Goal
- Find the last part for the ritual: the 5'000 gp worth gemstone, and bring Lex back to life.
Setup / Recap
The party travelled back to Owlchester with Blanche and Philipa. Ramos and Levin took care of business while the party met with Elandor and gave him the comb, pushing him to commit suicide, focusing the search on the party while they hid through the city and waited for evening to board a boat organised by Blanche. Travelled the sea, got attacked by some pirates, and made it safely to Arden with the valley covered in frost.
Locations
- Arburg
- Completely rebuilt in 1.5 years, covered in snow. Most people are now busy not in the fields but in various activities in the city.
- Arburg Castle Vaults
- The section has been abandoned for years, the vision is from a long time again, but the crystal is still there.
- Room with the crystal: skeletons on the floor.
- 5 skeletons revived when taken + 4 elementals
- Temple of Life
- Lex's body in the securted crypts
- Ritual music
- As Hilde is casting the spell, the sky turns dark and thundering
NPCs
- Michi's character
- Waiting for the party at the docs, was assigned by the king.
- Knows of Lex (was guarding him for the last 5 months)
- Some elves from Frynia are already in the city waiting to take Lex's body back.
- Paladin of Pelor
- Dushkan Kona (male tiefling, calm & friendly voice)
- Will want to go and meet with Dion as planed. If given the opportunity, will do a secret tiefling handshake with him and be curious about Whitehaven.
- Met a tiefling like him 6-7 years ago (Akmenos) which told him about some known tieflings in Arburg.
- Dion (male tiefling, calculating & sure voice)
- Pleased to meet Dushkan and will invite him to stay at the orphanage for a few nights.
- King Maximus (male human, friendly & loving)
- Very happy to see his daughter again. Can offer a few diamonds but not just one worth 5'000.
- Knows of the vaults, but they are abandoned since 200 years.
Encounters
- RP with Dion/Dushkan
- RP with Maximus
- Encounter in the vaults
- Finding the paths
- Locked doors
- Play an old song of Arden's founding
- Traps
- When the crystal is touched/taken, 5 skeletons and 1 elemental of each
- Revival
- 1 storm giant
- 1 elemental of each
- lair actions
- Freezing fog fills a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point the dragon can see within 120 feet of it. The fog spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. Each creature in the fog when it appears must make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that ends its turn in the fog takes 10 (3d6) cold damage. A wind of at least 20 miles per hour disperses the fog. The fog otherwise lasts until the dragon uses this lair action again or until the dragon dies.
- Jagged ice shards fall from the ceiling, striking up to three creatures underneath that the dragon can see within 120 feet of it. The dragon makes one ranged attack roll (+7 to hit) against each target. On a hit, the target takes 10 (3d6) piercing damage.
- The dragon creates an opaque wall of ice on a solid surface it can see within 120 feet of it. The wall can be up to 30 feet long, 30 feet high, and 1 foot thick. When the wall appears, each creature within its area is pushed 5 feet out of the wall’s space, appearing on whichever side of the wall it wants. Each 10-foot section of the wall has AC 5, 30 hit points, vulnerability to fire damage, and immunity to acid, cold, necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The wall disappears when the dragon uses this lair action again or when the dragon dies.
End of session
Arrived in Arden, met with Matheos at the docks. Met with Maximus, the queen and Myria at the temple of life. Children were brought to the orphanage. Party met with Dion and Sephan in the castle and learnt about the diamond. Went to sleep and prepare for the next day. In the morning, Dion woke up Auron in his bed and gave him a bag of holding with the diamond. The party had the ritual which summoned a Storm Giant and several ice-zombies that were released by the Storm Diamond being consumed by the ritual. When the storm giant fell, it mentioned that the age of giants is back.