Session 48

The party hunt down and deal with the glowworm inside Squire.

## Summary

Teer immediately attempted to sprint down after the goblins heading beneath Rama va Arel. Ephemera stopped him from rushing madly in without the rest of the party. After a moment to calm him down and remind him that they are within a memory, and that things may not be entirely accurate to reality. Thus calmed, the party descended into the city.

Teer spotted a tendril of white light dissolving into the ground and urged the party onward. The party descended the chamber they had seen the goblins go into. The scene transitioned to after the goblins had moved in, their tents and goblins scattered throughout the chamber. The party attempted to hide, but Mingal, sitting on a bone throne below, spotted them almost immediately. He Wild Shaped into a silver wyrmling and attempted to intimidate them. The party settled back, deciding to wait out the memory and not interfere. Mingal approached them however, asking what they were doing there. After some debate, Ephemera explained that they were all inside one of his memories and trying to find the glowworm within him. After sniffing the party and thinking about it, he slowly remembered everything going on. He then spotted the goblins around him were very fake-looking and had white tendrils wrapped around them. The rest of the party shortly noticed them as well. Squire, still in dragon form, approached one of the goblins and pulled the tendril off a nearby goblin. The tendril disintegrated with a screech.

After some back and forth, Squire granted permission to blast away at the goblins, aware that they were not real. Teer fired his Eldritch Blast at a goblin, disintegrating it like the tendrils. The goblins attacked with crossbows, and the party attacked in return. Squire destroyed a small group of the goblins; a glowing white crack appeared where they had stood, and tentacles emerged from the cracks. Dort, confused and concerned, asked for an explanation. Squire attempted to explain and could only hope he trusted him enough to believe him.

The tentacles grabbed hold of Ephemera and attempted to drag her into them. She resisted, and she and Squire managed to destroy them before they could do more harm. In retaliation, the head of the creature emerged from the center of the room and fired a laser at the pair. Lei cast a Fireball on the glowworm, which angered it and it attacked her. Dort, convinced to at least attack the monster that just emerged in the middle of their campsite, joined the fray, attacking the glowworm. The creature screeched and Squire was left stunned. Kiono used Donjon to restrain the glowworm. Akaros finished off a group of goblins which turned into tentacles, which Teer finished off relatively quickly.

The glowworm, nearing half of its health, fled the scene, and the party attempted to clear out the rest of the goblins. More goblin groups started emerging from the huts in the area. The party realized the mechanics of the boss fight, and began to work on respawning the glowworm. They successfully summon it again and managed to destroy it. The hole it had been in sucked everybody but Ephemera, who effectively jumped into the hole to avoid leaving them alone.

They fell into what felt like water, though it was not wet. There was the sound of a reel-to-reel projector, and black ribbons of film floated about them. They came to rest around a large central stone pillar upon which sat a large creature with hundreds of arms. Below was a pool of water in which swam hundreds and thousands of the glowworms. The film contained bits of people's lives, and the creature appeared to be watching them. He noticed them and introduced himself as the Watcher. He explained that they were located in a demiplane that connected the various mindscapes of all people. The glowworms normally fed on the residual energies in the demiplane, but Acererak stole two or three of them, which were the glowworms Mingal and Dort found.

Lei asked if the Watcher could see the memories of gods and requested he view the most recent memories of Belxari. He did so, finding her to be in her theatre until a dragon priest of Hedemora showed up and the memories ended. Lei also asked about Harbinger and discovered that Harbinger was on his way toward the Dragonlands, presumably with the knowledge of the location of Rama va Arel. The Watcher squished the members of the party and returned them to the material plane.

After some discussion, Seresh teleported everybody back to Oceanside. Teer and Plosi decided to go to rest in Kiono's condo, while Ephemera and Lei planned to go to Here to There Ghesquiere and Life is Pain. Before they were able to leave, Prince Haziz arrives with some guards and the Oceanside Praetor, Asotl, wanting to know why there were bright flashes of light coming from her tower. The party claimed responsibility, and subsequently he shrugged off the situation. Lei questioned the praetor and found that the changelings were accepted for the most part in Oceanside; indeed, the praetor was one of Haziz's advisors. He suggested she visit him at the palace at some point to learn about the Oceanside chapter of the Children of Similus. Haziz complained that he did not wish to attend any more meetings that day, so Asotl turned into Haziz so he can attend his meetings in Haziz's place.

Finally free to leave, the party headed toward Kiono's condo. Renn asked Akaros if he could feed him a letter to Belxari in hopes that if he expelled it, she would receive it. He agreed and attempted that. Almost immediately, the sky ripped open and violet light shone through. Several figures, a group of tieflings, fell from the hole in the sky, their bodies temporarily surrounded in violet fire. Kiono cast Feather Fall on the group to slow their descent.

## Notes

* Teer was allowed to swap levels for Fighter
* Teer gained 2 points in Strength
* Squire was allowed to swap levels for Druid
* Squire gained 2 points in Wisdom
* Squire gained one use of Circle of the Dragon Wild Shape
* The end of this session and the end of the Tiefling One-Shot occur at the same time.

## NPCs

### Returning

* Dort (memory)
* Seresh
* Jin-Ri

### Mentioned

* Harbinger
* Hedemora
* Belxari

## Trivia

* Teer regained his roots at level 8. This is the level he was at when the Calamity occurred.

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