S: Bellbury villagers

## Lin #1 (Session 3)

[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] 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] 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.**

## Lin #2 (Session 3)

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] DM: **She stands and winces, touching the back of her head gingerly.**

[11:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well you have nothing to worry about now, fair maiden."

[11:39 PM] DM: **She raises an eyebrow at Brimeia. "Right."**

[11:39 PM] DM: **"How did you know to find me?"**

[11:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "There was a trail of blood."

[11:40 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori points over to the elf, "Tracked the goblins."

[11:41 PM] DM: **"Well, thank you. Do you know how to get back to Bellbury? I'm afraid I might be in awful trouble when we get back."**

[11:41 PM] DM: Poni: "Blah blah blah. Can we go?"

[11:42 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Shut up," Seirixori gives the device a shake. "Honestly I have no idea where we are, nothing around here is familiar, however if we bring you back to the town we came from, maybe you might know your way back?"

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

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

[11:46 PM] DM: Poni: "Bellbury's the town where I live. Lived."

[11:46 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "The Qua- what?"

[11:46 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "It doesn't matter, let's just go before anything else comes in here."(edited)

[11:46 PM] DM: If Poni had a face it would be .\_.

[11:46 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Let's go. Get this woman back, there's nothing else to be gained here."

[11:47 PM] DM: Poni: "Do we have the component?"

[11:47 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "The other elf had it"

[11:47 PM] DM: Poni: "...Great. Better hope she comes back."

[11:48 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Isn't that your fault, anyway, you... you stick gnome?"

[11:48 PM] DM: Poni: "Let's go."

**Lin: "Yes, if you know which way to go, that would be best. I'd rather not be here when the animals catch the scent of fresh meat."**

[11:49 PM] DM: **She grabs a scimitar and starts for the mouth of the cave.**

[11:49 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Wait! We have a faster way to the town."(edited)

[11:49 PM] DM: **"Faster? It's like fifty feet."**

[11:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "We do?"

[11:50 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia scratches her head. All this magical stuff is so confounding.

[11:50 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "This thing can teleport us to the town. I don't know how it just... does. But we have to all be touching each other, so there's that."(edited)

[11:50 PM] DM: Lin: **"Oh. All right then."**

[11:51 PM] DM: She walks back over and puts her hand on Brimeia's shoulder.

[11:52 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh. Right. That." Brimeia grimaces at the thought of the queasy magic feeling but smiles again as the woman puts a hand on her shoulder.

[11:52 PM] DM: Poni: "Tap tap tap. That's the sound my foot would be making if I had one."

[11:53 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "You... hush. This is all your fault anyway." Brimeia drops her voice and leans toward Seirixori. "It is, right?"

[11:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ugh," Seirixori groans and sets her hand on the stranger's shoulder, "Elf?"

[11:53 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna extends out a hand, visibly uncomfortable but willing to go along.

[11:55 PM] DM: Poni: "You don't have to touch. You'll just be an experiment to see if you come back to Bellbury on your own or if you're trapped here forever."

[11:55 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia hooks an arm around Enna's

[11:55 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: ((that works lol))

[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: Poni: "Press my button."

[8:58 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "No thanks," Brimeia grumbles.

[9:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine noticies the components on the desk and takes the first component out of her bag to add to the collection "I'm going to put these on the top shelf so they're safe"

[9:00 PM] DM: Poni: "Great. That way you won't take it home and lose it."

[9:00 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Honestly," Seirixori reaches over and pushes the stupid button.

[9:01 PM] DM: Through the portal, you see a component, sitting in the darkness of a destroyed building. The rubble behind the component is old and weathered and the entire image is dark as if a moonless night. While you’re looking, you notice a bit of movement from the shadows in the distance, but you can’t tell what it was.

[9:02 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well if you wanted to hold hands, all you had to do was ask," Brimeia says with a wink.

[9:03 PM] DM: You all recall that you were asking Poni to find Vardalon, not a component.

[9:04 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "We promised that woman we would find the person she's missing, gnome."

[9:04 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, enough. Poni, this is not where we're going first."

[9:04 PM] DM: Poni grumbles again. "Fine. Put the item up to the sensor on the bottom of... me."

[9:04 PM] DM: **Lin takes the necklace from her neck and hands it to Brimeia.**

[9:05 PM] DM: **Lin grabs the scimitar from the table.**

[9:05 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia takes the necklace and holds it up to the stick thing. "Like this?"

[9:05 PM] DM: Poni: "Now push the button."

[9:06 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Do I have to?"

[9:07 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Give me the damn thing if you won't, stop wasting time."

[9:07 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna mutters under her breath, "Why hesitate, you're pushing everyone else's buttons"

[9:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "be careful with that, it's not very stable" Ravaphine opens her hands out for poni and the necklace

[9:10 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Fine, fine," Brimeia says, finger poised over the button, but at Enna's comment, she looks up again. "Not the fun way," she grins. She presses the button.

[9:10 PM] DM: The image shimmers and coalesces into a vision of a jungle. Though the light appears as though daytime, the light is subdued, likely due to the high canopy of trees above. In the center of the image, you see a large human man, currently fawning over what appears to be a greenish elf barely dressed in leaves and vines. She’s clearly enjoying his attention.

[9:11 PM] DM: **Lin: "....Vardalon?"**

[9:14 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Look! It's a dryad! I've read about them before."

[9:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine looks over to Lin nervously

[9:16 PM] DM: **Lin steps towards the portal, confusion etched across her face. "Why is he..."**

[9:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Lin, before we jump to any conclusions, I'm sure there's a good explanation for this"

[9:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's only one way to find out. Hold on to each other and let's step through."

[9:18 PM] Leigh- Enna: "Dryads can easily charm people. He may not be fully in control right now."

[9:19 PM] DM: **Lin turns. "He doesn't look like... himself. Can we save him?"**

[9:20 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: from the top of the stairs, there's a shout, articulate profanity, and then martyn tumbles down the stairs. he lands in a heap at the bottom, looks around, and says, "I meant to do that."

[9:21 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Oh my! Are you ok, dear?"

[9:21 PM] DM: A hefty red-haired dwarf woman in chain mail reaches down and helps you to your feet.

[9:21 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Oh hi! I hope you're okay"(edited)

[9:21 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: "Aside from a mostly unpleasant interaction with a local and a particularly 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.

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

[10:00 PM] DM: Vegepygmy #1 Is going to come around the tree and make for the loud one.

[10:01 PM] DM: It tries to attack with claws, but **Lin manages to jump back behind Enna and avoid it.**

[10:01 PM] DM: Vegepygmy #2 will come around to the closest person to her- Brimeia!

[10:02 PM] DM: The claws hit, but can't find purchase on her.

[10:03 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia flies into a rage and swings her mighty greataxe at the offending vegepygmy!

[10:05 PM] DM: The greataxe swings straight through the vegepygmy and it explodes into a cloud of spore.

[10:12 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori uses Thorn Whip on the thing she can see.

[10:14 PM] DM: A whip made of thorns and vines forms from the foliage nearby, but the vegepygmy ducks and avoids the strike.

[10:16 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna swings forward with her shortsword at the vegepygmy next to her

[10:17 PM] DM: Enna puts her shortsword right through the vegepygmy and it collapses.

[10:19 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna backs away from the pile mold on the floor. "I think I killed it? Can't be too certain though."

[10:24 PM] DM: "If there's one thing I can't abide, it's mold." She points her finger and a ray of fiery light streaks across at one of the vegepygmy. It ducks out of the way.

[10:27 PM] DM: Thorny: Approaches Enna and makes an attack. The thorny bites into Enna and throws its head around like a dog with a ragdoll.

[10:28 PM] DM: Enna falls unconscious.

[10:30 PM] DM: Vegepygmy #3 is going to attack Gunnloda.

[10:31 PM] DM: It jumps on her and swipes at the cleric's neck. There's a spray of blood and Gunnloda falls.

[10:33 PM] DM: **Lin freaks out, understandably and slashes wildly with her scimitar, but she misses just as wildly.**

[10:33 PM] DM: Martyn!

[10:37 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: martyn casts Ray of Frost

[10:39 PM] DM: Martyn sticks his hand out and a ray of cold shoots forward, striking the vegepygmy in the side, causing a frost to develop on its side. It hisses as if in pain, but isn't dead.

[10:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine hurls a mote of fire and casts fire bolt at the creature to the left and goes to find safety behind a tree(edited)

[10:45 PM] DM: The fire shoots past the vegepygmy and hits a tree nearby, sputtering out against the living wood.

[10:47 PM] DM: Vegepygmy stands up, seemingly returning from the dead! It sees it's surrounded and tries to make a break for it. Brimeia can make a reaction attack.

[10:48 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia swipes at the sudden movement from the floor by her.

[10:50 PM] DM: The vegepygmy barely has its feet when the axe comes down on its head again and it collapses again.

[10:52 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia lumbers forward with a mighty howl and swings her axe back then back down upon the moldy dog-like thing.

[10:53 PM] DM: The axe finds purchase in the Thorny's "flesh" but it snarls and spits Enna out, turning on Brimeia instead.

[10:55 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori aims her sights on the weird pet and Thorn Whips it.

[10:57 PM] DM: The thorned vine whips out towards the thorny, but because she was trying so hard not to hit the unconscious elf, she misses.

[11:02 PM] DM: The thorny reaches out and takes hold of Brimeia's thigh, but her barbarian abilities allow her to shrug it off partially.(edited)

[11:03 PM] DM: The vegepygmy chases down Seirixori and slashes at her.

[11:03 PM] DM: It connects with her midsection and slashes her for four damage.

[11:04 PM] DM: **Lin is going to swing at the one on her savior's thigh. The scimitar comes down on the thorny for 6 damage.**

[11:11 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn rushes forward into the fray near the thorny and the vegepygmy and fires a Ray of Frost point-blank into it.

[11:12 PM] DM: The cold blasts out of Martyn's finger and fully encases the unconscious vegepygmy in frost.

[11:16 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine takes a deep breath before peeking out of her hiding spot and casts magic missile, aiming 2 darts at the thorny and one at the vegepygmy

[11:18 PM] DM: The vegepygmy takes a magic missile to the head, knocking it unconscious, but the thorny is still growling.

[11:20 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia growls menacingly at the moldy looking thing and sweeps the axe toward it.

[11:21 PM] DM: Brimeia buries her axe in the thorny's head and it falls unconscious.

[11:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori attempts to use her herbalism kit to stabilize Gunnloda.

[11:27 PM] DM: Gunnloda is stabilized.

[11:28 PM] DM: The thorny regenerates, stands, and attempts to leave. Brimeia gets a free attack.

[11:29 PM] DM: And it's unconscious again! Huzzah.

[11:29 PM] DM: The vegepygmy returns to life and **goes after Lin in a frenzy.**

[11:30 PM] DM: **It slashes at her leg, causing her to cry out in pain.**

[11:30 PM] DM: **She in turn turns and attacks it. , but misses.**

[11:33 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn turns and attacks the vegepygmy with Ray of Frost again

[11:34 PM] DM: The vegepygmy's limbs start to seize up, but it doesn't fall.

[11:35 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts fire bolt directly at the thorny bastard(edited)

[11:37 PM] DM: It dies!

[11:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia changes toward the remaining critter and whirls her greataxe toward it!

[11:41 PM] DM: Brimeia's axe comes down on the vegepygmy and it shatters into tiny ice cubes. Enna and Gunnloda wake up at 1 hp.

[11:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori wants to loot the bodies.

[11:42 PM] DM: Gunnloda sits up. "That... was not good." She puts her hand to her neck.

[11:42 PM] DM: Brimeia puts her hand directly in the vegepygmy's body and comes away with her hand covered in spores.

[11:42 PM] DM: Seirixori and Martyn unfortunately don't find anything here.(edited)

[11:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grimaces and swipes her hand on the tree bark nearby.

[11:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "we should rest for the night"

[11:48 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Aye, we could use some healing." She puts a hand on Enna and heals her for 6 hp.

[11:49 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

[8:39 PM] DM: When Brimeia wanders downstairs, she sees a handful of commoners listening to **Lin tell the story of how she and Vardalon fell in love**. Gunnloda's shuffling back and forth between them and the kitchen, bringing out platters of meats and porridge in her full armor.

[8:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Mmm. That smells mighty fine," Brimeia announces with a hearty breath.

[8:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia scarfs down a quick meal before asking about the others and heading out over to the mansion.

[9:23 PM] DM: A knock at the door gets your attention, and there stand Gunnloda in full armor and **Lin, now dressed in leather armor with a shortsword at her side, her eyes rimmed with red.**

Gunnloda: "Good morning, dearies. I was wondering if you were planning on finding Master Vardalon soon. Miss Lin here is awfully anxious to get started."(edited)

[9:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "This works just as well. I would like to get started as well."

[9:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Good morning Gunnloda. Good morning Lin. You two are looking ready to go. We promised to help find Vardalon, and we will keep that promise"

[9:26 PM] DM: **Lin nods gratefully. "I... went back to the... the portal? Last night, when I couldn't sleep, but it wasn't showing anything. I don't know how to control it."**

[9:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We need our tour guide to help us get there" Ravaphine says before stepping out of the mansion and motioning back to Poni's house

[9:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "shall we head back?"

[9:28 PM] DM: Gunnloda follows and **Lin half-trots to catch up. "I'll try not to be so loud this time. I'm sorry."**

[9:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "That would be appreciated." Serixori trails behind, while still in a hurry, not wanting to be right up in the group.

[9:30 PM] DM: You all head to Poni's house and down to the basement where the base of the portal sits, unactivated.

[9:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia strolls along, not so eager for more foul magic, but eager to do something again besides stand around and stare at things.

[9:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori rummages through her bag, "I suppose I need to take you out of here now," she says as she pulls Poni out.

[9:31 PM] DM: Poni gasps dramatically.

[9:31 PM] DM: "You tried to suffocate me!"

[9:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "You bet."

[9:32 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Poni, you have no lungs. We need to get back to Vardalon. Can you take us there?"

[9:32 PM] DM: Poni: "I said tried not that it would work. I've told you, all you have to do is put a personal item to my sensor and I can focus on him... or close enough anyway. The archway contains the magic, so without, it's less precise."(edited)

[9:33 PM] DM: **Lin holds Vardalon's necklace out.**

[9:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori grabs the necklace and places it under the Poni stick, "Well, let's get this over with, shall we?"

[9:35 PM] DM: Poni: "Yes, please. I'm tired of this. We need to find components and fix the envirochronic destabilization. Target, push the button, put me through. WITHOUT throwing me this time."

[9:35 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Eh, you were asking for it."

[9:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "No promises," Seirixori mumbles, while doing as he says.

[9:37 PM] DM: When you flip the lid and push the button, the portal shimmers to life above the base, again focusing on Vardalon. He looks a bit paler this time, the area a bit dimmer as though the sun were setting somewhere on the other side of all the greenery. He's currently giving the green elf-like dryad a shoulder rub.

[9:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine glances at Lin "I know it may look like what it looks like, but he's under her spell"

[9:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Shall we?" Ravaphine asks with her hand outstretched and takes Lin's hand(edited)

[9:39 PM] DM: **Lin nods and grits her teeth.**

[9:39 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine puts her other hand on Seirixori's shoulder

[9:39 PM] DM: Gunnloda puts her hand on Lin's shoulder.

[9:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia grabs Seirixori's shoulder.

[9:40 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori walks through the portal after everyone is ready.(edited)

[9:41 PM] DM: The world changes around you, shifting once again from Poni's basement workshop to the jungle. There are no moldy bodies around from the previous night, though. It seems the magic took you somewhere else.

[9:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We'll work on your trajectory"

[9:42 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Let's try and be quiet this time. And maybe see if we can tell if there are any tracks to follow."

[9:43 PM] DM: Brimeia is very distracted by the many women around her.

[9:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Quiet? Why bother?"

[9:44 PM] DM: Ravaphine sees something shiny to the northwest.

[9:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I see something over there that may be a component" Ravaphine says while walking in the direction of the object

[9:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine searches for the component

[9:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, please, we don't need everyone to fall unconscious again." Seirixori walks slowly behind Ravaphine, "Hey how about we try to do this a little more stealthy than last time?"

[9:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "don't be suspicious"

[9:49 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Not everyone. Only one.. or two."

[9:50 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a weird brownish fuzz on the tree to the north.

[9:51 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori pauses and the whispers, "There's something on the tree to the North, we should avoid that."

[9:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Or if anyone can sneak over and check it out, but I'd rather not run into what we ran into yesterday."

[9:52 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "I wonder if that would go well in a stew."

[9:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "It might kill people instead of tasting good."

[9:53 PM] DM: You recognize it as the russet mold that creates the vegepygmies and thornies you fought yesterday. It is highly toxic and anyone killed by it returns to life as one of the mold people.

[9:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Yep, that ugly fun mold we ran into yesterday, let's not walk that way."

[9:54 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Everyone stay close"

[9:56 PM] DM: When you walk close to the tree, the mold's spores erupt towards you. You feel a little sick at first, but you cough and feel like that's the worst of it.

[9:56 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Are you ok, dear?"

[9:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "AVOID the tree, not walk next to it."

[9:57 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Curiosity is going to get the best of me..."

[9:57 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Wouldn't want to fight you quite like that."

[9:58 PM] DM: You notice movement to the south and to the west.

[10:00 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I feel like this place is full of those spore things, but I don't know where we need to go for this Dryad."

[10:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Why are you walking TOWARDS the movement"

[10:01 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I don't think we have much a choice until we can figure out what direction this Dryad is."

[10:02 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Alright, southwest we go. Stay close and I promise not to touch those trees"

[10:02 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "We could always yell again," Brimeia chuckles

[10:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "if you want to, but go do it far, far away from us."

[10:03 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh but you are all so lovely, why should I wish to part?"

[10:03 PM] DM: Seirixori, you see a vegepygmy duck behind a tree to the south. One covered in brown fuzz.

[10:04 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's another fuzz thing to the South. Maybe West?"

[10:05 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I hate those damn things. Let's try to avoid it"

[10:06 PM] DM: Gunnloda: I think I see someone up ahead.

[10:07 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Hey, Seirixori, did you know that the others thought we were related? Ha."

[10:07 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "That is very...unsettling and rude." Seirixori says to Brimeia.

[10:07 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Should we walk right up to them or no?"(edited)

[10:07 PM] DM: **She and Lin both draw their weapons.**

[10:08 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well we gotta see who it is. Only one way to find out!"

[10:08 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Do we want to be threatening right away or do we maybe want to talk our way out of this?"

[10:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine cautiously follows the group

[10:10 PM] DM: As Brimeia pushes past the huge fronts of greenery in the way, the forest opens into a slight clearing. There, you see the dryad, mid-massage, snap her head up towards you.

[10:11 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Greetings fair dryad. If you don't mind we'll just be taking this man back home."

[10:11 PM] DM: She stands taller and says something in a musical language none of you understand, clearly angry at being disturbed.

[10:15 PM] DM: Vardalon dazedly stands, looking at the dryad with a faint smile.

[10:16 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia walks toward the pair, looking rather unconcerned. "Come now, friend." She reaches for the man.

[10:17 PM] DM: The dryad tenses and says something emphatically in the musical language. You can't tell what words she was using, but you can get the idea- "GET OUT."

[10:17 PM] DM: Vardalon makes no move.

[10:17 PM] DM: **Lin steps forward. "Vardalon? Sweetheart?"**

[10:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, back away! Let's see if we can communicate with it first!" Seirixori says, "We don't need to start anything if we don't have to."(edited)

[10:19 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ravaphine, would you happen to know what she's saying or maybe something similar? I don't think it sounds anything like the languages I know."(edited)

[10:21 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "If you're gonna try something, do it quick. I don't see why we can't just pick him up and go."

[10:21 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I unfortunately do not speak Sylvan. I was raised by a gnome"

[10:22 PM] DM: As you speak, the dryad speaks and her body, rather than being the green, elf-like creature, now seems to have a layer of bark covering her body.

[10:22 PM] DM: She repeats her previous statement, this time taking a step forward.

[10:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let him go!"

[10:24 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Shoulda just picked him up as soon as we saw him."

[10:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Great, this is the opposite of what I wanted." Seirixori sighs, "She's protecting herself, ready to defend!"

[10:27 PM] DM: The dryad picks up a fallen branch and mutters a phrase. She speaks in Elven this time. "You will not get another warning. Leave us."

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine pleads to the dryad in elven, "Please, he is our friend. Release him"

[10:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "She's pretty and all but can I just knock her out now so we can get on with this?"

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "She said 'You will not get another warning. leave us'" Ravaphine tells the group

[10:31 PM] DM: You feel a whisper at your ear, but you manage to tune it out.

[10:32 PM] DM: Vardalon blinks and looks around, slightly confused.

[10:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Instead of drawing an attack, Ravaphine pleads with the dryad one more time "Please release him, we will trade you for him"

[10:39 PM] DM: Dryad! In Elven: "Trade? What would I want from you? I have everything I need."

[10:39 PM] DM: She shouts out in a strange, garbled language.

[10:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, frustrated with all this nonsense, goes into a rage and steps forward to swing her greataxe at the druid.

[10:44 PM] DM: Brimeia swings, but she telegraphs so much that the dryad easily ducks under it.

[10:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori attempts to use Thorn Whip on the Dryad.

[10:48 PM] DM: Seirixori pulls another thorn covered vine from nature and slashes out, but once again misses.

[10:49 PM] DM: **Lin runs over to Vardalon. "Vardalon? You need to come home with us!"**

[10:50 PM] DM: Vardalon looks at Lin. "Lin? Where are we?"

[10:53 PM] DM: Gunnloda throws a hand out at the dryad and a streak of radiant light flies towards her. The dryad takes the bolt right in the chest.

[10:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine steps forward, takes aim and cast magic missile and all three glowing darts at the dryad

[11:00 PM] DM: The dryad screams out in pain, taking all three bolts to the chest.

[11:00 PM] DM: The dryad reaches out and touches the tree next to her, disappearing.

[11:03 PM] DM: Seirixori glances around in time to see the dryad step out of a tree behind you and gets advantage as the vines and brush around your feet reach up and try to grab you all.

[11:04 PM] DM: Brimeia and Ravaphine both manage to wrestle free of the vines, but Gunnloda is grappled.

[11:05 PM] DM: The ground in the area is difficult terrain and costs double movement.

[11:05 PM] DM: Additionally, a vegepygmy summoned by her shout appears and attacks Seirixori with its claws.

[11:06 PM] DM: It slashes across her stomach for four damage.

[11:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, angered by the sudden disappearance of her foe, whirls about and stomps in the other direction with a grumpy growl.

[11:16 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves in front of the vegepygmy and shouts out, "Everyone get close and touch, we should try and get out of here!" She slams her staff down and uses Thunderwave.(edited)

[11:20 PM] DM: A wave of force booms out from Seirixori, throwing the dryad to her back. She isn't moving. The vegepygmy roots its feet and doesn't move. Gunnloda flies away and is released by the vines. Brimeia takes half damage.

[11:21 PM] DM: **Lin grabs Vardalon's arm and pulls him towards Seirixori.**

[11:21 PM] DM: Gunnloda stands and fires another sacred flame at the vegepygmy.

[11:22 PM] DM: The vegepygmy fails its save and you can see a bit of it is now singed.

[11:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts fire bolt at the vegepygmy

[11:24 PM] DM: The vegepygmy bursts into flame and falls, collapsing into dust.

[11:26 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves to the group and uses healing word on herself.

[11:26 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Welcome back, Vardalon"

[11:28 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a shiny to the north.

[11:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's a shiny thing to the North, however I am not a fan of this forest, so I vote for going back."

[11:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I think we should bring Lin and Vardalon back home"

[11:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What if it's valuable?"

[11:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What's more valuable than life?"

[11:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Listen, let's all just hold hands or arms or something and carefully walk forward and if there's more of these damn things, I'll just push the button. how does that sound?"(edited)

[11:34 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Sounds more than fair to me," Brimeia grins.

[11:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Alright, but stay close"

[11:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves towards the shiny carefully.

[11:37 PM] DM: Gunnloda taps Ravaphine on the shoulder. "Creatures to the right, mold to the left, but there's something at the base of the tree there."

[11:38 PM] DM: As you all turn your gaze that way, you can see what looks like a body lying near the mold.

[11:38 PM] DM: The shiny was sunlight glinting off something metallic on the body.

[11:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori doesn't want to bother because there are things surrounding them so she pushes the button on Poni.

[11:39 PM] DM: The jungle disappears suddenly and you're all back in Poni's basement.

[11:40 PM] DM: Vardalon hugs Lin. "You saved me? Thank you!"

[11:40 PM] DM: **Lin : "Thank you for helping me. Please, come by the general store later and I'll see if I can help you with anything."**

[11:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia shakes her head at the sudden change in scenery. "HEY! I was gonna get that shiny thing!"

[11:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Not worth possibly dying." Seirixori says as she walks upstairs back to the Tavern where the others were.

[11:44 PM] DM: **Lin and Vardalon leave.**

## Vardalon (Session 4)

[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?"

## Session 5

[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.

[10:10 PM] DM: As Brimeia pushes past the huge fronts of greenery in the way, the forest opens into a slight clearing. There, you see the dryad, mid-massage, snap her head up towards you.

[10:11 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Greetings fair dryad. If you don't mind we'll just be taking this man back home."

[10:11 PM] DM: She stands taller and says something in a musical language none of you understand, clearly angry at being disturbed.

[10:15 PM] DM: **Vardalon dazedly stands, looking at the dryad with a faint smile.**

[10:16 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia walks toward the pair, looking rather unconcerned. "Come now, friend." She reaches for the man.

[10:17 PM] DM: The dryad tenses and says something emphatically in the musical language. You can't tell what words she was using, but you can get the idea- "GET OUT."

[10:17 PM] DM: **Vardalon makes no move.**

[10:17 PM] DM: Lin steps forward. "Vardalon? Sweetheart?"

[10:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Brimeia, back away! Let's see if we can communicate with it first!" Seirixori says, "We don't need to start anything if we don't have to."(edited)

[10:19 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ravaphine, would you happen to know what she's saying or maybe something similar? I don't think it sounds anything like the languages I know."(edited)

[10:21 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "If you're gonna try something, do it quick. I don't see why we can't just pick him up and go."

[10:21 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I unfortunately do not speak Sylvan. I was raised by a gnome"

[10:22 PM] DM: As you speak, the dryad speaks and her body, rather than being the green, elf-like creature, now seems to have a layer of bark covering her body.

[10:22 PM] DM: She repeats her previous statement, this time taking a step forward.

[10:22 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let him go!"

[10:24 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Shoulda just picked him up as soon as we saw him."

[10:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Great, this is the opposite of what I wanted." Seirixori sighs, "She's protecting herself, ready to defend!"

[10:27 PM] DM: The dryad picks up a fallen branch and mutters a phrase. She speaks in Elven this time. "You will not get another warning. Leave us."

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine pleads to the dryad in elven, "Please, he is our friend. Release him"

[10:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "She's pretty and all but can I just knock her out now so we can get on with this?"

[10:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "She said 'You will not get another warning. leave us'" Ravaphine tells the group

[10:31 PM] DM: You feel a whisper at your ear, but you manage to tune it out.

[10:32 PM] DM: **Vardalon blinks and looks around, slightly confused.**

[10:38 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Instead of drawing an attack, Ravaphine pleads with the dryad one more time "Please release him, we will trade you for him"

[10:39 PM] DM: Dryad! In Elven: "Trade? What would I want from you? I have everything I need."

[10:39 PM] DM: She shouts out in a strange, garbled language.

[10:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, frustrated with all this nonsense, goes into a rage and steps forward to swing her greataxe at the druid

[10:44 PM] DM: Brimeia swings, but she telegraphs so much that the dryad easily ducks under it.

[10:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori attempts to use Thorn Whip on the Dryad.

[10:48 PM] DM: Seirixori pulls another thorn covered vine from nature and slashes out, but once again misses.

[10:49 PM] DM: Lin! She runs over to Vardalon. "Vardalon? You need to come home with us!"

[10:50 PM] DM: **Vardalon looks at Lin. "Lin? Where are we?"**

[10:53 PM] DM: Gunnloda throws a hand out at the dryad and a streak of radiant light flies towards her. The dryad takes the bolt right in the chest.

[10:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine steps forward, takes aim and cast magic missile and all three glowing darts at the dryad

[11:00 PM] DM: The dryad screams out in pain, taking all three bolts to the chest.

[11:00 PM] DM: The dryad reaches out and touches the tree next to her, disappearing.

[11:03 PM] DM: Seirixori glances around in time to see the dryad step out of a tree behind you and gets advantage as the vines and brush around your feet reach up and try to grab you all.

[11:04 PM] DM: Brimeia and Ravaphine both manage to wrestle free of the vines, but Gunnloda is grappled.

[11:05 PM] DM: The ground in the area is difficult terrain and costs double movement.

[11:05 PM] DM: Additionally, a vegepygmy summoned by her shout appears and attacks Seirixori with its claws.

[11:06 PM] DM: It slashes across her stomach for four damage.

[11:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, angered by the sudden disappearance of her foe, whirls about and stomps in the other direction with a grumpy growl.

[11:16 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves in front of the vegepygmy and shouts out, "Everyone get close and touch, we should try and get out of here!" She slams her staff down and uses Thunderwave.(edited)

[11:20 PM] DM: A wave of force booms out from Seirixori, throwing the dryad to her back. She isn't moving. The vegepygmy roots its feet and doesn't move. Gunnloda flies away and is released by the vines. Brimeia takes half damage.

[11:21 PM] DM: **Lin grabs Vardalon's arm and pulls him towards Seirixori.**

[11:21 PM] DM: Gunnloda stands and fires another sacred flame at the vegepygmy.

[11:22 PM] DM: The vegepygmy fails its save and you can see a bit of it is now singed.

[11:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts fire bolt at the vegepygmy

[11:24 PM] DM: The vegepygmy bursts into flame and falls, collapsing into dust.

[11:26 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves to the group and uses healing word on herself.

[11:26 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Welcome back, Vardalon"

[11:28 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a shiny to the north.

[11:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "There's a shiny thing to the North, however I am not a fan of this forest, so I vote for going back."

[11:29 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I think we should bring Lin and Vardalon back home"

[11:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "What if it's valuable?"

[11:30 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What's more valuable than life?"

[11:30 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Listen, let's all just hold hands or arms or something and carefully walk forward and if there's more of these damn things, I'll just push the button. how does that sound?"(edited)

[11:34 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Sounds more than fair to me," Brimeia grins.

[11:34 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Alright, but stay close"

[11:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves towards the shiny carefully.

[11:37 PM] DM: Gunnloda taps Ravaphine on the shoulder. "Creatures to the right, mold to the left, but there's something at the base of the tree there."

[11:38 PM] DM: As you all turn your gaze that way, you can see what looks like a body lying near the mold.

[11:38 PM] DM: The shiny was sunlight glinting off something metallic on the body.

[11:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori doesn't want to bother because there are things surrounding them so she pushes the button on Poni.

[11:39 PM] DM: The jungle disappears suddenly and you're all back in Poni's basement.

[11:40 PM] DM: **Vardalon hugs Lin. "You saved me? Thank you!"**

[11:40 PM] DM: Lin : "Thank you for helping me. Please, come by the general store later and I'll see if I can help you with anything."

[11:40 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia shakes her head at the sudden change in scenery. "HEY! I was gonna get that shiny thing!"

[11:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Not worth possibly dying." Seirixori says as she walks upstairs back to the Tavern where the others were.

[11:44 PM] DM: **Lin and Vardalon leave.**

## Fen Mahr (Session 6)

[9:37 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a piece of familiar looking rubble to the west. Enna and Urrak notice movement around you, but **something particularly frantic to the southeast.**

[9:39 PM] Leigh- Enna: Enna whispers to the group, "There are more coming. To the southeast."

[9:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I think the component we need is over there," She whispers and points to the west.

[9:39 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "This one ain't the last" Urrak whispers. "We should try an' stay quiet."

[9:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well let's go get it!"

[9:42 PM] DM: Enna and Urrak have both seen these back home. The dead who are brought back to life, whether due to specific acts of necromancy or the general aura of evil around a place. Looking around and seeing how much death must have happened here, you can guess it's probably the latter.

[9:44 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Where there are undead, a necromancer isn't far"

[9:44 PM] DM: Brimeia heads to the west.

[9:45 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, or somethin' just plain evil. I've got a bad feelin' about this..."

[9:46 PM] DM: As you walk across the open roadway, you see another skeleton come into view, attracted by the sound of your heavy footfalls.

[9:51 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia flies into a rage at the sight of the skeleton and flings her javelin at it.

[9:53 PM] DM: The javelin flies from Brimeia's hand, but unfortunately it flies over its shoulder and embeds itself in the ground behind.

[9:54 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak turns towards the skeleton and begins to run towards it, unsheathing her greatsword and swinging it at the undead monster

[9:58 PM] DM: The greatsword comes down in an arc, severing the skeleton's arm, but it does not fall.

[9:58 PM] DM: Gunnloda can't see shit! She looks around frantically. "Can any of you see?"

[10:03 PM] DM: Several figures come out of the gloom towards Gunnloda's voice. **Enna also spots a live human, waving his hand in the mostly whole house to the southeast.**

[10:03 PM] DM: They are all skeletons, from what you can see, besides the human.

[10:05 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori moves towards the west where she saw the possible component and uses Thorn Whip on the skeleton next to Urrak.

[10:07 PM] DM: You notice a skeleton and a zombie to the northwest. You also see the component, resting atop the rubble of the house.

[10:08 PM] DM: The thorn whip hits and drags the skeleton away from Urrak and ten feet closer to Seirixori.

[10:12 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: matryn turns to his right, and takes a shot at the nearest skeleton(edited)

[10:13 PM] DM: The arrow flies forward and embeds itself in the legless skeleton, causing it to also collapse.

[10:19 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna shoots another arrow at the nearest skeleton

[10:19 PM] DM: Enna's arrow soars wide.

[10:23 PM] DM: You notice another skeleton beween two houses. **The human looks scared and wears a leather apron.**

[10:23 PM] DM: **He's trying to get your attention.**

[10:26 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia charges the skeleton near the component with a load roar and a heave of her greataxe!(edited)

[10:27 PM] DM: The skeleton's ribs break and the arm and shoulder fall from it, but it still stands.

[10:28 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak runs at the skeleton Seirixori grabbed with her whip and slashes at it with her greatsword

[10:28 PM] DM: She cleaves it in twain!

[10:30 PM] DM: The creatures all turn towards the loudest people- Brimeia and Seirixori.

[10:30 PM] DM: The skeleton next to Brimeia attacks with its shortsword.

[10:30 PM] DM: The zombie closes in on Brimeia.

[10:31 PM] DM: It clumsily throws its arm forward to try to smack her.

[10:33 PM] DM: The skeleton archer attacks Seirixori.

[10:36 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Was someone hurt?"

[10:37 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Just a bit," Seirixori grumbles and moves next to Gunnloda, "I'm in front of you."

[10:40 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn steps to the side, and shoots at the skeleton

[10:41 PM] DM: The arrow pierces the skeleton's shoulderpad and sticks out of it, taunting you.

[10:43 PM] DM: Martyn takes a few steps to the side.

[10:44 PM] DM: **The human looks like a commoner. Not dirty enough to have been here long, more like he was working nearby. He's clearly shaken by the creatures that have come out towards you all and is cowering behind a broken table.**

[10:51 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna moves closer to the man cowering in the corner and says out loud but not yelling, "Tell us where they're coming from! How did you get here?" As she runs, she flings another arrow at the skeleton she passes.

[10:52 PM] DM: The arrow does sail wide. **The man shakes his head and waves his hands in a side to side 'stop' motion, putting a finger to his lips as if to say 'shhh'.**

 [10:53 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia swings furiously at the skeleton in front of her.

[10:53 PM] DM: The axe swings right through the missing parts of the skeleton, missing again.

[10:55 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak catched a glimpse of the component in the corner of her eye as she runs towards the skeleton that is attacking Brimeia. She swings her greatsword down upon it

[10:56 PM] DM: Urrak's greatsword cleaves the skull in two and it crumbles.

[10:56 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak then picks up the component(edited)

[10:57 PM] DM: Gunnloda will cast Cure Wounds on the person who bumped into her.

[11:01 PM] DM: Seirixori notices a slightly glowing corpse coming towards Urrak and Brimeia. The other undead are closing in. The zombie next to Brimeia hits her with its decaying hand again for 3 damage (2 after resist).

[11:01 PM] DM: The archer spins and fires at Enna. The arrow pierces her side for 8 damage.

[11:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We should probably start heading out! There's a creepy glowy thing near you Brimeia and Urrak!" Seirixori says as quiet as possible.

[11:07 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn shoots at the same man he'd tried to strike before.

[11:08 PM] DM: The arrow flies by.

[11:11 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna shoots the archer with her longbow

[11:12 PM] DM: The arrow flies through the archer's skull and continues on to stab into the skeleton far beyond's femur.

[11:13 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna motions for the man to come closer to the group

[11:14 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, still upset about the last missed swing, turns and takes another mighty swipe!

[11:14 PM] DM: Brimeia's axe comes down on the shoulder of the zombie, cleaving deep into its form, but it moans and keeps its feet.

[11:15 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak moves around Brimeia and attacks the zombie

[11:16 PM] DM: Urrak swings and takes the zombie's head off at the neck.

[11:16 PM] DM: Gunnloda reaches out and grabs hold of Seirixori. "Don't leave me, love. I can't see anything."

[11:17 PM] DM: **The man starts creeping along the edge of the house he's in towards the commotion.**

[11:19 PM] DM: The skeleton and zombie gang up on Gunnloda. She's pretty fucking secure in her armor, though, so the attacks bounce right off.

[11:20 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I'll stay near by, don't worry" and attacks the skeleton in front of her and Gunnloda. Uses Shillelagh on her quarterstaff .

[11:22 PM] DM: The quarterstaff shatters the bones of the skeleton, turning it to dust and broken dreams. ((You seem to notice bludgeoning weapons might do extra damage to bone.))

[11:26 PM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: martyn takes a shot at the skeleton mongrel to try and put it down.

[11:26 PM] DM: You hit! The arrow sticks through a clump of matted fur that still remains on the creature, but it did do some damage.

[11:28 PM] DM: Martyn takes a few steps towards the rest of the group.

[11:30 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna whispers to the man, "Stick behind me. Do you know where these beings came from?"

[11:30 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna shoots the longbow at the skeleton dog

[11:31 PM] DM: You put the dog down like Old Yeller.

[11:32 PM] DM: **The man whispers back. "No, everything went dark, but there's something in the shadows."**

[11:32 PM] DM: **"Please, get me out of here."**

[11:35 PM] DM: It's near transparent, but slightly, eerily glowing.

[11:38 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna points to the glowing body "That's a specter. We'll need magic to help destroy it"

[11:40 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Non-elemental magic. Someone enchant something we can throw at it"

[11:40 PM] DM: Enna moved closer to the group.

[11:45 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia stomps over to the next zombie and brings her greataxe down on its head.

[11:46 PM] DM: The greataxe comes down and cleaves into the shoulder, peeling the top part of the torso away from the rest of the body.

[11:46 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak moves to the other side of the zombie and attacks the remaining half

[11:47 PM] DM: And it's a good thing. Crits put them down permanently. The zombie's head is splattered, causing it to fall lifeless to the ground.

[11:48 PM] DM: Gunnloda can see the faintly glowing ghosty thing and fires a bolt of radiant energy  at it.

[11:48 PM] DM: But it dodges out of the way.

[11:52 PM] DM: You take 5 necrotic damage, but no permanent hp drain as the specter reaches into your body and tries to steal some of your life away.

[11:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori concentrates and uses Thaumaturgy to make a very loud bang about 30ft to the south.(edited)

[12:00 AM] DM: Your wild magic is contained for this spell.

[12:02 AM] Jonathan- Martyn Hornback: Martyn moved into proximity with the group and cast magic missile at the specter

[12:02 AM] DM: Pew pew pew! The magic missiles disappear into the translucent form of the specter and it howls in what might be considered pain.

[12:04 AM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna runs to the group

[12:04 AM] DM: **The man follows, his hand grabbing onto your clothes so he doesn't get left behind.**

[12:05 AM] DM: It doesn't take much to notice that the shadows at edges of your darkvision are starting to ripple like movement in smoke.

[12:05 AM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak yells to the group, "Everybody hold on to one another! We're gettin' out of here!" Urrak turns to Seirixori "Push the button!"

[12:06 AM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna grabs hold of a shoulder

[12:06 AM] DM: Brimeia and Urrak have actions between then.

[12:10 AM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia isn't happy about it, but she grabs onto Seirixori so they can leave. Skeletons and zombies are one thing, but she doesn't like the look of the glowing corpse.

[12:10 AM] DM: If she has it in hand, you could take it or even just reach over and push it while she's holding it

[12:11 AM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia begrudgingly reaches over and pushes the button. Magic is the worst

[12:12 AM] DM: The scene shifts to one of irritating brightness as you're back in Poni's basement. Luckily, though the specter took a final swipe at you, it wasn't touching as you pushed the button.

[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."

## Calley Gazzo (Session 8)

[10:38 PM] DM: **At this point, a woman comes into the shop. A bit ragged and looks like she's been sleeping in the streets for the last couple days. She stops short, stammers out an apology and backs out of the store, leaving the way she came in swiftly.**

[10:43 PM] DM: **Ravaphine can see the woman ducking into the alley a couple buildings down.**

[10:44 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine follows the woman but laying low

[10:46 PM] DM: Ravaphine follows the woman. **She's pressed up against a wall, trying to hide behind a bit of brickwork.**

[10:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine gets closer to the woman

[10:48 PM] DM: **The woman is a bit skittish and jolts when she sees you approach. "Please, I don't mean no harm."**

[10:49 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Hello, I don't mean any harm. I just saw you poke into the potions shop and leave. I wanted to ask if you were okay" Ravaphine asks the woman(edited)

[10:50 PM] DM: **Woman: "I'm sorry, ok? I didn't mean-- you're... you're not looking for me, are you?"**

[10:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "No ma'am, I'm just a visitor. My name is Ravaphine," she offers her hand to shake. "are you from around here and people are following you?" she asks(edited)

[10:51 PM] DM: **She shakes her head. "Not from here, no, and... I don't think they're looking."**

[10:53 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I know this will sound odd...but were you by any chance doing something one minute and suddenly you were transported to a different place?"

[10:53 PM] DM: **The woman looks up at you, wide-eyed. "Yes, yes that's exactly what happened. ....what happened?"**

[10:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'm going to be completely transparent and say that's exactly what happened to me. I was just traveling when suddenly I turned up into a different town. Have you heard of a place called Bellbury?" Ravaphine questions the woman

[10:56 PM] DM: **The woman nods. "That's where I'm from. I came here and then... this... this creature told me I needed to help him, but I couldn't. He took everything I had as "payment" for not helping him."**

[10:58 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'm so sorry to hear that," Ravaphine says sincerely, " I can help you back home to your town, if you could like to accompany my group. You could help us"

[10:59 PM] DM: **Woman: "I'm not sure I'd be much help, but if I could get home, that would be great."**

[11:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What is your name? I'll introduce you to the group. By the way, did you happen to come across anything metallic and shiny?"

[11:00 PM] DM: **Woman: "My name's Calley. Calley Gazzo. And I did... I had one, but it was taken by the creature."**

[11:03 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "It's nice to meet you Calley. I will get you back home, I promise. Let's go back to the others" ravaphine says, while looking at the woman to make sure she seems trustworthy

[11:03 PM] DM: You think she's totally trustworthy.

[11:03 PM] DM: But she nods and follows you.

[11:04 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine and Calley head back to the shop and peer inside the window to see if any of her companions are still inside, but notices half of them are gone

[11:05 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine looks for another way into the shop

[11:05 PM] DM: Cyan's talking to the shopowner at the front of the building, but everyone else appears to be gone.

[11:06 PM] DM: You don't see another doorway.

[11:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "It looks like my party already is on the move. Did you happen to get a good look at the creature?" ravaphine asks the woman

[11:09 PM] DM: **Calley: "It looked like a bird? A human with feathers and a bird's face? Or a really big bird with arms?"**

[11:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Does he have any magic or other strengths?"

[11:10 PM] DM: **Calley: "He talks strangely, but I don't know anything else. He took my things at knife point."**

[11:11 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What did he need help with?"

[11:12 PM] DM: **Calley: "He wanted to get into a tower. He's trying to find something at the top of it, but we couldn't get past the first room. It didn't have a door."**

[11:14 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Did you have any tools to help him? Is that why he took you?"

[11:14 PM] DM: **Calley: "No. I don't know why he wanted me to help."**

[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

## Belrom (Session 11)

[7:57 PM] DM: It's mostly bare. Seems the majority of people are in the Cask. You can hear a bit of noise coming from that direction.

[8:00 PM] DM: You notice the door to the big fancy building next to the Cask is open, but you're pretty sure it was closed before.

[8:03 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna walks toward the building, intrigued

[8:04 PM] DM: The door's wide open and you can hear someone rustling around inside.

[8:05 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna peers inside, approaching slowly just in case

[8:06 PM] DM: **You hear a gruff voice. "Hello? Lady Moonstream? Anyone?"**

[8:07 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna walks into the building after the voice. "Just a visitor."

[8:11 PM] DM: **You see a dwarf man, brown skin, dark hair, full braided beard, in traveling clothes pop out from a room down the hall. "Hello? You work for Lady Moonstream?"**

[8:13 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "No, just another unwitting visitor to your home, thanks to that wretched gnome Poni. Lady Moonstream?"

[8:13 PM] DM: **Dwarf: "Yeah, she runs these parts. I was wondering why there's nobody at the docks to take my shipment, but... it seems there's not much of anyone anywhere."**

[8:14 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Shipment of what? What is your occupation here?"

[8:16 PM] DM: **He looks at you curiously. "That's a lot of questions for someone who doesn't work here." He steps forward with his hand out. "Name's Belrom. You are?"**

[8:20 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I'd imagine I'm entitled to know the lay of the land and the townsfolk for the place I may end up stuck in for eternity, don't you? The name is Enna. You haven't answered my question."

[8:22 PM] DM: **He frowns and puts his hand back down. "Don't think that means you have a right to my business. Do you know where Lady Moonstream is, or not?"**

[8:25 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Is she among the missing?"

[8:25 PM] DM: **Belrom: "This is her house and she don't seem to be here."**

[8:26 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "If this is her home, then what are you doing here?"

[8:27 PM] DM: **He looks irritated. "I told ya. I was wondering why nobody was at the docks to take the shipment."**

[8:31 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I'm just trying to find some answers. You'll understand if being suddenly teleported into a new place is a mite bit...disorienting."

[8:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine appears once again in the town square and hears the commotion coming from the cask. Not feeling very sociable and instead wanting to explore the town more, she decides to walk toward the mansion and sees the exchange between enna and the stranger while lurking in the back(edited)

[8:31 PM] DM: **Belrom: "Teleporting? What are you talking about?"**

[8:34 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna looks quizzically at the dwarf. "Are you joking? Your local wizard idiot. People you've never seen before poofing into your town from nowhere? Are  you about to tell me you haven't noticed? Because I don't like being taken for a fool."

[8:35 PM] DM: **Belrom: "I don't know what you're talking about, lady. I'm from Grimpeak. Just came into town maybe an hour ago."**

[8:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine walks up to Enna and the stranger. "Is this man giving you trouble?"

[8:36 PM] DM: **He scoffs. "If anything, it's her givin' me trouble."**

[8:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "If you only got here an hour ago, what are you doing in here?"

[8:37 PM] DM: **Belrom: "Do you know where Lady Moonstream is? Or Amandis? Nira?"**

[8:38 PM] DM: **Belrom: "I've got a cart full'a ore at the docks, waiting for someone to pay for it, but there ain't nobody there."**

[8:39 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna realizes she's made a misstep and tries to backtrack. "Apologies. I assumed you were one of Bellbury's citizens. Tensions are...high right now and we're..newcomers. "

[8:39 PM] DM: **Belrom: "You don't say."**

[8:40 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "You haven't said what you've come to deliver though. Perhaps we can pass on the message to someone more familiar."

[8:41 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia, a bit shaken up from all the mess with the tower, takes her time collecting herself, wandering the still mostly empty town streets before noticing the commotion by the fancy building.

[8:42 PM] DM: **Belrom speaks slowly like he's about out of patience. "Every Fendan I bring Grimpeak's ore down to Bellbury, sell it to Amandis or Nira so they can ship it down to Riverrun, then I go to the Hydra to get drunk and laid til it's time to go back west."**

[8:43 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "There's no need to be rude. We can figure this out together. How much do they usually pay you"

[8:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Recognizing Enna and Ravaphine's voices, she steps in to take a look. "Hello, friends!" She looks around another moment at the unfamiliar man, then back to her companions. "Problem?"

[8:44 PM] DM: **He startles for a moment. "How many of you are there?"**

[8:44 PM] DM: **He eyes Brimeia warily.**

[8:46 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Depends what you mean by that," Brimeia answers with a shrug.

[8:46 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Fendan? God we really are somewhere different aren't we."

[8:53 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "What can you tell us about this Lady Moonstream and how she runs this...did you say she runs the town?"

[8:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Amandis and Nira too while you're at it"

[8:56 PM] DM: **Belrom: "You really ain't from around here are you?"**

[8:57 PM] DM: **Belrom: "The Moonstreams run most of this part of the whole dang countryside, but yes, Eloise Moonstream runs this town. Amandis and Nira are the harbormasters at the docks."**

[8:58 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Just traveling and passing through. Thought we'd stop to learn about the history of the town"

[8:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "and you? what town are you from?"

[9:00 PM] DM: **His face falls. "Grimpeak. I'm clearly not gonna get any answers from you lot. Think I'd rather go get drunk."**

[9:03 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Ah yes, northwest of here in the mountains north of Clearhall. I've heard of that place" Ravaphine lies

[9:05 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Are the Moonstreams good people?"

[9:07 PM] DM: **Belrom: "They're people. They got good and bad in 'em. She and her wife are nice to look at though. Half-elves."**

[9:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What else do they get imported here besides ore"

[9:10 PM] DM: **Belrom: "I don't know! I just deliver my ore. This is the furthest upstream you can get big boats on the Muyar, so we bring our stuff here to float it down to Riverrun. That's all I know."**

[9:11 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'll tell you what, I'll help you look for Amandis or Nira by the docks. They might be there doing other business. And then I can buy you as much ale as you want here at the cask before you go, for your troubles"

[9:12 PM] DM: **He kind of narrows his eyes at you, then looks you up and down, looks at the others suspiciously. "....ok?"**

[9:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Lead the way!"

[9:15 PM] DM: **He does. He takes you down the main north-south road, the same one you take to get to Poni's, and you actually pass Poni's house**. A bit further south, the buildings turn to lesser quality wooden structures and the smell of rotting fish is heavy in the air. There's a wide river to the south that hugs the edge of Bellbury with several smaller docks, some of which have smaller boats tied to them, and two larger docks. There's a huge open space that's been sectioned off to act as a warehouse/storage area, and there's a cart there, full of ore, with two oxen tied to it. Everything looks like it was in use and suddenly had nobody there to continue working. There are some boxes broken open, huge piles of fish sitting on the deck, and a boat drifting on the river, barely tied with one bit of rope.(edited)

[9:16 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Looks like everything just...up and stopped."

[9:18 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "ECK. Quite a stench here, isn't there? Doesn't seem if anyone's tended to this mess in a while."

[9:18 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I don't know if the people you're looking for are here" Ravaphine says to the dude

[9:20 PM] DM: **Belrom: "I told you... doesn't seem anyone's here. Except you."**

[9:20 PM] DM: **Belrom: "It's damn creepy."**

[9:20 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "We're trying to figure out what happened to everyone in this town. Have you ever seen anything.. out of sorts? Maybe on the edge of the woods on the outskirts of town? Anything that could have attacked or taken the people here? They can't have all just...disappeared."

[9:22 PM] DM: **Belrom looks at you weirdly. "How the hells would something take hundreds of people? Where would they go?"**

[9:26 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "You would be surprised what devils magic can stir up." Realizing the way that could come across, she turns to  Brimeia momentarily, awkwardly. "No offense." She anxiously fidgets with her bracer, seemingly stuck in a thought.

[9:27 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia lets out a low huff at the mention of devils. "None taken, so long as you don't consider me one of 'em"

[9:33 PM] DM: There's a building set on the edge of the warehouse/storage area that looks a bit more put-together than most of the buildings in the area. It looks like where most of the business would pass through.

[9:35 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let's head over to the warehouse area. Maybe somebody is there or they left a note" Ravaphine motions for the party to follow

[9:36 PM] DM: No, actually the door's just a bit open.

[9:37 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia follows along. "What are we looking for anyway?"

[9:38 PM] DM: There's a long counter inside with lots of paperwork on the other side at three stations with stools. There's also a door that leads further into the building.

[9:46 PM] DM: Sure. It's pretty easy to see the last time the logs were written in was under a heading of "Dordan, 5 Jaqmont, 3Y53."

[9:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Doesn't look like any shipments have gone through here in a while. Let's head back to the town square and get you that drink, sir"

[9:47 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "It's clear there's not much to find here." Enna starts walking back the way they came

[9:47 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "I like the sound of that!" Brimeia agrees

[9:48 PM] DM: **Belrom: "Sure. If you're buying."**

[9:48 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "First round is on me"

[9:48 PM] DM: You head back north and go to the Cask.

[9:49 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine notices her companions inside of the tavern and waves before she makes her way behind the bar(edited)

[9:50 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Greetings, friends!" Brimeia announces from the doorway as she enters. "We found another.... fellow."

[9:51 PM] DM: Everyone in the tavern stops talking to look at Brimeia for a moment, then goes back to what they were doing.

[9:51 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "They sure know how t' make a scene, eh?"

[9:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: She pours Belrom a pint and slides it down to him down the bar then makes a tray of drinks for her companions before bringing it to the table

[9:52 PM] DM: Gunnloda chuckles. "Seems so."

[9:52 PM] DM: **Belrom takes it and downs half of it in one go before refilling it and following.**

[9:53 PM] DM: **Belrom: "Didn't know you ran this place. I mighta stopped in more often."**

[9:54 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "...It's a recent development" She says to Belrom

[9:53 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine approaches the table and says out of Belrom's earshot "We've got a local. Almost. From a  neighboring town. Knows a little more about this place than anybody else"

[9:54 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Did we miss anything exciting?" Brimeia asks, plopping down into a chair near the others

[9:54 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna follows the party into the Cask a few steps behind, and makes her way over to a table. She grabs a spare rag and takes off her quiver, taking out her arrows to better clean them after the last gooey encounter.

[9:57 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Enna, why don't you come join us?"

[9:55 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "No." Seirixori hunches down a little, uncomfortable with the sudden presence of everyone.  "Nothing exciting. "

[9:57 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Oh?" Brimeia raises an eyebrow. "You look a little pink. Well... pinker than usual," she chuckles

[10:01 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: " I don't usually drink." Is the only thing she says and eats the, probably cold, food in front of her.

[10:01 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Ah, what's the occasion?"

[9:57 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Jus a little chattin' is all. Who's this fellow?" Urrak turns to Ravaphine

[9:59 PM] DM: **He's a dwarf, brown skin, dark hair and braided beard, wearing traveling clothes. He looks like a mixture of bored and irritated, and he's standing maybe a touch too close to Ravaphine.**

[10:01 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "This is...you know, I never got your name" Ravaphine says while stepping slightly away from the dwarf. "He transports ore to this town"

[10:01 PM] DM: **"Belrom."**

[10:02 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "A workin' man. Suits me fine. What kind of ore y'bringin in? A cousin o' mine mines silver in Dragonskeep"

[10:03 PM] DM: **Belrom: "Different kinds. Mostly iron."**

[10:04 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Can never 'ave enough iron" Urraks words are beginning to slur ever so slightly

[10:04 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Ignoring Brimeia, Seirixori turns to Gunnloda, suddenly remembering the tower from earlier. "I know I asked earlier, but are you sure you're ok? I didn't see it, but that height of falling doesn't look fun."

[10:05 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Oh, no, it knocked the wind clear out of me, but I healed it up all right. Nothing left of it but a bit of a crick in the back."

[10:10 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I'm glad," Seirixori mutters.

[10:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I'm glad to see you are all safe"

[10:09 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia frowns a bit at being ignored but brushes it off quickly enough. She's not unused to a bit of brusqueness, though admittedly not usually from her own kind.

[10:08 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "do tell about your last encounters. have we more components yet?"

[10:08 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Aye, one more. From damn bird fellow"

[10:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "He and that shopkeep were...odd." Ravaphine says while looking at Seirixori.

[10:11 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Never met a shopkeep, jus that odd bird. And 'is master's tower? A disaster to be sure."(edited)

[10:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia shudders at the mention of the tower. "Horrid place," she mutters, mostly to herself

Seir catches Ravaphine's eye, "What?" She  asks, shoving fruit in her mouth.

[10:12 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Seirixori over here charmed the pants off of that shopkeep"

[10:12 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Just about," Brimeia chuckles

[10:13 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori groans and lays her head on the table, "That was the worst idea. "

[10:14 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "well we appreciate your daring sacrifice, Seirixori"

[10:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "It was totally a sacrifice," she says into the table.

[10:14 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Ah, reminds me. Yer the wizard 'ere Ravaphine. Can y' tell me what this is?" Urrak pulls out a potion from her pack. It's a green color that slowly changes to the color of clear water towards the top (18). " I haven't a clue and am damn sure not gonna taste test it. Found it in Bakar's tower."(edited)

[10:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "What an interesting looking potion"

[10:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine holds the bottle up to the light, opens the cap and tries to identify its contents by tasting it(edited)

[10:16 PM] DM: It actually shifts back and forth between vivid green and clear when you move it. It's not layered.

[10:16 PM] DM: It's a potion of acid resistance. It gives you the ability to ignore half damage from acid for an hour.

[10:18 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "You've got yourself some acid resistance for those nasty spitters coming at you"

[10:18 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Blessed be. Some protection from all this trouble we seem to end up in"

[10:19 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Oh, that reminds me. Here you are, dear..." She reaches in her pack and hands Seirixori the two scrolls Seirixori'd given her in panther form. "I'm afraid I couldn't read them."

[10:22 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh! Thanks, I forgot about these." Seirixori opens one to see if she can read them.

[10:22 PM] DM: You can't read them either.

[10:23 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I can take a gander at them if you would like"

[10:24 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori hands the scrolls to Ravaphine, "Have fun. "

[10:26 PM] DM: Ravaphine- you can tell by looking at the scrolls that they're scrolls of Unseen Servant and Alarm. You can use scrolls to cast the spell one time without using spell slots, or you can copy them into your spellbook with the right items, but the scroll is lost when you do.

[10:06 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna looks up from her work at Gunnloda's comment. "I suppose a good meal would suit me well, though I'm not one usually for the family dinner scene." Enna picks up her arrows and makes her way over to the table

[10:07 PM] DM: Gunnloda gestures at the platter full of breads, meats, cheese, and fruit. "We've got plenty of food, but to be honest, I was hoping to talk to you about that scene with the new dragonborn fellow."

[10:09 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna's shoulders raise ever so slightly and she begins to pick at her bracer. "Can't be too careful, with everyone popping in and out. Didn't know where he'd arrived from, is all."

[10:11 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Seemed a bit harsher than necessary. Do you have problems with dragonkin?"

[10:13 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "It's not the dragonkin part of him I have a problem with, I assure you. I don't have much patience or respect for those who tinker with the unnatural order of things."

[10:14 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "And what exactly constitutes 'unnatural'?"

[10:19 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Creatures were not meant to be built by men. Constructs, undead, anything not by the gods, they have no will of their own, shambling corpses obeying to no fault."

[10:21 PM] DM: Gunnloda turns back to Enna. "I'm not fond of the undead myself, but surely something as cute as Reyes can't be bad."

[10:21 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "The tinkerer and his wind up toy truly ruffled your feathers there, eh elf?"

[10:23 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Did someone mention Reyes? I'm quite proud of her to be honest"

[10:23 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Also hello everyone!"

[10:23 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Eeeey it's th' tin man 'imself!"

[10:23 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "Let's just say I have reason to be wary of someone showing up near my person accompanied by a construct."

[10:24 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "I see... well, can we at least agree to keep it civil and avoid demanding our allies strip at your command?"

[10:24 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna anxiously adjusts her bracer and notices the dragonborn entering the tavern. "Speaking of."

[10:24 PM] DM: **Belrom perks up. "Did someone say strip?"**

[10:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Hello! Have a seat." Ravaphine pulls out a chair for the new face "I don't think we've met before"

[10:25 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "I didn't-- sigh I was looking for something as a precaution, I'm not about to proposition you all."(edited)

[10:26 PM] DM: **Belrom: "Usually I might not mind a proposition, elf, but you seem a bit too prickly for my taste."**

[10:28 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "... it would seem I've missed quite a bit?"

[10:29 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "One thing y'haven't missed is a drink. 'Ere" Urrak hands a full cask of ale to Nolanos

[10:29 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Well that's a shame," Brimeia chuckles at Enna's last statement

[10:30 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: Enna catches Brimeia's response to her comment, opens her mouth to say something and finds herself speechless, closes her mouth again, not sure how to comment

[10:29 PM] Leigh- Enna Meliamne: "This town isn't the only thing here that can make people disappear, dwarf. I'd watch your mouth were I you." She says to Belrom with a wry smile

[10:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori awkwardly makes her way under the table to get out,  "Right,  I'll be back. " and she heads outside to the citrus grove for a short time to breathe a little and give herself some much needed space.

[10:29 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Well thank you, friend" Nolanos gladly accepts the beverage " cheers!"

[10:30 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos raises his glass, motioning to clink

[10:30 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: Urrak raises her cask "Cheers, scalemale'

[10:31 PM] DM: **Belrom turns to Ravaphine. "So... you wanna get out of here now or wait around a bit?"**

[10:32 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Lookit this cheeky dwarf. Y'two have a lil  midnight rendezvous planned?" Urrak says, with a tipsy grin

[10:35 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: " I'll have you know, my heart sadly belongs to another" Ravaphine says as she remembers the blue-haired beauty from the other day

[10:35 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Oh? Do tell! ..er if you dont mind, that is"

[10:36 PM] Wingy - Urrak D'Akshi: "Rava's got a crush she 'as"

[10:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine coughs and snaps out of her daydream. "it's uh, somebody back home"

[10:36 PM] DM: **Belrom frowns. "Right. Should'a known better than to keep following you crazy people around." He leaves to refill his mug.**

[10:59 PM] DM: **Belrom has since moved to sit at a table with a few tipsy people.**

[11:34 PM] DM: **You all suddenly hear a collective gasp and an echoing crack fill the air, and turning, you can see Belrom holding his face and a rather upset young human woman shaking her hand.**

[11:35 PM] DM: **Belrom stands, knocking his chair over, spits on the floor, and walks out.**