Location: The Underdark
Skjorn takes a pee break and overhears Sarith confessing his feelings towards Dibrael and Za'zimlas, and the latter two accepting him into their relationship
- Skjorn returns to camp and immediately gossips about it
later, the Stonespeaker Crystal starts glowing, and everyone suddenly remembers its existence
- Giant script (as in, the language of Giants) appears on one side, and luckily Skjorn can read it
- "Long ago we talked about the dreamlands; I had been waiting for you ever since."
- Party thinks back to who gave them the crystal and remembers Stonespeaker Hgraam of Gracklstugh, who they spoke to about "the Dreamlands"
Party continues along their path until a day later, they hear a creature singing
- Sarith and Mylz recognize the signs of a basilisk and proceed with caution, but the basilisk is "friendly"
- it introduces itself as Veldyskar, impatiently says it's been expecting them, and escorts them all to the gates of Gravenhollow
Location: Gravenhollow
once officially inside the library of Gravenhollow, Party is handed off to a galeb duhr, who guides them to their guest quarters
the guest quarters here morph to be whatever the guest desires:
- Mylz & Elwyra share a room that resembles Ellie's house
- Skjorn, Jorlan, and Shoor step into Nanny's house with a wall-sized mural of naked Skjorn
- Dibrael, Sarith, and Za'zimlas enter what appears to be Zaz's mom's house, warm and colorful and comfortable, with a large kitchen
after getting settled, Party meets with one of the librarians, Ulthar the Stone Giant, who explains how the library works
- Zaz encourages Ulthar to infodump about his favorite topic, and they discuss the dragons of Gracklstugh
- Skjorn immediately seeks out ye olde playboy and gets the sense that he and one of the librarians have an overlapping interest
Party runs into the hero paladin Juan again, who decides to tag along while they're in the library
since Gravenhollow exists outside of time, Party also runs into "echoes" of others who have been to the library in the past and will be there in the future
- Party meets Hgraam from the past, and this is how he knew to help them with the Stonespeaker Crystal
- Party meets Jorlan's future daughter, which makes him mildly distressed
- Party meets a six-fingered man from an unknown time, who leaves them a gift after learning what they're here for: a piece of his own horn
- Mylz realizes after he disappears that he must have been the Demon Lord Graz'zt; it's unclear why he's trying to help them
- somewhere in the library, Party comes across a Deck of Many Things and adds it to their inventory
Party splits off to do proper research over multiple days about the Demon Lords and how to defeat them
visions of the past:
- Party sees a drow wizard performing some kind of ritual; it blows up in his face and a rift opens up, allowing hordes of demons to break through
- Party sees Fraz-Urb'luu, being sucked into the gem that drove Mantol-Derith to madness
- Sylrien seeks out information about the people they're supposed to find - Sladis and Khalessa
- he sees a vision of Khalessa gaining madness, her disguise being revealed, and her being executed
- he sees a vision of Khalessa gaining madness, her disguise being revealed, and her being executed
visions of the present:
- Party is no longer able to see Fraz-Urb'luu in the present, meaning he must have been successfully banished back to the Abyss
- Sylrien continues seeking information about Sladis, and finds him camping near a trading post that the drow party members are familiar with
- Skjorn asks to see "the hottest Demon Lord" and gets a vision of Graz'zt in his current hidden-away den of debauchery, which grants Skjorn madness of celibacy
- when Jorlan attempts to cuddle Skjorn later, Skjorn responds "okay whore"
- Zaz sees what Lolth has been up to in the Abyss, growing her own personal army to take over the rest of the Abyss, and he gains madness
- Dibrael sees Demogorgon amassing magical energy from his cultists, and gains madness
- Party sees Orcus, the Demon Lord of undeath, reanimating a dead Elder Brain
visions of the future:
- Zaz seeks a follow-up to Demogorgon, learning that the cultists are trying to build a portal to the Abyss to allow even more demons through
- Skjorn sees a huge mechanical contraption in the middle of a battlefield, and he bursts with magic, sacrificing himself to save everyone
- Mylz has a vision of what will happen if the Demon Lords win - the "bad end"
Party meets Elminster, a famously powerful archmage, visiting the library in the future
- he explains one of the visions the party saw: that the demonic incursion was the unintended result of a spell gone wrong by Gromph Baenre, an archmage of Menzoberranzan - and that it was a plot of Lolth herself to clear her competition out of the Abyss
Party meets Omeluum, a mind flayer who belongs to the Society of Brilliance, in the present
- it shares a concerning theory that Orcus is attempting to take control of an elder brain and therefore its hivemind of mind flayers, but it doesn't know where or why this is occurring
Juan cures Sarith of his terminal illness, leaving him with only chronic after-effects, before seeing everyone off
- he implies he's got bigger fish to fry (he's heading directly into the Abyss)
- Ulgreat says he doesn't mesh with Juan's personality, but he respects the man greatly
- Tamryn says Juan, despite being a human, somehow reminds her of someone she used to know a long time ago
Party meets Vizeran, who says that Juan directed her to meet with the party since they might be able to help each other
- Vizeran says she is also researching how to defeat the Demon Lords, and that she has a plan - but she will not discuss it here
- she invites the party to meet with her at her Tower, and gives Sarith directions