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Session 33: On a Trail of Cyan and Magenta

2026-06-16T16:34:01Z

Manath: /* The Trioptic Nic'Epona */

[[File:Battle of the Table.png|right|600px|thumb|The Battle of the Table]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Octavius Looking Away From Explosion.png|right|600px|thumb|Octavius, too cool to turn around]]
[[File:Unit 137 the Guardian of Faith.png|right|600px|thumb|Unit 137, the Guardian of Faith]]
[[File:Lilia the Batwoman.png|right|600px|thumb|Lilia, Batwoman]]
[[File:Vos Ultok new entrance.png|right|600px|thumb|Suck Deep]]
[[File:Vos Ultok new interior.png|right|600px|thumb|Unruly Meeting Place]]
[[File:The Velvet Harness Fixed.png|right|600px|thumb|Kai Redeemed]]
[[File:Galenthias and Sulphaxus.png|right|600px|thumb|A Game Conceded]]
[[File:Trioptic Nic'Epona.png|right|600px|thumb|The Trioptic Nic'Epona]]

The Unseen fell to Lilia's whirlwind of starry bats, which swallowed the Clay Golem and duergar both; the party looted invisibility potions, jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone and followed the smoke into Vos'Ultok, a dwarven suckhouse of hookahs, float-smoke, and a fez-wearing chimpanzee.

There, the gryphon-keeper Tormuund pointed them onward: Vistra had come two days prior for a bone spoon of his late friend Andren, breathed "Celestia," and been sent to Galenthias the deva. He asked the party to honor Andren, whose village a warlord had burned. Glenn won ninety-nine coppers at the table arena by hurling a halfling off the edge while shrunk hand-sized.

Back at the Velvet Harness, a gaunt Sulphaxus conceded his game of Motes to Galenthias, warning he'd haunt him "if the waters killed him." At the Trioptic Nic'Epona, Galenthias whispered into an amber gem and light swallowed the party -- Smokescale leaping clear just in time.

== XP Award ==

* 2500 XP for surviving The Unseen's ambush.
* '''Total: 2500 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 67464 XP -> 69964 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, afternoon, 1372 DR
* Highlights:
** Octavius inflicting the drow with an electric blight, shredding his flesh
** A comet hurled by Lilia trailing a wall of flame
** Octavius firing a fireball from his staff like a bazooka
** Lilia being cornered by the Clay Golem, narrowing avoiding being brushed by her Shield spell
** Glenn taking a solid blow to the chest from a psychic warhammer, but withstanding half a dozen blows with his shield
** Glenn stabbing at the giant duergar's ankles
** Diedric fleeing the Clay Golem narrowly, placing a celestial incarnation of Unit 137 to keep him safe
** Lilia summoning a whirlwind of starry bats, which proceeded to effortlessly consume the clay golem and screaming duergar
* Looting several invisibility potions, some jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone, the party continued following the cyan and magenta smoke.

=== The Unruly Meeting Place ===
* The abandoned mining project turned into a non-descript corridor, and then widened to a gilded underground road, with impressive stonework.
* This then led to the entrance of Vos'Ultok, with a common translation for the name helpfully scrawled below the dwarven runes.
* Inside, the sighted dozens of patrons smoking from strange, tall brass vessels, with flexible leather tubes coiling out from their necks.
* Of note:
** Dwarven throatsingers.
** A dwarven woman painting the air above her by tipping a paintbrush into colored powders.
** Men rubbing red moss between their fingers, inhaling the red smoke that issued forth.
** A group of patrons smoking a substance that caused them to float into the air. A gnome was holding to an outcropping in the ceiling, afraid to let go while shrieking that he was fine.
** A chimpanzee in a fez hat, with wise eyes, smoking and blowing smoke rings.
** A strangely-organized betting pool on a shrunken dwarf and halfling using a table as an arena.
** A green slaad smoking from three pipes at once.
** An older dwarf petting a cat-sized gryphon on his table.
* The party asked a staff member where they could find Vistra.
** He licked his lips repeatedly, but eventually understood they were seeking the spiritseeker. He indicated the dwarf with the gryphon.

=== The Gryphon Keeper ===
* He introduced himself as Tormuund, of Volunthaar, and the party asked about Vistra.
* She visited him two days past, seeking a bone spoon (a spoon made of bone) that once belonged to a friend of his, Andren.
** She held it and her eyes were drained of color, then she spoke "Celestia".
* He routed her to Galenthias, a deva that frequents The Velvet Harness, for passage to that plane.
* The part then spent a long time discussing the mechanics and appearance of baby gryphons.
* He asked the party to do right by his departed friend, explaining that the village they came from was burned down by a warlord. He wasn't sure why the Red Death would be interested in him.

=== Skypainting and Opiate Addiction ===
* The party then approached the skypainting dwarf, who explained that these were drugs that she found also behaved in this manner.
* They were varied colors, including yellow, orange, green, purple and blue.
* Purchasing and experimenting with the purple powder, both Glenn and Lilia found their aches and pains draining away, and that they could see blurry "foreimages" of events before they happened.
* The party remembered to re-summon Unit 137, who explained that he's been training Happy for obedience, pain being the primary implement.

=== The Disassociative Dragonborn ===
* Octavius approached the black-scaled dragonborn, recalling from his studies that they were theorized to hail from a sister planet to Toril named Abeir.
* The dragonborn was mostly unresponsive, looking at and pawing at objects that weren't there.

=== The Table Arena ===
* Watching the halfling defeat a dwarf opponent by pushing him off the table, Glenn approached as the next challenger.
* Octavius sorted through the organizer's confusion about how betting and odds functioned as Glenn was shruken down to hand-sized via a potion.
* The halfling kneeled in respect and waited for Glenn to make the opening move.
* The halfling charged him, unable to shove him away.
* Glenn grappled him and lept 90 microfeet, throwing him off the edge.
* The halfling stalked off, still shruken in stature, as the party enjoyed their 99 coppers of winnings, 9 of which went to a short dwarf.
** This same dwarf soon fell into a stupor from a red moss inhalation.

=== Return to the Harness ===
* Having enjoyed Vos'Ultok, the party traveled through Gurincraag, ascended The Gulp, and flew their carpet back to the Velvet Harness.
* The exterior was busier than usual, with a large group of bariaur and satyr-looking creatures entering and leaving.
* Inside, Kai trotted over to them excitedly, saying that Prince al'Suhail had whispered in her ear of their arrival.
* He directed the party upstairs to Galenthias.

=== The Fiend and Deva ===
* The fiend and the deva sat playing another game of Motes: The Convergence.
* Sulphaxus's flames seemed to burn less bright and he appeared more gaunt.
* Galenthias greeted the party warmly, introducing himself as "Paragon of Discourse" to Lilia.
** When asked, he confirmed that he had opened the way to Celestia for Vistra, as her cause was just, and he would do the same for them.
** He looked meaningfully at Sulphaxus.
* Using his keen intellect, Octavius deduced that Galenthias had a hand full of planar locations.
* Sulphaxus revealed his hand, which Octavius noted has an "infinite slaad sacrifice combo" that would defeat Galenthias.
* The devil and deva discussed that in seventeen years of these meetings, Sulphaxus had never won a game. Galenthias offered that he had come close several times.
** Diedric and Lilia could both sense that there was subtext here, and that they were not speaking of the card game, but perhaps instead of their past philosophical discussions on the nature of hierarchy in the Nine Hells versus the Seven Heavens of Celestia.
* The devil conceded the game and stood, warning the deva that he would haunt him for eternity if "the waters killed him".

=== The Trioptic Nic'Epona ===
* A short walk away from The Velvet Harness, Galenthias led Sulphaxus and the party to a 200 foot statue of a three eyed horse, each eye being a gem glowing in a different color.
* Harmonium guards, recognizing Galenthias, stepped aside once he confirmed that all with him were authorized.
* From his lore-accurate and appropriately-illustrated golden pauldron, he drew an amber gem, and whispered an unheard phrase into it.
* It shone with an amber light, and a column of energy engulfed the party, Smokescale yelping and leaping back from it invisibly right before it took hold of him.
* The party vanished from sight. The Harmonium guards returned to their vigil.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Suug'ma]], the Vos'Ultok Waiter
* [[Tormuund]], the Gryphon Keeper
* [[Andren]], Vistra's Quarry
* [[Dama]], the Skypainter
* [[Krix'krix]], the Disassociative Dragonborn
* [[Solam Fleetfoot]], the Table Champion

== Memes ==
* Bone spoon. It's a spoon made of bone. ...It's white and bone-colored.
* Abeir? No ale.

== DM Thoughts ==
* Avoid loincloths.

Session 33: On a Trail of Cyan and Magenta

2026-06-16T16:33:31Z

Manath: /* Summary */

[[File:Battle of the Table.png|right|600px|thumb|The Battle of the Table]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Octavius Looking Away From Explosion.png|right|600px|thumb|Octavius, too cool to turn around]]
[[File:Unit 137 the Guardian of Faith.png|right|600px|thumb|Unit 137, the Guardian of Faith]]
[[File:Lilia the Batwoman.png|right|600px|thumb|Lilia, Batwoman]]
[[File:Vos Ultok new entrance.png|right|600px|thumb|Suck Deep]]
[[File:Vos Ultok new interior.png|right|600px|thumb|Unruly Meeting Place]]
[[File:The Velvet Harness Fixed.png|right|600px|thumb|Kai Redeemed]]
[[File:Galenthias and Sulphaxus.png|right|600px|thumb|A Game Conceded]]
[[File:Trioptic Nic'Epona.png|right|600px|thumb|The Trioptic Nic'Epona]]

The Unseen fell to Lilia's whirlwind of starry bats, which swallowed the Clay Golem and duergar both; the party looted invisibility potions, jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone and followed the smoke into Vos'Ultok, a dwarven suckhouse of hookahs, float-smoke, and a fez-wearing chimpanzee.

There, the gryphon-keeper Tormuund pointed them onward: Vistra had come two days prior for a bone spoon of his late friend Andren, breathed "Celestia," and been sent to Galenthias the deva. He asked the party to honor Andren, whose village a warlord had burned. Glenn won ninety-nine coppers at the table arena by hurling a halfling off the edge while shrunk hand-sized.

Back at the Velvet Harness, a gaunt Sulphaxus conceded his game of Motes to Galenthias, warning he'd haunt him "if the waters killed him." At the Trioptic Nic'Epona, Galenthias whispered into an amber gem and light swallowed the party -- Smokescale leaping clear just in time.

== XP Award ==

* 2500 XP for surviving The Unseen's ambush.
* '''Total: 2500 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 67464 XP -> 69964 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, afternoon, 1372 DR
* Highlights:
** Octavius inflicting the drow with an electric blight, shredding his flesh
** A comet hurled by Lilia trailing a wall of flame
** Octavius firing a fireball from his staff like a bazooka
** Lilia being cornered by the Clay Golem, narrowing avoiding being brushed by her Shield spell
** Glenn taking a solid blow to the chest from a psychic warhammer, but withstanding half a dozen blows with his shield
** Glenn stabbing at the giant duergar's ankles
** Diedric fleeing the Clay Golem narrowly, placing a celestial incarnation of Unit 137 to keep him safe
** Lilia summoning a whirlwind of starry bats, which proceeded to effortlessly consume the clay golem and screaming duergar
* Looting several invisibility potions, some jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone, the party continued following the cyan and magenta smoke.

=== The Unruly Meeting Place ===
* The abandoned mining project turned into a non-descript corridor, and then widened to a gilded underground road, with impressive stonework.
* This then led to the entrance of Vos'Ultok, with a common translation for the name helpfully scrawled below the dwarven runes.
* Inside, the sighted dozens of patrons smoking from strange, tall brass vessels, with flexible leather tubes coiling out from their necks.
* Of note:
** Dwarven throatsingers.
** A dwarven woman painting the air above her by tipping a paintbrush into colored powders.
** Men rubbing red moss between their fingers, inhaling the red smoke that issued forth.
** A group of patrons smoking a substance that caused them to float into the air. A gnome was holding to an outcropping in the ceiling, afraid to let go while shrieking that he was fine.
** A chimpanzee in a fez hat, with wise eyes, smoking and blowing smoke rings.
** A strangely-organized betting pool on a shrunken dwarf and halfling using a table as an arena.
** A green slaad smoking from three pipes at once.
** An older dwarf petting a cat-sized gryphon on his table.
* The party asked a staff member where they could find Vistra.
** He licked his lips repeatedly, but eventually understood they were seeking the spiritseeker. He indicated the dwarf with the gryphon.

=== The Gryphon Keeper ===
* He introduced himself as Tormuund, of Volunthaar, and the party asked about Vistra.
* She visited him two days past, seeking a bone spoon (a spoon made of bone) that once belonged to a friend of his, Andren.
** She held it and her eyes were drained of color, then she spoke "Celestia".
* He routed her to Galenthias, a deva that frequents The Velvet Harness, for passage to that plane.
* The part then spent a long time discussing the mechanics and appearance of baby gryphons.
* He asked the party to do right by his departed friend, explaining that the village they came from was burned down by a warlord. He wasn't sure why the Red Death would be interested in him.

=== Skypainting and Opiate Addiction ===
* The party then approached the skypainting dwarf, who explained that these were drugs that she found also behaved in this manner.
* They were varied colors, including yellow, orange, green, purple and blue.
* Purchasing and experimenting with the purple powder, both Glenn and Lilia found their aches and pains draining away, and that they could see blurry "foreimages" of events before they happened.
* The party remembered to re-summon Unit 137, who explained that he's been training Happy for obedience, pain being the primary implement.

=== The Disassociative Dragonborn ===
* Octavius approached the black-scaled dragonborn, recalling from his studies that they were theorized to hail from a sister planet to Toril named Abeir.
* The dragonborn was mostly unresponsive, looking at and pawing at objects that weren't there.

=== The Table Arena ===
* Watching the halfling defeat a dwarf opponent by pushing him off the table, Glenn approached as the next challenger.
* Octavius sorted through the organizer's confusion about how betting and odds functioned as Glenn was shruken down to hand-sized via a potion.
* The halfling kneeled in respect and waited for Glenn to make the opening move.
* The halfling charged him, unable to shove him away.
* Glenn grappled him and lept 90 microfeet, throwing him off the edge.
* The halfling stalked off, still shruken in stature, as the party enjoyed their 99 coppers of winnings, 9 of which went to a short dwarf.
** This same dwarf soon fell into a stupor from a red moss inhalation.

=== Return to the Harness ===
* Having enjoyed Vos'Ultok, the party traveled through Gurincraag, ascended The Gulp, and flew their carpet back to the Velvet Harness.
* The exterior was busier than usual, with a large group of bariaur and satyr-looking creatures entering and leaving.
* Inside, Kai trotted over to them excitedly, saying that Prince al'Suhail had whispered in her ear of their arrival.
* He directed the party upstairs to Galenthias.

=== The Fiend and Deva ===
* The fiend and the deva sat playing another game of Motes: The Convergence.
* Sulphaxus's flames seemed to burn less bright and he appeared more gaunt.
* Galenthias greeted the party warmly, introducing himself as "Paragon of Discourse" to Lilia.
** When asked, he confirmed that he had opened the way to Celestia for Vistra, as her cause was just, and he would do the same for them.
** He looked meaningfully at Sulphaxus.
* Using his keen intellect, Octavius deduced that Galenthias had a hand full of planar locations.
* Sulphaxus revealed his hand, which Octavius noted has an "infinite slaad sacrifice combo" that would defeat Galenthias.
* The devil and deva discussed that in seventeen years of these meetings, Sulphaxus had never won a game. Galenthias offered that he had come close several times.
** Diedric and Lilia could both sense that there was subtext here, and that they were not speaking of the card game, but perhaps instead of their past philosophical discussions on the nature of hierarchy in the Nine Hells versus the Seven Heavens of Celestia.
* The devil conceded the game and stood, warning the deva that he would haunt him for eternity if "the waters killed him".

=== The Trioptic Nic'Epona ===
* A short walk away from The Velvet Harness, Galenthias led Sulphaxus and the party to a 200 foot statue of a three eyed horse, each eye being a gem glowing in a different color.
* Harmonium guards, recognizing Galenthias, stepped aside once he confirmed that all with him were authorized.
* From his lore-accurate and appropriately-illustrated golen pauldron, he drew an amber gem, and whispered an unheard phrase into it.
* It shone with an amber light, and a column of energy engulfed the party, Smokescale yelping and leaping back from it invisibly right before it took hold of him.
* The party vanished from sight. The Harmonium guards returned to their vigil.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Suug'ma]], the Vos'Ultok Waiter
* [[Tormuund]], the Gryphon Keeper
* [[Andren]], Vistra's Quarry
* [[Dama]], the Skypainter
* [[Krix'krix]], the Disassociative Dragonborn
* [[Solam Fleetfoot]], the Table Champion

== Memes ==
* Bone spoon. It's a spoon made of bone. ...It's white and bone-colored.
* Abeir? No ale.

== DM Thoughts ==
* Avoid loincloths.

Session 33: On a Trail of Cyan and Magenta

2026-06-16T01:27:13Z

Manath:

[[File:Battle of the Table.png|right|600px|thumb|The Battle of the Table]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Octavius Looking Away From Explosion.png|right|600px|thumb|Octavius, too cool to turn around]]
[[File:Unit 137 the Guardian of Faith.png|right|600px|thumb|Unit 137, the Guardian of Faith]]
[[File:Lilia the Batwoman.png|right|600px|thumb|Lilia, Batwoman]]
[[File:Vos Ultok new entrance.png|right|600px|thumb|Suck Deep]]
[[File:Vos Ultok new interior.png|right|600px|thumb|Unruly Meeting Place]]
[[File:The Velvet Harness Fixed.png|right|600px|thumb|Kai Redeemed]]
[[File:Galenthias and Sulphaxus.png|right|600px|thumb|A Game Conceded]]
[[File:Trioptic Nic'Epona.png|right|600px|thumb|The Trioptic Nic'Epona]]

The Unseen fell to Lilia's whirlwind of starry bats, which swallowed the Clay Golem and duergar both; the party looted invisibility potions, jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone and followed the smoke into Vos'Ultok, a dwarven suckhouse of hookahs, float-smoke, and a fez-wearing chimpanzee.

There, the gryphon-keeper Tormuund pointed them onward: Vistra had come two days prior for a bone spoon of his late friend Andren, breathed "Celestia," and been sent to Galenthias the deva. He asked the party to honor Andren, whose village a warlord had burned. Glenn won ninety-nine coppers at the table arena by hurling a halfling off the edge while shrunk hand-sized.

Back at the Velvet Harness, a gaunt Sulphaxus conceded his game of Motes to Galenthias, warning he'd haunt him "if the waters killed him." At the Trioptic Nic'Epona, Galenthias whispered into an amber gem and light swallowed the party -- Smokescale leaping clear just in time.

== XP Award ==

* 2500 XP for surviving The Unseen's ambush.
* '''Total: 2500 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 67464 XP -> 69964 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, afternoon, 1372 DR
* Highlights:
** Octavius inflicting the drow with an electric blight, shredding his flesh
** A comet hurled by Lilia trailing a wall of flame
** Octavius firing a fireball from his staff like a bazooka
** Lilia being cornered by the Clay Golem, narrowing avoiding being brushed by her Shield spell
** Glenn taking a solid blow to the chest from a psychic warhammer, but withstanding half a dozen blows with his shield
** Glenn stabbing at the giant duergar's ankles
** Diedric fleeing the Clay Golem narrowly, placing a celestial incarnation of Unit 137 to keep him safe
** Lilia summoning a whirlwind of starry bats, which proceeded to effortlessly consume the clay golem and screaming duergar
* Looting several invisibility potions, some jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone, the party continued following the cyan and magenta smoke.

=== The Unruly Meeting Place ===
* The abandoned mining project turned into a non-descript corridor, and then widened to a gilded underground road, with impressive stonework.
* This then led to the entrance of Vos'Ultok, with a common translation for the name helpfully scrawled below the dwarven runes.
* Inside, the sighted dozens of patrons smoking from strange, tall brass vessels, with flexible leather tubes coiling out from their necks.
* Of note:
** Dwarven throatsingers.
** A dwarven woman painting the air above her by tipping a paintbrush into colored powders.
** Men rubbing red moss between their fingers, inhaling the red smoke that issued forth.
** A group of patrons smoking a substance that caused them to float into the air. A gnome was holding to an outcropping in the ceiling, afraid to let go while shrieking that he was fine.
** A chimpanzee in a fez hat, with wise eyes, smoking and blowing smoke rings.
** A strangely-organized betting pool on a shrunken dwarf and halfling using a table as an arena.
** A green slaad smoking from three pipes at once.
** An older dwarf petting a cat-sized gryphon on his table.
* The party asked a staff member where they could find Vistra.
** He licked his lips repeatedly, but eventually understood they were seeking the spiritseeker. He indicated the dwarf with the gryphon.

=== The Gryphon Keeper ===
* He introduced himself as Tormuund, of Volunthaar, and the party asked about Vistra.
* She visited him two days past, seeking a bone spoon (a spoon made of bone) that once belonged to a friend of his, Andren.
** She held it and her eyes were drained of color, then she spoke "Celestia".
* He routed her to Galenthias, a deva that frequents The Velvet Harness, for passage to that plane.
* The part then spent a long time discussing the mechanics and appearance of baby gryphons.
* He asked the party to do right by his departed friend, explaining that the village they came from was burned down by a warlord. He wasn't sure why the Red Death would be interested in him.

=== Skypainting and Opiate Addiction ===
* The party then approached the skypainting dwarf, who explained that these were drugs that she found also behaved in this manner.
* They were varied colors, including yellow, orange, green, purple and blue.
* Purchasing and experimenting with the purple powder, both Glenn and Lilia found their aches and pains draining away, and that they could see blurry "foreimages" of events before they happened.
* The party remembered to re-summon Unit 137, who explained that he's been training Happy for obedience, pain being the primary implement.

=== The Disassociative Dragonborn ===
* Octavius approached the black-scaled dragonborn, recalling from his studies that they were theorized to hail from a sister planet to Toril named Abeir.
* The dragonborn was mostly unresponsive, looking at and pawing at objects that weren't there.

=== The Table Arena ===
* Watching the halfling defeat a dwarf opponent by pushing him off the table, Glenn approached as the next challenger.
* Octavius sorted through the organizer's confusion about how betting and odds functioned as Glenn was shruken down to hand-sized via a potion.
* The halfling kneeled in respect and waited for Glenn to make the opening move.
* The halfling charged him, unable to shove him away.
* Glenn grappled him and lept 90 microfeet, throwing him off the edge.
* The halfling stalked off, still shruken in stature, as the party enjoyed their 99 coppers of winnings, 9 of which went to a short dwarf.
** This same dwarf soon fell into a stupor from a red moss inhalation.

=== Return to the Harness ===
* Having enjoyed Vos'Ultok, the party traveled through Gurincraag, ascended The Gulp, and flew their carpet back to the Velvet Harness.
* The exterior was busier than usual, with a large group of bariaur and satyr-looking creatures entering and leaving.
* Inside, Kai trotted over to them excitedly, saying that Prince al'Suhail had whispered in her ear of their arrival.
* He directed the party upstairs to Galenthias.

=== The Fiend and Deva ===
* The fiend and the deva sat playing another game of Motes: The Convergence.
* Sulphaxus's flames seemed to burn less bright and he appeared more gaunt.
* Galenthias greeted the party warmly, introducing himself as "Paragon of Discourse" to Lilia.
** When asked, he confirmed that he had opened the way to Celestia for Vistra, as her cause was just, and he would do the same for them.
** He looked meaningfully at Sulphaxus.
* Using his keen intellect, Octavius deduced that Galenthias had a hand full of planar locations.
* Sulphaxus revealed his hand, which Octavius noted has an "infinite slaad sacrifice combo" that would defeat Galenthias.
* The devil and deva discussed that in seventeen years of these meetings, Sulphaxus had never won a game. Galenthias offered that he had come close several times.
** Diedric and Lilia could both sense that there was subtext here, and that they were not speaking of the card game, but perhaps instead of their past philosophical discussions on the nature of hierarchy in the Nine Hells versus the Seven Heavens of Celestia.
* The devil conceded the game and stood, warning the deva that he would haunt him for eternity if "the waters killed him".

=== The Trioptic Nic'Epona ===
* A short walk away from The Velvet Harness, Galenthias led Sulphaxus and the party to a 200 foot statue of a three eyed horse, each eye being a gem glowing in a different color.
* Harmonium guards, recognizing Galenthias, stepped aside once he confirmed that all with him were authorized.
* From his lore-accurate and appropriately-illustrated golen pauldron, he drew an amber gem, and whispered an unheard phrase into it.
* It shone with an amber light, and a column of energy engulfed the party, Smokescale yelping and leaping back from it invisibly right before it took hold of him.
* The party vanished from sight. The Harmonium guards returned to their vigil.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Suug'ma]], the Vos'Ultok Waiter
* [[Tormuund]], the Gryphon Keeper
* [[Andren]], Vistra's Quarry
* [[Dama]], the Skypainter
* [[Krix'krix]], the Disassociative Dragonborn
* [[Solam Fleetfoot]], the Table Champion

== Memes ==
* Bone spoon. It's a spoon made of bone. ...It's white and bone-colored.
* Abeir? No ale.

== DM Thoughts ==
* Avoid loincloths.

Session 33: On a Trail of Cyan and Magenta

2026-06-16T01:25:59Z

2026-06-16T01:19:11Z

Manath: Created page with "Guiding the Lost == Summary == Still not a doctor by the way The Unseen fell to Lilia's whirlwind of starry bats, which swallowed the Clay Golem and duergar both; the party looted invisibility potions, jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone and followed the smoke into Vos'Ultok, a dwarven suckhouse of hookahs, float-smoke, and a fez-wearing chimpanzee. There, the gryph..."

[[File:Favored of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|Guiding the Lost]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Octavius's Third Eye.png|right|600px|thumb|Still not a doctor by the way]]

The Unseen fell to Lilia's whirlwind of starry bats, which swallowed the Clay Golem and duergar both; the party looted invisibility potions, jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone and followed the smoke into Vos'Ultok, a dwarven suckhouse of hookahs, float-smoke, and a fez-wearing chimpanzee.

There, the gryphon-keeper Tormuund pointed them onward: Vistra had come two days prior for a bone spoon of his late friend Andren, breathed "Celestia," and been sent to Galenthias the deva. He asked the party to honor Andren, whose village a warlord had burned. Glenn won ninety-nine coppers at the table arena by hurling a halfling off the edge while shrunk hand-sized.

Back at the Velvet Harness, a gaunt Sulphaxus conceded his game of Motes to Galenthias, warning he'd haunt him "if the waters killed him." At the Trioptic Nic'Epona, Galenthias whispered into an amber gem and light swallowed the party -- Smokescale leaping clear just in time.

== XP Award ==

* 2500 XP for surviving The Unseen's ambush.
* '''Total: 2500 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 67464 XP -> 69964 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, afternoon, 1372 DR
* Highlights:
** Octavius inflicting the drow with an electric blight, shredding his flesh
** A comet hurled by Lilia trailing a wall of flame
** Octavius firing a fireball from his staff like a bazooka
** Lilia being cornered by the Clay Golem, narrowing avoiding being brushed by her Shield spell
** Glenn taking a solid blow to the chest from a psychic warhammer, but withstanding half a dozen blows with his shield
** Glenn stabbing at the giant duergar's ankles
** Diedric fleeing the Clay Golem narrowly, placing a celestial incarnation of Unit 137 to keep him safe
** Lilia summoning a whirlwind of starry bats, which proceeded to effortlessly consume the clay golem and screaming duergar
* Looting several invisibility potions, some jink, and a scroll of Meld Into Stone, the party continued following the cyan and magenta smoke.

=== The Unruly Meeting Place ===
* The abandoned mining project turned into a non-descript corridor, and then widened to a gilded underground road, with impressive stonework.
* This then led to the entrance of Vos'Ultok, with a common translation for the name helpfully scrawled below the dwarven runes.
* Inside, the sighted dozens of patrons smoking from strange, tall brass vessels, with flexible leather tubes coiling out from their necks.
* Of note:
** Dwarven throatsingers.
** A dwarven woman painting the air above her by tipping a paintbrush into colored powders.
** Men rubbing red moss between their fingers, inhaling the red smoke that issued forth.
** A group of patrons smoking a substance that caused them to float into the air. A gnome was holding to an outcropping in the ceiling, afraid to let go while shrieking that he was fine.
** A chimpanzee in a fez hat, with wise eyes, smoking and blowing smoke rings.
** A strangely-organized betting pool on a shrunken dwarf and halfling using a table as an arena.
** A green slaad smoking from three pipes at once.
** An older dwarf petting a cat-sized gryphon on his table.
* The party asked a staff member where they could find Vistra.
** He licked his lips repeatedly, but eventually understood they were seeking the spiritseeker. He indicated the dwarf with the gryphon.

=== The Gryphon Keeper ===
* He introduced himself as Tormuund, of Volunthaar, and the party asked about Vistra.
* She visited him two days past, seeking a bone spoon (a spoon made of bone) that once belonged to a friend of his, Andren.
** She held it and her eyes were drained of color, then she spoke "Celestia".
* He routed her to Galenthias, a deva that frequents The Velvet Harness, for passage to that plane.
* The part then spent a long time discussing the mechanics and appearance of baby gryphons.
* He asked the party to do right by his departed friend, explaining that the village they came from was burned down by a warlord. He wasn't sure why the Red Death would be interested in him.

=== Skypainting and Opiate Addiction ===
* The party then approached the skypainting dwarf, who explained that these were drugs that she found also behaved in this manner.
* They were varied colors, including yellow, orange, green, purple and blue.
* Purchasing and experimenting with the purple powder, both Glenn and Lilia found their aches and pains draining away, and that they could see blurry "foreimages" of events before they happened.
* The party remembered to re-summon Unit 137, who explained that he's been training Happy for obedience, pain being the primary implement.

=== The Disassociative Dragonborn ===
* Octavius approached the black-scaled dragonborn, recalling from his studies that they were theorized to hail from a sister planet to Toril named Abeir.
* The dragonborn was mostly unresponsive, looking at and pawing at objects that weren't there.

=== The Table Arena ===
* Watching the halfling defeat a dwarf opponent by pushing him off the table, Glenn approached as the next challenger.
* Octavius sorted through the organizer's confusion about how betting and odds functioned as Glenn was shruken down to hand-sized via a potion.
* The halfling kneeled in respect and waited for Glenn to make the opening move.
* The halfling charged him, unable to shove him away.
* Glenn grappled him and lept 90 microfeet, throwing him off the edge.
* The halfling stalked off, still shruken in stature, as the party enjoyed their 99 coppers of winnings, 9 of which went to a short dwarf.
** This same dwarf soon fell into a stupor from a red moss inhalation.

=== Return to the Harness ===
* Having enjoyed Vos'Ultok, the party traveled through Gurincraag, ascended The Gulp, and flew their carpet back to the Velvet Harness.
* The exterior was busier than usual, with a large group of bariaur and satyr-looking creatures entering and leaving.
* Inside, Kai trotted over to them excitedly, saying that Prince al'Suhail had whispered in her ear of their arrival.
* He directed the party upstairs to Galenthias.

=== The Fiend and Deva ===
* The fiend and the deva sat playing another game of Motes: The Convergence.
* Sulphaxus's flames seemed to burn less bright and he appeared more gaunt.
* Galenthias greeted the party warmly, introducing himself as "Paragon of Discourse" to Lilia.
** When asked, he confirmed that he had opened the way to Celestia for Vistra, as her cause was just, and he would do the same for them.
** He looked meaningfully at Sulphaxus.
* Using his keen intellect, Octavius deduced that Galenthias had a hand full of planar locations.
* Sulphaxus revealed his hand, which Octavius noted has an "infinite slaad sacrifice combo" that would defeat Galenthias.
* The devil and deva discussed that in seventeen years of these meetings, Sulphaxus had never won a game. Galenthias offered that he had come close several times.
** Diedric and Lilia could both sense that there was subtext here, and that they were not speaking of the card game, but perhaps instead of their past philosophical discussions on the nature of hierarchy in the Nine Hells versus the Seven Heavens of Celestia.
* The devil conceded the game and stood, warning the deva that he would haunt him for eternity if "the waters killed him".

=== The Trioptic Nic'Epona ===
* A short walk away from The Velvet Harness, Galenthias led Sulphaxus and the party to a 200 foot statue of a three eyed horse, each eye being a gem glowing in a different color.
* Harmonium guards, recognizing Galenthias, stepped aside once he confirmed that all with him were authorized.
* From his lore-accurate and appropriately-illustrated golen pauldron, he drew an amber gem, and whispered an unheard phrase into it.
* It shone with an amber light, and a column of energy engulfed the party, Smokescale yelping and leaping back from it invisibly right before it took hold of him.
* The party vanished from sight. The Harmonium guards returned to their vigil.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Suug'ma]], the Vos'Ultok Waiter
* [[Tormuund]], the Gryphon Keeper
* [[Andren]], Vistra's Quarry
* [[Dama]], the Skypainter
* [[Krix'krix]], the Disassociative Dragonborn
* [[Solam Fleetfoot]], the Table Champion

== Memes ==
* Bone spoon. It's a spoon made of bone. ...It's white and bone-colored.
* Abeir? No ale.

== DM Thoughts ==
* Avoid loincloths.

The Broken Cycle

2026-06-16T01:18:59Z

Manath: /* Chapter II: Convergence */

[[File:Full_party_action_shot_progress_2.png|right|600px|thumb|Action shot of the current party]]

== Campaign Information ==

[[Campaign Background and Character Creation]]

== Current Player Characters ==

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[[File:Octavius.png|700px|link=Octavius]]
[[Octavius]] - Owlin Divination Wizard
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[[File:Lilia Corydalis.png|467px|link=Lilia Corydalis]]
[[Lilia Corydalis]] - Human Circle of Stars Druidic Witch
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[[File:Glenn.png|700px|link=Glenn]]
[[Glenn]] - "Human" Champion Fighter
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[[File:Diedric Doppleblough - No Sword.png|467px|link=Diedric Doppleblough]]
[[Diedric Doppleblough]] - Human Twilight Cleric of Selûne
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= Session Logs =

[[File:The-broken-cycle.png|right|700px|thumb|The Broken Cycle Campaign]]

== Campaign: The Broken Cycle ==

=== Act I: The Forgotten Turn ===

==== Chapter I: Memory ====
* [[Session 1: Capture at Ironjaw's Mirth]] (2023-10-23)
* [[Session 1b: The Near Escape at Ironjaw's Mirth]] (2023-11-15)
* [[Session 2: Journey Across Lake Mulsantir]] (2023-11-19)
* [[Session 3: Star Souls Awaken]] (2024-01-07)
* [[Session 4: Circling The Outlands]] (2024-02-18)
* [[Session 5: Dealing in Ribcage]] (2024-03-17)
* [[Session 6: The Blood War]] (2024-04-28)
* [[Session 7: The City of Doors]] (2024-07-28)
* [[Session 8: Chasing the Sensate]] (2024-08-11)
* [[Session 9: The Howling Island]] (2024-09-08)
* [[Session 10a: There's No Place Like Faerûn]] (2024-09-22)

==== Chapter II: Convergence ====
* [[Session 10b: There's No Place Like Faerûn]] (2024-09-22)
* [[Session 11: A Well-Earned Rest]] (2024-11-17)
* [[Session 12: The Grove of Stars]] (2025-01-12)
* [[Session 13: Bloodfeather's Spark]] (2025-02-02)
* [[Session 14: Chasing the Monolith]] (2025-02-23)
* [[Session 15: The Underdark]] (2025-03-02)
* [[Session 16: Theft of Fate]] (2025-03-09)
* [[Session 17: The Breaking of Threxzadur]] (2025-03-16)
* [[Session 18: Slipping the Maw]] (2025-04-27)
* [[Session 19: The Timber Festival]] (2025-05-18)
* [[Session 20: Piking with Mind Flayers]] (2025-06-22)
* [[Session 21: Riders to Ribbons]] (2025-07-13)
* [[Session 22: Wield it as a Shield]] (2025-07-27)
* [[Session 23: Vengeance Flies East]] (2025-08-31)
* [[Session 24: Salt on a Barley Wind]] (2025-10-12)
* [[Session 25: The Speaking Circle]] (2025-11-09)
* [[Session 26: The Purple Tomb]] (2025-11-23)
* [[Session 27: The Imaskari Altar]] (2025-12-07)
* [[Session 28: Vessel of Remembrance]] (2026-01-04)
* [[Session 29: Where Seeds Take Root]] (2026-02-15)
* [[Session 30: Against the Rain]] (2026-03-08)
* [[Session 31: What Souls Are Worth]] (2026-04-19)
* [[Session 32: Favored of Selûne]] (2026-05-03)
* [[Session 33: On a Trail of Cyan and Magenta]] (2026-06-14)

==== Chapter III: Apotheosis ====


=== Act II: The Fractured Orbit ===

==== Chapter IV: Rise of the Triad ====


==== Chapter V: Divergence ====


==== Chapter VI: Respite ====


=== Act III: The Reversing Spiral ===

==== Chapter VII: The Empty Battlefield ====


==== Chapter VIII: The One They Fear ====


==== Chapter IX: Ascent ====


=== Act IV: The Final Revolution ===

==== Chapter X: Piking Dabus ====


==== Chapter XI: Frontlines ====


==== Chapter XII: Endgame ====


== (Known) Active Plot Threads ==

* '''The Rebel Wizard:''' Galdren, a rebel red wizard, works against Tharos Orakul, the High Diviner of Surthay responsible for your capture at Ironjaw’s Mirth, with grand plans to overthrow and change Thay.
* '''The Githyanki Student:''' Viran is still chasing the party. He was led astray to Carceri, where he may just die.
* '''The Alley Reapers:''' They believe Cedani is an agent for a person named Boppel. They are paying her a cut of their take in the Hive Ward.
* '''The Sun Elf Bard:''' A bard of the school of names, he is travelling to Evermeet to learn more about Tharos, and seeks the scale of a white abishai.
* '''The Vengeance Paladin:''' Lureene Amblecrown rides to her order in The Endless Wastes, to ask their aid against the Thayans who captured her.
* '''The Charmed Guard:''' Imzel, the druid who rescued the party, had the man who was charmed by Chai, Thenn, taken as prisoner by her people.
* '''The Other Captives:''' Imzel continued to pursue the rest of the Red Wizard wagons, tracking where they have taken the other villagers.
* '''Lake Mulsantir:''' The lake is still likely plagued by quippergulls and other abominations created by the Red Wizards. Since it’s gotten bad enough on the southern shore to drive out entire villages, time will tell what else may happen.
* '''The Mirth of the Ironjaws:''' There are 11 other Ironjaw sisters still living. Word about what has happened to their younger sister Hulmarra will likely have reached them by now.
* '''The Dismissive Hummingbird:''' Still in the Feywild, he wonders if Cedani survived her fall, then decides it doesn’t matter.
* '''Upheaval in Ribcage:''' What were the consequences of the party uncovering Zelza Zurkbane’s plans for Ribcage? Will Xarannos succeed in his legal defense of Hilt? And what of Luciel and The Moss Hag now that their scheme was uncovered?
* '''Uchu’s Master:''' Vex’riath, the creche leader of Zar’kash’s Forge, survived its destruction in wildspace and escaped just as Uchu did in a Void Seed. He’s still out there somewhere. And what of the other simian, the Vine-Warrior of Tsunadehoshi, who sought others like himself?
* '''The Doomed Noble:''' The sickly noble on a balcony in Ribcage is probably super, super dead by now.
* '''The Writer''': Atrus, the man who could describe a world and then reach it through a Linking Book, said he would attempt to write a location that could cure Glenn of his illness, but that it would take him several months.
* '''The Kobold Pilgrimage:''' Led by their one-winged leader after fleeing The Howling Island, a tribe of kobolds settles in the foothills of a mountain that was once their home, in a land that has quieted since their last departure. They huddle around a bonfire at night, looking toward their leader for guidance. The twin moons glow in the sky as the shaman traces a holy symbol in the dirt — the one he had seen on Diedric’s shield.
** A new sparkling mote of light appears between the two moons — their first tear of Selûne.

== The Story So Far ==

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A group of diverse adventurers, each on their own path, found themselves at '''Ironjaw's Mirth''' on the Thay-Rashemen border. Their chance meeting was interrupted by the '''Red Wizards of Thay''', led by Vezim Sepret, who '''captured everyone''' in retaliation for losses at the Grove of Stars.

Now mired in the conflict between Thay and Rashemen and en route to a slave camp, '''the party escaped''' with aid from '''Imzel Ulmokina''', a Wychlaran druid. A letter on Vezim revealed orders from '''Tharos Orakul, High Diviner of Surthay''', to slay '''"the owl"''' and capture '''"the amphibian"''' for study.

Imzel directed them to Lirensk to meet '''Galdren Murendar''', an ally against the Red Wizards. After a perilous journey across Lake Mulsantir, where they battled quippergulls and a Gelatinous Cube, they met Galdren, '''a rebel Red Wizard''' working to reform Thay. '''He tasked them with acquiring a Grand Sensory Stone from Sigil''', the City of Doors, casting their souls into the Astral Plane.

In the '''Astral Plane''', they helped a '''mathematician''' retrieve a variable stolen by a benign memory entity. Then, they escaped '''githyanki''' pursuers through a color pool to '''The Outlands''' -- after stealing their silver. Guided by a kind bariaur's words, they journeyed towards Sigil, encountering various planar entities (including water-sharing petitioners, imps, and a '''Rogue Modron''') and ultimately reached '''Ribcage''', the gate-town to the Nine Hells.

In Ribcage, they engaged in various intrigues: upgrading a Rogue Modron with infernal silver, binding an '''imp''' into servitude with the help of a '''slaad advocate''', aiding a falsely accused man, uncovering a '''cambion's''' scheme with a '''hag''', and participating in a Blood War skirmish. They finally found passage to '''Sigil''' beneath a bar stool.

In Sigil, they discovered '''Cedani's grandmother's''' ruined poetry shop and defeated the '''Summer Eladrin''' responsible. After recovering from near-death, they met with faction representatives and negotiated with '''Niara''', a Sensate Factotum, for a '''Grand Sensory Stone in exchange for locating Ember'''.

Their search brought them to The Velvet Harness inn, where a '''pegasus''' and '''deva''' led them to a vortex to the '''Elemental Plane of Air'''. There, they survived a harrowing fall with '''Ember''''s help, learning to navigate a realm where direction is a matter of perception. They landed in the courtyard of the '''Palace of the Winds''', a majestic djinn stronghold.

There, they agreed to help rescue a '''trapped djinn''' from the clutches of '''kobolds''', defeating the '''Avatar of Yan-C-Bin'''.

Victorious, they returned to Sigil, and acquired the '''Grand Sensory Stone''' at last. Joining factions and receiving pay from '''The Alley Reapers''', they returned to their bodies in '''The Rebel Estate'''.

Grateful, Galdren rewarded them with '''vast sums of jink''', a Weave-attuned sextant, and explained that he planned to use the stone to '''capture the memories of a deceased person''' who has information invaluable to their cause.

He bid the heroes rest, for now.

'''From:''' 3rd of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), 1372 DR

'''To:''' 7th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), 1372 DR
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Returning from their astral journey with the '''Grand Sensory Stone''', the party awoke at '''The Rebel Estate''' to visions of '''Tharos Orakul''' warning '''Octavius''' away from Thay. '''Cedani''' departed for the Feywild, while '''Lilia Corydalis''', a starry witch seeking her missing coven sister, joined the group.

Sent to '''Urlingwood''' to cure '''Glenn's''' curse, the '''Wychlaran''' declared the barbs needed to be removed where they were cast. At the '''Monolith of Stars''', visions of fractured futures preceded a goblinoid assault. In the chaos, '''Octavius's''' latent '''planeswalker spark''' ignited, pulling them through the '''Blind Eternities''' to '''Mirrodin''' before willing them home.

Pursuing the stolen Monolith into the '''Underdark''', they uncovered drow treachery, slew the ogre assassin '''Vaergath''', and returned the relic to '''Urlingwood'''—shattering divination tools across the continent. In the '''High Country''', they freed and destroyed the demon '''Threxzadur''', then rescued '''Elowen Stonereach''' from the maw of '''Kissethkashaan''', the White Wyrm, escaping through another desperate planeswalk.

In '''Cormyr''', they infiltrated '''Phaulkon Manor''', battled '''illithid''' in '''Hullack Forest''', and finally broke '''Glenn's''' curse where '''Manshoon''' had cast it. '''Glenn''' emerged transformed, embracing both his nobility and his frog nature. '''Githyanki''' seekers arrived and were driven off; '''Kith'rak Gaath''' fled without his silver blade.

Flying east to the '''Endless Wastes''', they joined a paladin's quest for vengeance among warring '''Tuigan''' tribes. Beneath the '''Lake of Mists''', they destroyed an '''Imaskari''' altar of reanimation, collapsing its undead horde. The treacherous '''Qara Sarn's''' head became tribute to '''Hoar''', securing both tribes and the paladin order as allies.

'''Galdren''' revealed his purpose: capturing the memories of '''Navarra''', an ally slain by '''Tharos''' who knew of a weapon in the '''Fell Tower''' in a desert of '''purple sands'''. At her grave, his ritual bound her memories into the '''Grand Sensory Stone'''. He charged the heroes to carry it into the '''Outer Planes''', find her spirit, and deliver it—with '''Ember''' and her broken blue-tinted mask as their guides.

'''From:''' 7th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), 1372 DR

'''To:''' 29th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), 1372 DR (Still in progress)
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== Interleaved Official Modules (2e) ==
* As the DM injects them

== Interleaved Official Modules (5e) ==
* As the players request them

== Custom Playable Content ==
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r6zgXJsB-P6MRax9UE6LsoBGWeZmHor_njlPEgI19EY/edit?usp=sharing Planescape Faction Power System]
* [[Order of the Coiled Serpent]]
* Wizard Feature: [[Arcane Innovation]]
* Bard Subclass: [[College of Names]]
* Arcane Cantrip: [[Ray of Flame]]
* Bonus action: [[Shove]]
* Main action: [[Throw]]
* [[XP for Skill Checks]]
* Playable Race: [[Bariaur]]
* Bonus action: Drinking a potion
* Companions: [[Smokescale and Unit 137 Subclasses]]

== NPCs ==

=== Faerûn: Rashemen and Thay Border ===
* [[Hulmarra Ironjaw]], The Tavern Keep
* [[Soveliss Naïlo]], The Jaded Bard
* [[Lureene Amblecrown]], The Vengeance Paladin
* [[Vezim Sepret]], The Lieutenant Red Wizard
* [[Breezewhisker]], The Flying Squirrel
* [[Imzel Ulmokina]], The Rescuing Druid
* [[Thenn]], The Charmed Guard

=== Faerûn: Thay ===
* [[Tharos Orakul]], High Diviner, Tharchion of Surthay

=== Faerûn: Calimshan ===
* [[Azhar Al-Farid]], The Calimshite Prince

=== Faerûn: Lirensk ===
* [[Dorogar and Voromir]], The Rashemi Brothers
* [[Neribion]], The Apprentice Wizard
* [[Galdren Murendar]], The Red Wizard Rebel
* [[B'ian Ch'k Ch'k]], the Quarterling
* [[Sukhos]], the Dwarven Groundskeeper

=== Faerûn: Taporan ===
* [[Norup]], the Robbed Bargeman
* [[Aili]], the Spiritfolk of Stones
* [[Tiam]], the Young Berserker
* [[Qualm]], the Blood Sorceress
* [[Erik]], the Crossbow Enthusiast
* [[Turim]], the Half-Orc Dragonslayer
* [[Garl]], the Elk-Dreaming Rashemi

=== Faerûn: The High Country ===
* [[Kissethkashaan]], the White Dragon
* [[Threxzadur]], the Raumathari Weapon
* [[Thistle]], Lilia's Bat Familiar
* [[Vix]], the Smart White Kobold
* [[Brug]], King of the Waterfall
* [[King Nanraak]], the Commanding Goblin King
* [[Elowen Stonereach]], the Coven Sister

=== Faerûn: Urlingwood ===
* [[Sorina, Velka, and Nyssra]], the Triplet Witches
* [[Suula]], the Whittling Wychlaran
* [[The Telthor of Stars]], the Alien Diviner
* [[Vaergath]], the Ogre Assassin
* [[Grimsnarl]], the Awakened Wolf

=== Faerûn: The Underdark ===
* [[Ryltar T'sarran]], the Drow Lookout
* [[Matron Zorratha]], the Matron of Drezz'Lynur
* [[Aunrae Drezz'Lynur]], the Drow Wizardess
* [[Deeplord Sobja]], the Duergar Leader of Fraaszummdin

=== Faerûn: Cormyr ===
* [[Manshoon]], the Phaulkon-bane
* [[Nell Stoutarm]], the Purple Dragon guard
* [[Gelk Splitbeard]], the Dwarven Climber
* [[Mell]], the Hidden War Wizard
* [[Amarisse Hearthtender]], the Chosen Woman
* [[Finn Fatfoot]], the halfling Dreamsilk Dealer
* [[Oversword Faril Laheralson]], the Puppet Knight
* [[Shrieker]], the Dark Ranger
* [[Drenn]], the Drow Abjurer
* [[Thinn]], the War Wizard

=== Faerûn: The Endless Wastes ===
* [[Jarrod]], the Young Squire
* [[Lureene Amblecrown]], the Vengeance Paladin
* [[Sir Valthor]], the Silvered Elf Paladin
* [[Temara Stonesworn]], the Dwarven Veteran
* [[Brother Orun]], the Rashemi Priest
* [[Myrren]], the Gray Tiefling Initiate
* [[Quartermaster Velgrin]], the One-Armed Blacksmith
* [[Lantil]], the Fallen Paladin
* [[Khan Temuj]], the Tuigan Loyalist Leader
* [[Khan Borcha]], the Fankiang Traditionalist
* [[Laash]], Borcha's Nephew
* [[Hayato no Kaze]], the Kara-Tur Monk
* [[Saran]], the Tuigan Outrider
* [[Jochi]], the other Tuigan Outrider
* [[Altani Wolf-Arrow]], the Grieving Soldier
* [[Qara Sarn]], the Ambitious Trader
* [[Ordugher Ash-Smoke]], the Troubled Grass Speaker
* [[Khan Borcha]], the Khan of the Fankiang
* [[Cyrus]], the Unpetrified Swordmaster

=== Mirrodin ===
* [[Shadespine]], the Nyahing Leonin

=== The Astral Plane ===

* [[Aristeus Aionios]], The Mathematician
* [[The Astral Maw]], The Memory Borrower
* [[Kith'rak Gaath]], The Githyanki Elder
* [[Viran]], The Githyanki Student
* [[Kar'i'nas]], [[Vex'thor]], and [[Shi'ara]], the Exploded Githyanki
* [[Mu'ul]], the Psychic Wind Seeker

=== The Outlands ===
* [[Kyrrex]], The Welcoming Bariaur
* [[Gutterjaw and Slygrip]], The Imp Burglars
* [[Grakka]], The Sharer of Water
* [[Unit 1247]], the Marching Duodrone
* [[Unit 137]], the Rolling Monodrone
* [[Tessavyr]], the Spiked Rilmani

=== The Outlands: Ribcage ===
* [[Smokescale]], the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Conniving</span> Indentured Imp
* [[Kraxx'Tor]], the Chain Devil
* [["Fingers" McFinney]], the Gnome Artificer
* [[Xylara]], the Drow Alchemist
* [[The Moss Hag]], the Purveyor of Secrets
* [[Saa]], the Feather Mistress
* [[Zog]], the Droopy-Hatted Mage
* [[Tikvik]], the Armored Grasshopper
* [[Gristle & Bone]], the Fused Goblins
* [[Scabs]], the Watching Imp
* [[Xarannos]], the Slaad Advocate
* [[Zelza Zurkbane]], Duchess of Ribcage
* [[Vekesh]], the Proprietor of The Gymnasium of Steam
* [[Alarra]], the Enthralled Servant
* [[Scampers]], the Murdered Imp
* [[Hilt]], the Innocent Gem Salesman
* [[Luciel]], the Obsidian Cambion
* [[Sparax]], the Proprietor of The Bleeding Horn
* [[Vyrshara]], the White Abishai
* [[Morwen Nyx]], the Demure of Disposition
* [[Fizwick Ostlewinkle]], the Ancient Gnome
* [[Vorne]], the Gambler Merchant
* [[Yllumarra]], the Reed of Rings
* [[Dornic Twin-Braid]], the Shield Merchant

=== The Outlands: Flowering Hill ===
* [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sheela_Peryroyl Sheela Peryroyl], the Green Sister (Goddess)

=== Sigil: The Hive Ward ===
* [[Skraal]], the Vrock Merchant
* [[Vrax Coilbone]], the Lightning Fist (Alley Reapers)
* [[Mira Vex]], the Razorwire (Alley Reapers)
* [[Tobin Scraggle]], the Living Map (Alley Reapers)
* [[Zelpha Grist]], the Shadowveil (Alley Reapers)
* [[Atrus]], the Writer
* [[Krig]], the Ink Merchant
* [[Krugg]], the Leader of the Alley Reapers

=== Sigil: The Market Ward ===
* [[Aula]], the Summer Eladrin
* [[Shadowfeather]], the Proprietor of The Fat Candle
* [[Torsan "Ogre Whisperer" Gray]], the Sedan Chair owner

=== Sigil: The Grand Festhall ===
* [[Eliomar Fex]], Human Namer of The Sign of One
* [[Zyra Nightshade]], Tiefling Namer of The Sensates
* [[Eraphina Lightborn]], Aasimar Namer of The Transcendent Order
* [[Zath'kar the Unbound]], Githzerai Namer of The Athar
* [[Garrick]], the Knife Juggler
* [[Luwa]], the Water-Limbed Sensate
* [[Factotum Niara]], the Bariaur Sensate Seeking Ember

=== Sigil: The Velvet Harness ===
* [[Barnaby]], the Bewildered Horse
* [[Kai]], the Pegasus Proprietor of The Velvet Harness
* [[Unknown]], the Warrior of Tsunadehoshi
* [[Galenthias]], the Deva of Discourse
* [[Sulphaxus]], the Questioning Pit Lord

=== Sigil: Undersigil ===
* [[Fredd]], the Friend with the Gems

=== Sigil: General ===
* [[Kura]], the Witch on a Broom
* [[Smoothshell]], the Tortle Cipher
* [[Lexor-6]], the Formian Guvner
* [[Yara Thornfoot]], the Chatty Taker
* [[Unknown]], the Living Armor
* [[Boppel]], the High-Up Man
* [[Grax]], the Blue Slaad in a Trenchcoat

=== The Elemental Plane of Air ===
* [[Ember]], the Crimson Sensate
* [[Sirocco al-Hikmat]], the Most Humble of All Djinn
* [[Sultana Samira al-Suhail]], Sultana of Qasr al-Suhail
* [[Khamzin al-Jahim]], the Rude Djinn
* [[Zekir al-Suhail]], the Djinn Prince
* [[Zrizzak]], the One-Winged Kobold Shaman
* [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Yan-C-Bin Yan-C-Bin], the Howling Hatred

== Locations ==

=== Faerûn ===
* [[Ironjaw's Mirth]]
* [[Lake Mulsantir]]
* [[Lirensk]]
* [[The Rebel Estate]]
* [[Taporan]]
* [[Urlingwood]]
** [[The Grove of Stars]]
* [[The High Country]]
** [[Nanraak Goblin Camps]]
* [[The Underdark]]
** [[The Earthroot]]

=== The Transitive Planes ===
* [[The Astral Plane]]

=== The Outer Planes ===
* [[The Outlands]]
** [[Ribcage]], the gate-town to Baator - The Nine Hells

=== Sigil, the City of Doors ===
* [[Snapped Fingers]]
* [[Nana's Tea House]]
* [[The Fat Candle]]
* [[The Civic Festhall]] (Society of Sensation HQ)
* [[The Velvet Harness]]
* [[The Hall of Speakers]] (Sign of One HQ)

=== The Inner Planes ===
* [[The Elemental Plane of Air]]
** [[The Palace of the Wind]]
** [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Bubble_Net The Waterspout]
** [[The Howling Island]]

== Past Encounters ==

== References ==

* [[Calendars in the Forgotten Realms]]
* [[Human Ethnicities]]

== Planescape Factions ==

* '''Athar (Defiers)''': They believe that the gods are not truly divine but rather powerful beings unworthy of worship.
** Headquarters: The Shattered Temple in the Lower Ward.
* '''Believers of the Source (Godsmen)''': They hold that every being has the potential to become a god, as all life is part of an ongoing process of ascension.
** Headquarters: The Great Foundry in the Lower Ward.
* '''Bleak Cabal (Bleakers)''': They reject the notion that the multiverse has any inherent meaning or purpose, embracing the chaos of existence.
** Headquarters: The Gatehouse in the Hive Ward.
* '''Doomguard (Sinkers)''': They believe in the inevitable entropy and decay of the multiverse, considering it their duty to help it along.
** Headquarters: The Armory in the Lower Ward.
* '''Dustmen (The Dead)''': They see life as a state of decay and believe true existence is found in death, which they consider the ultimate goal.
** Headquarters: The Mortuary in the Hive Ward.
* '''Fated (Takers)''': They assert that only the strong survive, and that everyone should strive to take what they can and rely on themselves alone.
** Headquarters: The Hall of Records in the Clerk's Ward.
* '''Fraternity of Order (Guvners)''': They believe that understanding the laws of the multiverse is the key to power and that everything operates according to these laws.
** Headquarters: The City Court in the Lady's Ward.
* '''Free League (Indeps)''': They value individual freedom above all and refuse to be bound by the philosophies of other factions, believing in personal choice.
** Headquarters: The Great Bazaar in the Market Ward.
* '''Harmonium (Hardheads)''': They strive to bring peace and harmony to the multiverse by enforcing strict order and conformity.
** Headquarters: The City Barracks in the Lady's Ward.
* '''Mercykillers (Red Death)''': They see justice as the highest ideal, believing in punishment for all wrongdoing and that true justice is absolute.
** Headquarters: The Prison in the Lady's Ward.
* '''Revolutionary League (Anarchists)''': They seek to overthrow all forms of authority and government, believing that true freedom comes from the destruction of power structures.
** Headquarters: They have no fixed headquarters, meeting in secret locations throughout the city.
* '''Sign of One (Signers)''': They believe that reality is shaped by belief and that each individual creates their own universe through their thoughts.
** Headquarters: The Hall of Speakers in the Clerk's Ward.
* '''Society of Sensation (Sensates)''': They believe that the purpose of life is to experience everything the multiverse has to offer, seeking to gather knowledge through the senses.
** Headquarters: The Civic Festhall in the Clerk's Ward.
* '''Transcendent Order (Ciphers)''': They value action over thought, believing that true understanding comes from instinct and that individuals should strive to be in harmony with the multiverse's flow.
** Headquarters: The Great Gymnasium in the Guildhall Ward.
* '''Xaositects (Chaosmen)''': They embrace chaos as the true nature of the multiverse, rejecting order and reveling in randomness and spontaneity.
** Headquarters: The Hive, specifically in an area of the Hive Ward that shifts unpredictably.

== Previous Player Characters ==

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[[File:Cedani-amastacia.png|700px|link=Cedani Amastacia]]
[[Cedani Amastacia]] - Winter Eladrin Archfey Warlock / Wild Magic Sorcerer
</div>
<div style="flex:1; min-width: 700px; text-align: center; padding: 10px;">
[[File:Uchu Buredo.png|700px|link=Uchu Buredo]]
[[Uchu Buredo]] - Simian Soulknife Rogue
</div>
</div>
<div style="display:flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">
<div style="flex:1; min-width: 700px; text-align: center; padding: 10px;">
[[File:Chai.png|700px|link=Chai]]
[[Chai]] - Changeling Bard
</div>
<div style="flex:1; min-width: 700px; text-align: center; padding: 10px;">
[[File:Cove_Lazuli.png|700px|link=Cove Lazuli]]
[[Cove Lazuli]] - Mud Genasi Circle of Spores Druid
</div>
</div>

== Maps ==

[[File:Faerunmap.jpg|left|500px|thumb|Map of Faerûn - 3e D&D]]
[[File:Faerun-Map-With-Borders.png|left|500px|thumb|Map of Faerûn - Political Borders]]
[[File:Map - Session 5.png|left|500px|thumb|Ribcage]]
[[File:Sigil - Full Map.jpg|left|500px|thumb|Sigil - Full Map]]
[[File:Navigating Sigil.png|left|500px|thumb|Navigating Sigil]]
[[File:Planescape.jpg|left|500px|thumb|Planescape Cosmology]]
[[File:Rashemen Region.png|left|600px|thumb|Rashemen Region]]
[[File:Cormyr - 1479 DR - Thunderstone.png|none|600px|thumb|Cormyr - Thunderstone]]
[[File:The_hordelands_map.png|none|800px|thumb|The Endless Wastes]]

Session 32: Favored of Selûne

2026-05-06T04:59:22Z

Manath: /* Memes */

[[File:Favored of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|Guiding the Lost]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Octavius's Third Eye.png|right|600px|thumb|Still not a doctor by the way]]
[[File:Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern 2.png|right|600px|thumb|Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern]]
[[File:Lilia in Sigil.png|right|600px|thumb|Lilia in Sigil]]
[[File:Ember cataloguing sensory stones.png|right|600px|thumb|Ember cataloguing sensory stones]]
[[File:Glenn's Greeting.png|right|600px|thumb|"Pike off, berk!" :D]]
[[File:Gurincraag, the secret city.png|right|600px|thumb|Gurincraag, the secret city]]
[[File:The Clay Golem.png|right|600px|thumb|The Clay Golem]]
[[File:Lore Accurate Diedric - Favored.png|right|600px|thumb|Diedric, Favored of Selûne]]

The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.

Pulled sideways from the conduit, Diedric stood incorporeal beside Selûne herself as the surviving Howling Island kobolds emerged from a moonlit shelter -- "Guide the lost to me, favored one" -- and rejoined the party in the Hive with a silver streak through his hair, weeping, while the others promptly accused an opportunistic red tiefling of horrific deeds.

At the Civic Festhall, Ember directed them to a spirit-seeker named Vistra Runehall, frequenting a dwarven suckhouse called Vos'Ultok in Gurincraag below Sigil. Threading luminescent teal and magenta smoke through abandoned mineworks, Octavius's third eye caught The Unseen mid-ambush -- a duergar, two svirneblin, a drow -- and the fight closed with a Clay Golem conjured from a thrown rubik's cube and Smokescale slipping after the fleeing drow.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for Glenn offering his cowardice to the stool — the secret it had been waiting for
* '''The Unity of Rings:''' 1500 XP for the Howling Island kobolds reaching their home plane, concluding their story as Diedric is named Favored
* 400 XP for finding Ember and the trail to Vistra Runehall in Vos'Ultok
* 400 XP for Octavius's Third Eye spotting The Unseen mid-ambush
* '''Total: 2900 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 64564 XP -> 67464 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Browsing the Bazaar ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, noon, 1372 DR
* Marti and Diedric haggled with the tall ring merchant over a bronze ring of feather fall.
* Octavius browsed and spotted a Belt of Giant Strength, with no vendor in sight, along with a strange club with obsidian spikes inserted into it.
* Lilia sought an artifact of Baba Yaga, to instead only find an Iron Golem selling a Potion of Gaseous Form. It had a delayed activation.
** There was a failed negotiation with it, stating that its master needed to make a profit. It deactivated to end the conversation.
* Their shopping concluded, the party left the Beetle Bazaar and flew at road-height to the Bleeding Horn.

=== Octavius's Third Eye ===
* During the travel, Octavius began a habit of activating a third orange eye, allowing him to see invisible creatures.
** He shooed away two imps that were tailing them by throwing a fire bolt in their direction.

=== The Bleeding Horn ===
* A faint scar on the road where an ice wall had been conjured during the Blood War skirmish was visible outside the iron structure, magma flowing into it from one of Ribcage's ribs.
* Inside, Sparax served tieflings, cambions, and other humans.
* On approach to the stool that served as a portal to Sigil, Sparax notified the party he was charging 50 jink per use.
** They negotiated it for free, citing their relationship with Xarannos, Ribcage's new leader.
* Glenn tried to speak his favorite color as a secret. The stool was unimpressed.
* Glenn then spoke of his cowardice in fleeing his homeland after suffering his affliction and defeat. The stool was excited.
* A gray swirling vortex appeared.
* Glenn sat on the stool to assert himself, then crawled into the vortex, followed by Diedric, Octavius, Lilia, and an opportunistic red tiefling.
* The party had a brief glance of the astral plane as they careened through an astral conduit, before the sensation of knives sliding over their skin led to their destination.

=== He Was Right Behind Us ===
* Glenn, Octavius, and Lilia appeared through a threshold of a collapsed building in the Hive District of Sigil, the City of Doors.
* Behind them, Diedric was nowhere to be found.

=== Favored of Selûne ===
* Diedric felt himself pulled sideways out of the conduit, then stood incorporeal on a rocky outcropping, dozens of feet tall like a giant, watching stormy gray terrain below.
* Two vortexes of air tore across the landscape, ripping up trees and stones. A dark presence pulsed within the stormclouds.
* Time passed. The vortexes moved on.
* A silver moonmote rose from the ground, spinning lazily over a specific spot.
* A trapdoor opened. A one-winged red kobold poked his head out, scanned the sky, and hopped free — the shaman Diedric had spared on the Howling Island.
* The moonmote circled him excitedly as he helped other kobolds — red, green, brown — climb out of the shelter. They had survived and made it to their home plane.
* He looked up. The clouds parted, revealing two moons and sparkling Tears of Selûne trailing behind them.
* A tall woman shimmered into existence, or was there all along, alongside Diedric: white robes layered with silver scales, long white hair with straight bangs, two hands resting on a silver sceptre. Selûne, in the aspect of the Moonmaiden.
* She watched the kobolds, then looked sidelong at him, smiling.
** "Guide the lost to me, favored one."
* She touched her hand to Diedric's head.

=== The Hive ===
* Diedric burst into Sigil, weeping from the experience. He now had a silver streak of hair.
* The party <s>came to Diedric's emotional aid</s> immediately accused the red tiefling of performing horrific acts on Diedric.
* The tiefling sprinted away like Forrest Gump.
** "Not you lot again." an old woman said from an upper building, slamming shut her window.
* As with a previous visit, the Light Boys appeared to still be on strike, many of the city's lights unlit.
* Taking in the sights, Lilia observed two drunken dwarves vomiting and a black-robed collector wheeling bodies toward the Dustmen's headquarters.
** She also observed a Harmonium member in reddish armor, a gray orc, patrolling the alleyways in this area.
* There was no sign of the blockades that the Alley Reapers had placed, but there was still natural razorvine.
** Lilia studied its leaves and sharp stalks closely, using her own blood to observe their growth in real time.

=== Tour of the Cage ===
* Excited to see the city, Lilia lit her witchbroom lantern and rode along the ground. The party rode higher up in the carpet, keeping a lookout for trouble.
* During the flight, the party sighted the Mortuary above them, with the architectural charm of a pregnant spider, the Great Foundry dumping smoke between the two layers of the ring, a burned down poetry shop, and the grime of The Hive giving way to the Lower Ward and Clerk's Ward.

=== Return to the Civic Festhall ===
* Two dabus, glyphs swirling over their heads, hovered past the party as they sighted the Civic Festfall, with its tall central structure with an organic design to its stonework and flanked by pools and fountains.
* The party flew to the location of the third sensorium.
* Now that it was night (which a friendly bariaur pointed out was antipeak), it was not as busy as last time.
* The bariaur directed the party to the fourth sensorium when they inquired about Ember.

=== The Fourth Sensorium ===
* The party approached and entered the fourth sensorium, its walls made of blue marble.
* A spiral staircase led to a third story where the party could hear someone working.
* Lilia hovered up on her broom while some other party members walked up the stairs.
* Confused at first, [[Ember]] stopped her cataloguing of sensory stones upon seeing the stranger Lilia, but ran happily to hug an awkward Octavius as she recognized the party.
* Glenn demonstrated his curse was cured, she complimented Diedric on his armor and the silver in his hair.
* [[Ember]] inquired about Galdren and Neribion. The party explained how Neribion had been replaced by B'ian.
** The party proceeded to coyly describe and insult B'ian as if he were a real person. Odd.
** She recognized the last name as Chuultan and pronounced it more accurately.
** She indicated that her groom-to-be sends her wind whispers, and that is how he will communicate to the party when it is time for them to wed.
* The party explained their purpose -- they needed to find Navarra's petitioner spirit in the afterlife.
** Ember knew her name.
* Ember directed them to find a spirit-seeker, [[Vistra Runehall]], who frequented a rough dwarven establishment in an area of Sigil that was secretive and not legal.
* After some coaxing, she explained that it was called Vos'Ultok ("wild meeting place" in dwarvish), in the hidden city of Gurincraag within the underground part of Sigil known as "The Below".
* She explained that dwarven suckhouses were not her preference to visit.
** Octavius ruined the eventual reveal by knowing immediately that dwarven suckhouses were smoking halls, where vases filled with scented and flavored liquids were smoked out of multiple hoses protruding out of them.
* Ember provided directions to an entrance to Gurincraag, an iron grate near the Hall of Information. She asked the party not to be seen.

=== The Gulp ===
* Backtracking a bit, the party flew to the Hall of Information, spotting the described iron grate.
* They waited for a large Harmonium patrol to pass, led by a woman with brown hair and dark skin.
* Each party member ented the hole, Unit 137 barely fitting.
* A small tunnel with the earth around them seeming strange, with the texture and hardness of stone until it was chipped away, then immediately disintegrating to dust with nothing remaining.
* A few everburning torches lit the way to a very narrow spiral stone steps descending further below.
* Unit 137 could not fit and was unsummoned with a 🤘 hand gesture, disappearing in brimstone.
* Walking sideways in order to fit, the party descended several levels until they burst into a much larger tunnel, large enough for wagons and carts to drive by and pass each other.
* A dwarf was driving his wagon filled with grain, led by two ponies, when Glenn greeted him with "Pike off, berk! :D"
** The dwarf stepped out of the wagon, not believing what he was hearing.
** He eventually established that he was likely daft, and pointed behind him was the way to Gurincraag.

=== Gurincraag, the Hidden City ===
* The tunnel opened into a grand underground dwarven city, with real stone construction and architecture, the ceiling much higher and grander.
* A dwarven woman asked if they were there for the suckery. The party confirmed, and she indicated that they just need to follow the smoke.
* In the distance, they could see teal and magenta smoke coming off a side corridor.

=== Following the Smoke ===
* The party walked through the city, passing a bank and several shops, until they proceeded into the side corridor.
* This broke off into small tunnels that went every which way, but the luminescent smoke was always there to guide them.

=== Spotting the Unseen ===
* The party eventually ended up in a series of tunnels that appeared to be abandoned mining operations, including a rail system and abandoned carts.
* With his third eye, Octavius spotted an ambush ahead -- a duergar, two svirneblin, and a drow, all invisible, blocking the path to Vos'Ultok.
** They appeared as translucent to his eyes.
* He murmured a warning, but their body language gave them away as having spotted the ambush.
* The duergar shouted that they were protectors of this area and that the party just needed to pay for their protection, declaring themselves as "The Unseen".
* As Octavius began to cast thaumaturgy to assist Diedric in intimidation, the duergar charged as the drow slinked around a corner.

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* Highlights:
** Synaptic Static dropping the svirneblin to near death, a yellow streak of energy bouncing between their minds and the more-resistant duergar.
** A butterfly-filled faerie fire revealing the svirneblin to the party.
** Glenn surprising the duergar by effectively slashing him despite his invisiblity, sensing the vibrations in the air.
** A guiding bolt from Diedric disintegrating a svirneblin.
** The drow attempting to ambush Octavius, only for him to have foreseen this and non-chalantly dodged it by barely moving away from the poisoned crossbow bolt.
** In desperation, the drow manipulating a metal rubik's cube, throwing it down until it used the earthen material to create a Clay Golem.
** The Clay Golem hammering away at Octavius, acid melting some of his feathers.
* Smokescale trailing the drow around the corner, spotting him right as he was about to drink from his invisibility potion.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mote]], the Iron Golem
* [[Jaarl]], the fleeing Tiefling
* [[Baahram]], the helpful Bariaur
* [[Vistra Runehall]], the Spirit Seeker
* [[Du'Godaar]], the Insulted Dwarf
* [[Kos Vos Toa]], the Duergar Leader
* [[Nivilleal]], the Drow Skirmisher

== Memes ==
* "Pike off, berk!" :D

== DM Thoughts ==
* The party is attempting to turn B'ian Ch'k Ch'k against me. Proceed with caution.

File:Glenn's Greeting.png

2026-05-06T04:58:44Z

Manath:

Session 32: Favored of Selûne

2026-05-06T04:58:35Z

Manath:

[[File:Favored of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|Guiding the Lost]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Octavius's Third Eye.png|right|600px|thumb|Still not a doctor by the way]]
[[File:Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern 2.png|right|600px|thumb|Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern]]
[[File:Lilia in Sigil.png|right|600px|thumb|Lilia in Sigil]]
[[File:Ember cataloguing sensory stones.png|right|600px|thumb|Ember cataloguing sensory stones]]
[[File:Glenn's Greeting.png|right|600px|thumb|"Pike off, berk!" :D]]
[[File:Gurincraag, the secret city.png|right|600px|thumb|Gurincraag, the secret city]]
[[File:The Clay Golem.png|right|600px|thumb|The Clay Golem]]
[[File:Lore Accurate Diedric - Favored.png|right|600px|thumb|Diedric, Favored of Selûne]]

The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.

Pulled sideways from the conduit, Diedric stood incorporeal beside Selûne herself as the surviving Howling Island kobolds emerged from a moonlit shelter -- "Guide the lost to me, favored one" -- and rejoined the party in the Hive with a silver streak through his hair, weeping, while the others promptly accused an opportunistic red tiefling of horrific deeds.

At the Civic Festhall, Ember directed them to a spirit-seeker named Vistra Runehall, frequenting a dwarven suckhouse called Vos'Ultok in Gurincraag below Sigil. Threading luminescent teal and magenta smoke through abandoned mineworks, Octavius's third eye caught The Unseen mid-ambush -- a duergar, two svirneblin, a drow -- and the fight closed with a Clay Golem conjured from a thrown rubik's cube and Smokescale slipping after the fleeing drow.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for Glenn offering his cowardice to the stool — the secret it had been waiting for
* '''The Unity of Rings:''' 1500 XP for the Howling Island kobolds reaching their home plane, concluding their story as Diedric is named Favored
* 400 XP for finding Ember and the trail to Vistra Runehall in Vos'Ultok
* 400 XP for Octavius's Third Eye spotting The Unseen mid-ambush
* '''Total: 2900 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 64564 XP -> 67464 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Browsing the Bazaar ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, noon, 1372 DR
* Marti and Diedric haggled with the tall ring merchant over a bronze ring of feather fall.
* Octavius browsed and spotted a Belt of Giant Strength, with no vendor in sight, along with a strange club with obsidian spikes inserted into it.
* Lilia sought an artifact of Baba Yaga, to instead only find an Iron Golem selling a Potion of Gaseous Form. It had a delayed activation.
** There was a failed negotiation with it, stating that its master needed to make a profit. It deactivated to end the conversation.
* Their shopping concluded, the party left the Beetle Bazaar and flew at road-height to the Bleeding Horn.

=== Octavius's Third Eye ===
* During the travel, Octavius began a habit of activating a third orange eye, allowing him to see invisible creatures.
** He shooed away two imps that were tailing them by throwing a fire bolt in their direction.

=== The Bleeding Horn ===
* A faint scar on the road where an ice wall had been conjured during the Blood War skirmish was visible outside the iron structure, magma flowing into it from one of Ribcage's ribs.
* Inside, Sparax served tieflings, cambions, and other humans.
* On approach to the stool that served as a portal to Sigil, Sparax notified the party he was charging 50 jink per use.
** They negotiated it for free, citing their relationship with Xarannos, Ribcage's new leader.
* Glenn tried to speak his favorite color as a secret. The stool was unimpressed.
* Glenn then spoke of his cowardice in fleeing his homeland after suffering his affliction and defeat. The stool was excited.
* A gray swirling vortex appeared.
* Glenn sat on the stool to assert himself, then crawled into the vortex, followed by Diedric, Octavius, Lilia, and an opportunistic red tiefling.
* The party had a brief glance of the astral plane as they careened through an astral conduit, before the sensation of knives sliding over their skin led to their destination.

=== He Was Right Behind Us ===
* Glenn, Octavius, and Lilia appeared through a threshold of a collapsed building in the Hive District of Sigil, the City of Doors.
* Behind them, Diedric was nowhere to be found.

=== Favored of Selûne ===
* Diedric felt himself pulled sideways out of the conduit, then stood incorporeal on a rocky outcropping, dozens of feet tall like a giant, watching stormy gray terrain below.
* Two vortexes of air tore across the landscape, ripping up trees and stones. A dark presence pulsed within the stormclouds.
* Time passed. The vortexes moved on.
* A silver moonmote rose from the ground, spinning lazily over a specific spot.
* A trapdoor opened. A one-winged red kobold poked his head out, scanned the sky, and hopped free — the shaman Diedric had spared on the Howling Island.
* The moonmote circled him excitedly as he helped other kobolds — red, green, brown — climb out of the shelter. They had survived and made it to their home plane.
* He looked up. The clouds parted, revealing two moons and sparkling Tears of Selûne trailing behind them.
* A tall woman shimmered into existence, or was there all along, alongside Diedric: white robes layered with silver scales, long white hair with straight bangs, two hands resting on a silver sceptre. Selûne, in the aspect of the Moonmaiden.
* She watched the kobolds, then looked sidelong at him, smiling.
** "Guide the lost to me, favored one."
* She touched her hand to Diedric's head.

=== The Hive ===
* Diedric burst into Sigil, weeping from the experience. He now had a silver streak of hair.
* The party <s>came to Diedric's emotional aid</s> immediately accused the red tiefling of performing horrific acts on Diedric.
* The tiefling sprinted away like Forrest Gump.
** "Not you lot again." an old woman said from an upper building, slamming shut her window.
* As with a previous visit, the Light Boys appeared to still be on strike, many of the city's lights unlit.
* Taking in the sights, Lilia observed two drunken dwarves vomiting and a black-robed collector wheeling bodies toward the Dustmen's headquarters.
** She also observed a Harmonium member in reddish armor, a gray orc, patrolling the alleyways in this area.
* There was no sign of the blockades that the Alley Reapers had placed, but there was still natural razorvine.
** Lilia studied its leaves and sharp stalks closely, using her own blood to observe their growth in real time.

=== Tour of the Cage ===
* Excited to see the city, Lilia lit her witchbroom lantern and rode along the ground. The party rode higher up in the carpet, keeping a lookout for trouble.
* During the flight, the party sighted the Mortuary above them, with the architectural charm of a pregnant spider, the Great Foundry dumping smoke between the two layers of the ring, a burned down poetry shop, and the grime of The Hive giving way to the Lower Ward and Clerk's Ward.

=== Return to the Civic Festhall ===
* Two dabus, glyphs swirling over their heads, hovered past the party as they sighted the Civic Festfall, with its tall central structure with an organic design to its stonework and flanked by pools and fountains.
* The party flew to the location of the third sensorium.
* Now that it was night (which a friendly bariaur pointed out was antipeak), it was not as busy as last time.
* The bariaur directed the party to the fourth sensorium when they inquired about Ember.

=== The Fourth Sensorium ===
* The party approached and entered the fourth sensorium, its walls made of blue marble.
* A spiral staircase led to a third story where the party could hear someone working.
* Lilia hovered up on her broom while some other party members walked up the stairs.
* Confused at first, [[Ember]] stopped her cataloguing of sensory stones upon seeing the stranger Lilia, but ran happily to hug an awkward Octavius as she recognized the party.
* Glenn demonstrated his curse was cured, she complimented Diedric on his armor and the silver in his hair.
* [[Ember]] inquired about Galdren and Neribion. The party explained how Neribion had been replaced by B'ian.
** The party proceeded to coyly describe and insult B'ian as if he were a real person. Odd.
** She recognized the last name as Chuultan and pronounced it more accurately.
** She indicated that her groom-to-be sends her wind whispers, and that is how he will communicate to the party when it is time for them to wed.
* The party explained their purpose -- they needed to find Navarra's petitioner spirit in the afterlife.
** Ember knew her name.
* Ember directed them to find a spirit-seeker, [[Vistra Runehall]], who frequented a rough dwarven establishment in an area of Sigil that was secretive and not legal.
* After some coaxing, she explained that it was called Vos'Ultok ("wild meeting place" in dwarvish), in the hidden city of Gurincraag within the underground part of Sigil known as "The Below".
* She explained that dwarven suckhouses were not her preference to visit.
** Octavius ruined the eventual reveal by knowing immediately that dwarven suckhouses were smoking halls, where vases filled with scented and flavored liquids were smoked out of multiple hoses protruding out of them.
* Ember provided directions to an entrance to Gurincraag, an iron grate near the Hall of Information. She asked the party not to be seen.

=== The Gulp ===
* Backtracking a bit, the party flew to the Hall of Information, spotting the described iron grate.
* They waited for a large Harmonium patrol to pass, led by a woman with brown hair and dark skin.
* Each party member ented the hole, Unit 137 barely fitting.
* A small tunnel with the earth around them seeming strange, with the texture and hardness of stone until it was chipped away, then immediately disintegrating to dust with nothing remaining.
* A few everburning torches lit the way to a very narrow spiral stone steps descending further below.
* Unit 137 could not fit and was unsummoned with a 🤘 hand gesture, disappearing in brimstone.
* Walking sideways in order to fit, the party descended several levels until they burst into a much larger tunnel, large enough for wagons and carts to drive by and pass each other.
* A dwarf was driving his wagon filled with grain, led by two ponies, when Glenn greeted him with "Pike off, berk! :D"
** The dwarf stepped out of the wagon, not believing what he was hearing.
** He eventually established that he was likely daft, and pointed behind him was the way to Gurincraag.

=== Gurincraag, the Hidden City ===
* The tunnel opened into a grand underground dwarven city, with real stone construction and architecture, the ceiling much higher and grander.
* A dwarven woman asked if they were there for the suckery. The party confirmed, and she indicated that they just need to follow the smoke.
* In the distance, they could see teal and magenta smoke coming off a side corridor.

=== Following the Smoke ===
* The party walked through the city, passing a bank and several shops, until they proceeded into the side corridor.
* This broke off into small tunnels that went every which way, but the luminescent smoke was always there to guide them.

=== Spotting the Unseen ===
* The party eventually ended up in a series of tunnels that appeared to be abandoned mining operations, including a rail system and abandoned carts.
* With his third eye, Octavius spotted an ambush ahead -- a duergar, two svirneblin, and a drow, all invisible, blocking the path to Vos'Ultok.
** They appeared as translucent to his eyes.
* He murmured a warning, but their body language gave them away as having spotted the ambush.
* The duergar shouted that they were protectors of this area and that the party just needed to pay for their protection, declaring themselves as "The Unseen".
* As Octavius began to cast thaumaturgy to assist Diedric in intimidation, the duergar charged as the drow slinked around a corner.

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* Highlights:
** Synaptic Static dropping the svirneblin to near death, a yellow streak of energy bouncing between their minds and the more-resistant duergar.
** A butterfly-filled faerie fire revealing the svirneblin to the party.
** Glenn surprising the duergar by effectively slashing him despite his invisiblity, sensing the vibrations in the air.
** A guiding bolt from Diedric disintegrating a svirneblin.
** The drow attempting to ambush Octavius, only for him to have foreseen this and non-chalantly dodged it by barely moving away from the poisoned crossbow bolt.
** In desperation, the drow manipulating a metal rubik's cube, throwing it down until it used the earthen material to create a Clay Golem.
** The Clay Golem hammering away at Octavius, acid melting some of his feathers.
* Smokescale trailing the drow around the corner, spotting him right as he was about to drink from his invisibility potion.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mote]], the Iron Golem
* [[Jaarl]], the fleeing Tiefling
* [[Baahram]], the helpful Bariaur
* [[Vistra Runehall]], the Spirit Seeker
* [[Du'Godaar]], the Insulted Dwarf
* [[Kos Vos Toa]], the Duergar Leader
* [[Nivilleal]], the Drow Skirmisher

== Memes ==
*

== DM Thoughts ==
* The party is attempting to turn B'ian Ch'k Ch'k against me. Proceed with caution.

Session 32: Favored of Selûne

2026-05-06T04:49:44Z

2026-05-06T04:20:24Z

Manath: Created page with "Favored of Selûne == Summary == Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern Ember cataloguing sensory stones Gurincraag, the secret city The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt o..."

[[File:Favored of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|Favored of Selûne]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern 2.png|right|600px|thumb|Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern]]
[[File:Ember cataloguing sensory stones.png|right|600px|thumb|Ember cataloguing sensory stones]]
[[File:Gurincraag, the secret city.png|right|600px|thumb|Gurincraag, the secret city]]

The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.

Pulled sideways from the conduit, Diedric stood incorporeal beside Selûne herself as the surviving Howling Island kobolds emerged from a moonlit shelter -- "Guide the lost to me, favored one" -- and rejoined the party in the Hive with a silver streak through his hair, weeping, while the others promptly accused an opportunistic red tiefling of horrific deeds.

At the Civic Festhall, Ember directed them to a spirit-seeker named Vistra Runehall, frequenting a dwarven suckhouse called Vos'Ultok in Gurincraag below Sigil. Threading luminescent teal and magenta smoke through abandoned mineworks, Octavius's third eye caught The Unseen mid-ambush -- a duergar, two svirneblin, a drow -- and the fight closed with a Clay Golem conjured from a thrown rubik's cube and Smokescale slipping after the fleeing drow.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for Glenn offering his cowardice to the stool — the secret it had been waiting for
* '''The Unity of Rings:''' 1500 XP for the Howling Island kobolds reaching their home plane, concluding their story from the Howling Island as Diedric is named Favored
* 400 XP for finding Ember and the trail to Vistra Runehall in Vos'Ultok
* 400 XP for Octavius's Third Eye spotting The Unseen mid-ambush
* '''Total: 2900 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 64564 XP -> 67464 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Browsing the Bazaar ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, noon, 1372 DR
* Marti and Diedric haggled with the tall ring merchant over a bronze ring of feather fall.
* Octavius browsed and spotted a Belt of Giant Strength, with no vendor in sight, along with a strange club with obsidian spikes inserted into it.
* Lilia sought an artifact of Baba Yaga, to instead only find an Iron Golem selling a Potion of Gaseous Form. It had a delayed activation.
** There was a failed negotiation with it, stating that its master needed to make a profit. It deactivated to end the conversation.
* Their shopping concluded, the party left the Beetle Bazaar and flew at road-height to the Bleeding Horn.

=== Octavius's Third Eye ===
* During the travel, Octavius began a habit of activating a third orange eye, allowing him to see invisible creatures.
** He shooed away two imps that were tailing them by throwing a fire bolt in their direction.

=== The Bleeding Horn ===
* A faint scar on the road where an ice wall had been conjured during the Blood War skirmish was visible outside the iron structure, magma flowing into it from one of Ribcage's ribs.
* Inside, Sparax served tieflings, cambions, and other humans.
* On approach to the stool that served as a portal to Sigil, Sparax notified the party he was charging 50 jink per use.
** They negotiated it for free, citing their relationship with Xarannos, Ribcage's new leader.
* Glenn tried to speak his favorite color as a secret. The stool was unimpressed.
* Glenn then spoke of his cowardice in fleeing his homeland after suffering his affliction and defeat. The stool was excited.
* A gray swirling vortex appeared.
* Glenn sat on the stool to assert himself, then crawled into the vortex, followed by Diedric, Octavius, Lilia, and an opportunistic red tiefling.
* The party had a brief glance of the astral plane as they careened through an astral conduit, before the sensation of knives sliding over their skin led to their destination.

=== He Was Right Behind Us ===
* Glenn, Octavius, and Lilia appeared through a threshold of a collapsed building in the Hive District of Sigil, the City of Doors.
* Behind them, Diedric was nowhere to be found.

=== Favored of Selûne ===
* Diedric felt himself pulled sideways out of the conduit, then stood incorporeal on a rocky outcropping, dozens of feet tall like a giant, watching stormy gray terrain below.
* Two vortexes of air tore across the landscape, ripping up trees and stones. A dark presence pulsed within the stormclouds.
* Time passed. The vortexes moved on.
* A silver moonmote rose from the ground, spinning lazily over a specific spot.
* A trapdoor opened. A one-winged red kobold poked his head out, scanned the sky, and hopped free — the shaman Diedric had spared on the Howling Island.
* The moonmote circled him excitedly as he helped other kobolds — red, green, brown — climb out of the shelter. They had survived and made it to their home plane.
* He looked up. The clouds parted, revealing two moons and sparkling Tears of Selûne trailing behind them.
* A tall woman shimmered into existence, or was there all along, alongside Diedric: white robes layered with silver scales, long white hair with straight bangs, two hands resting on a silver sceptre. Selûne, in the aspect of the Moonmaiden.
* She watched the kobolds, then looked sidelong at him, smiling.
** "Guide the lost to me, favored one."
* She touched her hand to Diedric's head.

=== The Hive ===
* Diedric burst into Sigil, weeping from the experience. He now had a silver streak of hair.
* The party <s>came to Diedric's emotional aid</s> immediately accused the red tiefling of performing horrific acts on Diedric.
* The tiefling sprinted away like Forrest Gump.
** "Not you lot again." an old woman said from an upper building, slamming shut her window.
* As with a previous visit, the Light Boys appeared to still be on strike, many of the city's lights unlit.
* Taking in the sights, Lilia observed two drunken dwarves vomiting and a black-robed collector wheeling bodies toward the Dustmen's headquarters.
** She also observed a Harmonium member in reddish armor, a gray orc, patrolling the alleyways in this area.
* There was no sign of the blockades that the Alley Reapers had placed, but there was still natural razorvine.
** Lilia studied its leaves and sharp stalks closely, using her own blood to observe their growth in real time.

=== Tour of the Cage ===
* Excited to see the city, Lilia lit her witchbroom lantern and rode along the ground. The party rode higher up in the carpet, keeping a lookout for trouble.
* During the flight, the party sighted the Mortuary above them, with the architectural charm of a pregnant spider, the Great Foundry dumping smoke between the two layers of the ring, a burned down poetry shop, and the grime of The Hive giving way to the Lower Ward and Clerk's Ward.

=== Return to the Civic Festhall ===
* Two dabus, glyphs swirling over their heads, hovered past the party as they sighted the Civic Festfall, with its tall central structure with an organic design to its stonework and flanked by pools and fountains.
* The party flew to the location of the third sensorium.
* Now that it was night (which a friendly bariaur pointed out was antipeak), it was not as busy as last time.
* The bariaur directed the party to the fourth sensorium when they inquired about Ember.

=== The Fourth Sensorium ===
* The party approached and entered the fourth sensorium, its walls made of blue marble.
* A spiral staircase led to a third story where the party could hear someone working.
* Lilia hovered up on her broom while some other party members walked up the stairs.
* Confused at first, [[Ember]] stopped her cataloguing of sensory stones upon seeing the stranger Lilia, but ran happily to hug an awkward Octavius as she recognized the party.
* Glenn demonstrated his curse was cured, she complimented Diedric on his armor and the silver in his hair.
* [[Ember]] inquired about Galdren and Neribion. The party explained how Neribion had been replaced by B'ian.
** The party proceeded to coyly describe and insult B'ian as if he were a real person. Odd.
** She recognized the last name as Chuultan and pronounced it more accurately.
** She indicated that her groom-to-be sends her wind whispers, and that is how he will communicate to the party when it is time for them to wed.
* The party explained their purpose -- they needed to find Navarra's petitioner spirit in the afterlife.
** Ember knew her name.
* Ember directed them to find a spirit-seeker, [[Vistra Runehall]], who frequented a rough dwarven establishment in an area of Sigil that was secretive and not legal.
* After some coaxing, she explained that it was called Vos'Ultok ("wild meeting place" in dwarvish), in the hidden city of Gurincraag within the underground part of Sigil known as "The Below".
* She explained that dwarven suckhouses were not her preference to visit.
** Octavius ruined the eventual reveal by knowing immediately that dwarven suckhouses were smoking halls, where vases filled with scented and flavored liquids were smoked out of multiple hoses protruding out of them.
* Ember provided directions to an entrance to Gurincraag, an iron grate near the Hall of Information. She asked the party not to be seen.

=== The Gulp ===
* Backtracking a bit, the party flew to the Hall of Information, spotting the described iron grate.
* They waited for a large Harmonium patrol to pass, led by a woman with brown hair and dark skin.
* Each party member ented the hole, Unit 137 barely fitting.
* A small tunnel with the earth around them seeming strange, with the texture and hardness of stone until it was chipped away, then immediately disintegrating to dust with nothing remaining.
* A few everburning torches lit the way to a very narrow spiral stone steps descending further below.
* Unit 137 could not fit and was unsummoned with a 🤘 hand gesture, disappearing in brimstone.
* Walking sideways in order to fit, the party descended several levels until they burst into a much larger tunnel, large enough for wagons and carts to drive by and pass each other.
* A dwarf was driving his wagon filled with grain, led by two ponies, when Glenn greeted him with "Pike off, berk! :D"
** The dwarf stepped out of the wagon, not believing what he was hearing.
** He eventually established that he was likely daft, and pointed behind him was the way to Gurincraag.

=== Gurincraag, the Hidden City ===
* The tunnel opened into a grand underground dwarven city, with real stone construction and architecture, the ceiling much higher and grander.
* A dwarven woman asked if they were there for the suckery. The party confirmed, and she indicated that they just need to follow the smoke.
* In the distance, they could see teal and magenta smoke coming off a side corridor.

=== Following the Smoke ===
* The party walked through the city, passing a bank and several shops, until they proceeded into the side corridor.
* This broke off into small tunnels that went every which way, but the luminescent smoke was always there to guide them.

=== Spotting the Unseen ===
* The party eventually ended up in a series of tunnels that appeared to be abandoned mining operations, including a rail system and abandoned carts.
* With his third eye, Octavius spotted an ambush ahead -- a duergar, two svirneblin, and a drow, all invisible, blocking the path to Vos'Ultok.
** They appeared as translucent to his eyes.
* He murmured a warning, but their body language gave them away as having spotted the ambush.
* The duergar shouted that they were protectors of this area and that the party just needed to pay for their protection, declaring themselves as "The Unseen".
* As Octavius began to cast thaumaturgy to assist Diedric in intimidation, the duergar charged as the drow slinked around a corner.

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* Highlights:
** Synaptic Static dropping the svirneblin to near death, a yellow streak of energy bouncing between their minds and the more-resistant duergar.
** A butterfly-filled faerie fire revealing the svirneblin to the party.
** Glenn surprising the duergar by effectively slashing him despite his invisiblity, sensing the vibrations in the air.
** A guiding bolt from Diedric disintegrating a svirneblin.
** The drow attempting to ambush Octavius, only for him to have foreseen this and non-chalantly dodged it by barely moving away from the poisoned crossbow bolt.
** In desperation, the drow manipulating a metal rubik's cube, throwing it down until it used the earthen material to create a Clay Golem.
** The Clay Golem hammering away at Octavius, acid melting some of his feathers.
* Smokescale trailing the drow around the corner, spotting him right as he was about to drink from his invisibility potion.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mote]], the Iron Golem
* [[Jaarl]], the fleeing Tiefling
* [[Baahram]], the helpful Bariaur
* [[Vistra Runehall]], the Spirit Seeker
* [[Du'Godaar]], the Insulted Dwarf
* [[Kos Vos Toa]], the Duergar Leader
* [[Nivilleal]], the Drow Skirmisher

== Memes ==
*

== DM Thoughts ==
* The party is attempting to turn B'ian Ch'k Ch'k against me. Proceed with caution.

The Broken Cycle

2026-05-06T04:16:37Z

Session 31: What Souls Are Worth

2026-05-01T03:35:24Z

Manath:

[[File:The Devil's Own Luck - Lore Accurate.png|right|600px|thumb|The Devil's Own Luck]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Wand Haggling.png|right|600px|thumb|Wand Haggling]]
[[File:The Pomeranian.png|right|600px|thumb|The Floof]]
[[File:Anything Bigger.png|right|600px|thumb|Anything bigger?]]
[[File:The Gambler.png|right|600px|thumb|The Gambler]]
[[File:Unit 137's Gift.png|right|600px|thumb|Unit 137's Gift]]
[[File:Xarannos in the Citadel of Cinders.png|right|600px|thumb|The Shaper of Ponds]]
[[File:The Demure Servant.png|right|600px|thumb|I said demure!!!]]
[[File:Shattering the Coin.png|right|600px|thumb|Shattering the Coin]]
[[File:The Ring Merchant.png|right|600px|thumb|The Ring Merchant]]
[[File:Shield of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|What are the odds?]]
[[File:The Devil's Own Luck.png|right|600px|thumb|The Devil's Own Luck - Alternative Version]]

The party returned to the Beetle Bazaar to spend their plundered jink, threading through a string of strange merchants and witnessing Unit 137's geometry-themed upgrade -- a silver pentagram on his forehead and a freshly summoned lemure, promptly named Happy. Sent to seek leave from Ribcage's new ruler, they reconnected with Xarannos at the Citadel of Cinders, who confirmed Zelza had been eaten by Bel and explained the moral economics of soul coins, wincing over an innocent girl who'd sacrificed herself for her brother. Diedric clocked the implication immediately. In their curtained suite at the Gymnasium of Steam, they sorted the Moss Hag's thirty-three coins, identified three innocents, and watched Unit 137 lance each with hellfire to release the souls in silver light. Morning brought another shopping run -- a sharp-toothed gambler who vanished into a sudden inrush of air, a reed-thin pantomime ring-merchant, and a split-orange-bearded dwarf with an actual Selunite Shield of Vigilance looted from a Blood War battlefield.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for navigating the Beetle Bazaar's stranger merchants and emerging better-equipped
* '''The Rule of Three:''' 333 XP for three soul coins shattered with hellfire
* 2000 XP for liberating the innocent souls from the cambion's scheme, undoing the harm at its end-state
* '''Total: 2933 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 61631 XP -> 64564 XP''' (Level 10!)
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Shopping the Ribcage Bazaar ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, evening, 1372 DR
* After laying waste to an elderly woman's shop, the party got to work spending their hard-plundered gold.

=== Search for a Cloak ===
* Octavius perused the Beetle Bazaar, seeking information on a Cloak of Displacement that he had read about in a tome.
** He idly spotted a Scroll of Flame Shield on display.
** He ultimately spoke with an elderly gnome, who bore a Wand of Wonder, plundered from a treasure trove belonging to followers of Gond.
** A feeble attempt to haggle led to the gnome dismissing him.

=== The Goggled-Floof ===
* Lilia, meanwhile, in the form of an ankylosaurus, spoke with Fingers McFinney (who now bore a few artificial fingers) about googles that would allow her to see in darkness.
** He had two, a red that would allow the wearer to see any creatures bearing blood, and black that provided darkvision.
** He asked her her true form, and she reverted to it, bleeding out on the ground. He squealed and she changed into a fluffy canine.
** Shaking coins loose out of her fur and piling them with her nose, she purchased the black goggles, wearing them in her dog form.

=== Something Bigger? ===
* Glenn approached, asking what the wooden handle with a metal tube attached was. Fingers explained that it was a blunderbuss.
** Octavius went into detail describing the island of Lantan, the invention of smokepowder, and gnomish engineering.
* Glenn asked if Fingers had anything bigger.
** Fingers pulled a large cannon with a rope, but judging its weight and size, Glenn found it not a viable purchase.
** Glenn inquired if there was anything that would let him hold a greatsword in one hand. Fingers suggested he just become bigger.
*** Fingers mentioned in passing that some gnomes in Mechanus built mechanical suits you can step into.
** Glenn purchased a pocketwatch.
** When sundials were mentioned, Fingers asked what a sun was.

=== The Gambler ===
* Seeking enchanted stones to improve their fortune, the party inquired and a series of touts ultimately led them to a thin man in black leather armor and multiple earrings.
** He mostly sold gambling fare, cards, dice, and other games of chance.
** In a low voice, he explained that some of what he sold was forbidden to be used in Ribcage.
** The party agreed to his price, stating that they needed to appraise their soul coins prior to the purchase, as he told them their value can vary.

=== Happy the Lemure ===
* Checking on Unit 137, Kraxx'Tor revealed his upgrade -- a pentagram inscribed in silver on Unit 137's forehead.
** With intense focus, Unit 137 demonstrated inscribing an infernal pentagram, and with the words "Ad-zekar. Vel-kuthar. Sothiq." (I inscribe. I bind. Rise.), summoned a fleshy creature of despair and suffering, a lemure.
*** The party immediately named it Happy.
** When ordered to speak, the Lemure just responded with "Observation..." repeatedly.
* Unit 137 dismissed it with a metal expression.
** Smokecale and Kraxx'Tor were both proud.
* The party inquired as to where they should spend the night.
** Kraxx'Tor explained that he wasn't sure if they were still welcome in the Gymnasium of Steam, and to check in with Ribcage's new leader.

=== The Shaper of Ponds ===
* The party walked to the Citadel of Cinders, allowed inside by abishai who recognized the owlin.
* The statue of Zelza had been removed, only its base remaining.
* Inside the inner keep, they reconnected with Xarannos, his many contracts hanging from hooks in the chamber, ash swirling around the column of flame that led to Avernus.
* Xarannos, happy to see his tadpoles again, gestured to the pond they had helped him shape, and revealed that Zelza had been eaten by Bel, Lord of the Avernus.
* He granted them a free stay at the Gymnasium of Steam, in private quarters.
* When asked about the value of soul coins, Xarannos explained that it depended on the soul within. The innocent and those who had fallen after corruption were most valued. He felt one, wincing, lamenting about an innocent young girl who sacrified her soul to save her brother.
* Diedric: 🤨

=== A Curtained Suite ===
* The party flew past the Steam Gate, past imps bathing in magma pools, and entered the Gymnasium of Steam.
* They were led to their suite by a sullen, demure glassy-eyed woman in white servant's robes with jet black hair and pale skin.
* It was a two story chamber, with spiral marble staircases, but inexplicably sheer curtains instead of doors for most rooms, and to Octavius's chagrin, no study.
* Sliced beef and platters of fruits and cheeses and wine were provided.

=== Counting the Till ===
* The party ate and, after some discussion and arcane analysis on the nature of soul coins, Octavius agreed to allow the party to destroy the stones containing innocent souls.
* They then proceeded to pile coins into "good people" and "bad people".
** Octavius was surprisingly resilient by the act of handling soul coins.
* After identifying three innocent souls (the young girl, and two bariaur who had been conned by The Moss Hag and the cambion Luciel), Octavius identified that hellfire could destroy the coins.
** The party moved the table to clear some space, worried about an explosion.
** Unit 137, after being stopped from drawing a pentagram on the coin, instead focused a thin beam of hellfire from a sharpened point, bursting three of the coins into inert chunks, freeing the souls within in a flow of silver light.
** Lilia finally left her canine form, Diedric rushing forward to heal her wounds with Selune's blessing.
* The party claimed their rooms and retired for the night.

=== A Lucky Purchase ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtul, morning, 1372 DR
* The party returned to the Beetle Bazaar, presenting the thin black-leathered merchant with their soul coins and jink.
** He ran his fingers over the coins, smiled revealing sharpened teeth, and fiddling beneath his booth and a false panel, handed the part four black bags.
** Within each bag was a small clay tablet inscribed with a strange four-cloved leaf.
* Octavius used Identify spells to confirm their legitimacy.
* The man disappeared suddenly, air rushing toward the vacuum where his form had been.

=== The Reed of Rings ===
* Seeking magical rings, the party was led to a reed-thin woman nearly ten feet tall, with elongated limbs.
** She pointedly did not have pale skin or black hair.
* She spoke in gurgles, and could not understand common, but Glenn was able to pantomime a ring to allow jumping, and Octavbius a ring to shield his thoughts from others.
** Both rings were purchased, made of a simple bronze and iconography of a frog and an X.

=== The Shield Dwarf ===
* Diedric sought a Shield of Vigilance, common in the higher ranks of the Selunite order.
* He was led to a dwarven man with a split-orange beard, who indeed had an actual Selunite shield of that type in his inventory. It bore the symbol of Selune.
** It had been looted from a battlefield in the Blood War. He did not know its story otherwise.
* The shield was purchased.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Kraxx'Tor]], the Chain Devil
* [["Fingers" McFinney]], the Gnome Artificer
* [[Xarannos]], the Shaper of Ponds
* [[Morwen Nyx]], the Demure of Disposition
* [[Fizwick Ostlewinkle]], the Ancient Gnome
* [[Vorne]], the Gambler Merchant
* [[Yllumarra]], the Reed of Rings
* [[Dornic Twin-Braid]], the Shield Merchant

== Memes ==
* "Can you be mean to me?" The fuck was that.

== DM Thoughts ==
* I need to avoid black hair and pale skin with this party.

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