S: Teleporter Plot

## Session 1

[9:08 PM] DM: You're all going about your day the way your messages stated when suddenly your head starts spinning.

[9:12 PM] DM: You're all fine... except Nera. Nera, you get dizzy and fall on your butt.

[9:12 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Oh fuck me"

[9:13 PM] DM: Brimeia was in the middle of swinging a punch and stumbles into Urrak.

[9:13 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Oi, watch yourself!"

[9:14 PM] DM: When you look around, you're standing in a town square. It was like you were in one place, you blinked and now you're here. Besides the slight dizziness, you didn't feel anything else. No tunnel of lights, no tug at your gut,  no feeling of time passing.

[9:16 PM] DM: As you look around, you realize you’re surrounded by a bunch of strangers, all standing in what appears to be some sort of village square. You all seem out of place, slightly confused, and you suspect whatever brought you here brought them as well. In addition to yourselves, there are several other people standing around. They look like they might even belong in the town square, commoners of the town itself, except they all look just as confused as you do.

[9:28 PM] DM: Finally, you notice that for being the center of a village, it is very quiet. In fact, other than the group you’re with, you haven’t seen a single other person. The stands are empty, the fountain's buckets unattended.

[9:28 PM] DM: The commoners standing around you are looking about nervously at the well-armed people standing among them.

[9:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well as much as I'd love to stay and be gawked at, I've travelin' to do. And a pint to grab."

[9:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori makes to leave, but notices the quietness is a little unsettling for a village, "It's too quiet."

[9:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak begins to leave, but as she does, Seiri's comment stops her

[9:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine approaches one of the strangers and asks "I don't mean any harm, do you know where we are?"

[9:33 PM] DM: The woman shakes her head. "No, miss. This ain't my town... I've never seen it before."

[9:32 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Just as Brimeia thinks to head back to her fight, she realizes she has no idea which way that is.

[9:33 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "How quiet is too quiet for a town of religious farmers do you reckon?"

[9:34 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak spins to face the woman "Say again?"

[9:34 PM] DM: She kind of cowers back. "I-- I said I don't know where we are?"

[9:35 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Does anyone know where we are?" Brimeia asks, puzzled

[9:35 PM] DM: "I was at home making dinner. I don't know how we got here." Some of the others come closer, agreeing with her.

[9:35 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Yep, definitely be needin' that pint about now..." Urrak says, mostly to herself

[9:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Serixori looks at the half-orc and grits her teeth, annoyed, "No town is ever this quiet if there are people living in it."

[9:35 PM] DM: A burly man with a load on his shoulder nods at one of the buildings to the north. "That'n's a pub if I ever saw one."

[9:36 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I just appeared here...I was in another town altogether when I blacked out for a moment and got a little dizzy. Now I'm here"

[9:37 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "So... None of you know the way back to Halolis then."

[9:37 PM] DM: Another man pipes up. "What's a Halolis?"

[9:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I was on my way to deliver a package to...a friend of my mother's. I don't remember falling asleep, I just woke up here. Does anybody know where we are?" Ravaphine asks the group. She then approaches the closest building to try to see any sign of identification of the strange town

[9:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia is taken aback. "You know. Halolis. The town just over... well, it's got... uh. I was fighting over there."

[9:40 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Never heard of the place, Tiefling."

[9:40 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "And I've been all over this realm"

[9:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What. What do you mean, you've never heard of it."

[9:40 PM] DM: The big one to the right north of the square looks like a tavern. It has a large sign outside of a barrel of alcohol with a large crack in it, pouring into a flagon. The words “The Cracked Cask” are carefully printed above the picture.

[9:41 PM] Aimee/Nera: While no one is coming up with any answers, Nera steals some bread from a nearby stand.

[9:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori, not wanting to hang around these strangers,  ignores the rest of the group and heads towards the temple she recognizes.

[9:42 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera, also follows Seirsklfasafdl to the temple

[9:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine follows. "Hey wait a second! You know that temple?"

[9:42 PM] DM: As you're standing around, the woman who was telling you about making dinner suddenly disappears.

[9:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, at a loss for what to do, is about to follow the others when the woman disappears. "Um... did anyone just see where that lady went?"

[9:44 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: She points at the empty space where the woman was previously

[9:44 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Don't know, don't care." Nera states plainly.

[9:44 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak, too overwhelmed by this mess, heads towards the pub. As she walks she throws up her hands and mumbles "people disappearin', tieflings talkin' combes, what in the world..."

[9:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori continues, not slowing and waits to answer, annoyed by the attention, "I know of the goddess, but nothing more."

[9:45 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I'm not too religious, but recognize the goddess of that temple. I figured it might be a good place to go until we can figure out how to get the hell out of here"

[9:46 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Since everyone seems to have abandoned the fountain, Brimeia follows the trail of others

[9:46 PM] DM: The temple is to the west, the tavern to the north.

### The Temple

[9:46 PM] DM: The local temple is a simple building made of stone and wood like the others in this area. The pillars are carved to resemble tree trunks. The large center room holds several simple wooden benches, and in the back is a room with simple beds for the clergy. Three look as though they’ve seen use recently.

[9:49 PM] DM: Ravaphine and Nera notice a bookshelf that has a handful of religious texts. They mention gods by the names of Takara, Mirran, Vydea, and Asten, among others.

[9:50 PM] DM: Anyone that recognized Takara recognize the others as a pantheon of gods mostly worshiped by the people of Vyon and Ascus.

[9:51 PM] DM: The room is otherwise unfurnished besides the books and seats. There are no people to be found.

[9:51 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "So, um... what's this place?"

[9:52 PM] Aimee/Nera: "A temple"

[9:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Temple of the agriculture and fertility goddess Takara." Seirixori says slightly distracted by the beds in the back  that look like someone was there recently.

[9:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I've seen these names before...not very common from where I'm from but my mother has books about everything. Maybe there's a map somewhere?" Ravaphine searches through the various texts

[9:53 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera searches around/under the beds for any clues

[9:55 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh." Brimeia says simply, turning from the halfling to the other tiefling. "Fertility, huh?" She smirks mischievously

[9:55 PM] DM: Ravaphine actually does manage to find something. It's just a scribble on a piece of parchment shoved into the back of a book, but it shows two roads converging at a place called Bellbury. To the west are names Grimpeak, Clearhall, and to the east, Riverrun and Muyar Harbor.

[9:55 PM] DM: None of you recognize it.

[9:55 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori completely ignores the other Tiefling.

[9:55 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Literally where the fuck are we"

[10:15 PM] DM: You walk back outside. The commoners have decided to gather around one of the stalls and snack on some of the fruit. The  large buildings to the north look like important buildings for the town, one much more nicely built than the tavern. There's an orchard to the north and a city to the south.

[10:16 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Did the orc find anything in the tavern besides a drink?"

[10:17 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Looked like a giant strolled through it. Food and drink scattered about...a true mess"

[10:17 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Not a soul inside"

[10:17 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "That's... odd."

[10:18 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye.  Seems like folk in this town are bein' shuffled about same as us"

[10:19 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I don't think we'll be findin' any answers here"

[10:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori notices smoke to the south and starts to head that way, stopping after a few feet to point it out to the rest of the group, "I believe that might be where our answers are."

[10:34 PM] DM: Once she points it out, you all can see the plume of dark purple south rising over the city to the south, down one of the wider streets.

[10:34 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Good a sign as any I suppose"

[10:35 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I'll go where the ladies are."

[10:35 PM] Aimee/Nera: "We've got nothing else to work with right now, we might as well"

[10:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: After a defeated sigh, Ravaphine follows suit with the group

[10:36 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera follows Seir toward the city

[10:36 PM] DM: As you walk down the road to the south, you see the smoke more and more clearly, and it seems to be getting thicker. The buildings are getting simpler as you travel as well.

[10:40 PM] DM: Turning the corner, you see a shift in the way the buildings look. All the others have been of the same general style, but here the buildings seem to be haphazardly styled from dwarven to gnomish to everything in between.

[10:40 PM] DM: And one of those gnomish buildings seems to be the source of that smoke. Dark gray and purple smoke fills the air above the flames that are starting to spread from one point throughout the building.

[10:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia slows for a moment as she walks. "I feel hungry. Or sick. I'm not sure"

[10:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "The smoke's getting thicker. I'm getting a bad feeling about this. Everyone stay close"

[10:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine sees the source of the flames. "Everyone, there's a fountain. We should grab a bucket of water and try to put the flames out"

[10:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine walks to the fountain and takes a bucket of water

[10:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak follows along, scooping up two buckets at once "Form a chain"

[10:46 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grabs a bucket too and follows the elf's lead.

[10:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori does as well.

[10:47 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I'll fill, and you throw"

[10:47 PM] DM: Who's going to be the closest to the flames?

[10:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine gets as close as she can to the smoke as she can, trying not to inhale the strange purple smoke, and throws the first bucket of water

[10:48 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera helps fill the buckets with water and hand them off to the heroic souls throwing water at the fire

[10:49 PM] DM: As you throw the bucket, it catches Rav off balance and she singes her arm on a piece of the burning wood. ((3 damage!))

[10:50 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, who was following close behind with a bucket, turns toward the elf with concern. "Are you alright?"

[10:50 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "MOTHERFUCKINGGODSHITFUCKDAMNFUCKWHY"

[10:50 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Surprisingly clumsy for an elf"

[10:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Hey I don't see you getting that close to the flames, you beefcake"

[10:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Because getting close to flames is obviously something you should do."

[10:52 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak pushes Ravaphine aside "I'll show you how an orc handles things"

[10:53 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: She takes the bucket of water she has in her hands and throws it towards the flames

[10:53 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: the whole bucket

[10:53 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I could take a look at that for you", she smiles at the elf

[10:53 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "You do realize there were only 2 buckets"

[10:53 PM] DM: The bucket hits the closed door, but goes straight through, splintering the charred wood.

[10:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A true orc never admits failure"

[10:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I do believe however, that these flames are insurmountable"

[10:55 PM] Aimee/Nera: "That's a big word for an orc"

[10:55 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "insur--what?"

[10:56 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I'll make you into a fine coin purse once we're out of this mess, halfling"

[10:56 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine rolls her eyes and grabs the next bucket of water to throw into the flames, standing further away this time

[10:57 PM] DM: Roll a d20

[10:57 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((18))

[10:57 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "You will do no such thing, orc." Seirixori growls.

[10:58 PM] DM: Ravaphine manages to quench all the flames at the the doorway, revealing the hole Urrak created.

[10:58 PM] DM: There is more fire further inside.(edited)

[10:59 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((how big is this opening?)

[10:59 PM] DM: It's the top half of the door. You think you could probably kick the rest of it open.

[11:00 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia leaps forward and kicks at the remains of the door.

[11:00 PM] DM: The door flies off its hinges into the flames beyond it.

[11:00 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's no repairing that."

[11:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I hope they have homeowners insurance"

[11:00 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Did we need it?"

[11:00 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aha! Now that's more like it!"

[11:01 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "It doesn't matter now."

[11:01 PM] DM: The flames look like they've gutted most of the house already, but they're mostly only in one area now. The rest of it is charcoal and crumbled wood.

[11:01 PM] DM: The flames in the center seem to be sparking purple inside the yellow and orange flames you'd expect.

[11:01 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "That's a strange looking fire"

[11:03 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori steps forward to check.

[11:03 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera inches closer

[11:03 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine warily walks inside the building to check out the flames

[11:04 PM] DM: Nera notices that the sparking is coming from  a hole in the floor and the flames are at the edges of the hole, like a ring around the sparking.

[11:04 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Lets get this damn fire out"

[11:05 PM] DM: There were several buckets.

[11:05 PM] DM: The fountain is the water source for the whole neighborhood.

[11:05 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Everyone grab a bucket!"

[11:06 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs to grab and fill a bucket, she returns soon after to throw the water on the fire

[11:06 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grabs a bucket, fills it with water, and hurls the contents toward the flames.

[11:06 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori follows suit.

[11:07 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera also drags a bucket into the building to throw water at the flames

[11:07 PM] DM: Tired, dirty, and smelling vaguely of smoke, you finally get the last of the flames out. There are a few smoldering embers here and there, but the smoke is clearing. There’s a hole in the floor of the room where the fire seemed to have started. Through the hole you can make out some kind of glowing contraption that occasionally sends sparks flying up through the hole.

[11:07 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What in the hells is that?"

[11:07 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Nera should investigate"

[11:08 PM] DM: It looks like the floor was burned away and there's a basement below.

[11:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts a light to a piece of broken floorboard

[11:12 PM] DM: You have a Light!

[11:13 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine says "fuck it" and jumps into the hole

[11:13 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera is smart and gets a rope from her bag

[11:14 PM] DM: You can see you're in a mage's workshop. There are stairs on the other end of the basement leading up to the first level.

[11:15 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak yells down the hole "You dead??"

[11:15 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Whaddya see down there?"

[11:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'M ALIVE"

[11:15 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "The elf is a madwoman..."

[11:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Jump down, Nera, i'll catch you"

[11:15 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I like her!" Brimeia beams

[11:15 PM] DM: You don't think you'd be able to tie the rope to anything sturdy enough to hold weight. The wood looks pretty fucked up.

[11:15 PM] DM: There are shelves and benches full of arcane and metallic contraptions and books. Most of them are in pieces, some half built, some half un-built, some appear to have been blown up. Against the wall on the far side is one of the latter. A huge scorch mark marks the wall in the shape of an archway, but whatever once stood in that space is gone. Only a base remains, about four feet wide and two feet deep, made of a metal that seems to shimmer through the different colors of the rainbow. All of this, however, comes secondary to the body lying between you and it.

[11:16 PM] DM: Um, but pretend you're on the base, not on the other side of the room because you didn't find the STAIRS. lol

[11:15 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera puts the rope back in her bag and shouts into the hole "WHAT DO YOU SEE DOWN THERE?"

[11:16 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori leans over, "Do you see another way down?"

[11:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I see stairs! across the way"

[11:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "They lead down here"

[11:17 PM] DM: When you look in that direction, you see some collapsed wood, but it looks like you might be able to move it out of the way.

[11:18 PM] DM: The debris is blocking the stairs.

[11:19 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera realizes this isn't going to work and decides to jump down too

[11:20 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Hey Ravaphine, catch me!"

[11:21 PM] DM: Nera also sticks the landing.

[11:20 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori heads to where the stairs are to try and move the debris.

[11:20 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Here, I'll lend you a hand with that"

[11:20 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak also goes to move the debris

[11:20 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia strolls over and grabs the largest piece

[11:21 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak goes to help Brimeia

[11:21 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera goes to inspect the body

[11:21 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine also goes to inspect the body

[11:22 PM] DM: After several minutes of coaxing the debris away, you finally get the stairs clear enough to squeeze through.

[11:22 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Took you guys long enough to get down here"

[11:22 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak joins in the inspecting of the body

[11:22 PM] DM: The body is that of a gnome in wizard’s robes. His face and clothes show evidence that he was close to the contraption when it exploded, and he was killed by fire and shrapnel. However, despite the clutter atop the benches, none of it looks like shrapnel from this explosion. The floor is clutter-free.

[11:23 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia edges cautiously down the stairs. This magic stuff is weird

[11:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ain't like you can lift a beam, small fry"

[11:23 PM] DM: When you roll the body over, you notice there is an item clutched in his hand.

[11:23 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori heads down and stands near the body looking about.

[11:24 PM] DM: The item is about a foot long, metallic, and has runes etched into it. The color of the metal shimmers like the piece of metal under the scorch mark, alternating faint colors. At one end, there’s a hollow end covered in tinted glass, and at the other, a button covered with a flip-top shield to prevent it from being accidentally triggered.

[11:26 PM] DM: It's shimmering, not glowing. Like it's made of some very strange material.

[11:26 PM] DM: Reflecting the light.

[11:28 PM] DM: Ravaphine, you don't know exactly what it's for, other than it's some sort of control for whatever that archway was, but being a wizard, you know there's probably some sort of blueprints or instructions somewhere in the lab.

[11:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine goes to inspect the bookshelves

[11:29 PM] DM: The difference between magic and madness is writing it down, after all.

[11:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Not knowing what the dead gnome is holding, Seirixori starts looking around to see if there's anything useful to her.

[11:29 PM] DM: You find several hand-written journals on the bench closest to the explosion. They seem to be relatively free of damage, saved by the covers of the books. The loose paper on the table is charred and singed along the edges.

[11:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak knowing nothing of magic, searches around for anything shiny enough to seem important

[11:30 PM] DM: The books seem to have been written by a wizard named Poni, formerly of the Ebedine College of Wizardry, or at least that’s what’s written in the front cover with the college’s name scratched out. They detail the the ideas, building, and testing of many contraptions and machines. Most of them have scribbles and other marks across the entirety of pages. Several say “BLEW UP.” On one page, you see a diagram of what looks like the stick you’re holding.

> *Need a way to control it. A control rod. A button to start it up and send me and anyone I’m touching through. How to direct it? Coordinates? A sensor plate at the other end. What will work? (Try coordinates, names, personal items of people to find)*
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> *Rod blew out again. I’m running out of the crystals I’m using. Only two left. I think I know what caused it though. Should be fixed this time for good.*
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> *Success! I managed to teleport back to my room at the college and get my last few books. You should’ve seen the look on that evoker apprentice’s face when I popped in right in front of him. Pale as a sheet! I got the last few components I’ll need for the big test. I still need to figure out a way to direct the teleportation when it’s not a place I’ve been.*
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> *Today’s the day. Going to try to travel through the dimensional barrier. Eloise has been bugging me, telling me to stop. She doesn’t understand! This could change everything! But you’ll see Eloise. You and that asshole Qarius. I’m going to be famous!*
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[11:30 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia looks around cautiously

[11:31 PM] DM: There's a lot of shiny stuff in here, but a lot of it is also disfigured or half exploded.

[11:31 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak picks up the rod and inspects it

[11:31 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Strangest thing I've ever seen..."

[11:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "everyone, I think I found an explaination as to why people have been disappearing and reappearing..."

[11:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak only half hears Ravaphine, mumbling to herself "Looks to have a switch or button of some sort on it"

[11:33 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Oi, wizard! What'll happen should I press this here button?"

[11:33 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Well can you get us back, Ravaphine?"

[11:33 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I wouldn't flip that switch if I were you. Unless you want to end up in the middle of some rainforest or...dead"

[11:34 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye...don't have t' tell me twice..."

[11:35 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak hands the rod to Ravaphine, "might be needin' this, if you really know what's happenin'"

[11:35 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Those crystals that we saw, this wizard used them for teleportation. I wonder if I can set up coordinates to send us all back home"

[11:36 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "...Is that thing what blew up?"

[11:36 PM] DM: You notice a seam in the rod where the two ends can screw apart.

[11:37 PM] DM: It's still whole. You can open it.

[11:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine carefully twists open the rod

[11:37 PM] DM: There's a small, clouded blue crystal inside that looks like it's seen better days.

[11:38 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Looks t' me like it needs a change a' batteries"

[11:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Will somebody help me find any writing about blue crystals in these books? We need to find more"

[11:40 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "IF one must." Seirixori helps

[11:40 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak goes to comb through the books

[11:40 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine goes to the bookshelf and tries to find notes about the blue crystals

[11:40 PM] DM: The books mentioned the crystals.

[11:40 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera also looks through the books

[11:41 PM] DM: Seirixori spots a small wooden box tucked between some of the books.

[11:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "They won't blow up on us will they?"

[11:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I can't promise that, but we just need to find more crystals"

[11:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori picks up the box and opens it.

[11:41 PM] DM: You find two brightly colored blue, translucent crystals.

[11:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grimaces as she picks up a book from a shelf

[11:42 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I believe this is what we wanted, yes?" She holds out the open box

[11:42 PM] DM: The rest of you can see bits and pieces here and there that look vaguely like they make sense, a clockwork item here, a recharging rod there, but all of them have been tampered with or twisted. They have added bits and pieces on them like they were part of an experiment that probably failed if it was ever completed. You can’t really decipher a meaning to any of these additions. They almost seem random.

[11:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine furiously thumbs through the notes to see if the gnome has a written solution about what caused the previous explosions

[11:44 PM] DM: Each one is different, each time "fixed" by something new.

[11:44 PM] DM: This is the first time the entire contraption blew up.

[11:45 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Those look to be the same kind of crystals that rod used  up. What say you, Ravaphine? Switch 'em out and start this contraption"

[11:45 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ain't like we've much else to try"

[11:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Would that be wise? It did start this fire, and this gnome is dead."

[11:46 PM] Aimee/Nera: "But if this contraption is what brought us here, maybe it can get us back"

[11:46 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I'd rather not die in a magical explosion. Regular ones are fine though."

[11:47 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Hand the thing to me and I'll show you how an orc confronts problems"

[11:47 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak extends a hand

[11:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "By destroying things?"

[11:47 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I wouldn't trust an orc to take out the trash, let alone with my life"

[11:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'd rather us be safe than sorry"

[11:48 PM] DM: For what it's worth, it was what was on the base that exploded, some sort of archway is singed into the wall. The rod looks whole and unharmed.

[11:49 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Either we stand around in a blown out basement lab of a mad gnome, or  we get outta here. Magic or no."

[11:50 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I for one, would rather not be around a corpse for much longer"

[11:51 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Fair enough."

[11:51 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Ravaphine, just fix the thing and push the button, will ya?"

[11:51 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "For once I agree with the Halfling"

[11:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I think the base is what he was using to teleport? the rod is the trigger" Ravaphine tries to find any rhyme or reason of how to input the coordinates

[11:53 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine replaces the diamond on the rod

[11:53 PM] DM: The book mentions using the hollow end to input coordinates, but he wasn't very clear.

[11:53 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "okay everyone, on the platform"

[11:53 PM] DM: The platform's not big enough to stand on.

[11:54 PM] DM: When you replace the crystal and screw the rod back together, you hear a loud gasp. “Who in the nine Hells are you?”

## Session 2

Before you can answer, Brimea and Seirixori both vanish into thin air and a dragonborn in chain mail and a half-elf playing a lute appear in the basement with you.

[8:22 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar slowly lowers his hands from their previous clasped moon-prayer position and tilts his silver-scaled head to one side as he regards the room. "Curious..." he whispers with only the barest hint of an ever-present growl.

[8:22 PM] DM: The lute player stops mid-strum and looks around the room. "What--?"

[8:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak is surprised to the point of shell shock at this point, offering a meek greeting. "W...Well met. Welcome to...this basement"

[8:24 PM] DM: The voice: "What do you mean welcome? This is MY basement, you overgrown cabbage!"

[8:24 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera jumps back, startled by the new appearances. "What--what happened? Where's Brimea and Sei?" She approaches Ravaphine and points at her accusingly. "What did you do?!"

[8:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine hides the rod behind her and asks "who are you and who is this?" while pointing to the body on the ground

[8:25 PM] DM: The voice: “Why are you in my house? Dear gods, is that a body? IS THAT MY BODY? Oh nononononononono… what happened? MY QUANTUMRIFTSHIFTSLIPSTREAMTELETRANSMITTER! Wait, why can’t I— ”

[8:25 PM] DM: "What have I done? What have you done?"

[8:26 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "All we did was put out a very large, possi'bly magic fire! And...fiddle a bit with this rod contraption"

[8:28 PM] DM: Ok, you all realize that the voice seems to be coming from the rod itself.

[8:29 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Are--are you dead?" Nera waves a hand in front of the rod. "How can you see anything in there?"

[8:29 PM] fritos - Dekar: "Oh dear..." Dekar quickly kneels before the body and gives it a look-over, sparing only a side-acknowledgment of the unusual rod and its disembodied voice.

[8:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "The damn thing's haunted too?"

[8:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine hands the rod to Urrak. "what the fuck"

[8:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A-and what makes y' think I want to hold this...this...thing"

[8:30 PM] DM: The rod: "Do I look dea--- never mind, clearly I do. Something about the explosion must have... shifted my consciousness into the control rod."

[8:31 PM] DM: "Hey! Gentle! That's me you're manhandling about!"

[8:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Why are we all here? What were you doing last before the fire?"

[8:31 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I'll hold it then!" Nera says, and snatches the rod from Urrak. "Can't trust an orc with anything," she grumbles under her breath.

[8:31 PM] DM: "Ha! Too true. I like you, halfling."

[8:31 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak grumbles and folds her arms

[8:32 PM] DM: "I was so close to perfecting the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter and now look at it. Well.. you'll just have to help me fix it, yes? I'm sure at least one of you is bright enough to follow directions, right?"

[8:32 PM] DM: "Wait, you never answered me. Why are you in my house?"

[8:32 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera immediately points at Ravaphine. "She'd be the one to help you with that magic wumbo jumbo"

[8:33 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "An' we came here lookin' for answers. All of us were poofed here outta the blue"

[8:33 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I found your notes, notes about transporting to a location you never been.  Where were you going?" Ravaphine asks the rod, wondering why she was speaking to an inanimate object

[8:34 PM] DM: Dekar- you look at the body and see a gnome, his face and body evidently marred by explosion and shrapnel, but there's none to be seen in the room itself. He is dead.

[8:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What do we have to do to go back home? We just want to go back home, but we are here"

[8:34 PM] Aimee/Nera: "This place was on fire! We saved you technically, uhh Rod? What can we call you?" Nera holds up the rod and looks at it questioningly

[8:35 PM] DM: "I was trying to jump through the dimensional barrier to a plane parallel to this one."

[8:35 PM] DM: "My name is Jebeddo Filchbatter Ku Ponivindel Boddynock Oneshoe Ningel, but you can call me Poni. And, well, to get home, you'll have to help me fix my Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter."

[8:36 PM] DM: "You say it 'poofed' you here? Ugh, couldn't have brought me competent arcanists who know the terminology, could it?"

[8:37 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I ain't no wizard. I've better things t' do than pour over tomes all day"

[8:37 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "But I'm sure someone 'ere can help ye"

[8:37 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I'm no wizard either, but we really did just appear here. I went dizzy for a spell and suddenly I was in this unfamiliar place surrounded by strangers"

[8:37 PM] fritos - Dekar: "Well, I don't have all my materials at hand, but I suppose I can make do..." Dekar begins reciting something of a requiem for the deceased, hands clasped a few inches above the body. Lots of references to the moon lighting his path and stars pointing the way and such.

[8:38 PM] DM: "I'm not dead, you fool. I'm right here."

[8:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We can fix it, but you need to tell us what caused the previous rods to blow up. And watch it, orc, or else I'll send you over to the next dimension" Ravaphine says as she pokes the Urrak in the chest with the rod

[8:38 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera snatches the rod back from Ravaphine. "I thought you didn't want to hold it"

[8:38 PM] DM: "Gentle! Please!"

[8:38 PM] Aimee/Nera: "You look pretty dead to me, Poni"

[8:39 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar blinks an eye open, mid-recitation. "One thing at a time, friend. Allow me to guide your earthly body on its journey elsewhere."

[8:40 PM] DM: "The old problems were fixed. I won't know what caused this one until we put it back togeth-- do you feel that? That kind of fuzzy feeling? Like skin crawling or nausea? Well... if I still had skin or a stomach."

[8:40 PM] DM: "Oh no... no no no... The explosion… it destabilized the envirochronic resonance architecture. We’ll have to fix the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter so we can stabilize the area again. Otherwise, who knows what will happen!”

[8:41 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "An' how do we set upon doing that, ya phantom?"

[8:41 PM] DM: "First we have to find the components. Oy, lift me up a bit, will you?"

[8:42 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Afraid that's as tall as she gets"

[8:42 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera holds the rod over her head (a whole four feet in the air) with a frown. "What are the components?"

[8:42 PM] DM: "Did you all clean up in here? Where are the pieces?"

[8:43 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We've only touched the platform 'ere, and a few books"

[8:44 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, is your teletransmitter able to accommodate the mass of multiple people"

[8:44 PM] Aimee/Nera: "We did also put out the fire. So we technically cleaned up a little"

[8:45 PM] DM: "It should be able to, yes. Ugh. This is terrible. The pieces must have gone through the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter. We’ll have to go get them.”

[8:45 PM] DM: "You'll all have to help me. I don't exactly have hands anymore."

[8:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Sounds like a hell of a scavenger hunt..."

[8:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can y' tell where they are?"

[8:48 PM] DM: A couple lights on the rod seem to flash a bit. "Oh! Well... that's convenient. Now that I am the rod, I can understand it better. Yes, I can find them... or at least come close. And I can just direct the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter where I want it to go without worrying about... hmmm... ok, let's try this. When you want to use the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter, you push the button."

[8:49 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well, Half-pint? I say give it a go."

[8:49 PM] DM: "WAIT! Not yet, you impatient cabbage. There’s rules."

[8:49 PM] Aimee/Nera: "This is why I took the rod from the orc"

[8:50 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A'course, it's never easy...well what kind rules might there be?"

[8:50 PM] DM: "Anyone who wants to be teleported has to be connected to me through touch. Touch each other. Don’t touch me. Your hands are filthy. That goes both ways. You push the button to come back here and someone’s not touching? They’ll be trapped there. Well… until they pop back home. I wonder if that works. Hmm. Would they pop home or here? Would they pop at all? Anyone want to try an experiment? You might be trapped forever, but knowledge is its own reward! Right! Anyway, hold on to one another and push the button and I’ll take you to where the component is. We find it, pop back here, put the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter back together and…. Well, I’ll figure it out from there. All understood? Nod your heads if you understand. I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.”

[8:51 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak nods and crouches to put a hand on Nera's head

[8:51 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar stands, brushing nonexistent dust from his chain mail, and gives a firm nod. "I don't know what all this is but, knowledge is its own reward..."

[8:51 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: she mumbles to herself " 'S like an apple..."

[8:51 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "so small..."

[8:52 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Gerroff!" Nera grumbles. "Not my head you..." she curses under her breath

[8:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "and you are sure this....teleporting will not combine our body particles and we will stay separated during transport?" Ravaphine asks before reaching out towards the group with hesitation(edited)

[8:52 PM] DM: The man with the lute looks around and says, "This looks like the beginning to an interesting story. Think I'll tag along too." He puts his hand on the dragonborn's shoulder.

[8:52 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Is everybody ready?" Nera asks.

[8:52 PM] DM: "Should be fine. Let's try this out. Ready when you are! Push the button, then put me through the archway."

[8:52 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye! Lets!"

[8:54 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Oh sweet mama moonbow, here we go" Ravaphine crouches and puts her hands on Nera's shoulder

[8:55 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar grasps the half-orc's shoulder in his dragon-y hand, mindful of his claws.

[8:56 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Oh gods, please let me not die," Nera mutters. She flips open the protective cover, closes her eyes, and pushes the button.

[8:57 PM] DM: When you push the button, the space above the base fizzles to life. There's a sort of wild energy around the edges, but it is roughly the shape of the archway seared into the wall behind it. Through the portal, you can see a forest.

[8:57 PM] DM: "Now you should be able to just send me through and the rest of you will follow. But make sure you hold onto me!"

[8:58 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera holds onto the rod for dear life, gripping with both hands

[8:59 PM] DM: "You don't need to hold so tight. Just stick out your hand and put me through the portal."

[9:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Take my hand, Nera. Everyone, take each other's hand...or dragon claw and make sure to not let go as you're walking through the portal"

[9:01 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Okay, okay! Yeesh, I've never intentionally traveled dimensions before, don't blame me for being nervous." She takes a deep breath and sticks her hand through the portal

[9:01 PM] DM: Once Poni passes through the plane of the portal, your surroundings instantly change from Poni’s basement workshop to a forested area. You’re standing on an overgrown path that must have been a road at some point. There’s forest to  both sides of the path and the road curves so you can’t see more than a hundred feet in either direction. Perception checks, please.

[9:01 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak grips the dragonborn's clawed hand and follows

[9:04 PM] DM: “Alright now. Look for the component. It’s shiny. Shouldn’t be too hard to spot in all this green, even for you.”

[9:06 PM] DM: You don't see anything that resembles technology or shiny metal.

[9:06 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar's keen eyes spot something, and he kneels to graze a claw over the forest path. "Someone's been here...a lot of them, recently..."(edited)

[9:07 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can ye tell what?"

[9:07 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Or...whom?"

[9:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: On her knees and looking between the bushes, Ravaphine notices soft soil "there's a path, down here. footprints"

[9:09 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera stays back, keeping the rod safe

[9:09 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "from the looks a these, seems like a big group of folks come through, had a scuffle, and ran off"

[9:10 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "No more'n 7 men I reckon, tho probably less. Hard to tell with them all jumbled like this."

[9:10 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "They went south"

[9:10 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "What say ye? Seems t' me we should follow"

[9:11 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar glances around, then nods. "No better option than to pursue them, it seems..."

[9:12 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera sighs and grumbles "Fine, I guess we have no other choice."

[9:13 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Maybe they saw the pieces laying about"

[9:22 PM] DM: Continuing! You're getting ready to march south when suddenly an elf pops into view next to Nera.

[9:22 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Who the fuck"

[9:23 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar taps a claw against his chin-scales. "Poni wasn't kidding about the popping in and out..."

[9:23 PM] DM: The half-elf: "Does this happen often?"

[9:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Too often, friend"

[9:25 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Might we ask your name, stranger?"

[9:28 PM] DM: Half-elf: "Me? Beiro... or that one? I don't know that one."

[9:28 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "S'pose both a you..."

[9:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Too many elves t'keep track of..." Urrak mumbles to herself

[9:29 PM] DM: "And you? You look the heroic sort. Think you might be the star of the song I'll write. What's the name, beautiful?"

[9:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Urrak. Of the D'Akshi stronghold"

[9:30 PM] DM: He nods. "Urrak. I can rhyme with that. And the rest of you?"

[9:30 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "My name be my own business till i'm certain of yours." Martyn says.

[9:30 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Nera. And this rod i'm holding is Poni"

[9:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Ravaphine...we're all trying to get to the bottom of this"

[9:31 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar gives as much of a bow as he can when armored. "I am Dekar, faithful of Selune."

[9:31 PM] DM: "Ravaphine? That might be harder. We'll work on it though." He starts mumbling some lyrics under his breath about footprints and half-orc trackers.

[9:32 PM] DM: Poni: "CAN WE GET ON WITH IT?"

[9:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well at least now we've some entertainment on this wild goose chase..."

[9:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Come, the tracks continue south"(edited)

[9:33 PM] DM: Ok! You all head south?

[9:33 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: ((ya!))

[9:39 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Whoa hold up everyone," Nera says and stops in her tracks

[9:39 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "What d'you see, Ner?"

[9:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "This was a bad idea"

[9:39 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar stops and squints slightly. "Smoke."

[9:39 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Yep"

[9:39 PM] DM: There's a bit of smoke rising over the trees in the direction of the road's curve.

[9:40 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "No water buckets this time"

[9:40 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Don't stand s'close  and it won't be an issue" Urrak chuckles

[9:40 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Do you think it's a fire or that the  group we're tracking made camp somewhere?"

[9:41 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Smoke's too thin to be a bonfire. perhaps a camp." Martyn says

[9:41 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Only one way t'find out"

[9:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "or a distress signal"

[9:41 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I'll go see what's going on."

[9:42 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Godspeed, small fry"

[9:42 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Thanks, big fry"

[9:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "lay low...well I guess you already are"

[9:42 PM] DM: Nera practically melts into the shadows at the edge of the clearing and moves forward.

[9:42 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak laughs, despite herself. "One brave critter, that one"

[9:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I hope she's okay"

[9:47 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, she'll be fine. Y'don't survive with a mouth like hers without bein' strong and quick"

[9:48 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "In the meantime, we wait. But somethin' tells me not to let our guards down"

[9:48 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak pulls her greatsword from it's sheath and readies it

[9:48 PM] DM: A bird takes flight from the bushes near you.

[9:48 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Does that something warrant a search of the immediate area? Or do we just act like stupid ground animals and eagerly drop our paws into the trap." Martyn asks.

[9:49 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak turns to the bushes, both hands gripping her sword tightly

[9:49 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar quietly watches the bird while pulling his shield, adorned with the symbol of Selune, from his back.

[9:49 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: martyn draws his short-bow and knocks an arrow.

[9:49 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Ok guys I'm back"

[9:50 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Nine hells! Y'scared us"

[9:50 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Good"

[9:50 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "What's the word?"

[9:50 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Speak for yourself, i was bored."(edited)

[9:50 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Enough of this, what did you see, Nera?"

[9:51 PM] Aimee/Nera: "So there's a camp over there. About five guys around a fire, and another person who looked more like a prisoner. Bag over their head, shackled, the whole enchilada. Wait, do they have enchiladas on this plane?"

[9:52 PM] Aimee/Nera: "ANYWAY, it looked like they might have the component we're looking for. Couldn't quite figure out what it was."

[9:52 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well alright then. No more standin' around."

[9:52 PM] Aimee/Nera: "WAIT"

[9:53 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I also spotted a bear trap guarding their camp, so we have to be careful about how we approach this!"

[9:53 PM] fritos - Dekar: "A prisoner? Well, we must help them by any means."

[9:53 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can y'use yer little hands to disarm it?"

[9:53 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "It'd be a shame if you lot were unprepared for traps." Martyn says, and shrugs the bow to his back. "Too bad no one else thought to bring tools to disarm such devices."

[9:53 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I don't know how to disarm bear traps! I know how to avoid them."

[9:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well I agree with the Dragonborn, ain't no man should be another's prisoner."

[9:55 PM] Aimee/Nera: "I think we should try to ambush them. They don't know we're here, so we can take them by surprise."

[9:55 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Now there's a plan I can get behind!"

[9:55 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Nera, what of their numbers? How were they armed? Were they alert or at ease at the end of the day?"

[9:56 PM] fritos - Dekar: Dekar looks a little forlorn. "I wouldn't be much use in stealthy maneuvers, I'm afraid. Not the...most nimble of foot."

[9:56 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "You said that there were five men? There are five us, but one of us has to  secure the component and the prisoner"

[9:56 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "You n' me dragonborn, we can go in and distract 'em, and then the others can come in all stealthy-like"

[9:57 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "and the other elf, but he's no help"

[9:57 PM] Aimee/Nera: "They were all armoured, in leather," Nera mutters. She closes her eyes, trying to visualize the campsite. "I think there were some crossbows and scimitars, but I don't remember how many or who had them."

[9:57 PM] DM: Beiro: "Five? There's six of us, dear lady."

[9:57 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "I strive never to agree with an orc on any level, but she's dangerously close to talking sense."

[9:58 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We can make as much noise as need be, and the rest of ye can disarm 'em"(edited)

[9:58 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Urrak, do you think you could step lightly enough to come at them from the south? we'll push in from the north and hit them when they're not looking."

[9:59 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Anythin's worth tryin'"

[9:59 PM] fritos - Dekar: poof goes Dekar into thin air suddenly!

[10:00 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ah well...I suppose I can make enough noise for the two of us."

[10:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine stumbles back a bit "I've seen many types of magic but this is one kind I will never be used to"

[10:02 PM] DM: Beiro: "Well that will make things harder. No worries! I'll give us a little diddy to help us along." He sings "Urrak, the giant Urrak, with a strong back... she'll make your neck crack..." He's not very good... but Urrak has inspiration. You can add a d6 to any one d20 roll in the next 10 minutes.

[10:03 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak moves to begin her assault from the south "Let's get that component!"

[10:03 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Aye," Nera nods, ready to sneak up on the enemy

[10:03 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Right then," Martyn again draws his bow.

[10:04 PM] DM: Everyone but Urrak notices that the trees here are oddly close together. You don't think you'll be able to squeeze through them except for Nera. She might be able to.

[10:04 PM] DM: They are practically a wall made of living trees.

[10:05 PM] DM: The whole forest, except the path and the clearing.

[10:05 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Okay, so I'll sneak up from behind, Urrak can distract from the front (but don't engage), and we'll both attack, and everyone can join in."

[10:05 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera draws her rapier

[10:05 PM] DM: You can enter from the path Nera found, but you'll have to avoid the trap.

[10:06 PM] Aimee/Nera: "Just step over the bear trap and distract them until I have a chance to attack"

[10:06 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, let's do this"

[10:08 PM] DM: You can see the trap, now that you know where to look. It's right in the small path on the way into the clearing. You will need to roll an acrobatics or athletics check to avoid it.

[10:08 PM] DM: Nera, because they're invested in their revelry, you are unnoticed at the north end of the camp.

[10:24 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera steps into the clearing a bit, still hidden behind the tent, and grabs an arrow from her quiver. She nocks it on her shortbow, aims at the closest man, and fires

[10:27 PM] DM: Nera's arrow streaks out from behind the tent and straight into the back of the man's neck. He slumps over, instantly killed by the severing of his spine.

[10:28 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs full force at the trap and leaps over it

[10:29 PM] DM: Urrak trips, but manages to avoid triggering the trap by hopping. You can move only half distance.

[10:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak roars at the top of her lungs at the men, sword drawn(edited)

[10:34 PM] DM: Ok! They can't take any actions until their turn, so now we start at the top of initiative order. Back to Nera.

[10:39 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera retreats back into the trees to hide

[10:40 PM] DM: Ok! Everyone's so focused on the massive half-orc that nobody sees you duck back into the shadows.

[10:40 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera breathes a silent sigh of relief

[10:42 PM] DM: The humans go next. They look at the orc and at their dead friend and one of them looks like he might run, but he'd have to run PAST the orc, so he doesn't. He runs behind the boxes to the east and fires his crossbow at Urrak.

[10:43 PM] DM: Ok, so the bolt flies right past your ear whizz but misses.

[10:44 PM] DM: The one closest to you tries to back away, but falls prone and tries to scoot away.

[10:44 PM] DM: The last two stand and draw their scimitars.

[10:48 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine readies herself to jump over the bear trap

[10:49 PM] DM: You make it!

[10:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: She then casts a fire bolt to the closest man

[10:54 PM] DM: That hits! A streak of fire shoots out from your fingertips and hits him square in the chest!

[10:57 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn sets off the bear trap with an arrow, and rushes past into the clearing,

[10:59 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: He takes aim at one of the standing men and shoots at him with an arrow

[11:01 PM] DM: Ok! Your arrow thunks into a spot on his shoulder that wasn't covered by the leather armor and he staggers a bit from the force.

[11:02 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs at the man that was just arrow'd and swings her greatsword at him

[11:04 PM] DM: Urrak's sword comes down on that shoulder and cleaves straight through, causing the man to buckle to the ground like a bleeding sack of potatoes.

[11:06 PM] DM: Beiro's turn! He enters the clearing and you hear him just ripping off insults. "You coward! Your mother would be ashamed of you sitting back there hiding behind those boxes! You lily-livered asshole. You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that thing!"

[11:08 PM] DM: The man behind the boxes grabs his head in pain as if the insults are actually hurting him.

[11:11 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera creeps out of the shadows again and flings an arrow at the man standing next to her first kill

[11:13 PM] DM: The arrow flies out of the shadows and plunks right into his back. He yells in pain, but is still standing.

[11:15 PM] DM: The one with an arrow in his back is pissed. He turns towards Nera and tries to hit her with his scimitar.

[11:15 PM] DM: Lucky for her, he can't quite get there.

[11:17 PM] DM: The one that's prone uses his action to stand up and moves away.

[11:17 PM] DM: And the one behind the boxes fires another bolt at Urrak and misses again.

[11:18 PM] DM: You have one close to you wounded who appears to be trying to escape, one hiding behind boxes in front of you attacking Urrak, and one chasing Nera into the tent area.

[11:18 PM] DM: All three are hurting.

[11:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine approaches the man with an arrow in his back, and casts another fire bolt to his back

[11:26 PM] DM: That hits! You just barely miss the protruding arrow, though, but it would've been awesome if it had lit up too.

[11:26 PM] DM: He's still standing.

[11:27 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn starts across the clearing, knocks another arrow, and fires at the man rushing towards Nera

[11:29 PM] DM: Nice! Your arrow streaks past Ravaphine and catches the man right between two of his ribs. He falls to his face, dead.

[11:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs towards the man farthest to the right, the one who was prone, and slashes at him with her greatsword

[11:32 PM] DM: You run the kid through, pinning his body to the ground with your sword.

[11:34 PM] DM: Beiro's turn, he's going to enter the clearing and play a tune Ravaphine to give her inspiration a d6 to add to any d20 roll in the next 10 minutes.

[11:37 PM] Aimee/Nera: Nera runs past the body, grabs the arrow she stuck in his back, and shoots it at the man cowering behind the boxes

[11:38 PM] DM: Ok! Your arrow hits him in the shoulder!

[11:38 PM] DM: His turn, so he's going to turn towards you and try to get you back since Urrak's a terrible target.

[11:38 PM] DM: And he's going to miss. That shoulder pain.

[11:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine sprints towards and jumps on the crates to the last man, and bludgeons him with her quarterstaff

[11:48 PM] DM: Ravaphine swings and misses, her staff thumping off the barrel next to him.

[11:50 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn crosses the clearing behind Revaphine, and when the swing misses, he fires an arrow into the last man

[11:56 PM] DM: Unfortunately, your arrow just misses him.

[11:57 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak sprints towards the man and slashes at him with her greatsword

[11:58 PM] DM: And he splatters across the barrels and Ravaphine's boots.

[11:58 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak raises her sword above her head and lets out a loud victorious roar

[11:58 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "These were my only pair of shoes..."

[11:59 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak smacks Ravaphine on the back lightly "They're true warrior's boots now!"

[12:00 AM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Unbeknownst to Ravaphine she leaves a slight bloody hand print on the back of her.

## Session 3

Nera and Martyn both poofed out of existence and Poni is now lying in the grass next to one of the tents.

[8:18 PM] DM: Ravaphine, Urrak and Beiro are standing there in the clearing with five dead humans and a captive.

[8:19 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak rips a scrap of cloth off the dead man's tunic and cleans her sword before placing back in it's scabbard, a giant grin plastered on her face. "Now THAT is what I been waitin' for!"

[8:21 PM] DM: Beiro: "Truly that was an impressive display of strength, Lady Urrak."

[8:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine sighs and attempts to wipe off all the blood with no avail

[8:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'll try to look for the missing component, do you want to check on the hostages?"

[8:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "This sword's never done me wrong." Urrak walks over to Poni and picks him up. "Aye, I'll check out the prisoner"

[8:23 PM] DM: Poni: "Just be gentle, you giant."

[8:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak walks over to the captured man and removes the hood from his head

[8:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Oi, y'alright?"

[8:24 PM] DM: Ravaphine finds the component easily. It was sitting at the campfire, dropped by a startled man when Urrak charged in.

[8:24 PM] DM: When you pull the hood off, you see a human woman, probably about forty, with a gag in her mouth. There's rope around her ankles and shackles at her wrists.

[8:25 PM] DM: The woman flinches when she sees you.

[8:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine picks up the component and walks over to Urrak and the woman

[8:25 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Hey there, it's alright. I ain't gonna hurtcha lest ye give me reason to. Lemme undo these ropes then."

[8:26 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak uses her dagger to cut the ropes and offers her waterskin to the woman

[8:26 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Y'look like you've been through the wringer, friend."

[8:27 PM] DM: You take the ropes from her ankles and the gag from her mouth, but the shackles remain. "Who are you?"

[8:27 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Urrak of the D'akshi stronghold. Hmm I cannae break these chains without hurtin' ya. Rava, can y' use some kind of spell to free her?"

[8:27 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Doubt we'll find a key in this mess...."

[8:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I am ravaphine, we're here to help you. I don't have any tools, but maybe we can break the chains?"

[8:31 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak cracks her knuckles. "I s'pose I can try an' snap em"

[8:32 PM] DM: Beiro: "Unfortunately I lack the tools to do so as well."

[8:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "while you do that, i'll try to see if i can find keys in any of their dead body pockets"

[8:33 PM] DM: Urrak takes the shackles in either hand and tries to rip them apart, but after straining for a minute, she realizes she's not getting anywhere.

[8:33 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Blast. These be some strong bonds."

[8:34 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak joins Ravaphine in looking for a key

[8:35 PM] DM: You find 10 gold, but no keys.

[8:35 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Bloody mess this is..."

[8:35 PM] DM: Beiro: "What about the tents?"

[8:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let's head to the tents"

[8:37 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, a good plan."

[8:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We will be right back so we can unlock these chains for you"

[8:39 PM] DM: Ok! Ravaphine looks through some of the tents and finds 5 gold and the keys. Urrak finds a pair of bone dice that look like they might fetch a nice price.

[8:39 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A little somthin' fer my trouble"

[8:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Found some keys!!!" Ravaphine heads over to the woman and asks before unlocking the chains, "are you okay? what happened before these men captured you?

[8:42 PM] DM: She relaxes a little seeing an elf helping instead of the giant. "I was in town, looking to buy some meat when all of a sudden I wasn’t. I was on a road I ain’t seen before and that thing was sitting in the middle of the road, smoking.” She points at the component piece. “I picked it up, figured it might be important or expensive. Then these assholes came and grabbed me.”

[8:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine looks at the component piece and nervously places it in her bag. "Ill be sure to be careful with this. I guess we're all in the same boat then, just trying to get out of here. It's okay, my team and I...okay mostly the orc, took care of the men who captured you" She then helps the woman out of the chains.

[8:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye that I did!" Urrak laughs a little louder than what is probably appropriate(edited)

[8:46 PM] DM: Poni: “Yeah, yeah, this is great. Wonderful. Are you done with the meet and greet? I was hoping the pieces would be bigger so we wouldn’t have to find as many. This is just… terrific. AND now it looks like the stupid people of that stupid town got sent with the pieces. Wonderful.”

[8:46 PM] DM: The woman looks around with a scowl. “Is that that creepy little gnome I hear? Where’s he at? This is all your fault, isn’t it? Dafyn said you were up to no good.”

[8:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Who..is Dafyn?"

[8:48 PM] DM: Captive: "Dafyn works the farm with me."

[8:49 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well we're no friends of this fellow. We can here, same as you. From outta nowhere."

[8:49 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, how many more pieces are there?"

[8:49 PM] DM: Poni: "Why do you think I know? More than three. That's for sure. We've got the piece. Let's get going."

[8:50 PM] DM: Captive: "Where are we?"

[8:50 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Now that's a good question...."

[8:50 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I never got your name" Ravaphine asks the stranger.

[8:50 PM] DM: "Name's Lin."

[8:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Lin, do you know of any of the places on this map?" she pulls out the map piece that was found back at the temple to show Lin

[8:52 PM] DM: "Aye. I'm from Bellbury."

[8:53 PM] DM: She points at the center of the map.

[8:54 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Well, we have to find more components like the one you found before, and then we can all head back home. Shall we continue into the town?"(edited)

[8:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We should bring her back there, to her home"

[8:55 PM] DM: Poni: "There was only the one here. We'll have to go back to Bellbury and use the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter to go to the next one."

Lin: "Speak Common, Gnome."

[8:55 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ha! I like 'er"

[8:56 PM] DM: She frowns and sidesteps away from you.

[8:56 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I guess we're going back to Bellbury. Everyone, grab onto my shoulders. Poni, can you take us back?"

[8:57 PM] DM: Poni: "Yes, yes. Clearly I have to get used to repeating myself. Everyone has to touch, then you push the button."(edited)

[8:57 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak places a hand on Ravaphine's shoulder

[8:58 PM] DM: Beiro puts his hand on Urrak's bicep.

[8:58 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine reaches her hand out to Lin, "don't worry, it'll be okay. we;ll get you back home"

[8:58 PM] DM: Lin stands and reluctantly takes her hand.

[9:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Alright, it's now or never. I'll never get used to this. Pull the lever, Kronk"

[9:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I mean Urrak"(edited)

[9:02 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak pushes the button

[9:02 PM] DM: When you push the button, you all appear back in Poni’s basement.

[9:03 PM] DM: Lin lets go and frowns again. "I'm leaving. That gnome has a nasty habit of blowing things up."

[9:04 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Y'sure you'll be alright? I found some gold on those men, if y'need it, it's yours"

[9:05 PM] DM: She looks at you oddly. "You always offer gold to strangers? I just want to get back to my farm. I'm in no mood to be indebted to the likes of you."

[9:06 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Jus' tryin' t' be of help t' ya." Urrak walks to the other side of the basement

[9:06 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Hey, she's just trying to help. If that's all we are to you, then I guess we;ll be seeing you around"

[9:06 PM] DM: She huffs a little. "Thank you for saving me." Then she walks out.

[9:07 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine walks over to Urrak to talk to Poni. "One component down. Do you have a blueprint of what we need to rebuild?"

[9:08 PM] DM: Poni: "Just my books. Once we have the pieces, we'll be able to piece them together again."

[9:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Onto the next place then I guess. If only we had more help"

[9:09 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Any idea where th' next piece may be? Or should we just start blinkin' around at random?"

[9:10 PM] DM: Poni: "I can target the next one."

[9:10 PM] DM: The portal against the wall changes from one brightly lit, dense forest to a more normal, but dark one.

[9:10 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori walks into the basement and sees the group that was here before, "Help with what?"

[9:11 PM] DM: Poni: “Ugh. It’s probably too much to ask that it was a coincidence that there was a villager that popped up with the component, right? But the piece isn’t THAT small. There’s hundreds of people in this town. There can’t be hundreds of components if they’re this big.”

[9:12 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna walks into the basement and takes in the group. She stays by the wall.

[9:12 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Tiefling! Y'came back. Where's the other one?"

[9:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "That's what I'm talking about! Power in numbers. Wait a second, who is this?" Ravaphine points at the elf by the shelf

[9:13 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: As Brimeia and Enna enter, Bri's eyes go wide at the sound of a voice she can't place. "What? Who said that?"

[9:14 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We found a way to successfully teleport from place to place, and the more components we find, the closer we all are to home"

[9:14 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "So...time to go easter egg hunting"

[9:14 PM] Leigh- Enna: "Just another person who somehow popped up here, who I am's not particularly important. How do you all seem to know each other and this place?"

[9:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Same thing happened to us. I was just trying to deliver a package and I woke up here"

[9:15 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We all came here under the same odd circumstances. Just happened to do it sooner. But the more the merrier I say."

[9:16 PM] DM: Poni: "Wait, you've been here before?"

[9:16 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori attemps to trip Brimeia with her staff as Brimeia walks by.

[9:18 PM] DM: Brimeia spots the staff and steps over it easily.

[9:22 PM] DM: So! There's a dead gnome on the floor and a bunch of armed and armored people standing around in front of a flat screen TV that's showing a dark forest.

[9:17 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Can you both stop making out and help us get to the next place"

[9:22 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia turns to Ravaphine, "Ah, ravishing Ravaphine! I certainly wouldn't mind making out with you instead."

[9:22 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Some things never change...."

[9:23 PM] Leigh- Enna: ".....anyone feel like telling me why there's a dead gnome on the floor, and why no one seems to be concerned with this?"

[9:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "oh yeah, that's poni. he caused this explosion and he's the reason why we're all here. Also he lives in this stick now" Ravaphine points to the rod in Urrak's hand

[9:24 PM] DM: Poni: "I'd say it's a pleasure, but it's probably not."

[9:24 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "He's a wizard of some kind...I'm assumin'"

[9:25 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well now, that's all settled. Now where's that other piece we need t' find, Poni?"(edited)

[9:25 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna draws her bow, feeling a little silly for pointing it at a stick, but can't be too careful. "I don't trust wizards."

[9:25 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I was here...and then I wasn't, and now I'm back. So yes...talking stick thing." ((the most eloquent))

[9:26 PM] DM: Poni: "It's through there. Probably with another hapless and stupid villager."

[9:26 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Poni?" Brimeia frowns. "The explosion? Where..." She stops mid-sentence and stares at the stick as it's mentioned. "You're joking."

[9:27 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Hey now, drop yer weapons. Poni ain't here t' trick no one. And aye, Bri. It's true."

[9:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "He's our ride back home, unfortunately"

[9:27 PM] DM: Poni scoffs at being called "a ride" anywhere.

[9:28 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What about that... gnome?" She gestures at the body still sprawled on the floor

[9:28 PM] DM: Poni: "That's me. Try to keep up."

[9:28 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "But you're the stick."

[9:29 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: ".....and also dead?"

[9:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "But he's dead."

[9:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "He's...half dead"

[9:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni I think you're gonna have to show them to believe it"

[9:29 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Half dead is dangerously close to undead, and I shoot undead on sight."

[9:29 PM] DM: Poni sighs. "My Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter went boom and now I am 'stick'. I prefer 'control rod', personally."

[9:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori steps up, visibly annoyed, as usual, "Can we please just get on with this, I was in the middle of something important and I would like to get back to it."

[9:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye I've got...obligations back home as well"

[9:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We're going to have to go through another portal"

[9:31 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak claps her hand on Ravaphines shoulder. "Let's go!"

[9:31 PM] DM: You can see the next world through the portal. It's dark there, and forested. You don't see anything moving.

[9:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Ah but then we wouldn't have the joy of spending time in such lovely company"

[9:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Though I'm about itching for another brawl," Brimeia muses

[9:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "and in order to do so, everyone must be friends and touch the person next to you. be nice"

[9:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak extends her hand to Enna "Well, y'coming?"

[9:33 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well, I certainly wouldn't mind getting cozy with you fine women." Brimeia winks

[9:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Please keep her away from me."

[9:34 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Seirixori, you wound me," Brimeia responds

[9:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine grabs Seirixori's hand in her left and Brimeia's hand in her right. "FRIENDS. for ten seconds"

[9:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I tried."

[9:36 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna points at the portal "What.....is that."

[9:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "One step closer to home. Enna, it'll be okay. Grab Brimeia's hand and we can get this started"

[9:37 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia takes Ravaphine's hand, "Well a trip through .. that won't be so bad in your company."

[9:37 PM] DM: Poni: "That is how we get from place to place. You all touch each other, push the button, put me through."

[9:37 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "You're welcome to keep trying," she answers Seirixori

[9:38 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I'm not much of a toucher."

[9:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Some foul magic. Same that brought us here, I imagine," she answers Enna. "Seems we've got no choice."

[9:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What if you put your hand on my shoulder?"

[9:39 PM] DM: Poni: "It's not 'foul' magic. It's just magi-- ugh. Never mind."

[9:40 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna reluctantly places her hand on the fellow elf's shoulder

[9:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well it's tossing us all around willy-nilly isn't it? And not it the fun way," Brimeia grumbles at the stick-not-quite-dead-gnome-thing.

[9:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Beiro, grab on and let's go"

[9:41 PM] DM: Beiro happily grabs Urrak's arm again.

[9:42 PM] DM: Poni: "Are you all about ready? Honestly, you'd think hired help would be more competent."

[9:42 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Hold on t'yer trousers, folks!" Urrak pushes the button

[9:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, I'm going to stick you where the sun don't shine"

[9:42 PM] DM: Pushing the button causes the portal to flare and fray at the edges.

[9:42 PM] DM: Poni: "Now put me through. The sun's not shining there."

[9:42 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak places Poni through the portal

[9:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grimaces at all the magical commotion. So unsettling.

[9:43 PM] DM: As soon as Poni crosses the plane of the portal, your surroundings instantly change from his wizard's workshop to a dark forest.

[9:43 PM] DM: There is no path, no road, no light.

[9:44 PM] DM: Characters with darkvision can see in black and white.

[9:44 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna looks around, relieved to be back in her element. "Finally. Something familiar."

[9:44 PM] DM: Poni: "Anyone see the shiny?"

[9:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori takes a deep breath and smiles slightly, finally back in the comforts of a forest.

[9:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I have to agree."

[9:45 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak turns to Ravaphine "Here light this torch would ya?" might help us see a bit better

[9:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts light onto the torch but accidentally touches Urrak's hand instead,  causing Urrak to turn into a night light(edited)

[9:48 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ah! Y'clumsy caster! I'm a candle!"

[9:48 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "there it is!! I see something over there"

[9:48 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak follows Ravaphine to the shiny

[9:48 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine walks over to the bush and finds the next component"

[9:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Never trust magic," Brimeia mutters under her breath

[9:49 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna notices a trail of blood smeared across the grass. "Something was here, and it made a kill. Looks like it dragged it north"

[9:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine clutches her bag with the components in them. "I hope you all are well rested and ready to fight again"

[9:51 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Must we? Can we not just grab what we need and go?"

[9:51 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "It's fresh. Keep your wits about you, everyone."

[9:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, should we head back?"

[9:52 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I'm always ready for a fight." Urrak says as she  draws her greatsword

[9:52 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Again?" Brimeia chimes. "Did I miss one? Damn."

[9:52 PM] DM: Poni: "I'm with Candy Cane over there. We don’t have to save them all, you know. We can just fix my Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter. The people of that town aren’t worth the cabbages they grow. Not as smart either.”

[9:53 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, is there a reason why people are kidnapping and killing for your creation?"

[9:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Killin'? What'd y' find around here? This light is so bright it's hurtin' my eyes a bit"(edited)

[9:54 PM] DM: Poni: "Who says the blood has anything to do with my Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter?"

[9:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Well, the woman from your town said that she got kidnapped when she found your component. What if another got killed or kidnapped again?"(edited)

[9:55 PM] DM: Poni: "That doesn't mean anything. It's shiny. Cretins like you always want shiny things."

[9:55 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "You're lucky you're already dead, stick."

[9:56 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna looks closer at the bloody tracks. "These are goblin tracks. I take back what I said before, someone or something was injured, but not killed. Definitely taken somewhere, though"

[9:56 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let's take a vote. who wants to stay here and see what happened and if the townspeople are okay. and who wants to go back to find the next component"

[9:59 PM] DM: The three of you all recall that goblins are creatures who take delight in cruelty and suffering, often taking slaves. Favored tactics include trying to flank their enemies, using small tunnels to travel around their lairs undetected.

[10:00 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "All people deserve respect and t' be free from villiany. Goblins are evil lil shites I'm ready to stomp some o' their 'eads in."

[10:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We must take precaution if we want to proceed down the forest. What's our plan?"(edited)

[10:01 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I won't say no to killing goblins"

[10:02 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I'm always happy to go where you beautiful ladies are."

[10:04 PM] DM: You pretty easily find the trail. Drops of blood here and there mark the way, and with Urrak shining like a beacon, you make your way through the forest until the trees thin and you're looking at the bottom of a cliff. Ahead, you can see the mouth of a cave where the blood leads.

[10:06 PM] DM: Beiro: "My this is exciting." Then he disappears.

[10:08 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can one of ye try in sneak in? See if you can spot any o' th' blighters?"

[10:08 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I would but uh...my condition"

[10:08 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia is startled and unnerved by the sudden disappearance of the half-elf. "Never going to get used to that," she grumbles. "Why sneak?"

[10:08 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Y' want to be ambushed by goblins?"

[10:09 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna readies her bow, moving toward the mouth of the cave.

[10:10 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Surely a mighty fighter like you isn't scared of a few goblins?" Brimeia chuckles good-naturedly as she claps Urrak on the shoulder

[10:11 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, not afraid. Just cautious. Goblins are a tricky bunch"

[10:11 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Maybe if you lay low and stay close to the cave walls"

[10:11 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "They won't see you if anybody is there"

[10:11 PM] DM: If you are dispelling the light, you need to actually type it in here though.

[10:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What if we throw a bedroll over you? I say we all go in together"

[10:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine removes the light from urrak

[10:13 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Sorry about that"

[10:13 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Praise the gods!" Urrak blinks and rubs her eyes(edited)

[10:13 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Will you two be quiet, you're basically telling them where we are." Serixori mutters to Brimeia and Urrak

[10:13 PM] DM: Enna sneaks into the mouth of the cave while the rest of you are adjusting to darkness again.

[10:14 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Almost a shame. I rather like you shiny," Brimeia chuckles

[10:14 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak shoots Brimeia a look like "Nah dude"

[10:15 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Of course, of course. No match for the light of your eyes," Brimeia responds, unruffled.

[10:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "People are dying, Brimeia"

[10:16 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Honestly, be quiet"

[10:16 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna mutters to herself, "Tricky bastards."

[10:17 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna edges back along the cave walls to reconvene with the group

[10:17 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "what did you see?"

[10:18 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Damn place's rigged with a trap. Nasty giant vermin inside."

[10:18 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Did y'see any way to disarm it?"

[10:19 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia is saved from answering by the reappearnce of Enna. "Can't we just break it?"

[10:20 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "was it another bear trap? should we try to walk around it?"

[10:21 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "String across the floor, string moves, bell rings. Bell rings, Rat wakes up, Rat gets lunch."

[10:22 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can we kill the rat in it's sleep?"

[10:22 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "You got them arrows"

[10:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "You guys did well with a sneak attack last time"

[10:22 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Is it really necessarry to kill this creature?"

[10:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can ye' magic it to sleep deeper?"

[10:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I see no other option"

[10:23 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "If it's eating people, why wouldn't we?"

[10:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I can try a poison spray to subdue it"

[10:24 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I'm with the tiefling on this one. Give me a goblin to stab some information out of anyday, but the rat's inconsequential."

[10:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Do we actually know it was a person it attacked? For all I know, it could have just been a small animal."

[10:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Can we try to walk around the rat while it is sleeping?"

[10:24 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I ain't that graceful, elf"

[10:24 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Why bother? We're wasting time."

[10:24 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "The rat isn't the one that made those tracks. That was a goblin."

[10:25 PM] DM: You hear the cackle of laughter trickle out from deeper in the cave.

[10:25 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Which means they'll do more. We're wastin time. "

[10:25 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "So... you're fine with this rat killing other animals but not us killing it?"

[10:26 PM] DM: There are goblin tracks going both in and out of the cave.

[10:26 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'll go in and try to subdue the rat, hopefully it wakes up after we're gone"

[10:26 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak throws up her hands and walks away from the cave mouth a bit grumbling in a circle

[10:27 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Animals eat other animals, it's in nature. We eat hem as well, but we don't need to kill them for no reason."

[10:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Unless, Urrak, you would like to do the honors"

[10:27 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I'll be over 'ere when y' wanna smash some heads. But the rat should be killed quietly if we don't wanna be ambushed"

[10:28 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'll head in then"

[10:28 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Poison, arrow, stabbin', doesn't matter t' me"

[10:28 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "However, it does unfortunately sound like there is a goblin inside if that laughter is any indication."

[10:28 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Just hurry up then. If you don't come right back out i'm going in there myself, my way."

[10:29 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Fine, I'll go back in. Arrow should do the trick quickly. Could do with some meat for my pack, anyway."

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Enna I'll be right behind you"

[10:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori follows them as well.

[10:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "and my axe"

[10:31 PM] DM: So the three of you sneak inside the cave.

[10:31 PM] DM: Ravaphine sees the trap.

[10:32 PM] DM: Seirixori does not.

[10:32 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Goddamnit, I told you."

[10:32 PM] DM: The rat's ears twitch.

[10:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I hope you're a good marksman, Elf"

[10:33 PM] DM: The rat stirs again.

[10:33 PM] DM: She hasn't crossed it yet. You two are standing in front of it

[10:34 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Don't move another inch, tiefling."

[10:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Watch your step"

[10:34 PM] DM: The rat opens its eyes.

[10:35 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "We want to get a jump on this thing, and that bell's gonna send a cadre of goblins our way"

[10:35 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna readies her bow and shoots an arrow

[10:36 PM] DM: So just as the rat opens its mouth to sound the alarm, Enna looses her string and the arrow flies straight down its throat, killing it.

[10:39 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: points at the trap "Don't fuck this up for us."

[10:39 PM] DM: Another bout of laughter comes from deeper within the cave.

[10:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori goes back out to tell Brimeia and Urrak the rat is dead and then heads back in again.

[10:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine goes back outside to the others "The rat is dead, but there is a trap. Don't trip over it"

[10:39 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak slowly walks into the cave. "Aye, now that's one dead rat"

[10:39 PM] DM: Everyone has darkvision. You don't NEED light.

[10:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "FINALLY," Brimeia huffs, heading in after Seirixori

[10:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "There is a trap coming up, watch your step"

[10:45 PM] DM: So as you walk in, Seirixori trips over the string and the bell rings. The laughter stops.

[10:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine stills. "Well this is unfortunate"

[10:45 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna rolls her eyes.

[10:47 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak moves cautiously towards the goblins, sword drawn(edited)

[10:49 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak throws a dagger at the closest goblin

[10:52 PM] DM: Urrak throws her dagger and it flies right through the goblin's legs and lands inches from the prone body the goblins were dancing around.

[10:52 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Whoops"

[10:52 PM] DM: As you all enter the room, you will see goblins that were previously dancing around a prone human body.

[10:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: 'You haven't had breakfast yet have you"

[10:56 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia runs toward the goblins, the excitement of battle working her into a frenzy. She draws one of her handaxes and lobs it at the nearest creature.

[10:57 PM] DM: Brimeia completely shows Urrak up and buries the hatchet... right in the goblin's brainpan.

[10:58 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna moves forward, drawing her bow, setting her sights on the other goblin and looses an arrow

[11:00 PM] DM: The goblin yelped when it saw its friend crumple, and as it turns to face its attackers, it takes an arrow to the eye and dies.

[11:02 PM] DM: Seirixori can see the two goblins who hid.

[11:03 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seeing there's more than one left Seirixori cries out, "There's more!" and casts Entangle on the closest one.

[11:05 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Leave one alive, we might need it for information".

[11:05 PM] DM: So Seirixori throws her hand out and shouts in Druidic and a 20' circle sprouts weeds and vines that try to grapple the goblins.

[11:05 PM] DM: Both fail their saves.

[11:06 PM] DM: Goblins turns:

[11:06 PM] DM: One tries to break free. It fails.

[11:06 PM] DM: The other grabs its shortbow and fires at the one who threw the axe.

[11:07 PM] DM: The arrow misses barely.

[11:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine sprints towards the remaining goblins and casts a fire bolt at the closest goblin(edited)

[11:10 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "There's a person there, make sure they don't get hit."

[11:12 PM] DM: A burst of flame erupts from Ravaphine's finger and Goblin 3 is dead.

[11:13 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs towards the goblins, picking up her dagger on the way and throws it at the closest goblin

[11:16 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs around the perimeter of the entanglement and calls one of the goblin's mother a brothel worker

[11:23 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia backs up, then charges forward, taking a mighty leap towards the remaining goblin.

[11:24 PM] DM: You manage to not sprain your ankle on the dead goblin at your feet!

[11:25 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia lets out a terrifying growl as she swings her greataxe at the last goblin.

[11:25 PM] DM: With a mighty swing, the last goblin's head comes right off, falling at Urrak's feet.

[11:26 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Welp, so much for keeping one alive."

[11:26 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak kicks it into the darker darkness

[11:27 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna approaches the bodies, moving frantically from one to the other, looking for something.

[11:30 PM] DM: You find some small sized scimitars and shortbows, but nothing you're looking for.

[11:28 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: With all opponents vanquished, Brimeia comes to her senses again, looking around dazedly. "Oops."

[11:28 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine disappears

[11:29 PM] DM: There is still a woman lying in the weeds, unconscious.

[11:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak starts to walk towards the woman but before she can reach her she poofs

[11:31 PM] DM: Poni falls to the floor. "Ow! We've gotta do something about that."

[11:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori dispels her entangle and walks up to the bodies.

[11:32 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Frustrated with her findings, Enna turns to look at the unconscious woman. "So what do we do about this one?"

[11:32 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia only makes a face at the magic talking stick and makes no move to pick it up, still unnerved by it.

[11:32 PM] DM: Poni: "You pick me up."

[11:33 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori picks up Poni but holds the device with two fingers and away from her. "If I must."

[11:33 PM] DM: Poni: "I saw that, tiefling. If I had fingers, I'd be pointing at you."

[11:33 PM] DM: Poni: "Well? You insisted on coming here to find her. You going to let her bleed out? Make this a complete waste of time?"

[11:36 PM] DM: Seirixori manages to bring her to her senses and she sits up.

[11:36 PM] DM: "Where- Where am I?"

[11:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "A cave...that was full of goblins."

[11:37 PM] DM: She looks around and back at you. "You killed all of them? Just the three of you?"

[11:37 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Don't worry i hacked them all to bits"

[11:37 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There were more of us, however..." Seirixori holds up the device in her hands and waves it a little, "I'm going to blame this thing, but we just sort of...poof in and out sometimes."(edited)

[11:37 PM] DM: "I'm impressed. I didn't have my weapon and they caught me off guard."

[11:38 PM] DM: "Poof? Yeah, I guess that's what you might call it."

[11:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well you have nothing to worry about now, fair maiden."

[11:38 PM] DM: She stands and winces, touching the back of her head gingerly.

[11:39 PM] DM: She raises an eyebrow at Brimeia. "Right."

[11:39 PM] DM: "How did you know to find me?"

[11:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "There was a trail of blood."

[11:40 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori points over to the elf, "Tracked the goblins."

[11:41 PM] DM: "Well, thank you. Do you know how to get back to Bellbury? I'm afraid I might be in awful trouble when we get back."

[11:41 PM] DM: Poni: "Blah blah blah. Can we go?"

[11:42 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Shut up," Seirixori gives the device a shake. "Honestly I have no idea where we are, nothing around here is familiar, however if we bring you back to the town we came from, maybe you might know your way back?"

[11:42 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Bell... bell.. sounds familiar," Brimeia hums thoughtfully

[11:45 PM] DM: Poni: "Yes, yes, touch each other, push the button. Let's get back home and fix my Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter."

[11:46 PM] DM: Poni: "Bellbury's the town where I live. Lived."

[11:46 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "The Qua- what?"

[11:46 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "It doesn't matter, let's just go before anything else comes in here."(edited)

[11:46 PM] DM: If Poni had a face it would be .\_.

[11:46 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Let's go. Get this woman back, there's nothing else to be gained here."

[11:47 PM] DM: Poni: "Do we have the component?"

[11:47 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "The other elf had it"

[11:47 PM] DM: Poni: "...Great. Better hope she comes back."

[11:48 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Isn't that your fault, anyway, you... you stick gnome?"

[11:48 PM] DM: Poni: "Let's go."

Lin: "Yes, if you know which way to go, that would be best. I'd rather not be here when the animals catch the scent of fresh meat."

[11:49 PM] DM: She grabs a scimitar and starts for the mouth of the cave.

[11:49 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Wait! We have a faster way to the town."(edited)

[11:49 PM] DM: "Faster? It's like fifty feet."

[11:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "We do?"

[11:50 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia scratches her head. All this magical stuff is so confounding.

[11:50 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "This thing can teleport us to the town. I don't know how it just... does. But we have to all be touching each other, so there's that."(edited)

[11:50 PM] DM: Lin: "Oh. All right then."

[11:51 PM] DM: She walks back over and puts her hand on Brimeia's shoulder.

[11:52 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh. Right. That." Brimeia grimaces at the thought of the queasy magic feeling but smiles again as the woman puts a hand on her shoulder.

[11:52 PM] DM: Poni: "Tap tap tap. That's the sound my foot would be making if I had one."

[11:53 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "You... hush. This is all your fault anyway." Brimeia drops her voice and leans toward Seirixori. "It is, right?"

[11:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ugh," Seirixori groans and sets her hand on the stranger's shoulder, "Elf?"

[11:53 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna extends out a hand, visibly uncomfortable but willing to go along.

[11:55 PM] DM: Poni: "You don't have to touch. You'll just be an experiment to see if you come back to Bellbury on your own or if you're trapped here forever."

[11:55 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia hooks an arm around Enna's

[11:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori waits for everyone to touch and then pushes the button.

[11:56 PM] DM: Your surroundings instantly change back to Poni's basement along with his corpse and we will end it there.

## Session 4

DAY ONE 4:30PM

[7:28 PM] DM: The commoners have started taking the food from the carts out in the square into the stores of the tavern so that they won’t spoil. There’s a stout Dwarf woman giving direction while she nibbles on a tart. When she sees you appear, she heads over with a smile spread between her plump, rosy cheeks. She’s got her red hair pulled back into a messy, thick braid that falls over chain mail armor with a blue and yellow stylized H on a tabard smeared with juices and flour.  “Hello dearies! How are you? Gunnloda, at your service,” she says holding her hand out to shake. “I couldn’t bear the thought of the food out here spoiling, so I asked Carlota over there to help me get it all stored away. You know people like this listen to anything you say when you’re wearing a suit of armor. Speaking of, you stand out a bit yourself. Where are you from?”

[7:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine stands there confused for a few seconds but regains composure to introduce herself to the kind woman and reaching her hand out to reciprocate the handshake. "Hello ma'am good day. My name is Ravaphine from the town of Rauvi. Are you here from these parts?"

[7:32 PM] DM: You recognize the symbol on her armor to be one of a religion.

[7:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Do you frequent the temple often? I am just a visitor here in your town of Bellbury"

[7:38 PM] DM: "Oh, I'm not from here, dearie. I just appeared, much like you did. Are you from here? Bellbury you said?"(edited)

[7:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Just came across it in my travels. I never heard about this place before, even in my readings" Ravaphine says with slight questioning in her voice, "I've noticed that symbol on your armor before, would you like to accompany me to the temple? Maybe we can find something there to get a better understanding about this town"

[7:41 PM] DM: "Oh, I'm so scatter-brained sometimes. You just said you weren't from here. Rauvi.... I can't say I've heard of it. But yes and no. That temple's to an agricultural god like my own goddess Arawai... well, one of the gods I serve. I looked in the temple myself when I first got here, but it was empty."

[7:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "My companions have vanished, but we managed to find this piece of paper in our findings. Have you heard of any of these other places before?" Ravaphine asks while showing Gunnloda the map fragment

[7:44 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I haven't explored much of this town. I might make it over to the mansion next to see if there is anything to be found there"

[7:44 PM] DM: She shoves the last of the tart into her mouth, wipes her hands across her tabard and takes the paper. "Hmmmph... nopf. Can't fay I'f heard of deef."

[7:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "It seems that this is a land somewhere far off. I'm headed to the mansion now, care to accompany me? My companions might be there and they can help send us home"

[7:47 PM] DM: She finishes the tart. "Oh? Well now... that sounds interesting. While we walk, maybe you wouldn't mind telling me about the kind of food you eat back home?"

[7:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine walks next to Gunnloda and heads to the direction of the mansion. "Well, for starters, my mother is a fantastic cook. She can create a meal out of anything and I mean anything. Only the freshest food you can find!"

[7:53 PM] DM: The most ornate of the buildings around the town square appears to be both a seat of government and, as you enter the door, the home of the ruling family. A symbol of a crescent moon and river is embossed in stone, embroidered in blue and silver on draperies, and embedded in the floor in the entryway.

Straight ahead are a pair of double doors.

[7:54 PM] DM: "Anything? I ask because I'm a bit of a chef myself and I'm always looking for new, exotic dishes to try."

[7:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'm sure they'll know whats going on here..." Ravaphine says as she cautiously before knocking at the door

[7:55 PM] DM: There's no answer.

[7:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Before we leave, I may have you show me some cooking lessons to see if my mom hasn't heard of them before! maybe we can trade recipes"

[7:56 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Should we...should we try the door?" Ravaphine asks

[7:56 PM] DM: "Oh, that would be wonderful. I don't see why not. This seems to be where the leader of the town lives. They probably have people in and out all day."

[7:57 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine goes to open the door

[7:57 PM] DM: She leans in a bit conspiratorially. "Besides, it's not like anyone is here to stop us!" she laughs.

[7:58 PM] DM: Ravaphine opens the door?

[7:58 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine opens the door and motions for Gunnloda to follow.

[8:03 PM] DM: You open the doors to a large room where the business of governance appears to take place. Two long tables flank the open space in the middle and a large, oaken desk sits at the head of the room.

[8:03 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Oh, this is quite fancy for such a small town."

[8:05 PM] DM: On the desk are stacks of parchment, a few books, and a half-written letter. The inkwell sits ready, but there is no quill, and should you touch it, the ink on the parchment is freshly dried.

> *Master Enchanter Qarius,*
>
>

> *I must ask you once more to consider sending your Spellguard to Bellbury. The town is on edge and Mr. Ningel’s actions have been come increasingly erratic and dangerous. My guard is not equipped to handle the threat of a mad wizard. Your college is still responsible for him, regardless of his standing. He appears to be buil*
>
>

The letter stops mid-word.

[8:06 PM] DM: In the desk drawer, you find a ledger that gives the names, occupations, and addresses of all the villagers. It is probably used for taxes and land ownership information.

[8:06 PM] DM: You also find a locked chest.

[8:07 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine quietly mumbles to herself "what has poni done"

[8:08 PM] DM: Gunnloda is looking at the letter curiously.

[8:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poor guy probably dissapeared in the middle of his letter not too long ago from the looks of it"

[8:08 PM] DM: "Well, I suppose that means this is definitely Bellbury."

[8:09 PM] DM: "I agree. Have you seen much of the rest of the town?"

[8:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Hey, are you good with tools? I found a chest over here but it seems locked and I'm sure the key is on somebody's person"

[8:10 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I haven't seen much, just the temple, and the home of  a fellow named Poni" Ravaphine says with hesitation, not sure if she should tell Gunnloda the whole story yet

[8:11 PM] DM: "Oh, no, and I'm not above opening unlocked doors, but locked chests in desk drawers are a bit further than I'd want to go, love."

[8:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What if it has answers about how to get home?"

[8:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine searches for a key

[8:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine searches the rest of the desk and the books

[8:17 PM] DM: Gunnloda looks at you. "You think there are answers about this in that box? I think you already know more than that."

[7:24 PM] DM: DAY ONE 4:30PM

[7:27 PM] DM: Recap: You’ve managed to bring two Bellbury citizens, somehow both named Lin, back home. You’ve also found two components, though Ravaphine disappeared with one of them. Those of you who have disappeared back home and returned found that time passed while you were gone, but you returned to the exact same spot you had disappeared from. In addition, when you blink into Bellbury, you seem to always come back to the Bellbury town square. Brimeia is in the basement with Poni, Poni’s corpse, and a villager named Lin who holds a goblin scimitar. Everyone else has vanished.

[7:30 PM] DM: Lin: That was.... odd.

[7:30 PM] DM: Lin: Where did the others go?

[7:30 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What in the hells?" Brimeia scratches her head, looking all around, still thrown off by the whole... poofing thing. "Where'd everyone go?"

[7:31 PM] DM: Poni: "They probably got teleported back home. Can you pick me back up?"

[7:31 PM] DM: Poni is lying on the floor where the last person to hold him must have dropped him.

[7:32 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh. Uh, I didn't see you there, M'lady--" Brimeia frowns at the magic stick-gnome, crinkling her nose a bit. "Oh. You. I suppose... You're not gonna zap me or anything right?"

[7:32 PM] DM: Poni: "As long as you don't drop me."

[7:33 PM] DM: Lin: ".... right. I need to go. I need to make sure my Vardalon's safe and... oh, Hennet will probably have my head for leaving without permission."

[7:34 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Still looking a bit skeptical, Brimeia bends and slowly picks the stick up. "Oh. Already? Well, take care... I never caught your name, ma'am."

[7:35 PM] DM: Lin: "Oh, it's Lin. Lin Cook. Thank you so much for saving me from those nasty goblins. Please, stop by the general store if you need anything else. I'm sure Hennet will be happy to help you find what you need."

[7:36 PM] DM: Poni: "Hennet's an asshole."

[7:37 PM] DM: Lin blinks. "I-- Is that thing talking?"

[7:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Glad to help a pretty la--" Brimeia sighs when Poni interrupts. "Yeah. He does that, apparently. Some kinda magical, not quite dead, gnome in a stick. Think he made this place blow up and ... do all the weird magic poofs." Brimeia gestures vaguely.

[7:39 PM] DM: Lin: "Poofs? Like more than just me?"

[7:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh yeah. Like everyone. ..I think." Brimeia frowns with confusion for a moment, but shrugs it off quickly. "I try not to think too hard about it. Hey, want someone to see you home?"

[7:43 PM] DM: Lin: "Wait, everyone? Everyone? Oh... I need to-- I need to see if he's ok." She goes to turn and remembers she's carrying the goblin scimitar. She gently lays it across the clutter on one of Poni's workbenches and heads up the stairs.

[7:45 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Ah- " Brimeia doesn't get a chance to finish before Lin rushes off. Concerned, Brimeia follows. The poor woman looks so worried.

[7:46 PM] DM: Poni: "Good, now that that's done, we should go to-- oh, we're following. Of course we are."

[7:51 PM] DM: Lin rushes up the stairs and pauses at the street, taking in the quiet of the town. "No... this is... this is all wrong." She heads south, opposite the direction of the town square, where the houses turn back to a single style, but the smell of water's in the air. She ducks into one alley and starts pounding on the door to a house. "Vardalon? Many? Hemisal?? Please, answer!"(edited)

[7:58 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: The woman has a headstart, but it doesn't take Brimeia long to catch up. "Um, are you-- Is everything alright?" It certainly doesn't seem as if everything is alright, but the tiefling can't think of anything else to say.

[7:59 PM] DM: "You... you saved me, right? Could... is it possible for you to find my Vardalon? I worry about him. If some goblins or something took him, I don't think he could defend himself."

[8:03 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Yeah..? Vardalon, he your family? Well if it's fighting to be done, I'm just the devil for it." Brimeia puffs up a bit, offering a grin

[8:04 PM] DM: "He... yes, something like that. Just, please. He's so sweet and gentle. I'm so worried something terrible has happened to him."

[8:10 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well, if it'll ease your worries, miss." Brimeia backs up a step or two and charges the door, shoulder first.

[8:14 PM] DM: You throw your shoulder against the door and the frame gives way, splintering at the handle. There's now a door hanging of its hinges and a rather shocked woman behind you.

[8:15 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well is he in here?" Brimeia gives a shake to clear off any larger bits of debris and peers into the house.

[8:16 PM] DM: Lin carefully edges past you and into the house. It's well kept, but there's food out on the counter like someone was in the middle of making lunch when they disappeared. "No... it doesn't look like it."

[8:18 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: There doesn't seem to be much of interest, but Brimeia takes a closer look anyway.

[8:19 PM] DM: You don't see anything of interest.

[8:19 PM] DM: Lin: "Maybe they're at the Cask? That's where most people go."

[8:20 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Cask, huh? Sounds like my kinda place. Maybe we'll find my new companions there too."

[8:21 PM] DM: Lin: "We can check there. If he's not there, though, how will we find him?"

[8:22 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I've.. no idea." Brimeia shrugs casually. "Let's just check first."

[8:23 PM] DM: Lin nods and heads out and back north to the town square.

[8:25 PM] DM: When you get there, you see a chain of commoners moving perishable foods into the tavern. One of them points at the big fancy building and says "They went in there."

[8:42 PM] DM: Lin: "Not to... interrupt, but if you saved me, you could save my Vardalon, right? Do you think you could?"

[8:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Who is Vardalon?" Ravaphine asks the stranger

[8:43 PM] Leigh- Enna: "What happened to him?"

[8:44 PM] DM: Lin: "Vardalon is my love. He's not at home and if everyone's disappeared... I think he might be in trouble. He couldn't protect himself from goblins."

[8:46 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori looks towards the Poni stick, "Well, mad wizard, you're the thing that gets us places."

[8:46 PM] DM: Poni: "I take us to components."

[8:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Oh no I'm so sorry. Maybe we can find the rest of the components and find him along the way"

[8:49 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "You're not telling us the truth."

[8:49 PM] DM: Poni: "Of course I am, Candy Cane. I haven't lied. I take you to components."

[8:49 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Yes, but you can take us elsewhere."

[8:50 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, didn't you say that you were working on a way to transport to unknown places"

[8:50 PM] DM: Poni: "I could theoretically find people if I had a personal item, but you don't! So let's go find the next component, yes?"

[8:51 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "And this is your fault, so you will take us to wherever it is to help her."(edited)

[8:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "So you were lying to us"

[8:51 PM] DM: Lin: "I do! I have his necklace!"

[8:51 PM] DM: Poni grumbles.

[8:52 PM] DM: Poni: "If we can get back to the task at hand, fine. Take me back to the portal and I'll find the asshole."

[8:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "who knows, maybe he's seen another component. People are getting taken because of them"

[8:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We already know where you are. We need to find her husband."

[8:53 PM] DM: Lin: "Not... my husband. His fathers don't like me much, but please, if we could save him, maybe they'd change their minds."

[8:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "My ...apologies? Let's just go." Serixori heads outside to Poni's basement.

[8:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine also follows and heads towards the basement

[8:55 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna turns to Lin and says, "We'll find him." She heads out following the tiefling and the elf.

[8:56 PM] DM: So! Gunnloda and Lin follow you all to Poni's basement.

[8:56 PM] DM: Poni: "Press my button."

[8:58 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "No thanks," Brimeia grumbles.

[9:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine noticies the components on the desk and takes the first component out of her bag to add to the collection "I'm going to put these on the top shelf so they're safe"

[9:00 PM] DM: Poni: "Great. That way you won't take it home and lose it."

[9:00 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Honestly," Seirixori reaches over and pushes the stupid button.

[9:01 PM] DM: Through the portal, you see a component, sitting in the darkness of a destroyed building. The rubble behind the component is old and weathered and the entire image is dark as if a moonless night. While you’re looking, you notice a bit of movement from the shadows in the distance, but you can’t tell what it was.

[9:02 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well if you wanted to hold hands, all you had to do was ask," Brimeia says with a wink.

[9:03 PM] DM: You all recall that you were asking Poni to find Vardalon, not a component.

[9:04 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "We promised that woman we would find the person she's missing, gnome."

[9:04 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, enough. Poni, this is not where we're going first."

[9:04 PM] DM: Poni grumbles again. "Fine. Put the item up to the sensor on the bottom of... me."

[9:04 PM] DM: Lin takes the necklace from her neck and hands it to Brimeia.

[9:05 PM] DM: Lin grabs the scimitar from the table.

[9:05 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia takes the necklace and holds it up to the stick thing. "Like this?"

[9:05 PM] DM: Poni: "Now push the button."

[9:06 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Do I have to?"

[9:07 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Give me the damn thing if you won't, stop wasting time."

[9:07 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna mutters under her breath, "Why hesitate, you're pushing everyone else's buttons"

[9:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "be careful with that, it's not very stable" Ravaphine opens her hands out for poni and the necklace

[9:10 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Fine, fine," Brimeia says, finger poised over the button, but at Enna's comment, she looks up again. "Not the fun way," she grins. She presses the button.

[9:10 PM] DM: The image shimmers and coalesces into a vision of a jungle. Though the light appears as though daytime, the light is subdued, likely due to the high canopy of trees above. In the center of the image, you see a large human man, currently fawning over what appears to be a greenish elf barely dressed in leaves and vines. She’s clearly enjoying his attention.

[9:11 PM] DM: Lin: "....Vardalon?"

[9:14 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Look! It's a dryad! I've read about them before."

[9:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine looks over to Lin nervously

[9:16 PM] DM: Lin steps towards the portal, confusion etched across her face. "Why is he..."

[9:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Lin, before we jump to any conclusions, I'm sure there's a good explanation for this"

[9:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's only one way to find out. Hold on to each other and let's step through."

[9:18 PM] Leigh- Enna: "Dryads can easily charm people. He may not be fully in control right now."

[9:19 PM] DM: Lin turns. "He doesn't look like... himself. Can we save him?"

[9:20 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: from the top of the stairs, there's a shout, articulate profanity, and then martyn tumbles down the stairs. he lands in a heap at the bottom, looks around, and says, "I meant to do that."

[9:21 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Oh my! Are you ok, dear?"

[9:21 PM] DM: A hefty red-haired dwarf woman in chain mail reaches down and helps you to your feet.

[9:21 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Oh hi! I hope you're okay"(edited)

[9:21 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Aside from a mostly unpleasant interaction with a local and a particularly unpleasasnt threat of bodily harm, never better." he nods to the dwarf

[9:22 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Great, more fun. Listen, join us or not, but please let us go through, now. We're wasting time." Seirixori says, annoyed.(edited)

[9:22 PM] DM: Lin: "Yes, please."

[9:22 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "How do we do such a thing, love?"

[9:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "everyone, follow Brimeia's lead. grab a shoulder"

[9:23 PM] DM: Gunnloda and Lin do so.

[9:24 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna places her hand on Gunnloda's shoulder. She's getting antsy.

[9:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine hangs onto Brimeia's shoulder

[9:25 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn puts a hand on the red-headed dwarf's shoulder.

[9:26 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori follows suit.

[9:27 PM] DM: Poni: "Are we ready? Can we do this so we can find the next component soon?"

[9:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "through the portal we go!"(edited)

[9:28 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "How's this work?" Brimeia frowns at the stick

[9:28 PM] DM: Poni sighs heavily. "Put me through the portal."

[9:29 PM] DM: Poni: "I'm not sure how many times I have to explain this."

[9:29 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Treat it like a door," Martyn says. "Step lively now."

[9:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Will you please hand me the stupid stick."

[9:31 PM] DM: Poni: You just have to put me through and I take the rest of you.

[9:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "hang on to the stick, please"

[9:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia chucks the gnome-stick through the portal

[9:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine blinks, unmoving

[9:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "that was...our ride home"

[9:32 PM] Leigh- Enna: "For the gods' sake, that man is in trouble and that thing is unpredictable"(edited)

[9:32 PM] Leigh- Enna: "Oh lord."

[9:33 PM] DM: The image instantly changes as soon as Poni goes through the portal. You no longer see Vardalon or the dryad. Instead, you see Poni lying against a fern at the base of a tree.

[9:33 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "He said put him through. He didn't say how."

[9:33 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori tries to hit Brimeia on the back of the head with her staff.

[9:34 PM] DM: It looks like the same jungle you were looking at before, just in a different spot.

Martyn huffs and steps through without waiting for the rest.

[9:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Great, why with these people?"

[9:35 PM] DM: The portal now shows Martyn and Poni. Martyn, you can see Poni sitting at your feet!

[9:36 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna runs in after Martyn

[9:37 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "I'm Impressed Poni. Your little portal didn't kill me or rearrange my limbs in some terribly inconveinant way." Martyn says

[9:37 PM] DM: As each person goes through the portal, they are visible in the viewing screen of the portal and they are in the jungle.

[9:38 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori goes into the portal.

[9:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine also goes through the portal

[9:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia steps through with the others

[9:40 PM] DM: Poni: "Would you like me to?"

[9:40 PM] DM: Seirixori tries to hit Brimeia and the staff just bounces off her shoulder.

[9:40 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori also picks up Poni after she steps through and shoves him in her bag.

[9:41 PM] DM: You're all in the jungle! There's a lot of green and brown around.

[9:41 PM] DM: Poni (muffled): "hhhhhmmmmphhh!!"

[9:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia turns to look at the spot she was struck without a hint of concern. "Well if you wanted to spar, you're welcome to any time."

[9:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Oh thank god we made it in one piece"

[9:42 PM] DM: Lin and Gunnloda followed everyone else.

[9:42 PM] DM: Lin: "Where's Vardalon? VARDALON!?"

[9:42 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna bends down to speak into Seirixori's bag "I don't appreciate being used as a pawn in any games, gnome. Show us where that man and creature were."

[9:43 PM] DM: Poni (muffled): "mmmmhphpmm"

[9:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "He's doing this on purpose"

[9:43 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Did you really need to ask him a question? He's less annoying this way." Seirixori pulls him out reluctantly.

[9:44 PM] DM: Poni: "If I get the ability to cast spells back, just know you're on my shit list, you rutabega."

[9:44 PM] Leigh- Enna: "All I'm concerned with is making sure we get to Vardalon in time"

[9:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "If I don't leave you in shit first."

[9:45 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "That is a powerfully impolite thing to say Poni."

[9:45 PM] DM: Lin starts making her way through the brush, calling out. "VARDALON?"

[9:46 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Damnit, Lin! Don't go running off!" Seirixori calls out, trying to stop Lin.

[9:47 PM] DM: Lin: "If you aren't going to find him, I will."

[9:48 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "how far did you yeet poni into the portal, tiefling? he can't be that far"

[9:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I dunno. I am quite strong." Brimeia shrugs.

[9:49 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We don't know where we are, running off is going to get you killed and this will be pointless." Seirixori says to Lin.

[9:50 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna goes after Lin and cuts her off, blocking her path. "If you're going to run after him, at least be quiet about it. You don't know what's surrounding us."

[9:52 PM] DM: You all hear a sound from the left and see three small, moldy two-legged creatures with long, thin arms ending in long hands with claws and another blackish, moldy creature that walks on four legs like a beast and has thorns protruding from all parts of its body. They're currently coming around the tree to your north, investigating the sound. Roll for initiative.

[9:57 PM] DM: This creature is a plant called a Vegepygmy. Vegepygmies are created when a humanoid or giant is killed by russet mold’s poison. The mold itself can be killed in many ways, the easiest of which is direct sunlight.

This creature is a plant called a Thorny. Thornies are created when a bestial creature is killed by russet mold’s poison. The mold itself can be killed in many ways, the easiest of which is direct sunlight.

[9:58 PM] Leigh- Enna: "I've never seen these things before."

[9:59 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "I suggest an immediate and liberal application of fire." Martyn says

[10:00 PM] DM: Vegepygmy 1 is going to come around the tree and make for the loud one.

[10:01 PM] DM: It tries to attack with claws, but Lin manages to jump back behind Enna and avoid it.

[10:01 PM] DM: Vegepygmy #2 will come around to the closest person to her- Brimeia! The claws hit, but can't find purchase on her.

[10:03 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia flies into a rage and swings her mighty greataxe at the offending vegepygmy!

[10:05 PM] DM: The greataxe swings straight through the vegepygmy and it explodes into a cloud of spore.

[10:12 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori uses Thorn Whip on the thing she can see.

[10:14 PM] DM: A whip made of thorns and vines forms from the foliage nearby, but the vegepygmy ducks and avoids the strike.

[10:16 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna swings forward with her shortsword at the vegepygmy next to her

[10:17 PM] DM: Enna puts her shortsword right through the vegepygmy and it collapses.

[10:19 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna backs away from the pile mold on the floor. "I think I killed it? Can't be too certain though."

[10:24 PM] DM: "If there's one thing I can't abide, it's mold." Gunnloda points her finger and a ray of fiery light streaks across at one of the vegepygmy. It ducks out of the way.

[10:27 PM] DM: Thorny approaches Enna and makes an attack. The thorny bites into Enna and throws its head around like a dog with a ragdoll.

[10:28 PM] DM: Enna falls unconscious.

[10:30 PM] DM: Vegepygmy #3 is going to attack Gunnloda.

[10:31 PM] DM: It jumps on her and swipes at the cleric's neck. There's a spray of blood and Gunnloda falls.

[10:33 PM] DM: Lin freaks out, understandably and slashes wildly with her scimitar, but she misses just as wildly.

[10:37 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: martyn casts Ray of Frost

[10:39 PM] DM: Martyn sticks his hand out and a ray of cold shoots forward, striking the vegepygmy in the side, causing a frost to develop on its side. It hisses as if in pain, but isn't dead.

[10:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine hurls a mote of fire and casts fire bolt at the creature to the left and goes to find safety behind a tree

[10:45 PM] DM: The fire shoots past the vegepygmy and hits a tree nearby, sputtering out against the living wood.

[10:47 PM] DM: Vegepygmy stands up, seemingly returning from the dead! It sees it's surrounded and tries to make a break for it. Brimeia can make a reaction attack.

[10:48 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia swipes at the sudden movement from the floor by her.

[10:50 PM] DM: The vegepygmy barely has its feet when the axe comes down on its head again and it collapses again.

[10:52 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia lumbers forward with a mighty howl and swings her axe back then back down upon the moldy dog-like thing.

[10:53 PM] DM: The axe finds purchase in the Thorny's "flesh" but it snarls and spits Enna out, turning on Brimeia instead.

[10:55 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori aims her sights on the weird pet and Thorn Whips it.

[10:57 PM] DM: The thorned vine whips out towards the thorny, but because she was trying so hard not to hit the unconscious elf, she misses.

[11:02 PM] DM: The thorny reaches out and takes hold of Brimeia's thigh, but her barbarian abilities allow her to shrug it off partially.(edited)

[11:03 PM] DM: The vegepygmy chases down Seirixori and slashes at her.

[11:03 PM] DM: It connects with her midsection and slashes her.

[11:04 PM] DM: Lin is going to swing at the one on her savior's thigh. The scimitar comes down on the thorny.

[11:11 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn rushes forward into the fray near the thorny and the vegepygmy and fires a Ray of Frost point-blank into it.

[11:12 PM] DM: The cold blasts out of Martyn's finger and fully encases the unconscious vegepygmy in frost.

[11:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine takes a deep breath before peeking out of her hiding spot and casts magic missile, aiming 2 darts at the thorny and one at the vegepygmy

[11:18 PM] DM: The vegepygmy takes a magic missile to the head, knocking it unconscious, but the thorny is still growling.

[11:20 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia growls menacingly at the moldy looking thing and sweeps the axe toward it.

[11:21 PM] DM: Brimeia buries her axe in the thorny's head and it falls unconscious.

[11:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori attempts to use her herbalism kit to stabilize Gunnloda.

[11:27 PM] DM: Gunnloda is stabilized.

[11:28 PM] DM: The thorny regenerates, stands, and attempts to leave. Brimeia gets a free attack.

[11:29 PM] DM: And it's unconscious again! Huzzah.

[11:29 PM] DM: The vegepygmy returns to life and goes after Lin in a frenzy.

[11:30 PM] DM: It slashes at her leg, causing her to cry out in pain.

[11:30 PM] DM: She in turn turns and attacks it. , but misses.

[11:33 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn turns and attacks the vegepygmy with Ray of Frost again

[11:34 PM] DM: The vegepygmy's limbs start to seize up, but it doesn't fall.

[11:35 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts fire bolt directly at the thorny bastard(edited)

[11:37 PM] DM: It dies!

[11:38 PM] DM: Brimeia!

[11:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia changes toward the remaining critter and whirls her greataxe toward it!

[11:41 PM] DM: Brimeia's axe comes down on the vegepygmy and it shatters into tiny ice cubes. Enna and Gunnloda wake up at 1 hp.

[11:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori wants to loot the bodies.

[11:42 PM] DM: Gunnloda sits up. "That... was not good." She puts her hand to her neck.

[11:42 PM] DM: Brimeia puts her hand directly in the vegepygmy's body and comes away with her hand covered in spores.

[11:42 PM] DM: Seirixori and Martyn unfortunately don't find anything here.(edited)

[11:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grimaces and swipes her hand on the tree bark nearby.

[11:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "we should rest for the night"

[11:48 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Aye, we could use some healing." She puts a hand on Enna and heals her for 6 hp.

[11:48 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori pulls Poni out of her pack, "Let's do this quickly in case there are more lurking around."

[11:49 PM] DM: She heals herself as well for 5 more.

[11:50 PM] DM: Poni: "Grab on."

[11:50 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine latches onto seirixoaoisasdalk's shoulder

[11:50 PM] DM: Gunnloda touches Martyn's shoulder and Lin reluctantly touches Enna, glancing around for sight of Vardalon.

[11:50 PM] DM: Lin: "We'll come back for him, right?"

[11:51 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Yes, yes, we're just in no shape for anything else right now."

[11:51 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia reaches for Ravaphine's shoulder

[11:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori waits for all the touching and then pushes the button to bring them back to the basement.

[11:54 PM] DM: The world around you changes to Poni's basement, you all find beds in various places and rest for the night to return in the morning for another go-round.

## Session 5

[8:18 PM] DM: The mansion is much the way you left it. The big room's door is still open. The ledger of villagers is on the desk along with the stacks of parchment, books, and the letter about Poni.

[8:19 PM] DM: The locked chest is still in the drawer.

[8:23 PM] DM: Nice! Ok. You notice something odd about the items on the desk. There's a hooded lantern with an eye etched into the top. There's other light sources in the room, so why would someone keep a hooded lantern on their desk?

[8:28 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Why is this person afraid of the dark...probably poni's fault" Ravaphine says before looking at the stack of papers, looking for anything of importance

[8:29 PM] DM: It looks like normal correspondence for a town's ruler, coupled with that of a business owner. From what you can gather, the person who owns the orchard to the north, Baroness Eloise Moonstream, is also the ruler of this town.

[9:23 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We should head back, see if everyone else is awake." Seirixori starts heading out and towards the tavern.

[9:23 PM] DM: A knock at the door gets your attention, and there stand Gunnloda in full armor and Lin, now dressed in leather armor with a shortsword at her side, her eyes rimmed with red.

Gunnloda: "Good morning, dearies. I was wondering if you were planning on finding Master Vardalon soon. Miss Lin here is awfully anxious to get started."(edited)

[9:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "This works just as well. I would like to get started as well."

[9:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Good morning Gunnloda. Good morning Lin. You two are looking ready to go. We promised to help find Vardalon, and we will keep that promise"

[9:26 PM] DM: Lin nods gratefully. "I... went back to the... the portal? Last night, when I couldn't sleep, but it wasn't showing anything. I don't know how to control it."

[9:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We need our tour guide to help us get there" Ravaphine says before stepping out of the mansion and motioning back to Poni's house

[9:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "shall we head back?"

[9:28 PM] DM: Gunnloda follows and Lin half-trots to catch up. "I'll try not to be so loud this time. I'm sorry."

[9:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "That would be appreciated." Serixori trails behind, while still in a hurry, not wanting to be right up in the group.

[9:30 PM] DM: You all head to Poni's house and down to the basement where the base of the portal sits, unactivated.

[9:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia strolls along, not so eager for more foul magic, but eager to do something again besides stand around and stare at things.

[9:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori rummages through her bag, "I suppose I need to take you out of here now," she says as she pulls Poni out.

[9:31 PM] DM: Poni gasps dramatically.

[9:31 PM] DM: "You tried to suffocate me!"

[9:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "You bet."

[9:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, you have no lungs. We need to get back to Vardalon. Can you take us there?"

[9:32 PM] DM: Poni: "I said tried not that it would work. I've told you, all you have to do is put a personal item to my sensor and I can focus on him... or close enough anyway. The archway contains the magic, so without, it's less precise."(edited)

[9:33 PM] DM: Lin holds Vardalon's necklace out.

[9:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori grabs the necklace and places it under the Poni stick, "Well, let's get this over with, shall we?"

[9:35 PM] DM: Poni: "Yes, please. I'm tired of this. We need to find components and fix the envirochronic destabilization. Target, push the button, put me through. WITHOUT throwing me this time."

[9:35 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Eh, you were asking for it."

[9:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "No promises," Seirixori mumbles, while doing as he says.

[9:37 PM] DM: When you flip the lid and push the button, the portal shimmers to life above the base, again focusing on Vardalon. He looks a bit paler this time, the area a bit dimmer as though the sun were setting somewhere on the other side of all the greenery. He's currently giving the green elf-like dryad a shoulder rub.

[9:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine glances at Lin "I know it may look like what it looks like, but he's under her spell"

[9:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Shall we?" Ravaphine asks with her hand outstretched and takes Lin's hand(edited)

[9:39 PM] DM: Lin nods and grits her teeth.

[9:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine puts her other hand on Seirixori's shoulder

[9:39 PM] DM: Gunnloda puts her hand on Lin's shoulder.

[9:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grabs Seirixori's shoulder.

[9:40 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori walks through the portal after everyone is ready.(edited)

[9:41 PM] DM: The world changes around you, shifting once again from Poni's basement workshop to the jungle. There are no moldy bodies around from the previous night, though. It seems the magic took you somewhere else.

[9:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We'll work on your trajectory"

[9:42 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Let's try and be quiet this time. And maybe see if we can tell if there are any tracks to follow."

[9:43 PM] DM: Brimeia is very distracted by the many women around her.

[9:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Quiet? Why bother?"

[9:44 PM] DM: Ravaphine sees something shiny to the northwest.

[9:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I see something over there that may be a component" Ravaphine says while walking in the direction of the object

[9:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine searches for the component

[9:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, please, we don't need everyone to fall unconscious again." Seirixori walks slowly behind Ravaphine, "Hey how about we try to do this a little more stealthy than last time?"

[9:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "don't be suspicious"

[9:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Not everyone. Only one.. or two."

[9:50 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a weird brownish fuzz on the tree to the north.

[9:51 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori pauses and the whispers, "There's something on the tree to the North, we should avoid that."

[9:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Or if anyone can sneak over and check it out, but I'd rather not run into what we ran into yesterday."

[9:52 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "I wonder if that would go well in a stew."

[9:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "It might kill people instead of tasting good."

[9:53 PM] DM: You recognize it as the russet mold that creates the vegepygmies and thornies you fought yesterday. It is highly toxic and anyone killed by it returns to life as one of the mold people.

[9:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Yep, that ugly fun mold we ran into yesterday, let's not walk that way."

[9:54 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Everyone stay close"

[9:56 PM] DM: When Ravaphine walks close to the tree, the mold's spores erupt towards her. You feel a little sick at first, but you cough and feel like that's the worst of it.

[9:56 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Are you ok, love?"

[9:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "AVOID the tree, not walk next to it."

[9:57 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Curiosity is going to get the best of me..."

[9:57 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Wouldn't want to fight you quite like that."

[9:58 PM] DM: You notice movement to the south and to the west.

[10:00 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I feel like this place is full of those spore things, but I don't know where we need to go for this Dryad."

[10:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Why are you walking TOWARDS the movement"

[10:01 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I don't think we have much a choice until we can figure out what direction this Dryad is."

[10:02 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Alright, southwest we go. Stay close and I promise not to touch those trees"

[10:02 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "We could always yell again," Brimeia chuckles

[10:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "if you want to, but go do it far, far away from us."

[10:03 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh but you are all so lovely, why should I wish to part?"

[10:03 PM] DM: Seirixori, you see a vegepygmy duck behind a tree to the south. One covered in brown fuzz.

[10:04 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's another fuzz thing to the South. Maybe West?"

[10:05 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I hate those damn things. Let's try to avoid it"

[10:06 PM] DM: Gunnloda: I think I see someone up ahead.

[10:07 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Hey, Seirixori, did you know that the others thought we were related? Ha."

[10:07 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "That is very...unsettling and rude." Seirixori says to Brimeia.

[10:07 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Should we walk right up to them or no?"(edited)

[10:07 PM] DM: She and Lin both draw their weapons.

[10:08 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well we gotta see who it is. Only one way to find out!"

[10:08 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Do we want to be threatening right away or do we maybe want to talk our way out of this?"

[10:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine cautiously follows the group

[10:10 PM] DM: As Brimeia pushes past the huge fronts of greenery in the way, the forest opens into a slight clearing. There, you see the dryad, mid-massage, snap her head up towards you.

[10:11 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Greetings fair dryad. If you don't mind we'll just be taking this man back home."

[10:11 PM] DM: She stands taller and says something in a musical language none of you understand, clearly angry at being disturbed.

[10:15 PM] DM: Vardalon dazedly stands, looking at the dryad with a faint smile.

[10:16 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia walks toward the pair, looking rather unconcerned. "Come now, friend." She reaches for the man.

[10:17 PM] DM: The dryad tenses and says something emphatically in the musical language. You can't tell what words she was using, but you can get the idea- "GET OUT."

[10:17 PM] DM: Vardalon makes no move.

[10:17 PM] DM: Lin steps forward. "Vardalon? Sweetheart?"

[10:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, back away! Let's see if we can communicate with it first!" Seirixori says, "We don't need to start anything if we don't have to."(edited)

[10:19 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ravaphine, would you happen to know what she's saying or maybe something similar? I don't think it sounds anything like the languages I know."(edited)

[10:21 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "If you're gonna try something, do it quick. I don't see why we can't just pick him up and go."

[10:21 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I unfortunately do not speak Sylvan. I was raised by a gnome"

[10:22 PM] DM: As you speak, the dryad speaks and her body, rather than being the green, elf-like creature, now seems to have a layer of bark covering her body.

[10:22 PM] DM: She repeats her previous statement, this time taking a step forward.

[10:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let him go!"

[10:24 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Shoulda just picked him up as soon as we saw him."

[10:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Great, this is the opposite of what I wanted." Seirixori sighs, "She's protecting herself, ready to defend!"

[10:27 PM] DM: The dryad picks up a fallen branch and mutters a phrase. She speaks in Elven this time. "You will not get another warning. Leave us."

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine pleads to the dryad in elven, "Please, he is our friend. Release him"

[10:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "She's pretty and all but can I just knock her out now so we can get on with this?"

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "She said 'You will not get another warning. leave us'" Ravaphine tells the group

[10:31 PM] DM: You feel a whisper at your ear, but you manage to tune it out.

[10:32 PM] DM: Vardalon blinks and looks around, slightly confused.

[10:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Instead of drawing an attack, Ravaphine pleads with the dryad one more time "Please release him, we will trade you for him"

[10:39 PM] DM: Dryad! In Elven: "Trade? What would I want from you? I have everything I need."

[10:39 PM] DM: She shouts out in a strange, garbled language.

[10:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, frustrated with all this nonsense, goes into a rage and steps forward to swing her greataxe at the druid.(edited)

[10:44 PM] DM: Brimeia swings, but she telegraphs so much that the dryad easily ducks under it.

[10:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori attempts to use Thorn Whip on the Dryad.

[10:48 PM] DM: Seirixori pulls another thorn covered vine from nature and slashes out, but once again misses.

[10:49 PM] DM: Lin! She runs over to Vardalon. "Vardalon? You need to come home with us!"

[10:50 PM] DM: Vardalon looks at Lin. "Lin? Where are we?"

[10:53 PM] DM: Gunnloda throws a hand out at the dryad and a streak of radiant light flies towards her. The dryad takes the bolt right in the chest.

[10:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine steps forward, takes aim and cast magic missile and all three glowing darts at the dryad

[11:00 PM] DM: The dryad screams out in pain, taking all three bolts to the chest.

[11:00 PM] DM: The dryad reaches out and touches the tree next to her, disappearing.

[11:03 PM] DM: Seirixori glances around in time to see the dryad step out of a tree behind you and gets advantage as the vines and brush around your feet reach up and try to grab you all. Strength saves.

[11:04 PM] DM: Brimeia and Ravaphine both manage to wrestle free of the vines, but Gunnloda is grappled.

[11:05 PM] DM: The ground in the area is difficult terrain and costs double movement.

[11:05 PM] DM: Additionally, a vegepygmy summoned by her shout appears and attacks Seirixori with its claws.

[11:06 PM] DM: It slashes across her stomach for four damage.

[11:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, angered by the sudden disappearance of her foe, whirls about and stomps in the other direction with a grumpy growl.

[11:16 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves in front of the vegepygmy and shouts out, "Everyone get close and touch, we should try and get out of here!" She slams her staff down and uses Thunderwave.(edited)

[11:20 PM] DM: A wave of force booms out from Seirixori, throwing the dryad to her back. She isn't moving. The vegepygmy roots its feet and doesn't move. Gunnloda flies away and is released by the vines. Brimeia takes half damage.

[11:21 PM] DM: Lin grabs Vardalon's arm and pulls him towards Seirixori.

[11:21 PM] DM: Gunnloda stands and fires another sacred flame at the vegepygmy.

[11:22 PM] DM: The vegepygmy fails its save and you can see a bit of it is now singed.

[11:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts fire bolt at the vegepygmy

[11:24 PM] DM: The vegepygmy bursts into flame and falls, collapsing into dust.

[11:26 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves to the group and uses healing word on herself.

[11:26 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Welcome back, Vardalon"

[11:28 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a shiny to the north.

[11:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's a shiny thing to the North, however I am not a fan of this forest, so I vote for going back."

[11:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I think we should bring Lin and Vardalon back home"

[11:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What if it's valuable?"

[11:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What's more valuable than life?"

[11:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Listen, let's all just hold hands or arms or something and carefully walk forward and if there's more of these damn things, I'll just push the button. how does that sound?"(edited)

[11:34 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Sounds more than fair to me," Brimeia grins.

[11:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Alright, but stay close"

[11:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves towards the shiny carefully.

[11:37 PM] DM: Gunnloda taps Ravaphine on the shoulder. "Creatures to the right, mold to the left, but there's something at the base of the tree there."

[11:38 PM] DM: As you all turn your gaze that way, you can see what looks like a body lying near the mold.

[11:38 PM] DM: The shiny was sunlight glinting off something metallic on the body.

[11:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori doesn't want to bother because there are things surrounding them so she pushes the button on Poni.

[11:39 PM] DM: The jungle disappears suddenly and you're all back in Poni's basement.

[11:40 PM] DM: Vardalon hugs Lin. "You saved me? Thank you!"

[11:40 PM] DM: Lin : "Thank you for helping me. Please, come by the general store later and I'll see if I can help you with anything."

[11:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia shakes her head at the sudden change in scenery. "HEY! I was gonna get that shiny thing!"

[11:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Not worth possibly dying." Seirixori says as she walks upstairs back to the Tavern where the others were.

[11:44 PM] DM: Lin and Vardalon leave.

[11:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine starts looking through Poni's bookshelves again

[11:46 PM] DM: She finds books!

## Session 6

DAY TWO: 8:30AM BELLBURY TIME

Brimeia and Seirixori are in the basement. Gunnloda picks up Poni's body and starts taking it upstairs. Ravaphine disappears.(edited)

[8:32 PM] DM: Poni: "Can we go get the component now?"

[8:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Well, when your damn mess up gives us more people to do it, then yes. I am not going after your components with just me and this...one."

[8:35 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I have a name you know."

[8:43 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I'm aware." Seirixori twirls Poni around and starts to poke around the basement.

[8:51 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "So pleasant to spend more time in your company," Brimeia chimes, walking along behind Seirixori but not really wanting to touch any of the magical, probably dangerous equipment

[8:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Could you not follow me, the basement is small enough that you can stand away from me and watch if you have nothing better to do." Seirixori says, tensing and stops her rummaging but begins to fidget with Poni.

9:03 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "The stick's gettin' ansty. Y'find another component, Poni?"

[9:04 PM] DM: Poni: "Same one. Push the button and I'll show you."

[9:05 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well I'm ready when the rest o' ye are"

[9:05 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori pushes the button, "All set?"

[9:06 PM] DM: Gunnloda appears back at the stairway. "I thought that body might start to smell soon. Are you looking to go out again, dears?"

[9:08 PM] DM: Martyn appears in the basement. he'd descended behind everyone else quietly.

[9:09 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "There's still that component we need to find. And the sooner we get it, the sooner we all are free from being jerked around by some whinging magic wand"

[9:10 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well then, let's head out" Urrak places a hand on the nearest persons shoulder

[9:11 PM] DM: When Seirixori pushes the button, the portal comes to life, again centered on the component sitting in the darkness of a destroyed building. The rubble behind the component is old and weathered and the entire image is dark as if a moonless night. While you’re looking, you notice a bit of movement from the shadows in the distance, but you can’t tell what it was.

[9:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia throws her arms around the nearest two who happen to be Seirixori and Enna.

[9:14 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna stiffens at the amount of touching, uncomfortable with the sudden embrace, but relents(edited)

[9:16 PM] DM: Poni: "Everyone touchy-touchy then GENTLY put me through."

[9:17 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori steps through when everyone is touching. "Yay darkness."

[9:18 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Yes, stick-man. Just as gently as you've done your magic, I'm sure."

[9:19 PM] DM: The scene around you changes from Poni's basement. Instead, the world around you is bleak and shrouded in darkness. You’re in what appears to be a destroyed village. Several houses surround you in various states of destruction. Some have entirely collapsed, others are still partially standing. Those of you without darkvision can't see the hands in front of your faces.

Gunnloda: "Oh my it's dark. D'you mind if I just keep my hand here, dear?" Enna feels a bit of a squeeze on her shoulder.

[9:20 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "This ain't just darkness. This is...advanced darkness"

[9:21 PM] DM: You can see there are several craters around, evidence of heavy weapons and powerful magic.

[9:21 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Your ability to grasp the obvious is truly unmatched Urrak."

[9:24 PM] DM: Enna, Martyn, and Seirixori notice movement shuffling from the side of a building to the north, possibly attracted by the sound.

[9:26 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna gestures to the north, then puts her finger to her mouth to make a shushing sign

[9:29 PM] DM: Gunnloda and Seirixori bump into each other, causing Gunnloda's armor to clank noisily. The shuffling comes closer. As it steps out further into view, you see a humanoid skeleton, still wearing scraps of the armor it died in and holding a shortsword, stumbling directly in your direction. Roll initiative.(edited)

[9:33 PM] Leigh- Enna: "You shouldn't exist." Enna, growls angrily. She  draws back her longbow and looses an arrow toward the skeleton

[9:34 PM] DM: Your arrow flies out, hitting the skeleton directly in the spine and causing it to collapse on itself.

[9:35 PM] Leigh- Enna: "I don't like undead."

[9:37 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a piece of familiar looking rubble to the west. Enna and Urrak notice movement around you, but something particularly frantic to the southeast.

[9:39 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna whispers to the group, "There are more coming. To the southeast."

[9:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I think the compnent we need is over there," She whispers and points to the west.

[9:39 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "This one ain't the last" Urrak whispers. "We should try an' stay quiet."

[9:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well let's go get it!"

[9:42 PM] DM: Enna and Urrak have both seen these back home. The dead who are brought back to life, whether due to specific acts of necromancy or the general aura of evil around a place. Looking around and seeing how much death must have happened here, you can guess it's probably the latter.

[9:44 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Where there are undead, a necromancer isn't far"

[9:44 PM] DM: Brimeia heads to the west.

[9:45 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, or somethin' just plain evil. I've got a bad feelin' about this..."

[9:46 PM] DM: As you walk across the open roadway, you see another skeleton come into view, attracted by the sound of your heavy footfalls.

[9:51 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia flies into a rage at the sight of the skeleton and flings her javelin at it.

[9:53 PM] DM: The javelin flies from Brimeia's hand, but unfortunately it flies over its shoulder and embeds itself in the ground behind.

[9:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak turns towards the skeleton and begins to run towards it, unsheathing her greatsword and swinging it at the undead monster

[9:58 PM] DM: The greatsword comes down in an arc, severing the skeleton's arm, but it does not fall.

[9:58 PM] DM: Gunnloda can't see shit! She looks around frantically. "Can any of you see?"

[10:03 PM] DM: Several figures come out of the gloom towards Gunnloda's voice. Enna also spots a live human, waving his hand in the mostly whole house to the southeast.

[10:03 PM] DM: They are all skeletons, from what you can see, besides the human.

[10:05 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves towards the west where she saw the possible component and uses Thorn Whip on the skeleton next to Urrak.

[10:07 PM] DM: You notice a skeleton and a zombie to the northwest. You also see the component, resting atop the rubble of the house.

[10:08 PM] DM: The thorn whip hits and drags the skeleton away from Urrak and ten feet closer to Seirixori.

[10:12 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: matryn turns to his right, and takes a shot at the nearest skeleton(edited)

[10:13 PM] DM: The arrow flies forward and embeds itself in the legless skeleton, causing it to also collapse.

[10:19 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna shoots another arrow at the nearest skeleton

[10:19 PM] DM: Enna's arrow soars wide.

[10:23 PM] DM: You notice another skeleton beween two houses. The human looks scared and wears a leather apron.

[10:23 PM] DM: He's trying to get your attention.

[10:26 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia charges the skeleton near the component with a load roar and a heave of her greataxe!(edited)

[10:27 PM] DM: The skeleton's ribs break and the arm and shoulder fall from it, but it still stands.

[10:28 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs at the skeleton Seirixori grabbed with her whip and slashes at it with her greatsword

[10:28 PM] DM: She cleaves it in twain!

[10:30 PM] DM: The creatures all turn towards the loudest people- Brimeia and Seirixori.

[10:30 PM] DM: The skeleton next to Brimeia attacks with its shortsword.

[10:30 PM] DM: And misses.

[10:30 PM] DM: The zombie closes in on Brimeia.

[10:31 PM] DM: It clumsily throws its arm forward to try to smack her.

[10:33 PM] DM: The skeleton archer attacks Seirixori, catching her in the shoulder with an arrow.

[10:36 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Was someone hurt?"

[10:37 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Just a bit," Seirixori grumbles and moves next to Gunnloda, "I'm in front of you."

[10:40 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn steps to the side, and shoots at the skeleton

[10:41 PM] DM: The arrow pierces the skeleton's shoulderpad and sticks out of it, taunting you.

[10:43 PM] DM: Just Martyn. Martyn takes a few steps to the side.

[10:44 PM] DM: The human looks like a commoner. Not dirty enough to have been here long, more like he was working nearby. He's clearly shaken by the creatures that have come out towards you all and is cowering behind a broken table.

[10:51 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna moves closer to the man cowering in the corner and says out loud but not yelling, "Tell us where they're coming from! How did you get here?" As she runs, she flings another arrow at the skeleton she passes.

[10:52 PM] DM: The arrow does sail wide. The man shakes his head and waves his hands in a side to side 'stop' motion, putting a finger to his lips as if to say 'shhh'.

[10:53 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia swings furiously at the skeleton in front of her.

[10:53 PM] DM: The axe swings right through the missing parts of the skeleton, missing again.

[10:55 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak catched a glimpse of the component in the corner of her eye as she runs towards the skeleton that is attacking Brimeia. She swings her greatsword down upon it

[10:56 PM] DM: Urrak's greatsword cleaves the skull in two and it crumbles.

[10:56 PM] DM: You can use your bonus action to pick up the component if you'd like.

[10:56 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak then picks up the component(edited)

[10:57 PM] DM: Gunnloda will cast Cure Wounds on the person who bumped into her.

[11:01 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a slightly glowing corpse coming towards Urrak and Brimeia. The other undead are closing in. The zombie next to Brimeia hits her with its decaying hand again.

[11:01 PM] DM: The archer spins and fires at Enna. The arrow pierces her side.

[11:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We should probably start heading out! There's a creepy glowy thing near you Brimeia and Urrak!" Seirixori says as quiet as possible.

[11:07 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn shoots at the same man he'd tried to strike before.

[11:08 PM] DM: The arrow flies by.

[11:11 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna shoots the archer with her longbow

[11:12 PM] DM: The arrow flies through the archer's skull and continues on to stab into the skeleton far beyond's femur.

[11:13 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna motions for the man to come closer to the group

[11:14 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, still upset about the last missed swing, turns and takes another mighty swipe!

[11:14 PM] DM: Brimeia's axe comes down on the shoulder of the zombie, cleaving deep into its form, but it moans and keeps its feet.

[11:15 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak moves around Brimeia and attacks the zombie

[11:16 PM] DM: Urrak swings and takes the zombie's head off at the neck.

[11:16 PM] DM: Gunnloda reaches out and grabs hold of Seirixori. "Don't leave me, love. I can't see anything."

[11:17 PM] DM: The man starts creeping along the edge of the house he's in towards the commotion.

[11:19 PM] DM: The skeleton and zombie gang up on Gunnloda. She's pretty fucking secure in her armor, though, so the attacks bounce right off.

[11:20 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I'll stay near by, don't worry" and attacks the skeleton in front of her and Gunnloda. Uses Shillelagh on her quarterstaff .

[11:22 PM] DM: The quarterstaff shatters the bones of the skeleton, turning it to dust and broken dreams.

[11:26 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: martyn takes a shot at the skeleton mongrel to try and put it down.

[11:26 PM] DM: You hit! The arrow sticks through a clump of matted fur that still remains on the creature, but it did do some damage.

[11:28 PM] DM: Martyn takes a few steps towards the rest of the group.

[11:30 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna whispers to the man, "Stick behind me. Do you know where these beings came from?"

[11:30 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna shoots the longbow at the skeleton dog

[11:31 PM] DM: You put the dog down like Old Yeller.

[11:32 PM] DM: The man whispers back. "No, everything went dark, but there's something in the shadows."

[11:32 PM] DM: "Please, get me out of here."

[11:35 PM] DM: It's near transparent, but slightly, eerily glowing.

you recall that this is a specter. Specters are spirits with no rest in sight who only find solace temporarily by killing others. Specters are resistant to elemental and non-magical weapon attacks.

[11:38 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna points to the glowing body "That's a specter. We'll need magic to help destroy it"

[11:40 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Non-elemental magic. Someone enchant something we can throw at it"

[11:40 PM] DM: Enna moved closer to the group.

[11:45 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia stomps over to the next zombie and brings her greataxe down on its head.

[11:46 PM] DM: The greataxe comes down and cleaves into the shoulder, peeling the top part of the torso away from the rest of the body.

[11:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak moves to the other side of the zombie and attacks the remaining half

[11:47 PM] DM: The zombie's head is splattered, causing it to fall lifeless to the ground.

[11:48 PM] DM: Gunnloda can see the faintly glowing ghosty thing and fires a bolt of radiant energy  at it.

[11:48 PM] DM: But it dodges out of the way.

[11:52 PM] DM: You take 5 necrotic damage, but no permanent hp drain as the specter reaches into your body and tries to steal some of your life away.

[11:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori concentrates and uses Thaumaturgy to make a very loud bang about 30ft to the south.(edited)

[12:00 AM] DM: Your wild magic is contained for this spell.

[12:02 AM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn moved into proximity with the group and cast magic missile at the specter

[12:02 AM] DM: Pew pew pew! The magic missiles disappear into the translucent form of the specter and it howls in what might be considered pain.

[12:04 AM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna runs to the group

[12:04 AM] DM: The man follows, his hand grabbing onto your clothes so he doesn't get left behind.

[12:05 AM] DM: It doesn't take much to notice that the shadows at edges of your darkvision are starting to ripple like movement in smoke.

[12:05 AM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak yells to the group, "Everybody hold on to one another! We're gettin' out of here!" Urrak turns to Seirixori "Push the button!"

[12:06 AM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna grabs hold of a shoulder

[12:10 AM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia isn't happy about it, but she grabs onto Seirixori so they can leave. Skeletons and zombies are one thing, but she doesn't like the look of the glowing corpse.

[12:10 AM] DM: If she has it in hand, you could take it or even just reach over and push it while she's holding it

[12:11 AM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia begrudgingly reaches over and pushes the button. Magic is the worst

[12:12 AM] DM: The scene shifts to one of irritating brightness as you're back in Poni's basement. Luckily, though the specter took a final swipe at you, it wasn't touching as you pushed the button.

## Session 7

[8:11 PM] DM: DAY TWO 9 AM BELLBURY TIME

After saving Lins one and two and Vardalon, a group had gone into the darkness to find Poni’s next component. After surviving the endless darkness and dual undead armies of the area, you managed to rescue another commoner, a man standing beside you, near paralyzed with fear, and found another component. Thus far, you’ve learned that Poni can target components or, with the aid of personal items, people. Enna and Serixori appear to have vanished once you appeared back in Poni's basement, but you- Martyn, Urrak, Brimeia, Gunnloda, and this commoner- are standing, slightly squished together, in the basement.

[8:13 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "I tell ya, all this zippin' around is startin' t' make me sick."

[8:13 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Oh, that's too bad. I could make up a porridge that would help settle your stomach."

[8:13 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "If sick you must be, do it on the gnome. my shoes are expensive." Martyn says and staggers to the side

[8:14 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak grumbles and turns to Brimeia "Y' got wand-boy? I see our other Tiefling's been sent away"

[8:14 PM] DM: Man: "Can... can someone tell me what just happened?"

[8:15 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Uhh, aye. I can give y' a summary. Whole lot of folk are bein' teleported in and outta this world cuz of a mad gnome and his experiments."

[8:16 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We lucky few get t' find the pieces of his exploded device, which that stick there, can track. Also the gnome is in the stick. Like some kinda unholy phantom..."(edited)

[8:16 PM] DM: He backs away a bit.

[8:17 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "I suspect he exists to serve as an object lesson in minding the magic you meddle in." martyn says.

[8:17 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Umm," Brimeia shakes her head and pats herself. "I... oh, right this thing here." She holds up the stick disdainfully.

[8:17 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "But uh, it's alright! Yer safe now. We're back in Bellbury."(edited)

[8:17 PM] DM: "So the world isn't destroyed?"

[8:18 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Not hardly."

[8:19 PM] DM: Man: "I suppose I should go then. I'm not much help to you looking for magics and whatnot."

[8:19 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Not so fast: why were you being held in the ruins."(edited)

[8:20 PM] DM: Man: "I wasn't being held. I was hiding. The shadows... they were moving."

[8:20 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "There was a great evil in that place..."

[8:20 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "They've a tendency to do that when Necromancers play about: what business had you out there?"

[8:20 PM] DM: Man: "One minute I was in my shop, working on designs, next I was in the middle of a destroyed village."

[8:20 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "You some kind of smithy?"

[8:21 PM] DM: Man: "Carpenter."

[8:21 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I certainly have no wish to revisit the place... even if my spear is still stuck in some rock back there." Brimeia sighs

[8:22 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Maybe our new carpenter friend can fashion you one as a token of gratitude."

[8:22 PM] DM: The man kinda frowns. "I build buildings, not weapons."

[8:22 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "The poor man's been through enough anyway"

[8:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine makes her way down to the basement and is relieved to see  mostly familiar faces. She listens in on the exchange happening

[8:23 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "It's fine, dear. Some of the others are at the Cask. You should go get yourself a meal and check on your home."

[8:24 PM] DM: Gunnloda frowns at Martyn. "Am I misunderstanding or are ye shaking down a man you just rescued?"

[8:26 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Not so much a misunderstanding as abrupt incomprehension. I can't quite figure why a live man would be teleported by a Necromancer. If indeed it was a necromancer. Certainly working on wood is working on a dead thing but that's hardly link enough to be summoned now is it?"

[8:26 PM] DM: Poni: "Now I may be a lot of things, but I'm no necromancer."

[8:26 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia frowns for a long moment, then just blurts, "What?"

[8:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Wow it appears that I have missed plenty"(edited)

[8:27 PM] DM: Poni sighs heavily like he's explaining something to a toddler. "Some of these people were teleported with the components... or so it seems. All the components so far have been found near people from this town."

[8:28 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "...Makes sense. Sorta."

[8:28 PM] DM: Poni: "It was the destabilization of the envirochronic resonance architecture that caused him to teleport, not some necromancer."

[8:29 PM] DM: Poni mumbles, "Not like necromancers could even say as much."

[8:29 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "I meant no insult to your professional pride, Poni. And i humbly apologize to you, sir." it's mostly heartfelt.

[8:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Well not tanglin' with a necromancer suits me fine."

[8:29 PM] DM: Man: "Is that... the stick talking? Can... I go get a drink now?"

[8:30 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "now THAT'S some sense he's talking. shall we?"

[8:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, we should all take a well deserved break with some well deserved ale"

[8:30 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Ha. Yeah, it does that. I can't get used to it either."

[8:32 PM] DM: Poni: "Break? But the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter! There are more components to find!"

[8:32 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "After how badly things went trying to recover the last bloody piece, you really think it's wise to push so abruptly to find the next one?"

[8:32 PM] DM: Poni: "I feel fine."

[8:32 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh, hush you! 's your fault we're in this mess anyway. Let us have some fun!" Brimeia grumbles at the Poni stick thing(edited)

[8:33 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "If i snap Poni in half does that diminish or increase our chances of living long lives?"

[8:34 PM] DM: Poni: "You couldn't if you wanted to, but even if you did, you'd never fix the Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter or stabilize the envirochronic resonance architecture and you'd just pop in and out of your life until you die. Hope you don’t have any important plans coming up or a girlfriend who actually likes you being there."

[8:33 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We're aren't all phantoms like you. Livin things need rest, relaxation. All o' that"

[8:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "This way, we can search the city more. But I do have to agree with Poni just this once. Take a break for now but then back to work," Ravaphine says with slight uncertainty in her voice

[8:35 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine takes the stick and shoves him into her backpack

[8:35 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "No one said anything about abandoning the plans to restore Poni's malfunctioning invention. just a drink to take the edge off the lst adventure."

[8:36 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "We should get t' know this town we keep gettin' poofed in n' out of as well"

[8:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Lead the way," Ravaphine says

[8:36 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Not a bad idea, but I'm going to go bury his body. Perhaps I'll catch up to you in the tavern."

[8:37 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "He might be small, but did y' need any help luggin' him topside?"

[8:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I.. " Brimeia grimaces at the corpse. "Could help you dig?"

[8:39 PM] DM: ((She already took the body upstairs and behind a wall, out of sight.))

[8:39 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "I can handle it, but I appreciate the offer."

[8:40 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A'course. Now let's get to the that tavern!" Urrak begins to climb the stairs out of the basement

[8:41 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Sound idea!" Martyn follows her up.

[8:41 PM] DM: You're not sure if you've ever met someone as honest looking as Gunnloda, but you're pretty sure she wouldn't be able to lie convincingly if she tried.

[8:42 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia trundles along with the others, exhausted from the encounter with the apparitions.

[8:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine follows

[8:43 PM] DM: Gunnloda follows you all up then ducks behind a wall, picks up a covered body, and heads north in the direction of the temple.

[8:46 PM] DM: You move some stuff around, but most everything was burned, ruined, or destroyed in the fire. It seems to have been a simply decorated and built house with little furniture or decor. Seems like he spent the majority of his time and clutter-making downstairs in the basement.

[8:49 PM] DM: You all head north, Gunnloda following behind until you reach the town square where she turns to the temple instead. The carts outside have mostly been emptied of goods and there's a sign posted with an arrow towards the Cask. You can hear a bit of music coming from the open door of the tavern.