Mushroom Moving Mission

Prep:

• Need reparations for Red Shields: scrolls of tiny hut and fireball given by Exeter, may also need to offer services, bring something from armoury? - moontouched double bladed scimitar
• Expected to teleport but still can’t use circle - take rubbing, bring paper and charcoal

Day 1

• Foggy morning, hobgoblins on patrol but we have a truce
• Clicks and Aegis doing nav checks
• See big mystical stag, glowing - “great spirits” spirit of the four seasons - Stag of Summer
• Fed - Blessing of stag of summer - fortuitous travel through grasslands :)
• Mot comes with
• Blueberries at camp
• Tiefling woman seen passing us at night - dark clothes, dark blue skin, rams horns
• Uneventful

Day 2

• Small animals moving through area
• Uneventful, until find 3 dwarven Imperial soldiers torn up by wolves - on foot, rangers or scouts
• Carrying maps, found village settlement nearby from outside our map - 2 days south of ruins
• Strange temple - 3 doors, 1 open - “show this to the wizard Sky”
• Found rings on their bodies - ring of the scout, ring of the sailor (con save for attunement)
• Mastiffs protecting us from wolves at night!

Day 3

• Tree with three corpses hanging from nooses :| - human, elf, dwarf
• Rune inscription on tree in Abyssal - “the gallows tree” - sentient tree, carnivorous, bodies are illusions - really lucky as Ssythra can read the rune - destroying rune will destroy tree?
• We leave perimeter of warning signs, inscribed rocks
• I take 2nd watch - calm night, rustling noise
• WEREWOLVES - I was chomped/slashed on neck-shoulder area, now I have lycanthropy
• Clicks and Torrek also infected with the curse!

Day 4

• Manage a short rest to recoup after attack, arrive at ruins before dinner
• Werewolves wake up - all male, tiefling, elf, dwarf
• Tiefling talks to Ssythra in Infernal - apparently attacked by regular wolves
• Local to area, from settlement nearby - we take them with us
• Castle is being repaired by orcs - unusual for normally nomadic people
• Horses left in stable
• Werewolves dressed up, fed, we’re given hospitality
• Ground Commander Vordokov - highly disciplined mercs, military style - clan of orcs, even half-orcs
• Historically important site
• Restoration of arcane historical importance is the Red Shield’s deal
• North is mnts above chalmers - wizards tower with amulet - return amulet to Vordokov, have Exeter come and personally apologise
• Tower is occupied, lone standing in mountains above a lake
• Amulet - “great magical importance”, involved in orc wizard’s research
• history refers to tower occupied by wizard or dragon
• Can take a man from red shields
• Given correct teleport sigil by Vordokov
• Recognises Ssythra, or her brand specifically (“of the Nine”)
• Has retainer - Tiefling with Asmodeus mark - Cain (disguise self’d as orc)
• SINCC war implication - helps charters worlds for Imperium - merc company, highest bidder wins for allegiance
• Deepest layer of mines leads to Deep (not yet explored by Shields) - layer after layer of dwarven mines, cavernous, well-crafted. We go pretty deep - two levels away from bottom.
• Murals of ancient Dwarven civilisation- crystal dwarves - good place for dwarves to live
• Clap on lights!
• Myconids released into cavern - are reverent towards surrounding
• Object in mines - Sovereign was trapped inside it, not dwarven creation - was speaking to someone, then trapped - Verity - released by Imperial mining

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Lycanthropy: (option: kill source of curse to remove it) seek out clan of werepeople, find clerics/druids local to lands - speak to ppl we took home with us about their settlement near the ruins (find location on existing map) - learn how to dispel or control the curse

• Cleric in Port is called Wyrran.

Wizards tower

• imperial soldiers marching north again, followed the river and ended up climbing through mountains and hills, found a lake
• Springhill has maps: go back to