4/20 One-Shot

Dee Pride found Notera and agreed to help her on her latest mercenary job of clearing out the Tomb of Eternity. While there, Amber Ravenwood and Veggrek appeared out of Timeless Space, and agreed to help them finish up since they were there.

## Summary

Notera and Dee discovered that the Tomb was actually more of a vault built by Acererak around an ancient temple to the deity of time. They had encountered Amber and Veggrek along the way, and later a gnome stuck in an air duct after trying to bypass one of the puzzles. The gnome, Dr. Byotnar Firkins, was as close to an expert on the ancient followers of the goddess of time. He helped them through the rest of the puzzles and they reached the most inner sanctum without much issue.

In the final room was a machine and several tone tablets with strange writing on it. Firkins explained that the machine was used to commune with the goddess and set about activating it. Dee attempted to ritual cast Comprehend Languages, but before she could finish, Firkins pressed a button and the group was consumed in a white light.

Notera found herself in her preferred seat in the mess hall of the camp she had been hired by. She ignored the conversation she had been in the middle of ignoring and went outside. She saw Dee nearby, cleaning her breakfast off herself after having been run into by a particularly clumsy worker. The two met up and acknowledged the time shenanigans they found themselves in. A commotion at the entrance to the camp attracted their attention due to it not having happened their first time through the day.

They found Amber and Veggrek there, surrounded by guards and being confronted by Commander Tiban. Notera claimed that they were with her, and he threw all of them into a cage to be dealt with, frustrated by the breach of secrecy. The party immediately picked the lock and headed back to the temple, determined to solve the puzzles and steal any treasure there before Notera's now-former boss could.

Upon reaching the dungeon entrance, they were welcomed back by Ace, who explained that they were not the first to suffer from the time loops sometimes caused in the temple. They entered once more, determined to meet up with Dr. Firkins once more and figure out what the machine did. Dr. Firkins, however, was not where they had found him, and one of the puzzles a couple rooms beyond was missing a portion of it needed to pass. They determined that the gnome had likely gone through and taken the piece with him. The group attempted to bypass the puzzle in the same way Dr. Firkins had earlier, by sending Veggrek through the air ducts. He got stuck, and they attempted to pull him out, which just resulted in him getting more stuck. After a large number of beetles began to approach him, he cut off his own leg in order to escape. Horrified and stumped, the party was unsure how to proceed. They were saved by time once again resetting.

Veggrek regained his leg, and he and Amber attempted to pass themselves off as having arrived for the commander's birthday. Unconvinced, the four were once again placed in the cage. They decided on a better course of action for the next inevitable reset, and once again escaped and headed back to the temple. Notera found a rock along the way that she was able to use to bypass the missing puzzle piece. The final puzzle was also bypassed using a reflective shield Amber found outside.

Once again inside the room with the machine, they attempted to figure out more about the machine. Dee began to ritual cast Comprehend Languages to read the stone tablets in the room, but it turned out that Amber could read the ancient language. They explained that the machine was intended to be a time machine, but the builders had never been able to make it work. They had determined that it was dangerous and had hidden it in the temple. The party debated the benefits of destroying the machine or repairing it. Dee attempted to pray to Time to ask for help. Time, in the Shadowfell at the time and not at full strength, did not respond. The machine once more concluded its process and time was rewound.

They once again made their way through the puzzles, this time using Petunia and rope to retrieve the green orb from the next room. In the final room, Dr. Firkins dropped a Wall of Force between he and the party. He explained that he couldn't allow them to stop him, because he needed to solve the machine to bring back his dead wife. Dee told him that everyone loses people, and doing something so dangerous like changing history would likely be counter to his wife's will. He agreed and dropped the wall.

A cloaked figure appeared then and declared that he would ensure the machine was never used by anybody. To relieve the party's fears about such a claim, he introduced himself as Lysaro. He transformed the machine into a small glowing amber orb. He warned the party that the temple was going to collapse and that departing would be smart, and they did so.

## NPCs

### Introduced

* Notera Font
* Dr. Byotnar Firkins
* Commander Tiban

### Returning

* Amber Ravenwood
* Dee
* Veggrek
* Ace
* Lysaro

### Mentioned

* Ephemera
* Andy Greene

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