S: Poni

## Session 2

You eventually caught wind of a fire, put it out, and found a body- a gnome wizard who seems to be good at making things explode... including this thing you're all looking at. **You've replaced the crystal inside this rod, and before you could do anything else, you hear a loud gasp. "Who in the Nine Hells are you?"**

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.

[8:23 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"

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

[8:30 PM] DM: T**he 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] 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] 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] DM: **"I'm not dead, you fool. I'm right here."**

[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.

[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.

[9:22 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)

## Session 3

[8:17 PM] DM: Recap: You were taken from your homes and appeared in the square of a town that appears to be deserted. After a cursory exploration of the town centered around the Temple of Takara, you put out a magically induced fire and found a teleportation device that had malfunctioned. The creator was killed, but his consciousness was imprinted on the control rod for the device. He convinced you to put him through a portal to seek the broken components of the teleporter so that you could fix the envirochronic resonance architecture surrounding the town and stop the random effects of teleportation. You came to this place after one of the components and found it in the hands of five human men sitting around a campfire with a bound, gagged, and hooded figure sitting against the crates nearby. You all slaughtered these men, killing even the one who was trying to escape, and Urrak splattered blood across Ravaphine’s boots. As we start again, you’re still in your previous positions, the adrenaline still coursing through your bodies.  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: You find 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 @Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi "(edited)

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

[9:02 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: ((sorry was hanging clothes lol))

[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."(edited)

[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."**

[9:07 PM] DM: You guys reach the burned husk of a house in time to see a woman walk out, a scowl on her face.

[9:07 PM] DM: She looks at the two of you and her frown deepens. "That gnome..." Then she walks away.

[9:10 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia opens her mouth to say something (almost certainly flirtatious) to the woman who emerges from the burnt house, but she  wanders off before she gets the chance. She blinks at the mention of gnome. Surely not THAT gnome?

[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 enters, her 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.

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

[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.

[9:22 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 her 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] 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 slioghtly, 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."

------------- (tracked goblins and fight)

[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 makes a peace sign at her companions and poofs(edited)

[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

[11:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori dispells her entangle and walks up to the bodies.

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

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

[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 hte 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?"

[11:45 PM] DM: Poni: **"Yes, yes, touch each other, push the button. Let's get back home and fix my Quantum Riftshift Slipstream Teletransmitter."**

[11:42 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Bell... bell.. sounds familiar," Brimeia hums thoughtfully

[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

[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."

[8:28 PM] DM: "Oh! More friends! Hello! My name is Gunnloda. Who are you and where are you from?"

[8:29 PM] DM: Brimeia and the woman you rescued from the goblins walk in as well, looking very confused.

[8:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori steps back and away from the group to give herself some space. Her only response is to nod at Gunnloda.(edited)

[8:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia wanders into the square. "Well I found you lovelies after all!" she laughs.

[8:32 PM] DM: Lin: "I'm... Lin. I'm from here."

[8:32 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna leans against the wall, picking at her bracer, her eyes scanning the room.

[8:33 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Friendly bunch, I see. Well, Ravaphine and I were just looking here and found this." She holds out a piece of paper.

[8:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori sighs and steps forward to glance at the paper.

[8:36 PM] DM: You can see it says:

> *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*
>
>

[8:37 PM] DM: **Poni: "That backstabbing-- I hope she's gotten captured by goblins!"**

[8:37 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "So you are crazy, good to know." Seirixori steps back again.

[8:37 PM] DM: **Poni: "All great minds are considered crazy to the people too stupid to understand them."**

[8:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia flinches when the stick-thing speaks. She's never going to get used to that.  "So you get on well with everyone then."

[8:38 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I'm sure you tell yourself that daily."

[8:38 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna gestures her head in a nod towards Seirixori. "What's it say?"

[8:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "That he's mad and a threat." she pauses, "Is there more to this?" She asks Gunnloda.

[8:40 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We also found a locked chest and a list of some villagers names"(edited)

[8:40 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "No, dear. It looks like it was cut off right there."

[8:40 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I think they poofed"

[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: P**oni: "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.

[9:04 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 unpleasant 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, dear?"

[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.

[9:58 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

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[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.

[11:49 PM] DM: She heals herself as well for 5 more.

[11:48 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori pulls Poni out of her pack, "Let's do this quickly in case there are more lurking around."

[11:50 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

Seirixori sighs and steps back a bit, putting the potion in her bag, noticing Poni. "oh right you, well..." She shuts her bag, pretending to not have seen him.

[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."**

[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."

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[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.

[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.

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[8:55 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna descends down the staircase and appears in the basement, relieved to see the others alive but trying to not let her face express that

[8:55 PM] DM: **Poni: "Is three enough, your highness?"**

[8:55 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak follows after, taking in the scene

[8:56 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Y' lookin for somethin'?"

[8:56 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Aw, don't you enjoy my company, Seirixori?" Brimeia hums.

[8:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Obviously not." Seirixori turns and sees familiar faces, "Another component," she says waving Poni in the air a little.

[8:57 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Did you find Vardalon?"

[8:57 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "In the basement? Aren't they usually through a portal or somethin'?"

[8:58 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We were waiting for more of you, I did not want to chance going in with only 2 of us."

[8:58 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye. Yer a squishy lot"

[8:58 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Ah, you've returned. Enna, Urrak." Brimeia smiles and almost leans against a workbench before thinking better of it

[9:00 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna nods, acknowledging Brimea. "Is he alive? What happened to the dryad?"

[9:01 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "He's alive, Dryad is not."

[9:01 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A dryad? Well now THAT'S a battle I wish I'd seen."

[9:02 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Relieved it's not the other way around."

[9:02 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "And this Vardalon? He someone important?"

[9:02 PM] DM: **Poni: "Blah blah blah.**.."

[9:03 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Just someone's ...friend?"

[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.

[9:13 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: ((the nearest person is Martyn then I guess :P))

[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.

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[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.

[12:12 AM] DM: And that's where we'll end for tonight.

## 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: 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

----next day----

[10:42 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak flushes slightly, now fully awake. "Aye, bit o' mornin' dew." "Brimeia, have ye still got ol' Poni?"

[10:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "He's in here" Ravaphine says as she taps her bag

[10:43 PM] DM: You can hear a bit of faint muffled noise.

## Session 8

[11:06 PM] DM: You reach the basement, picking up Seirixori and Enna as they exit the tavern. Urrak disappears halfway down the steps to the basement.

[9:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine removes Poni out of her bag

[9:22 PM] DM: **Poni: "You're quite lucky I can't breathe."**

[9:22 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Are we though."

[9:24 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I'd say you're quite lucky you can't, honestly."

[9:24 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia snorts at both comments.

[9:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine sighs "Cyan, this is the mastermind behind this whole catastrophe. Meet Poni:"

[9:24 PM] DM: **Poni: "Are you finished with your nonsense and ready to get back to, I don't know... saving the world? Or at least this pointless little village?"**

[9:25 PM] DM: Cyan: "He's... everything you said he was."

[9:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "And more!"

[9:27 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Pick a component, and let's go. The less you speak ,the better."

[9:29 PM] DM: **Poni: "I've already found one. Push the button to get a peek."**

[9:28 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "The people in that village may object to your designation of them as pointless, stick-man. They are living lives there. Building a community. That's not something to balk at."

[9:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni please take us to the next destination of the component. We all need to be holding each other in some fashion so we don;t get left behind..." Ravaphine says as she looks shyly over to Cyan

[9:32 PM] DM: Cyan: "So you've said... several times." She winks at Ravaphine, teasing her.

[9:33 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine pushes the button

[9:33 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well, time to get cozy, friends." Brimeia claps her arms around the nearest two ladies

[9:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: She reaches her hand out towards Cyan with a hopeful smile on her face "This is where it gets interesting"

[9:35 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna stares down Brimeia. "One of these times I'm going to have a dagger out when you do that, and you're not going to like my reflex."

[9:35 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: ((but wait is that the hint of a smile on Enna's face oops))

[9:36 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Are you saying you mind it?" Brimeia flashes a grin and a wink.

[9:36 PM] DM: The space above the base of the teleportation object sizzles to life, surrounded by wild magic. Oddly you're not looking at a component at all. Instead, the circle is focused on an odd creature, raven-like in form but with arms and hands instead of wings and the size of a small human. It's walking through a crowded street and you can see the sign of a unicorn in a cauldron over the door it enters.

[9:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori steps out of range of Brimeia and places a hand lightly on Enna's shoulder, "you only need to touch one of us."

[9:37 PM] DM: Cyan shakes her head and allows Brimeia to grab her as well as taking Ravaphine's outstretched hand.

[9:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni...why did you show us this place? That is a Kenku. They're cursed and potentially dangerous. I've read that they could be spies or thieves"

[9:43 PM] DM: **Poni: "It must have the component on it. There's no other reason for it to be in the portal."**

As you watch, the Kenku ducked into a back room and slipped behind a false wall and is now walking down a dark corridor.

[9:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "So, are we going or just...watching?"

[9:44 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Welp," Ravaphine takes a deep breath, "Shall we?"

[9:44 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Let's go."

[9:44 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: She makes sure everyone is hanging on to each other before putting Poni through the portal

[9:46 PM] DM: The scene around you changes from Poni's basement to an alleyway. There's piles of trash and rather large rodents that scurry out of your way as you appear. You can see people walking by and the usual chatter that comes from such a mass of people.

[9:47 PM] DM: Cyan: "This is very interesting indeed."

[9:47 PM] DM: It's day, but that's all you can tell from where you are.

[9:48 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine puts Poni safely back in her bag. "We need to watch out for that Kenku"

[11:18 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I see. Let's get you back home then." Ravaphine takes Poni out of her bag to try to teleport back to the basement

[11:18 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: She reaches for Calley's hand and pushes the button

[11:18 PM] DM: Calley: "Are you going to get my things back?"

[11:18 PM] DM: Ravaphine and Calley appear in Poni's basement.

[11:19 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What are you missing?"

[11:19 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I will try my best to retrieve your items but this man seems dangerous"

[11:19 PM] DM: Calley: "Not much, but he took my coin purse and my locket. It's the only thing I have left from my mother."

[11:20 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I will look for it Calley. Where can I meet you again to deliver if I can find them?"

[11:21 PM] DM: Calley: "I... don't know. Where should I wait?"

[11:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "The tavern. We will be back okay? I promise. Is there anything I should keep in mind when approaching the bird dude?"(edited)

[11:22 PM] DM: Calley: "Which one?"

[11:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "The tavern in town square"

[11:23 PM] DM: Calley: "Ok. I'll wait there."

[11:23 PM] DM: Calley: "I don't know, other than he was really strange and he seemed good with his knives."

[11:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "May we meet again. Poni, please take me to the others looking for the component" ravaphine pushes the button

[11:25 PM] DM: The portal appears. It shows a dark room with a wall of safes across the wall.

[11:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Is this where the others are, poni?"

[11:30 PM] DM: **Poni: "That is where the component is. Those imbeciles you call 'friends' are somewhere nearby."**

[11:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine walks through the portal

[11:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine shoves poni in her bag again

## Session 12

10:06 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori doesn't even care that no one followed her and grabs Poni, "Hey dead gnome, what mess do have next for us?"

[10:07 PM] DM: **Poni: "You're going alone? Push the button. I'll show you what I found."**

[10:09 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori pushes it, now only wondering where everyone is at, "I hadn't planned on it, but I guess we'll see."

[10:11 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna walks into Poni's basement, joining Seirixori

[10:12 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos enters the basement, "sorry, what'd i miss?"

[10:12 PM] DM: The base buzzes to life and the portal flashes open, the edges frayed with magic. Inside, you see stonework. The walls and floor are fitted, carved stone blocks. There's a stone statue of a dragon against the wall, and a component sitting there on the ground. There's the flicker of firelight against the wall casting strange shadows, and now and then a shadow that looks like it might be someone or something moving about in the room.

[10:13 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "ah. that's what."

[10:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Just in time for the fun, I see," Brimeia comments as she steps in.

[10:13 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Oh here we go again,"

[10:14 PM] DM: As you watch, suddenly the light in the room goes out, a sudden darkness lit only by embers, then that too fades to black.

[10:15 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What in the hells?"

[10:16 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "We've got to get that component, but this doesn't look like a situation we want to drop a bunch of people in all at once."

[10:16 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "So who wants to go in first?"

[10:18 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well I can see well enough in the dark, but I'd likely go in swinging." Brimeia shrugs.

[10:20 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Well, every other time we've done this, we haven't exactly ended up where the damn gnome is showing us, so let's just go in. Quietly though, please."

[10:21 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia sighs. "Well if the lady insists," she says flashing a wink.

[10:22 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Great plan." Nolanos holds out his hands. "all together?"(edited)

[10:22 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori waits for everyone and goes through once everyone is ready.

[10:22 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Let's do it."

[10:24 PM] DM: Once everyone's holding hands and Poni's stuck through the portal, the area around you shimmers and flashes. You're now standing in a swamp, ankle deep in muddy water. There are trees all around you, and the only other thing you can really see is a mountain towards the east.

## Session 14

[11:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori grabs Nolanos as soon as he's in reach and pushes the button on Poni.

[11:44 PM] DM: The world shifts and you are back safe and relatively sound in Poni's basement.

[11:45 PM] DM: **Poni: "I-- good job, back there."**

[11:45 PM] DM: **Poni: "I might not have, you know... started a race war, but at least you got the thing."**

[11:45 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Don't ye look at me, I came in part way t' this bloody mess"

[11:46 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "It had already begun. We just got caught in it."(edited)

[11:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori drops Poni and sprints out the room and heads towards the citrus grove.

[11:46 PM] DM: **Poni: "Ow."**

[11:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ah, Seri--!" Urrak watches as she runs off "What's come over Serixirori...?"

[11:46 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos follows Seirixori(edited)

[11:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak follows close behind

[11:47 PM] DM: **Poni: "Ok! I guess I'll just stay here. On the floor. Assholes."**

[11:47 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "We'll be back!" Nolanos yells over his shoulder to Poni "Sorry!"

[11:58 PM] DM: You return and find Poni, still sitting on the floor, but kinda over to the side like someone might've accidentally kicked him on the way out.

[11:58 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Heh. sorry about that." Nolanos walks over and adjusts him, dust him off a bit.