Dicing with Death: Episode 217

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== Synopsis ==
Divan learns more about the Feywild, and how a Philosophers' Stone is worn by something? He and his apprentices learn some spells, and more about how portals to other planes work, the location of "The Gold" in the Elemental plane of Earth. Divan finds a lead egg which the Elemental Plane of Earth tells him can be incubated and tamed.
Divan speaks with the Elven visitors to (Shelter Bay) about The Feywild, their lands & what goes on there, as well as the nature of there life spans, lastly he is invited to the shaped wood, but decides to think on it.
==Recap==
===Contacting the Feywild===
Divan still has the desire to obtain a Philosophers' Stone, which is a shard of the Staff of the World. Last time Divan questioned the plane of shadow, but this time Divan seeks to find answers from the Feywild.
Divan and his apprentises to atop of Divan's tower where he casts the spell . The apprentices ( and ) are ready with scrolls to undo any cursed insanity that may befall Divan for using this spell.
The spell allows Divan to ask five questions:
* Q1: Is there a Philosophers' Stone in the Feywild?
* A1: Yes
* Q2: Is it in the shaped wood?
* A2: Irrelevant
* Q3: Is it owned by an Elf
* A3: No
* Q4: Is it owned at all?
* A4: Yes
* Q5: Is the philosopher's stone fixed or is it moving?
* A5: Worn
Divan comes out of the trance and tells his apprentices what he had learned. Cassandra takes notes. They decide to keep the exact notes on these matters away from the public library at least until they find the Philosopher's Stone. 
Divan and his apprentices research new spells: Mof - , Cassandra - and Divan - . Each of the spells is learned successfully.
Divan has plans for & , but that is for the future when he is more powerful.
=== Elemental Earth & Related Research ===
Part of the reason Divan sees a Philosophers' Stone is to transmute Gold, to build the wealth of the nation. The only gold he has found so far was from the Elemental Plane of Earth at the Copper Mine.
Divan heads out to the copper mine, passes a tea shop along the way along on the roadside. Outside the mine there are structures, no longer just tents. The wooden administrative building flies the banners of town.
Down in the mine, Divan finds where he last dug into the Elemental Plane of Earth with , and finds that that the mineshaft there has been dug out.
Divan wants a reliable way to get to gold from the Elemental Plane of Earth. Divan meditates with the Gem with the Earth Elemental within. He finds out no new knowledge from the elemental, just the sense of discomfort.
Divan comes out of his mediation and talks about moving the mineshaft to a new spot, so Divan can restore the section where the gateway was used last time. Divan also takes over a nearby storage room. Divan uses the spell to create new supports, and to dig around them to widen the mineshaft as planned. Divan then prepares a physical shaped gateway in the spot where he had the Minor Gateway beforehand, but from the other side of the wall so not to get in the way of the miners.
In less than a week the area is ready for experimentation. Divan fetches his apprentices.
Divan casts to contact elemental plane of earth and asks his five questions.
* Q1: When I open a portal will it lead to a predictable location?
* A1: Unknown
* Q2: Can I alter my portal to go somewhere specific?
* A2: No
* Q3: Is there a reliable way to find specific metals like gold?
* A3: Yes
* Q4: Do Elementals Sense these metals?
* A4: Some
* Q5: Can humans survive in the elemental plane without special measures?
* A5: No
Divan casts on the archway to access the elemental plane of earth. Divan deploys the miners to pull out the lead revealed (it pushes out they are basically just moving it).
Divan Casts Where is the Gold? (Gets the direction 45degrees up 12degrees left from the portal), Divan casts in the Portal to the same plane and it goes to Granite, and it fails fast.
The mining operation of the lead continues, and they find a bumpy tear shaped lead chunk. Cassandra detects magic, it is not magic. It looks crafted, it is not accidental. It is not magically related.
As the portal fails, Divan the last bit.
Divan has the soil and lead brought to his tower the soil will be kept in a bin that is labeled, Divan pays the miners for their trouble.
===The Lead Egg===
Divan brings the lead egg to , and he asks if he can I pound it? Divan says no and he does some tests on it and it seems like lead, but is ever so slightly lighter, and says that it could be hollow inside, Divans taps it.
Divan asks the elemental plane of earth through a casting of 
* Q1: Is there a creature that lays eggs in lead deposits?
* A1: Yes
* Q2: Is Special care needed to incubate such an egg?
* A2: Maybe
* Q3: Can it survive in the prime material plane?
* A3: Yes
* Q4: Can the Egg hatch in the prime material plane?
* A4: Yes
* Q5: Can they be tamed by humans?
* A5: Yes
They burry the egg in the dirt from the elemental plane of Earth, Divan finds nothing about this.
=== Research & Speaking with Elves ===
Divan thinks about building a chemical laboratory in his basement caverns, and wished to have portal areas in the basement as well (Creating areas best suited for different planes), Mof has people send out people to get Spores for Fungi.
Wanting to learn more about the Feywild, Divan wishes to find Elves. He knows there are non in Nekkraut, but journeys to Shelter Bay to see if any Elvenships are there. Indeed, there is an elven ship in harbor. The ship is made of massive boards and much of it seems formed together.
Divan approaches a Elf who just came off the ship, a laborer, and welcomes them to Shelter Bay. The Elf recognizes Divan from his face being on coins. Divan follows the elf into the tavern and joins the elf and others already inside. Divan treats them to some wine from his Uncle Vinny's estate.
The elves tell Divan that "you are not from Nekkraut, Nekkraut is from you".
Divan develops the talks towards there home plane and their woods, they speak on how the forest on the Prime Material Plane is the Shaped Wood, and The Feywild is its own thing. They ask how Divan knows about it, and he speaks on what he learned and how time passes faster in the Prime material plane, Elves see themselves as the caretakers of the woods not as rulers over it. The wild woods is non shaped wood in Elven lands on the prime material plane. The The Outlands are the areas not Fey, or Wild/Shaped woods, Feywild is unstable and a proto plane, because of the efforts of Illumis, Martha, and Astair. Nadinis is a Conduit, not keeper. Feywilds need no caretaker. 
Divan asks how they live so long, (they basically say they just do). Elves say that they live and then fuse with Trees (They can negotiate with trees to move) while humans have to move them themselves (Divan adds).
Divan asks them what they are waiting for and learns are waiting for copper bars, because Elves do not mine they reuse, and they wish to create more ornamental areas/objects. 
Divan asks who rules the Feywild, and the Elves says that there are great forces, that reside primarily in the Feywilds, and maintain some semblance of borders and territories, Divan asks for names. 
Elves say Dream-maker (No Physical form, but moves between Dream plane and Feywild inside the minds of those in the plane, it is very powerful because it plants thoughts in your mind as you sleep), Great Nymph (spawns Nymphs and they bring her mortal men), Narids, Pixies, Brownies, Satyr, Dryad, Great Monarch Butterfly (Produces Pixie dust) (Gloomwing is a distant relative of them), Myconids (Control large swathes of area and you will easily tell when you are in there land because they branch off each tree), Leprechaun king (Collector of items and trinkets, and always seems to come out on top no matter what happens). Dwarves hate Leprechauns because they were tricked by one for lots of wealth.
Elves do not ever say Divan is human. Divan ESPs their minds when speaking about how the elves live longer, he learns that 2: are mildly curious, and are having fun speaking to him (They are thinking creature not human) 1: is nervous about how many questions he is asking and how much he knows 1:(Feilie) is fearful (I know what this thing is and I am trying to cover it up) (Directed towards Divans person or something he is wearing). The Elves say they are headed back home, and Divan asks if Humans are allowed to visit, they say under some circumstances they do not permit people to enter, because there strength and power from the mystery surrounding them, the scared one continues what he was saying by stating Divan knows a lot about them already, and that he is more approachable, and she would vouch for him. 
Divan is invited to the Shaped woods, he tells the Elves that he will have to think on it, but is interested.
==Experience==
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