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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8210501" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>Session 32: Fiendish Business and the Walking Man</p><p></p><p>Dramatis Personae:</p><p>Aldalómiel - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave)/Druid</p><p>Elama “Lamie” Galanodel- Wood Elf Cleric (Tempest)</p><p>Vinya Anar - Wood Elf Monk (Way of the Sun Soul)</p><p>Elderon - High Elf Wizard (Loremaster)</p><p>Marxine - Mountain Dwarf Fighter (Champion)/Paladin</p><p></p><p>GM - Everyone Else</p><p></p><p>(Note: This session was held on Discord.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>25 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 116)</p><p></p><p>We woke up with three days to get to a crossroads before the full moon on 28 Plantarin and the information that it was a little more than two day’s travel to get to one. We felt pretty good about this situation.</p><p></p><p>We decided to get horses and ride, because horses are nice. (Vinya paid for Marxine’s without even asking about it, because Marxine spent a lot of money on her Unmaking hammer.)</p><p></p><p>We rode along the road, which followed the coast for a while. It was all pretty normal looking and there was normal traffic. We’d been told that there were waysides and small villages about every half day along the way. It would take us about two and a quarter days to get to the river road.</p><p></p><p>We ate lunch at a wayside called Omruth and then continued on our way in the afternoon. About when it was time to stop traveling we got to a village called Tisp. Tisp had a couple of inns -- we chose to stay at The Sterling Harp where we were welcomed by the innkeeper, a halfling lady named Adda Tallbranch.</p><p></p><p>We spent the evening in the bar, listening to the bard, who gave a good performance.</p><p></p><p>The night passed without incident.</p><p></p><p></p><p>26 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 117)</p><p></p><p>Our travels were again perfectly normal. We ate lunch in a village called Anvern and then got to a village called Karnish at dinner time. Once again there had been normal traffic all day. Sometimes the terrain let us see the water and the vessels that had come down the river and were traveling to New Arvai, staying close to the coast.</p><p></p><p>We spent the night at an inn called Bramit’s.</p><p></p><p>We talked with the innkeeper, Bramit, when he brought us our dinner.</p><p></p><p>Bramit: Why are you traveling by road rather than by boat?</p><p>Vinya, indicating Marxine: She doesn’t love the water.</p><p>Bramit: I can understand that.</p><p></p><p>The night passed without incident.</p><p></p><p></p><p>27 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 118)</p><p></p><p>Over breakfast we talked with Bramit about where we’re going. Vinya gave the same story she had at the Seafarers’ and Wayfarers’ Inn about wanting to find a small village to take a quiet rest. Bramit saw right through that.</p><p></p><p>Bramit: You’re looking for a crossroads, aren’t you?</p><p>Vinya: Umm…</p><p>Bramit: It’s almost the full moon. You have no idea how many people come this way looking for a full moon because they’re desperate enough to turn to the Fey for assistance.</p><p>Vinya: We’re not desperate, we just have some questions.</p><p>Bramit: Whatever. The next crossroads is about 2 hours away and it’s cursed. You won’t find what you’re looking for there. Everyone who spends the night there at the full moon winds out horribly dead and poison stinking mists come into town…</p><p>Vinya: This far away??</p><p>Bramit: Yeah. And the poison mists hurt people here.</p><p></p><p>We decided to look into the curse at the crossroads and see if we could do anything about that situation -- if people in Karnish were being hurt by whatever the curse was up there, it needed to be dealt with. If, for whatever, reason, we couldn’t get to a crossroads to see the Walking Man because of dealing with this, we’d be able to on the New Moon.</p><p></p><p>Poison stinking mists and a curse sounded fiendish to both Elderron and Aldalomiel.</p><p></p><p>At the crossroads, two hours away, Marxine did a paladinly vibe-check and the answer was BAD. We looked around at the crossroads and right in one of the corners where the roads, covered in brush and shrubs, we found a foot-tall black marble pyramid. It had writing on it in Abyssal.</p><p></p><p>Elderron put on the helmet of comprehend languages and read the inscription to us.</p><p></p><p>Elderron, reading: Those looking for a way find instead their end.</p><p></p><p>Marxine and Elama (newly strengthened by her gauntlets of ogre power) started to try and dig the pyramid out. What they found was that it kept going down and down -- it was the tip of an obelisk. They gave up after a foot or so, when it became clear it was going to keep going down and down. There were no further inscriptions on it but there were carvings heavily influenced by spider and spider-web motifs.</p><p></p><p>Elderron cast detect magic and found that it is very magical. He had the feeling that there would be other pyramids/obelisks around the crossroads. We started looking for those. With Elderron’s detect magic guiding the way, we found another pyramid at every corner of the crossroads. They all had the same inscription and the same spidery and webby artistic design.</p><p></p><p>Elderron also had the sense that just dispelling the magic on the obelists/pyramids might trigger the summons.</p><p></p><p>Elama cast divination, asking: “How should we get rid of whatever this is?”</p><p>ANSWER: Carefully dispel and brace for impact.</p><p></p><p>Well, alrighty then.</p><p></p><p>Elderron helped Elama with the dispel magic, giving her some advice before moving away. Aldalomiel cast guidance on her, then moved away. Vinya stayed near her, in case whatever impact there was happened right next to her.</p><p></p><p>Instead it happened right next to Marxine -- a 10-foot tall column of yellow slime with tentacles manifested right next to her. (Elama recognized it as a yochlol.)</p><p></p><p>Marxine immediately attacked it and did a divine smite -- doing a lot of damage because she was fighting fiends. She then attacked again and did another divine smite. Between the two blows she did it 50 points of damage, which was very impressive.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel started glowing with the starry form of an archer forming over her, then she attacked with her bow, hitting it twice, hard. Vinya shot it with two sunbolts, hitting with both of them, then ran up to it and spent a ki-point for a flurry of blows, both of which landed.</p><p></p><p>The second punch of the flurry dropped it and the body began to deliquesce.</p><p></p><p>The magic on the column was not dispelled, so we tried again, taking up basically the same positions.</p><p></p><p>Elama’s second dispel attempt seemed to be a little better, but we couldn’t be sure of that. Because two of the yochlols appeared, right in the middle of the intersection, near Marxine.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel did another starry archer form and shot at the one further from Marxine and again hit it very hard. Vinya fired two sunbolts at the same one Aldalomiel had just hit, hitting twice. Then she ran over and took a position where she could give Marxine flanking on the one next to her and then turned and spent a ki point for a flurry of blows and attacked the one we were focusing fire on, hitting it twice. Elderron cast blight on that same one, but didn’t get it off for a lot of damage.</p><p></p><p>Marxine attacked the one right in front of her, hitting it once. Elama moved closer and cast bless on herself, Marxine, Aldalomiel, and Vinya.</p><p></p><p>The yochlols moved so that both of them had flanking on Vinya, then proceeded to attack her. The first one hit with a tentacle, doing a little bludgeoning damage and a lot of poison damage, leaving her reeling a bit.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel moved and took two bowh shots at the same one, hitting but not dropping it. Vinya spent a ki-point to take a step of the wind to disengage from them. She moved 30 feet away and shot two sun-bolts at the same one we’d been attacking.</p><p></p><p>Elderron moved to a position to cast lightning bolt on both of them. He remembered that they were resistant to lightning damage, so he made it do force damage. The force blast absolutely exploded the one we’d been attacking. Marxine attacked the other one -- getting a crit that was okay and another hit that barely landed but did the same damage as the critical hit.</p><p></p><p>It attacked Marxine with both tentacles, missing twice. She was the best target for it, because dwarves are resistant to poison damage.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel attacked twice, with her starry form, hitting once. Then her starry archer form let her fire a radiant arrow at it as well. Vinya fired four sunbolts at it and hit with all four of them.</p><p></p><p>Vinya: That time I spent at the monastery practicing with the sunbolts has totally paid off.</p><p></p><p>Elderron did another lightning bolt with force damage that hit it. It was finally dropped by Elama’s thunderwave.</p><p></p><p>We decided to take a short rest after that before trying again. Aladalomiel cast a cure spell on Vinya which, along with the short rest, got her feeling most of the way better.</p><p></p><p>Then we took up positions for Elama to try again.</p><p></p><p>Elama: I can try one more time. If it doesn’t work, we’ll have to try again tomorrow.</p><p>Elderron: We could get three of them this time.</p><p>Elama: Make me nervous why don’t you?</p><p></p><p>Elama cast the dispel magic spell and she saw the obelisks crack as the spell took hold. She felt confident that the curse had been dispelled. However, three of the yochlolls did in fact appear -- one right next to Elama and Vinya, one next to Elderron, and one alone at the one corner of the crossroads where there wasn’t a party member.</p><p></p><p>Elama, seeing the three of them: I’m sorry about that. But It worked!</p><p>Aldalomiel: Yay?</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel again took her starry form and shot twice at the one all by itself alone with regular arrows, then her starry form shot a radiant arrow at it.</p><p></p><p>Vinya punched the one in front of her and Lamie, hitting and did a stunning strike. Which worked. She then punched it again. Elderron cast misty step to get away from the one on him then shot it with a firebolt. Elama tried to banish the one, but it didn’t get banished. Marxine charged the one Aldalomiel shot and hit it twice, wielding the unmaking hammer two handed.</p><p></p><p>The yochlol on Marxine attacked her twice and missed twice. The one that had been on Elderron turned into a sickly yellow mist and moved into the middle of the street. The one that Vinya had stunned shook off the stun effect.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel took two shots at the one on Marxine, the one that she’d shot at before, hitting once. Vinya punched the one in front of her and tried to stun it. That didn’t work and she punched it again with another stunning strike -- that one worked. She then did another punch on it. Elderron cast blight on the one Vinya had stunned and made the save a dexterity save -- this blight did lots of damage.</p><p></p><p>Elama banished the misty fog.</p><p></p><p>Marxine attacked the one in front of her and got a crit. Unfortunately, she didn’t have any more spell slots, so she was unable to smite it.</p><p></p><p>The one on Marxine attacked her and got a critical hit -- because she was attacking two handed, with her bulette hide shield on her back, she was not able to negate the critical hit. Fortunately, she’s resistant to poison damage so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. The stunned one once again shook off the stun.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel dropped that one with two arrows, then she moved to get closer to theone on Vinya and Elama.</p><p></p><p>Vinya attacked the one she’d been stunning, hitting twice, then spending a ki point for a flurry of blows. She forgot to do a stunning blow on it though so it was going to be free to act on its turn.</p><p></p><p>If it lived that long.</p><p></p><p>It didn’t. Elderron cast a magic missile on it and dropped it.</p><p></p><p>We protected Elama for the remaining duration of the banishment spell, so that the third yochlol would stay banished.</p><p></p><p>And then we made camp, even though it was early in the day. We hung out and relaxed and took it easy for the bulk of the day.</p><p></p><p>During the night we had a fire and a pot of stew cooking over it. The moon was indistinguishable from full (though technically the full moon was the next day, we knew there was a bit of leeway on either side of the actual day). In the middle of the night, we heard a voice from the darkness.</p><p></p><p>Falaggo: Hello, the camp!</p><p>Vinya: Hello! Welcome.</p><p>Falaggo: You’ve come a long way.</p><p>Vinya: Not as far as you, I’m sure. We’re here because we wanted to talk to you.</p><p></p><p>Aldalomiel asked about Sossonatissis and the Lingering Silence and the beef between them.</p><p></p><p>Falaggo: I believe my cousin is carrying the grudge far more than the Blue Death.</p><p>Aldalomiel: I have a missing friend who is, apparently, in Castle Dante.</p><p>Falaggo: You asked about her before and I told you that I hadn’t seen her on the roads or ways. She may be in Castle Dante. I don’t go there very often and it’s very very large.</p><p>Vinya: Why would someone in your family want her?</p><p>Falaggo: My cousin is not cruel. Your friend will be taken care of and not treated badly.</p><p>Vinya: We don’t know for sure that she’s there because of the Lingering Silence.</p><p>Falaggo: She’s a good guess. She might have her to provide extra motivation for you to go after the Blue Death. Or as a reward for having done so.</p><p>Elama: How bad can a dragon be?</p><p>Vinya: Oh. Umm… How long have these obelisks been here?</p><p>Falaggo: Since just after the Fiend Wars. They were placed by Lolth herself.</p><p>Aldalomiel: Why here? Why at this crossroads?</p><p>Falaggo: She hates us and will mess with us whenever she can.</p><p>Elama: Can she get here?</p><p>Falaggo: Yes, if she’s summoned as a demon princess. She can’t have divine power here, but she can have all of her demonic powers.</p><p>Vinya: So she’s messing with y’all by interfering with your realm?</p><p>Falaggo: Yes, this is a crossroad near a major city and part of my realm where people will be likely to want to get in touch with me.</p><p>Elama: Does she also mess with others of your family?</p><p>Falaggo: Yes.</p><p>Elama: We’re looking for a rakshasa named Rajalmin, do you know anything about him?</p><p>Falaggo: They tend to be city creatures and therefore they rarely come into my realm at all. I’m afraid I can’t help you.</p><p>Vinya: The Enthroned’s main temple is outside of Tash. Have you picked up on anything odd going on there?</p><p>Falaggo: I know nothing of the inner workings of the church. But they have definitely been expanding and renovating the temple.</p><p>Vinya: Is your realm crossroads or roads in general?</p><p>Falaggo: I like all roads, but crossroads are special to me.</p><p>Aldalomiel: Your cousin...how can we find her? We’d like to talk to her. We hope she might be able to give us an in on how to work against the Blue Death.</p><p>Falaggo: I will see what I can do. It’s possible that if she does have your lover, I can arrange a conversation in Castle Dante. That’s not her realm, so she is more communicative there.</p><p>Elama: How will we get there?</p><p>Vinya: Oh, we can get to Castle Dante, through the fomori cave we were back in the winter.</p><p>Elama: That’s on the other side of the continent. And doesn’t it go straight into the prison?</p><p>Vinya: Yes, but we’re not fomorians so we should be okay.</p><p>Falaggo: There are easier ways. Let me see what I can do. Keeping someone against their will seems cruel.</p><p>Vinya: Should we come to a crossroads again to find you or will you be in touch?</p><p>Falaggo: I’ll be in touch.</p><p></p><p>We then offered him food and drink. He partook of our stew and something to drink and we talked in a friendly way for a while. Then he left.</p><p></p><p>Vinya, after he was gone: For the record, Aldalomiel, I’m 100% in on this dragon thing.</p><p>Elama: Me too.</p><p>Elderron: All of us.</p><p>Marxine: [nodding]</p><p></p><p>The rest of the night passed without incident.</p><p></p><p></p><p>28 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 119)</p><p></p><p>In the morning, we checked the obelisks. They were now made of pinkish stone, not black, and deeply cracked and partly crumbling. Marxine recognized the stone as the same within the portal to Castle Dante that we found in the fomorian complex between the Knot and Tash.</p><p></p><p>The abyssal writing had been replaced with writing in sylvan: "Not all riddles have literal answers. Sometimes the answer is in your pocket.”</p><p></p><p>We all took some of the pieces of the pink stone.</p><p></p><p>Before we broke camp to head back to Karnish and Bramit’s inn, we received a dragon page. It flew to Vinya. It was the return letter from the person we’d contacted in Dhaqi.</p><p></p><p>Greetings from the Queen of Cities!</p><p></p><p>Things here have been less serene than the norm, without question. The peace of the city has been disturbed by several disappearances and at least one violent apparition. There are rumors of diabolists and cabals, but this is not New Arvai and such things are not normal here. If the guard have any information, they are not sharing it, so we residents are limited to what we hear from others, who may not know any better than we do.</p><p></p><p>Hurakil Assir</p><p></p><p>As we walked back to Karnish, we talked about sailing to Dhaqi to see if whatever is going on there had anything to do with Rajalmin. It’s a long trip -- 30+ days by sea.</p><p></p><p>We got back to Karnish and told Bramit that we’d fixed the crossroads.</p><p></p><p>And there we ended.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8210501, member: 7016699"] Session 32: Fiendish Business and the Walking Man Dramatis Personae: Aldalómiel - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave)/Druid Elama “Lamie” Galanodel- Wood Elf Cleric (Tempest) Vinya Anar - Wood Elf Monk (Way of the Sun Soul) Elderon - High Elf Wizard (Loremaster) Marxine - Mountain Dwarf Fighter (Champion)/Paladin GM - Everyone Else (Note: This session was held on Discord.) 25 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 116) We woke up with three days to get to a crossroads before the full moon on 28 Plantarin and the information that it was a little more than two day’s travel to get to one. We felt pretty good about this situation. We decided to get horses and ride, because horses are nice. (Vinya paid for Marxine’s without even asking about it, because Marxine spent a lot of money on her Unmaking hammer.) We rode along the road, which followed the coast for a while. It was all pretty normal looking and there was normal traffic. We’d been told that there were waysides and small villages about every half day along the way. It would take us about two and a quarter days to get to the river road. We ate lunch at a wayside called Omruth and then continued on our way in the afternoon. About when it was time to stop traveling we got to a village called Tisp. Tisp had a couple of inns -- we chose to stay at The Sterling Harp where we were welcomed by the innkeeper, a halfling lady named Adda Tallbranch. We spent the evening in the bar, listening to the bard, who gave a good performance. The night passed without incident. 26 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 117) Our travels were again perfectly normal. We ate lunch in a village called Anvern and then got to a village called Karnish at dinner time. Once again there had been normal traffic all day. Sometimes the terrain let us see the water and the vessels that had come down the river and were traveling to New Arvai, staying close to the coast. We spent the night at an inn called Bramit’s. We talked with the innkeeper, Bramit, when he brought us our dinner. Bramit: Why are you traveling by road rather than by boat? Vinya, indicating Marxine: She doesn’t love the water. Bramit: I can understand that. The night passed without incident. 27 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 118) Over breakfast we talked with Bramit about where we’re going. Vinya gave the same story she had at the Seafarers’ and Wayfarers’ Inn about wanting to find a small village to take a quiet rest. Bramit saw right through that. Bramit: You’re looking for a crossroads, aren’t you? Vinya: Umm… Bramit: It’s almost the full moon. You have no idea how many people come this way looking for a full moon because they’re desperate enough to turn to the Fey for assistance. Vinya: We’re not desperate, we just have some questions. Bramit: Whatever. The next crossroads is about 2 hours away and it’s cursed. You won’t find what you’re looking for there. Everyone who spends the night there at the full moon winds out horribly dead and poison stinking mists come into town… Vinya: This far away?? Bramit: Yeah. And the poison mists hurt people here. We decided to look into the curse at the crossroads and see if we could do anything about that situation -- if people in Karnish were being hurt by whatever the curse was up there, it needed to be dealt with. If, for whatever, reason, we couldn’t get to a crossroads to see the Walking Man because of dealing with this, we’d be able to on the New Moon. Poison stinking mists and a curse sounded fiendish to both Elderron and Aldalomiel. At the crossroads, two hours away, Marxine did a paladinly vibe-check and the answer was BAD. We looked around at the crossroads and right in one of the corners where the roads, covered in brush and shrubs, we found a foot-tall black marble pyramid. It had writing on it in Abyssal. Elderron put on the helmet of comprehend languages and read the inscription to us. Elderron, reading: Those looking for a way find instead their end. Marxine and Elama (newly strengthened by her gauntlets of ogre power) started to try and dig the pyramid out. What they found was that it kept going down and down -- it was the tip of an obelisk. They gave up after a foot or so, when it became clear it was going to keep going down and down. There were no further inscriptions on it but there were carvings heavily influenced by spider and spider-web motifs. Elderron cast detect magic and found that it is very magical. He had the feeling that there would be other pyramids/obelisks around the crossroads. We started looking for those. With Elderron’s detect magic guiding the way, we found another pyramid at every corner of the crossroads. They all had the same inscription and the same spidery and webby artistic design. Elderron also had the sense that just dispelling the magic on the obelists/pyramids might trigger the summons. Elama cast divination, asking: “How should we get rid of whatever this is?” ANSWER: Carefully dispel and brace for impact. Well, alrighty then. Elderron helped Elama with the dispel magic, giving her some advice before moving away. Aldalomiel cast guidance on her, then moved away. Vinya stayed near her, in case whatever impact there was happened right next to her. Instead it happened right next to Marxine -- a 10-foot tall column of yellow slime with tentacles manifested right next to her. (Elama recognized it as a yochlol.) Marxine immediately attacked it and did a divine smite -- doing a lot of damage because she was fighting fiends. She then attacked again and did another divine smite. Between the two blows she did it 50 points of damage, which was very impressive. Aldalomiel started glowing with the starry form of an archer forming over her, then she attacked with her bow, hitting it twice, hard. Vinya shot it with two sunbolts, hitting with both of them, then ran up to it and spent a ki-point for a flurry of blows, both of which landed. The second punch of the flurry dropped it and the body began to deliquesce. The magic on the column was not dispelled, so we tried again, taking up basically the same positions. Elama’s second dispel attempt seemed to be a little better, but we couldn’t be sure of that. Because two of the yochlols appeared, right in the middle of the intersection, near Marxine. Aldalomiel did another starry archer form and shot at the one further from Marxine and again hit it very hard. Vinya fired two sunbolts at the same one Aldalomiel had just hit, hitting twice. Then she ran over and took a position where she could give Marxine flanking on the one next to her and then turned and spent a ki point for a flurry of blows and attacked the one we were focusing fire on, hitting it twice. Elderron cast blight on that same one, but didn’t get it off for a lot of damage. Marxine attacked the one right in front of her, hitting it once. Elama moved closer and cast bless on herself, Marxine, Aldalomiel, and Vinya. The yochlols moved so that both of them had flanking on Vinya, then proceeded to attack her. The first one hit with a tentacle, doing a little bludgeoning damage and a lot of poison damage, leaving her reeling a bit. Aldalomiel moved and took two bowh shots at the same one, hitting but not dropping it. Vinya spent a ki-point to take a step of the wind to disengage from them. She moved 30 feet away and shot two sun-bolts at the same one we’d been attacking. Elderron moved to a position to cast lightning bolt on both of them. He remembered that they were resistant to lightning damage, so he made it do force damage. The force blast absolutely exploded the one we’d been attacking. Marxine attacked the other one -- getting a crit that was okay and another hit that barely landed but did the same damage as the critical hit. It attacked Marxine with both tentacles, missing twice. She was the best target for it, because dwarves are resistant to poison damage. Aldalomiel attacked twice, with her starry form, hitting once. Then her starry archer form let her fire a radiant arrow at it as well. Vinya fired four sunbolts at it and hit with all four of them. Vinya: That time I spent at the monastery practicing with the sunbolts has totally paid off. Elderron did another lightning bolt with force damage that hit it. It was finally dropped by Elama’s thunderwave. We decided to take a short rest after that before trying again. Aladalomiel cast a cure spell on Vinya which, along with the short rest, got her feeling most of the way better. Then we took up positions for Elama to try again. Elama: I can try one more time. If it doesn’t work, we’ll have to try again tomorrow. Elderron: We could get three of them this time. Elama: Make me nervous why don’t you? Elama cast the dispel magic spell and she saw the obelisks crack as the spell took hold. She felt confident that the curse had been dispelled. However, three of the yochlolls did in fact appear -- one right next to Elama and Vinya, one next to Elderron, and one alone at the one corner of the crossroads where there wasn’t a party member. Elama, seeing the three of them: I’m sorry about that. But It worked! Aldalomiel: Yay? Aldalomiel again took her starry form and shot twice at the one all by itself alone with regular arrows, then her starry form shot a radiant arrow at it. Vinya punched the one in front of her and Lamie, hitting and did a stunning strike. Which worked. She then punched it again. Elderron cast misty step to get away from the one on him then shot it with a firebolt. Elama tried to banish the one, but it didn’t get banished. Marxine charged the one Aldalomiel shot and hit it twice, wielding the unmaking hammer two handed. The yochlol on Marxine attacked her twice and missed twice. The one that had been on Elderron turned into a sickly yellow mist and moved into the middle of the street. The one that Vinya had stunned shook off the stun effect. Aldalomiel took two shots at the one on Marxine, the one that she’d shot at before, hitting once. Vinya punched the one in front of her and tried to stun it. That didn’t work and she punched it again with another stunning strike -- that one worked. She then did another punch on it. Elderron cast blight on the one Vinya had stunned and made the save a dexterity save -- this blight did lots of damage. Elama banished the misty fog. Marxine attacked the one in front of her and got a crit. Unfortunately, she didn’t have any more spell slots, so she was unable to smite it. The one on Marxine attacked her and got a critical hit -- because she was attacking two handed, with her bulette hide shield on her back, she was not able to negate the critical hit. Fortunately, she’s resistant to poison damage so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. The stunned one once again shook off the stun. Aldalomiel dropped that one with two arrows, then she moved to get closer to theone on Vinya and Elama. Vinya attacked the one she’d been stunning, hitting twice, then spending a ki point for a flurry of blows. She forgot to do a stunning blow on it though so it was going to be free to act on its turn. If it lived that long. It didn’t. Elderron cast a magic missile on it and dropped it. We protected Elama for the remaining duration of the banishment spell, so that the third yochlol would stay banished. And then we made camp, even though it was early in the day. We hung out and relaxed and took it easy for the bulk of the day. During the night we had a fire and a pot of stew cooking over it. The moon was indistinguishable from full (though technically the full moon was the next day, we knew there was a bit of leeway on either side of the actual day). In the middle of the night, we heard a voice from the darkness. Falaggo: Hello, the camp! Vinya: Hello! Welcome. Falaggo: You’ve come a long way. Vinya: Not as far as you, I’m sure. We’re here because we wanted to talk to you. Aldalomiel asked about Sossonatissis and the Lingering Silence and the beef between them. Falaggo: I believe my cousin is carrying the grudge far more than the Blue Death. Aldalomiel: I have a missing friend who is, apparently, in Castle Dante. Falaggo: You asked about her before and I told you that I hadn’t seen her on the roads or ways. She may be in Castle Dante. I don’t go there very often and it’s very very large. Vinya: Why would someone in your family want her? Falaggo: My cousin is not cruel. Your friend will be taken care of and not treated badly. Vinya: We don’t know for sure that she’s there because of the Lingering Silence. Falaggo: She’s a good guess. She might have her to provide extra motivation for you to go after the Blue Death. Or as a reward for having done so. Elama: How bad can a dragon be? Vinya: Oh. Umm… How long have these obelisks been here? Falaggo: Since just after the Fiend Wars. They were placed by Lolth herself. Aldalomiel: Why here? Why at this crossroads? Falaggo: She hates us and will mess with us whenever she can. Elama: Can she get here? Falaggo: Yes, if she’s summoned as a demon princess. She can’t have divine power here, but she can have all of her demonic powers. Vinya: So she’s messing with y’all by interfering with your realm? Falaggo: Yes, this is a crossroad near a major city and part of my realm where people will be likely to want to get in touch with me. Elama: Does she also mess with others of your family? Falaggo: Yes. Elama: We’re looking for a rakshasa named Rajalmin, do you know anything about him? Falaggo: They tend to be city creatures and therefore they rarely come into my realm at all. I’m afraid I can’t help you. Vinya: The Enthroned’s main temple is outside of Tash. Have you picked up on anything odd going on there? Falaggo: I know nothing of the inner workings of the church. But they have definitely been expanding and renovating the temple. Vinya: Is your realm crossroads or roads in general? Falaggo: I like all roads, but crossroads are special to me. Aldalomiel: Your cousin...how can we find her? We’d like to talk to her. We hope she might be able to give us an in on how to work against the Blue Death. Falaggo: I will see what I can do. It’s possible that if she does have your lover, I can arrange a conversation in Castle Dante. That’s not her realm, so she is more communicative there. Elama: How will we get there? Vinya: Oh, we can get to Castle Dante, through the fomori cave we were back in the winter. Elama: That’s on the other side of the continent. And doesn’t it go straight into the prison? Vinya: Yes, but we’re not fomorians so we should be okay. Falaggo: There are easier ways. Let me see what I can do. Keeping someone against their will seems cruel. Vinya: Should we come to a crossroads again to find you or will you be in touch? Falaggo: I’ll be in touch. We then offered him food and drink. He partook of our stew and something to drink and we talked in a friendly way for a while. Then he left. Vinya, after he was gone: For the record, Aldalomiel, I’m 100% in on this dragon thing. Elama: Me too. Elderron: All of us. Marxine: [nodding] The rest of the night passed without incident. 28 Plantarin 749 (Campaign day 119) In the morning, we checked the obelisks. They were now made of pinkish stone, not black, and deeply cracked and partly crumbling. Marxine recognized the stone as the same within the portal to Castle Dante that we found in the fomorian complex between the Knot and Tash. The abyssal writing had been replaced with writing in sylvan: "Not all riddles have literal answers. Sometimes the answer is in your pocket.” We all took some of the pieces of the pink stone. Before we broke camp to head back to Karnish and Bramit’s inn, we received a dragon page. It flew to Vinya. It was the return letter from the person we’d contacted in Dhaqi. Greetings from the Queen of Cities! Things here have been less serene than the norm, without question. The peace of the city has been disturbed by several disappearances and at least one violent apparition. There are rumors of diabolists and cabals, but this is not New Arvai and such things are not normal here. If the guard have any information, they are not sharing it, so we residents are limited to what we hear from others, who may not know any better than we do. Hurakil Assir As we walked back to Karnish, we talked about sailing to Dhaqi to see if whatever is going on there had anything to do with Rajalmin. It’s a long trip -- 30+ days by sea. We got back to Karnish and told Bramit that we’d fixed the crossroads. And there we ended. [/QUOTE]
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Erkonin (Campaign #2) [Session 45: Rajalmin's Agent]
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