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Date: 14 October 2020

Prev: [[Session 27]]

Next: [[Session 29]]

In the morning, they're awoken by [[Dreli]] strolling down the hall singing "Good Morning to the Sun". The [[Lighthaus Inspektorz]] take about an hour to drag themselves downstairs, where Dreli with a picnic basket is waiting for them. [[Mino]] tries and fails to peek in the basket.

As they walk, Dreli hums "Mambo No. 5", a historical ballad. The party asks her questions on the way and find her answers frustratingly useless. They ask if the quiet zone around the stones is normal, and she says it is. Mino asks "what is the heart of the universe?" to which Dreli replies: "the oneness that connects us all". She comments that Mino's aura shows him in tune with the universe more than the other party members. [[Corrin]] asks a question that has been haunting him for a while: "Is the moon a plane?" but Dreli says no, it isn't. Mino asks [[Quill]] to write that down, and he does, but the minute Mino isn't looking, he erases it. Mino ties a string to his horn to remember.

The party asks about the rest of their auras. Nergil's is "ordinary", which is a lie that Nergil doesn't catch. Corrin's is bright blue, but shadowed. She deliberately insults Quill by telling him his is dull brown. Raen's is the most dramatic and interesting to her, "the saddest red, with shots of gold, and flashes of black lightning".

Everyone checks for moss when they get there, don’t see anything, dreli mvoes forward eyes closed.
“cleans the taint”
She insults quill with the thing
Starts talking to trees, they’re sleepy but she needs to find one with a longer memory that was awake
“shadow man
dispersed a seed into the tainted area”
“up to a year ago”,
She animal friendships a squirrel When he came, the animals fled before him, it was a dark and stormy day
Mino decides tos peak with animals, corrin describes the guy, squirrel mentions the walked awkwardly and “dark leaf covering” and “dark fur”
Mino talks to the squirrel, who confirms; he smelled of “human hardstone” aka metal
Did he smell like metal or just the area? Unable to answer. Why did the squirrel run? It was just not a place to stay.
Mino: If you hear anything, let us know?
Did the guy frommechanus or what? Quill shows the gar, the squirrel
Ro sniffs the gear, finds it downt he trail and around the zone, ro remembers the smell from th e basement but more the laboratory thant he robot rooms
Mino: could we go to mechanus? Raen: are we ready for that???
She’s setting up food, forest temples up north, is there a nature spirit nearby?
Introduces tahm kench, the river king, and gives the background story
“does he count as a river spirit?”
During lunch, there’s a ripping sound
Dreli has a headache and says there’s a thing in town, takes off, the party follows; she casts tree stride and quill realizes she’s psionic somehow.
They each go through the portal: mino, corrin and ro, raen, quill, and nergil. Raen goes invisible, mino rages and charges forward, nergil fireballs, the marilith kills 2 guards easily “you are not worthy to worship her”, quill hastes mino
Raen throws dagger, mino attacks, corrin places bow aside, misses attacks,; raen realizes he’s seen and strikes with hell dagger, dreli is useless; marilith teleports and summons herzou, nergil darkness; pasky appears
Mino attempts to disarm, corrin summons spiders, spiders web 1 herzou, the other one trips; commoners escape; dreli uses entangle but the herzou resists, raen sneak attacks but Marilith begins to parry, quill misses shocking grasp, hezrou trips and the other one breaks the webbing, marilith attacks everyone around her and grapples mino, the knights arrive and attack the spider and also the marilith while corrin asks them not to, nergil blights a herzou
Mino breaks free and hits with greataxe.

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 When they arrive at the stones, everyone moves in to check for moss, but they don't find anything. Dreli moves forward, eyes closed, and pronounces that they have successfully cleansed the taint (she is oblivious to this phrasing's alternative meaning). When Quill expresses doubt, she sneers and informs him that "I don't remember ever meeting someone whose mind was so hopelessly Mundane."
-She moves around and starts talking to the trees. They're sleepy, but after a while, she finds one with a longer memory that was awake recently. The tree reveals that “a shadow man dispersed a seed into the tainted area up to a year ago”.
+She moves around and starts talking to the trees. They're sleepy, but after a while, she finds one with a longer memory that was awake recently. The tree reveals that “a shadow man dispersed a seed into the tainted area up to a year ago”. Dreli then casts ''animal friendship'' on a nearby squirrel, who remembers that when the shadow man came, all of the animals fled, and it was a dark and stormy day. Mino is suspicious that Dreli is not translating correctly, so he begins casting ''speak with animals'' on his own. In the meantime, Corrin describes [[Etheon Symol|the man in the lighthouse]] to the squirrel via Dreli. The squirrel remarks that the man walked awkwardly and had  a "dark leaf covering" (aka clothes) and "dark fur" (aka hair).
-She animal friendships a squirrel When he came, the animals fled before him, it was a dark and stormy day
+After a few minutes, Mino finishes casting and speaks directly to the squirrel who confirms everything that Dreli had been saying. The squirrel also adds that he smelled of "human hardstone", which Mino realizes is metal. Mino follows this by asking if the man specifically smelled like metal, or just the area? but the squirrel is unable to differentiate. He asks why the squirrel and other animals ran, and the squirrel just says that it was not a place it wanted to stay. The party thinks on this for a moment - is the shadow man from [[Mechanus]]? Quill shows the squirrel the gear they found in [[Cape Crusader lighthouse|the lighthouse]], and the squirrel confirms it's the same scent. Corrin has [[Ro]] sniff the gear. Because he remembers the smell from the lighthouse basement, he picks up a faint scent that takes them down the trail that leads up to the top of the standing stone hill, but it ends abruptly. The party realizes he must have teleported away. Mino floats the idea of going to Mechanus, but Raen questions if they're ready for that.
-Mino decides tos peak with animals, corrin describes the guy, squirrel mentions the walked awkwardly and “dark leaf covering” and “dark fur”
-Mino talks to the squirrel, who confirms; he smelled of “human hardstone” aka metal
+At this point, Dreli is setting up the food. The party asks if there are any forest temples nearby, and she says no, more to the north. When asked about nearby nature spirits, she tells the story of [[Tahm Kench]], the River King. The party debates whether or not he would count as a nature spirit. During the meal, there is a ripping sound. Dreli has a headache and exclaims that there is something in town and begins running down the trail. The party quickly rises and begins to follow, but she stops and says this would be too slow. She casts ''tree stride'' without using verbal or material components and Quill realizes that she is psionic somehow, which gives the appearance of being a druid.
-Did he smell like metal or just the area? Unable to answer. Why did the squirrel run? It was just not a place to stay.
-Mino: If you hear anything, let us know?
+As the party arrives through the portal Dreli makes into a downtown square, lined with planters and trees. As each person comes out the other side, they see a marilith engaged with a couple of town guards. Raen immediately uses the ring of invisibility, while Mino rages and charges forward. Nergil follows up with a fireball, but they're unable to stop the marilith from killing two of the guards. As he attacks Mino whispers a plea to [[Winnehild]] for strength, which the marilith hears. She replies using her telepathy, telling him "You are not worthy to worship her".
-Did the guy frommechanus or what? Quill shows the gar, the squirrel
-Ro sniffs the gear, finds it downt he trail and around the zone, ro remembers the smell from th e basement but more the laboratory thant he robot rooms
+Quill casts ''haste'' on Mino as he and Raen begin attacking. Corrin drops his bow after a couple of shots and moves in with his shortsword, but finds himself unable to make much of an impact. Raen realizes the marilith can see through his invisibility. The party also quickly realizes that Dreli is all but useless in a fight, but are cheered when Pasky rockets out of nowhere to join them. Faced with more foes, the marilith summons a pair of herzou to aid her.
-Mino: could we go to mechanus? Raen: are we ready for that???
-She’s setting up food, forest temples up north, is there a nature spirit nearby?
+Corrin uses ''conjure animals'' to summon two spider kings. One spider king webs the herzou, and the other one trips, but it's enough of a distraction for the remaining townspeople in the square to flee. Dreli attempts and fails to ''entangle'' the demons. Meanwhile, Mino attempts to disarm the marilith unsuccessfully, and the marilith parries Raen's attacks and Quill's ''shocking grasp''. She counterattacks everyone around her and grapples Mino with her tail. The hezrous are tripped up by the spiders, but manage to break the webbing. A pair of knights join the fight, although they attack both the spiders and the marilith (not reacting in time to Corrin's attempt to explain the situation). Nergil ''blight''s one of the herzous as Mino breaks free of the marilith's tail and counters with his greataxe.
-Introduces tahm kench, the river king, and gives the background story
-“does he count as a river spirit?”
+[[Category:Campaign Logs]]

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 As they walk, Dreli hums "Mambo No. 5", a historical ballad. The party asks her questions on the way and find her answers frustratingly useless. They ask if the quiet zone around the stones is normal, and she says it is. Mino asks "what is the heart of the universe?" to which Dreli replies: "the oneness that connects us all". She comments that Mino's aura shows him in tune with the universe more than the other party members. [[Corrin]] asks a question that has been haunting him for a while: "Is the moon a plane?" but Dreli says no, it isn't. Mino asks [[Quill]] to write that down, and he does, but the minute Mino isn't looking, he erases it. Mino ties a string to his horn to remember.
-The party asks about the rest of their auras. Nergil's is "ordinary", which is a lie that Nergil doesn't catch. Corrin's is bright blue, but shadowed. She deliberately insults Quill by telling him his is dull brown. Raen's is the most dramatic and interesting to her, "the saddest red, with shots of gold, and flashes of black lightning".
+The party asks about the rest of their auras. [[Nergil]]'s is "ordinary", which is a lie that Nergil doesn't catch. Corrin's is bright blue, but shadowed. She deliberately insults Quill by telling him his is dull brown. [[Raen]]'s is the most dramatic and interesting to her, "the saddest red, with shots of gold, and flashes of black lightning".
 She animal friendships a squirrel When he came, the animals fled before him, it was a dark and stormy day
 Mino decides tos peak with animals, corrin describes the guy, squirrel mentions the walked awkwardly and “dark leaf covering” and “dark fur”