Arcane Academy Ep 5

### YouTube VOD

***The Arcane Academy* Episode 5** was streamed on BrettUltimus' Twitch channel on August 13, 2020, and premiered on the World of Io's YouTube channel on August 19, 2020.

## Summary

The party sleeps through the afternoon in the male dorm along with Shij and Brunbush. They plan to enter the Exodus Labyrinth during the night. Once the hour arrives, everyone gets up and heads out. At the entrance hall, they see an instructor on guard. After Aldoras’ Silent Image fails to pre-occupy the instructor, Shij tackles the instructor, then Brunbush joins in, both buying time for the party to venture forth. The party ventures down the hallway that is labeled by the now empty red-water bucket. As they travel the second floor, they find themselves surrounded by oozes that are trying their best to squeeze through the cracks in the walls. However, the party makes swift work of the oozes with their custom cantrips and Magic Missiles. Only Tremmer is hurt from this encounter. After the fight, the party explores the various rooms. Tremmer pockets a book titled Arcane Intrusions in one room. Elenora gets hit by a dart trap which turns out to be set up by the Academy. Tremmer steps over the trap’s trigger and receives two Potions of Healing from the corner of the room. After the party encounters a locked door, they backtrack to the third room where there is a stone that contains the inscription of the Spy Keeper’s Toolkit spell. Both Aldoras and Tremmer master the spell while Elenora and Gideon only learn the spell. Tremmer unlocks the door, and the party ventures to the third floor.

The third room houses a dining hall that is full of dust. There, a gust of wind circles the room as the dust picks up from the ground. The dust gathers and forms into Dust Elementals that then attack the group. The party had a bit more trouble from this fight. However, with the help of Tremmer’s Pack of the Wolf, their cantrips fell the creatures. The dining hall appears to not contain any valuables, and so the party moves on to the next flight of stairs. According to their map, the next floor is a big open room full of large pillars. The floor after the next contains their destination.

When they reach the bottom of the staircase, darkness overwhelms their sight. When Elenora casts light upon herself, they see blood right on the ground. Tremmer gets his Mage Hand out and asks Elenora to cast Light on it. For a brief second, darkness fills the party’s sight, then the light from the Mage Hand emerges. Gideon conjures up an Earth Goblin, and Aldoras casts various Minor Illusions of Nigel as a distraction for any potential hostiles. As the party travels further into the floor, Aldoras conjures up a Silent Image of a 15-foot large Oswin, and Gideon sends the Earth Goblin from where they came. Then an ominous sound emits from one section of the room. A section that Tremmer can barely make out. There’s plate armor covered in blood. A crash is heard, and the Earth Goblin dies. The plated creature then turns to Tremmer.

The freshmen immediately begin to run. As controlling the Mage Hand hinders him, Tremmer unsummons the hand, allowing Elenora to cast Light upon herself. When the party scrambles to flee, they see the creature in its entirety. It emits light from its eye sockets. Blood is not the only thing covering its plate. Tremmer manages to hold it together when he spots Telken, his old roommate, decorating the plate armor along with other students. Aldoras sends the illusionary Oswin between them and the armored creature. Eventually, their path is blocked by a stone wall. Gideon believes that there are mechanisms that can move the wall, but they can’t activate it from here. The creature is about to catch up to them, so they turn the corner. Aldoras casts another Silent Image, and light from the armored creature emits through the illusionary stone wall. However, it does not go through it. The party slowly makes their way through the darkness, with Elenora being their only source of light. They eventually come across a lever. Upon pulling said lever, they hear several mechanical sounds from where they came from. As they are traveling back, a stone wall blocks their path. Then they spot light at a distance. The party immediately turn around and take an alternative route. They eventually make their way to Aldoras’s illusionary wall and walk past it. The stone wall that once block their path is no longer there, and the party travels along the new path until they spot a spiral staircase.

The next floor is brightly lit, and they are greeted by two rows of Dwarf statues. Past the statues is a large circular room. In the center is a small pit of sand and off to the side is a winged statue. In a “corner” of the room is a desk that contains a book of runes and a book on Djinns. The latter warns that Djnns take wishes very literally. Tremmer wishes to reverse what he has done. Aldoras simply wants to get their familiars back. The situation falls into chaos as everyone start to argue on what they ought to wish and the interpretation of the letter they found back in the Forbidden Archives. The argument between Tremmer and Aldoras gets heated to the point where Tremmer holds Aldoras down with a dagger against the throat. Gideon brings Elenora to the sand pit, hoping to get her to make the wish. However, he is the one who draws the ELF rune. The Djinn grants the impulsive wish he had in his mind, and everyone falls through the floor and turn transparent. Light begins to illuminate around them, and they are casted into starry light that passes through them. They then land on transparent flooring. As they look around, they find themselves not in their plane of existence. They are now in the Astral.

## Cast

### Player Characters

* Elenora Mordove
* Tremmer Kushions
* Gideon Snowfall
* Aldoras Theletian
* Oswin (as an illusion)