Session 4

Sessions

Session 3

Session 4 – Big black tower

* The group woke up in the morning somewhat rested and Prim and Rei brought the party the tower door they found the night before. It is black stone with iron fittings, no locks or handles.
* Tetzo and Thiana try to push the door open, no result.
* There is old elvish writing that Rei can read, it says “Elemental entry permission only, for the protection of the Queen.”
* Prim and Tetzo then try casting every spell they have that produces an elemental effect. No result.
* Rei tries to push the door open, there is a click and the door pushes open a bit. The group heads into the tower, there is dim light illuminating a stone floor covered in loose bones.
* Tetzo moves to see what he can craft and a skeleton assembles it’s self under him. As the rest of the group join the fight more assemble themselves and the party has to fight off ten of them, once defeated they collapse but are still vibrating. Rei noticed that the livery of the skeletons is either a sun burst on blue field or a fox on a green field.
* The group head up the stairs and are shot at by pressure-plate activated poison darts, various party member collect the darts. Also several skeletons at the bottom have started to reassemble and follow.
* At the top the group comes to a door, goes through and closes it. In the room there is an old table, bed with a skeleton on it and a pile of old broken armor, at one side, on the other side there is a stairway going up to a landing where a door in the outside wall is. There is a suit of armor standing at the bottom of the stairs. The party immediately thinks this is animated armor that will probably attack them.
* They find a letter on the table from Sir Dennis Fellandar to John. The armor does not react to this exploration but when Tetzo moves to go up the stairs it blocks him.
* When questioned, the armor tells them it was Sir John Fellandar and that all is lost and that he must protect the queen. After much back and forth Rei asks to pass and if his companions may pass and John says yes because he is carrying the Sigil of Toil.
* The group head up the stairs and there is a murky portal at the top in an archway. Rei walks through holding hands with the rest of the party, which allows them to pass through as well.
* The party is in a large bedroom with columns surrounding it and a pleasant breeze is coming in the window and a curtained bed is on the other side. The room shakes.
* The voice of a woman beckons. Tetzo, followed by the rest finds a pleasant woman in her early to mid-forties sitting on the bed reading.
* On questioning, she is queen Celestia, she asks about her son, when the group indicates that there has been no king for about 500 years, she seems sad that her son is likely dead. The room still is shaking every-so-often.
* Prim notices that after 10min that the queen looks closer to mid to late fifties now, the queen says that is to be expected as the seal is broken and time is seeping in this reality will collapse. Room is still shaking.
* The queen says the artifacts must be found to save the islands, she tells the group to take the chest at the end of her bed and go. She is now looking late sixties-early seventies. Stone is falling from the walls. Rei grabs the chest and the party leave.
* Once out, the portal has disappeared, there is a pile of armor on the floor Rei takes it, magic seems to have dispersed. Skeletons have collapsed on the stairs the group exits the tower.

Session 4 – What the hell now?

* Rei opens the chest and finds a golden item that looks like it goes on top of a staff, a silver/diamond tiara with some kind of anti-tarnishing spell on it, 5 diamonds, 3 sapphires, 3 rubies, an unrecognized potion in a vial, birth announcements of the four children and a letter indicating if the queen needs to flee the tower to go through the cave to the east.
* The group finds the cave to the east and heads through the tunnel for several hours when they come to a widened-out cavern containing a small lake. The path branches to either side of the lake.
* To the left they run into a big damn spider. So Tetzo checks out the right path and runs into a roper who attacks him, Tetzo avoids getting grappled and retreats a bit, Rei on the left path is engaged by a spider and seems to be doing okay. Thiana and Prim go to help with the roper and Thiana does get grappled.
* Rei seems to be doing well on his own until three more spiders show up out of the webbing. The spiders miss a lot of their attacks, but when they do hit they hurt a lot.
* Thiana, Tetzo and Prim take care of the roper and join Rei’s fight against, now, eight phase spiders. The party wins but Rei and Tetzo are hurting. The group comes to the end of the cavern and enters a smaller series of caverns with giant rats who are in no mood to attack.
* After several more hours they come out of another cave into a forest. They find a path and after following it for some time they come to a sign that says Vilaman’s Rest, but the word "Rest" is on a piece of wood that has clearly been nailed over another word, the piece of wood with the word "Rest" has been removed and nailed back several times judging from the pile of nails on the ground and the holes in the sign. The word underneath is "Disgrace".

Session 4 – Vilaman’s Disgrace Rest

* The party comes to a small village, everything looks low quality and/or run-down, Tetzo heads to the bunk-house and crawls under a bed.
* Thiana headed to the local tavern, The Headless King, and talks to the bar keep who goes off on her about there being two fox teams in the village at the same time. Thiana pays for her drink.
* Meanwhile Rei and Prim also head to the bunk-house and find that there is a group of five people with green fox tattoos on their right hands.
* Prim and Rei approach and find out that Green Fox Team have stopped here because one of their members, Tim Cooper, is dying, apparently of old age, which is notable for a fox team member. Prim talks to an unpleasant caster and mentions they just came from the Tower of Pain (Pam? french for bread?) and Tim calls her over and questions her as he, and the green team of that time, sat on that horrible island for weeks trying to open the door. Prim didn’t tell him about the Sigil of Toil, but he is impressed and gives her his old note book. They leave the group to their vigil. They meet Thiana, who has failed to get drunk, coming from the tavern.
* Looking through the note book there is much written and illustrated commentary on Tim’s opinion of LHD Wityard, notes and dates about meeting his wife, their children and his wife’s death being blown off a ledge into a volcano as well as disjointed notes about things he encountered. Behind the cover they find a note indicating he left a cache of valuables some years (decades?) back under the town sign to the south of Vilaman’s Disgrace because they didn’t trust the “Lord” of the town.
* Prim, Thiana and Rei head out of town south to a sign that is in the same condition as the one on the road to the west except the placard with the word Rest is on the ground. Prim used a move earth spell to excavate and finds a bag of holding containing a drift orb, 10 gold, 2 potions with a note the says “This is ridiculous!”
* They headed back to town to the bunk-house where most of green team have gone to the tavern, leaving Tim with just a female elf. Prim tells they found his stuff and he tells her about the drift orb (the activation word is “light”) and the potion of yeeting. He wishes them well. The party heads to bed, Prim manages to sleep on the bed Tetzo is under.
* In the morning green team is gone when the party wakes up they are packing a cart outside to take Tim’s body to be sent to Paradise Island for burial.
* Tetzo heads out to hunt before the rest get up, everyone else gets up later and goes to the tavern for a meal. They do head to the general store to see if the owner can recognize the potion from the queen’s chest. He knows nothing. They meet up with Tetzo and tell him about last night and give him the drift orb. The party decide to head to get the horses from the port, check out Braymore’s Post and Bird Island.

- END SESSION 4 -

Session 5