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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.

2026-04-30T23:01:21Z

2026-03-13T02:28:07Z

Manath: /* Things That Happened */

[[File:Trashing the shop.png|right|600px|thumb|"Happy International Women's Weekend!"]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Diedric's critical blow.png|right|600px|thumb|Diedric's critical blow]]
[[File:The Moss Hag's Lair.png|right|600px|thumb|The Moss Hag's Lair]]

The hag surfaced to find her Dire Troll banished and caught an electric burning hands for her trouble before diving back under. Glenn followed her down, discovering an underwater lair ringed with cages--giant skulls stuffed with soul coin disks, an ordinary troll already swimming free, and a catoblepas the hag was frantically trying to unlock. He snatched the keys from her hands and swam back up. The party dispatched the ordinary troll, then prepped spike growth and dismissed the banishment. The Dire Troll returned swinging tree-trunk limbs, nearly killing Lilia before she wild-shaped into an ankylosaurus for survival. A portent-fueled Guiding Bolt crit from Diedric shattered the thing, and Glenn fire-ringed the remains to end its regeneration for good.

Glenn and Octavius dove into the hag's lair--a rotten-vegetable bed, 33 soul coins from her scheme with the cambion Luciel, a mysterious smoky vial, and a bronze rib that blocked teleportation in the area. Too large for a bag of holding and immune to mundane destruction, they chose to distance themselves, using a drow-themed Tenser's Floating Disk as an acid-rain umbrella until Octavius felt the rib's influence fade and planeswalked the party back through the Blind Eternities to Ribcage.

They landed beside Kraxx'Tor's workshop--Lilia still in ankylosaurus form, barely fitting the alcove. After Octavius magically scrubbed off the mire, Glenn and Octavius marched back to the hag's glyph shop with murder in their eyes. The illusion dropped: the "beautiful glyphs" were pickled eyes, fingers, and rot in vials. They torched every one, rallied nearby shopkeepers as witnesses, and when a black abishai guard demanded an explanation, Diedric talked him down. The abishai inscribed the portal's activation key in Infernal, circled the spot, and stood guard over it.

== XP Award ==

* 3125 XP for surviving entrapment in the third layer of the Nine Hells
* '''Total: 3125 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 58506 XP -> 61631 XP''' (Level 9)
* ''(Required for next level: 64000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Encounter: The Moss Hag - Continued ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, afternoon, 1372 DR
* Highlights:
** The party resisting the acid rain.
** Five consecutive d20 rolls resulting in a 1.
** The hag popping out of the water to find her Dire Troll had disappeared.
** The hag diving into the water to hide, only to be assailed with an electric burning hands.
** Diedric summoning a Celestial Smokescale.
** The hag not resurfacing, and the sound of grinding metal being heard from beneath the waters.
** Glenn dove inward seeing a series of cages surrounding the hag's lair, which was also filled with giant skulls being used as storage containers for circular disks. One was open and had an ordinary troll swimming to the surface. The other held a catoblepas as the hag struggled with keys.
** Glenn charged the hag and snatched the keys from her hands, swimming back to the surface.
*** The hag brute-forced the cage open, but the catoblepas was not goaded into joining her.
** The ordinary troll was dispatched quickly after a failed attempt to talk it into fleeing.
** The hag did not surface. The party peeked underwater to see the catoblepas had swam away.
** The party prepped the area with a spike growth and dismissed the Banishment spell.
** The towering Dire Troll slammed into Glenn with tree trunk like limbs, covering him in bruises despite his armor.
*** He also caught Lilia in a whirlwind of limbs, slicing her to ribbons and near death. She turned into a Ankylosaurus for safety.
** The Dire Troll suffered repeated longsword attacks, fireballs, and arrows from the Celestial Smokescale.
** A portent saw to a Guiding Bolt critical strike from Diedric, shattering the Dire Troll.
** Glenn power-washed the Dire Troll with his fire ring, ensuring its regeneration stopped forever.

=== The Hag's Lair ===
* Diedric saw to healing the party, with the aid of the Celestial Smokescale.
* Sheltering from the acid rain by mostly surmerging under the waters, Lilia and Diedric waited as Glenn and Octavius swam down into the hag's lair.
* She had a bed made of rotten vegetables, and giant skulls holding 33 Soul Coins, likely her haul from running her scheme with the cambion Luciel.
* With detect magic, Octavius spotted a vial containing a smoky substance -- and identified a bronze rib from a creature known to protect areas from teleportation magic.
** Too large to fit into a bag of holding, it was also resilient to assaults from a dwarven shovel and sword of air.

=== Wading in Rain ===
* Using a drow-themed Tenser's Floating Disk as cover, the party trudged through the mire until Octavius could feel the influence of the bronze rib diminish.
* He reached out to the lands of Rashemen for power, and careened the party through the Blind Eternities.

=== Disciples of Hoar ===
* The party thundered into Ribcage, appearing next to Kraxx'Tor's workshop. Lilia was still in Ankylosaurus form, barely fitting in the alcove.
* They could hear tinkering coming from the rear.
* Octavius magically cleaned the mire's acid and muck off the party.
* Murder in their eyes, Glenn and Octavius returned to the hag's shop. The illusion dispelled, what appeared to be beautiful glyphs for sale were instead eyes, fingers, and other rotten body parts in vials.
* They began striking each vial with firebolts and rays of flame from Glenn's ring.
* To justify their actions, they called out to witnesses, asking if they saw what she did to them.
** One quietly said "No" in the background, but many of the shopkeeps nodded.
* A black abishai guard charged in, asking what the meaning of this was.
* Diedric persuaded him. The abishai marked a circle where the portal was, inscribing its key in infernal and stood guard over it.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[The Moss Hag]], the Hag in Hiding

== Memes ==
*

== DM Thoughts ==
* Combat ran long but I believe it was engaging. I was expecting to get through a lot more content.

Session 30: Against the Rain

2026-03-13T02:24:07Z

Manath:

[[File:Trashing the shop.png|right|600px|thumb|"Happy International Women's Weekend!"]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Diedric's critical blow.png|right|600px|thumb|Diedric's critical blow]]
[[File:The Moss Hag's Lair.png|right|600px|thumb|The Moss Hag's Lair]]

The hag surfaced to find her Dire Troll banished and caught an electric burning hands for her trouble before diving back under. Glenn followed her down, discovering an underwater lair ringed with cages--giant skulls stuffed with soul coin disks, an ordinary troll already swimming free, and a catoblepas the hag was frantically trying to unlock. He snatched the keys from her hands and swam back up. The party dispatched the ordinary troll, then prepped spike growth and dismissed the banishment. The Dire Troll returned swinging tree-trunk limbs, nearly killing Lilia before she wild-shaped into an ankylosaurus for survival. A portent-fueled Guiding Bolt crit from Diedric shattered the thing, and Glenn fire-ringed the remains to end its regeneration for good.

Glenn and Octavius dove into the hag's lair--a rotten-vegetable bed, 33 soul coins from her scheme with the cambion Luciel, a mysterious smoky vial, and a bronze rib that blocked teleportation in the area. Too large for a bag of holding and immune to mundane destruction, they chose to distance themselves, using a drow-themed Tenser's Floating Disk as an acid-rain umbrella until Octavius felt the rib's influence fade and planeswalked the party back through the Blind Eternities to Ribcage.

They landed beside Kraxx'Tor's workshop--Lilia still in ankylosaurus form, barely fitting the alcove. After Octavius magically scrubbed off the mire, Glenn and Octavius marched back to the hag's glyph shop with murder in their eyes. The illusion dropped: the "beautiful glyphs" were pickled eyes, fingers, and rot in vials. They torched every one, rallied nearby shopkeepers as witnesses, and when a black abishai guard demanded an explanation, Diedric talked him down. The abishai inscribed the portal's activation key in Infernal, circled the spot, and stood guard over it.

== XP Award ==

* 3125 XP for surviving entrapment in the third layer of the Nine Hells
* '''Total: 3125 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 58506 XP -> 61631 XP''' (Level 9)
* ''(Required for next level: 64000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Encounter: The Moss Hag - Continued ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, afternoon, 1372 DR
* Highlights:
** The party resisting the acid rain.
** Five consecutive d20 rolls resulting in a 1.
** The hag popping out of the water to find her Dire Troll had disappeared.
** The hag diving into the water to hide, only to be assailed with an electric burning hands.
** Diedric summoning a Celestial Smokescale.
** The hag not resurfacing, and the sound of grinding metal being heard from beneath the waters.
** Glenn dove inward seeing a series of cages surrounding the hag's lair, which was also filled with giant skulls being used as storage containers for circular disks. One was open and had an ordinary troll swimming to the surface. The other held a catoblepas as the hag struggled with keys.
** Glenn charged the hag and snatched the keys from her hands, swimming back to the surface.
** The ordinary troll was dispatched quickly after a failed attempt to talk it into fleeing.
** The hag did not surface. The party peeked underwater to see the catoblepas had swam away.
** The party prepped the area with a spike growth and dismissed the Banishment spell.
** The towering Dire Troll slammed into Glenn with tree trunk like limbs, covering him in bruises despite his armor.
*** He also caught Lilia in a whirlwind of limbs, slicing her to ribbons and near death. She turned into a Ankylosaurus for safety.
** The Dire Troll suffered repeated longsword attacks, fireballs, and arrows from the Celestial Smokescale.
** A portent saw to a Guiding Bolt critical strike from Diedric, shattering the Dire Troll.
** Glenn power-washed the Dire Troll with his fire ring, ensuring its regeneration stopped forever.

=== The Hag's Lair ===
* Diedric saw to healing the party, with the aid of the Celestial Smokescale.
* Sheltering from the acid rain by mostly surmerging under the waters, Lilia and Diedric waited as Glenn and Octavius swam down into the hag's lair.
* She had a bed made of rotten vegetables, and giant skulls holding 33 Soul Coins, likely her haul from running her scheme with the cambion Luciel.
* With detect magic, Octavius spotted a vial containing a smoky substance -- and identified a bronze rib from a creature known to protect areas from teleportation magic.
** Too large to fit into a bag of holding, it was also resilient to assaults from a dwarven shovel and sword of air.

=== Wading in Rain ===
* Using a drow-themed Tenser's Floating Disk as cover, the party trudged through the mire until Octavius could feel the influence of the bronze rib diminish.
* He reached out to the lands of Rashemen for power, and careened the party through the Blind Eternities.

=== Disciples of Hoar ===
* The party thundered into Ribcage, appearing next to Kraxx'Tor's workshop. Lilia was still in Ankylosaurus form, barely fitting in the alcove.
* They could hear tinkering coming from the rear.
* Octavius magically cleaned the mire's acid and muck off the party.
* Murder in their eyes, Glenn and Octavius returned to the hag's shop. The illusion dispelled, what appeared to be beautiful glyphs for sale were instead eyes, fingers, and other rotten body parts in vials.
* They began striking each vial with firebolts and rays of flame from Glenn's ring.
* To justify their actions, they called out to witnesses, asking if they saw what she did to them.
** One quietly said "No" in the background, but many of the shopkeeps nodded.
* A black abishai guard charged in, asking what the meaning of this was.
* Diedric persuaded him. The abishai marked a circle where the portal was, inscribing its key in infernal and stood guard over it.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[The Moss Hag]], the Hag in Hiding

== Memes ==
*

== DM Thoughts ==
* Combat ran long but I believe it was engaging. I was expecting to get through a lot more content.

Session 29: Where Seeds Take Root

2026-02-26T18:57:17Z

Manath:

[[File:Green!.png|right|600px|thumb|"Green!"]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Mollusk God.png|right|600px|thumb|Studying Aristeus's work on the dead Mollusk god]]
[[File:Party in the Astral Plane.png|right|600px|thumb|The party navigates the Astral Plane]]
[[File:Mu'ul.png|right|600px|thumb|Mu'ul, the Psychic Wind Seeker]]
[[File:Turquoise Pool Revisited.png|right|600px|thumb|Swimming into the Turquoise Color Pool]]
[[File:The Outlands Shift.png|right|600px|thumb|The Outlands have shifted]]
[[File:Flowering Hill.png|right|600px|thumb|Flowering Hill]]
[[File:Sheela Peryroyl.png|right|600px|thumb|Sheela Peryroyl and her flute]]
[[File:Alaila.png|right|600px|thumb|The avariel glyph vendor]]
[[File:Minauros.png|right|600px|thumb|The Endless Bog of Minauros]]

Octavius led the party back through the Blind Eternities into the Astral Plane, where they studied Aristeus's unified theory of the Four Compulsions and the Veil--his Grand Concordance linking Compulsions, Lattice curvature, and the Veil as one Quintessence, though its full implications remained beyond their grasp. A blue-skinned traveler named Mu'ul traded astral survival tips for info on the faerezz crystal, and the crystal itself pulsed twice during the journey, repelling unseen threats before they reached the Turquoise Color Pool.

The pool dropped them into a reshaped Outlands--craggy canyons and fissures, no problem for Smokescale and the carpet. They passed through Sheela Peryroyl's divine orchard, where the halfling goddess offered cryptic blessings and declined to help them locate specific petitioners. Faerezz experiments confirmed the crystal hides the party from divination rather than blocking scrying on the area itself -- only if uncovered. Near Ribcage they freed Tessavyr, a gold-bodied rilmani pinned by infernal spikes, earning a future favor.

Ribcage was more fortified but still standing, not sunken into the Hells thanks to the party's earlier interference. They dodged a contract-hustling imp disguised as a cambion, spotted familiar devil ladies on a balcony with a new young noble, and reunited Unit 137 with Kraxx'Tor at the Beetle Bazaar for a geometry-themed upgrade. A new avariel glyph vendor's runic wares physically tilted toward compatible buyers--but when Glenn shouted "Green!" as his favorite color, the word activated a hidden portal that sucked the party into Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells.

They landed in an acid-rain-soaked bog of rotting vegetables and skulls, met by the furious voice of a hag who blamed them for destroying twelve years of scheming. She unleashed a dire troll--giant-sized, grown by feeding it other trolls--that mauled most of the party while Glenn decapitated one of its heads and hid behind his shield. The hag popped out to hit Octavius with foul magic, got counterspelled, and retreated; Octavius banished the troll to buy time. The session ended mid-fight with Diedric readying a spell for the hag's next appearance.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for the faerezz crystal repelling two unknown Astral threats
* 400 XP for a peaceful exchange of knowledge with Mu'ul
* 500 XP for faerezz experiments — discovering that covering the crystal disables its protection
* 800 XP for freeing Tessavyr and earning a rilmani's favor
* '''The Green Sister's Seed:''' 1000 XP for passing through Sheela Peryroyl's divine domain and receiving her blessing — "Every seed that passes through my hill takes something with it, whether it knows or not."
* '''Total: 3300 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 55206 XP -> 58506 XP''' (Level 9)
* ''(Required for next level: 64000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Return to the Astral ===
* '''Date:''' 29th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), early morning, 1372 DR
* Led by Octavius, the party passed through the Blind Eternities, presenting as swirling blue mists with ancient stone paths beneath them.
* Their movement slowed and the Blind Eternities collapsed into The Astral Plane, Octavius facing the dead Mollusk god while holding a piece of it in his hand.
** He felt a new bond, as if he could draw power from this place, like the Rashemi lands.
** No one was upside down.
* The faerezz crystal had a visible 60 ft purple glow around the party, in a perfect sphere.

=== Studying the Mollusk ===
* Present with a headdress of comprehend languages and the time to do so, Lilia borrowed it from Octavius, and they both studied the formulas written by Aristeus.
* The party studied Aristeus's work on the Four Compulsions -- Yearning, Resonance, Clutch, and Dimming -- and followed his proof that three of them unify at high energies, while the Yearning is not a force at all but a curvature in the Lattice itself.
* They traced his deeper theory of the Veil, where things exist Unresolved in all possible states until fixed by an act of Naming, culminating in his Grand Concordance -- a single unified notation linking Compulsions, Lattice curvature, and the Veil as one Quintessence, though its full implications remained beyond their grasp.
* The party proceeded in superman poses, willing themselves toward the Turquoise Color Pool.
** Lilia, recalling how long travel could take here, instead had Smokescale pilot the carpet so she could read on the journey.
* The faerezz crystal, and its emanation, pulsed, as if repelling something.

=== A Curious Passerby ===
* Several hours into the silent journey, the party encountered a blue-skinned man with an elongated head and extra knuckles on his long fingers. He wore dark robes, and motioned for peace.
* He introduced himself as Mu'ul, and offered an equal exchange of thought.
* He asked what the faerezz crystal was and its function. He seemed disappointed.
* He offered in return a warning -- if the skies should ever darken in the Astral Plane, the party should flee immediately as it is a psychic wind that can drive them mad.
** He seeks these willingly as they allow you to experience thoughts from the past, present, and future, and he has shielded himself from madness with multiple minds.
* He departed in peace.
* He is legally distinct from Megamind.

=== Swimming in Turquoise ===
* The faerezz crystal pulsed again, successfully repelling something.
* Ten hours since the start of their journey, the party arrived at the Turquoise Color Pool, which was difficult to spot since it is truly two-dimensional.
* The party flew their carpet into it. Upon touching the color pool, the "ink" began covering the carpet and then the party members, one at a time.

=== Outlands Shifted ===
* Gravity and the sensation of air returned as the party erupted into the Outlands, smoothly reorienting the carpet as the portal faced toward the ground.
* The terrain had shifted since they last visited, what was previously a green vista now craggy canyons and fissures with rickety wooden bridges, which would surely slow their progress--
** Smokescale flew them forward on their flying carpet, clockwise around the Great Wheel toward Ribcage.
* The spire with Sigil floating atop was everpresent to the right. Lilia challenged herself to stare at the infinite height until she was overwhelmed by vertigo.

=== Goatchase ===
* Toward the end of the first day, the party spotted a herd of goats capable of jumping dozens of feet high.
* Lilia gave chase as the party made camp, but the goats had disappeared from view.
* Diedric erected his tiny hut on a rocky outcropping as Lilia fed the party Goodberry trail mix.

=== Flowering Hill ===
* '''Date:''' 30th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), early morning, 1372 DR
* After crossing dozens of different terrain types, the party saw an ocean lead to a much-wider-than-usual expanse of a grassy, hilly apple orchard, tended to by halflings.
* One waved them down.
** The party landed to greet the man.
** As they passed the threshold into this area, the air felt more peaceful and warm.
* This appeared to be a jovial harvest, with halfling men and women and children picking apples and drinking cider.
* Most of the halflings had the faint glow that marked them as petitioners, the souls of the deceased.
* They greeted the party, wishing the Green Sister's blessing upon them.

=== The Flutist ===
* A flighty flute song began to play in the distance. Squirrels and rabbits began hopping excitedly toward it, including Octavius and Lilia's familiars.
* Lilia summoned her bat back to her, only for it to fly away again.
* Disturbed and untrusting, the party eventually proceeded forward to investigate.
* They approached a halfling woman in a dress made of flowers playing a flute with a gigantic rabbit cuddling her side.
* The party eventually pooled their knowledge and deduced that this woman must be Sheela Peryroyl, halfling goddess of nature, song, dance, agriculture, and romantic love -- and that this is her divine domain.
* She finished her song, then regarded the party.
* To Diedric she said: "Your lady's light is lovely. My orchards drink of it at night."
* To the party she said: "Every seed that passes through my hill takes something with it, whether it knows or not. I do hope you find the soil for it."
* She politely declined to address questions about how to locate specific petitioners, returning to her music.
* A halfling girl offered a basket of apples, which the party accepted.
* Octavius took a daisy as a way to be able to more easily planeswalk back here in the future.
* The party proceeded on their way.

=== Faerezz Experiments ===
* Before making camp for the night, the party decided to experiment with the faerezz crystal as the Outlands does not have a sun, but rather diffuse lighting.
* They covered it with a pelt of a cloaker, trying divination spells with and without it covered.
* Covering it with anything opaque prevented its protective qualities.
** Interestingly, when it was protecting, the area could still be divined -- but the party appeared invisible to the diviner.

=== The Rilmani Prisoner ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, early morning, 1372 DR
* Breaking camp, the party proceeded toward Ribcage.
* The terrain grew more hellish as they neared it.
* On the side of the trail below them, as if in warning, a large construct made of solid gold, smooth limbs held together by blue energy, stood pinned by three infernal iron spikes.
* It watched them curiously.
* The party landed.
* It asked: "Have the ribs sunken into the Nine?"
* The party explained their actions last they had visited Ribcage, including interfering with Zelza's plans to sink the gatetown into the Nine Hells.
* The party freed the Rilmani, Lilia learning that touching any silver to the spiked caused them to shatter -- although Glenn pulled one out with sheer force.
* Grateful, the rilmani gave its name, Tessavyr, and bid the party call toward the Spire for its aid as it hovered away.
* The party (and the mimir) did not know much about these creatures, other than that they are aloof keepers of balance.

=== The Ribcage Gate ===
* The party sighted Ribcage, earthen ribs over a city surrounded by infernal steel walls and a moat of magma.
* There were more abishai guards and abishai patrols in the sky.
* One of the guards recognized the party, bidding them welcome, but to keep their deals clean, as Xarannos would pike them sideways if they made a mess.
* A red cambion leaned against the gate, offering a contract to the party before Smokescale kicked him in the shins, revealing Scabs, another imp, as the illusion collapsed.
* The party proceeded onward to the Beetle Bazaar.

=== To the Bazaar ===
* On the way to the Bazaar, the party sighted a familiar balcony.
* It bore the same two cambion ladies, one green, one red, each in the arm of a much younger noble than before.
** He was happily being fed fruits by the green cambion.
** The red one turned toward the party and flashed wickedly sharp teeth, recognizing them.
* The party arrived at the Beetle Bazaar, busy as many creatures passed in and out of his maw, mandibles held open by javelins.
* Inside, they sighted many of the same vendors as before, including the feather merchant, the sleepy wizard, the gnomish inventor, and others.
* "Caltrop!" a devillish voice called out.

=== The Silvered Fiend ===
* Unit 137 pumped his mechanic legs excitedly as he ran toward Kraxx'Tor, now covered in many more silver chains.
* He bid the party leave him for several hours, as he had an upgrade he had been working on, which should excite Unit 137, as it involved geometry.
* Smokescale stayed with his pal.
* The party's attention was drawn by a new vendor.

=== The Glyph Vendor ===
* An avariel woman, surrounded by vials and pendants containing runes glowing in different colors, spoke with possible customers.
* Octavius's headdress translated these runes to specific words and concepts, like "Honor", "Flight", "Strength", and so on.
* Spotting the party, the avariel bid them welcome, and that while her goods were expensive to produce, the runes would be attracted to ones they were a good match for.
* Indeed, some runes began attuning toward party members within their containers, causing them to tilt toward them.
* The avariel asked what color spoke to them the most.
* "Green!" Glenn, in frog form, shouted gleefully while raising his arms in excitement.
** The DM asked if that was his character's favorite color.
** Marti confirmed that it was.
* Its key uttered, the muddy portal beneath the party's feet activated, sucking them below.

=== The Endless Bog ===
* The party landed into a shallow pool in a bog filled with mounds of rotting vegetables and skulls.
* The sky was oppressive and brown, feeling too close, like a ceiling. Trees were bare, dead mangroves.
* A literal acid rain rained down, causing stinging pain and burns to exposed skin.
* The party recognized this as Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells, a domain of greed.
* A very irate hag's voice called out from all directions: "Twelve years I grew that scheme in the dark, the cambion almost ripe. And you pulled it up like weeds. You don't even know what you destroyed."
** Some party members politely split apart from the others during the monologue.
* "I planted you here like seeds, and seeds don't get to choose which soil they rot in. Beastie, it's time to eat!"
* A dire troll, the size of a giant and featuring multiple heads and limbs, the product of a troll that has been fed other trolls, erupted from the waters in a whirlwind of claws.

=== Encounter: The Moss Hag ===
* Highlights:
** Glenn leaping onto the troll's heads, decapitating one.
** Lilia summoning a fuzzy starry bumblebee, which futilely caused minor wounds to the dire troll that instantly healed.
** The dire troll severely wounding most of the party in a whirlwind of growing limbs.
*** Glenn expertly hid behind his shield.
** The hag popping out of the water, coming out of invisibility to assail the owlin with foul magics, only to be counterspelled and seek refuge in the waters.
** Octavius banished the dire troll to another plane, actively concentrating on keeping him there as long as possible.
** Diedric prepares a spell for when the hag reveals herself again.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mu'ul]], the Psychic Wind Seeker
* [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sheela_Peryroyl Sheela Peryroyl], the Green Sister (Goddess)
* [[Tessavyr]], the Spiked Rilmani
* [[The Moss Hag]], the Kindly Rune Merchant

== Memes ==
* \o/ "Green! :D"
* The Moss Hag may disagree with the party on the definition of a vegetable.

== DM Thoughts ==
* The party for sure is going to chain Unit 137 to them from now on.

Session 29: Where Seeds Take Root

2026-02-26T07:17:14Z

Manath:

[[File:Green!.png|right|600px|thumb|"Green!"]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Mollusk God.png|right|600px|thumb|Studying Aristeus's work on the dead Mollusk god]]
[[File:Party in the Astral Plane.png|right|600px|thumb|The party navigates the Astral Plane]]
[[File:Mu'ul.png|right|600px|thumb|Mu'ul, the Psychic Wind Seeker]]
[[File:Turquoise Pool Revisited.png|right|600px|thumb|Swimming into the Turquoise Color Pool]]
[[File:The Outlands Shift.png|right|600px|thumb|The Outlands have shifted]]
[[File:Flowering Hill.png|right|600px|thumb|Flowering Hill]]
[[File:Sheela Peryroyl.png|right|600px|thumb|Sheela Peryroyl and her flute]]
[[File:Alaila.png|right|600px|thumb|The avariel glyph vendor]]
[[File:Minauros.png|right|600px|thumb|The Endless Bog of Minauros]]

Octavius led the party back through the Blind Eternities into the Astral Plane, where they studied Aristeus's unified theory of the Four Compulsions and the Veil--his Grand Concordance linking Compulsions, Lattice curvature, and the Veil as one Quintessence, though its full implications remained beyond their grasp. A blue-skinned traveler named Mu'ul traded astral survival tips for info on the faerezz crystal, and the crystal itself pulsed twice during the journey, repelling unseen threats before they reached the Turquoise Color Pool.

The pool dropped them into a reshaped Outlands--craggy canyons and fissures, no problem for Smokescale and the carpet. They passed through Sheela Peryroyl's divine orchard, where the halfling goddess offered cryptic blessings and declined to help them locate specific petitioners. Faerezz experiments confirmed the crystal hides the party from divination rather than blocking scrying on the area itself -- only if uncovered. Near Ribcage they freed Tessavyr, a gold-bodied rilmani pinned by infernal spikes, earning a future favor.

Ribcage was more fortified but still standing, not sunken into the Hells thanks to the party's earlier interference. They dodged a contract-hustling imp disguised as a cambion, spotted familiar devil ladies on a balcony with a new young noble, and reunited Unit 137 with Kraxx'Tor at the Beetle Bazaar for a geometry-themed upgrade. A new avariel glyph vendor's runic wares physically tilted toward compatible buyers--but when Glenn shouted "Green!" as his favorite color, the word activated a hidden portal that sucked the party into Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells.

They landed in an acid-rain-soaked bog of rotting vegetables and skulls, met by the furious voice of a hag who blamed them for destroying twelve years of scheming. She unleashed a dire troll--giant-sized, grown by feeding it other trolls--that mauled most of the party while Glenn decapitated one of its heads and hid behind his shield. The hag popped out to hit Octavius with foul magic, got counterspelled, and retreated; Octavius banished the troll to buy time. The session ended mid-fight with Diedric readying a spell for the hag's next appearance.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for the faerezz crystal repelling two unknown Astral threats
* 400 XP for a peaceful exchange of knowledge with Mu'ul
* 500 XP for faerezz experiments — discovering that covering the crystal disables its protection
* 800 XP for freeing Tessavyr and earning a rilmani's favor
* '''The Green Sister's Seed:''' 1000 XP for passing through Sheela Peryroyl's divine domain and receiving her blessing — "Every seed that passes through my hill takes something with it, whether it knows or not."
* '''Total: 3300 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 55206 XP -> 58506 XP''' (Level 9)
* ''(Required for next level: 64000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Return to the Astral ===
* '''Date:''' 29th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), early morning, 1372 DR
* Led by Octavius, the party passed through the Blind Eternities, presenting as swirling blue mists with ancient stone paths beneath them.
* Their movement slowed and the Blind Eternities collapsed into The Astral Plane, Octavius facing the dead Mollusk god while holding a piece of it in his hand.
** He felt a new bond, as if he could draw power from this place, like the Rashemi lands.
** No one was upside down.
* The faerezz crystal had a visible 60 ft purple glow around the party, in a perfect sphere.

=== Studying the Mollusk ===
* Present with a headdress of comprehend languages and the time to do so, Lilia borrowed it from Octavius, and they both studied the formulas written by Aristeus.
* The party studied Aristeus's work on the Four Compulsions -- Yearning, Resonance, Clutch, and Dimming -- and followed his proof that three of them unify at high energies, while the Yearning is not a force at all but a curvature in the Lattice itself.
* They traced his deeper theory of the Veil, where things exist Unresolved in all possible states until fixed by an act of Naming, culminating in his Grand Concordance -- a single unified notation linking Compulsions, Lattice curvature, and the Veil as one Quintessence, though its full implications remained beyond their grasp.
* The party proceeded in superman poses, willing themselves toward the Turquoise Color Pool.
** Lilia, recalling how long travel could take here, instead had Smokescale pilot the carpet so she could read on the journey.
* The faerezz crystal, and its emanation, pulsed, as if repelling something.

=== A Curious Passerby ===
* Several hours into the silent journey, the party encountered a blue-skinned man with an elongated head and extra knuckles on his long fingers. He wore dark robes, and motioned for peace.
* He introduced himself as Mu'ul, and offered an equal exchange of thought.
* He asked what the faerezz crystal was and its function. He seemed disappointed.
* He offered in return a warning -- if the skies should ever darken in the Astral Plane, the party should flee immediately as it is a psychic wind that can drive them mad.
** He seeks these willingly as they allow you to experience thoughts from the past, present, and future, and he has shielded himself from madness with multiple minds.
* He departed in peace.
* He is legally distinct from Megamind.

=== Swimming in Turquoise ===
* The faerezz crystal pulsed again, successfully repelling something.
* Ten hours since the start of their journey, the party arrived at the Turquoise Color Pool, which was difficult to spot since it is truly two-dimensional.
* The party flew their carpet into it. Upon touching the color pool, the "ink" began covering the carpet and then the party members, one at a time.

=== Outlands Shifted ===
* Gravity and the sensation of air returned as the party erupted into the Outlands, smoothly reorienting the carpet as the portal faced toward the ground.
* The terrain had shifted since they last visited, what was previously a green vista now craggy canyons and fissures with rickety wooden bridges, which would surely slow their progress--
** Smokescale flew them forward on their flying carpet, clockwise around the Great Wheel toward Ribcage.
* The spire with Sigil floating atop was everpresent to the right. Lilia challenged herself to stare at the infinite height until she was overwhelmed by vertigo.

=== Goatchase ===
* Toward the end of the first day, the party spotted a herd of goats capable of jumping dozens of feet high.
* Lilia gave chase as the party made camp, but the goats had disappeared from view.
* Diedric erected his tiny hut on a rocky outcropping as Lilia fed the party Goodberry trail mix.

=== Flowering Hill ===
* '''Date:''' 30th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), early morning, 1372 DR
* After crossing dozens of different terrain types, the party saw an ocean lead to a much-wider-than-usual expanse of a grassy, hilly apple orchard, tended to by halflings.
* One waved them down.
** The party landed to greet the man.
** As they passed the threshold into this area, the air felt more peaceful and warm.
* This appeared to be a jovial harvest, with halfling men and women and children picking apples and drinking cider.
* Most of the halflings had the faint glow that marked them as petitioners, the souls of the deceased.
* They greeted the party, wishing the Green Sister's blessing upon them.

=== The Flutist ===
* A flighty flute song began to play in the distance. Squirrels and rabbits began hopping excitedly toward it, including Octavius and Lilia's familiars.
* Lilia summoned her bat back to her, only for it to fly away again.
* Disturbed and untrusting, the party eventually proceeded forward to investigate.
* They approached a halfling woman in a dress made of flowers playing a flute with a gigantic rabbit cuddling her side.
* The party eventually pooled their knowledge and deduced that this woman must be Sheela Peryroyl, halfling goddess of nature, song, dance, agriculture, and romantic love -- and that this is her divine domain.
* She finished her song, then regarded the party.
* To Diedric she said: "Your lady's light is lovely. My orchards drink of it at night."
* To the party she said: "Every seed that passes through my hill takes something with it, whether it knows or not. I do hope you find the soil for it."
* She politely declined to address questions about how to locate specific petitioners, returning to her music.
* The party proceeded on their way.

=== Faerezz Experiments ===
* Before making camp for the night, the party decided to experiment with the faerezz crystal as the Outlands does not have a sun, but rather diffuse lighting.
* They covered it with a pelt of a cloaker, trying divination spells with and without it covered.
* Covering it with anything opaque prevented its protective qualities.
** Interestingly, when it was protecting, the area could still be divined -- but the party appeared invisible to the diviner.

=== The Rilmani Prisoner ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, early morning, 1372 DR
* Breaking camp, the party proceeded toward Ribcage.
* The terrain grew more hellish as they neared it.
* On the side of the trail below them, as if in warning, a large construct made of solid gold, smooth limbs held together by blue energy, stood pinned by three infernal iron spikes.
* It watched them curiously.
* The party landed.
* It asked: "Have the ribs sunken into the Nine?"
* The party explained their actions last they had visited Ribcage, including interfering with Zelza's plans to sink the gatetown into the Nine Hells.
* The party freed the Rilmani, Lilia learning that touching any silver to the spiked caused them to shatter -- although Glenn pulled one out with sheer force.
* Grateful, the rilmani gave its name, Tessavyr, and bid the party call toward the Spire for its aid as it hovered away.
* The party (and the mimir) did not know much about these creatures, other than that they are aloof keepers of balance.

=== The Ribcage Gate ===
* The party sighted Ribcage, earthen ribs over a city surrounded by infernal steel walls and a moat of magma.
* There were more abishai guards and abishai patrols in the sky.
* One of the guards recognized the party, bidding them welcome, but to keep their deals clean, as Xarannos would pike them sideways if they made a mess.
* A red cambion leaned against the gate, offering a contract to the party before Smokescale kicked him in the shins, revealing Scabs, another imp, as the illusion collapsed.
* The party proceeded onward to the Beetle Bazaar.

=== To the Bazaar ===
* On the way to the Bazaar, the party sighted a familiar balcony.
* It bore the same two cambion ladies, one green, one red, each in the arm of a much younger noble than before.
** He was happily being fed fruits by the green cambion.
** The red one turned toward the party and flashed wickedly sharp teeth, recognizing them.
* The party arrived at the Beetle Bazaar, busy as many creatures passed in and out of his maw, mandibles held open by javelins.
* Inside, they sighted many of the same vendors as before, including the feather merchant, the sleepy wizard, the gnomish inventor, and others.
* "Caltrop!" a devillish voice called out.

=== The Silvered Fiend ===
* Unit 137 pumped his mechanic legs excitedly as he ran toward Kraxx'Tor, now covered in many more silver chains.
* He bid the party leave him for several hours, as he had an upgrade he had been working on, which should excite Unit 137, as it involved geometry.
* Smokescale stayed with his pal.
* The party's attention was drawn by a new vendor.

=== The Glyph Vendor ===
* An avariel woman, surrounded by vials and pendants containing runes glowing in different colors, spoke with possible customers.
* Octavius's headdress translated these runes to specific words and concepts, like "Honor", "Flight", "Strength", and so on.
* Spotting the party, the avariel bid them welcome, and that while her goods were expensive to produce, the runes would be attracted to ones they were a good match for.
* Indeed, some runes began attuning toward party members within their containers, causing them to tilt toward them.
* The avariel asked what color spoke to them the most.
* "Green!" Glenn, in frog form, shouted gleefully while raising his arms in excitement.
** The DM asked if that was his character's favorite color.
** Marti confirmed that it was.
* Its key uttered, the muddy portal beneath the party's feet activated, sucking them below.

=== The Endless Bog ===
* The party landed into a shallow pool in a bog filled with mounds of rotting vegetables and skulls.
* The sky was oppressive and brown, feeling too close, like a ceiling. Trees were bare, dead mangroves.
* A literal acid rain rained down, causing stinging pain and burns to exposed skin.
* The party recognized this as Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells, a domain of greed.
* A very irate hag's voice called out from all directions: "Twelve years I grew that scheme in the dark, the cambion almost ripe. And you pulled it up like weeds. You don't even know what you destroyed."
** Some party members politely split apart from the others during the monologue.
* "I planted you here like seeds, and seeds don't get to choose which soil they rot in. Beastie, it's time to eat!"
* A dire troll, the size of a giant and featuring multiple heads and limbs, the product of a troll that has been fed other trolls, erupted from the waters in a whirlwind of claws.

=== Encounter: The Moss Hag ===
* Highlights:
** Glenn leaping onto the troll's heads, decapitating one.
** Lilia summoning a fuzzy starry bumblebee, which futilely caused minor wounds to the dire troll that instantly healed.
** The dire troll severely wounding most of the party in a whirlwind of growing limbs.
*** Glenn expertly hid behind his shield.
** The hag popping out of the water, coming out of invisibility to assail the owlin with foul magics, only to be counterspelled and seek refuge in the waters.
** Octavius banished the dire troll to another plane, actively concentrating on keeping him there as long as possible.
** Diedric prepares a spell for when the hag reveals herself again.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mu'ul]], the Psychic Wind Seeker
* [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sheela_Peryroyl Sheela Peryroyl], the Green Sister (Goddess)
* [[Tessavyr]], the Spiked Rilmani
* [[The Moss Hag]], the Kindly Rune Merchant

== Memes ==
* \o/ "Green! :D"
* The Moss Hag may disagree with the party on the definition of a vegetable.

== DM Thoughts ==
* The party for sure is going to chain Unit 137 to them from now on.

Session 29: Where Seeds Take Root

2026-02-26T07:16:28Z

Manath:

[[File:Green!.png|right|600px|thumb|"Green!"]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Mollusk God.png|right|600px|thumb|Studying Aristeus's work on the dead Mollusk god]]
[[File:Party in the Astral Plane.png|right|600px|thumb|The party navigates the Astral Plane]]
[[File:Mu'ul.png|right|600px|thumb|Mu'ul, the Psychic Wind Seeker]]
[[File:Turquoise Pool Revisited.png|right|600px|thumb|Swimming into the Turquoise Color Pool]]
[[File:The Outlands Shift.png|right|600px|thumb|The Outlands have shifted]]
[[File:Flowering Hill.png|right|600px|thumb|Sheela Peryroyl's flowering hill]]
[[File:Sheela Peryroyl.png|right|600px|thumb|The Green Sister and her flute]]
[[File:Alaila.png|right|600px|thumb|The avariel glyph vendor]]
[[File:Minauros.png|right|600px|thumb|The Endless Bog of Minauros]]

Octavius led the party back through the Blind Eternities into the Astral Plane, where they studied Aristeus's unified theory of the Four Compulsions and the Veil--his Grand Concordance linking Compulsions, Lattice curvature, and the Veil as one Quintessence, though its full implications remained beyond their grasp. A blue-skinned traveler named Mu'ul traded astral survival tips for info on the faerezz crystal, and the crystal itself pulsed twice during the journey, repelling unseen threats before they reached the Turquoise Color Pool.

The pool dropped them into a reshaped Outlands--craggy canyons and fissures, no problem for Smokescale and the carpet. They passed through Sheela Peryroyl's divine orchard, where the halfling goddess offered cryptic blessings and declined to help them locate specific petitioners. Faerezz experiments confirmed the crystal hides the party from divination rather than blocking scrying on the area itself -- only if uncovered. Near Ribcage they freed Tessavyr, a gold-bodied rilmani pinned by infernal spikes, earning a future favor.

Ribcage was more fortified but still standing, not sunken into the Hells thanks to the party's earlier interference. They dodged a contract-hustling imp disguised as a cambion, spotted familiar devil ladies on a balcony with a new young noble, and reunited Unit 137 with Kraxx'Tor at the Beetle Bazaar for a geometry-themed upgrade. A new avariel glyph vendor's runic wares physically tilted toward compatible buyers--but when Glenn shouted "Green!" as his favorite color, the word activated a hidden portal that sucked the party into Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells.

They landed in an acid-rain-soaked bog of rotting vegetables and skulls, met by the furious voice of a hag who blamed them for destroying twelve years of scheming. She unleashed a dire troll--giant-sized, grown by feeding it other trolls--that mauled most of the party while Glenn decapitated one of its heads and hid behind his shield. The hag popped out to hit Octavius with foul magic, got counterspelled, and retreated; Octavius banished the troll to buy time. The session ended mid-fight with Diedric readying a spell for the hag's next appearance.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for the faerezz crystal repelling two unknown Astral threats
* 400 XP for a peaceful exchange of knowledge with Mu'ul
* 500 XP for faerezz experiments — discovering that covering the crystal disables its protection
* 800 XP for freeing Tessavyr and earning a rilmani's favor
* '''The Green Sister's Seed:''' 1000 XP for passing through Sheela Peryroyl's divine domain and receiving her blessing — "Every seed that passes through my hill takes something with it, whether it knows or not."
* '''Total: 3300 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 55206 XP -> 58506 XP''' (Level 9)
* ''(Required for next level: 64000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Return to the Astral ===
* '''Date:''' 29th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), early morning, 1372 DR
* Led by Octavius, the party passed through the Blind Eternities, presenting as swirling blue mists with ancient stone paths beneath them.
* Their movement slowed and the Blind Eternities collapsed into The Astral Plane, Octavius facing the dead Mollusk god while holding a piece of it in his hand.
** He felt a new bond, as if he could draw power from this place, like the Rashemi lands.
** No one was upside down.
* The faerezz crystal had a visible 60 ft purple glow around the party, in a perfect sphere.

=== Studying the Mollusk ===
* Present with a headdress of comprehend languages and the time to do so, Lilia borrowed it from Octavius, and they both studied the formulas written by Aristeus.
* The party studied Aristeus's work on the Four Compulsions -- Yearning, Resonance, Clutch, and Dimming -- and followed his proof that three of them unify at high energies, while the Yearning is not a force at all but a curvature in the Lattice itself.
* They traced his deeper theory of the Veil, where things exist Unresolved in all possible states until fixed by an act of Naming, culminating in his Grand Concordance -- a single unified notation linking Compulsions, Lattice curvature, and the Veil as one Quintessence, though its full implications remained beyond their grasp.
* The party proceeded in superman poses, willing themselves toward the Turquoise Color Pool.
** Lilia, recalling how long travel could take here, instead had Smokescale pilot the carpet so she could read on the journey.
* The faerezz crystal, and its emanation, pulsed, as if repelling something.

=== A Curious Passerby ===
* Several hours into the silent journey, the party encountered a blue-skinned man with an elongated head and extra knuckles on his long fingers. He wore dark robes, and motioned for peace.
* He introduced himself as Mu'ul, and offered an equal exchange of thought.
* He asked what the faerezz crystal was and its function. He seemed disappointed.
* He offered in return a warning -- if the skies should ever darken in the Astral Plane, the party should flee immediately as it is a psychic wind that can drive them mad.
** He seeks these willingly as they allow you to experience thoughts from the past, present, and future, and he has shielded himself from madness with multiple minds.
* He departed in peace.
* He is legally distinct from Megamind.

=== Swimming in Turquoise ===
* The faerezz crystal pulsed again, successfully repelling something.
* Ten hours since the start of their journey, the party arrived at the Turquoise Color Pool, which was difficult to spot since it is truly two-dimensional.
* The party flew their carpet into it. Upon touching the color pool, the "ink" began covering the carpet and then the party members, one at a time.

=== Outlands Shifted ===
* Gravity and the sensation of air returned as the party erupted into the Outlands, smoothly reorienting the carpet as the portal faced toward the ground.
* The terrain had shifted since they last visited, what was previously a green vista now craggy canyons and fissures with rickety wooden bridges, which would surely slow their progress--
** Smokescale flew them forward on their flying carpet, clockwise around the Great Wheel toward Ribcage.
* The spire with Sigil floating atop was everpresent to the right. Lilia challenged herself to stare at the infinite height until she was overwhelmed by vertigo.

=== Goatchase ===
* Toward the end of the first day, the party spotted a herd of goats capable of jumping dozens of feet high.
* Lilia gave chase as the party made camp, but the goats had disappeared from view.
* Diedric erected his tiny hut on a rocky outcropping as Lilia fed the party Goodberry trail mix.

=== Flowering Hill ===
* '''Date:''' 30th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), early morning, 1372 DR
* After crossing dozens of different terrain types, the party saw an ocean lead to a much-wider-than-usual expanse of a grassy, hilly apple orchard, tended to by halflings.
* One waved them down.
** The party landed to greet the man.
** As they passed the threshold into this area, the air felt more peaceful and warm.
* This appeared to be a jovial harvest, with halfling men and women and children picking apples and drinking cider.
* Most of the halflings had the faint glow that marked them as petitioners, the souls of the deceased.
* They greeted the party, wishing the Green Sister's blessing upon them.

=== The Flutist ===
* A flighty flute song began to play in the distance. Squirrels and rabbits began hopping excitedly toward it, including Octavius and Lilia's familiars.
* Lilia summoned her bat back to her, only for it to fly away again.
* Disturbed and untrusting, the party eventually proceeded forward to investigate.
* They approached a halfling woman in a dress made of flowers playing a flute with a gigantic rabbit cuddling her side.
* The party eventually pooled their knowledge and deduced that this woman must be Sheela Peryroyl, halfling goddess of nature, song, dance, agriculture, and romantic love -- and that this is her divine domain.
* She finished her song, then regarded the party.
* To Diedric she said: "Your lady's light is lovely. My orchards drink of it at night."
* To the party she said: "Every seed that passes through my hill takes something with it, whether it knows or not. I do hope you find the soil for it."
* She politely declined to address questions about how to locate specific petitioners, returning to her music.
* The party proceeded on their way.

=== Faerezz Experiments ===
* Before making camp for the night, the party decided to experiment with the faerezz crystal as the Outlands does not have a sun, but rather diffuse lighting.
* They covered it with a pelt of a cloaker, trying divination spells with and without it covered.
* Covering it with anything opaque prevented its protective qualities.
** Interestingly, when it was protecting, the area could still be divined -- but the party appeared invisible to the diviner.

=== The Rilmani Prisoner ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, early morning, 1372 DR
* Breaking camp, the party proceeded toward Ribcage.
* The terrain grew more hellish as they neared it.
* On the side of the trail below them, as if in warning, a large construct made of solid gold, smooth limbs held together by blue energy, stood pinned by three infernal iron spikes.
* It watched them curiously.
* The party landed.
* It asked: "Have the ribs sunken into the Nine?"
* The party explained their actions last they had visited Ribcage, including interfering with Zelza's plans to sink the gatetown into the Nine Hells.
* The party freed the Rilmani, Lilia learning that touching any silver to the spiked caused them to shatter -- although Glenn pulled one out with sheer force.
* Grateful, the rilmani gave its name, Tessavyr, and bid the party call toward the Spire for its aid as it hovered away.
* The party (and the mimir) did not know much about these creatures, other than that they are aloof keepers of balance.

=== The Ribcage Gate ===
* The party sighted Ribcage, earthen ribs over a city surrounded by infernal steel walls and a moat of magma.
* There were more abishai guards and abishai patrols in the sky.
* One of the guards recognized the party, bidding them welcome, but to keep their deals clean, as Xarannos would pike them sideways if they made a mess.
* A red cambion leaned against the gate, offering a contract to the party before Smokescale kicked him in the shins, revealing Scabs, another imp, as the illusion collapsed.
* The party proceeded onward to the Beetle Bazaar.

=== To the Bazaar ===
* On the way to the Bazaar, the party sighted a familiar balcony.
* It bore the same two cambion ladies, one green, one red, each in the arm of a much younger noble than before.
** He was happily being fed fruits by the green cambion.
** The red one turned toward the party and flashed wickedly sharp teeth, recognizing them.
* The party arrived at the Beetle Bazaar, busy as many creatures passed in and out of his maw, mandibles held open by javelins.
* Inside, they sighted many of the same vendors as before, including the feather merchant, the sleepy wizard, the gnomish inventor, and others.
* "Caltrop!" a devillish voice called out.

=== The Silvered Fiend ===
* Unit 137 pumped his mechanic legs excitedly as he ran toward Kraxx'Tor, now covered in many more silver chains.
* He bid the party leave him for several hours, as he had an upgrade he had been working on, which should excite Unit 137, as it involved geometry.
* Smokescale stayed with his pal.
* The party's attention was drawn by a new vendor.

=== The Glyph Vendor ===
* An avariel woman, surrounded by vials and pendants containing runes glowing in different colors, spoke with possible customers.
* Octavius's headdress translated these runes to specific words and concepts, like "Honor", "Flight", "Strength", and so on.
* Spotting the party, the avariel bid them welcome, and that while her goods were expensive to produce, the runes would be attracted to ones they were a good match for.
* Indeed, some runes began attuning toward party members within their containers, causing them to tilt toward them.
* The avariel asked what color spoke to them the most.
* "Green!" Glenn, in frog form, shouted gleefully while raising his arms in excitement.
** The DM asked if that was his character's favorite color.
** Marti confirmed that it was.
* Its key uttered, the muddy portal beneath the party's feet activated, sucking them below.

=== The Endless Bog ===
* The party landed into a shallow pool in a bog filled with mounds of rotting vegetables and skulls.
* The sky was oppressive and brown, feeling too close, like a ceiling. Trees were bare, dead mangroves.
* A literal acid rain rained down, causing stinging pain and burns to exposed skin.
* The party recognized this as Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells, a domain of greed.
* A very irate hag's voice called out from all directions: "Twelve years I grew that scheme in the dark, the cambion almost ripe. And you pulled it up like weeds. You don't even know what you destroyed."
** Some party members politely split apart from the others during the monologue.
* "I planted you here like seeds, and seeds don't get to choose which soil they rot in. Beastie, it's time to eat!"
* A dire troll, the size of a giant and featuring multiple heads and limbs, the product of a troll that has been fed other trolls, erupted from the waters in a whirlwind of claws.

=== Encounter: The Moss Hag ===
* Highlights:
** Glenn leaping onto the troll's heads, decapitating one.
** Lilia summoning a fuzzy starry bumblebee, which futilely caused minor wounds to the dire troll that instantly healed.
** The dire troll severely wounding most of the party in a whirlwind of growing limbs.
*** Glenn expertly hid behind his shield.
** The hag popping out of the water, coming out of invisibility to assail the owlin with foul magics, only to be counterspelled and seek refuge in the waters.
** Octavius banished the dire troll to another plane, actively concentrating on keeping him there as long as possible.
** Diedric prepares a spell for when the hag reveals herself again.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mu'ul]], the Psychic Wind Seeker
* [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Sheela_Peryroyl Sheela Peryroyl], the Green Sister (Goddess)
* [[Tessavyr]], the Spiked Rilmani
* [[The Moss Hag]], the Kindly Rune Merchant

== Memes ==
* \o/ "Green! :D"
* The Moss Hag may disagree with the party on the definition of a vegetable.

== DM Thoughts ==
* The party for sure is going to chain Unit 137 to them from now on.