Once Upon a Dream

**"Once Upon a Dream"** is the 27th session of Campaign 2.0.

## Summary

* Aw yeah, we’re the best. We saved Lilith... and Thomal is absolutely messed up. The fire damage he took has absolutely wracked his body.
* We search the cabin and find spell components to cast Greater Restoration on Thomal! He feels a little better and isn’t incapacitated anymore, but the huge burn scars still remain on his body. We also find the last spell component we need to cast Dream.
* Gareth goes outside. He approaches a nearby pond with the intent of trying to catch a fish... but instead a fish plops out from the water. It looks at Gareth, and swims closer... and speaks to him. It tells him that ‘the mother’ will bear many gifts should Gareth continue down this road, and it swims back into the pond.
* Gareth is extremely confused. A little panicked. He stumbles back into the cottage in shock and babbles on to Angeal whether she’s EVER heard of animals... talking to people?
* Gareth needs to chillax. Angeal casts Calm Emotions on him and calmly asks him to explain again what happened. He tells her what happened with the fish, how it told her about ‘the mother’.
* Angeal can’t seem to recognize any religious connections with a being called the mother. Gareth decides to keep this all a secret from the group in the meantime, but looks visibly troubled...
* Bryna and Sulelia tuck Lilith in, prepare the spell's ritual, and cast Dream on Malveria.
* Upon entering her dream, Sulelia sees Malveria in a room decked head to toe in glassware. She has her back turned to Sulelia and she seems to be making something. Sulelia turns Malveria around and sees that she’s much younger looking. She’s also lacking the red streaks in her hair and the prominent red veins surrounding her eyes.
* Sulelia asks if she recognizes her, to which Malveria responds that she does. Sulelia then asks her why she fucked us over, but Malveria is reluctant to divulge...
* Being in control of the dream, Sulelia sends them into a grassy field. She convinces her that it’s just a dream and that she has nothing to worry about with a 23 persuasion check, and Malveria reveals that Runya is sick... and *cursed?* She’s been trying to save herself.
* When Malveria and Runya met each other, Malveria just wanted to see if she could help her... but what she tried didn’t work. Now she’s just being strung along for the ride, and she’s afraid that if she leaves she’ll face retribution from Runya's party.
* Sulelia sympathizes with the story Malveria’s giving, but doesn’t forgive her. Malveria doesn’t expect her to. Sulelia points out that they’re both being dragged along by someone without knowing their true intentions, and Malveria supposes that it’s certainly something they have in common.
* Before Sulelia ends the dream, Malveria tells us their group is currently in Runewatch, and they’re leaving for the mountains in a couple of days.
* We wake up! We immediately ask what happened, but Sulelia doesn’t reveal anything beyond that she knows they’re in Runewatch and are leaving for the mountains soon.
* We start heading to the Novell Estate to drop off Lilith. We make it out of the Black Woods in one piece and bring Lilith back safely, and are then on our way to Runewatch!
* Gareth keeps hearing animals talking... everywhere. He decides to talk to his horse, and it answers back! *WHAT?!* We’re all watching Gareth talk to his horse... and because only *he* can understand animals, we just think he’s crazy.
* Gareth tells us what happened to him with the fish. He proves that he’s NOT INSANE by asking his horse to blink three times if he can understand Gareth. The horse does exactly that. What the heck? Either way, these newfound powers are super interesting.
* On the way there, Angeal takes her own fortune and receives a vision of a cave seated at the mouth of a dragon’s skull, with a waterfall cascading down from it. Cool!
* Sulelia asks for her fortune too! Angeal does so and sees a half-orc woman wielding a giant black sword. She has long black hair with shaved sides, her face is beat the fuck up, and she has two two globes of fire surrounding her. Angeal asks if Sulelia knows who this is. Sulelia has NO IDEA!