Session 15

Session 15

·   The party wakes up at the Sleeping Giant Inn

·   Solla does not remember anything after the “Chunky Horse incident”, recaps their dream to Langar.

·   They leave to wake up the five-body bed gang. Eikthyr does some farting.

·   The party enters Angelina’s room, where she is unmoving. Her chest and face components are both open, and the crystal that powers her is fractured. The revivify either was dispelled or wore off : ( .

o    The body is cold, the party determines that something happened throughout the night.

o    The party can’t conclude what happened - maybe a result of wear-and-tear.

o    Langar and Vjenga get agitated trying to fix her. Vjenga casts mending twice and while it has a small effect to fuse wires - but the crystal refuses the magic.

o    On the interior of the face, the party sees an inscription that reads “You should not see this. If you do, return me to Vostordon.”

o    The party needs to return Angelina’s broken bod to her dad, Hugo.

o    Solla is mournful, Langar is in denial

·   Venphira takes the amulet of health back from Angelina’s body

·   Langar goes to find Sihinion

·   Angelina’s body gets wrapped up in a blanket and carried by Vjenga

·   The patrons and bartenders are questioned by Jinx, they say that they didn’t hear anything but a muffled sound of steam. They are drunk-ish so their memory is impaired, but they appear trustworthy.

·   Langar finds Sihinionand Mavis talking about town security, he approaches them and demands Sihinionget them back to the mainland as soon as possible.

o    Sihinionagrees to transport them, but says he needs a minute, and wants to know why the party wants to go to Vostordon.

·   He is escorted back to the waiting party and prepares to teleport them to Vostordon, says there may be some hiccups.

·   The party argues about whether Sihinionis trustworthy.

·   The party moves into a circle and is teleported. While being teleported, all that the party can see is blackness, the movement is extremely quick, though time seems to stretch and the party gets a glimpse at other realms as they move. They arrive at the outskirts of Vostordon seemingly intact.

·   Solla puts their hood up.

·   There are a few children that witnessed the party approach and are getting excited about it, one human child and one dwarf child.

o    Sylvi insults them, and they run off. Langar tries to ask where the party is, and they reply “uh- home..?” and keep running

o    The party finds the children’s parents and asks about their location. The parents ask if the party is here to see the gate of the goods. Langar asks about Hugo and the parents direct the party to his home.

·   Hugo’s home is surrounded by swaths of children, waiting for Hugo.

·   Vjenga talks to one, Ben, who says this is “the toymaker’s house”. Ben says that he brings the best toys, which is why the children are waiting.

o    Ben has a finely-made princess doll (with a sword), and says they need a prince. Jinx comes at them for being heteronormative.

o    Children are enamored by Jinx, who they call a giant wabbit.

·   The party approaches the door of Hugo’s home, children part like the sea.

o    Jinx gets picked up by some random kid.

o    Solla shoes the gremlin children away

·   Langar knocks on the door.

o    Hugo says through the door that he is not seeing anyone right now.

o    After being told that the party is carrying Angelina, the door swings open. He asks what the party has done.

o    Vjenga explains that she has failed to take care of Angelina, that something has gone wrong, and shows Hugo the corpse.

o    Hugo description  TLDR bite size Santa

o    He takes Angelina off Vjenga NO PROBLEM. Swole Santa?? He lets the party in.

o    Vjenga tries to explain how Angelina got into her current state. Hugo hovers over Angelina, and concludes that the magic has left the crystal which powers her.

o    Hugo sees and asks about Vjenga’s amulet. He says he needs it for something. Vjenga takes it off with some serious reluctance. Hugo removes the draining curse from the amulet, Vjenga gets healthy af. Hugo is a G.

o    He’s also bawling.

o    He asks the party to leave for a few minutes, then they move back outside.

·   The party is swathed by children.

·   Langar spots something that does not look at all like Hugo through a window. He hears a muffled wail and busts down the door thinking that Hugo is in danger.  He sees this >

·   Langar draws his greatsword to see if the fiend makes a move and asks what it has done with Hugo.

o    He is ignored, and the wailing and sobbing continues.

o    The party does not hear what is happening inside.

o    Solla follows inside, and concludes that Langar is not in trouble and advises Langar not to attack. Langar can’t hear her.

o    The form of the fiend diminishes back into the shape of Hugo.

·   Kale wakes up.

·   While this is happening, Jinx is overrun by rambunctious children. She is fighting for her life.

o    Eikthyr gives a piggyback ride.

·   The GRIEVING FATHER calls everyone back inside.

·   Kale joins.

·   Hugo is unhappy with Langar’s intrusion.

o    He gives Langar a scrap of paper, Vjenga’s amulet, and another sparkling brick-red crystal with a tree-like inclusion (similar to the branching pattern of Vjenga’s amulet).

o    He tells the party that if they focus on the stone, they will be transported to Minabar, his hometown. He refers to it as a hellish place rife with suffering.

o    He says you won’t see it on a map, it both is and isn’t a place on the continent.

o    The party needs to find a stone like Angelina’s crystal, preferably of the same size.

o    To stay safe, Hugo advises that the party gets buddy-buddy with some group in Mindabar, pray to their deities, and hope you are not eaten or sacrificed.

o    Hugo gives the party Angelina’s crystal, it is a dark green hexagonal celadonite crystal.

o    Langar asks about getting out, Hugo says that places or people might be able to help them leave. He warns against making a contract if the party wants to keep their souls. “Don’t antagonize the people with marks on their necks.”

·   Amelia has to leave.

·   Langar gives Hugo the coin he carved for Angelina.

·   The party sees pictures of Angelina and Hugo around the house, an Angelina that they don’t recognize. She appears to be human.

·   The party leaves

·   Jinx takes a book that was open on the floor.

o    It doesn't have a marked cover.

o    Inside, she reads the title “a guide to necromancy.” It's a history and opinion piece of necromancy. Says that necromancy makes you an enemy of Hel.

o    Jinx tries to unload the book onto Solla, claiming that it was Solla’s and that she dropped it.

o    The party heckles Elyes by asking specific questions about books.

·   The party goes shopping.

o    Solla goes to the blacksmith “Forging Matters” and tries to sell the cursed items (armors and blades of the fand) to the half-orc vendor. They decline but do identify the curse. They advise Solla to have the items cleansed at a temple.

o    Solla flips a copper at the vendor “there’s more where that came from” and leaves.

·   Vjenga goes to a jewelry market - “Miss Golding”

o    Approaches a sweet old gnome who tells her about jewelry kits.

o    Vjenga asks about diamonds, and the jeweler takes a bunch of mixed diamonds out from under the stand. There are a wide variety of sizes and colors ranging from affordable to definitely, definitely not.

o    Vjenga selects a 300gp pink diamond, gets a 20gp discount from this very nice gnome. Jinx lends her 100 smackers.

o    The party discusses the temporal continuity of Puss and Boots the movie.

o    Vjenga now has one gold piece and a baller diamond.

·   Kare wants to buy a shortsword.

o    He goes to the same store, “Forging Matters”, asks about their most expensive sword (17gp) , declines it because there are no magic options. He leaves and says he hates the half-orc vendor.

o    He comes back after finding no other options. The shopkeeper jacks the price up to 20gp because Kare is rude as fuck. He buys it, leaves, and says that he hates the shopkeeper again.

·   The party all travels to the library, where a symbol is hanging - an open book.

o    Solla recognizes this as her monastery’s symbol.

o    The library is a sprawling expanse of books, occupied by readers and monks.

o    Solla is still in their monastery attire, and is hesitant but goes in anyway.

o    Solla asks “could you remind me -- a current monk -- where the magic books are?” (lie)

o    Solla flounders and before they can finish their conversation another half-orc pops out of the back. Solla’s teacher, Skóð (Skoth(?)).

§  Skóð vaults across the room and beats the snot out of a fleeing Solla.

§  They are not trying to kill Solla, but they are walloping them.

§  Langar threatens to chop her head off if she does that again, she laughs.

§  Evidently Solla has been avoiding their Monk-y Lessons whadda hell Solla.

§  Solla tries to run again and is stunned, obvs.

§  Skóð puts Solla in Langar’s arms and slips a stone into Langar’s pocket. Skóð says that this will let her find Solla if she ever needs to.

§  Solla and Skóð leave to talk privately in a room in the back.

§  Solla asks about The Green Lights, Skóð says they can’t get many people in and have lost those that they sent.

§  Solla asks about their parents, citing the nameless dragonborn at The Phantom Queen’s camp who knew her mother’s name.

§  Solla and Skóð spar to demonstrate what Solla has learned, Solla loses.

§  Skóð has to leave “things to do, people to beat up”. Solla asks about how to get into The Green Lights.

o    Jinx experiences a microaggression (macro?). Rabbitfolk are distrusted because many of them are thieves. The monk supervising her is unconvinced that she’s any different.

o    Jinx looks for books about illusion.

§  She finds one similar to the necromancy one, mostly historical and opinion. Both books are written by Kevin Ashton. Jinx learns that Loki is the originator of illusion magic.

o    There is a GrungMonk.

o    Langar looks for books about Bullywugs.

§  He finds a book with information about Dandy Lions.

o    Solla advises Jinx not to steal, Jinx gets upset about this. Jinx and Vjenga discuss rabbitfolk perception and Vjenga offers to back her up after a poor history check.

·   The party leaves the library.

·   Solla buys a different set of clothes.

·   They Do The Rock Focus Thing.

o    The party has a map of Mindabar

§  This is a merchant city with a large variety of people, most are engaged in senseless violence (or getting naaaaastyyyy). There are at least a thousand marked guards on every corner.

§  In the distance, there were those strange rolling thunderous clouds that Barlen and Vjenga saw on The Sea Shield. They are held back by a barrier. Sus.

§  In the center of the city, there is a circular ring floating above the city, seemingly made of fire

§  Time seems irrelevant, there is no sun or moon.

§  Outside the city, there are two pillars of light, one is silverish and the other is bright burning light.

o    The party is sucked into something black-hole esque as they focus on the stone and are transported to a city in a red desert.

§  There is sand moving through the air but it feels still. It is not hot and it is not snowing.

§  The gate before them is guarded by two giant iron colossi, both marked with the symbol Hugo warned the party about, and as it opens a very tall figure in featureless, black robes emerges. They are followed by a cage filled with tieflings and fiends, moving out into the desert. (mo slavery)(very uncool)

§  Jinx tries to approach and one of the figures in black rebuffs her. Jinx takes damage and sees images of her troupe in pain.

§  The party sees two malformed puddles of human flesh with many mouths guarding the gate.

§  Langar urges the party not to cause trouble, Vjenga and Jinx stay close.

§  The gate opens and reveals the city of Desire, Mindabar.

§  99% of people on the streets are engaging in some kind of violence. People with the mark on their neck, however, are walking normally. A tiefling  tries to attack a marked person, and is UNMADE as two crossbow bolts strike them from an unseen area.

§  Both amulets seem to be glowing.

§  Chunky Dragon is gone

·   The party levels up.