Velmont
First Post
The group's attempt to take the cup turns against them as some Goliaths find out about Incarnation sneaking. As the group is swarmed, the leader of the angel use the distraction to take the cup and fly away. The remaining angel continue a moment to slay some Goliath and the group doesn't waste any more time and escape the village.
The group starts to wander in Valhyr and spend many days hiding from some locals nomad and the angel's patrols before finally finding a landmark on their map. Thanks to Sigarr wilderness skills and the natural endurance of the dwarves and the warforged, the group survive well through the ambush of the wild and a blizzard.
They reach the junction of the two rivers the map seems to point. They stand on a sandy beach, looking for any clue of teh lair as Incarnation has another of his flashback. He remembers of a small trail that lead to a cave that he has walked with the Five. It takes some time to find the trail, as no one have used it for years and plants have grown in it. As they reach teh top of the trail, a cliff block the way. No sign of the cave.
After a moment, the group find some scripture carved on the cliff. Four small text are written in different language and surround a flat stone and a hand-made rectengular hole in the cliff.
Raiyek easily read the elven text:
A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
And the group easily read the dwarven text:
You heard me before,
And you hear me again,
But I quickly die,
Until you call me again.
Georg use a scroll of Comprehend Language to decipher the next to text. The first in Tsugo:
My rivers carry no water,
No tree grows in my forest,
My mountain are not made of stone
My towns have no house.
and the second in Draconic:
I can be quick as lightning.
I can blind or help to see.
I'll count the time until I put you to sleep.
The group finally enter the cave where two Ice Trolls and an Ice Beholder, welcome the group with an harsh warning and some threats. The creatures seems angry to have been bound by the five and have decided to let no one pass. After some failed negotiation, the group kill the creatures and gather some loots from previous visitors that have been stopped by the Beholder.
As the group move deeper into teh cave, the cold air grow warmer. The group enter a large room that look like a laboratory decorated with five statues representing the Five. But Incarnation suddenly got anotehr flashback and see Mauros performing a ritual to open a portal. Finding nothing interesting in this laboratory, Incarnation, helped by Georg and Hadrak, decides to perform the ritual. But Incarnation seems to have miss a part of teh ritual as he trigger a death trap. The door close and lock while the statues animate themselves. To make thing more stressful, the ground slowly start to collapse, revealing a lava pit. As Incarnation and Georg focus on opneing the portal, Raiyek, Sigarr and Dane defend the ritualists and Hadrak split his attention between the ritual and supporting the warriors. After a minute, over half the ground have collapsed and the warriors barely stand their ground as the portal open. The group quickly cross it landing in a dark room. The portal close behind them, but the group doesn't mind as there will be nothing more than a lava pit soon on the other side.
A shadow can be seen in the only doorway "Defilers, you are not welcome here." it raises a wand and his body starts to shed a colorful light. The warforged suddenly stop to move and stare at Incarnation. Incarnation can only do the same as he sees a perfect replica of himself... except that the fire Incarnation shed is replaced by the a colorful sparky light.
After the group recover from that encounter, the warforged welcome the group and lead them into the communal room and offer some hot food and good wine. Incarnation explains to the warforged what they want to do and the
"My name is Feytouched. I was born in the forge under Daunton, just like you, Incarnation. I was the first of our kind. Mauros had discovered a new theory about warding. A ward is a wall that contain a force. The ward is strong, but when you put enough pressure on it, it will fall apart.
To solve that problem, Mauros had thought of someting else. Instead ot build a wall, he would build damn. That mean that if the pressure starts to grow on the other side of the ward, he could channel some of that energy through the ward and safely release it.
But that wasn't enough for him. He wanted to use these wards to imprison powerful immortal entities and then drain their energy to keep them too weak to be able to free themselves. To drain them, the energy needed to be actively channeled. For that, they needed to find someone willing to bind themselves to the wards. Instead of finding a person, Mauros found a way to trigger Daunton's forge and so I was born.
I was the first warforged created by the Five and bound to such ward. My bound was made with the wards near Daunton to contain the feywild. That bound allow me to channel the feywild energy.
During the following years, I have helped the Five to prepare the other ones. It took almost a week to prepare one of us to be bound to those wards. Then, we have to travel on the site where the wards would be put upon. I helped you, as I have helped the three others to prepare themselves for the ritual.
Last time, the Five were in a hurry and I stayed behind for some small task. The Five was suppose to come back take me, but they never came. As we are in a pocket dimension, I can't use the energy of the wards, that have must stressed the ward. We have the notes of Mauros in his study to strengthen the wards again, and once I'll be back in Daunton, I'll be able to release the presure on the ward again."
The group use Georg rituals to teleport back to the Warden's Grove where they can renew the ward.
The group starts to wander in Valhyr and spend many days hiding from some locals nomad and the angel's patrols before finally finding a landmark on their map. Thanks to Sigarr wilderness skills and the natural endurance of the dwarves and the warforged, the group survive well through the ambush of the wild and a blizzard.
They reach the junction of the two rivers the map seems to point. They stand on a sandy beach, looking for any clue of teh lair as Incarnation has another of his flashback. He remembers of a small trail that lead to a cave that he has walked with the Five. It takes some time to find the trail, as no one have used it for years and plants have grown in it. As they reach teh top of the trail, a cliff block the way. No sign of the cave.
After a moment, the group find some scripture carved on the cliff. Four small text are written in different language and surround a flat stone and a hand-made rectengular hole in the cliff.
Raiyek easily read the elven text:
A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
And the group easily read the dwarven text:
You heard me before,
And you hear me again,
But I quickly die,
Until you call me again.
Georg use a scroll of Comprehend Language to decipher the next to text. The first in Tsugo:
My rivers carry no water,
No tree grows in my forest,
My mountain are not made of stone
My towns have no house.
and the second in Draconic:
I can be quick as lightning.
I can blind or help to see.
I'll count the time until I put you to sleep.
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The group finally enter the cave where two Ice Trolls and an Ice Beholder, welcome the group with an harsh warning and some threats. The creatures seems angry to have been bound by the five and have decided to let no one pass. After some failed negotiation, the group kill the creatures and gather some loots from previous visitors that have been stopped by the Beholder.
As the group move deeper into teh cave, the cold air grow warmer. The group enter a large room that look like a laboratory decorated with five statues representing the Five. But Incarnation suddenly got anotehr flashback and see Mauros performing a ritual to open a portal. Finding nothing interesting in this laboratory, Incarnation, helped by Georg and Hadrak, decides to perform the ritual. But Incarnation seems to have miss a part of teh ritual as he trigger a death trap. The door close and lock while the statues animate themselves. To make thing more stressful, the ground slowly start to collapse, revealing a lava pit. As Incarnation and Georg focus on opneing the portal, Raiyek, Sigarr and Dane defend the ritualists and Hadrak split his attention between the ritual and supporting the warriors. After a minute, over half the ground have collapsed and the warriors barely stand their ground as the portal open. The group quickly cross it landing in a dark room. The portal close behind them, but the group doesn't mind as there will be nothing more than a lava pit soon on the other side.
A shadow can be seen in the only doorway "Defilers, you are not welcome here." it raises a wand and his body starts to shed a colorful light. The warforged suddenly stop to move and stare at Incarnation. Incarnation can only do the same as he sees a perfect replica of himself... except that the fire Incarnation shed is replaced by the a colorful sparky light.
After the group recover from that encounter, the warforged welcome the group and lead them into the communal room and offer some hot food and good wine. Incarnation explains to the warforged what they want to do and the
"My name is Feytouched. I was born in the forge under Daunton, just like you, Incarnation. I was the first of our kind. Mauros had discovered a new theory about warding. A ward is a wall that contain a force. The ward is strong, but when you put enough pressure on it, it will fall apart.
To solve that problem, Mauros had thought of someting else. Instead ot build a wall, he would build damn. That mean that if the pressure starts to grow on the other side of the ward, he could channel some of that energy through the ward and safely release it.
But that wasn't enough for him. He wanted to use these wards to imprison powerful immortal entities and then drain their energy to keep them too weak to be able to free themselves. To drain them, the energy needed to be actively channeled. For that, they needed to find someone willing to bind themselves to the wards. Instead of finding a person, Mauros found a way to trigger Daunton's forge and so I was born.
I was the first warforged created by the Five and bound to such ward. My bound was made with the wards near Daunton to contain the feywild. That bound allow me to channel the feywild energy.
During the following years, I have helped the Five to prepare the other ones. It took almost a week to prepare one of us to be bound to those wards. Then, we have to travel on the site where the wards would be put upon. I helped you, as I have helped the three others to prepare themselves for the ritual.
Last time, the Five were in a hurry and I stayed behind for some small task. The Five was suppose to come back take me, but they never came. As we are in a pocket dimension, I can't use the energy of the wards, that have must stressed the ward. We have the notes of Mauros in his study to strengthen the wards again, and once I'll be back in Daunton, I'll be able to release the presure on the ward again."
The group use Georg rituals to teleport back to the Warden's Grove where they can renew the ward.
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