• Lvl 2 exhaustion: disadvantage on ability checks, speed halved (15ft).
• Use of magic in the desert not recommended, Wardens of Al’harak (name of desert) don’t use magic at all
• We start in New Zuros in Nightbloom’s shop, Whimsy with us.
• Fancy place, vulture bar (dive bar, use for info), medium tavern (Bone Dry Bar)
• Lots of plants, shuttered windows, weird machine hookahs, low tables, pool. Very niiiiice.
• City is climate controlled, occasional dust storm
• Meet barkeep, Dragonborn lady, speaking foreign language.
• Gives us moss earpiece things that allow us to hear, from sea of plants in east, called symbiotes
• 25e for a special drink - alcohol with ingredient from “men of metal” - have 4 days with -1 lvl exhaustion, will gain +2 lvls after
• Split 4 rooms between us
• Go downtown through bustling streets, food stalls
• Whimsy much respected as a Warden
• Visit Dawnweaver tailor shop, owned by a white Leonine
• Five werewolves came through as a group, all unremarkable in description, wolf amulet not seen
• Adventuring store and alchemist’s
• Mortar and pestle, woven hemp belt pouch, crystal sphere with tiny floating petals etc, beautiful armour built of scavenged parts, small vials wrapped in ivy, heavy cloak/robe with iridescent scales, metal rods “thumpers”
• Plants: very expensive
• Vial stores sunlight - synthvials
• Synthwesve robes - flashes with light
• Biomass mortar and pestle - potency of contents doubles, Pouch stores seeds/reagents indefinitely - get these for our alchemist
• Armour +2
• Symbiotic plants - seeds need attunement, attach forever
• Grappler seed, cestus seed, orchid airsprout, barkskin carapace, thorny crown
• Crucible and Chlorophyll - cold terrariums
• Potions - photosynth salve - doubles healing hit dice in sunlight, entangle, kinetic dew - climb and swim sp equal to walking for 1 hr, soul serum - extra melee radiant damage, mycelial cordial - spores, 4 creatures gain telepathic bond for 1 hr
• We are 4th group from Zaphiron to have arrived, one group had a gith on the run; weird guy with leathery wings; shadar-Kai asking about memory potion.
• Blue eyes came through first, a month ago, said maybe staying in city for a night, healing potions, al’haraki potions, acting like was in a rush, was talking to self, came in by himself, wearing robes.
• I ask about the library - he immediately shutters the place, tells me to talk to whimsy
• The price of entry - more like a sacrifice - have to sacrifice someone who loves them
• Last time someone got in and out of the library, the crown of Orzalon fell.
• How many people went in and never went out?
• Discussion of the Fall - we don’t talk about it here, be careful mentioning it
• Wardens technically exist bc of the Fall, bc desert dangerous, arcane reasons not to walk desert at night
• Guy will pay for monster parts
• We all eat kebabs yay ! Sarco passes out and is carried to bed by Gil.
• I make Nat 20 wis save that night: dream open gaping abyssal mouth, huge rising thing rising through sand and dust, reaching for me below. See visions of Luzon on a golden throne, crown on head, old and rotting corpse - ask him - where are you? Sitting back, looking down as if someone sitting at his feet, looks like giant sitting on throne looking at human, look into huge cavernous eyes, see visions of skyship sailing over divide, empty with no crew. Points up and then grabs my head
• Haven’t seen skyship before
• Wake in panic, Gil arrives, share a drink
• Custodian was a Tenebris - Lena - a friend and teacher of Gil - met around when Luzon was crowned
• Can’t remember this name - read smth as a child that upset me - a fire in Tenebris library, all record up to 2nd emperor of Caelia was lost. Never heard this name. Another bastard, or far back in history.
• Gil trained Almorn
• go talk to Nymerion when back

Day 2

• we get dressed uppppp and ready for the desert
• Local teleport circle, one way to surface
• We walk! A few other groups walking. sandworm encounter! Acro check to run from it. Real Dune shit.
• Whimsy warns us not to move for a few hours; Take watch - Nat 20 for a story penalty - purple dust left by worm
• Guy riding dragonfly bike thing
• Magic after dark = beacon
• Archie uses item ability spell - warforgeds ambush Azrael at night
• Healing spell cast by Gil on Az’s wound - natural healing ability stimulated
• How old are the robots? Highly advanced tech even by my standards, could be real bad if Imperium gets hold, hard to tell age, some parts been replaced. Are they related to the Fall? An invasion.

Day 3

• Approach Eladrah midday - green oasis, empty whitewashed houses, no bodies, quiet, nothing. Big place.
• Go stealthily, eerily empty.
• Signs of huge thing going down main street from east, buildings demolished. Ppl running, then footsteps disappear. Signs of violent struggle also. Everything alive has been eaten, 1000+ ppl gone.
• Huge digitigrade footprint - 50ft across, three toed like a bird, 7+ feet deep - leads west
• Even bigger than an ancient dragon
• Can’t find other traces of this creature
• Find teleport circle, configure it for home
• Bring warforged parts with us, Azrael stays to camp out, Archie as well
• Return to Port Chalmers on the 16th
• Use locate object to help find blue eyes?