Days Together Timeline: Week Four

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Tell Myril about what happened in the catacombs, invites us to party at his home with the rest of the empire's regents. Aywin buys the party fancy clothes for the festival. Shopping happens. Lorien confronts & assaults Brass Cockatress shopkeep. Surprise! It's a super smart monkey! Super bleak fortune telling also happens. More shopping and games. Bonding time between Aldrik & Reed. Arena fights with Reed & Lorien (which Idanna makes money on). Party postponed until following night because of goblins on the road from Tunstead. Two suspicious cloaked figures following/watching party. Idanna approaches one, but says he has no quarrel with her. We rest and talk at The Red Glade. Idanna sorta talks about herself with Zaphi. Early in the morning, Zaphi has a chat with the hooded figure, tabaxi with a message for Sunny.

### Day 21:

*21st of Mayira 1246*

Day two of festival! Sunny goes to talk to hooded tabaxi, and shortly thereafter tells us about potential assassination plot intended for the feast tonight. Potentially don't trust Myril, as he may have hired assassins. Lorien & Aldrik go speak to Myril about Drezkel's arrival. Rest of the party go looking for Reed who wandered off. Find, and all meet up back at Red Glade. Lots of discussion about what we're going to do. A couple hours later Drezkel arrives and we fill him in. Everybody kills time waiting for the party. At party, Aywin, Sunny and Idanna all recognize people. At midnight, Myril makes a toast, but his wine has been poisoned and he dies. Body is promptly removed. As neutral third party, we're asked by Freya to investigate and hall is locked down.  Zaphi & Idanna bamf down to Myril's lab, to find 2 deceased guards with roots growing out of their mouths and Myril's body gone. Reed destroys remaining wine evidence and makes a serving girl cry. Aywin confronts Raiden Cauthorne about her father.

The group goes down to the lab with Drezkel. Sunny stays behind for brief message to her clanmates before catching up with group. Zaphi does a craniotomy on one of the dead guards, tree symbol also present. Learn from Reed about World Tree book from bamf house and learn from Aldrik that Myril was studying the World Tree for years. Investigate lab and Sunny finds secret room. Inside secret room is Myril's personal notes on the World Tree and and an alchemy table of sorts that melts down silver thread into a liquid. Door at the end with some kind of creature on the other side; super locked. From Myril's notes we learn that the World Tree has been bound to an extra-planar space and stripped of her power. She was bound by Selune, Pelor, Orcus, Asmodeus, Bal'Theal, Demogorgon and others. Spreading her seeds into material planes allows them to grow into separate entities (Gulthiases) where they begin funneling magical essences from those planes back to her. Once that process reaches a certain point, she will awaken and break the binds that are holding her. Zaphi also finds a separate book in the secret room that details the method of distillation for the thread into liquid. If ingested, all magical effects are rendered inert (can't cast or have magic cast on you). Mentions 2 names: Silverthread as source of thread and Halmrast as middle man. Group heads back upstairs.

Back upstairs to slight panic. Guard tells us Tabaxi didn't stay dead. Go to kitchen, where we find a re-deaded Crashing Wave and 2 dead guards. Crashing Wave has crystals growing on the body and guards have Gulthias roots. One of the guards was bitten by Crashing Wave, and roots have begun to grow out of wound. Reed casts Lesser Resoration and roots disappear, but area with wound feels cold to the touch, like dead flesh. Discover crystals on Tabaxi are magic absorbing. Poor some of the liquid Silverthread on it, and they go clear. Have non-magical guard smash the crystals and all the magic absorbed is released with a scream as the body shatters. Drezkel meets us half way back to hall where everybody is. Heard the scream and the release of magic caused the left side of his face to ache. It fades.

Idanna and Lorien interrogate Rohan about the fabric. Lorien learns that the Silverthread family nearly wiped out and Rohan bought their business. Idanna learns his wife had a miscarriage too. Upset, Lorien leaves the room. Revelling in schadenfreude a little bit, Idanna heads back over to Zaphi.

Aywin confronts Raiden again. Reed, now rejoined with the party after helping the guards in the kitchen, casts Zone of Truth, and it happens to also catch the prince. Banters with both for a while about the Norread Dynasty and the Helstrom Empire. Drags Raiden back to Reed & Aldrik where he admits to being in the kitchen to steal wine. Reed learns that Aywin's dad is the one who helped the Norread necromancer leave, gets upset and also leaves room. Aldrik wants to find Cyrus. Aywin wants to find her dad (finding Silent Rain will lead to him).

Aldrik goes to find Lorien. Sunny, bloated on bread, points Aldrik in the direction she went. Regroup. Lorien starting to turn Summer. Find out Rohan bought Silverthread business 8 years ago. Lorien & Aywin decipher storybook pages. "Northern heading. Frost & blood. Morwen with me." Zaphi gets a good read of Idanna's personal journal while she sleeps.

### Day 22

*22nd of Mayira 1246*

Wake up at noon. Lorien full Summer. Drezkel lets us know everyone is free to go. Lets us know about Myril's office upstairs where we find a hidden switch that gives us 3 of the 4 keys we need to open the marble door in the lab. Quick shopping trip for potions, before back to Myril's lab. 3 keys + Knock spell which alerts sincerely disturbing beastie on the other side of the door that leads to Khas'Khali. After a bit of a struggle, we manage to close and lock the door again. Decide to leave that door alone until we have a better strategy for defeating it's whole magic absorbing crystal deal. Lorien tries and fails to figure out Myril's Silverthread alchemy station. Sunny finds a letter from Crashing Wave in Myril's office confirming that Myril hired them to poison himself. She also finds the emptied vial in the kitchen that held the poison. Aywin discovers 400 years worth of field notes from Myril. Decide to head North to the Dwarven kingdom in search of the necromancer & Aywin's father... but first going to teleport to Reed's hometown/Dragon's Head Coast area. Idanna gives keys to Myril's door to Freya, thoroughly confusing her with vagueness, but Aldrik clears up shortly after. Zaphi awkwardly offers to help ruin Rohan's business. Reed participates in a pit fight. Aywin digs around Myril's home more, finding notes on both Selune and Volgura. Also discovers an unfinished love letter and after talking with one of Myril's assistants finds that he was regularly corresponding with someone in Grasmoore. Everybody minus Lorien ends up gathering at Red Glade, but shortly after Aywin finds her and brings her back. Party agrees to stay one more night in Myrefall before heading out. In the evening, after some of the party has gone to bed or drunk themselves to sleep, Idanna & Zaphi leave to break into Halmrast's Fine Clothing and steal not only money, but the shop ledger and a bunch of papers that was locked in a bottom drawer in the back room. Idanna heads upstairs to read a little bit and rest. Zaphi stays downstairs to read her Volgura notes from Myril's office, however when she opens it all the pages are blank and Volgura appears for a chat. Volgura & Zaph vanish. Aldrik falls asleep.

### Day 23

*23rd of Mayira 1246*

Idanna sneaks stolen papers into Reed's Bag of Holding. Aldrik went back to Stonekeep. Zaph still gone, but we take her tome with us. Have Michael transport us to Cromerth and have a predictably boring romp around Reed's hometown. Reed warns them about demonic goings on. Have lunch with his family, and then head out for Grasmoore.

### Day 24-26

*24th - 26th of Mayira 1246*

Relatively uneventful travel. Encounter 2 hill giants on day 24 which we avoid. Reed has a conversation with Selune that evening. She tells him that the world tree is gathering strength and there's not much time left, but not to be afraid. Informs him we all didn't just meet by happenstance. We were gathered and Reed's birth father recommended him. Also tells him to seek out a temple of the Raven Queen about his mark from dying.