Epilogues - August 23, 2024

 - Danny Duffy shirt? (SPOTSBALL?!?!?!)

Notes on Theophania Groundswallow

• Step 1) Clear out the undead and other nasties in Agonir’s cavern to prevent other things from attacking the beleaguered Mistverge, and so that that the archaeologists can have access to the Dwarven ruins without risking their lives if they want it.
• Step 2) Spends a year or two getting Mistverge back on its feet agriculturally. Maybe negotiating some spaces in and around the city as nature sanctuaries in exchange for some plant growth spells on some of the bigger farms with the druid Elidar so that those farms will have double produce and reduce the shortages in the city in the short term.
• Step 3) She might revisit the plan to identify The Voice once everyone is properly fed again, but after several months of experiments, the results are inconclusive.
• Step 4) Go on a quest to find the Dwoids and tell them about the dwarves who survived. Rusty definitely comes along for this one. How does it go?
  
• Step 5) Spend some time sharing knowledge with Dwarven artificers to improve her mechanical skills and maybe teach some of her alchemy knowledge.
• Lastly) She starts her own shop of magic items called Groundswallow Alchemical Gear. To get the needed supplies for her items, she develops a network of traveling merchants (Groundswallow Tinkers and Traders among others), wizards (Sharai and Tina and the wizard school in Arrandale), the investments and contacts of Lord McNabb (if he’s interested), and maybe even a certain “businessman” named Jimmy or his friends for certain alchemical reagents depending on how the thing with The Voice goes. Tina is around for everything, and eventually one day Tiff suddenly realizes they are basically married, so they do. (Tina, "Oh, you want to make it official?")
  

Notes on Raiàn

• Raiàn goes home because her cousin Sunny dies and becomes the ruler of her people.
• Something fell out of the sky and landed on Sunny's head, and it looks a little mechanically and familiar when Raiàn gets home. Raiàn makes sure the item is destroyed in "revenge".
  
• They rule benevolently.
  

Notes on Lyrielle

• Lyrielle goes back home and reports on everything she's learned in Mistverge.
  
• She becomes an Advisor to the elven military, with emphasis on defense.
• She loves to travel, so she still find lots of excuses to go on adventures, and does help look for the dwoids.
  

Notes on Osiris

• Osiris does some research in Agonir's lair about the soul stuff he was doing. She finds some of the crystals that didn't have souls in them, and eventually she figures out how to make a one of the soul gems, so she does, but she just keeps it in a box on her person at all times.
  
• She also stays in touch with Rusty and anytime he learns something new about himself, and she adds it to her book about him.
• Osiris is Head priestess of the Rites and spends the next hundred years or however long it takes Hallowing the whole city so that it will forever (or at least a really long time) be a bastion against the undead. She also Hallows the dwarven ruins directly below Mistverge such that people cannot teleport directly to it.
  
• Osiris works out a deal where Magnus gets to go to the Wizard school in Arrandale with Prof Tina as his sponsor.
• She also occasionally takes a sabbatical to visit the dwarves.
• She also eventually takes care of the Blackwood servants by killing the undead bodies and then Resurrecting them back into their bodies, which only works because Agonir's hoard is eliminated.
  
• At least one time she casts Astral Projections so that she and Tiff can visit Thessalie.
  

Notes on Rusty

• He helps Tiff with all her projects, dragon lair clean-up, Dwoid hunting, Dwarf learning, etc.
  
• He does let Tiff do some "vivisection" on him to learn about his construction and creation, and she is very carefully, and he takes no damage in the process. 
• Not very many memories come back from before he shut down for 1,000 years.
• Rusty also asks Tiff "Is there a way to get this to stop bleeding" of the Butcher's Bib, and the answer is no. It bleeds or it's useless.     

Notes on Jinora

• She collects the empty soulgem Agonir had embedded in his chest and some of his humanoid form's hair. Then she interviews a bunch of people and takes a bunch of notes and is very intense about the whole process.
• They finally get to see her dragon form, and she is mostly blue, but she also had a couple of black stripes on her chest.

Notes on Magnus

• He takes Osiris up on the offer to study in Arrandale, and spends some time there, and is not very good at all. With his new training, his experiments are less impressive as Agonir's hoard isn't providing a source
  
• He and Callie eventually get married. 
• Sometimes Tiff and Tina are called in to clean up a bit of a mess, and everyone does their best to
  

Notes on Tina

• She moves to Mistverge and helps rebuild.
  
• She and Tiff adventure together, and Tina helps with Tiff's magical inventions.
  

Notes on the Dwarves

• They are tight-lipped on their plans, but an impression is gathered that they are expanding somehow. Maybe underground?
  
• They enter into a secret treaty with Raiàn where they agree not to interfere with each other, but recognize each other's authority.
  

 Notes on Russell Santiago

• He helps clean up Agonir's lair.
  
• He only sticks around long enough for fighty-things. Once it gets down to negotiating with druids and handing out food, he heads back to Caledonia. He declines Tina's offer to teleport him home as it will give him a chance to see more of the countryside and find people to help along the way.
  

Notes on Mistverge and the Black Bloods

• The Black Bloods basically take over the city subdividing it into districts except for Winfair Hillock, and the area around the Temple and the Hall of Justice.
  
• They collect "taxes" and actually provide services like helping people rebuild and providing food and water, and then once all that settles down they just shake down businesses for money in a Gotham city kind of way, but they never mess with Groundswallow General Store, Groundswallow Alchemical Gear, or Callie's boarding house. 
• The violence never gets too out of hand because the district bosses keep everything in check because The Voice keeps them in check. If they don't keep things in hand, they won't get to stay the district boss for very long. 
• Lord McNabb eventually becomes the defacto leader of the council.

 THE END

The Final Battle for Mistverge #BossBattle - August 9, 2024

 - Hexagonal Fellowship

- Osiris casts Aid on some of her friends to further buff them to fight a FUCKING DRAGON

- Tiff sets up and infuses the necromantic tendrils with the Elixir of Divine Release, they wait the hour or so for it suffuse the entire system and then Tiff repeats her binding chant to activate the potion.

- Tiff does her chant, and then in a wave from where she is touching the tendrils the glowing crystals go dark and the wave continues out of sight into the distance.

- After a moment there is a blinding flash of light that then separates into individual glowing wisps that start disappear into cracks and crevices to head to the surface 

- There is a deep, angry roar from far away, a rush of air, and then the sounds of something coming towards them.

- They all enter the cavern and brace with Osiris readying Aura of Vitality and Tiff readying Haste on Russell

 

THE BATTLE WITH AGONIR THE GREAT AND POWERFUL

-  Rusty throws a javelin to get Agnoir's attention hitting him for 10 piercing dmg and then runs behind a column to spread out. The gems embedded in his chest, "shoulders", and upper "arms"

- Raiàn casts Greater Invisibility on themself and on Lyrielle and then darts off slightly away and behind Rusty

- (Lair) From the largest gem in Agonir's chest burst forth spectral skulls that swarm around Russell, Lyrielle, Tiff, and Osiris. Osiris takes 13 psychic dmg and everyone else takes 6 psychic dmg.

- Lyrielle runs forward shooting a dart at Agonir and missing but she can tell that his eyes tracked her movement, so the invisibility is not as useful as hoped.

- Agonir breaths acid on Lyrielle and Osiris for 67 acid and 33 on Russell who manages and Aura of Vitality is gone.

- Russell casts Crusader's Mantle on himself he starts running towards the dragon, so Tiff's prepared Haste is now on him, and then he slices into Agonir for 12 slashing and 12 radiant dmg. 

- With the damage Agonir has taken the gems glow brighter and a creature of some kind pops out of the gem in his chest. It looks like a blackened skull with too many bestial teeth and black withered wisps trailing off of it. It darts towards Osiris and then spits a ghostly dart at her for 14 psychic dmg.

- Osiris downs a potion of Acid Resistance then darts back out of the cavern into the dwarven bakery and casts Heal on herself for 70 HP.

- (Legendary) Agonir misses attacking Russell with his tail.

- Tiff uses the Healing Bonk to give 11 HP to Russell.

 

- Rusty runs of up the Blackened Skull (BS1) and misses with his axe twice.

- Raiàn casts Chain Lightning on Agonir for 18 lightning dmg and BS1 take 36 lightning dmg and BS1 explodes 

- (Lair) Some of the black vine-y tendrils erupt from the ground right in front of Agonir and Lyrielle is knocked prone.

- Lyrielle stands back up and steps forward adjacent to Agonir and uses Wholeness of Body and she regains 42 HP. Then she takes a defensive stance in preparation for Agonir next onslaught. 

- (Legendary) Agonir smacks Russell with his tail for 22 bludgeoning dmg.

- Agonir misses biting Lyrielle and then claws her for 14 slashing dmg and then again for 16 slashing dmg.

- Russell slices into Agonir for 14 slashing and 14 radiant dmg and another BS pops out of the soul gem on Agonir's chest, then 13 slashing and 7 radiant dmg and then he misses his third attack.

- (Legendary) Agonir rears back and beats his wings in front of him on Russell and Lyrielle, but they both dodge 

- Agonir darts away from Russell and Lyrielle, and they both miss their opportunity attacks

- Osiris casts Dawn in Agonir's back for 6 radiant dmg. The new BS takes 13 radiant dmg as well.

- BS1(new) wisp claws Rusty for 4 (2) necrotic dmg and Rusty and Rusty HP max is reduced by 2.

- Tiff shoots Agonir with her Repeating Shot Light Crossbow for 9 piercing dmg

- (Legendary) Agonir smacks Rusty with his tail for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg

- There's another gem flair and BS2 pops out of Agonir's chest gem and ends up flanking Rusty and dealing 16 (8) necrotic dmg

 

- Rusty destroys BS1 with 11 slashing dmg and then turns and misses BS2

- Raiàn casts Fireball so that it will hit both Agonir and BS2 and they each take 16 fire dmg.

- (Lair) A sphere of darkness appears near the area where the entry from the dwarven bakery is engulfing Raiàn and blocking Osiris from seeing the battlefield.

- Lyrielle darts up and punches Agonir for 9 bludgeoning and 2 radiant dmg then she Disengages and darts back closer to Russell.

- Agonir moves out of the Dawn spell into the space between Rusty, Russell, and Lyrielle, then he bites Rusty for 25 (12) piercing and 15 (7) acid dmg, then he claws Rusty for 17 (8) slashing and then again for 18 (9) slashing dmg.

- Russell moves up to Agonir's butt and misses then slices into him for 14 slashing and 9 radiant dmg then he misses again.

- Osiris runs around the area of darkness and drops Dawn and she casts Summon Celestial and a Celestial Archer appears on the other side of the cavern

- Celestial Archer (CA) misses Agonir with an arrow then shoots him for 14 radiant dmg then shoots him again for 11 radiant dmg.

- Another BS pops out of the gem on Agonir's chest. Agonir beats his wings and flies up to the ceiling taking 14 slashing and 11 radiant dmg from Russell and 15 slashing and 3 radiant from Rusty. He uses his claws to start digging and he disappears into the ceiling of the cavern. The cavern is directly beneath Mistverge...

IS HE RUNNING AWAY?

 

- The CA disappears up the hole after the dragon as his command was to kill the dragon.

- Tiff receives a Sending from Tina, "Uh, so, is like an Earthquake going on? What is happening?"

- "Agonir is burrowing up through the earth to Mistverge! Start the evacuation!"

- Once within distance Osiris casts Word of Recall and the party re-appears in the Sanctuary of the Temple of Mishakal. The ground is rumbling.

- The ground stops rumbling, ominously. 

- Osiris casts Locate Creature and gets a directional ping from the Marketplace.

- Everyone starts running towards the marketplace (except Tiff who mounts a broom) 

- When they arrive there is a large humanoid man with wings standing next to a hole in the ground. He's wearing dark armor with a gemstone embedded in the chest and also on the shoulder plates and arm plates. He looks slightly damaged.

- As the group runs up he says, "You! I will destroy you for all that you have taken!" 

 

THE BATTLE RESUMES

- Tiff casts Haste on Russell again, and then darts behind a destroyed market stall out of sight.

- (Lair) Agonir looks at Russell and a gray rope of magically badness shoots out of Agonir's gem and attaches itself to Russell.

- Agonir unfurls his wings and flies up 20' into the air and lines up on most of the party and breaths acid on everyone except Tiff, Raiàn takes 81 acid dmg, and everyone else takes 40

- Osiris casts Cure Wounds (4th level) on Rusty for 26 HP. She looks around and sees a few people running towards the temple. She also sees on top of one of the few stalls that is only slightly damaged, Jinora is partially concealed on top watching the happenings. She whispers to Raiàn about it.

- Raiàn casts Fireball such that only Agonir take 14 fire dmg. 

- Rusty goes into another Rage and runs as close to Agonir as he can get and throws a javelin at him for 8 piercing dmg and then launches a second one that also hits for 11 piercing dmg. The tether between Agonir and Russell pulses, but Russell resists the affects.

- (Legendary) Agonir shoots some sort of ray at Rusty for 25 (12) cold dmg.

- Lyrielle hears Tiff shout "Take the hammer with you!" so she grabs it and runs over to Agonir and then she throws a dart for 9 piercing dmg and then throws a second one for 7 piercing dmg.

- (Legendary) Rusty takes another bolt of dark energy for 22 (11) cold dmg.

- Russell moves up to within 10' of Lyrielle and Rusty and then activates his cloak and sends Agonir blocks all seven bolts. Then he uses Cleansing Touch on himself to end the tether between himself and Agonir.

- Agonir shoots another bolt at Rusty for 19 (9) cold dmg.

 

- Tiff moves the infused hammer 5' next to Rusty, bonks him for 18 HP restored and then moves 10' along the back of the stall she's ducked behind.

- (Lair) Agonir says, "You cannot escape me!" His green gem pulses and modulates a bit and a beam of yuckiness hits him for 28 necrotic dmg.

- Agonir casts a spell on Rusty, but Rusty resists!

- Osiris darts from behind the stall she's hiding behind to join the one Tiff is hiding behind then she casts Aura of Vitality and then she sends 15 HP to Russell.

- Raiàn casts Fireball on Agonir again for 16 fire dmg. 

- (Legendary) Agonir grabs the gem at his chest then sweeps his arms out and a circle of energy flies out of it hitting Lyrielle, Russell, and Rusty for 10 necrotic dmg  

- Rusty leaps up to Agonir slicing into him for 14 slashing dmg then misses and crashes into the ground taking 6 (3) bludgeoning dmg. 

- (Legendary) Agonir misses Rusty with a cold ray.

- Lyrielle throws a dart at Agonir but misses then throws another one this time hitting for 7 piercing dmg then she moves around Agonir's side to get out of line with her friends.

- Russell uses Lay on Hands on himself for 70 HP then moves up to stay within 10' of both Rusty and Lyrielle and then Russell activates his cloak again but Agonir shields again

- Tiff move the infused hammer, heals Rusty with it for 14 HP and then darts behind the next ruined market stall keeping behind cover.

- (Lair) Agonir sends another tether this time attaching to Rusty giving Rusty a toothy, evil grin.

- Agonir casts a spell at Lyrielle and she takes 28 necrotic dmg. 

- Osiris runs past Tiff then Misty Steps behind the weapons stall at the edge of the marketplace. She casts a haphazard Sacred Flame as she runs, but Agonir dodges.

- Raiàn casts another Fireball dealing 16 fire dmg and Agonir throws his arms down and black tendrils fly out of them into the ground and Osiris is now grappled.

- Rusty growls, "You can't escape either!" Rusty flies up and misses and then slices in to Agonir for 38 slashing dmg and then does it again for 39 slashing dmg. His axe gets stuck in the gem and he rides Agonir to ground cleave the glowing gem in two as they slam into the dirt and there's a huge whoosh of energy that blows up and out into the clouds clearing the sky and there's what looks like an aurora into the sky.

- The aurora energy condenses and hits both Raiàn and Jinora. Raiàn sort of falls over exhausted. Jinora briefly loses control of her form, crushing the building she was hidden on top of, and then when she emerges in her humanoid form again there's a black streak in her blue hair. 

- Rusty confirms with Jinora that Agonir is dead, but he smacks him in the chest with the axes one last time to make sure.

NO MORE AGONIR!!!

The Elixir of Divine Release Ritual #It'sNotAboutSex - August 2, 2024

 - Complimentary dino

- Tiff says she's going to bed. And she does.

- Osiris goes to let Rowan and the rest of the temple know that the ghosty spirit guy is dead. 

- Osiris then also goes to bed.

- Russell Santiago also headed off to bed along with everyone else.

- When Raiàn, Rusty, and Lyrielle get back to the boarding house, Jinora asks what was happening since she is still awake.

- Jinora tells Lyrielle and co that Agonir must have sent the spirit to take out the people he thinks might be a threat he sends undead to take them out. He likes to make sure that when he swoops in at the end there's no resistance.

- The next morning, Tiff is braiding laurel leaves with Tina when Osiris shows up with the staff in the apothecary to help with the preparations for the elixir. 

- Tiff gets the apothecary staff and Russell started on perfume creation and then helps Tina finish making all the laurel crowns. 

- Once the laurel is finished being braided, Tiff has Rusty set the cast iron halfling-sized bathtub in the center of the sanctuary near the alter and set that up. She gets Tina to draw a warding circle in chalk around it while Tiff then goes and helps with the perfume.

- Osiris goes to trade the expensive opal she has for a gem encrusted bowl. 

- Lyrielle gets on the earring network and tells everyone what Jinora said last night.

- Once Osiris has her bowl, she and Rusty go to the Hall of Justice to check in with the city guard via Captain Swinson.

- The front desk is empty when they arrive, so they head straight to Captain Swinson's office. The little barracks for guards to have their rest has dead bodies. It seems like the current guard shift and their CO are DEAD. Like dismembered dead. 

- It looks like the ghosty spirit creature wasn't only attacking the Temple of Mishakal.

- Osiris Sends to Amelia, an acolyte in the Rites Wing, to come get the dead guards.

- Osiris then Sends to Captain Swinson asking her to meet at the Hall of Justice like now.

- A few minutes later the captain shows up, but Amelia shows up first and she doesn't like the messy ones.

- Captain Swinson knows about the attack, and they have abandonned the headquarters building and decentralized control. The council made the decision to abandon the building, and told no one to go back inside.

- Osiris and Amelia gather the dead, while Rusty finishes talking to Captain Swinson.

- They get back in the late afternoon and explain the plan again to Russell.

- Osiris casts Temple of the Gods around the area where Theophania will lead the group in the ritual to create the Elixir of Divine Release.

- They do the ritual successfully! (Because of course they do. Tiff is nothing but prepared.)

- They divide the ten gallons into ten water skeins and tuck those into the bag of holding, and Tiff goes to make more needles to introduce it to the necrotic tendrils.

- Okay, so the plan is that they will teleport to the Dwarven city adjacent to Agonir's lair (which they do), then have a Hero's Feast with the bowl Osiris acquired (which they do in an inn with some intact tables), then they will sleep in a Hut (which they do).

- While everyone except Osiris is hunting around in the tavern (since it takes ten minutes to cast the Hero's Feast spell) they find two whole bottles of ancient dwarven whiskey in the bar!!!!

- After they've rested they will inject the tendrils with the Elixir, and then they expect the dragon will come find them from there.

 - They do a check over of the tavern and then Osiris casts the Hut in the public room.

Put the Halfling Down! #AtLeastIt'sNotASnuffFilm - July 12, 2024

 - DnD Fellowship 

- Osiris convinces Theophania to try to cast Sending to Birel to see if he's alive, but it does not go through. Pretty sure that means he's dead.

- They decide to set up a trap for the ghosty in an attic store room with a window to let him in. They take a spare desk and a chair up there which Tiff will sit out while everyone else hides in the hallway. 

- They have a few hours until sundown, so Tiff goes to braid some bay branches before they get too dried out, and Osiris goes to the Rites wing to check out her new office and also to look at the bodies of the previous victims of the spirit.

- The claws are deep and seem to have caused necrotic damage. The hands would be very large, larger than Rusty's.

- The office is organized, but contains mostly just records about the recently dead in the city. 

- Osiris also talks to at least some of the other Rites wings acolytes, and learns that it's been two days since Birel was lost. And that they are freaked out. And that the spirit can teleport, distance unknown.

- Then she finds Rowan and conveys the plan about the spirit, to keep her fellow Highpriestess informed.

- Tina stays in the Sanctuary to help guard the residents of the temple for the duration of the trap.

- They set the trap and Osiris uses a Leomund's Tiny Hut in the corner to hide everyone except Tiff who has cast Death Ward on herself.

-  Finally at 1 AM, the spirit shows up and grabs Tiff while she's sounding out Dwarven words dealing for 18 piercing dmg.

- The spirit is a large creature with arms that nearly reach to the ground and hands the size of dinner plates with long bony claws on the ends of the crooked fingers.

SPIRIT BATTLE

-  Lyrielle dives out of the Tiny Hut and moves around to the side of the spirit and misses punching it, then she misses it again and a third time.

- The Spirit squeezes Tiff for 26 piercing dmg, and then swipes up Lyrielle grappling her as well for 21 piercing dmg.

- Osiris casts Freedom of Movement on Tiff and then moves over to the corner opposite where the Spirit has her two friends grappled.

- Rusty moves to flank the Sp with Lyrielle then swings his axe into it for 54 slashing and 5 acid dmg then slices into it again for 27 slashing dmg.

- The Spirit drops Lyrielle then it pulls Tiff in closer and black tendril somewhat reminiscent of the soul-crystal tendrils slapping into Lyrielle, Tiff, and Rusty for 22 necrotic damage. Then it teleports with Tiff and become hidden, though they can hear her muffled

- Raiàn casts Greater Invisibility on Russell and themself then she moves along the wall next to Osiris.

- Russell casts Daylight on one of the tiles in the ceiling filling the room with Bright Daylight.

- Tiff grabs the Spirit holding her and casts Shocking Grasp on it for 19 lightning dmg then wiggles out of it's grip and runs to the other side of the room.

 

- Lyrielle runs up to the Spirit and punches him for 13 bludgeoning dmg then again for 11 bludgeoning dmg and then misses with her final attack.

- The Spirit tries to move toward the door, but then he runs into Russell, so he then heads towards Rusty taking opportunity attacks from Russell and Lyrielle for 10 slashing and 6 bludgeoning respectively. The Spirit claws Rusty for 23 (11) piercing dmg and Rusty is now grappled.

- Osiris casts Moonbeam in the center of the window and shouts "Someone close the door! Don't let it get away." Then she just runs over to close the door bumping into both the invisible Raiàn and Russell on the way.

- Rusty slices into the Spirit for 55 slashing and 5 acid dmg and then again for 23 slashing dmg and then again for 17 slashing dmg. 

- The Spirit tries to escape out the window and takes 20 radiant dmg (Rusty takes 10 also), and the Spirit disintegrates into harmless dust.

END OF BATTLE

- Rusty takes 7 bludgeoning dmg from falling 40 ft. There is now a Rusty shaped indent in the grass of the courtyard.

- Osiris drops Moonbeam and runs over to the window, and Rusty is fine, so she casts Cure Wounds on Tiff for 47 HP.

-4,000 XP for 154,500 XP total ea.

An Unwanted Upgrade - June 14, 2024

 - What one hand gives (front - 20), the other hand takes away (back - 1).

- Male calicos = 1/3000

- Female orange cats = 1/5

- Once Rusty is all put back together, it's already mid afternoon, the group goes to find Kagnar, who says it's no big deal if they want to stay another night.

- Tiff gets directions to the library and immediately goes to go copy everything she can get her little hands on. She starts with children's books to help her learn Dwarven, and then asks for the artifice section. She spends all night doing this.

- Rusty and Osiris chat with Kagnar about the whys of animal mechanicals instead of people-shaped mechanicals (less materials and less expectation of intelligence)

- Osiris then goes back to the temple of Reorx run by Father Orodon and requests a keepsake, and he gives her a belt with a shield for a buckle and an embossed hammer on the shield.

- She in turn gives him her old, non-magically holy symbol to Mishakal.

- "We don't need to go through the Dwarven axe drive thru, you have an axe at home."

- The next morning, Osiris collects a passed out Tiff and Tina from the library.

- Kagnar gives Rusty a belt with a star emblem as a buckle, and the belt looks mechanical or digital in make and tells R that it should interface with R's circuitry.

- Rusty puts on the belt and it tingles through his body and he blinks and suddenly feels like he is a lot stronger (Belt of Hill Giant Strength)

- Kagnar walks with them back to the stairs up to the surface

- They head up and then it takes exhausted Tiff two hours to find some bay tree.

- Additional investigating does not yield a tree protected by a dryad, but they do find a wood sprite living in one, so Osiris casts Tongues on Tiff who gets permission to trim branches from the tree, and that will hopefully help.

- "I'm the only one that does things with truckers." Thank you, Erika

- They walk to the beach with Rusty accommodatingly carrying the two buckets with the bay branches, step through the barrier that prevents teleportation

- Tiff takes the measurements of everyone's heads for their laurel crowns, and then goes off to start weaving crowns and wands and the circlet to go around the opening of the "cauldron"

- Osiris check on the holy water supply, and we are at 175/160 flasks needed, so that's good! She then goes to find Rowan.

- Rowan tells Osiris that while they were gone the temple has come under attack by some kind of ghost, or creature, and it abducts people and presumably kills them. Whatever it is avoids light. Russell has been trying to fight it off, and he may have injured it.

- Birel was taken by the spirit and is presumed lost, as well as a few acolytes.

- Osiris goes to talk to Russell who looks a bit disheveled and fatigued. 

- The spirit showed up the first night the party was gone and while everyone was sleeping, they were awoken by screams as people were being taken. It has elongated claw hands and seems semi-ethereal.

- Russell didn't notice a temperature change or a sound when it appeared. It grabs people in its claws and then teleports away, and it was stealthy about it.

- Osiris calls everyone over the earrings to meet in the sanctuary, where Tiff already is with Tina making laurel crowns.

- Everyone meets as requested, and they start planning on how to maybe take out the creature.

- Osiris goes to Norman to requisition spell components. It is the easiest transaction she has ever had with him, exception he write High Priestess Osiris, Rites Wing, and Osiris freaks out. She does NOT want to be in charge.

- Osiris takes the only opal Norman has, 500 GP, and Raiàn to the nicest jewelry store in town to make sure they have the opal she needs for her spell

- Raiàn breaths on the opal before they go in, but they find the shopkeeper is a gnome named Rascivir she doesn't know.

- They introduce themselves, and Osiris tries name dropping herself with her new title.

- Raiàn manages to convince the shopkeeper that he is doing the whole city a favor so he takes the 600 GP opal that they have gives them the 1000 GP one. Osiris gives him a receipt for tax purposes since he offers the difference as a donation.

- Raiàn breaths sparkles on his tea as he has heard of her. 

 

- 3,500 XP ea for 150,500 XP total ea.

Rusty's Rusty Bits - June 7, 2024

 - Solid purply-maroonish-brown shirt with NO NERDY GRAPHIC *shocked Pikachu face*

 

- Theophania hears back from her Great-Aunt, but it's just a feeling of surprise and the feeling of a warm hug.

 - Tiff Sends again, "No, seriously auntie, I need words telling me where to find the Dwoids. The dwarves should be allowed to reconnect with their history and culture."

- Thessalie responds with a hint of confusion and "They were in some ruins in the east, you know, past the giants." 

- Tiff turns to Kagnar and tells him that Great-Aunt Thessalie was never great with directions...

- Kagnar doesn't want to tell Sharai that they exist.

- Tiff gets everyone to agree that after the dragon is gone to go on an adventure to find the Dwoids to reunite them with the dwarves who survived the destruction of Lellzutho.

- Rusty requested a diagnostic from the dwarves who say that he is very old, but they will try.

- MEANWHILE, Osiris wanders through town looking for something like a temple and gets a lot of stares. She finds a temple built into the bedrock with the symbol of a hammer and an anvil. She casts Tongues on herself and asks who the temple of for (Reorx) and she also confirms that she would be allowed to go in. The person is very suspicious of her as the only non-dwarf they have ever seen.

- Osiris goes in. It's not a huge building, and it's ALL stone, especially the pews. There are also a lot of anvils in the room. Maybe up to a dozen. They all look used as well. There are doors at the back, so she goes and knocks on the wooden door. An older dwarf with a salt and pepper answers the door and is flabbergasted to find an elf. He is Father Orodon

- OOO - Dwarven euphemism for making babies - manufacturing

- OOO - Another Dwarven euphemism for having sex - banging anvils.

- Osiris on the way back to the taverns hears lots of "What is that? That's not a dwarf. Is that an elf?!"

- Tiff shows Kagnar her Healing Hammer "Bonk!" He dies laughing.

- They sit around talking for a bit, and then the room shakes a bit. Kagnar doesn't know exactly what it was, but he's not worried.

- After a little more chatter, they head over to the temple.

- Father Orodon speaks Common!

- Osiris and Theophania get to participate in the drumming ceremony (hammers to anvils)

- The next morning, Kagnar comes to get Rusty, Theophania, and Osiris for the diagnostic of Rusty. He takes them to another building that has a lift that takes them even deeper into the earth into what looks like a laboratory.

- The dwarven artificers find the button that opens Rusty's back and they find where is memory cards are, and find that two of the six are pretty corroded. They analyze what they are made of and gather those same materials in appropriate quantities and Tiff uses Fabricate to create extremely accurate duplicates which they install with Rusty's permission.

- His memories are still patchy, but they're clearer now. So Osiris pauses her note taking and casts Regenerate and holds it for an hour and they watch wiry fibers grow and make new connections.

- The two artificers are Azka and Kaluki.

- Kaluki recommends the children's book See Rog Smith as a good starting point to learn Dwarven.

 

-3,500 XP ea for 147,000 XP total ea.

I Have Diagrams - May 10, 2024

- Royals (Baseball shirt?!)

- "Maybe your previous life was as a gay kid to Mormons." "No."

- "You've heard of quiet quitting? Stop doing his job for him." Strong staring.

- Stories about Emotional-Support Chris

- Story about No Pants DnD that one time

 

- From their hiding places in the jungle, people with a Perception roll over 20, they can hear another mechanical dragonfly flying about looking for them.

- Ràian casts Greater Invisibility on Rusty and he goes to try to talk to the dragonfly again and he goes sprinting off 

- He stops after about 12 seconds to get away from the rest of the group, and then stops and listens again

- He goes to head in the direction of it again, when he is tackled by a metallic panther.

- He speaks to the panther, "Hi, you're a big metal kitty. We're friendly. We come in peace." 

- It lifts it head and makes some kind of noise, and then there's a chittering sort of sound and there are mechanical spiders coming for him.

- Rusty asks Tiff's opinion on if he can smash the 'bots. She asks him not to.

- He asks the panther / spiders if he promises to come quietly if they can skip the tying him up part, and the panther gives him a nod and a "but don't make me fuck you up" sort of look, which is impressive since it's metal.

- Osiris manages to follow Rusty's path while her friends take care of making sure she and Tina don't give their positions away.

- Lyrielle gets the impression, the feeling, that something is tracking them back and says so quietly.

- Osiris looks up and sees up in that tree over there, there's another metal panther tracking them.

- She casts Tongues on herself and tells it that they are following to make sure their friend doesn't get hurt and that they just want some leaves. 

- It jumps down and Osiris crouches down to its level to be less threatening as it pads over to her.

- Tiff who had previously waved at it, hides behind Ràian because it looks like an animal.

- The panther nods at Osiris and herds them in the direction they were going anyway.

- Tiff tries to ride her broom to keep up and the panther does NOT like it, Osiris tries to put Tiff right on the panther's back, and neither Tiff nor the panther like it. The panther calls a spider to tie Tiff up and drag her.

- Ràian puts Tiff on her shoulders.

- Osiris Messages Rusty to let them know they aren't alone on their way to their destination.

- About 45 minutes later, they come to a village and are led to a particular building.

- It looks like a jail or holding cell.

- Osiris is desperate to give their herding panther a scritch and it shoves her into the building.

- The two panthers sit on either side of the door to their cell and play guard.

- Half an hour after sitting around in their cell and cleaning up their wounds, a man who is a little bit taller than a halfling and definitely shorter than a human with a big red bushy beard.

- He speaks in Common, but his accent is very old.

- He is very interested in talk to Rusty, asks where he's from and Rusty says Kunzak.

- After a bit of conversation between Rusty and the dwarf whose name is Kagnar, they are let out of the cell and they continue chatting as they walk, and Tiff starts telling him as her Great-Aunt Thessalie. He is fascinated by her story about the Dwoids.

- The building they go into is basically just a staircase down into the earth.

- Kagnar calls Rusty a "historical citizen"

- At the bottom of the staircase, there's like an open plaza and there are other dwarves there. Maybe 50 people in this plaza.

- Tiff asks Kagnar if she can talk to people and when he says yes tentatively she immediately darts off to a person who was looking at her with equal curiosity and drags Tina with her as a translator. She immediately starts asking about dwarven words and help this young person with their Common. Osiris follows to chaperone.

- Kagnar takes Rusty, Lyrielle, and Ràian to a tavern and they discuss Vulcand before Tiff and Tina show up to say that Osiris sent them to tell Kagnar she's gone to find a local temple to commune with the local holy people.

- Kagnar says there are about 50,000 dwarves in this city now.

- "I have diagrams." for the 1,000th time

- Tiff bargains for knowledge about the Dwoids to get to visit again.

- She sends to Thessalie (because she's not technically a living person so THAT's not breaking the secret), "There are living dwarves! Can you tell me where the Dwoids were? They've lost their history, and the Dwoids could maybe help them. Love you!"

 

- 3,500 XP ea for 143,500 total XP ea.

Bay Beach Barrier Bugs, directed by Michael Bay - May 3, 2024

 - Remote play for April's sinus surgery

- Dice kitty "Just because I can't see it doesn't mean I don't need to write it down."

- The group spends a couple of day walking down the coast, but they haven't seen any bay trees yet.

- So on the fourth day when they see an island off the coast in the direction they are walking with a lot of trees. It's a barrier island a couple of miles off the coast.

- Osiris ritually casts Water Walk on the group (except Tiff and Tina who are on Tiff's broom)

- They walk for about an hour over the water, then Tiff casts Rope Trick and they all ascend to the extradimensional safe space for a recast, and they have to do this twice and almost a third time before they reach the sandy beach of the island

- There are a couple shipwrecks. A few small fishing vessels on the beach, but also there's a much larger vessel out on the shoals, and all of them look like they were fire damage.

- Not all the boats look like they were shipwrecked at the same time.

- Tiff does a quick fly-around of the big boat out in the water, and she sees that the ship had a major fire and it's weatherworn, so it's been there for a while. There's no reef, it's just stuck on sand, and there are little chips and scorch marks like maybe a firebolt spell?

- Osiris casts Locate Object for Bay leaves and gets a ping north of her 837 ft.

- Tiff is flying along maybe 10' above the ground when she runs into some kind of invisible wall. She manages to do a somersault and land on her feet holding the broom.

- Rusty can't feel the wall and can walk through it.

- Dwarven made invisible force field?

- Everyone except Tiff starts to notice a buzzing sound. It's above and farther inland.

- Osiris climbs onto the broom with Tiff and they start flying up, trying to see the the wall has a top.

- One of Osiris's arrow's doesn't get stopped by the barrier and neither does her hammer. 

- The buzzing is starting to get very loud, and there are three things that are about the size of an eagle and they look like mechanical dragonflies.

- The force field is a dome, by the way.

- Tiff jets on the broom back in the direction of the ground

BEACH BUGGY BATTLE

- Rusty Rages and calls out in Dwarven, "Stand down, we're friendly!" and he readies an attack action if one of the Mechanical Dragonflies does something aggressive to anyone in the party.

- MD1 casts something at MD2 that gives it a glimmering sort of shield, and the dive bombs Ràian for 16 bludgeoning dmg (tail hit) then darts away again. Then it shoots her with a lightning bolt for 15 (7) lightning dmg

- Ràian moves to within 15' of MD1 and casts Burning Hands on it for 13 fire dmg and then moves back toward the group again

- MD2 dives for Tina for 16 bludgeoning dmg and then shoots her for 14 lightning dmg

- Osiris casts Aura of Vitality on herself (she can't tell if the aura reach through the barrier or not) and then she sends Tina 10 HP

- MD3 dives at Lyrielle for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then shoots her for 22 lightning dmg

- Lyrielle uses a ki point to Dodge as a bonus action then climbs on the broom with Tiff and readies an attack action for Tiff to bring her to one of the 

- Tiff tries to put MD2 that attacked Tina in a Resilient Sphere, but it dodges. Then she flies with Lyrielle over to MD3 and Lyrielle punches it for 10 bludgeoning dmg.

- Tina casts a 4th level Fire ball over the ocean such that MD2 and MD3 are in the range but Lyrielle and Tiff are not. They take 30 fire dmg, and then Tina runs and hides behind a nearby palm tree.

- Rusty throws two javelins and misses twice. But he does put himself closer to the one that was attacking Tina

- MD1 dive bombs Ràian again for 18 bludgeoning dmg and she Telekinetically Reprisals it for 6 force dmg and it discombobulated enough not to shoot lightning at her

- Ràian casts a 6th level Fireball such that it gets MD1 and MD3 without hitting anyone else for 45 fire dmg. And that's her turn.

- MD2 misses Tiff on its dive bomb and then shoots her with lightning for 21 dmg.

- Osiris sends Ràian 14 HP. Then she casts Aid at 4th level on Ràian, Tiff, and Lyrielle (15 HP up).

- MD3 smacks Lyrielle without needing to move for 12 bludgeoning dmg and then gets smacked for 8 bludgeoning as it moves away from her then it misses with the lightning bolt.

- Tiff shoots MD2 with Melf's Acid Arrow (3rd level) for 12 acid dmg and then flies Lyrielle over to MD2 where she punches it again. Tiff then drops off the broom into the soft sand below leaving Lyrielle in control of the broom

- Tina casts a 5th level Cloud of Daggers around MD3 for 22 slashing dmg. She then continues to hide behind the tree.

- Rusty runs and leaps and grabs MD3 by the legs and pulls it down onto the beach. He is holding it by the legs and it is squirming.

- MD1 dives at Ràian again for 15 bludgeoning dmg and she Telekinetically Reprisals it again for 9 force dmg

- Ràian casts a 5th level Fireball for 20 fire dmg and MD2 crumbles into bits to the ground. The copse of trees at the water line is now on fire.

- Md2 is dead!

- MD3 escapes from Rusty's grip and flies away up the beach inside the barrier. Rusty stabs MD3 for 15 piercing dmg

- Osiris attempts to Misty Step through the barrier, but she rebounds off of the barrier and ends up standing next to where she was before she cast the spell, so she turns and casts Toll the Dead on MD1 for 25 (necrotic dmg, and the dmg doesn't seems to be as bad as it should be.

- Lyrielle is on a broom! She flies to MD1 and punches it for 9 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 12 bludgeoning and MD1's face collapses inward and it falls to the beach.

- Tiff sends the Healing Bonk Hammer over to Ràian and then she moves near to Osiris and the barrier and calls to Rusty to grab the last MD and bring it to her to try to deactivate.

- Tina casts Magic Missile at 4th level for 12 force dmg. She continues to hide behind the palm tree.

- Rusty tackles MD3 again and drags it over to Tiff who Tinkers it for 25 effective dmg though it's non-destructive to the construct

- Ràian takes some rope out of her bag and attempts to tie it up so that it can't fly any more.

- MD3 misses Ràian with a lightning bolt and then claws Tiff for 16 dmg

- Osiris backs away from the melee that has overtaken her and sends 16 HP to Tina. She then asks Tina is she thinks Dispel Magic would work on the barrier. Tina has no idea. Osiris suggests she try on her next turn.

- Lyrielle strategically punches it for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 11 bludgeoning dmg so she stomps it for 8 bludgeoning dmg

- Tiff keeps going with her tinker tools and it powers down!

- Tiff finds some similarities to Rusty's construction, but less refined. She is sketching and diagramming and note taking furiously. 

- Tina casts Dispel Magic on the barrier and you can see it hit the barrier and see ripples through it, 

- There is a whistling sound, also mechanical, and there is something flying over the trees moving very fast. The thing looks a bit like a cross between a bird and an airplane. It has fixed wings that are shaped like a bird's, but they don't flap. The front of it also looks a bit like a bird's head.

- Osiris says everyone step through the interrupted barrier on the count of three.

- Rusty grabs Tina and gets ready to carry her through the barrier.

- Osiris casts Dispel Magic and crosses the invisible barrier.

- Lyrielle runs through

- Ruff runs through

- Tina is carried through by Rusty.

- The flying thing dives straight at Tiff and hits her for 23 bludgeoning dmg and explodes dealing 26 bludgeoning dmg and 24 fire dmg to Tiff and half as much to everyone else (except Lyrielle who was completely out of range of the explosion). 

- Osiris casts Mass Healing Word on everyone for 11 HP, then yells run and take her own advice, heading inland.

- They find a good spot to hide in the jungle.

- 2,200 XP ea for 140,000 XO total ea.

A Very Productive Session - April 5, 2024

 - Stuart as guest!

- Dice kitten

- Once they land in Mistverge, Osiris and Russell immediately go to bed since they did a 24 hour spell in Wistaria.

- Theophania spends 3 hours using some of Raiàn's scale to make them a Scroll of Sending.

- Raiàn Sends to Sunny, "Bro, things went fast here. I'm coming with friends to acquire the bay. Can meet your associate from Pradak near the summer palace."

- Sunny, "Huh, what are you talking about? I don't have an associate. Maybe your associates can gather the sticks you need."

- Theophania visits the Callie's boardinghouse to get the materials she requested to do scrolls for Jinora, and then spends the rest of the day making two Scrolls of Sending and one of Lesser Restoration for her. 

- Once Osiris wakes up she checks in with Birel, who says that nothing new bad has happened.

- She then updates Rowan about what happened in Wistaria. 

- Rusty interrupts Tiff's scroll making to ask about upgrading his axe, but she thinks it would take about a week, but she promises to think about it for him.

- Tiff delivers the scrolls and the scraps of materials left-over to Jinora

- The next morning everyone (the group plus Tina, no Russell) meets at the temple and Raiàn teleports them to the "summer palace" where she spent summers as a kid

- The group materializes in the courtyard of a large two-story manor house. 

- The group stand around discussing what to do when the door opens and another dragonborn woman comes out to ask what's going on. She is Margaret.

- Osiris asks Margaret if she knows where bay trees are, but she doesn't so they go to the kitchen to ask the chef. 

- Apparently Sunny cut all the bay trees on the grounds down because "it was too shady around here" so they'll have to walk a few days south along the cost to get to a grove

- The chef gives them a little snack of bread with garlic and olive oil for dipping before they head out.

- Raiàn lets Margaret know that she and her friends are heading out to look for bay trees, so the rooms aren't a high priority

- They walk out of the walls and are confronted directly by the ocean which is only a few hundred feet away.

- While, Osiris, Lyrielle, and Theophania frolic with their first site of the ocean and play in the waves, Rusty Communes with Nature. 

- Rusty learns there are a few shoots of bay trees around the house, but there is also something maybe two miles down the coast.

- Rusty learns there are no powerful elements within 3 miles of their location.

- Rusty learns there are no influences from other planes of existence within 3 miles of their location.

- Osiris plays a prank on Tina who doesn't appreciate it.

- They finally start walking in the direction of the tree Rusty sense.

 

- 2,500 XP ea for 137,800 XP total ea.

Fight for Your Right to Party (or you know, not to live in slavery or whatever) - March 15, 2024

 - Complimentary dinosaur

BATTLE AT THE DISEASE CATHEDRAL

- Osiris casts Sleep on 8 of the ten enslaved peasants who are attacking at the behest of the evil priests

- Brother Michael (BrM) morphs into a demon with five horns and five glowing red eyes and six arms and he makes eyes at Osiris and he fires a dark burst of energy at her for 18 force dmg

- Rusty Rages and run forward 40' and readies an attack if one of the priests gets near enough

- Raiàn studies BrM and determines that he probably immune to psychic dmg and other other mind stuff and probably so she casts Chain Lightning on him and Brother Francis (BrF) for 34 lightning dmg ea.

- BrF casts a spell and he is now casting by a shimmering globe.

- BrM blinks out of existence and re-appears near (10') Osiris and reaches out a giant stretched out arm to her and casts something vampiric so he deals 23 necrotic dmg to her and heals some amount of HP (less than 23 we have been assured).

- The two awake peasants run for their lives.

- Lyrielle moves forward and readies an attack if BrF gets near enough

- Russell shouts "I will fell you foul demon!" and darts over to BrM and slices into him for 19 slashing dmg then again for 10 dmg

- BrM reaches down and backhands Russell for 18 bludgeoning dmg and Russell is knocked prone

- Tina does a test Magic Missile, but it is absorbed by the shield on BrF

- Theophania casts Haste on Russell, readies her Healing Bonk on a Rope of Climbing and then backs up next to Tina

 

- Osiris casts Dispel Evil and Good on herself and then she backs up a bit. She studies BrM and decides he's moderately charismatic

- BrM casts a beam of dark energy at Raiàn for 16 force dmg and then again for 17 force dmg

- Rusty darts up to BrF slices him for 17 slashing and then misses

- Raiàn casts Cone of Cold on BrM so that they won't hit Russell for 21 (10) cold dmg

- BrF grabs Rusty with Shocking Grasp for 19 (9) lightning dmg and no reactions for Rusty then he runs toward his partner in crime

- BrM glares at Rusty who just chopped BrF and Rusty takes 40 psychic dmg and Rusty is Frightened until the end of his next turn.

- The two peasants who are awake continue running (one dives into lake and starts swimming)

- Lyrielle darts up to BrF and misses punching him then kicks him for 13 bludgeoning dmg 

- Russell casts a Channel Divinity healing Osiris and Raiàn for 8 HP after standing up, then slices at BrM three times for a total of 60 dmg

- Tina tries to casts Telekinesis on BrF, but the sheid eats her spell. She curses in Elven.

- Tiff moves next to Osiris and hands her a Elixir of Healing, then casts Dispel Magic on the shimmery sphere around BrF and it crumbles. She hollers to Tina, "It's okay. Try again!"

- Osiris Misty Steps next to BrM then moves around to flank him with Russell then she then smashes him with her warhammer for 4 bludgeoning and 8 radiant dmg then she smacks him again for 

- BrM blinks out of existence and re-appears way behind Rusty away from everyone

- Rusty dashes up to BrF flanking with Lyrielle and slices into him for 15 slashing dmg and BrF explodes killing all but one of the sleeping villagers and dealing 55 necrotic dmg to Lyrielle, 27 necrotic dmg to Russell, and Rusty takes 13 necrotic dmg, BrF is disintegrated along with all those villagers.

- Raiàn casts a 7th level Fireball on BrM for 33 fire dmg and she also breaks a window and there's now a bit glass stuck in one of his five horns

- BrM locks eyes with Raiàn and they take 51 psychic dmg and they are Frightened of BrM until the end of R's net turn

- Lyrielle moves to BrM and punches him for 13 bludgeoning and then kicks him for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 13 bludgeoning and then one more time for 16 bludgeoning dmg

- Russell runs at quadruple speed to flank BrM with Lyrielle shouting "Taste my steel, demon!" and strikes into BrM three times for a total of 36 total dmg. Brother Michael is

 

-Tiff sprays her feet with her Water Walk stuff and then goes after the swimming person so they don't drown, but uses her broom to catch up right at first.

- Osiris wakes up the only sleeping villager left, and tries to comfort him, but it doesn't go great.

- The swimming villager basically faints as soon as they get back to shore, so Tiff hands him over to Rusty and goes after the villager who ran more inland.

- Rusty takes the swimmer with the sleeper into town

- Osiris casts Sending to Thomas, "So we killed the demons. You want to come into town and help us figure out what the hell to do next?"

- Thomas, "I can't believe they're gone. I'll meet you at the Spiral Duck."

- Tiff finds the runner and tells him the good / bad news, and gives him some tea.

- She then joins her friends and the sleeper tells them that there were more workers inside, so Tiff flies back to release them from their servitude and back to their lives

- Osiris feeds people and gets Raiàn to add some extra flavor with Prestidigitation.

- After re-uniting the community, Osiris and Tiff go back to the construction site and investigate the store room the brothers' were keeping and they find a few barrels of food (like salted meats), a barrel of incense (probably to consecrate the temple once construction was complete), two barrels of and like five barrels of viscera that is mostly human, but also a little bit animal.

- Tina uses Create bonfire to cremate those barrels, but she vomits because the smell is so bad.

- The next morning Theophania uses the spell Fabricate to level the temple (the stone and wood and earth bleed through this process, so Osiris uses control water to wash the blood away as this is happening) and then she builds some simple stairs up to a flat area over the foundation of the desecrated space, and then builds a simple cross in the middle with simple carvings of all the names of the people that the evil brothers killed in the process. Any wood from the structure is made into simple benches around the foundation.

- Lyrielle between the memorial and the benches creates some Zen garden resting areas.

- Then Osiris, Russell, and Thomas Consecrate the new memorial (24 hours of meditation and burning incense).

- Once all that is done, Tina Teleport Circles everyone back Mistverge.

- Waiting in Osiris's room once she gets there is a large urn full of the needed spores.

- The current inventory stands at 105/160 flasks of holy water, all the Life Everlasting Flowers needed, all the sage stalks needed, all the Heal-All roots needed, all the Moonwort spores needed, and still needing the bay leaves and branches.

- 5,000 XP ea for 135,300 XP total ea.

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.

1-800-Mishakal - February 23, 2024

- Long May He Reign

 

 - They collect 126 lbs of powdered silver from the floor of this room.

- That's about 18 lbs per critter, so they only need to kill 37 more to get all the silver they need.

- Osiris takes a handful of the silver powder into her hand and prays that Mishakal multiply the powdered silver by 7 to make the amount that they need for all the holy water for the Elixir of Divine Release

- The room fills to the level of Rusty's chin and Tiff is completely buried in powdered silver.

- Tiff just opens her bag of holding and funnels enough down into it that she can swim / climb up enough to breath.

- Rusty who had stuck his head back in the portal and shouted with a Tongues spell from Raiàn to ask if there was anything sentient in here then when he comes back out Osiris is in prayer and he's buried in powdered silver.

- A icicle-like arm comes out and Osiris dispells the portal.

- Osiris Sends to Rowan to let her know Tiff is coming

- Tiff casts a quick Rope Trick and dumps everything that isn't powdered silver from the Bag of Holding into the extra-dimensional space created and then goes back down and fills the BoH to the brim (500 lbs worth) then she climbs on her Broom of Flying and goes out the window Rusty opens for her.

- While en route she Sends to Lord McNabb, "Hey, we don't need that silver any more. We've got it covered. Thanks! Bye!"

- He responds, "Glad you have what you need. We'll likely have some extra if you change your mind."

- She makes another trip and then puts her BoH back to it where it was before all this. The whole process took maybe 45 minutes.

- They go downstairs and everything in the parlor is also coated in a fine dusting of silver powder. They give Callie about a 1 lb (a 5 GP value!) bag of the stuff since they keep encouraging Magnus to try new things. She could sell it to the mint or a silversmith or a jeweler for coins.

- Osiris (and a chattering Tiff) stops by the Temple to Habbakuk to ask for Rosemary's help when she has free time to help make holy water.

- When they get back to the Temple of Mishakal, they hear, "There she is!"

- They turn and see Tina with a very tall, broad-shouldered human man in heavy chainmail armor with a glittering cloak flowing behind him.

- The stranger approaches and declares himself to be Russell Santiago and he is hear to aid the High-Priestess Osiris of Mishakal brought here by her emissary. He somehow believes that

- Tiff shows Russell to a guest suite chattering to him about how excited she is to see a new kind of divine magic and how she came up with her plan for the Elixir.

- Tina chatters to Osiris about her adventures tracking down Russell.

- Osiris then has some food and a bath and then spends four hours creating 11 flasks of holy water with her remaining spell slots before she collapses into her bed to trance.

- A long rest is had!

- Osiris has a conversation with Marta about being called "High-Priestess" by Russell, and Marta is pretty indifferent to her having that title.

- Osiris explains again to Russell about the dragon and the soul-crystals and the elixir and he is somewhat annoyed about not being able to just run straight out and battle a dragon. No, he has to sit around for a few days and use magical energy to brew holy water.

- Tiff takes Tina and shows her the portal to the desert. She does not have any new ideas for how to help the patients with the weird magical throat algae.

- Osiris then goes to get fancier (and not hole-y robes) from Norman now that she's a High-Priestess.

- Osiris Sends to Thessalie, "Hope this finds you well. I'm about to beseech Arathal for a plant thanks to Tiff. What can you tell me about them?"

- Osiris then feels warm and tingly. "He's pretty important. I've never met him. Good luck sweetie."

- Osiris then in her shiny new embroidered robes and casts Planar Ally requesting a meeting with Arathal. He is a large celestial with finger-like wings without webbing and bony spikes coming out of his shoulders.

- Osiris asks for 10 lbs of Moonwort spores, and Arathal requests that she release a man to the east who is tormented by demons. The man resides in a small house near the lake. Arthal will know when the deed is done as they are watching.

- Tiff takes Tina to the forest and brings another 1 lb of powdered silver to give to Elidar as a thank you for his help.

- Russell has created 7 flasks of holy water when Rusty shows up to introduce himself to the newcomer.

- They chat for a bit about their weapons and how to battle an ancient black dragon. Rusty invites him to visit the boarding house for tea. Their lovely himbo conversation ends with a forearm handshake.

- After Osiris settles herself she Sends to Thessalie, "Do you know anything about a man plagued by demons in a small house near a lake to the east? Can you give any details?"

- Thessalie responds, "Could be Thomas Potnam. He's near Wistaria."

- Osiris then goes to consult with Russell and now he has made 17 potions.

- She tells him about Arthal's ask, and he's willing to come help with the demons(?)

- 2,800 XP ea. for 124,300 XP total ea.

Magnus Can Do Great Things, But Not on Purpose #NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaRusty - February 16, 2024

- The next morning, Raiàn sends to her cousin Sunny, "I need two trader's carts full of bay tree branches rested in water to retain life. Meet Jinora in one week at Dwarven Outpost Teleport Circle."

- Sunny responds, "Raiàn, such a weird request. Bay only grows on the coast or maybe at the Turquoise Pool. This going to take more than a week."

- Tiff wakes up to a knock at the door and there's an acolyte saying she has a visitor, and it's a young human boy with a note from Callie saying, "Please come help. I think Magnus has summoned a ghost."

- Tiff uses her earring to contact the group from the various places they are around the Temple and they head in the direction of the boarding house.

- When they arrive, Callie and Magnus are sitting quietly in the parlor waiting for them.

- Magnus says that he was trying to summon things (like food and silver) and he thinks he accidentally created some kind of portal

- There is indeed a halfing-sized ghost-looking silvery translucent creatures floating around the room and the window across from the door is a blue-silvery portal. It looks like a small child wearing a a sheet.

- Tiff takes one step into the room and the ghost creature shoots a little slightly stingy bullet of energy at her and another ghost creature comes through the portal.

- Osiris casts Dispel Magic on the portal and the portal dissipates.

- The two ghosts did not like that.

LABORATORY BATTLE

- Lyrielle downs a Resiliency Elixir from Tiff and moves into the room

- GhostCritter1 shoots Osiris with a series of little BBs and she takes 7 piercing and 5 cold dmg and then shoots her again for 12 piercing and 3 cold dmg

- GC2 turns around and re-opens the portal.

- Rusty Rages and rushes GC1 that attacks Osiris, he misses and then slices into it for 26 slashing dmg

- GC3 and GC4 come through the portal.

- GC3 rushes Lyrielle and slams its body into her for 14 bludgeoning and 4 cold dmg to her

- GC4 rushes Rusty and jumps on him and wraps itself around his head, so Rusty is Grappled, can't breath (not that he needs to) and is blinded and deafened.

- Tiff casts Haste on Rusty and then darts around to the corner of the room and ducks down next to the bed.

- GC5 comes through the portal and misses Osiris with its puck shot

- Raiàn has a quick look at the critters and decides that cold dmg and non-magic physical damage probably won't do much. They then darts to the corner of the room near Lyrielle and casts Burning hands on GC1 and GC5 for 21 fire dmg and 10 on GC3.

- GC6 and GC7 come through the portal

- GC6 rushes Raiàn and misses her twice

- GC7 moves towards Tiff and shoots her with puck shot for 14 piercing and 3 cold dmg

- Osiris looks at the shiny balls that are building up on the floor but can't tell if they are silver or not. She then casts Moonbeam in front of the portal.

 

- Lyrielle punches GC3 in her face for 7 bludgeoning dmg then misses then kicks it for 6 bludgeoning dmg (she takes 8 total cold dmg from contacting the critter)

- GC1 slams into Rusty for 11 (5) bludgeoning and 12 (6) cold dmg and then again for 7 bludgeoning and 9 cold

- GC2 shoots Osiris for 16 piercing and 5 cold dmg and then again for 14 piercing and 5 cold dmg

- Rusty rips GC4 off and then slices into it for 10 slashing

- GC3 tries to jump onto Lyrielle's face, but she dodges deftly.

- GC4 tries to jump back onto Rusty's face, but he also dodges.

- Tiff casts casts Melf's Acid Arrow (lvl 3) on GC1 for 21 acid dmg and it's continues to be covered in acid

- GC5 rushes Tiff but with Osiris's helps she dodges getting face-hugged.

- Raiàn breaths lightning on GC2 and GC4 for 17 dmg and 8 dmg on GC1 and GC3

- GC6 rushes Raiàn and jumps on her face for 8 bludgeoning dmg, and she is Grappled, can't breath, and is Blinded and Deafened. She tries to shove it off, but only manages to deal 9 force dmg

- GC7 shoots Rusty for 16 (8) bludgeoning and 3 (1) cold dmg and then again for 18 (9) bludgeoning and 3 (1) cold dmg. 

- Osiris casts Cure Wounds on herself for 17 HP then she pulls out her shield

 

- Lyrielle moves to flank GC1 with Rusty and GC3 with Raiàn, then she punches GC1 for 8 bludgeoning dmg then again for 12 bludgeoning dmg and it explodes into a cloud of silver powder, so then she roundhouse kicks GC3 for 9 bludgeoning dmg knocking it prone

- GC2 rushes Rusty but Rusty dodges the flies face-grabbing jump

- Rusty drinks an Elixir of Resilience from Tiff and then slices into GC4 for 28 slashing dmg then he misses

- GC3 stands up and slams into Raiàn for 10 bludgeoning and 6 cold dmg and then again for 11 bludgeoning and 6 cold dmg

- GC4 misses Rusty then slams into him for 10 (5) bludgeoning and 2 (1) cold dmg

- Tiff casts Mass Healing Word for 9 HP after moving around GC5 then she activates her Healing Bonk Rope 

- GC5 misses slamming into Osiris twice bouncing off her shield!

- Raiàn casts Wither and Bloom on centered by Tiff dealing 22 necrotic dmg to GC3 and GC6 and 11 on GC5, and she heals herself for 19 HP 

- GC6 squeezes Raiàn's head for 13 cold dmg

- GC7 rushes and slams into Tiff for 10 bludgeoning and 7 cold dmg and then misses 

- Osiris moves the Moonbeam onto GC2 and GC4 for 22 / 11 radiant dmg respectively then she casts Healing Word on herself for 12 HP

- Lyrielle misses GC3 then punches it for 13 bludgeoning dmg 

- GC2 takes 11 radiant Moonbeam dmg then moves out of the Moonbeam and slams into Rusty for 6 (3) bludgeoning and 4 (2) cold dmg then again for 13 (6) bludgeoning and 12 (6) cold dmg

- Rusty slices into GC4 for 27 slashing dmg and it explodes into a cloud of silver dust then he turns to GC2 and slices into it for 39 slashing dmg and then he rushes to Raiàn and rips GC6 off of her throwing it fully over himself next to Lyrielle and then moves to flank it with Lyrielle taking a hit from GC3 for 14 (7) bludgeoning and 15 (7) cold dmg

- GC3 fails to jump on Raiàn's face

- Tiff grabs GC5 and Shocking Grasps it for 37 lightning dmg (CRIT) and it explodes into a pile of silver dust

- Raiàn casts Burning Hands on GC 6 for 19 fire dmg, GC3 for 9 fir dmg, and Rusty for 4 fire dmg.

- GC6 fails to jump on Rusty's face

- GC7 slams into Tiff for 18 bludgeoning and 12 cold dmg and she is knocked so hard she loses track of her Haste spell then again for 9 bludgeoning and 7 cold dmg 

- Osiris moves the Moonbeam onto GC3 for 20 radiant dmg and poofs into a cloud of silver dust and GC6 takes 10 then she casts Cure Wounds for 29 HP then she moves around Tiff and GC7 and to GC6 for 11  bludgeoning and 11 cold dmg

 

- Lyrielle punches GC6 for 8 bludgeoning dmg then again for 9 bludgeoning dmg then she high kicks it for 7 bludgeoning and it is knocked prone

- Rusty is lethargic from the dropping of the Haste spell so he just switches out his greatsword and for a hand axe and a shield

- Tiff Shocking Grasps GC7 for 17 lightning dmg and runs around to hide behind Raiàn 

- Raiàn Twins a Chromatic Orb on the two remaining critters but misses the prone one (6), but dealing 15 lightning dmg to GC7.

- GC6 takes 13 radiant Moonbeam dmg then it stands up and misses then wallops Osiris for 12 bludgeoning and 7 cold dmg

- GC7 misses and then shoots Osiris for 16 piercing and 5 cold dmg. 

- Osiris casts Cure Wounds on herself for 22 HP 

- Lyrielle punches GC6 for 9 bludgeoning then again for 8 bludgeoning and then kicks it for 9 bludgeoning and it explodes into a pile of silver dust

- Rusty Rages again, steps up to GC7 pulling out his greatsword again and slices GC7 for 28 slashing dmg then he walks over to the portal and sticks his head through.

- The elemental plane of silver is pure liquid, but not molten silver. He takes 12 (6) cold dmg 

- Tiff uses 6 healing bonks, then hands Rusty a collapsible bucket and he scoops some of the liquid silver out of the plane and a tentacle comes up out of the bucket so he dumps it back through the portal.

- They start collecting the silver dust from the floor of the room.

 

- 3,000 XP ea for 121,500 XP total ea. - LEVEL 13

The Exploration of Options #BottomOfTheBarrelOptions - January 19, 2024

 - Sports sweatshirt over cat dice

 

- After a few hours, Theophania finds her way to the stone circle deep in the woods northwest of the city of Mistverge. She approaches the circle making sure she isn't disrupting any active magical workings, and then just calls out asking if there are any druids here. Then she sits and waits.

 

- Meanwhile back in Mistverge, Osiris tells Rusty about the messages to Tina, then she does a sending to Jimmy the smuggler, "Jimmy? Are you alive? We need help and it might be a business opportunity for you."

- He responds, "Who is this? What kind of business opportunity?" 

- Osiris Sends again, "It's Osiris. Your best friend. We're in a predicament where we need to acquire a bunch of silver to save the city. You interested or know anyone who's interested in that kind of business venture?"

- He responds again, "You're asking about silver smuggling? Maybe I can help you. How much money do you have?"

- Osiris Sends again, "Yes, I personally have like 150 gold, but you'll be cutting into Lord McNabb's profits. If you're in town, this would be much easier."

- He responds again, "Yeah, I'm working for McNabb shipping, so it would all be coming out of his pocket anyway. 150 is nothing. Call me again when you're serious." 

- She decides not to waste any more spells on the Jimmy route and she and Rusty head back to the Temple of Mishakal.

- Osiris suggests Rusty ask Connie the Construct if he saw any silver deposits as he was tunneling his way through the earth.

- Rusty does so, but Connie is not a mining robot, and doesn't know anything about silver.

- Meanwhile back at the library, Raiàn and Lyrielle are killing time trying to find out things when they get a message from Osiris asking if anyone has heard from Tiff in the past few hours.

 

- That evening at the druid circle Tiff Sends to Tina, "Do you know if you can get or find Moonwort in Arrandale? Need it to try to free the trapped souls. Learn anything interesting lately?"

- Tina responds, "Mmmm, botany really isn't my thing, sorry. Also not in Arrandale right now, I'm on a quest to not kidnap Russell Santiago for Osiris." 

- Tiff Sends to Osiris, "Who is Russell Santiago?"

- Osiris responds, "You've talked to Tina. He's a paladin of Paladine. For the holy water, you know?"

- Tiff immediately moves on and Sends to Sharai, "Can you get or find 10 lbs of Moonwort spores? I've invented an elixir to free the trapped souls in Agonir's hoard. Thank you!"

- Sharai responds, "Moonwort doesn't really grow here. More likely near Wistaria or Ambani. Also 10 lbs of spore is fucking insane. That must be a crazy potion."

- Tiff starts talking to an owl who turns out to be an elven druid named Elidar who is reluctant to help a city dweller as he views the city and technology as a corruption of nature.

- Tiff manages to convince Elidar that if she brings him seeds he will grow them to the point where she can harvest the flowers.

- Tiff then flies straight up until she can see the twinkle of the lights in Mistverge and gets home without running into any bats (a worry since she's never flown at night before).

- Meanwhile, Osiris asks Rowan if she knows an transmutation wizards? She does not.

- Jinora is still in town, so they ask her if she knows any transmutation wizards, but she does say she could maybe help gather some things. They consider asking her to go for the bay trees in the west near Raiàn's family's lands.

- Tiff hands Raiàn a Scroll of Sending (since that's what they came to the boarding house to do in the first place when they ran into Jinora) and from there heads to the General Store. She manages to get 100SP and some silver flatware for the cause.

- Osiris goes to Norman and gets 500SP in exchange for 50GP, and also a small bag of Life-Everlasting seeds for Tiff to take to Elidar.

- Rusty also plants the idea of transmuting other materials into silver into Magnus's head.

 

- 3,000 XP ea. for 118,500 XP total ea.

In Which There is a Lot of Running Around - January 5, 2024

 - Several days after the porridge battle, Tiff bursts into Osiris's room in the middle of her trance to announce she thinks she has a solution 

- Tiff sits down to let O review her notes and immediately passes out

- Osiris waits a few hours, then messages the rest of the team, none of whom answer

- She then goes and talks to Headpriestess Rowan about the holy water requirement

- She then talks to Marta about the plants, and Marta is able to tell her about 3/5

- Osiris then goes to the Curlywit Boarding House to divide and conquer what she can

- Raiàn and Lyrielle (for moral support only) talk to Lord McNabb about the large requirements of silver needed to craft the 10 gallons of holy water, he agrees to talk to the city council and get in the required amount (40,000 SP worth)

- Osiris and Rusty (for moral support) circle around through the other temples in town to see who has holy water or who could help donate time to make more

    - There's a small temple to Branchala, god of music, in the halfling part of town near the boarding house, the only member / temple halfling there give her one flask (1 cup) of holy water

    - There's a very nice temple to Paladine, god rulers and guardians, in the rich part of town where she learns of a paladin named Russell Santiago in Caledonia and also collects two more flasks (2 cups) of holy water. She comes up with the idea to have a Religious festival where they can 

    - Near Lord McNabb's history library / museum there's a small building for Lunitari, god of neutral magic, where she learns about Moonwort the fern Tiff needs as one of the five ingredients (not including the holy water) and it might be found in the Orcish Caliphate north of what was once known as the town of Birchwood. She also learns that bay trees would grow on the far west coast of the continent past Rusty's desert. 

    - There's a temple to Shinare, goddess of wealth and trade, near the Trader's Gate, where she and Rusty are unable to negotiate a deal for this prosperity-gospel-type, pyramid-scheming jerk for any aid of any kind because the priest only cares about profit.

    - At the temple to Habbakuk, god of animal life and the sea, near the docks, she finds that the acolyte      (Rosemary) under the elderly priest CAN actually cast divine magic and is willing to help craft holy water

- Osiris Sends to Tina, "Need you to go to Caledonia to pick up Russell Santiago from the temple of Paladine.We need divine caster for holy water."

- Tina responds, "Osiris! Great to hear from you! Does he know I'm coming? What does he look like? What do you mean you need casters for holy water?"

- Osiris Sends again, "No idea about appearance. Doesn't know you're coming. Tiff devised plan to release dragon souls. We need holy water, thus casters. Can you get silver?"

- Tina again responds, "So am I kidnapping him? Don't know if I'm down for that. Gotta help get rid of the dragon, though. Silver? I thought his name was Russell."

- Osiris Sends for a third time, "Please ask him to come. There's potential combat glory in the name of Paladine by battling the dragon. Silver is used to make holy water."

- Tina, "Oooooooooh. Cool cool cool. I can do that. Don't have any silver though." 

- Once she finally wakes up Tiff uses the Earring of Message to coordinate with what everyone is up to, and she says she will go talk to Vianola, where she buys six 30" sage stalks and orders 5 lbs of Prunella vulgaris roots. It's not the correct season for the 20 lbs or so of Anaphalis margaritacea flowers, but maybe the druid out at the circle in the woods can help?

- Tiff gets Vianola to mark the approximate location of the stone circle of the druids on her map of the area, and she immediately flies in that direction.

- Raiàn and Lyrielle go to the temple library to learn about the two plants that don't grow in this area. The librarian suggests that bay trees would grow in the area Raiàn comes from, so she and Lyrielle discuss that she might be able to Send (if Tiff can make a scroll) to her cousin to arrange for some bay branches brought to Striker and Breaker which they can teleport to.

- It also occurs to the two of them that Tiff's cousins who run the travelling caravan might have an idea of where to find or get or trade for Moonwort.

- 3,000 XP ea. for 115,500 XP total ea.

Porridge, Porride Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Eat - December 15, 2023

 - Double CR sweatshirts

- After working with Raiàn late into the night, Tiff has figured out that if you can cast a spell into one of the crystals in the network, it can cascade through all the crystals.

- Rusty gets Connie the Construct out of Osiris's room and sends it over to the history library to wave at Adalbert and Glorina.

- Osiris wakes Tiff up (a very sleepy, crusty-eyed halfling) to follow up on what she might have figured out, and they try a Dispel Magic and Tiff realizes that while it didn't work, it probably only didn't work because these crystals aren't the anchor of the spell. Logic dictates the spell anchor is probably deep within the dragon's lair, mostly likely in a place it will guard itself.

- She immediately starts looking through a book on her table while Raiàn continues sleeping off the late night, so Osiris goes to meet with Magnus as she had arranged to teach him the spell "Create Food and Water"

- Magnus takes a while to figure out how to conjure porridge, and he accidentally makes a porridge monster construct when he finally manages to produce anything.

- Lyrielle runs around the corner from the courtyard where they were practicing and the Porridge has grown, a lot

- Lyrielle and Osiris and Magnus manage to contain the thing in the street long enough for the innocent bystanders to get away and long enough for Lyrielle's call over the Message Earrings to be heard and for Tiff, Raiàn, and Rusty to show up

 

TIME TO PUNCH THE PORRIDGE

- Rusty rushes up and hits the Porridge for 16 slashing dmg

- P smashes Rusty with a pseudo-pod of porridge knocking him prone for 20 (10) bludgeoning dmg then slams into him again for 19 (9) bludgeoning dmg

- Raiàn studies it for a second and then casts Chain Lightning on it for 19 lightning dmg. It smells like burned food on your stove 

- P sees who casts the lightning on him and lobs a glutinous ball of goo at Raiàn for 15 acid dmg and she is Grappled in the goo, and then lobs a second one at Tiff for 20 acid dmg, but Tiff is not Restrained.

- Tiff hands Raiàn an elixir of healing then she rushes forward 25', she casts Haste on Rusty, then activates her Rope of Climbing with the Healing Bonk tied to the end.

- P opens a giant mouth in the middle and spews porridge for 9 acid dmg on Tiff, Osiris, Rusty, and Magnus

- Lyrielle runs in to flank with Rusty and smacks it for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then for 12 and then for 13 and then lastly for 7 bludgeoning dmg and P is somehow through DMS robbed of its Reaction.

- P smacks Lyrielle for 12 bludgeoning dmg and she is knocked prone then it smacks her again for 10 bludgeoning dmg

- Osiris moves up 15' and calls her Twilight Sanctuary

 

- Rusty stands up slices into P for 24 slashing dmg, then again for 26 slashing dmg then lastly for 20 slashing dmg, 18 temp HP from the Sanctuary

- P slams into Rusty for 19 (9) bludgeoning dmg then again for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg, and he manages to keep his feet this time.

- Raiàn casts Fireball (Carefully) above P so that it's high enough not to hit Rusty or Lyrielle and deals 56 fire dmg. The top half is now crispy and blackened and a strong of halfling-sized laundry is incinerated.

- P spews acid porridge on Tiff, Rusty, Osiris, and Magnus for 35 acid dmg and they all fall prone 

- Tiff sends the Healing Bonk Rope 10' towards Rusty, casts Cure Wounds on herself and ducks behind the nearby building, 14 temp HP

- P misses Rusty and then slams into him for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg

- Lyrielle stands up and smacks P for 6 bludgeoning dmg, then again for 7 bludgeoning dmg, then she prepares herself to Dodge any incoming attacks, 17 temp HP

- Osiris stands up, casts Cure Wounds with a Prayer Point on Theophania for 21 HP, then gets the temp HP for her Sanctuary

 

- Rusty stands up and slices P for 17 slashing dmg then misses the slices it again for 20 slashing dmg, 14 temp HP

- P hits Lyrielle for 21 bludgeoning and then misses

- Raiàn casts Fireball in the air above P again for 47 fire dmg

- P slams Rusty for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg and Rusty is knocked on his ass then it misses 

- Tiff moves out to line of sight, tries casting Sacred Flame, but P dodges, then she sends the Healing Bonk 10' closer to Rusty and ducks back behind the building

- Lyrielle deals 9 and then 10 bludgeoning dmg and prepares to Dodge again.

- Osiris also tried to cast Sacred Flame to show Tiff how it's done and P dodges again much to O's chagrin

 

- Rusty stands up slices into P for 35 slashing and 5 acid (CRIT!) then he misses then slices it again for 35 slashing dmg and then again for 22 slashing dmg

- P pummels Rusty for 25 (12) bludgeoning then again for 31 (15) bludgeoning then AGAIN for 21 (10) bludgeoning dmg

- Raiàn casts Fireball again for 41 fire dmg

- Lyrielle smacks P for 8 bludgeoning dmg then again for 12 bludgeoning dmg then again for 11 bludgeoning dmg, and then misses on her final punch

- Osiris casts Toll the Dead but misses 

- Rusty misses then slices into P for 20 slashing dmg, then again for 23 slashing dmg

- P slams Rusty 18 (9) then again for 20 (9) then misses

- Raiàn casts Fireball for 44 fire dmg and P splats and porridge goes everywhere splattering everyone except Tiff and Magnus

 

- Magnus says he'll try again now, but he passes out instead.

- Some healing is bonked.

- The guards finally run up and the situation is explained, and our badge is flashed.

- A wellness check is arranged for Magnus who is going to continue experimenting with the spell.

- While the party is drinking tea with Callie a chest with 1700 GP arrives for Rusty

 

- 3,500 XP ea for 112,500 XP ea.