Weaving Plans

and

Justin as the DM

"**Weaving Plans**" is the eleventh episode of Rise of the Arcane, the third season of Tales From Del'nasra

Cupcake eating contests, rides and merriment have been left behind at the Witchlight Carnival as the Fonkey Casuals return to the Material Plane by stepping out of a mirror and appearing in the attic of an elderly man.

The party reached 5th-level at the end of the session.

## Episode Synopsis

#### **Previously on Tales from Del'nasra**

*"You all arrived at a carnival in the Feywild known as the Witchlight Carnival as a means to semi-relax after The Creep stole Hopper’s bag of holding and the luminspire, and upon entry were met with a treant handing out seeds that opened into gifts and offered everyone dandelions to blow out and make a wish.*

*You pushed towards the Feasting Orchard region of the carnival intent on eating something, and passed by a calliope being played by a talking monkey in a suit, and his goblin companion dressed like a ladybug. A couple of you gave the goblin buttons, and danced with the goblin before arriving at the Feasting Orchard just in time for a cupcake eating contest.*

*It was gratuitous and frankly quite disgusting with how much was eaten in a minute, with Vonkar winning the competition after eating 100 cupcakes in one minute. He was awarded with another cupcake that doubles as a potion of invisibility.*

*After the competition, you saw the familiar form of Grundle, Auntie Gothel’s satyr jester sitting in a nearby pear tree and performed a rhyme about how to find the Fey Crossing hidden in the carnival, apparently hiding somewhere within the Hall of Illusions. You made your way in that direction with Antyr and Doe riding the Dragonfly Ride around the exterior of the carnival, while the remainder of the party visited the Mystery Mines after overhearing a child say the ride makes wishes come true. While on the way it seemed that Grin’s down mood seemed to be affecting the carnival overall as the sky became overcast and it began to rain. Doe and Antyr calmed down a rampaging dragonfly during the ride which seemed to lift the carnival’s mood slightly.*

*The other half of the group rode the Mystery Mine ride and while zooming through the ride in a minecart they all witnessed visions of creatures that frighten them, before the ride ended with wishes being manifested in some capacity. Some of the wishes were strange, some fizzled out of existence due to missing people, and one caused Grin to vanish and appear in a strange manor in the middle of a garden somewhere in the Feywild. Grin recognized this as his papa’s home, the Rose Court and saw that its denizens were all turned to stone, including papa himself. This is when Grin saw moment in one of the upstairs windows and found Duskreaper Aelinor prowling through the manor, clearly looking for something and eventually stumbling across a secret room behind an illusory wall that seemed to have archways with names written on them. Aelinor passed through an archway that said “Ashheart” and Grin did not follow and instead was interrupted by a boggle having hidden away during the attack on the court.*

*The boggle mentioned that this figure, Aelinor had attempted to recruit The Archmaw into the Unseelie Court as his activities, interests and way of life were aligned with how the Unseelie Court does things. After many refusals and frustration with the Archmaw, Aelinor turned him and the denizens of the Rose Court to stone and had learned about The Archmaw’s connections with certain higher powers and possible other figures and had sought to possibly exploit them. He also mentioned that Duskreaper was looking for something that was stolen from him, a map of ley line convergence points.*

*The boggle mentioned that the Archmaw was aware of certain things brewing and coming to fruition, most notably The Creep having escaped and stolen something powerful. Due to this, and the strange time dilation of the Feywild, this was made aware a few weeks ago even though it had only just happened to Grin and the others. Because of this, the Archmaw left a sword behind that would help make Grin stronger and awaken some latent abilities.*

*Grin trained with this new sword for 45 or so days, and returned to the Material Plane with more information regarding their predicament, however only a few minutes had passed for the others. The carnival culminated with you all heading to the Hall of Illusions where you saw illusory reflections of your lives both young and old, before stepping through a mirror and arriving in a cluttered attic somewhere in the City of Embers, with a voice of an old man calling from below and the sound of someone walking up the stairs."*

#### The Episode

The Fonkey Casuals fell through the fey crossing and onto the hard floor of an attic somewhere within the City of Embers. The commotion of their arrival seemed to disturb the resident of the home, with an extremely elderly human man walking up into the attic to see Vonkar standing directly at the top of the stairs while the remaining members of the party did their best to conceal themselves.

The elderly man then dissolved away, clearly an illusion and in his place was a burly duergar man with a braided moustache, triangular glasses and wearing the garb of the Ley Guardians and introduced himself as Thrammarn. He apologized for his illusory state and mentioned that since they had seemingly broken through the mythal that had been put in place by the leader of his order he would need to bring them to said leader so they could iron out any potential security risks to the city, mentioning that since the attack things have been slightly on edge and seemed to scan the attic with his glasses and saw through the disguises and spells the others were using to hide.

The party agreed to come with, and they made their way through the city seeing that both the Ley Guardians and the Quartz Armada were repairing damages down to the eastern region of the city which seemed to be only the portion of the city that had seen any damage. Thrammarn lead the party towards a university in the northern region of the city called The Brightstone Institute and took them into one of the towers that hovers over the institute itself and into the temporary office of one Kena Peshan, the head of the Ley Guardians and also being confirmed as the figure who the party had seen riding a young silver dragon that was chased off by Duskreaper Aelinor.

Kena revealed that the city was currently protected by a mythal, a type of powerful abjuration magic that is incredibly dangerous to attempt the casting of it. They revealed that it was currently keeping any Unseelie fey out of the city and that it would disintegrate anyone who attempted entry that was not currently permitted into the city. The Fonkey Casuals mentioned that they had gotten into the city through a fey crossing which prompted Kena to order the Ley Guardians to scan the entirety of the city and look for more doorways into the Feywild and vice versa that could potentially be exploited to pass by the mythal. During their discussions with Kena Peshan they also revealed that they had lost the luminspire the very artifact that Kena had been looking for and was also working with Lord Oberon and the rest of the Seelie Court in bringing it to the Material Plane and safely sequestering it away somewhere for a coming event. Stressed by the revelations about the stolen luminspire, Kena mentioned they would look into its whereabouts and because it had been stolen under their watch, they asked if the group would perform a favour for them mentioning that they needed people close to this situation and that they didn't want knowledge of the ongoing events to avoid mass panic. The job in question was to break into the Soulspyre Academy's undercroft on the continent of Anundiel to perform a sort of "heist" and learn what they could about a leyline convergence point beneath the school. Before they left, the party gave Kena the map they had found of the world with every leyline and leyline convergence point painstakingly drawn onto it.

The party mentioned they would think about it, and Kena told them to meet them at the Veiled Gardens in the morning if they were interested. The group decided they needed to have a big discussion about their current trajectory and made way for the Crystal Palace Inn to check out the private suite that Sir Arthur had paid for as per their contract with him.

Arriving at the Crystal Palace Inn, they immediately went to view their private suite which opened up into a circular, grand foyer with two floors of bedrooms while the ground floor had a large fountain of golden unicorns and pegasus that spewed out jets of colourful water. To the left of the foyer was a large bathhouse and to the right was the kitchen and dining room. Antyr immediately went to take a bath while Vonkar, Torger and Doe retired to their rooms and Grin and Hopper checked out the kitchen after the latter asked to speak to Grin in private. This private conversation involved Hopper going over their feelings and anger towards the situation with The Creep and the Grin leading this now enemy around without really questioning the overall situation about it, and expressed their anger about the situation being dire for them because their family is involved in some capacity. Hopper threw a knife at Grin, purposely aiming for the wall beside them and threatened Grin saying that if this came back onto their family they wouldn't be so forgiving next time.

Not wanting to be threatened due to their size, Grin somehow produced their large longsword out of thin air and smashed a cupboard into bits, before the autonomous voice of the private suite asked for an apology and for Grin to repair the cupboard.

#### After the Break

While doing their own things, the group gathered in the dining room to discuss their next steps while they dined on the meal provided for them. Hopper began to get drunk on wine, clearly out of frustration for the recent events involving The Creep, and instantly shut down any conversations about them, not wanting to speak about them anymore for the time being. The party after deliberation decided to turn down Kena's offer for the time being and instead decided they could offer to investigate a leyline convergence that is much closer to their current location and not on the other side of the world.

They decided they could tie this into looking for the stained glass sword that Hopper saw in their vision in the Mystery Mines ride at the Witchlight Carnival, theorizing that the sword could be in a lake that has a leyline convergence point there. Unfortunately, none of them were able to memorize the map due in part to not looking at it since they acquired it and having just given it Kena. The consensus came to be that they would sleep and come morning they would meet with Kena, turn down their offer but mention they'd look into closer convergences and that they would need the map to do so.

Everyone went to sleep with Antyr spending the remainder of the night transcribing spells into Ciphersworn with their own blood, while everyone else did their own little things. Torger and Vonkar had a discussion about Vonkar's weird reluctance to mention where he's from which eventually was revealed that Vonkar has an awful memory and doesn't exactly remember where he came from, but is aware he's from somewhere in the Underdark. Not wanting to pry too much and force memories to return, Torger departed for his own room.

The next morning, the party ate breakfast on the go and met with Kena in the Veiled Gardens of the city. They explained their offer, and Kena agreed and handed them the map, mentioning they had already made a copy for themselves and stepped through a nearby tree via transport via plants and appeared in the study of a gnome. With the map of the leylines in hand, the party ran a few quick errands before they left the city. They scanned the map while running their errands and discovered four convergence points residing in bodies of water on this continent; the Marrowdeeps, Drowned Maiden Reef, Winterloch and Lake Deepbottom. Realizing that their closest venture would be the Marrowdeeps the party agreed to head that way in the direction of a settlement called Tanloch.

Antyr purchased the strange howler monkey mermaid from Curios and Curiouser while they visited Peshan's Potions and purchased seven potions of water breathing and Torger had a go at the random potion box, snagging himself two potions of superior healing and a potion of diminution. As they left the city they picked up Vonkar's often forgotten about mule Cornelius and the wagon and set off down the northern road out of the city and into the jungles of the region.

## Featured Characters

### Player Characters

* Antyr Xiloscient
* Doe
* Grin
* Hopper Thimblefoot
* Leek
* Torger Otrson
* Vonkar Eldsaga

### Returning

* Beiro Peshan
* Ciphersworn, the Page Eater
* Cornelius
* Flitz Tumblepots (briefly seen through Kena's *transport via plants* spell)
* Kena Peshan (first speaking appearance in Season 3 as an NPC)
* Oozaline
* The Sorrow

### Mentioned

* Sir Arthur Wordweave
* Auntie Gothel
* The Creep
* Duskreaper Aelinor
* Graz'zt
* Lord Oberon
* Mannaskotter
* Terry