Summary
The Ice Meets Blood party took some crystals and teleported away, and we long rested in The South Tavern. Some of the weapons from the tombs had belonged to people who died attuned to them, and attuning to them pushed back. We all saw The Piper, crippled and cowering, torn loose from whatever item he had been attuned to. Rithas’s Frost Brand Longsword dragged him into the Shadowfell to fight shadows for the soul of its old owner. Raelor took his place by touching it with his Sun Blade, and Roz freed them both with Dispel Magic. Then Bruce knocked, bloodied: his own men had turned on him for the bounty on his head. Roz’s Hold Person failed, he ran, and a hasted Yharov caught him. He called off our 15,000 gold debt, said he was done with V and wants to destroy The Silent Fist, said he’d given the dragon armor to a mustached “Sir Dark”, and told us to go west, somewhere warm. Cal pulled up one of his memories: Bruce, the Piper, and a sharply dressed elf planning to resurrect the elf with the dragons’ power to stop Drakhakar and end the freezes, with his Sun Blade and Frost Brand waiting for him and Gale as their fallback. Theratina recognized the underwater city from our key as El Ferris, the Drowned Towers, and Jimmothy told Roz he was made in The Great Forge in The Obsidian Mountains. We went back to Carrowyn and set out for El Ferris on Ferrar’s Airship. On the way, Theratina said she didn’t feel well, and the rest of us woke in a labyrinth that may be inside her mind. The Lesser Man, who says she calls us her daddies, took one of Yharov’s fingers, and his strings brought four faceless creatures and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We killed them all, and he pulled another string as the session ended.
Events
- The folks from the other campaigns take some crystals and teleport away
- We get a long rest as we rest in the tavern, exhausted
Our new items
- Because some of the items we took were from the tomb (and had someone attuned on death), we need to roll to see if we are haunted by each item or something
- The rest of us have to roll wis/con saves when trying to attune
- As if something is trying to prevent us from attuning
- Presumably rolls above under 50 had to do this
- We all see The Piper, crippled and cowering on the ground
- He is removed from whatever item he was attuned to
- Rithas has a cool cutscene where he speaks with the soul that was previously attuned to his Frost Brand Longsword in the Shadowfell
- The man claims to have killed many things with this sword
- He has to fight a bunch of shadow creatures
- When hit, they split into multiple, smaller creatures
- When he gets hit, he loses some stats
- 1 to STR, 1 to WIS, 4 to CHA
- They will remain gone until his next short/long rest
- When Raelor tries to help by touching his Sun Blade to the Frost Brand Longsword, he replaces Rithas in the Shadowfell
- Roz uses Dispel Magic twice to free each of them
- Theodore uses Identify on the Frost Brand Longsword
- All he knows is it is the Frost Brand Longsword and someone died while attuned to it
- We take a short rest
Bruce shows up
- We hear a knocking at the door
- It’s Bruce
- He is bloodied
- Supposedly, his men turned on him when we fought The Piper
- They wanted the bounty from Kill The Hoods Leader
- He asks for a heal
- We don’t trust him at this point (he works for V) so Roz tries to use Hold Person instead
- It fails, and Bruce runs away
- Cal uses Haste on Yharov and he easily catches up to Bruce
- Rithas follows on his mount
- He claims to not have the dragon armor from 10-Meeting Rithas > At the betting till
- He gave it to someone named called “Sir”
- They called him “Sir Dark”
- “He had a very, very thick mustache”
- He says he doesn’t want to fight us and:
- We no longer owe him any money, and
- He no longer wants to work with V
- He says his ultimate goal is to destroy The Silent Fist
- There is something that he doesn’t want to tell us
- “It may not happen if I don’t”
- Right as he says that, a chilling breeze blows
- He claims we should go west to “somewhere warm”
- Supposedly the thing he won’t tell us was a plan he shared with The Piper to stop a plan V has
- The rest of us catch up
- Cal uses their mind tricks
- They roll a 12
- We get to relive a random memory of Bruce’s
- Bruce is in a dark, grim alley
- Coming out around the corner, walking toward him is The Piper
- Bruce asks The Piper to promise to “not end up like V, essentially freeing The Unknown”
- A sharply dressed Elf arrives
- “Is everything ready?”, he asks
- Turns out they are trying to resurrect “him”, getting the “power of the dragons”, which should “stop Drakhakar” and “end the cold freezes”
- The Elf says, “I will have all the items I want.. my Sun Blade, my Frost Brand.. I want all my items prepared for when I reawaken… If we fail, those idiots will get their book back, those sloths will get their dragons, and it will all be up to Gale. Hopefully he is still on out side”
- Cal tries to convince Bruce to give more information and help us against V, to which he replies
- “You think you know better then a god, than The Unknown, then legendary people that have been around for hundreds of years”
- “We were trying to enhance a very, very powerful person”
- “We were going to have a death knight by our side”
- Raelor asks him why he abandoned the plan so easily at The South Tavern
- All he replies is “good luck, guys”
Next steps
- We spend some time discussing out next steps
- We speak about The Underwater City lead from 13-Full Moon > Back at The Sabertooth Tavern (the steel and coral key)
- Theratina tells us it is El Ferris: “The Drowned Towers”
- “There’s a storybook about it”
- Roz wakes Jimmothy
- He asks him if he has a brother (Raelor is looking for a shield)
- Jimmothy says he was created in The Great Forge in The Obsidian Mountains
- The smith challenges people to see if they are worthy of the items
- We spend the remainder of the day traveling to Carrowyn
- Raelor buys a cheap shield
- We head out towards The Underwater City via Ferrar’s Airship
In some labyrinth
- Theratina rubs her temples and says “I don’t feel good”
- Next thing we know, everyone but her wake up in a tight, congested stream
- At the end of one hallway, we find a door with a stone wheel to open it
- Inside, is a room with a book sitting on an altar next to a skull
- There are some torture devices and a (blue) summoning circle with glowing lights
- The other side of the room has another (red) summoning circle, also with glowing lights and its own book
- Theodore tries to read the book s
- There are identical looking demonic looking incantations on each
- Raelor hypothesizes that this may be a place where try create abominations
- Roz and Raelor notice a nearby light is loose, almost as if it’s a lever
- Another door appears in the corner of the room
- We open it. It leads to another room
- We continue navigating through several doors throughout this labyrinth
- Another room has a weird statue-like thing in the center
- When we go in, the doors behind us shut and lock
- A small creature known as The Lesser Man asks “what are you doing here?”
- “Are you daddies? She calls you daddies.”
- He mentions something about making Theratina “forget everything” to make us want to leave
- Implying perhaps we are in her brain?
- He asks us to choose a string
- Raelor chooses one
- Yharov tries to pickpocket The Lesser Man
- The Lesser Man pulls a string and one of Yharov’s fingers disappears
- He obtains a small, heart-shaped silver locket
- The Lesser Man disappears as 4 faceless creatures like The Lawnkeeper in the Feywild appear
- We fight them
- During the fight, Yharov tries pulling another string
- A Tyrannosaurus Rex appears, which we also fight
- We kill them all, then The Lesser Man pulls yet another string as we end our session