10.29.26 - He just got a howler
The party sets up for a long rest, before being approached by a young human asking if his master Zacheus could meet with them. Zacheus, revealed to be a vampire, has been seeking the party. He was looking for his “children” who ran off with one of his favorite “wards”. Tiny directs them to Summit Hall, convincing him that they left Cassandra there.
As the party crossed the Dessarin River, a water elemental clasps an ear cuff onto his ear as he hears his mother Lapis’s voice tell him, “Call. Home. Now.” Lapis says that she hasn’t been able to find them for days, and that she expects more regular contact.
10.22.26 - Conrad and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
The party begins to follow the tracks of the water cultists. They find one track that heads more directly west, leaving the larger group heading southwest. Following the smaller track, they are attacked by a shambling mound and twig blights, summoned by a water cultists. The party handily defeats them, while Conrad is having a rough go of it.
Also, Eriksvaager is feudalist/socialist.
10.15.26 - Papa’s dungeon equipment
The party goes to rest, but Tiny attempts to give them the slip and go see Meanie. The party gives chase, eventually catching her. The party see’s a flash on the horizon and feels a thunder in the ground. After long-resting they continue to Summit Hall, finding it nearly destroyed. The defensive walls are knocked down, the towers shattered or collapsing. Axel finds one track of water cultists as the party goes to chase the attackers!
10.8.26 - Its sucking out your soul - thwwwwpt
The party departs to continue their hunt for Bastian, intending to head toward the Earth Monastery. On the way, they run into a caravan and notice that there is a “damsel in distress” tied up in the back, while 3 heavily cloaked vampire spawn drive the cart! Conrad is bitten in the midst of the fight, but the party defeats all three spawn.
Cordelia is creating a lesser restoration scroll for 300 gold, and 3 days of scribing.
10.1.26 - Noods are hard
The group returns safely to the Air Temple, and further explore the Plaza of the Muses. They discover 5 dead bodies, and a note from Windharrow summoning a cultist to join the Wyndwards.
After leaving the tunnels, they travel back to Red Larch to rest and recover. Using Pongo Topethicus’s journal, Tiny realizes there is another entrance to the underground caverns near Rivergard Keep. At the Allfaiths Shrine they ask to have the priest Imdarr scry on some people. Tiny asks to see Meanie, who is observed at Summit Hall seeming to be uninjured but gaunt and sickly. Konrad asks to see his parents, but is rejected by a thundering “NO DARK MAGIC”. Lastly, they scry on Bastian who is observed to be at the Sacred Stone Monastery
9.10.26 - Drow in the Deep
The group finds a drow woman in a hot springs. Jhaelocar recognizes that Yelena has some drow ancestry in her, hidden behind some subtle drow magic bound in Yelena’s blood. While Konrad was made uncomfortable in the conversation, Yelena and Tiny were given hairpins from Jhaelocar’s collection, and given safe passage from the caves.
9.3.26 - Cordelia goes Ape Shit
The party departs the myconid Source and continues on their travels out of the caves. They discover and defeat an undead Beholder, as Axel discovers his family crest carved upon the beholders skull!
8.27.26 - The Pizza Oven
The group completes a long rest, and after much investigation, and sword dancing they discover that the “pizza oven” in the base of the metallic tree has some ability to enchant mundane items! The orb and its metallic tree are found to be relics of an ancient lost civilization, the Netheril. Konrad enchants his sword and shield, as Yelena enchants her sword, and Cordelia enchants her staff. Yelena recognizes that the effects of the enchanting seem to be waning.
8.20.26 - Tiny climbed it like a tree
The group starts their travel back to the surface, successfully returning to the myconid cavern. They follow the myconids back through a crevasse to a large space in which a 150 foot wide sphere floats above a metal truck, with its metallic branches spreading out to support the sphere. Some people join and leave the myconid group chat, as the party finds magic runes around a gap within the “truck” of the metallic tree. Tiny discovers the sphere is not resting on the tree, but silently floating and rotating on the branches!
Psilofyr - lead myconid of the Underearth Bloom
8.13.26 - The rescue of Axel
Axel runs back to the group, and the fight ensues! Spellcasting, swordplay, as Conrad slays enemies left and right. The enemies fall, Axel is rescued, but Bastian escapes, calling to Axel, “Vanifer has made great use of your family legacy!“
8.6.26 - Jangles in the deep
The party begins the chase to find Axel! Passing by the numerous bloody bodies left in the wake of Bastian. Axel slowed the cultists, while the party found their way past blocked passages, myconid colonies, and raging underground river. As Cordelia messaged Axel, hoping to reach him, he broke free from Bastian and ran back to find the group following the sounds of Tiny smashing her jangles together in the deep!
7.30.26 - The hunt for Axel
Leaving the pyramid, the party decides to split up to find clues of where Axel has gone. Cordelia, Konrad, and Parias go north and find a pair of wooden doors spiked shut. Tiny and Ylenna go south, and find a trail of bodies and dead. Both groups return to the pyramid to make their next plans!
7.23.26 - Aerisi Falls!
As the fight continues, Konrad heals Cordelia as Yelena wishes to have Ahtair heal Tiny. Parias drives away some of the enemies as he is attacked by the invisible creature. Together, they are able to defeat Aerisi who screams herself to death and is torn apart by the wind. As the party seeks to find Axel, Parias says they might be headed toward another section of the city, that he names “Eileanar”.
7.16.26 - I walk with no fear, knowing you will find me
The fight begins against Bastian and Aerisi in the top floor of the pyramid. Blows are traded, before Aerisi uses Chain Lightning and knocks Cordelia and Tiny unconscious! Bastian offers a deal to Axel, come with him or he kills one of his friends. As Axel teleports away with Bastian, he says “I walk with no fear, knowing you will find me”