Who is around
- W.A.R.D.S
- (Minus Elissa)
- Jozef Willet
- Robyn the Squire
Where are we
In Perdutaboco
Sai & Jozef Willet looted the cottage. Everyone else finally found the Merchant's husband, being cared for by the local hunter. Then we settled down and chilled in the tavern, and an argument broke out about Isaac's behaviour.
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The current to-do-list
- [x] Close the cave-plane-rift
- [ ] Deal with the ruins which Isaac saw in their dreams
- [ ] Elissa speak to the hunter about faith?
- [ ] Deal with the disgusting road-flower
Breakfast
Khohros gets an orange juice and tequila for breakfast, and Fang uses magic to grow a flower in it.
At the ruins in Isaac's vision, there is a willowtree, and since the local hunter Sarlen had a willow branch thing, he might know the location of the ruins.
We decide to prioritise the underground caves and then look for the ruins, so we send a Message spell to Sir Ricardo Giovani about how we have found Robyn & Calogero. He promises to notify Calogero's husband, Emidio Rumblepott.
We get offered some gunpowder by Jozef, and he also reveals a jar with one of the hand spiders inside. It appears to be slamming itself against the side of the jar, in the same direction no matter the orientation of the jar. It seems to be 'pointing' towards the house and the cave.
Interplanar Pest Control
Inside the house, the scratching noise heard yesterday is gone. The house is completely quiet. The little hand wants to go down, and we follow it down. The body of the big spider creature is untouched. There are no signs of the small spiders, and we discuss the possibility that the spiders have gone back up the rift. We decide to try Dispel Magic on the rift, but before that we want to cast Detect Magic and try gage how 'powerful' the rift is.
In the cave-rooms, there is a horrible stench of the many brain-spider pods having popped. There are loads of tracks on the floor, which all seem to coalesce in the center of the basement.
We climb up towards the pillar, and inspect the rift inside. There are runes on the surface of the ceiling, but they seem to be inactive. Khohros decides he wants to have a peek through the rift, and turns into a Giant Lizard in order to climb up the inside of the tower and peek inside.
He goes to poke his head in, and is pulled entirely inside, saved only from certain death by the rope tied around his midriff.
The Astral Plane? Khohros looks around, seeing space and nebulas all around him. There are rocks floating in the distance, which seem to almost be covered in long hairs. He can't breathe, but after a moment of panic realises he does not need to breathe here. In the distance, a huge silhouette seems to take notice of Khohros, and unintelligible screaming is heard coming from it, like someone giving orders. The rift behind him appears as a plane of white, a slight green glow to it. Khohros is yanked back through the hole.
"Smoking magic mushrooms, call that a joint arcana check"
— Josie
Khohros is yanked back through the rift, and falls down through the pillar, breaking his wildshape on impact. After catching his breath, he tells the others of what he's seen, and decides to immediately try to dispel magic in order to stop the Silhouette seen inside from following him in here. The spell fails to do anything, and Yalana tries too. Worried, we decide we should probably figure out if someone more knowledgeable about planar things could help us.
Yalana contacts our neighbor who apparently is knowledgeable about this, and they say that a powerful enough Dispel Magic should do the trick. With the help of Guidance, Inspiration from Elissa and all his druidic powers, Khohros manage to somehow close the rift. Checking the jar-spider, it seems to have stopped trying to get anywhere.
We return to the tavern.
Finding Isaac's Dream Ruins
We decide to ask Sarlen about the ruins. Based on the description he guesses it might be Refusal Hill, which is about a days journey south of here.
"Somewhere out there is a dad with a shirt saying 'screw Ioun, ask me.'"
— Ellie
As we start heading there, we start questioning Isaac about the different artifacts, and Isaac dodges most the questions. Isaac mentions being from the Frostlands city of Kaltvint.
Isaac goes to sleep after their watch and casts Dream to commune with the Mithril Moon. Isaac says they are currently covering for the MM, and asks if they need to be doing that. the MM says 'Well, they're your friends. Its up to you'. The MM mentions having served under Neruul, and not caring about perfect obedience and secrecy.
Khohros keeps an eye on Isaacs shadow. Overnight we see some ogres. A couple hours after breakfast we walk by a pool of water, and there is a bunch of gold and jewels at the bottom of it. Isaac and Sai race to be the first to fish one out with Mage Hand. Isaac does so, and as they cast the spell the cloak of their shadow flicks erratically, as though it is in a strong, nonexistant wind.
We find a sort of crater with a pond and a willow tree in, and a bunch of overgrown weapons sticking into the ground.
At the trunk of the tree, facing the water, there is a woman made of tree. She is half in/out of the water, hands at her neck. She has a thick iron chain around her neck.
Isaac yanks on the chain, and the tree attacks.
Rivenor is a known historical artifact