Session 13

Mina and Rusco go to the Capital Ship

• We ask to see Commander Zumnorin Ashine
  • We are taken to his quarters
  • We tell him about the Intellect Devourers and possible Mind Flayers on Bral.
    • He says he’s going to notify someone and asks if we want to stay on board
      • We want to stay and deal with the situation
        • He is saddened by the news but says he understands
• We leave the ship
  • There are alarms going off and activity around the ship has increased

The Capital Ship leaves

The Captain talks to us (Stardate 3.14159)

• He explains what happened while he was gone
  • Liingard was taken over by an Intellect Devourer and had to be killed
  • Ozamata wants us to take care of this problem
    • There is a substantial reward for completing this task
    • The Captain says we are obligated to do it
• We tell him what happened with Bastion Greymon and Pantoren
• We reluctantly agree to take care of this
• The Captain gives us 5 healing potions and 2 greater healing potions to help us out

We discuss our next course of action

• The Unknowable One definitely knows we’re coming
• Mina uses augery to ask the stars if we are on the correct course (receives Weal and Woe response)
• Arwik asks his Goddess but she is uncertain as well
• Rusco meditates and feels the presence of the other asteroids orbiting the same planet as Bral
• Fluke takes MAC aside
  • Suggests that we could borrow money from Yestri and find our own way off of Bral
  • MAC understands his reasoning but feels that it wouldn’t be wise to make a powerful enemy out of Ozamata
• Rusco changes Fennels appearance to that of a cat
• We decide to head to the sewers to start searching

We sneak our way to the nearest sewer entrance (near the Violet Anvil)

• Rusco uses Pass Without Trace to help us
• Morti questions whether sneaking around will help

In the sewers

• We try to find the area under Dimetrius’s house
• There is a slight upward slope on the path we are traveling
• Mina casts Walk on Water on everyone to help us keep our footing
• Morti casts light on Rusco’s staff
• Fluke lights torches along our path to help us find our way back
• We find some people who live in the sewers
  • They seem afraid of us
  • We leave them alone
• Fluke confides to MAC that he isn’t sure where we are but we seem to be somewhere in the Middle City
  • Fluke thinks that we should find another upward slope when we can but isn’t certain
• We find a locked set of bars that leads to a door
  • MAC misty steps to the other side of the bars and ends up in a closet (escape hatch?)
    • Someone walks by the closet
  • MAC peeks through the door
    • There is someone who appears to be binding a book
    • The person is carrying weapons
    • The windows are all covered
    • Something illegal is happening here
  • Rusco turns into a spider and goes to investigate
    • There are about 60 books on a bookshelf that are arranged very haphazardly
    • Rusco looks out one of the windows
      • No one looks at the shop or stops near it
      • The shop doesn’t have a sign but it is close to another shop called “Spellbound Surplus”
  • Arwik thinks that the shop is close to “Gasper’s Reclamations”
• We’ve been searching for an hour
  • Fluke has no idea where we are
    • Suggests that we head to the surface to at least get our bearings
    • Reminds everyone that we don’t know where we’re going

Session 14

Quest Card

We go back to the ship

We discuss our options

• We could find one of the Unknowable One’s thralls and giving them to bring us to him.
• We could talk to the prince
• We could start spreading the information we have as publicly as possible to try and get someone’s attention
• We could head to Dimetrius’s house and start searching there

We head to Dimetrius’s house

• A lot of people are watching us
  • Some just seem curious
  • Others are paying more attentiion
    • We are being followed
      • We make it known that we are aware of our followers

We enter Demetrius’s house

• It looks like nothing has changed

Back in the sewers

• We head back to the area where we fought the Intellect Devourers
  • The bodies have been moved and the area has been cleaned
• We continue exploring
  • Fluke lights torches to help us find our way back
• We find a T-section
  • We find an iron gate blocking our path on one side
    • This one doesn’t have a gap at the bottom
    • Someone small could squeeze through
      • We send Fennel to investigate
        • There isn’t much here
  • We head down the other path
    • MAC and Rusco scout ahead
      • We find a makeshift common area and a bunch of weapons
        • A lot of these belongings were owned by our old shipmates who came down here
          • Rusco keeps the two daggers (they are serviceable but need to be repaired)
    • We keep investigating
      • We find another sleeping area with bedrolls and tents
    • We find a locked door
      • Fluke checks the door and realizes that it’s locked from our side
      • We crack open the door and then change our minds
    • We find and open another door
      - It’s pitch black inside (darkvision doesn’t help)
      - Rusco goes in and gets caught up in a change in gravity

FIGHT!!

We kill the Echo Elf and the Gravity Mage

Session 15

Short rest

• Arwik searches the room we’re in
  • Finds
    • Component Pouch (split by entire party)
    • Glaive with notches for magical gems (Fluke)
    • Spell book (Rusco)

We continue on our way

• We find a gate that is too heavy to lift
  • There is a switch on the other side that seems to open the gate
    • MAC uses Mage Hand to pull the lever but it’s not strong enough
    • MAC pulls the lever again and Arwik slides under the gate quickly to hold the lever down
      • Fluke and MAC come through quickly and help Arwik

We keep going

• We run into another gate with an iron bar across it
  • Mina misty steps to the other side and opens the gate for us
• We find a dilapidated set of stone stairs leading down
  • We carefully make our way down
    • It’s pitch black down here (Only Rusco and Mina can see)

There are two doors

• One is in better shape than the rest of the area
• The other is pretty beaten up
• We go through the nice door
  • We find a set of very old tombs
    • They are for a group of paladins
      • We find:
        • Starlight Pendant (Arwik)
        • Unidentified Sword (Fluke is carrying)
• We open the worn out door
  • It’s carved to look like a skull
    We find ourselves in a cavern
• There are some bioluminescent plants growing and strange glowing crystals around
  • Mina collects one of the crystals
    • It’s very heavy
• We investigate a large chamber
  • Something seems to have carved this chamber
  • Something large comes out of a hole in the ground

FIGHT!!

• We kill the two Umberhulks
• Fluke harvests one of the Umberhulk’s eyes

Session 16

Long Rest

• While we are resting, Rusco spins webs to warn us of anyone approaching
• An intellect devourer walks by
• More people start to arrive
• We come up with a plan to get past them
  • The plan doesn’t work at all

FIGHT!

• We make our way to the next chamber
  • The Unknowable One and an Adolescent Elder Brain are in the room along with a Gravity Mage

Session 17

The fight continues

• Some of us come close to dying
• We manage to kill the Unknowable One and the Elder Brain
  • The Gravity Mage dies shortly afterwards

Session 18

Arwik and Morti have a conversation about combat tactics

• Arwik feels that Morti might be better served by staying out of melee combat
  • Morti agrees
    We investigate the room
• Mina and Arwik find a Red and Silver quill
  • There is no source of ink
• MAC find a strange mercurial substance and puts it in a jar
• We find a tank full of green water
  • Fluke notices that there are three small tadpoles inside (possibly baby mind flayers)
• Rusco investigates the other room
  • It’s very quiet
• Fluke harvests some pieces of the elder brain
• We find a bunch of documents
  • They are written in some kind of code
    • MAC, Rina, and Fluke work together to break the code
      • The notes mention The Return
      • The Return was helping the Unknowable One to create the elder brain (they may already have a presense on Bral)
      • They also mention an individual with a hunch (Mina and Rusco have met someone like them before though probably not the same person)
• We find:
  • 200 gp
  • a magic quill
  • a jar containing a mercurial substance
  • a magic shield
• We investigate the Unknowable One
  • He had a physical connection to the elder brain
    • Usually there is just a psychic connection
      • It’s possible that this was necessary because the elder brain was so young

Morti heals us a bit
We head back to the ship

• The Captain greets us
  • He congratulates us on completing our mission before we say anything
  • We show him the journal and the tadpoles
    • He asks for them and we give them to him
• The Captain tells us that we will be leaving as soon as he returns from talking to Ozamata
• Rusco etches a message (Hope) in druidic in the stone by the dock in case any other druids come here

The Captain returns and we depart from Bral

• We are headed to Hanbaishi
  • It is a 15 day trip with a refresh on Day 8

We’re Level 6 now!!!!