The Sixty-Third Session

April 2, 2022, Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

The Party explores more of ARN's mansion, and wins a poetry slam battle. Then we find ARN, and the statue that ARN is carving. The Party nearly dies in the process.

Last session
From the Kitchen
Into the underground
1. Another storage room
In the marble workshop
Next Session

Last session

We're still in the City of Setton, in the mansion of ARN, the artist. Winifold let us in, and told us that we need to find ARN before the next morning. We explored the ground floor and got seriously damaged by its inhabitants, before going up to the second floor and meeting a painting who intercedes with bits of the house on our behalf.

From the Kitchen

We debate where to explore next.

One door out of the kitchen leads into the hallway, so we open and examine that door to learn more about how the painting-door opens. It's the same mechanism as the floor above: A small inset doorknob in the painting unlatches it and slides it to the side.

The Dining Room

The other door out of the kitchen is a swinging door. Through it is a dining room, with no other doors apparent. There's a hearth on the east side, and a large table set for eight places. Sideboards on the west side, with glasses and bottles.

Percival asks the ladle, "When's the last time anyone ate in here?"

The ladle offers him the mummified thumb, and he understands that it's been "some time". He gives the thumb back to the ladle.

The sideboards are six feet tall, and on the south side of the room, Jerry discovers that one of the bottles doesn't move quite right, like it's fixed to the shelf. After some time manipulating it, the cabinet swings into the wall to expose another room.

The study

Jerry and Ryltar ask the painting if he's willing to intercede with the denizens of the study on our behalf, but he's running out of spell time. So we escort him home.

Jerry makes a speech to the room, explaining our motives.

Nothing happens.

She and Percival explore the room. The books on the shelves are art books, covering the whole span from basics to expert techniques. Sketches of works in progress, planning sketches. A rough drawing of something like the Mazarin Venus, unclothed. Scrawled phrases, brainstorming notes and doodles.

There's also a short hallway, heading back to the main hall. Pasted to the wall are scrolls of writing: poetry. The arched ceiling and walls are floor-to-ceiling covered in poems.

The wall turns a corner, and comes to a 20' square room with a small stage on the south wall. Hanging from wires and string are more of the poetic art, now interspersed with musical notation.

There's also a door, leading back into the hallway. Jerry starts to handle the door, and some of the papers begin to crinkle.

Jerry explains to the room that we're here to find ARN, not to steal from the house — but the ink is lifting off the papers and the papers are lifting off the strings.

Round 1.
1. Percival makes a rousing speech about friendship, trying to read lines from the papers that pass him. He rolls a natural 20 for 33 persuasion. Most of the paper stops its aggressive movements.
2. Two ink blots in the room tries to blind Jerry and Percival, but they are not blinded.
3. Two other ink blots try to attack, but fail.
4. Salris, in the study, calls down the hall into the poetry slam room: "We really don't want to hurt you!" There's some reaction.
5. One of the pieces of paper absorbs some of the ink, and it enters her space, to attack her. But it cannot overcome her armor.
6. Another piece of paper absorbs ink and makes a whirlwind attack. Jerry and Percival both take some poison damage from ink in their paper cuts.
7. The remaining two pieces of paper do nothing.
8. Jerry casts Web, to immobilize the paper. She speechifies a little.
9. Ryltar asks what's going on; tries to tell the papers down the hall that nothing is going on.
10. Vurguron, scared by the flying paper noises, takes a moment to recompose himself.
Round 2.
1. Percival reads the paper stuck in front of him: The words are heavily obscured by the ink and webbing, but he reads it. And with a natural 20 on his Persuasion roll, and a non-natural 20 on his dexterity save, he is able to move freely through the webs. He reads it aloud.
2. One ink blot is restrained by the webs.
3. One ink blot is not, and disappears among the webbing.
4. The remaining third ink blot tries to escape the web, and fails.
5. Ryltar repeats what Percival said, making the poem into a badly-heard round.
6. The paper swarms are all but one restrained. But they try to draw away from us.
7. Jerry says, "If you all behave, I'll let the web drop and you all can go back to being art." She steps away from the paper swarm that encompassed her, and the paper doesn't make an attack of opportunity.

The papers stay where they are, and Jerry drops Web.

Ryltar asks Percival how he's so good at this persuasion thing. He went to school for it, naturally! But he's not from the College of Persuasion.

Percival opens a pocket of his pocket of useful things, and finds a locket of silvery hair. He ties it onto a piece of holed paper, and compliments the paper on how it looks.

Jerry composes a short rhyming couplet in the traditional Orcish style, and writes it down on her book, and then tears the leaf from the book to attach it to one of the ceiling strings. The papers in the room look at it, and seem to accept it as one of their own.

The other door from the study leads to a circular room, with a single stone pillar in the center. The walls are covered in paintings of the outdoors. The clouds don't move and the grass doesn't wave.

Ryltar sends dancing lights up the room, into the sky. The column is plaster; the ceiling is 10 feet up like any other room on this house. There's a heavily-traveled path in the grass on the floor.

"Do you think if you walk around the pillar, you come out someplace else?" asks Jerry. She gives an end of rope to Ryltar, and walks around behind the pillar. She comes out through the same door, with the rope trailing behind her. Nothing really happened with her 10 Charisma save.

Ryltar investigates the room's walls, and with a natural 22 Investigation and a 26 on his Charisma save, he investigates the flowers. The flowers give and reset when pushed. He pushes them around, but nothing happens. He doesn't know what the code is; there's four sets of five flowers, with five colors of flowers.

Percival enters the room, and discovers that with every step he takes, the temperature of the room drops. Percival doesn't see his breath freeze, and Ryltar doesn't feel it. But as Percival walks around the pillar, he shivers with cold, and Ryltar notices his affect: Percival feels quite cold. Ryltar doesn't perceive the temperature drop.

Percival now understands that the height of the flowers and grass on the wall has no bearing on the room's meaning. It's just about color. He walks about the other direction and gets colder. He steps out into the study and the spell fades.

At Jerry's suggestion, Vurguron enters the room, going the opposite way from Percival. The grass gets higher and the way gets wider. He makes it all the way around and his friends are now towering over him.

We just see a regular-size Vurguron. "Is it hot or cold, Vurguron?"

He looks up and shouts, "I don't know if it's hot or cold! There's no temperature change! But you're huge!"

The rest of the party doesn't know what happened.

Jerry walks in the same direction that Percival did, and no effect takes. She turns to the Party and says, "I don't feel anything—" she has the feeling that someone is saying the same things on the opposite side of the pillar from her. When Ryltar says he didn't hear that effect, she hears the same effect on his voice. She leaves the room, and the effect fades.

It's weird that an artist might have something like this random-effect room.

Ryltar spends some time looking at the room, and looking at the papers in the study, and he discovers the number of petals in each flower is either 4, 5, 6, or 7, and each color of flower has one of each petal count. He walks around trying different combos. 4567 of blue: the blues stay down. 4567 of green: they stay. 4567 of purple: they stay. 4567 of yellow: they pop out. So blue green purple yellow white: they stay depressed, and a door opens into a new room.

The library

All walls are covered in bookshelves, with a desk in the center. There's a second level, but no ladder. There's a door on the ground floor and on the second level, leading out into the hall.

We enter to the smell of old books and extinguished candles. The shelves aren't just books: there's mementos and jars and stuff. We make the usual speech, and nothing happens.

Into the underground

We go back to the kitchen, down the trapdoor. We follow the path down a long and twisting passage, and come to a ladder that ends up in the library.

So we go back to the gazebo, and follow the route we hadn't taken. It leads to one ladder, half-descended from the ceiling, a short twist, another ladder, and then opens to a larder: clay, glass bits, a 3'x2' marble block, and stairs leading up. And there's a ramp leading up to a barred storm door, locked and chained and blocked with stuff.

Jerry doesn't want to tangle with the clay golems again, so we elect to cautiously take the stairs.

Another storage room

We come up into a room with a couple of visible doors. It's a storage room. There's crates and bits of masonry.

We hear a soft tinking of hammer and chisel. And a feminine voice humming a sweet, alluring song, coming from one door.

Jerry knocks on the door.

There's a feminine gasp. The tool sounds stop. A faint whisper comes through the door, but we're unable to make it out. A hoarse voice says, "I am not expecting anything, my lady."

"Winifold the art dealer sent us, to look for ARN, because Winifold had become concerned at ARN's absence," says Jerry loudly through the door.

"Begone from my place," says the masculine voice.

"We'll go," says Jerry, "But you should know that Winifold worries about you."

"Begone from my house! It will not hold back any more!"

"We're going, we're going." Jerry steps away from the door.

The voice: "If they are here, we must hurry," says the feminine voice. "I must be free," she says. Ryltar makes a door-kicking motion.

We get the sense that this is the sculpture, which has charmed him.

There's no keyhole, but there's a gap at the bottom of the door, and with the hand mirror, Jerry peeks through to see a male figure working at the feet of a stone sculpture.

Jerry casts Silence on the statue, and opens the door.

In the marble workshop

We a mostly-finished visage of a fey, stone woman, moving about as much as she can with her feet unsculpted. The male half-elf at her feet wears a blousy open shirt, a golden chain around his neck, a flop of dirty-orange hair, stubble, gaunt, bags under their eyes, sallow.

Jerry and Percival make Charisma saves. Percival passes; Jerry falls under an effect which requires her to move directly towards the statue.

And in the back corner of the room is a stone figure with glowing eyes, a glowing red emblem emblazoned in its chest. It stands up and glares at us hostilely.

A Shield Guardian and a Stone Lorelei

Round 1.
1. Vurguron makes to enter the room, and with a natural 20 saves against the charm effect. He approaches to within 5 feet of the statue, and examines the statue. With a 10 he sees only a fine figure of a woman.
2. The statue is unhappy. She reaches out her hand to Vurguron, who now regards her as his one true love, for richer or poorer, to be heeded and protected.
3. Ryltar moves where he can see in the room, and casts Slow into the room, affecting ARN and the two statues. ARN tries to counterspell and Ryltar counter-counterspells. The statue is unaffected. ARN fails. The armor fails. But Ryltar has become charmed, and moves next to the statue. The motion effect fades.
4. Salris Eldritch Blasts the statue, uncharmed.
5. Jerry is moved to approach the statue, and does so. She grapples ARN and drags him out of the room, out of line of sight of the statue. The statue swipes at her as she leaves, but doesn't pierce the armor.
6. The armor approaches Ryltar, and stabs at him, bouncing off of his Mage Armor. At the end of its turn, the armor is no longer slowed.
7. Percival throws his boomerang at the armor, but it bounces off.
8. ARN, held by Jerry, outside of the Silence, casts Cone of Cold, aiming at Salris, Percival, and Ryltar. Percival Counterspells at 5th; ARN would counter-Counterspell at 3rd — but he is Slowed!
Round 2.
1. Vurguron looks to his lady for direction; she points at his companions in the hallway. With all his loyalty to her, what does he do? He walks away, towards the hallway.
2. The lady, unable to cast, makes two SLAM attacks Ryltar, who subtly casts Shield to block her hammering attacks.
3. Ryltar Dimension Doors to the stairwell.
4. Salris, within line of sight, passes a Charisma save against being charmed, and then makes three Eldritch Blasts against the statue, hitting thrice for 31 force. He steps out of the sightline.
5. Jerry drags ARN into the basement, three steps into the room. "Winifold sent us here to save you from your art." His eyes are glazed, bloodshot.
6. With Vurguron blocking the door, the armor tries to shove him out of the way, and succeeds. It reaches out with a glowing hand to grab Percival's head, and Banishes him. The armor is now concentrating.
7. Percival is incapacitated in a harmless demiplane.
8. ARN tries to cast a spell against SLOW, and succeeds in casting Teleport. They disappear from the basement and pop back to the statue's feet.
Round 3
1. The armor has pushed Vurguron off to the side. Vurguron can't see anyone but his allies: The armor, the statue, and ARN. He examines the statue.
2. Ryltar finishes heading downstairs and regroups behind Jerry.
3. Salris follows Ryltar down.
4. Jerry quaffs two healing potions, giving two potions of Greater Healing to Salris
5. The statue remains there.
6. Percival is incapacitated in a harmless demiplane.
7. ARN continues chiseling, slowly.
1. Vurguron remains at his lady's feet.
2. Ryltar chugs his healing potions for a bit of health.
3. Salris likewise, to get back to his current maximum HP of 37.
4. Jerry goes up the stairs to whack against the armor: The first attack hits and breaks the armor's concentration. Percival reappears. The second attack hits as well, for a total 21 bludgeoning. Its breastplate is dented. It's a giant stack of health points, meant to defend. It's gonna be really hard to kill. She yells to Percival, "Get down here!" and she goes back down the stairs.
5. One of the armor's dents pops out. The armor takes two swings at Percival, dealing him some damage.
6. Percival disengages and tumbles down the stairs, drinking a greater healing potion.
7. ARN continues chiseling, slowly.
8. Jerry realizes that ARN's movements were lethargic to begin with. Lacking in energy. Weak, even for normal people. We don't think that Vurguron will be able to finish the statue if we kidnap ARN.
Round 5
1. Vurguron continues to worship the statue. He sees the statue angrily mouth words: it would be shouting at ARN if anyone could hear.
2. Ryltar stays below, focusing on that Slow spell.
3. Salris waits as well.
4. Jerry holds a Dash to ARN until she hears that Percival has Hold Monster.
5. The armor regenerates a little health. Its dent pops out with a pong.
6. Percival goes up the stairs and casts Hold Monster, and just barely succeeds.
7. Jerry runs up the stairs, and lands next to ARN.
8. ARN, with a natural 20 and a disadvantaged 21, shrugs off the effects of Slow.
Round 6
1. Vurguron continues worshipping.
2. The statue looks at Jerry, with a glow behind her eyes, and Jerry is stunned by Stunning Glance for two rounds.
3. Ryltar comes up the stairs, squeezes between the armor and the doorframe, and re-casts Slow on all the enemies.
4. Salris swings at the armor, landing a critical hit with the Beautiful Khopesh: 2d8 + 7 = 11 plus 4d6 = 19 fire from Arterial Ignition for a total of 30, with another critical hit and another Arterial Ignition for 11 and 11 for 22, then attacks with the Whip of Wounding for 1d4 = 2 damage, and a Wound.
5. Jerry is stunned.
6. The armor saves against the Wound but takes 1 damage from it before it disappears. It regains some health. It remains Held, and Slowed.
7. Percival maintains his concentration on Hold Monster, and whacks the armor with his rapier, for 10 piercing. Then he backs out of range.
8. ARN is still slowly chipping away.
Round 7
1. Vurguron continues worshipping.
2. The statue stuns Ryltar for two rounds. She is no longer slowed.
3. Salris continues attacking the armor, for 10 slashing plus another critical hit 29 slashing and Arterial Fire plus the Whip of Wounding for 1 slashing and a wound.
4. Jerry is still stunned.
5. The armor takes 4 necrotic damage from the wound, then heals, breaks Hold Monster and is still Slowed.
6. Percival can't cast Hold Monster again. He casts Tasha's Hideous Laughter on it. It falls prone, incapacitated, and begins to laugh: "Hrrrrn. Hrrrrn. Hrrrrn."
7. ARN continues hammering.
Round 8
1. Vurguron continues worshipping.
2. The statue stuns Jerry again.
3. Ryltar is stunned.
4. Salris moves into the room a little, and Eldritch Blasts the statue for 33 force, chipping away at her health.
5. Jerry is stunned.
6. The armor continues laughing. "Hrrrrn. Hrrrrn. Hrrrrrn."
7. Percival continues concentrating on Tasha's, and then uses his Mage Hand to grope around to pull the chisel from ARN's hand. He succeeds in yoinking the chisel. He pulls the chisel back to his hand.
8. ARN is still slowed.
Round 9
1. Vurguron is now aware that Salris has attacked his beloved with Eldritch Blast. He is unhappy, but Ryltar is between them. Vurguron pushes past the stunned Ryltar, and does nothing.
2. Ryltar is still stunned.
3. Salris does another Eldritch Blast cannon, missing once, for 18, and she's looking pretty chapped.
4. Jerry shrugs off the stun.
5. The armor stops laughing. But it is still prone, and is still slowed.
6. Percival tells the armor another joke, and it starts laughing again. "Hrrrn. Hrrrn. Hrrrn." He throws the chisel down the stairs.
7. ARN gets up to follow the chisel. ARN steps out of Jerry's reach, and she does 12 bludgeoning to ARN. Something glows red on ARN's chest, and the armor twitches.
Round 10
1. Vurguron is before the stunned Ryltar, and now stands before Salris.
2. The statue tries to stun Jerry, and fails.
3. Ryltar is stunned.
4. Salris does some Eldritch Blasts at the statue, hitting once for 14.
5. Jerry whacks away at the statue for 31 damage. An arm has fallen off.
6. The armor continues laughing, slowly.
7. Percival enters the sculptuary and picks up his boomerang, pushing past Vurguron in the doorway. He attacks the statue with the boomerang, and misses.
8. ARN is still slow, and still tries to run. ARN gets bonked by Jerry for 11 damage, and the armor twitches again. ARN tries to climb around or over Vurguron, but fails.
Round 11
1. Vurguron grapples Salris, preparatory to choking Salris, but fails: Salris is a real slippery bastard.
2. The statue tries to stun Percival, and succeeds.
3. Ryltar gets right up against the statue and Cone of Colds her at sixth level. With advantage, she fails with a 13 on the constitution save, and takes 38 cold damage. He pushes the statue over, and she falls over, knocked prone. The entire stone slab falls over. She takes no damage from falling over, but is almost cracked.
4. Salris, at disadvantage because Vurguron is in the way and the target is prone, casts Eldritch Blast on the statue, hitting once, exploding the statue's head like the Death Star.
5. The Stun effects go away. Vurguron is no longer charmed. ARN is no longer charmed?

ARN shudders; his desperate intent becomes more self-controlled.

Next Session

We need to tell ARN some things. Jerry is still maintaining Silence.
Ryltar needs to do something for the missionaries of Denier.
Was Seamus poisoning the whole bar? Is that why he wasn't drinking? Is Salris' brother also a bearer of the curse that afflicts Salris? Or is he just part of Rezzik Brazzik now?
What's up with Salris' Celestial dagger?
We know how to trap the Jester, with Magic Circle
What's going on with the stars? Are Ryltar's theories about colors and significant plot-relevant things' colors correct?
How can the Mummy Lord be defeated?
Determine how to resolve the Eta'el-Kerjes plot
Remember to un-petrify Ockoh in the Ice Lord Wint's Lair, so that we can give him the foodservice contract for the Irregular Inn

Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

Date	Name	Excerpt
Apr 25, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Session	The Party drops off Seamus with Salris, and returns Llewyll to the Woven Council. We then rest up, and return to the dungeon to kill the Beholder. Looting ensues. And then Embersia draws from the Deck of Many Things.
Apr 11, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Session	We explore the tunnels underneath the audtionhouse, and find many treasures and expensive things, including Llewell, the son of Thallia, heir presumptive of the Burning Blood. Several people almost die, including Llewell, but we find the painting of A.R.N. and kill it before teleporting back to Quadroads. We've made a new enemy: Xanathar the Beholder, who owned the horde we raided.
Mar 28, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Session	We start the auction, and reach the intermission. We slaughter a bunch of people. Then we get stuck in a puzzle for an hour, trying to find the painting of A.R.N.
Mar 14, 2026	The HUndred and Thirty-Sixth Session	We go to Setton and do some reconnaissance, finding little.
Feb 28, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Session	After planning out the next few sessions' heisting, we take a quick relaxing trip to West Haven to repair our relations with Magister Andraste Netyoine.
Feb 14, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Session	We leave Lanthet and return to Quadroads. Salris can't come, so Seamus is convinced to come in his stead, and we head to Setton. A.R.N. desires our services for a heist: killing a painting.
Jan 31, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Third Session	In Lanthet, we kill a bunch of elementals and summoners, and rescue Merrill.
Jan 17, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Second Session	Merrill in Peril. We go to Lanthet, and discover it beseiged by tribal summoners and Earth, Fire, and Lightning Elementals. We decide to attack the elementals.
Jan 3, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-First Session	We solve a political problem for Vurguron with some minor violence, and incidentally unocver another Cult attempt to kill lots of people, this time in the South Haven.
Dec 6, 2025	The Hundred and Thirtieth Session	We save the Ascendants, burning even more spell slots. Ryltar has to give up the Ice Heart of Winter to Enigma Cortex Belladonna. The Ascendants send us to South Haven, to help the Draconic Empire.
Nov 8, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Session	We explore the Quadroads a bit, and interfere in an immolation of religious materials. Many cultists are killed, and two people rescued, but at significant cost. We take a short rest.
Oct 25, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Session	We fight Belladonna. We don't win. And around us, everything gets worse.
Sep 13, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Session	Mer-fey backstory! Embersia's divine intervention returns the fey realm to its origin, and the Fey to their original forms. A pact is made, boons granted, and the story of the Fey Seeds told. The Party returns to the Material Plane, and is met by Shadow Belladonna.
Aug 2, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Session	The Mummy Lord Degrazil is killed. We start the renewal of Lake Renewal, and discover a population of beings in an underwater forest at the bottom of the lake.
Jun 7, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Third Session	After saving one Ascendant, we get boons from the others. Salris experiences an attempt on his soul. We return to Viper's Cove and find the remnants of a ritual. We travel to Sky Diamond Academy, rescue Guy from some vines, and learn that Belladonna has been tracking down parts of her self to reassemble them. There may be a connection between the prophesied stars and her fractured self.
Apr 26, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Second Session	With more fighting through the dungeon, we locate the missing Ascendant and save them with a Teleport. Then we exit the temple.
Apr 12, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-First Session	We decide to go hunt down the missing Ascendant. We enter the damaged temple of Oghma and begin to delve its basement, encountering many different enemies.
Mar 29, 2025	The Hundred and Twentieth Session	We return to Quadroads. The Cultists of the Burnt Tree have been wrecking stuff in Quadroads, and we've been asked to help eliminate them. Also one of the Ascendants might be missing. Moon has a thing for Ryltar.
Mar 1, 2025	The Hundred-And-Eighteenth Session	Jerry gains new tools; Jarasoom steals from Jerry to benefit Embersia. We find the journal of Orrel, describing where the last battle against Belladonna. The Drow appear at the Library.
Feb 15, 2025	The Hundred and Seventeenth Session	We continue to explore the Arcadia Infinatum. Jerry delves too greedily and too deep, and gets chased by even more corrupted knowledge-seekers. Rajahtesh tempts Ryltar with all of Ioun's knowledge. Percival is challenged by Jarasoom, the huge Brass Dragon, and doesn't impress him. Embersia searches for knowledge of the Library itself.
Jan 18, 2025	The Hundred and Sixteenth Session	We meet the library's Arbiter and Guardian, and explore the library. We found out some things about the prophecy, and the past.
Jan 4, 2025	The Hundred and Fifteenth Session	We run away from Dirius. We find the Library. Embersia admits she was in love with Sergith and let the Shield get stolen.
Dec 21, 2024	The Hundred and Fourteenth Session	We encounter and defeat a Demilich. We break into a chest and save Embersia from her first death, and then Dirius decides to attack us.
Dec 7, 2024	The Hundred and Thirteenth Session	We find the source of the mysterious desert statues: a Medusa! Thanks to a show of trust from Ryltar, we solve her curse without fighting her or an army of protective statues. And then we fight some sandworms.
Nov 23, 2024	The Hundred and Twelfth Session	We spend months journeying across the Red Sands, and encounter some strange things.
Nov 9, 2024	The One Hundred and Eleventh Session	In the Red Wastes, we spend some time travleing. Dirius and Ryltar do their questioning.
Oct 26, 2024	The Hundred and Tenth Session	Dirius' expedition sets off across the desert. An elephant is involved.
Oct 12, 2024	The Hundred and Ninth Session	Vurguron cleans house. We learn that Sergith was working for Belladonna. Vurguron details a paladin to support the Party, and the Party goes off to Zennar, where they meet with Dirius and the Harbingers of Discovery.
Sep 28, 2024	The Hundred and Eighth Session	The Prima Dominous competition: Can Vurguron defeat Sergith?
Sep 14, 2024	The Hundred and Seventh Session	We find the Platinum Scale of Bahamut.
Aug 17, 2024	The Hundred and Sixth Session	Vurguron sneaks into the Open Session and invokes Prima Dominus. It doesn't go as he expected.
Aug 3, 2024	The Hundred and Fifth Session	Vurguron networks to gain support for his Prima Domnius challenge against Sergith for control of the Third House, and gains support of many houses.
Jun 8, 2024	The Hundred and Third Session	We travel to the South Haven, to Vurguron's home. Vurguron's family has been usurped; they no longer control the Third House.
May 11, 2024	The Hundred and Second Session	The Prodigal Son returns to the Byron home, and breaks with his father.
Apr 27, 2024	The Hundred and First Session	We discover the false priest, and a plot to open a portal with obsidian pumice "wrenches". This comes to a head at the Umberlee service, as the false priest summons a shoggoth. We kill th false priest and the shoggoth, placate Umberlee, and then close the portal.
Mar 30, 2024	The Hundredth Session	After extensive planning, we search around and find the location of the Thieves' Guild base, and throw out the plans. Bugfood's sister Miranda is extracted from her cell, and then we roll Plan A: Percival the Stoat Seller. This allows us to bypass a couple of fights, and cut direct to the Big Bad fight against the entire Thieves' Guild, whom we splatter across their underground lair.
Mar 2, 2024	The Ninety-Ninth Session	A short summary of actions: interrogate the Thieves.
Feb 17, 2024	The Ninety-Eighth Session	Having teleported to the area near Maymoor, the Party sets out to find Bugfood. Finding him, the Party then sets out to find Miranda. We enter an underground base of some sort, kill some Thieves, and are flushed out when they flood the base. We did not find Miranda, but we did capture a Thief, who gives us directions to where 'The Brigade' can be found.
Feb 3, 2024	The Ninety-Seventh Session	We learn of the history of the Dereshars' curse, and upset the crew of the Nightmare. Then we sink the ship and return to Quadroads, where we revive Seamus and prepare to go save Bugfood.
Jan 20, 2024	The Ninety-Sixth Session	We save Salris.
Jan 6, 2024	The Ninety-Fifth Session	Some retconning happens; we pick up some other plot threads. Belladonna still attacks Quadroads; we still brief the Ascendants. Then we go to Dirius' talk and learn of Dirius' upcoming expedition to the First Library in the Red Wastes. Percival's father sends a message. Jerry dreams of Bugfood.
Nov 11, 2023	The Ninety-Fourth Session	We go to tackle the little ghost, which turns out to be Belladonna. Oops. She's partially freed now. So we go off to find Salris, and aid him in his situation at Viper Cove.
Oct 14, 2023	The Ninety-Third Session	Shopping in Quadroads, and we plan improvements to the Regular Inn. We gain access to the Teleportation Circles of the Temple of Ioun, and check in with Moon. We gain audience with the Ascendants tomorrow. Thrai is happy to hear that we've done some stuff, but now she needs us to deal with a spectre. And Bugfood leaves us a message about Salris.
Sep 30, 2023	The Ninety-Second Session	Jerry dies. Jerry lives. We smash the canoptic jars. We recover Ockoh and some flail snail shells..
Sep 16, 2023	The Ninety-First Session	We return to Sky Diamond and learn some things about Belladonna: she caused the Divergence. Then we go to the pyramid, learn of the Quadroads mission to explore it, and enter ourselves. It's a small little pyramid, but it's also hard to get into without dying. We defeat the first floor, and find the second.
Sep 2, 2023	The Ninetieth Session	We fight the Mummy Lord Degrazil at Lanthet, and almost kill him, but fail to prevent him from taking Kerjes' body back to his Lady, Mistress Silra Edenair, also known as Belladonna.
Aug 19, 2023	The Eighty-Ninth Session	Having finished our goals in the Yuan-Ti temple, we teleport to Sky Diamond Academy. Guy catches us up on the nature of the stars: they represent items made with Fey Seeds. We have 3 of 6, maybe? Also the divination professor at SDA is a fraud, it seems, but for a bard he's really good at teaching divination. We're responsible for his upcoming disciplinary hearing.
Aug 5, 2023	The Eighty-Eighth Session	We kill a whole lot of Yuan-Ti, and recover our stuff. Vurguron and Jerry nearly die.
Jul 8, 2023	The Eighty-Sixth Session	The mysterious entity under the tree is revealed as Belladonna, also known as Nightshade, Poisoner of the Mother of the Forest! Enemy of Wint! Furthermore, she's the patron of Salris and his brother! We skedaddle back to Setton, and do some shopping. Salris leaves on a quest.
Jun 10, 2023	The Eighty-Fifth Session	We go to Kerjes' tree, find Eta'el. The Sky Giant claims the hoard, and denies our claim, so we fight, and we win. Then we go to investigate the mysterious thing in the basement of the tree, which is …
May 27, 2023	The Eighty-Fourth Session	We kill time in the Woven Council, go shopping, and hold a small party. Then we hit Level 14.
May 13, 2023	The Eighty-Third Session	Kerjes shows up with the Roc; we kill her.
Apr 15, 2023	Strategy Session: Defeating Kerjes	We come up with a game plan, meet a Magister, clean up the demons, and do some prep work. We have a team, and we have more weapons.
Apr 1, 2023	The Eighty-Second Session	We run around the city, do some combat, and try to figure out what we'll do when Kerjes shows up. A long rest occurs, so we are finally feeling a little healthier.
Mar 18, 2023	The Eighty-First Session	We find Ren's body, which is mostly scraps. We then find the portal, and manage to close it. Jerry is a Giant Ape now.
Feb 18, 2023	The Eightieth Session	Lanthet is beseiged. We set out to lift the siege by closing the demon portal, which might be in the governor's mansion. After a quick treck through the sewers, and encounters with The Lost Boys and a Sewer Sarlaac, we enter the governor's mansion and kill the Marilith, since she happens to be there. And then we scamper off into the sewers again.
Feb 4, 2023	The Seventy-Ninth Session	We arrive in Lanthet, and discover a city beset by demons. Entering the city, we sneak arounduntil we locate Jerry's family in a beseiged temple. After breaking the siege, we escort the trapped people to a more-defensible location. Kerjes returns, notices our presence, and demands our heads by tomorrow. Kerjes was wounded, and Ren's sacrifice damages her again.
Jan 21, 2023	The Seventy-Eighth Session	The Party departs the Forest with borrowed gear, and arrives in Setton. We kill a Rakshasa that was impersonating Ryltar's girlfriend, but lose the girlfriend. After restocking,we travel to Ren, who tells us that Kerjes is on the move, headed to Jerry's hometown.
Jan 7, 2023	The Seventy-Seventh Session	The Party is captured by the Yuan-Ti. Jerry goes John McClane. The Captain of the Verdant Guard is revealed as an agent of Kerjes. Ryltar rescues the Party with Dimension Door. We set off in search of new equipment, reassurance that Kerjes will not go after Jerry's family, and revenge upon the Yuan-Ti.
Oct 29, 2022	The Seventy-Sixth Session	The people of the forest go their different ways. The West Haven militia returns to the Yuan-Ti stronghold, to attack it, and the Party follows. But we are betrayed by the West Haven captain, leaving Jerry alone and all else captured or dying.
Oct 15, 2022	The Seventy-Fifth Session	A Potion of Diminuation lets us carry the tree out of the Yuan-Ti stronghold, and we successfully replant the Lady of the Forest on her throne. Percival becomes her Protector, and we return to the Touched village. Jerry cures Majorie.
Oct 1, 2022	The Sevnty-Fourth Session	We slay a great many Yuan-Ti, but not their self-deifying leader. The prophet, Sev, leads us to a fungal grove where the Mother of the Forest sleeps, and we try to wake her, to no avail, It's time to contact Bugfood!
Sep 17, 2022	The Seventy-Third Session	We discover a batch of prisoners in the temple, free them, and arm them. Then we clean up after some guards, before discovering the biggest baddie yet in the room: A Yuan-Ti Abomination.
Sep 3, 2022	The Seventy-Second Session	Dungeon crawling time! We hack and slash our way through the tunnels beneath the Yuan-ti ziggurat.
Aug 20, 2022	The Seventy-First Session	The Party reconnoiters the Yuan-ti city, then waits for an opportune moment to sneak in. Under heavy rain, we enter the city, and blast our way into the temple, killing guards with overpowered magic, and finally we come to the open stone door. Inside is a dark room, and noises.
Jul 23, 2022	The Seventieth Session	Commissioned by the Ancient Elm, the Party goes to find the Mother of the Forest, who may have been kidnapped by the Yuan-Ti. We find a Yuan-Ti compound in the forest, and Salris reconnoiters it.
Jun 11, 2022	The Sixty-Eighth Session	Percival emerges from a short coma determined to help the Forest. We persuade him to join us on our quest to rid the forest of corruption, permanently. To the northwest we travel, and get caught in a series of painful encounters. Jerry almost dies.
May 28, 2022	The Sixty-Seventh Session	Heading to the Jimenju tree to find out more about how to become TOuched be the Forest, we encounter Percival. He's pursued by one of the Eyes of the Forest, which we kill. Salris' new patron expresses itself in his casting. Then the half-Elf Werebear Fernard leads us to the Jimenju tree, which is very very creepy.
May 14, 2022	The Sixty-Sixth Session	The Party continues snooping upon Majorie's Tribe, and eventually confronts her. We are introduced to the tribe, and the Speaker, and learn of the mysteries of the forest. The tribe are eating poison all the time, but aren't harmed because they're Touched By The Forest. They do this to prevent the spread of the forest's corruption, when the Assassin killed the mother of the forest, leaving behind the Ancient Elm and the Assassin's Tears.
Apr 30, 2022	The Sixty-Fifth Session	A.R.N. pays the Party with a quick teleport to the Kulahaar Wilds, where Majorie was last seen in a scrying painting. There, we cross some weird forests to snoop on Majorie's Tribe. They're doing weird things, staring at the sky all night, with glowing eyes.
Apr 16, 2022	The Sixty-Fourth Session	With the artist A.R.N. saved, the Party returns to The Hunter's Table to rest. Vurguron finds a friend of his father, who challenges Vurguron to a fight so that he may hand over a legendary shield to Vurguron. The Party restocks on potions, and then returns to A.R.N. to get paid. A.R.N. does some scrying, and we see our first image of Majorie in a long time.
Apr 2, 2022	The Sixty-Third Session	The Party explores more of ARN's mansion, and wins a poetry slam battle. Then we find ARN, and the statue that ARN is carving. The Party nearly dies in the process.
Mar 19, 2022	The Sixty-Second Session	We begin to explore the second floor of A.R.N.'s mansion, and discover the basement accidentally. With the assistance of a painting, we manage not to die as we make our way through the courtyard into another section of the basement, and from there, into the kitchen. There's more tunnels left to explore, however, and we're still in pretty bad shape.
Feb 19, 2022	The Sixty-First Session	Majorie is alive and with her tribe, so the Party decides to go do some social networking by rescuing A.R.N. The first few rooms of the mansion of A.R.N. nearly kill us.
Feb 5, 2022	The Sixtieth Session	The Party arrives in Setton, and visits a hunters' guild. The Party learns of a quest to to save an artist, missing in a mansion. Ryltar makes friends with the Half-Orc scroll-scribe Guleva. Salris changes patrons. Jerry ponders our next steps.
Jan 22, 2022	The Fifty-Ninth Session	The Tall Missionary takes the Noble Daughter hostage, and dies an innocent at Ryltar's wand. The murderer is revealed as a Rakshasa, which had disguised itself as the Noble Husband. The sea monster disappears, but a curse lingers over the ship until it is removed. The ship is repaird and sails on. The Party offers custodianship of the Regular Inn to the ship's boy, Xander.
Jan 8, 2022	The Fifty-Eighth Session	We interrogate nine captives about the death of the carpenter's mate, Xaban, but get no useful answers. A baby manticore is discovered in an unmarked crate in the hold, and exonerated of the murder. Its owners, two crewmembers, are chastised. An aquatic beast approaches the ship, and the murderer is revealed.
Dec 11, 2021	The Fifty-Seventh Session	The Cumberlite Isles hide a bloody secret, beneath their verdant hills. We nope the fuck out of there, but not after first going on a drunken bender. The ship's complement discovers a thief onboard, and then a saboteur-slash-murderer.
Nov 13, 2021	The Fifty-Sixth Session	Salris catches up with his brother, Seamus. Seamus now captains his own ship, cursed to resurrect anyone who dies on board. The Party skedaddle, boarding passage to the Cumberlite Isles, and defeat a Sea Dragon along the way.
Oct 16, 2021	The Fifty-Fifth Session	An energetic encounter with lake trolls on the river to Greyharbor results in four trolls dead and one swimming away. The Party buys supplies for desert travel, and seeks passage on a boat to a new town. Salris finds his brother, and reveals himself to him.
Oct 2, 2021	The Fifty-Fourth Session	The Party talks with an upset Thrai. We mysteriously gain the deed to the Regular Inn in Quadroads. After teleporting to the Woven Council to pick up some potions and say hi to Ren, we fload downriver to Riverbend, and thence to Greyharbor.
Sep 18, 2021	The Fifty-Third Session	The Party is celebrated in Quadroads. Majorie is fine, but in the deserts of the north. Salris decides not to follow through on his latest assassination contract. Ryltar identifies the Far Realm Shard, and attunes to it. The celebrations are attacked by assassins targeting Dirius, and the Party saves her life.
Aug 21, 2021	The Fifty-First Session	We sprint towards Quadroads, interruped only by a midnight battle with Rezzik Brazzik and two bands of assassins. Kerjes is on our tail, as are the Drow. The Drover dies, and Ryltar puts a hit out on Dirius with Rezzik Brazzik. Thrai is aghast.
Aug 7, 2021	The Fiftieth Session	The Party finds Thrai's missing Halfling companion, who is full of spiderlings. He dies. Thrai blows up the cave system, which we escape just barely. We name the ensuing depression as Rogo's Lake, after the Halfling. Percival teleports away, and the the rest of the Party begins the trek back to Quadroads. Among the loot is an ominous note messaging Majorie, Jerry's daughter.
Jul 24, 2021	The Forty-Ninth Session	The Party defeats the Flesh Weaver, and several spiders die as well. We take a long rest inside a Tiny Hut provided by the new bard, Percival, and discover a giant obsidian pumice stone surrounded by corpses.
Jul 10, 2021	The Forty-Eighth Session	The Party ventures into the spiders' caverns. They discover antimagic spiders, phase spiders, swarms of spiders, lair actions, and the dungeon boss: The Flesh Weaver, an Aberration of Drow and spider and tentacles. Much combat happens, downing Jerry and Vurguron, who are both revived.
Jun 26, 2021	The Forty-Seventh Session	Bugfood disappears to take care of Remmy the Squirrel. The Party leaves Quadroads with a send-off from the Ascendants, and with a small party of escorts for the trip. After many days' hike, and a battle through the spiderwebs, the Party enters a cave.
May 29, 2021	The Forty-Sixth Session	We seek out details and possible funders for a mission to kill the source of the spiders. Little did we realize that the Knights of the Summer Court had become renowned for their defense of the West Haven. The Ascendants, rulers of Quadroads, commission the Party to solve the spider menace, and furnish us with 10,000 gold and a Goliath guide named Razorleaf. She lost her entire scouting party to the spiders, but she knows where they come from.
May 15, 2021	The Forty-Fifth Session	Zelrathi elects to remain on the mountain until the eclipse, to stay with the Couatl known as Arye. The World Spire's fear-reading abilities cause the Party some trouble, until we fly off on Bugfood's giant eagles. We return to the mountain's foot, and then Quadroads, and then the Temple of Ioun.
May 1, 2021	The Forty-Fourth Session	Bugfood meets his doppleganger. Arye reappears. The Party tries not to think about pink elephants. And then we find the Gloom Grove.
Apr 17, 2021	The Forty-Third Session	Ryltar is lessened. Salris' backstory is revealed. Zelrathi learns how small his patron really is.And the veil between the planes grows thin.
Apr 3, 2021	The Forty-Second Session	Moon meets Lolth. Jerry meets a Yuan-ti. Ryltar meets Dirius. The climb continues.
Mar 20, 2021	The Forty-First Session	The Party begins to climb the World's Spire. Some leave their names at the bottom of the mountain. We take the right-hand path from the House of the Zenith, and encounter the mad man Samuel, a terrible goat, and Bahamut. The Party survives.
Mar 6, 2021	The Fortieth Session	The Party defeats some new spiders, chats with Eta'el, and departs Leen. In Quadroads the Party meets up with Zelrathi and rediscovers Moon.
Feb 20, 2021	The Thirty-Ninth Session	The Party goes shopping, and then teleports to Wint's Lair in the Lost City of Storm's Eye. Wint's Lair has been ransacked, so we head north. Leen is covered in webs, and the gang is trapped in a forge's chimney by spiders.
Feb 6, 2021	The Thirty-Eighth Session	The Party pushes through to the Woven Council, and gains access to Ren's personal Teleportation Circle. Ren explains the political problems of the Woven Council. Ryltar connects recent events to a prophecy.
Jan 23, 2021	The Thirty-Seventh Session	The Party travels from Sky Diamond Academy to the Great Banyo Tree, where they traverse an enchanted hedgerow maze, kill many monsters, and discover Kerjes' power. New quest: trap Eta'el.
Jan 9, 2021	The Thirty-Sixth Session	The Mummy Lord is bluffed, and we escape to Sky Diamond Academy. We tell the Deans about the Mummy, of the aberration spiders, of Moon's betrayal, of the Drow expedition to the Underdark. Moon is summoned to Sky Diamond Academy, and receives her sentance. We prepare for the expedition to Kerjes' Tree.
Nov 28, 2020	The Thirty-Fifth Session	Several days' travel later, we are woken in the night by the distant sounds of cultists sacrificing bodies to a Tree-mother. In the ensuing fight, Bugfood plants a bean. The cultists outclass us, though we manage to kill the reincarnated Jester, and the fight is ended by the bean's sprouting into a mummy's pyramid.
Nov 14, 2020	The Thirty-Fourth Session	We leave Zelrathi and Moon behind at the Temple of Ioun in Quadroads. Viroth Aiodon, a Blood Hunter, joins the Party. A night in a spiderwebbed village reveals giant spiders full of pink flesh and strange crystals.
Oct 17, 2020	The Thirty-Third Session	Having done such a good job defending Leen, we new escort its refugess to Quadroads, dragging a bound and gagged Moon along with us. We fight some trapdoor spiders and save the day. Zelrathi introduces us to the charming, crowded, con-artist-packed city of Quadroads.
Oct 3, 2020	The Thirty-Second Session	We prepare to leave Leen, but the spiders attack. And then we get a quest from a Firbolg, to save a magic Sky Staff from the home of a spidery woman named Kerjes who lives under a tree.
Sep 5, 2020	The Thirtieth Session	We discuss what to do next, and send a message to Guy with updates. Then we set off for Quadroads, in search of magical ingredients.
Aug 22, 2020	The Twenty-Ninth Session	We find ourselves on the shore of a giant lake, trade with the locals, and make our way to Malcolm's Wharf, where Rezzik Brazzik reappears.
Jul 25, 2020	The Twenty-Eighth Session	The Party escapes the Underdark, leaving behind untold treasures and exciting combats to steal away with the Ice Heart of Winter.
Jul 11, 2020	The Twenty-Seventh Session	A session that is 90% combat, with no big revelations and little progress through the Snow Caves of Hoth.
Jun 27, 2020	The Twenty-Sixth Session	With further exploration, and many dead ice rats, the Party makes it through the catacomb of the Ice Lord to a deeper tunnel. Zelrathi is pulled into a snow wall, and begins to suffocate.
May 30, 2020	The Twenty-Fifth Session	After a quick and painful battle with a giant shark, we enter the Lost City of Storm's Eye and find a pair of mysterious twins. The temple at the peak of the city is frozen solid and full of sleeping dwarves and stabby ice dwarves. The expedition's head Drow have disappeared into the city.
May 16, 2020	The Twenty-Fourth Session	After an exciting, firefly-lit evening, the expedition finally trudges into the Lost City of Storm's Eye.
May 2, 2020	The Twenty-Third Session	The expedition ventures into the Underdark, and surmounts many obstacles.
Apr 18, 2020	The Twenty-Second Session	The party spends a few days in Leen restocking and getting their fortunes told. Then the expedition rolls into town. We meet Vicar again, and he introduces many new faces to us. But is this expedition made of the baddies?
Apr 4, 2020	The Twenty-First Session	Spiders. Spiders? Spiders! The Party continues to the southwest, and finally arrives in Leen, where—
Mar 21, 2020	The Twentieth Session	On the road again! Would you like some tea while you travel, or perhaps a generous helping of vines?
Jan 25, 2020	The Seventeenth Session	Salris' contact Rezzik Brazzik is revealed as a Greater Demon. And at long last, the Party completes its journey to The Sky Diamond Academy, a school of magic-users that is apparently buried in extradimensional space beneath a mountain.
Jan 11, 2020	The Sixteenth Session	We bury Tula, and meet a new companion: a coffeelock named Zelrathi.
Nov 16, 2019	The Fifteenth Session	Fair is foul and foul is fair; we find an old lady in a cottage who lets us spend the night if we help her with her yardwork. Trade happens, and we end up helping a nearby town where her granddaughter, the daughter of Boris Highhelm, lives. Things don't go well.
Nov 2, 2019	The Fourteenth Session	The Party's weregild is forgiven, and the party makes bank. Minor shopping ensues. The Party departs West Haven for Sky Diamond Academy, on horses, and travels two nights.
Oct 5, 2019	The Thirteenth Session	The Party captures Kalina, kills an ice dragon, finds the elemental egg, reunites its halves, saves the frozen arena, and takes a well-deserved long rest. The Party reaches Level 5, and gains many new magical items.
Sep 21, 2019	The Twelfth Session	The arena is frozen over, and the VIPs are missing. The Party aids in the defense of the city by battling a number of goblins, and encounters a Jester. Thalia's last wishes equip Salris with a quest to imbue an elemental egg with her ashes. The Party enters an icy plane in search of the perpetrator Kalia and the egg she used.
Aug 10, 2019	The Eleventh Session	Might of the Magus ends with Ryltar's win. The Spell-Slinger Spectacle ends in a catastrophic explosion. Tula spends days meditating.
Jul 27, 2019	The Tenth Session	Time for the Battle of the Beasts.
Jun 29, 2019	The Ninth Session	The Party gets their stuff back from the impound lot, and talks with many important people. Plans are discussed for making a lot of gold quickly; it is suggested that they participate in the tournament. Tula rides Bugfood in the joust, and doesn't do well.
Jun 15, 2019	The Eighth Session	The gang spend a night in jail and receive visits from a number of people, including a mysterious figure that grants magical feathers. The trial is held; many things are learned, and the group is convicted. The Party must pay a heavy cost.
Jun 1, 2019	The Seventh Session	The party recaptures the West Haven Beastmaster's ogre and kuthrik, and spends a night at the inn owned by Jerry's former CO. With guards on the lookout for the Party, can they clear their names before being thrown in jail? No.
May 18, 2019	The Sixth Session	This is a shopping episode. Many social faux pas are made; in the Haven there are those who would seek to thwart the festivities of the solstice.
Apr 20, 2019	The Fifth Session	The party encounters ruffians on the road, and then victims of a goblin raid. Finally, we reach the West Haven.
Apr 6, 2019	The Fourth Session	The party escapes the Kobold Cave, and returns to the village of Hillthorpe. Having rescued Kan, the party is acquired by Kan's mother Valna, the mayor, to escort her to the West Haven for the equinox meeting of the Council.
Mar 23, 2019	The Third Session: Kobolds continued	The Party continues exploring the Kobold cave, and finally finds Kan, the child we had been looking for. Then we kill the big bad Kobold chieftan.
Mar 9, 2019	The Second Session	The Party continues to faff about in the Kobolds' cave.
Feb 9, 2019	The First Session	What business has a Drow, a Human, a Half-Orc, Dragonborn and two Tieflings, riding a stolen Kobold cart through the woods, pulled by two giant weasels?

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