Adventure Recaps

• An Undead Issue

• Tower Time

• How to build a golem, 'for dummies'

• Recon on the Abyssal

• Clearing the way.

  Sarco í'Val Tenebris

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  adrian (Sarco

  Clearing the way

  3/2/26

  Day 1

  • Teleport to RemNaf
  • See the city for the first time
  • Travel on sleds - moving 3 hexes, quick
  • Find this space: is warm, I smell the faewild, smells like dawns grove but stronger
  • Dawn speaks to the trees - they’re treants- she makes friends
  • See a storm in distance, snow cyclone downriver- use pinecone charm on spell bangle, gives clear weather
  • Arcana ch 26 - magic, other planar, elemental
  • We go have a look - encounter two ice elementals
  • Fireball wmr save - dc 7
  • Failed wmr - wms 70 - i cast silence oops
  • DC 1
  • Used wand of flares to cast scorching ray whilst silenced - 2/3 charges used
  • We defeat the guys!
  • Soul says I can have my point of str back
  • Ember covered me on the silence thing 
  • Dawn cooks us an amazing stew
  • I have watch with Ember and we have a nice chat
  • We have “laid the elementals to rest”

  Day 2

  • The drangolin came with us but underground 
  • Talking about imperial drakes with riders
  • I think anything draconic is extinct
  • We stay at dwarf forge 
  • Forge being lit is warming entire street, every street in entire town
  • Town hall is heated - we stay inside and dry out, get comfy
  • My night watch w Ember is easy, we feel much better 

  Day 3

  • Travel uneventful
  • See tower in distance (not mine)
  • Quiet night
  • Night sky - one moon eclipsing the other tonight - kazakan is eclipsing myros 
  • I make a drawing of it

  Day 4

  • We go to look at the tower

  • orc thrown out of top floor?!

  • Goblins fighting something?!

  • No orcs on bottom floor

  • Lots of guys - chaos

  • “Tower of the mad mage”

  • Experiments done on people and beasts 

  • Creatures drawn there to fight

  • Travel through forest - big redwoods 

  • Ember finds old hunter’s blind - has been turned into giant spider nest

  • No spider there - Imperium likely came through and killed them

  • Watch fine

  • Izzi shown to a chest - one of Izirion’s

  • Hex has been empowered due to Great Stag’s crossing (4,-17)

  Day 5 + 6

  • I wake up and smell all the stags

  • Talk to Izzi - Great Stag came through, he looked “mountainous”

  • Giant footprint, traces of spring, flowers

  • Make path 

  • The end

  • Meet Wyatt - of the Siasou - given years by Izzi

  • Gives me a tour :) “Asian fusion” food

  • See RS library - I see like 15 of one guy - Mr William

  • He’s not simulacrum - fine, detailed spell in human form

  • Caelia has this spell technology but this is more refined - mage hand in physical form, as person

  • More recent development is in the citadel -are we behind? Convergent or divergent technology?

• A Task for Lady Nightbloom

• We be tracking Hellhounds and their devilry

  Sarco í'Val Tenebris

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  adrian (Sarco

  27/1/26

  Day 1

  Teleporting to red shields

  Cain is red now? He claims he’s never been blue. He seems stronger today

  RS making good progress on restoration of Dwarven architecture 

  Happening under dwarven supervision

  Insight check: left Exeter at home comment, not menacing, my friend has made the right kind of enemies, been left too long

  “An expedition has been moved up”

  -> Exeter left the apology for too long

  Tracking hellhounds: tracks everywhere

  Hellhounds are after someone who stole something from lord of 9 hells

  Impeded travel from deep snow 

  Mot is TINY and in my pocket and gives me TINY mushrooms

  13 on night watch

  Uneventful

  -9, 4

  Day 2

  Lots of thick snow

  -10,3, -11,3

  Lack of shelter on plains

  I prestidigitate everyone’s clothes dry! No one goes to bed wet, no exhaustion. Hooray!

  Watch roll 19 - something there..?

  Day 3

  Accosted in night, rations stolen

  Black cat climbed out of tree in woods, crossed our path, I walk through and cross its path, everyone follows lol

  I don’t like where this is going

  Find good spot to camp

  Little frosty berries, taste like blue raspberry, minty finish, Mot likes them, there’s a lot from where he’s from

  My watch: stranger in black appears, vibe check, he’s tired and cold, heavy pack

  He’s on his way to a keep, to trade

  5 or 6 days travel

  Lots of dogs around, following people

  From city, mostly ruined, to far north by lake, underneath mountains

  He spends the night with us, dries off, goes to sleep

  Long hair, unkempt beard, travel worn, handsome under scruff, bright blue eyes

  I am then STABBED and POISONED by this guy because he’s a werewolf hunter

  Used turn tides and still failed con save

  I SEE LUZON AGAIN and wake up 

  Cain has been knocked out and stabbed in same spot

  I wake up Lyf

  He healing word’s Cain

  His face changes, 3 faces flicker past - he’s an incubus

  Day 4

  I come out as a werewolf lmfao

  We survey

  -13, 2

  Hellhounds patrols regularly enter -15, 3

  Walking around a perimeter of some kind? well travelled path

  We move south one hex 

  Night watch with Torrek, uneventful

  He only knew one of us was a werewolf, figured me out bc he met me

  Going north towards werewolf attacks

  Encounter hellhounds at night 

  WMS on shield spell

  Strength permanently reduced by 1

  Wtffff

  Misty step - 5 on wmr - DC is 2

  Direstone wand - Algiz cast, Ssythra has fire damage resistance - 4 charges left

  Mot:27 hit points

  16 ac

  19 dmg 

  Mot noooooo!

  Cast fear - concentration up to 1 minute 

  Wmr 2 - just saves 

  DC 3

  4

  5

  6

  Ssythra calls off the hellhounds

  Note from Vordekov when i get back.

  He’s mad at Exeter

  “Tell your friend they have one month.”

• Drakes to Friends Attempt 3

  Ruenr

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  adrian (Sarco

  26/1/26

  Drakes to Friends

  Ruenr and Asja, Izziel, Vaelithar, Zobu, Guruk, Aylin

  Day 1

  • Teleport to Remsha Naftha

  • Leontari - giant winged cats/lions, mounts of Siasou

  • Siasou don’t all age, children might be adults

  • I have been here before, outside of the game

  • 2, -19 - previous campsite, looks like hill dwarves used to live here, just got up and left

  • Crit on inv check of ruins: find forge, writing on ground (open sesame in dwarven)

  • A breeze coming from a wall: smells like outside, vented, powerful magic

  • Old warforged hanging

  • Get in through secret door - Izzi finds secret button in the forge

  • Suit of armour and magic items, magic weapons, lots of stuff

  • Lost treasure of the dwarves

  • Aylin puts on the armour - she is now the lord knight of remsha naftha

  • +1 longbow: made by Siasou, need attunement, gifted to me by now lord knight Alylin - whilst hunting around lake, advantage on hunt, I am recognised as extension of the lord knight, we both have adv on checks to barter

  • Izzi firebolts the forge, creates a fireball that downs me lol, forge is now relit

  • Night watch with Zobu

  • A talking white rabbit in a jacket with daggers appears, trying to nick food, befriends Zobu

  Day 2

  • Alyssa: Drakes last seemed erratic, hungry. At least 2.

  • We stop in 1, -21

  • Go hunting, crit on 27 - find place where tracks change - thing had a massive wide tail, burrows into the ground and disappears 

  • Deer - roll 82 on d100 - stag of autumn appears!

  • Smells him - wave of celestial and fae energy released, smells of autumn

  • Offers bag of grain to him, he eats out of my hand, big deal!

  • Blessing: extra hex of travel during autumn, in autumn I will find food/water/shelter in forests

  • Crit on night watch perception check - something knows I’m here

  • Tell everyone to be on alert

  Day 3

  • Izzi befriends a drangolin! Big, smells of earth, reptile, no eyes, crystalline 

  • Tremor sense, do not approach carelessly 

  • Intelligent, not a wild beast, doesn’t trust us yet

  • Night uneventful 

  Day 4

  • Back to RN, Aylin makes a huge impression, Han is emotional 

  • EVERYONE in the city comes to see her in the armour, 100s of people

  • They all bow in respect to their lord knight, its a big deal

  • Orzalon crown era protection

  • Ember is tele’d in, also given special armour

  • 14 lord knights total, one for each huge city

  • Aylin learns location of Othaya and its human people - deeply hidden from Empire

  • Mountainous region, coast, have to be on foot

  • Feel cursed: when first crown bearer(Luzon/Luxe) came here, he came with friend and aid. One aid, man last name Othaya, settled in that region. His line still exists in that region. Every male heir gets sick and dies, never lives to see adulthood.

  • Othaya and Whitmore were once one house. 

  • Luzon the crownbearer - kind and just soul, wanted to unite the realm against the darkness. When he first arrived, shadows plagued the lands. Only by uniting 7 kingdoms could he fight back the darkness.

  • 14 regions total, 7 in north, 7 in south

  • Find the armours, have people wear them - empowered - mechanical function

  • Before crown: plagued by beasts of shadow, malformed, horrible creatures, terrible magic

  • Beast with 8 legs too many, liked to eat people. Cult worshipped him, trap travellers in forest west, poison to incapacitate, fed them alive to beast.

  • These beings came under control of crown. Crown stopped creatures from entering realm.

  • Luzon was key in forming godblind - he figured out how to maintain it, make it permanent- also to banish creatures

  • Abyssal creatures can’t be teleporting in, have to be HERE IN THE REALM

  • Trying to teleport in from out of realm causes u to be splintered

• Temple Run

  Sarco í'Val Tenebris

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  adrian (Sarco

  Day 1

  Sled carriage and dogs

  Somber tones

  Sully elsewhere

  Imperial postman handing out mail

  Sully’s attendant? waving to Ember

  Cirrus and Ssythra on navigation

  I take 2nd night watch

  Uneventful 

  Day 2

  New ruins - huge dias, stone circles, portals

  Runes written in celestial, some kind of gate - how old? Pre godblind 

  Many other languages - elven runes in middle ring - Luzon’s work

  Added last, most recent

  Arcana check - writing is names of locations, proper nouns, some kind of teleportation device, junction

  I make a drawing of it - passable

  Exeter casts locate object on Arcanite - mine is nearby 

  That night I have the watch with Exeter and have a monologue

  Awkward atmosphere.

  Mot comforts me :)

  Dwarven family w little Halfling child, only survivor from town, saved by myconids - this is Mot

  Day 3 

  Morning, a kenku spotted trying to break into our carriages.

  Arrive at temple around lunchtime.

  Mot gives me healing mushrooms - need to “baby bird them”

  At temple - very warm, water is knee deep (difficult terrain)

  Harpies appear, communicating with Corvus

  I succeed an athletics check to jump across bridge gap

  Told everyone to be aware of anti-magic technology 

  Harpies got sucked here through a portal - creation myth

  Statue is repaired. Leftmost door is opened.

  Arcana check - crit - statues are pulling magic in, this is a place of power, the power is fae in nature. Many different magics all working together in this world?

  “Ruby station reactivated. Awaiting orders.”

  “OPEN VAULT” Ember

  A CANOLOTH appears and a bunch of gargoyle creatures

  Tough guy +5 con

  IT HAS NULLITE ARMOUR - resistance to magical, bludgeoning, piercing, slashing damage

  Slowed, speed halved

  All are fiends, devils - intelligent, obey orders from higher order fiend

  Has advantage against spell effect saves - saved on

  Big guy blocks teleports like thunder step 

  Archie: tries to gain control by the authority of the “dual emperors” - angered something

  I take inspiration

  Me: By authority of the Orzalon crown - no negative reaction

  of Luzon Tenebrae - on gold throne, hollow and gaunt, head turns to look at me, I take psychic damage

  WM DC: 4

  BY AUTHORITY OF THE STC

  Attack ends

  We get inside

  Interior vault: ornate, fine, gnomish built, fae motifs

  Cabinets of jars, gems, scrolls, prepping for doomsday type scenario

  Food preserved, then room preserved

  Whole place very strong in magic

  Infernal circle for canoloth

  Bulette eggs in stasis, hatch and need to be trained to pull transport system

  Shelf of books about Crown

  Glass display shelf of items

  Open the drawers, filled with gems, take bag of 5-6 diamonds 

  Next drawer full of daggers of different styles

  Take Jar of diamond dust

  Drawer of charm bracelets and little charms

  Large drawer with flask, set of ornate thieves tools

  Boots - elven, very expensive - take

  Ornate rod - enchanted, not super notable - immovable rod

  Shield with a face on the front

  Two wands - one dwarven, other one is bright

  Satchel - normal? Put the boots, rod, wands, diamonds and dust inside

  Exeter and Archie let a bad guy out of a crystal

• Quit Buggin’ Me! (The Cereal Killer, Part II)

  Ruenr

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  adrian (Sarco

  18/01/26

  Cereal killer 2

  Ruenr and Ásjá, Izzi, Vael, Paro, Theria

  • Ruenr nav check 12
  • Paro nav check 6
  • Camp outside cleaver’s haven
  • Try to hunt (15 survival), fail

  Day 2

  • In Cleaver’s

  • Family, horses and dog have been killed

  • Could have been dead for 4 days or last night

  • Young woman near grain silo, man on porch

  • Have been mauled, torn apart, chunks missing, corpses eaten

  • They smell of bugbears

  • Killed by adults

  • Three sets of tracks

  • Normal winter, not especially harsh

  • Goblins = more mouths to feed

  • Talk to other farmers on the land, they’re growing winter crops

  • Buys a bag of grain from second family for 5gp; they’re mad their neighbours are dead

  • Koen investigates “nest” - temporary nest, no adults, juveniles and larvae

  • No adult tracks

  • Kinda crappy nest, just enough to stay warm, juveniles gathering food, seem well fed

  • Paro nature check

  • If nest unsuccessful, moved slowly

  • Diet: omnivorous, preferred food is meat

  Day 3

  • decide to find bugbear matriarch, head west
  • Fight
  • Pull out heart, very buggy, eat it in front of everyone

  Go WEST NEXT TIME

  Get home on night of 16th August

• After a Bounty

• Testing a Theory

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  adrian (Sarco

  13/01/26

  Testing a Theory

  Sarco, Mot, Voyce, Ember, Terd, Ssythra, Bascinett, Almorn

  Day 1

  • Very cold morning, heaps of snow

  • Prime here with all the simuls, Drow guy is here, talking to Sullivan in a language I haven’t heard before, S seems genuinely good friends w him

  • Talks broken Caelian, not from Empire? Wary of me, hates nobles?, twinky, young, well dressed, calloused hands, hard handshake

  • Called “Kyle” - friend of Shep

  • Carriage sized sleds pulled by giant dogs, each w driver (Eladrin) to teach us, need to hunt to provide dog food

  • Quick day of travel, days shorter

  • HUGE MOOSE, strange that it’s so close to town, stag’s blessing gives us advantage on the hunt

  • I take first watch with Ember

  • Dogs (Zaren) are native to Aoraki! Very uncouth for me to touch one unbidden, bond with rider for life, fiercely protective, dog will come to you if it wants to bond

  Day 2

  • Met stag of winter! Fed him mushrooms! Blessing: this group will travel extra hex during winter, individuals will not encounter bad weather

  Third night

  • help fortify the camp against hounds
  • False life 1st lvl cast: rolled a 1, WMS 27 area around me is chilled 
  • SURGE DC RESET TO 1 

  Beefy

  Went unconscious after Ruinant attack

  Rolled 39 d100

  Saved by an ancestor!

  “Rise, son of Luzon”

  Restored to 1hp

  Health potion: Action to have full heal, Bonus action to roll die

  TURNED TIDES to save against ruinant downing me again: dc 11 save, rolled a 9 and then a 17 to avoid permadeath CRIeS

  Surge: for the next hour I am disadvantage on str checks, withered

  DC 2

  Kiona knows my family?! Where do our shadow powers come from? “Look outward.” She calls me cute and sends me home lmao

  Something about the forest we’re in

  Tomorrow is the 9th! 3 days until full moon

• The Sword in the Bone [CANCELLED]

• The Cereal Killer

  Ruenr

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  adrian (Sarco

  4/1/26

  Cereal killer 1

  • Izzy smells draconic
  • Pick up small child trying to rob us at night, dropped him off w his mother in Cleavers
  • Grain silo broken into, grain stolen, eaten
  • Hole punched into metal, ripped out
  • Bear-like creature, brown or black, glowing eyes, not owlbear, mutated? bugbear? Seen in afternoon, sun starting to set
  • Attacked by bugbears 1,-6
• Ending the War.... For now.

• Mushroom Moving Mission

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  adrian (Sarco

  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
• Finding the Apprentice (Tracking Hobgoblins pt4)

• Saving Private Shepherd

• Owlbear Hunt

• River Run & Debris Inquiry, Redux

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  adrian (Sarco

  10/12/25

  River Run

  Day 1

  • Small cottage in -1,0, sign with Shepherd’s handwriting
  • Debris is river, myconids in mine chucking building materials and stuff in there
  • Strange artefact is STILL IN MINE
  • Sparkles in right river branch - magic ore from mine, gives wild magic effects to potions made with water
  • Left river branch - minerals giving opposite effect
  • I take first night’s watch, Mot shows up! Mot can cast detect thoughts - he’s my companion now!
  • One hound shows up and fights the guards

  Day 2

  • Found owlbear lair! If I get the pelt, can bring it to Golden Thread sisters to get a very nice cloak :) The sisters have swanky shops in Caelia

  • Hadari goes into the cave - is attacked by 2 owlbears - NARROW ESCAPE thanks to Hadari’s animal handling and Exeter tweaking fate (making me succeed a luck check) so that Mot communicates with the owlbears and saves us!

  • Mot grows alcoholic mushrooms for us and we celebrate :)

  • Explore up left river fork - very cold, crisp biting wind - lots of game, less Imperial presence

  • Lots of fish in river, unusual for winter, salmony, unnatural inky blackness to scales from silt?

  • Arcana ch on vial of water and silt - Exeter channels a little magic into it w prestidigitation - pulls magic from her, absorbs magic and dissipates it harmlessly - reminds me of my innate family power?!?!

  • Mine upriver where this is coming from

  • Yin Yang effect - one ore great for enchanting, the other for anti-magic

  • Night uneventful- it snows!

  Day 3

  • Snow has settled. Come across v old (100s yrs) ruined settlement, large village/small town - Halfling(-5, -5) (Named Springhill)
  • Dwarven carved door on floor of workshop - Springhill Hold - Knocked (spell), bricks shuffle open revealing a carved dwarven face - needs us to speak a name deemed worthy - opens up for Exeter! (ie. the worthy needs to be a Halfling)
  • Dwarven make, gnomish objects (torches)
  • Stairs lead to massive underground library/workshop!! Very magical, loads of stuff inside, Gnomish magic
  • Banner: Till death we serve, but never beyond
  • Vampire hunter’s hold!
  • Map: Mine along river - Null River Mines
  • Books in library, oldest dwarvish, gnomish, giant (Very old), more recent books written in Halfling
  • Everything labelled fastidiously, except for giant stuff (weapons and armour etc) - one spot where a weapon is missing (Staff of the Matron) - wielded by Shepherd?
  • Layers and layers of history, loads of maps - all maps showing north of mountains have been destroyed 
  • Upright metal chest, two opening sections - it’s a fucking FRIDGE!! “Staff room”
  • Offices, bedrooms, etc etc…
  • Loads of spellcasting supplies
  • Find little metal dragon construct, 1 of 7, only one still working - can be fixed up by tinkerer
  • Made of Arcanite - (the greedful iron)
  • The opposite metal: “Null ore” absorbs magic, but take a lot of energy to do so
  • Dwarves that built the mine also built this place, is passage from the hold
  • Frozen river can be traversed by sled dog team
  • Armoury section: small room, one half stuff made of Arcanite, other of Null items (few, need fixing)
  • Null shield - once per long rest, bearer hit by spell, use charge to dissipate magic - historical relic, protected
  • Arcanite natural, local but mined heavily during last Empire reign - crystal dwarves can help
  • Null ore is not - was created, not occurring, accidental, mines were closed 
  • Teleport circle at old temple near mine - these temples specifically will hold teleport circles, need crystals to work - built by ancestors of the Hold - also can work as vaults that can store treasure, creatures, etc., be careful when opening 
  • Hadari takes a null ore ingot
  • We can rest here without setting a watch, we can long rest
  • Kiona the Dreadlord - demon, undead - BLUE LADY who most likely killed Shepherd, she follows the Matron of Ravens, archeologist of the citadel
  • The matron of ravens: likes the dead to stay dead, so dislikes undead, dislikes abyss and demons
  • Hold originally founded by person who would become emperor, fought vampire scourge removed from realm, crown fell, darkness and shadowy scourge came back etc. etc. if pursuing this topic, be careful
  • Can bring knowledge to dragon, build shop up top to divert suspicions if we travel here often
• Liberating the Iron Mines

  Bascinett

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  Durian

  Left early, not sure if I deserve to get gold or some exp

  Sarco í'Val Tenebris

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  adrian (Sarco

  Day 1

  • Bringing coffin, chest of preserving, 1 healing pot
  • Shepherd not in camp this morning
  • People, farmers, villagers walking into town - local priest of Dawnfather out healing simple wounds, lifting spirits - cuts and scrapes
  • Strange thing happening to crops - attacking people?
  • Priest knew my dad, served in his court, didn’t like the guy - name Callum
  • Mot doesn’t need to sleep. Is wearing umbrella hat. He is a spores druid 
  • Quiet at night, despite hound attacks. Fight expected by guards but doesn’t come.

  Day 2

  • cleavers haven
  • Fire Genasi woman went through cleavers haven, bought supplies, headed toward shrine, towards battleground 
  • Skin black as coal, hair always lit, eyes look like roiling balls of flame
  • Genasi - tribalish people, uncommon. Another air Genasi in port
  • Mine wasn’t started by imperium, was found by them. A few weeks before operation shut down workers (dwarves) troubled sleeping. Few days before shutdown, workers found smth strange - something placed, not natural. Something to hold smth, not like a chest? Workers seemed irritable, annoyed, very un-dwarf-like, injured someone in town.
  • Dwarf of the deep around, can help - knowledgeable of lands - in foothills not far from mine
  • Quiet night

  Day 3

  • uneventful day and night - still no hounds
  • Winter weather - must have tent !
  • Ember and Silver field dress a deer and do a great job of it
  • ‘Seekers of Steelbreaker (surname), follow the tide’ - dwarven runes left on riverbank rocks

  Day 4

  • Found old duegar in hidden cave in riverbank - living in a grand old place- hunting lodge
  • His wife - a hill dwarf, red hair, beard: recognised on a dc 25 his check - a wizard of the citadel, Steel, first sword of the citadel. She developed orb in response to colonies destroyed by Imperium. Globe picks up large chunk of people, held in stasis and transported safely.
  • Dreken of the Steelbreaker tribe
  • Promised not to harm the myconids
  • Myconids unearthed from deep underground by imperial blast minings
  • ‘Kin to dwarves’ found deep underground- gems for eyebrows
  • Myconid colony need to be deeper - Colony starved, sick from sunlight
  • Sovereign myconid
  • ‘Fragmented’, have human traits/habits still
  • Less than 100 myconid in mine - put them in ORB - move them to south abandoned dwarf mine
  • I successfully convinced Steel, with Torrek’s help, to give us the orb to save the myconids!
  • Promised not to mention them in our report
  • Have bardic inspiration 1d6 from Mot’s mushroom

  In mines

  • Strange ore - saps heat from Ember’s finger - magical, good for enchanted weapons?
  • Myconids placid, sweeter scent in air
  • Deeper mines filled w mushrooms, getting huge, growing from splashed blood?
  • Main cavern - big mush, still pool of water with stalactite 
  • Torrek convinced them into orb
  • Received lantern of darklight 
  • Hooray!

  Back at camp: in teleport room - Shepherd dead?!?! Killed by spells, jaw missing, amulet gone

• Elf Connections

• Tracking the Hobgoblins Pt 4

• Looking for the Town Bard!

• HUNTING MONSTERS HUZAAH

• Elemental Activities

• Tracking Hobgoblins Pt 3

• Surveying the Roads

• Tracking a Gith

• Back to the Ruins

• The Griffon Problem

• Investigating the Iron Mine

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  4/11/25 S2 - Mines exploration 

  • Busy morning; leaving without Clicks and Aegis
  • Dragon(?) spotted by the last party
  • Blue lady making blue hobgoblins, hounds made from bodies of fallen comrades? Sounds like weird planar stuff. Neither hounds nor bodies found after supposedly being slain.
  • Lots of empire soldiers returning, talking: really homesick, talking about Caelia; fighting elves in NE
  • Ate pastry from goblin bakery in north village; can cast chill touch for next 24hrs
  • Encountered shambling mounds at night!
  • Wild magic roll no 2: my shadow is now blue and has a mind of its own
  • Lorelai the hobgoblin has died D: Rudolph took her back to the north village
  • Drunken elf? Showed up in forest at night - covered in snakes, bitten and poisoned, deep green colour snakes
  • Magical snakes, conjured/summoned
  • Full elf but with beard, slept not tranced? Paralysed by venom?
  • Guy dead when came back; throat cut by devil that came out of fire when we were out
  • In pockets: rod with heavy head, cane-like, banded copper end (peasant’s rod), shittily made wand (casts fireball), 1pl 13gp, set of ivory carved d20s, potion bottle of silvery oil
  • Cirrus rolled the dice and fucking got us struck by lightning, nearly obliterating me?!
  • We met Mot the psychic mushroom child
  • We find the mine: miners have been transformed into myconids somehow, are still working; look wrong, sickly, lacking colour
  • Insight check re Mot: Myconids are created from corpses of other beings, used to be a dwarf; Mot is about a foot tall. How old was/is he?
• S06 - Locating the Mines & The Last Group

• Investigating Warforged Remains

• S05 - Northwest Trek

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  29/10/25 S1 - Forest of Silence

  • Magic happening against us in this forest - not targeted, less like spell and more like ambient magic from location.
  • Magic affected area, white trees, animals and trees scared - we left a message
  • A lot colder around forest
  • Area is causing exhaustion condition
  • Horrible flesh spider monster appears, me and Clicks teleport back home before seeing it
  • Arcane, fused to a spider - the forest acts as this thing’s web, hungry, has tremor sense
  • Sleep magic not coming from creature, is byproduct of magic
• S04 - To Track a Gith

• S03 - To Track Hobgoblins

• S03 - To the Mines

• S02 - Northward Bound

• S01