Game 76

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The next day, the storm is unabated. Otto and Merrius muse about the storm. Otto detects that it is not natural. Probing deeper, Marius is able to ascertain that the storm is affected by the weave. The weave is normally push and pull, but this seems all push. Further, the storm does not seem like the intended effect, so much as the *aftereffect* of some other intent.

Aziola asks Merrius to send a message to Rezza:

“This is Merrius. Proxy of Aziola. Waterdeep Torched. Cult of the Dragon involved. Drow kidnapping villagers. Headed to Neverwinter. Please send a reply. Love, Aziola.”

Rezza “Good to hear you’re safe sister. Bastille fortified. Puck withdrawn from capital. Koram Balius (Veerio) awoken. Body changing. In the light of the moon, go with honor go with grace.”

While the storm rages, Aziola turns into a bear and goes hunting. When she returns, she discovers that she is unable to shift back.

We remain in the spot waiting for the storm to pass for two days. On the second day, Marius approaches Aziola, and after asking for permission, attempts to dispel her form. The spell does not succeed the way he expected. Instead of dropping the form, Aziola begins to shift between her various forms, before settling back into her bear form.

Rowan tries to use suggestion, asking Aziola to “revert to her natural tiefling form”, but she instinctively feels that the bear *is* her natural form. After some more tinkering, she becomes frustrated and walks off.

The rain stops, and we pack up to head out. On our way, Ereb spots a quagoth who has also spotted us. It flies off to the east, and the group decides to move quickly toward the town to put distance between themselves and the creature.

**Leilon**

We arrive at Leilon. There is a spiked palisade and crossed minging picks. The town appears ghostly. Several buildings are smashed. We see an inn called “The Red Bird”.

Otto casts detect life and senses a creature from within the inn. Citrine goes to check on it. The rest of the group begins to fan out and explore the town.

Ereb discovers a temple in a field that he recognizes. It resembles the house on the hill from the vision he had of the girl watching the town.

Back at the inn, Otto senses the entity moving. He and Cirrine pursue it down 3 stories where they find a room with a well.

…

Letter that Ereb found in the Inn in Leilon:

*“Dear associate, We hope this arrangement has been mutually profitable for both parties. See this small token of gratitude as a signal of our . Provide us with our requirements and see both of our enterprises swell. Consider this future gift as a token of our gratitude. See that this gift is received by master Parianald as a token of our gratitude.”*

The ink of this is written in a purple script on a rougher spun paper.

Deciding that the letter probably refers to the individual who fled and probably conspired with the drow, the group decides to cut the rope to the well and take it with them.

From there, the group goes to the chapel that Ereb saw and he shows them that it, other than the chapel, appears to be *the* house on *the* hill.

Inside, there is no life and there is no magic. There does not appear to be anything on the inside that would link to this to the house on the hill that we remember.

After this, the party stumbles on a herd of horses and succeed in scaring them off. So they proceed on foot.

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