren and Alar are all effected as some life force is taken away, and put back into Argenta’is as his flame pick up and the fight still continues. Joenes still trying to find the right areas to spike missing his attacks. Libra uses a scorching ray and hits the dragon thrice. Joenes is bit again with the powerful jaws of Argenta’is. Alar, seeing his friends hurt and some close to the edge of life and death, casts an aura of life to keep people surviving and healing. Argenta’is has been knocked down to the ground and is unable to use its claws to attack. A faint murmur is said “let the green flame consume you” but no response said as only finality in on the minds of the hand of fate. Daren uses a psychic lance again, straining his own mind as well but having mastery and control over this. Greta is hit by a stray bit attack bit is still standing. Greta hitting back and she gets a lucky hit, crushing some bones with her hammer and striking well, dealing a lot of damage. Argenta’is looks weak, but he was dead from the very moment that the hand of fate decided to end him. Joenes takes all the last of the strength he has left, shining is his resplendent armor and using his pike, he hooks the skulls off of Argenta’is and severs the life binding green flame connection. With a last words out his mouth Argenta’is says “my god, my god, I tried to serve you” as the flame dies and silence falls on the chamber.

Catching breath, closing the doors and taking a very much needed rest after this fight. Resting and recovering, Greta goes out and searchers the room with mushrooms, some crown mushrooms, Willowshrooms and deep night cap mushrooms, the later tow can be made into poisons. She comes back and makes simple omelets as other members investigate areas of the chamber. First the large orb, suspected to be an object used for clone, but nothing seems to be different about it, dispel magic is cast on it but no change occurs. Daren, never letting a good cloak go to waste looks at the wizards cloaks, concerned about the lack of body but with bigger matters to deal with he takes them. Flynnic finds another wand but doesn’t use it at the moment as its effect is unknown. Libra and Joenes go to the large serpent skeleton in the back, seeing a partial skeleton. Some chalk lines made and it appears to be completely normal, they have to spend some time rearranging items in their bag of holding and portable hole, using containers and all sorts of methods, but they crush up the bones into a loose mixture to transport it easier. They investigate the skeleton of Argenta’is more, Daren being careful to not touch the bones, so he can “lie” about it later if asked. The skull is kept safe but the rest of the skeleton is sorted and ideas on how to hold and attach it to the horses are made. They also find in the skeleton. Six other precious gems, green diamonds worth 850g each, keeping them for now. They also look around the bedrooms more, finding many trinkets, the vial of blue mist being one of note. Daren also spends time searching in the mage room, trying to find notes or more information but being unsuccessful. Joenes is rigging up the dynamite to explode the main chamber as well and taking down the paintings. In this time, they go back and find the injured one, a brass dragon born. They talk a little in front of him but decide to interrogate after they leave the cave. Joenes just up and picks the dragonborn up to carry him out. Jimmithy is set the task of lighting the fuse, but able to run out in time. The group also explodes the front entrance door. Sealing the old dungeon shut. Once outside and secure they sit the now prisoner down, bidning his hands and keeping a watch so he doesn’t use his breath weapon. His name is Perra Kepeshk. This is their only outpost, the way he turned bronze was with a breathing ritual done by Argenta’is. The four mages the group saw were in charge. That Perra was low ranking, and was almost tricked into coming to work here. They also do learn that the metallic revival was working with a group called the serpents hand, which the serpents hand was trying to resurrect their great old master a large serpent. That Perra has slipped on a wet floor and took a bad fall to break his arm. The group gets back to the horses, lets Perra use the seventh horse, which they decide to official name Neu, spend some time loading up all the supplies and head off in the midafternoon back to Rokash.

The group levels up to 9th level.

Music

Argenta’is Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmedGRPud7w

Battle music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhETAWu0ek

Calm music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CahOLfYxiq0

Session 27

9/2/1564BM

Outside of the cave entrance the group takes their places and starts the journey back to Rokash. Alar spends some of the free time sorting out the crushed bones of the great snake into equal parts and making a tally, almost one thousand pounds in total were collected. Daren uses a sending spell to inform Zyres that “we recovered the skull, killed the dragon and are returning to you now, Pascal is unharmed” to which she responds with a simple “good”. Libra also uses sending to his master to say when they should meet in Warnek to exchange things and meet up. Greta makes aspic that night, a sort of meat jelly paste with spices and she uses the remaining air elemental jelly, and it tastes good despite its odd appearance. That night, Daren is unable to sleep well with the prisoner on his conscious, and so he goes over and lets Perra go, cuts off ropes and lets him be free. That night a great flow of power comes over the group, accustomed to the feeling at this time they know that favor was cast on them and they grow in strength.

10/2/1564BM

The morning comes and they all talk of what they would be able to do, Libra his new powers of teleportation. Daren his ability to contact the gods themselves and ask questions, Flynnic and Joenes grow in spell prowess and can both cast revivify if need be. Alar able to do more deep druidic magic and Greta just getting even tougher. Alar spends the time on his horse knitting through the day. Libra practices with a new spell in which he can control and temporarily animate objects. Greta keeps trying to do things with bones but to no success. Alar also goes into an explanatory monologue about spells, and how him and ghost work. Passing the lake they saw before they stop for mid day fun, Pascal tries to catch fish but to no success, Alar too uses his ability to control water but it seems the fish are not out today. At night Daren enters into a state of calmness, surrounded by friends he goes into a trance, eyes turn blue and he goes under. What he sees is this, the familiar white palace of Mornal and turning around he sees a young girl, perhaps twelve in age, wearing wispy black cloths with non distinct shape and a veil that obscures her facial features, Daren confused but knowing not to waste his questions steadies himself and then asks the questions. “Am I the dark one?” she responds “You are the prophesized one, you are his champion, and yes you are the dark one”. He asks a second “is my soul mine or do you own it?” she tells back “He keeps and holds your soul safeguarded, it resides in vorpal space and thus needs protection”. Dismayed at this but continuing on he asks “What are the exact terms of the deal we made” she says “to be his representative and campion on the world, and in return I grant these powers for you to use”. Daren asks another “Are you going to help me stop the visions I saw or not” to which she responds with a not so helpful. “you are already on the path to stopping what will happen, continue on this path and it can be prevented.” He lastly asks “What happens if I refuse this?” she says “refuse and the future comes as if you did nothing to stop it”, taking a bow at him then he says “your not the only option, I will not be your dark one” but no response and Daren wakes up. Alar uses a sneaky detect thought to peer on the surface of Daren’s mind to glimpse some of this. Daren says a few brief words before doing on a walk to clear his mind a bit. Coming back Libra asks if he wants to talk about it to which he says sure with a bit of reproach in his voice but still acceptance. Libra and the others curious of what was said that he is “Not what Mornal thinks I am” and that simply the experience “it went”. After this Joenes remembers a glint of realization, it is said that the dark one will “topple kingdoms”, so Joenes goes and prays, his god is far less communicative and precise so the answer of “the eyes of fire glow brightly” is expected. The group goes to bed uneasy but rests.

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In the morning Alar uses a spell animal messenger to send off two pigeons to Nashel, one to the high priest of Keldwin telling about the dark one saying “the dark one of Mornal refuses his call, potential cataclysm lies await” a few hours later he also sends a letter to his top follower as well telling him to talk to the priest of priest of Keldwin one day after this and talk of a vision, one describing a disaster caused by the leaving of darkness. Alar plants the seeds of religious fervor, what will grow from them? Pascal also goes hunting of some birds and squirls in the woods for fun. Greta continues to mess with bones, but no results. Daren tries to go the route of another god, and working with what he knows he asks Fenasal, doing the ritual and at first failing it do he blacks out but Libra brings him back with a greater restoration, he tries again. Appearing in a lighted up room, flame dance in braziers on the side yet no shadows are cast just varying levels of light, in front is a single wooden table with a lit white candle on top. This candle he guesses is the place to ask the questions. “Do you know any way to get my soul back from Mornal” to which he hears in a calm soft voice “To give is to get” he asks a simple question “are you in the market for warlocks” to the same voice says plainly but respectfully “no”. Daren then asks “are you in the market for paladins?” to which a “maybe” is responded back. Daren asks a complicated question of “If I transferred my soul to a different god would I be granted new powers” to which a quizzical “it depends” is said. Lastly Daren asks “with pantheon is focused on going good deeds and things that help people” to which the candle flickers and he hears “the unified church”. The room fades slowly and he wakes up in a far better state than the first time, but still unsatisfied with the answers he got.

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Passing the city of Rokash at midday the hand of fate moves on towards the lair of Zyres, to return to skull and prove the ability of Flynnic. Outside the lair they move stuff in the bags, Libra cast Animate objects on the skull so that it floats with a drama about it, Flynnic and the group comes into the lair Zyres is in her marble font and neck visible. Flynnic calls out “Zyres, I have come with the skull” this wakes her and she looks at the group, towering figure overlooking them, Flynnic says again “as you can see me and my friends have proved to keep Pascal safe and bring back what you desired” she says in a more nice tone than at first, but still the ancient and loud thrumming power of her before them “you came back with my treasure and my son, came and meet me” Flynnic goes around to the back of the marble font, finding a carved set of stairs, on the way he sees a few artifacts of her lair, a large and very well made map of the draconic lair locations, a low set painting of another male blue dragon and a massive blue purple geode. Climbing the stairs he meets Zyres much closer, seeing her body in this massive bowl, the bottom filled with a splendor of gold coins and other treasures below the water. She says “you’ve done well” Flynnic, with small correction “we’ve done well, there is strength in friendship and I couldn’t have accomplished with without them” she comments back. “friends, yes, they are helpful but times change, people move on, and in the end all you can rely on is yourself” she makes a remark about “you continue to raise him, and when the time comes bring him back to these draconic lands so he may take place with us” Flynnic says “I suspect this will not be the last time that we meet”. Zyres fishes up from her pool a number of things to give, first she gives one of her shed scales to Pascal, brilliant blue and with silver etchings across it in electric patterns, she says that this can be used to start a lair, a piece so that Pascal may grow. She also digs up a chest and pulls out a large vial, bright blue glass with what looks like a trapped lightning bolt inside it, she says that when the time comes for him to defend Pascal break this and the might of a dragon in the grasp of a mortal can be wielded, a bolt made from harnessed lightning that can be wielded and will cut foes down. Flynnic gives a last thanks for the great honor it is, and takes his leave. The group much more satisfied with this outcome then before and they head back to Rokash. They arrive at the city around 9:00 in the evening, and all curious by the vision that Flynnic got before they go to the shop “the eyes of the future” in the black market and get their fortunes read by her, the eyeless blue dragon born. Daren gets his read, a scene is shown with him, two younger men, and two women one younger and one older, all surrounding a grave stone in the rain. Unsure of the vision but odd. Libra gets a vision of him and the others on a small wooden row boat in a misty fog headed for an island, strange stone plinths around them in the water. Alar a scene that is translated and told to him, but he uses detect thought to scrape the thought off directly, its of him stabbing another wood elf in the back, one that is most likely related to him. Joenes gets his, it is of his church burning down, but taking this as not a good or bad sign, just one oddly related. Lastly is Greta, she gets a scene of her shaking the land of a grey skinned man with horns in a long black coat with three white lines, Libra able to recognize this as a Thalian inquisitor and that it is probably a tiefling, picking at her backstory a little as to why perhaps, but Greta doesn’t even know about the luminated pantheon so talking to libra a bit to understand it. the women remains them that these visions are only something that could happen, not something that will. Greta stays and talks to her a bit, about bones and how she hasn’t gotten anything and the women shows some bones to get, a set of spikey bones, a full snake skeleton, the spurs of a Khale bird and many other odd and weird pieces. In the end Greta buys the set of 42 spiked bones, which are from a pufferfish. They go outside the city, it being late now around 10:30 at night, but wanting to go to Warnek Libra uses his teleportation circle for the first time, a mass of gold dust used up to transport the group, and their seven horses. Its an ordeal to fit them all in the circle but it works. They are teleported to Warnek at once, a tan room awaits them, one that feels almost a dead zone of magical ability. A human man is sitting their with a book and seems surprised and shocked, he tells the group to call ahead next time. After a bit of paper work, some advice that Thalia may contact Libra with a letter soon and some more advice they are let go. Late into the night almost midnight but they find an adequate hotel to sleep the night.

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In the morning Libra sends off a sending to his master, and meeting up at a coffee shop we see Lusém Fôsa, the master and creator of Libra. He is a high elf with shorter blond hair and pale skin, with a jovial and happy personality he is excited to meet the group. Going around they members and what they do are introduced. He looks to be around 30 years of age in human age, but for an elf he is well into his first century. They tell their adventures and the stories, how the defeat of the chaos sisters and the fall of Vodras has made it all the way around the world as news. Lusém is also able to cast identify on the many items they have, working to sort out and tell what the things are. He identifies the orb they got, thought to be for clone but he reveals it is part of a phylactery, a powerful magic device used to store souls and convert them to lifeforce, it is used by a lich to stay immortal. So with connection to the silver dragon they fought they think that the skull may come back, he says a deterrent is to keep it in a place of great holiness, so he offers to take it from them for one thousand hold and safeguard it. he also identifies the axe of Emra, the transforming idol, and the orb of discord, revealing the hidden properties on these thing, that the orb has four charges instead of three but if all four are used it explodes so perhaps the lie was a helpful one told. He also identifies the tunning fork, saying it is attuned to the mists of vorpal space. He also tells information about the geometric obscurities, that they bring a part of vorpal space down to reality here. He tells the group a little of Archaeotech, how it is found mostly in northern Thalia but also off the coast of Adrea, in particular northern Adrea by Myantis’s shore. He also buys some of the dragon wing bones from the group. He gives libra a small purple crystal that allows them to form a better bond, it was quite expensive but will aid a lot in research and exploration. He gives the group 2750 gold in total for all of the things he bought and before leaving he says, in a genuine and honest way with a deep emotional tone to it “I am really proud of you and what you have become Libra, keep on being my best creation” heading back the group says their goodbyes and starts to plan their journey back to Kalim.

Music

Night theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK4JSwhdcdE

Contact other plains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLHf-SFqkk

Lusem Fosa theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuaD4wQd-jg

Warnek theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdoKubHbTKI