No entry! Bad dragon! - November 10, 2023

 - Ninja embroidery (appliqué?)

- Group therapy session in a major way

- Theophania and Osiris with some help from Rusty gather about three soul-containing crystals to bring back for experimenting on how to release the souls without destroying them 

- Tiff sprays the room with a concoction from her alchemists supplies to hide their scent to help hide who was here

- Osiris draws some glyphs of protection (religious, not arcane) then uses a second spell slot to cast Stone Shape to close the opening completely

- Rusty carves in common over the bakery door, "No entry! Bad dragon!"

- They take their crystal, which is about the last thing Tiff can fit in the bag of holding and head back up and out of the tunnel where they stop to camp in a Leomund's Tiny Hut, so Tiff does another Sending to Great Aunt Thessalie, "Auntie, I'm scared. There's just us against Agonir and millions of trapped souls. What if we fail? What happens to the people of Mistverge? Miss you."

- Tiff basically falls asleep almost immediately and has a dream where Thessalie comforts her and tells her that she can only do her best, but that Tess believes that Tiff can do great things and then they have tea and Tiff finally gets to tell all her adventures to the one person who she's wanted to know about them in all the world

 

- Once they get back to Mistverge, Tiff entrusts Osiris with the bag of holding after taking out a present for her niece that she made ages ago when she was making magic items and heads to her parents house

- Lyrielle and Raiàn go to their rooms at the Cutlywit boarding house to rest (and probably also avoid roleplay)

- There are fewer people on the streets than even the cold, damp weather would call for

 

- Osiris takes the bag of holding with the soul crystals and goes straight to Birel to get help with them

- Before she can even it out to show him, he asks if it has something to do with the disease, and she has a wait, what moment

- The disease causes people to get a rash, and then it's like their bodies can't take in water so they die of thirst no matter how much water they drink, and several people have died while the group has been out

- They do not yet know how it spreads, though if it's through air, water, or contact

- There are currently two people in the hospital wing who have the disease

- Osiris goes to investigate one of the bodies of people who have passed from the disease and sees the scaly, greenish rash on her neck and the same pattern inside her throat as well

- She takes a sample of the rash for Tiff

- Osiris then finally gets to show Birel and the other two high-priests the soul crystals

 

- Lyrielle and Raiàn return to the boarding house and Jinora is there with Callie and Magnus.

- The story of Lyrielle getting eaten by a giant bug is told. Jinora is impressed that she survived and really wished she knew the Sending spell.

- Raiàn gets a Message from the temple about the disease and not to drink the water

- Callie explains that it's really just in the slums by the river just south of the docks on both the east and west banks, but no halflings have been affected yet (where the fog is...)

- Tiff's healing bonk of a hammer is explained.

- Tiff gives the belated birthday present for Vera (now aged four) to her brother Eldie explaining about how she knows Vera can't have a pet because of Eldon's severe allergies no matter how much she wants a rabbits, and how the pot is enchanted to cause a carefully tended plant in it to become Awakened and behave a bit like a pet

- Eldon didn't even realize Tiff was gone for the week, so he doesn't really believe her when she tries to warn him about the dragon and he takes some convincing, but he finally acknowledges the problem and agrees to get the word out through the Mistverge halfling Hive in case there's a need to evacuate. He gives her an apology chocolate, and she takes off on her broom to go help Osiris figure out how to cure the new disease in town (message through the earring), release the souls from the crystals, kill Agonir, and save Mistverge. No big.

 

- 3,000 XP ea for 103,000 total XP ea.

Exploding Bugs and Minds (Well, One Mind) - November 3, 2023

 CENTIPEDE BATTLE

- Lyrielle drinks an Elixir of Resistance (from Tiff) and moves a little closer to the nearest centipede

- Raiàn casts Fireball and discovers the centipede are immune 

- The Centipede (C1) nearest Lyrielle moves up to bite her, but she dodges with her DMS

- Osiris casts Aid (level 4) on Lyrielle, Thoephania, and Raiàn then steps back

- C2 waits to see what's going to happen

- Rusty goes into a Rage, ("You can't flank the butt.") moves to flank C1 with Lyrielle and misses with his first swing then strikes with his second (10 slashing dmg) and Rusty takes 6 (3) fire dmg

- Tiff casts Haste on Rusty 

- Lyrielle smacks C1 with her staff for 9 bludgeoning dmg, and she takes 8 fire dmg then she punches it for 6 bludgeoning dmg and she takes 9 fire dmg from its carapace. It cries out and there is an answering rumble from a deep in a blobb mass of webby stuff

- Raiàn casts Cone of Cold on both centipedes and Rusty, but the centipedes are also immune to cold, so only Rusty take dmg (6)

- C1 turns and misses Rusty 

- Osiris steps forward next to Tiff again casts Bless on everyone except herself wonders out loud if there is any kind of elemental damage they aren't immune to, then steps back into the hall again

- Mama rushes out of the nest of webbing and bites Lyrielle for 48 piercing dmg and 10 fire dmg and she is grappled in its mandibles (She is Restrained)

- C2 moves to flank Rusty and bites him for 22 (11) piercing and 6 (3) fire dmg 

- Rusty slices into C1 for 16 slashing and he takes 9 (4) fire dmg then he slices into it again for 18 slashing dmg and he takes 9 (4) splash back fire dmg then again for 25 slashing dmg and the splash back is 10 (5) fire dmg

- Tiff activates her Rope of climbing while running forward 10', then sends it forward with the Healing Bonk hammer then reels out the rope while moving back to where she was before. At this point Tiff has analyzed the creatures biology quickly and yells that she thinks anything except fire and cold will work on them

- Lyrielle struggles in the jaw of Mama

- Raiàn casts Chain Lightning for 52 lightning dmg on the babies, but Mama only takes 26 

- C1 explodes (no fire dmg luckily)

- Osiris moves up to Lyrielle and casts Cure Wounds (lvl 3) on her for 21 HP then she steps back one more time 

- Mama chomps down on Lyrielle for 31 piercing dmg and 6 fire dmg and she is swallowed then she moves over to Osiris

- C2 bites Rusty for 28 (14) piercing and 14 (7) fire dmg 

- Rusty moves to flank Mama getting bitten again by C2 for 21 (10) piercing and 12 (6) fire dmg then slices into Mama for 18 slashing and 7 (3) fire dmg splash back and again for 21 slashing with 11 (5) fire dmg splash and lastly for 16 slashing dmg with 13 (6) fire dmg splash

- Tiff sends the Rope 10' closer to Rusty, then casts Melf's Acid Arrow on Mama for 21 acid dmg

 

- Lyrielle uses Wholeness of Body to regain 33 HP while inside Mama's belly

- Raiàn casts Chromatic Orb (lvl 5) on Mama for 58 lightning dmg 

- Osiris moves around Mama and casts Heal on Rusty for 78 HP then moves back so that she and Rusty are still flanking

- Mama takes 15 acid dmg from the lingering Acid Arrow then Lyrielle takes 17 digestion acid dmg then misses biting Osiris

- C2 moves to flank Rusty with its Mama and then bites Rusty for 32 (16) piercing and 15 (7) fire dmg

- Rusty misses Mama with his great axe then slices into her for 11 slashing dmg with 13 (6) fire splash then again for 10 slashing dmg with 16 (8) fire splash and Mama is split open DEAD!

- Tiff moves around Raiàn sends the Rope of Climbing so that the Healing Bonk is adjacent to Rusty and then casts Melf's Acid Arrow on C2 for 13 acid dmg

- Lyrielle wiggles out of Mama's dead body, stands up and shakes the stomach acid off, then move adjacent to C2 to help Rusty hitting C2 for 8 bludgeoning and then again for 13 bludgeoning dmg taking 5 fire dmg in the process, then she Disengages and moves back 5'

- Raiàn casts Magic Missile on C2 for a total of 9 force dmg and it's dead too! (Go Chain Lightning!)

- Everyone takes a deep breath, and the undamaged Osiris pokes her head into the webby nest where Mama was hiding and she finds a carved alabaster mask

- The mask is a full face mask with a pointy chin and sort of little horns at the top that look slightly demonic, but she gets the idea that it might be orcish in origin.

- She also find some random bits of dwarven detritus

- While they are sitting around looking at what Osiris dragged out, Rusty wonders out loud what happened to the dwarves, and Tiff says, "Oh Lellzutho destroyed the dwarven civilization before he possessed my grandpa and destroyed Hedrimond." 

- Rusty's mind is blown, and a short rest is spent providing more details, but that big one is that now he knows what happened to him and his creatures.  

- 2,500 XP ea for 100,000 XP total ea (LEVEL 12!)