A Terrifying Meeting - March 8, 2024

 - Mountains with dragon

- The old man does not want to be involved, but he does say that Thomas Potnam lives in a house on the other side of the lake.

- Tiff returns to her friends and they eat stew and have some beer 

- Tina is really skeeved out by Wistaria because it's too quiet.

- Tiff talks about how forests are still creepier, and tells the story about how she was chased and tackled by a sheepdog when visit her cousins' farm and she thought it was going to chew her nose off

- They set off after their lunch and start the about four hour walk to get to Thomas Potnam's house.

- They decide to make camp near his house since the magic users used some pretty high level magic before or during travel much to the chagrin of Rusty and Russell

- Lyrielle takes some elixirs from Tiff to help her out and then heads off to scout Mr. Potnam's house

- The house has boarded up windows and the area is unnaturally quiet near it.

- She sneaks up and peeks into the window and she's a lone dude eating a meal of a simple stew and some hard, dry bread. His clothes are worn and ragged. The room has a hearth and a small bed and his chair.

- Before she goes to sleep for the night, Osiris casts Legend Lore on Morgion and has a vision where she sees that in his domain he lives in a bronze tower at the edge of the abyss. Followers of Morgion spread pestilence and disease. She understands that he is interested in the decay of all things from the level of the individual to whole societies. He is opposed to anything healthy, wholesome, or painless. He believes you must be strong to survive and to survive you must suffer. Everywhere he goes there is plague and horror. He remains apart and isolated from the other gods.

- Russell snores very loudly in his sleep.

- Tiff passes out chamomile and Valerian tea and wax (for your ears).

- Once they wake up and sort themselves out, they go to the house and everyone except Tiff "hides" (Lyrielle is the only one who succeeds at hiding), and Tiff knocks on the door.

- Mr. Potnam is terrified and slams the door in her face, then when Tiff knocks again, the door flies open and a much larger being with a mace flings the door open and glares menacingly.

- The rest of the party starts to draw weapons, but Tiff just starts monologu0ing about all the good Mishakal does in the world and they will not go away until this problem is taken care of.

- Turns out the giant person who has inhabited Mr. Potnam's body is Nabair, warrior Kiri-Joleth. The symbol over the door is intended to bar entry to the followers of Morgion.

- Kiri-Joleth is the lawful good god of honor and war.

- Osiris casts Detect Evil and Good, and Nabair is definitely a celestial.

- Raiàn and Lyrielle can see around Nabair and the back door is open and Mr. Potnam has run.

- Tiff flies up in the air and sees Thomas running through a semi-distant copse of trees. She starts flying in that direction. Lyrielle also starts heading in that direction.

- Tiff talks him down and convinces him to come back to his little house and chat, though he does nearly have a heart attack when she flies up next to him on the broom.

- Thomas Potnam isn't personally plagued by demons, but the whole town of Wistaria is plagued by demons.

- Mr. Potnam was a teacher / scholar in the little church to Kiri-Joleth in town and a few years ago some new priests showed and started slowly changing things until they basically ran things and now they are building a much larger temple to Morgion.

- Tiff sketches a quick map of the lake and gets a vicinity from Thomas.

- The priests are Brother Michael, tall and thin with dark hair

- Another one is Brother Francis, slightly shorter with reddish hair

- Both are human in appearance at least.

- Tiff gives Thomas some tea as a parting gift to help him sleep (since he's so nervous), and they start walking back around the lake.

- They all agree this time to use Tiff's Walk Walk spray (ritually cast, but flavored for artificer), and it saved them some time

- The plan is that Russell and Rusty and Osiris will lead the way and call for the brothers Michael and Francis and start punching.

- The plan is followed, with Russell giving a very grandiose call for them to come forth.

- The tall one tells them to begone and the short one says "Remove them." and the people who are building the cathedral charge the group.

- We start next week by rolling initiative.

 

-3,000 XP ea for 130,300 XP total ea.

Teleportations and a Plan - March 1, 2024

 - Pink hoodie with cow face

- Osiris comes and asks Tina if she could teleport the group to Wistaria and Tina says maybe 

- Tiff does a Sending to Lord McNabb to ask if he has anything from Wistaria that they could borrow, but he does not.

- Osiris goes to check the library to see if there are any books from there

- Tiff takes Tina to the Groundswallow General Store to ask if they have anything from the Traveling Caravan that might have come from Wistaria.

- Over the earrings Osiris asks if anybody else had been to Wistaria, and Tiff suggests maybe Rusty can check in the history museum he's been selling Dwarven artifacts to.

- Osiris then goes and makes 17 more vials of holy water

- Tiff's parents and brother don't know if they have anything from Wistaria in the store because they don't track that sort of thing. She then casts Rope Trick so that Tina can play with her nieces and Vera and Bree and then Tiff visits with her family a little bit.

- Tina and Tiff then walk to the boarding house to say hi there as well, and so that Tiff can introduce Tina to Jinora.

- Jinora does not return in time to meet Tina that evening, so Tiff sends to her to ask if she might want to come, and she says sure.

- Raiàn and Tiff and Tina make a plan for Tina to use the circle to get them to Arrandale and then for Raiàn to teleport them from there to Wistaria, so that the mishap possibility will be smaller, since Arrandale is about 60% of the way to Wistaria from Mistverge.

- Osiris gets up as earlier as elven-ly possible, and she casts Scry on Thomas Potnam. She sees a human man in his thirties (ish). He looks disheveled and unkempt. He's staggering around the outside of a modest cottage with boarded-up windows. He's doing chores, like weeding the garden or feeding the chickens something. He seems very paranoid. It's overcast, and it looks like it might be chilly. There is a talisman over the door into the house made of bones with symbols painted around the talisman. Osiris takes notes on the talisman. Not far away from the house there is a thick copse of tree and in the other direction there is the lake and what presumable the town of Wistaria is not-quite the other side of the lake, but definitely around the bend a good bit.

- Her next activity is that she casts Legend Lore on Thomas Potnam, but nothing pops because he is not of legendary importance.

- Then before people start showing up she goes and fills in Birel on their latest task.

- She shows him her sketch of the talisman and the symbols, but he doesn't know anything about it.

- She then goes to the library to see if she can find anything about the symbols. In a book about religious symbology, she thinks they have something to do with Morgion, the god of disease and secrecy whose domain is death.

- Tiff has to come get Osiris out of the library so that Tina can get them all to Arrandale.

- Tina then teleports eight people (the PCs plus Jinora, Russell, and herself) to the academy of magic and they arrive in an open room with red, green, and gold banners and a bustling square full of mostly elves, but there are also humans, and some other of a few races.

- Tina takes them straight to Sharai's office who offers to teleport them to Wistaria.

- Tiff offers to Mend something for her before they are sent off. There's a faint look of nostalgia on her face before Sharai hands Tiff a book with a damaged spine. 

- After another quick teleport, they are standing in the town square (with a dry fountain) of presumably Wistaria. It is chilly and the fountain is dry. There are no people here. It is weirdly quiet. Tiff casts Death Ward on

- They decide to do some information gathering before just heading out.

- Tiff walks into the nearest shop that happens to be a small apothecary and asks about Thomas Potnam, any weird happenings around town, and then tells her about the Groundswallow Traveling Tinkers and Traders and how that's her family, and then buys a few Moonwort spores for 1 GP, so at least now she has a sample.

- The apothecary says that the only inn in town is the Spiral Duck on the north side of town near the lake, so they head that direction.

- They head to the inn, and there's one old man in the corner sitting at a table sipping a drink of some kind, and there's a barkeep in his 50s.

- They order food and drinks, and Osiris tells them all the things she did and saw this morning.

- While waiting for their food to arrive, Tiff heads over to the older man in the corner

 

- 3,000 XP ea for 127,300 XP total ea.