The Thirty-Second Session

October 3, 2020, Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

We prepare to leave Leen, but the spiders attack. And then we get a quest from a Firbolg, to save a magic Sky Staff from the home of a spidery woman named Kerjes who lives under a tree.

Last session
The Ceremony
That night
The morning after
Spoils
Next session

Last session

Well, all this stuff happened. In short:

Moon tried to steal Ryltar's Ice Heart of Winter, but was captured by the Party.
It turns out that Moon was responsible for creating the Battle Locusts that showed up at Sky Diamond Academy. She wanted to use them to perpetrate genocide upon the Yuan-ti.
The group traveled to Leen, and did some shopping.
Bugfood cast Ceremony: Atonement four times, to try to change Moon's alignment from Lolth to Ioun.

The Ceremony

We've gathered in a space recessed in the woods, with torches lit, to run the ceremony. Each ceremony attempt takes an hour; on the fourth hour the spell succeeds somewhat: there is a flash of light, and Bugfood is almost blinded by it. The light passes over Bugfood, and he finds himself in darkness, with a light approaching him. He drifts closer, seeing Moon, naked, suspended in the darkness by white threads which pierce through her and vanish off into the distance. Another flash, another flash, and three of the threads flash and dissolve.

The snapped threads free her neck, abdomen, and left leg. The darkness behind her shifts, and a spider's legs move and turn, revealing an impossibly large Drow woman with horns above her head. She gently reaches out and wraps a hand around Moon, gently pulling Moon back towards Lolth. Another flash! The tension releases and Moon collapses.

It's late at night, like 10 p.m.

Bugfood suggests we tie her up again and get some shuteye. Zelrathi helps him tie her up again.

From the road comes some clapping and happy squeaking: a light-furred firbolg with purple nose and lavender spirally pompadour. The firbolg has two pairs of horns and wears a purple bathrobe, and is very jovial. "Oh, bravo!" he calls. Zelrathi asks who he is, and the firbolg replies, "I'm Eta'el!" It appears he enjoyed the service. "I just flew in, and I heard people were doing magic, and I wanted to see the spectacle."

"Magic?! No, this is the power of prayer!" says Bugfood, who is channeling a Baptist preacher. He objects to the spectacle framing.

It turns out that the Firbolg is looking for someone to help recover his "Sky Staff", and with some prying we get some information from him: he lost it in an altercation with Kerjes, and if we can confront her in her home, under the biggest tree around, we can steal anything from her home. Bugfood and Zelrathi doubt his motives, yet Insight checks reveal that his emotions are 100% sincere, though missing something.

"Have you done item retrieval before?" he asks. We reply in the affirmative. "So how about 4000 gold up front, and whatever you can carry out."

We huddle up. Salris is in favor of taking the contract. Zelrathi says it's suspicious as fuck. Ryltar trusts the vibe-checker in chief, Bugfood, who is currently forehead-to-forehead, praying with the masked Firbolg. Bugfood doesn't see anything wrong with the Firbolg.

Bugfood excuses himself, saying he needs to take care of something, Wildshapes to a giant spider, "winks" by brushing half his eyes with a pedipalp, and goes off to cocoon Moon, who is relieved. The Firbolg coos at the sight.

Jerry takes a minute to use her Primeval Awareness to check for aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead in the surrounding mile, but none are there. This Firbolg is probably a Firbolg.

We don't know of any evil gods of the sky. And the "Sky Staff" is probably associated with a sky or storm god. Maybe Cord.

He demonstrates a mask which holds itself to his face without stick or strap, and opens up to reveal an inner face.

He talks to Moon a little bit, asking her questions; Bugfood ushers him away. We discuss what we'll do with Moon if we take on the

Jerry asks him a lot of questions; Eta'el's face drops. "First off, do not trust any word she says. She's very much protective of her home, and it's protective of her." It's some sort of living tree? "Let's go with that. The brambles move, the thorns move. People get lost in there all the time. They seem to go around in circles. There's a lot of other nasty little critters that call the base of the tree home, like snakes and unruly birds. She's a sharp-tongued snake in the grass who needs to be defeated."

The staff is wood with clouds floating around it, looking like it should go in the sky.

Jerry scowls. "Can you defeat her, Eta'el?"

"Maybe."

"Why do you say Maybe?"

"If I still had my Sky Staff, we would be on even footing."

Jerry asks him to come with us, to provide assistance and help recognize the Sky Staff if she's created false ones. He doesn't agree to come, but does so while deflecting.

Zelrathi walks away from the Firbolg back to the party, and says that he's a hard no on accepting the job.

Salris is still in favor of accepting the contract, and Bugfood is taking the opinion of Salris. Bugfood just wants a cool mask.
Jerry is now opposed.
Zelrathi is a hard no.
Ryltar is a hard maybe.
Vurguron abstains.

Jerry suggests that we ask around in Leen for information about Eta'el and Kerjes.

We ask Eta'el where we can find him later; he says his home is wherever he is. He likes to live in towns.

That night

Zelrathi takes the first watch, and Bugfood slips into Wildshape of a cat to follow Eta'el.

Alarms and bells go off in Leen. We're at the south end, and we're out of sight of Leen. Vurguron stays behind to watch over Moon. Salris, Ryltar, Zelrathi and Jerry travel into Leen, taking some disguise effects and Jerry's Pass Without Trace.

In Leen, people are arming up. Zelrathi, who hasn't caused any ruckus in Leen, steps out of the field of Pass Without Trace and asks a guard what's up. He says that the spiders are attacking, again.

Ryltar goes back to fetch Vurguron and Moon; Vurguron decides to stay back and guard Moon, out of the main combat.

Against the spiders.

There are 6 brown spiders and 7 blue-and-white spiders outside the town's waist-high wall.

Round 1
1. Salris casts that spell he's been wanting to cast ever since he got it: light dims around him. If something attacks him, it takes an attack from shadowy tentacles.
2. The spiders move; three of the spiders phase out of visibility.
3. Ryltar advances beyond the wall to cast Ice Storm.
4. Jerry determines that the blue-and-white spiders are Monstrosities, casts Hunter's Mark, and with Whirlwind Attack and Extra Attack makes three attacks, smashing one spider to paste and heavily wounding the second.
5. Zelrathi casts Haste on Jerry and Salris.
Round 2.
1. Salris is mad that spider attacks aren't hitting him and so he can't hit them with shadowy tentacles. He puts his shield away. The bonus from Haste still causes the attacks to be shrugged off.
2. The spiders attack Jerry for 21 piercing and poison, and Salris but fail.
3. Ryltar casts Fairy Fire on several spiders.
4. Jerry, with Haste, pops two blue-and-white spiders and brings one next to Salris to Half.
5. A brown spider attacks Jerry for 19 poison and piercing. Another spider begins to wrap up a city guard.
6. Zelrathi Eldritch Blasts a spider.
Round 3:
1. Salris still hasn't been harmed, but pops the spider Jerry popped.
2. One of the blue-and-white spiders grabs a cocooned villages on the east side and begins to run away. Two more spiders begin to cocoon another guard on the east side. There's another guard cocooned on the west side.
3. Ryltar does something to try to save one of the webbed villages, but fails.
4. Jerry attacks a brown spider on the west side, and fails to pop it. But that attack lets her use Mobile to disengage from it, so she runs after the blue-and-white spider absconding with a cocooned villages, and she pops it.
5. A brown spider on the west side begins to run off with a townsperson. Another attacks Salris, and after the resistance math is done, he takes 8 damage and the spider takes some.
6. Zelrathi does some Eldritch Blasts to the fleeing brown spider, but only brings it down to 1/3 health.
Round 4:
1. Salris is flanked by two spiders, and he cuts them up.
2. A blue-and-white spider tries to attack Jerry, but fails.
3. Ryltar tries to cast Slow on every brown spider on the left side of the road into Leen, including one that's trying to abscond.
4. Jerry pops one brown spider with a critical hit and Hunter's Mark (3d10+6d6+5), then moves Hunter's mark to the immediately-adjacent spider that had just attacked her (and misses), then runs to attack the last blue-and-white spider which is absconding with another townsperson.
5. Three brown spiders attack Salris, dealing a lot of damage which is absorbed by the spell he cast and which is returned to the spiders.
6. Zelrathi serves some of the absconding spiders a heaping plate of Eldritch Blast.
Round 5
1. Salris kills one brown spider, healing from his Hexblade Curse and a Potion of Greater Healing.
2. One blue-and-white spider drops its bound prisoner and tries to flee. Jerry's reaction attack pops it.
3. Ryltar uses the Ice Heart of Winter to kill a brown spider.
4. Jerry pops the last blue-and-white spider, then runs over to Salris to attack the two spiders attacking him. She pops one and deals 24 damage to the second one before disengaging.
5. The remaining brown spider tries to run away; since it's Slowed, Salris' reaction pops it.
6. Zelrathi casts Healing Word on Jerry for 8 healing
Round 6
1. Salris advances on one of the fleeing brown spiders to attack it, but doesn't kill it.
2. Ryltar casts ray of Frost on one spider, trying to slow its movement, but he hits a tree.
3. Jerry attacks the brown spider that's carrying a townsperson, and with two attacks, pops it. Then she removes to the remaining spider and attacks it once, halving its remaining health.
4. That spider tries to flee. Jerry's attack of opportunity kills it.

Bugfood and Eta'el

Bugfood follows Eta'el as a cat.

Eta'el skips along a wall, and eventually skips off higher and higher, 10 feet up for every 30 feet forward.

Bugfood sits down, wraps his tail around his paws, and watches Eta'el skip away into the sky. He's headed off towards a cloud.

But this has taken enough time that the commotion to the north side of town has died down.

Vurguron and Moon

Vurguron exerts dominance by pulling a Gendo Ikari. He stares at a bound and gagged Moon, the firelight glinting in his spectacles.

It's a hot minute while the fighting goes on north of town.

Bugfood returns.

The spider carnage

We start to cut the town guards free of their webbing. Most are conscious; all require healing.

Jerry pulls eyes and fangs and poison glands from the 16 spiders, recovering 40 eyes and 14 poison glands.

The guards say that the spiders come from the north-northeast, attacking three times in the last month. The first time it was 2, then 6, now 16. They've heard of attacks on travelers on the road from Quadroads, but not from the south. And the spiders are getting bigger with every wave.

The guards show us "the leg", pulling a leg out of a guard shack and putting it next to tonight's kills: this night's spider leg is 6-7 inches longer than the leg from 20 days ago.

Jerry asks what the guards' plan is for the next wave. They say they're planning to evacuate south. Jerry recommends the Dwarven-Orcish North Haven, or coming with us to Quadroads.

Ryltar asks the guard about the Firbolg, Eta'el. They say that he's been around for a couple weeks, trying to hire people to go retrieve an item. Most people haven't accepted his offer, but there was a group that left last week, and they seem to have been paid up front.

The guards say that the tree where Kerjes lives is the Bonjoo tree (like a Banyan tree from Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda games, Hometree from James Cameron's Avatar, or Caras Galadhon from The Lord of the Rings), a giant tree in the forest. Kerjes has green skin, and so might be a hag or a witch.

We discuss potential plans for the next few days. Various plans are proposed; enough votes are in favor of telling Eta'el the Firbolg "Yes, after we go to Quadroads to take care of the prisoner problem" that we decide it's a good idea. Zelrathi says he'll sleep on it and talk to his patron.

Zelrathi and his patron

Zelrathi arrives at the bar. It's empty at first, but eventually Arye comes out to behind the bar.

"Arye, I've got a lot of questions that I really need some answers on."

"And I've got a request."

"Well, you first, you're the one with the powers here."

"Don't go home.

"Don't go home? To the temple? Well, why not?"

"Pain."

Zelrathi is confused, but accepts. He lays out the question of the Firbolg Eta'el, who Zelrathi doesn't think is trustworthy or a nice person.

Arye ponders. "Eta'el, you say?"

"Yes. Do you know him?"

Zelrathi sees a ghostly image of Eta'el's form show up at the bar.

"Thaaaat's not normal," says Zelrathi. "What's going on?"

"What they've said is not a lie."

"My issue is not what they've said. My issue is that they've avoided answering any questions! Because as it stands, I can't now in good conscience follow this person."

"I knew Kerjes when she was young."

"You knew Kerjes! Who is Kerjes? He won't answer anything about her.

"She is one that ought to be destroyed."

"Okay, but what bout him?" Zelrathi points at the ghostly apparition of Eta'el. "Choosing between the lesser of two evils is still evil."

"I cannot answer something that I do not know."

"I am asking your advice."

"If their intention is to remove power from Kerjes, then their intention is good."

"I don't believe that, though. I don't believe that someone who has acted the way that they did&mdahs;"

"There are free spirits in this world. Those who are unique and need to be understood."

"Well, that doesn't help me. But I have my answer."

Zelrathi waits to wake up, but the metagaming bird lands on his shoulder, and reminds him of the place that he showed up the last time he slept, where Arye forced him awake. And as soon as Zelrathi brings it up, she leaves and he wakes up.

He still doesn't have an answer from her to the Moon question.

The morning after

Zelrathi informs the party that he will help take Moon to the temple of Ioun in Quadroads, but he won't join the party to help Eta'el against Kerjes. Zelrathi offers to go to Quadroads alone, but we all decide to go with him.

Bugfood does Sky Write to say to Eta'el, "We accept, bring gold and mask :)". The clouds are rewritten to say ":)". Mid-morning, Eta'el appears from the forest outside our camp. He asks, "So you accept?"

"We have some conditions," says Ryltar. We're going to Quadroads first. Bugfood wants the mask first, and he wants to cast Identify on it.

We pull out a map, and Eta'el shows us about where the tree is: well past Sky Diamond, many days' travel to the east. If we're traveling by road, going through Quadroads makes good sense. 4 days' to Quadroads, five days to another town, eight days to Sky Diamond, another three days to the tree.

There's also a temple of Ioun outside of Sky Diamond, but we all agree it's not a good idea to take her near the academy.

The danger is that if we leave Zelrathi and Moon in Quadroads, and the thing we find at the tree is bad enough to require assistance, we would be 20 days away from Zelrathi's assistance. But Bugfood points out that in a level of time, he'll be able to travel through trees, and Ryltar points out the town in the deep forest where the Woven Council meets with the Drow which will be full of Elven wizards. And leaving Zelrathi in Quadroads will give him opportunities to research into his prophecies.

So we'll go to Quadroads first, and then decide our path from there.

Eta'el hands over the mask, and Bugfood and Zelrathi cast Identify on it.

These complementary half-masks can be worn separately or together.

The right half-mask is porcelain white with golden inlay. This mask reveals to you the best side of the world, as well as the best side of you to the world. While worn alone the mask grants advantage on Animal Handling, Performance, and Persuasion checks, while disadvantage on Deception, Intimidation, and Insight checks.

The left half-mask is obsidian black with ruby dust inlay. This mask reveals to you the subversive side of the world, as well as the subversive side of you to the world. While worn alone the mask grants advantage on Deception, Intimidation, and Insight checks, while disadvantage on Animal Handling, Performance, and Persuasion checks.

While both half-masks are worn together these features are suspended. In their place you can use an action to cast either the Clairvoyance, Nystul's Magic Aura, and Tongues spells, without the need of material components. Once the mask has been used to cast a spell in this manner that spell can't be used to cast that spell again until the next dawn. You must continually wear the full mask to benefit from these spells for their duration.

We realize that this helps people cast Mask, which would disguise whether they're a fey or a fiend. We might've reached a bargain with a devil.

Eta'el hands over the gold, and we split it among the five people who'll be doing Eta'el's task

Jerry spends a minute thinking about it with Primeval Awareness. Eta'el is not an Aberration, Celestial, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, or Undead.

Spoils

800 gold each for Bugfood, Salris, Ryltar, Vurguron and Jerry
The Mask, described above

Next session

We'll go to Quadroads, and leave Zelrathi and Moon there
Then we'll go complete Eta'el's quest.

Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

Date	Name	Excerpt
Apr 25, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Session	The Party drops off Seamus with Salris, and returns Llewyll to the Woven Council. We then rest up, and return to the dungeon to kill the Beholder. Looting ensues. And then Embersia draws from the Deck of Many Things.
Apr 11, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Session	We explore the tunnels underneath the audtionhouse, and find many treasures and expensive things, including Llewell, the son of Thallia, heir presumptive of the Burning Blood. Several people almost die, including Llewell, but we find the painting of A.R.N. and kill it before teleporting back to Quadroads. We've made a new enemy: Xanathar the Beholder, who owned the horde we raided.
Mar 28, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Session	We start the auction, and reach the intermission. We slaughter a bunch of people. Then we get stuck in a puzzle for an hour, trying to find the painting of A.R.N.
Mar 14, 2026	The HUndred and Thirty-Sixth Session	We go to Setton and do some reconnaissance, finding little.
Feb 28, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Session	After planning out the next few sessions' heisting, we take a quick relaxing trip to West Haven to repair our relations with Magister Andraste Netyoine.
Feb 14, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Session	We leave Lanthet and return to Quadroads. Salris can't come, so Seamus is convinced to come in his stead, and we head to Setton. A.R.N. desires our services for a heist: killing a painting.
Jan 31, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Third Session	In Lanthet, we kill a bunch of elementals and summoners, and rescue Merrill.
Jan 17, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-Second Session	Merrill in Peril. We go to Lanthet, and discover it beseiged by tribal summoners and Earth, Fire, and Lightning Elementals. We decide to attack the elementals.
Jan 3, 2026	The Hundred and Thirty-First Session	We solve a political problem for Vurguron with some minor violence, and incidentally unocver another Cult attempt to kill lots of people, this time in the South Haven.
Dec 6, 2025	The Hundred and Thirtieth Session	We save the Ascendants, burning even more spell slots. Ryltar has to give up the Ice Heart of Winter to Enigma Cortex Belladonna. The Ascendants send us to South Haven, to help the Draconic Empire.
Nov 8, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Session	We explore the Quadroads a bit, and interfere in an immolation of religious materials. Many cultists are killed, and two people rescued, but at significant cost. We take a short rest.
Oct 25, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Session	We fight Belladonna. We don't win. And around us, everything gets worse.
Sep 13, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Session	Mer-fey backstory! Embersia's divine intervention returns the fey realm to its origin, and the Fey to their original forms. A pact is made, boons granted, and the story of the Fey Seeds told. The Party returns to the Material Plane, and is met by Shadow Belladonna.
Aug 2, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Session	The Mummy Lord Degrazil is killed. We start the renewal of Lake Renewal, and discover a population of beings in an underwater forest at the bottom of the lake.
Jun 7, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Third Session	After saving one Ascendant, we get boons from the others. Salris experiences an attempt on his soul. We return to Viper's Cove and find the remnants of a ritual. We travel to Sky Diamond Academy, rescue Guy from some vines, and learn that Belladonna has been tracking down parts of her self to reassemble them. There may be a connection between the prophesied stars and her fractured self.
Apr 26, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-Second Session	With more fighting through the dungeon, we locate the missing Ascendant and save them with a Teleport. Then we exit the temple.
Apr 12, 2025	The Hundred and Twenty-First Session	We decide to go hunt down the missing Ascendant. We enter the damaged temple of Oghma and begin to delve its basement, encountering many different enemies.
Mar 29, 2025	The Hundred and Twentieth Session	We return to Quadroads. The Cultists of the Burnt Tree have been wrecking stuff in Quadroads, and we've been asked to help eliminate them. Also one of the Ascendants might be missing. Moon has a thing for Ryltar.
Mar 1, 2025	The Hundred-And-Eighteenth Session	Jerry gains new tools; Jarasoom steals from Jerry to benefit Embersia. We find the journal of Orrel, describing where the last battle against Belladonna. The Drow appear at the Library.
Feb 15, 2025	The Hundred and Seventeenth Session	We continue to explore the Arcadia Infinatum. Jerry delves too greedily and too deep, and gets chased by even more corrupted knowledge-seekers. Rajahtesh tempts Ryltar with all of Ioun's knowledge. Percival is challenged by Jarasoom, the huge Brass Dragon, and doesn't impress him. Embersia searches for knowledge of the Library itself.
Jan 18, 2025	The Hundred and Sixteenth Session	We meet the library's Arbiter and Guardian, and explore the library. We found out some things about the prophecy, and the past.
Jan 4, 2025	The Hundred and Fifteenth Session	We run away from Dirius. We find the Library. Embersia admits she was in love with Sergith and let the Shield get stolen.
Dec 21, 2024	The Hundred and Fourteenth Session	We encounter and defeat a Demilich. We break into a chest and save Embersia from her first death, and then Dirius decides to attack us.
Dec 7, 2024	The Hundred and Thirteenth Session	We find the source of the mysterious desert statues: a Medusa! Thanks to a show of trust from Ryltar, we solve her curse without fighting her or an army of protective statues. And then we fight some sandworms.
Nov 23, 2024	The Hundred and Twelfth Session	We spend months journeying across the Red Sands, and encounter some strange things.
Nov 9, 2024	The One Hundred and Eleventh Session	In the Red Wastes, we spend some time travleing. Dirius and Ryltar do their questioning.
Oct 26, 2024	The Hundred and Tenth Session	Dirius' expedition sets off across the desert. An elephant is involved.
Oct 12, 2024	The Hundred and Ninth Session	Vurguron cleans house. We learn that Sergith was working for Belladonna. Vurguron details a paladin to support the Party, and the Party goes off to Zennar, where they meet with Dirius and the Harbingers of Discovery.
Sep 28, 2024	The Hundred and Eighth Session	The Prima Dominous competition: Can Vurguron defeat Sergith?
Sep 14, 2024	The Hundred and Seventh Session	We find the Platinum Scale of Bahamut.
Aug 17, 2024	The Hundred and Sixth Session	Vurguron sneaks into the Open Session and invokes Prima Dominus. It doesn't go as he expected.
Aug 3, 2024	The Hundred and Fifth Session	Vurguron networks to gain support for his Prima Domnius challenge against Sergith for control of the Third House, and gains support of many houses.
Jun 8, 2024	The Hundred and Third Session	We travel to the South Haven, to Vurguron's home. Vurguron's family has been usurped; they no longer control the Third House.
May 11, 2024	The Hundred and Second Session	The Prodigal Son returns to the Byron home, and breaks with his father.
Apr 27, 2024	The Hundred and First Session	We discover the false priest, and a plot to open a portal with obsidian pumice "wrenches". This comes to a head at the Umberlee service, as the false priest summons a shoggoth. We kill th false priest and the shoggoth, placate Umberlee, and then close the portal.
Mar 30, 2024	The Hundredth Session	After extensive planning, we search around and find the location of the Thieves' Guild base, and throw out the plans. Bugfood's sister Miranda is extracted from her cell, and then we roll Plan A: Percival the Stoat Seller. This allows us to bypass a couple of fights, and cut direct to the Big Bad fight against the entire Thieves' Guild, whom we splatter across their underground lair.
Mar 2, 2024	The Ninety-Ninth Session	A short summary of actions: interrogate the Thieves.
Feb 17, 2024	The Ninety-Eighth Session	Having teleported to the area near Maymoor, the Party sets out to find Bugfood. Finding him, the Party then sets out to find Miranda. We enter an underground base of some sort, kill some Thieves, and are flushed out when they flood the base. We did not find Miranda, but we did capture a Thief, who gives us directions to where 'The Brigade' can be found.
Feb 3, 2024	The Ninety-Seventh Session	We learn of the history of the Dereshars' curse, and upset the crew of the Nightmare. Then we sink the ship and return to Quadroads, where we revive Seamus and prepare to go save Bugfood.
Jan 20, 2024	The Ninety-Sixth Session	We save Salris.
Jan 6, 2024	The Ninety-Fifth Session	Some retconning happens; we pick up some other plot threads. Belladonna still attacks Quadroads; we still brief the Ascendants. Then we go to Dirius' talk and learn of Dirius' upcoming expedition to the First Library in the Red Wastes. Percival's father sends a message. Jerry dreams of Bugfood.
Nov 11, 2023	The Ninety-Fourth Session	We go to tackle the little ghost, which turns out to be Belladonna. Oops. She's partially freed now. So we go off to find Salris, and aid him in his situation at Viper Cove.
Oct 14, 2023	The Ninety-Third Session	Shopping in Quadroads, and we plan improvements to the Regular Inn. We gain access to the Teleportation Circles of the Temple of Ioun, and check in with Moon. We gain audience with the Ascendants tomorrow. Thrai is happy to hear that we've done some stuff, but now she needs us to deal with a spectre. And Bugfood leaves us a message about Salris.
Sep 30, 2023	The Ninety-Second Session	Jerry dies. Jerry lives. We smash the canoptic jars. We recover Ockoh and some flail snail shells..
Sep 16, 2023	The Ninety-First Session	We return to Sky Diamond and learn some things about Belladonna: she caused the Divergence. Then we go to the pyramid, learn of the Quadroads mission to explore it, and enter ourselves. It's a small little pyramid, but it's also hard to get into without dying. We defeat the first floor, and find the second.
Sep 2, 2023	The Ninetieth Session	We fight the Mummy Lord Degrazil at Lanthet, and almost kill him, but fail to prevent him from taking Kerjes' body back to his Lady, Mistress Silra Edenair, also known as Belladonna.
Aug 19, 2023	The Eighty-Ninth Session	Having finished our goals in the Yuan-Ti temple, we teleport to Sky Diamond Academy. Guy catches us up on the nature of the stars: they represent items made with Fey Seeds. We have 3 of 6, maybe? Also the divination professor at SDA is a fraud, it seems, but for a bard he's really good at teaching divination. We're responsible for his upcoming disciplinary hearing.
Aug 5, 2023	The Eighty-Eighth Session	We kill a whole lot of Yuan-Ti, and recover our stuff. Vurguron and Jerry nearly die.
Jul 8, 2023	The Eighty-Sixth Session	The mysterious entity under the tree is revealed as Belladonna, also known as Nightshade, Poisoner of the Mother of the Forest! Enemy of Wint! Furthermore, she's the patron of Salris and his brother! We skedaddle back to Setton, and do some shopping. Salris leaves on a quest.
Jun 10, 2023	The Eighty-Fifth Session	We go to Kerjes' tree, find Eta'el. The Sky Giant claims the hoard, and denies our claim, so we fight, and we win. Then we go to investigate the mysterious thing in the basement of the tree, which is …
May 27, 2023	The Eighty-Fourth Session	We kill time in the Woven Council, go shopping, and hold a small party. Then we hit Level 14.
May 13, 2023	The Eighty-Third Session	Kerjes shows up with the Roc; we kill her.
Apr 15, 2023	Strategy Session: Defeating Kerjes	We come up with a game plan, meet a Magister, clean up the demons, and do some prep work. We have a team, and we have more weapons.
Apr 1, 2023	The Eighty-Second Session	We run around the city, do some combat, and try to figure out what we'll do when Kerjes shows up. A long rest occurs, so we are finally feeling a little healthier.
Mar 18, 2023	The Eighty-First Session	We find Ren's body, which is mostly scraps. We then find the portal, and manage to close it. Jerry is a Giant Ape now.
Feb 18, 2023	The Eightieth Session	Lanthet is beseiged. We set out to lift the siege by closing the demon portal, which might be in the governor's mansion. After a quick treck through the sewers, and encounters with The Lost Boys and a Sewer Sarlaac, we enter the governor's mansion and kill the Marilith, since she happens to be there. And then we scamper off into the sewers again.
Feb 4, 2023	The Seventy-Ninth Session	We arrive in Lanthet, and discover a city beset by demons. Entering the city, we sneak arounduntil we locate Jerry's family in a beseiged temple. After breaking the siege, we escort the trapped people to a more-defensible location. Kerjes returns, notices our presence, and demands our heads by tomorrow. Kerjes was wounded, and Ren's sacrifice damages her again.
Jan 21, 2023	The Seventy-Eighth Session	The Party departs the Forest with borrowed gear, and arrives in Setton. We kill a Rakshasa that was impersonating Ryltar's girlfriend, but lose the girlfriend. After restocking,we travel to Ren, who tells us that Kerjes is on the move, headed to Jerry's hometown.
Jan 7, 2023	The Seventy-Seventh Session	The Party is captured by the Yuan-Ti. Jerry goes John McClane. The Captain of the Verdant Guard is revealed as an agent of Kerjes. Ryltar rescues the Party with Dimension Door. We set off in search of new equipment, reassurance that Kerjes will not go after Jerry's family, and revenge upon the Yuan-Ti.
Oct 29, 2022	The Seventy-Sixth Session	The people of the forest go their different ways. The West Haven militia returns to the Yuan-Ti stronghold, to attack it, and the Party follows. But we are betrayed by the West Haven captain, leaving Jerry alone and all else captured or dying.
Oct 15, 2022	The Seventy-Fifth Session	A Potion of Diminuation lets us carry the tree out of the Yuan-Ti stronghold, and we successfully replant the Lady of the Forest on her throne. Percival becomes her Protector, and we return to the Touched village. Jerry cures Majorie.
Oct 1, 2022	The Sevnty-Fourth Session	We slay a great many Yuan-Ti, but not their self-deifying leader. The prophet, Sev, leads us to a fungal grove where the Mother of the Forest sleeps, and we try to wake her, to no avail, It's time to contact Bugfood!
Sep 17, 2022	The Seventy-Third Session	We discover a batch of prisoners in the temple, free them, and arm them. Then we clean up after some guards, before discovering the biggest baddie yet in the room: A Yuan-Ti Abomination.
Sep 3, 2022	The Seventy-Second Session	Dungeon crawling time! We hack and slash our way through the tunnels beneath the Yuan-ti ziggurat.
Aug 20, 2022	The Seventy-First Session	The Party reconnoiters the Yuan-ti city, then waits for an opportune moment to sneak in. Under heavy rain, we enter the city, and blast our way into the temple, killing guards with overpowered magic, and finally we come to the open stone door. Inside is a dark room, and noises.
Jul 23, 2022	The Seventieth Session	Commissioned by the Ancient Elm, the Party goes to find the Mother of the Forest, who may have been kidnapped by the Yuan-Ti. We find a Yuan-Ti compound in the forest, and Salris reconnoiters it.
Jun 11, 2022	The Sixty-Eighth Session	Percival emerges from a short coma determined to help the Forest. We persuade him to join us on our quest to rid the forest of corruption, permanently. To the northwest we travel, and get caught in a series of painful encounters. Jerry almost dies.
May 28, 2022	The Sixty-Seventh Session	Heading to the Jimenju tree to find out more about how to become TOuched be the Forest, we encounter Percival. He's pursued by one of the Eyes of the Forest, which we kill. Salris' new patron expresses itself in his casting. Then the half-Elf Werebear Fernard leads us to the Jimenju tree, which is very very creepy.
May 14, 2022	The Sixty-Sixth Session	The Party continues snooping upon Majorie's Tribe, and eventually confronts her. We are introduced to the tribe, and the Speaker, and learn of the mysteries of the forest. The tribe are eating poison all the time, but aren't harmed because they're Touched By The Forest. They do this to prevent the spread of the forest's corruption, when the Assassin killed the mother of the forest, leaving behind the Ancient Elm and the Assassin's Tears.
Apr 30, 2022	The Sixty-Fifth Session	A.R.N. pays the Party with a quick teleport to the Kulahaar Wilds, where Majorie was last seen in a scrying painting. There, we cross some weird forests to snoop on Majorie's Tribe. They're doing weird things, staring at the sky all night, with glowing eyes.
Apr 16, 2022	The Sixty-Fourth Session	With the artist A.R.N. saved, the Party returns to The Hunter's Table to rest. Vurguron finds a friend of his father, who challenges Vurguron to a fight so that he may hand over a legendary shield to Vurguron. The Party restocks on potions, and then returns to A.R.N. to get paid. A.R.N. does some scrying, and we see our first image of Majorie in a long time.
Apr 2, 2022	The Sixty-Third Session	The Party explores more of ARN's mansion, and wins a poetry slam battle. Then we find ARN, and the statue that ARN is carving. The Party nearly dies in the process.
Mar 19, 2022	The Sixty-Second Session	We begin to explore the second floor of A.R.N.'s mansion, and discover the basement accidentally. With the assistance of a painting, we manage not to die as we make our way through the courtyard into another section of the basement, and from there, into the kitchen. There's more tunnels left to explore, however, and we're still in pretty bad shape.
Feb 19, 2022	The Sixty-First Session	Majorie is alive and with her tribe, so the Party decides to go do some social networking by rescuing A.R.N. The first few rooms of the mansion of A.R.N. nearly kill us.
Feb 5, 2022	The Sixtieth Session	The Party arrives in Setton, and visits a hunters' guild. The Party learns of a quest to to save an artist, missing in a mansion. Ryltar makes friends with the Half-Orc scroll-scribe Guleva. Salris changes patrons. Jerry ponders our next steps.
Jan 22, 2022	The Fifty-Ninth Session	The Tall Missionary takes the Noble Daughter hostage, and dies an innocent at Ryltar's wand. The murderer is revealed as a Rakshasa, which had disguised itself as the Noble Husband. The sea monster disappears, but a curse lingers over the ship until it is removed. The ship is repaird and sails on. The Party offers custodianship of the Regular Inn to the ship's boy, Xander.
Jan 8, 2022	The Fifty-Eighth Session	We interrogate nine captives about the death of the carpenter's mate, Xaban, but get no useful answers. A baby manticore is discovered in an unmarked crate in the hold, and exonerated of the murder. Its owners, two crewmembers, are chastised. An aquatic beast approaches the ship, and the murderer is revealed.
Dec 11, 2021	The Fifty-Seventh Session	The Cumberlite Isles hide a bloody secret, beneath their verdant hills. We nope the fuck out of there, but not after first going on a drunken bender. The ship's complement discovers a thief onboard, and then a saboteur-slash-murderer.
Nov 13, 2021	The Fifty-Sixth Session	Salris catches up with his brother, Seamus. Seamus now captains his own ship, cursed to resurrect anyone who dies on board. The Party skedaddle, boarding passage to the Cumberlite Isles, and defeat a Sea Dragon along the way.
Oct 16, 2021	The Fifty-Fifth Session	An energetic encounter with lake trolls on the river to Greyharbor results in four trolls dead and one swimming away. The Party buys supplies for desert travel, and seeks passage on a boat to a new town. Salris finds his brother, and reveals himself to him.
Oct 2, 2021	The Fifty-Fourth Session	The Party talks with an upset Thrai. We mysteriously gain the deed to the Regular Inn in Quadroads. After teleporting to the Woven Council to pick up some potions and say hi to Ren, we fload downriver to Riverbend, and thence to Greyharbor.
Sep 18, 2021	The Fifty-Third Session	The Party is celebrated in Quadroads. Majorie is fine, but in the deserts of the north. Salris decides not to follow through on his latest assassination contract. Ryltar identifies the Far Realm Shard, and attunes to it. The celebrations are attacked by assassins targeting Dirius, and the Party saves her life.
Aug 21, 2021	The Fifty-First Session	We sprint towards Quadroads, interruped only by a midnight battle with Rezzik Brazzik and two bands of assassins. Kerjes is on our tail, as are the Drow. The Drover dies, and Ryltar puts a hit out on Dirius with Rezzik Brazzik. Thrai is aghast.
Aug 7, 2021	The Fiftieth Session	The Party finds Thrai's missing Halfling companion, who is full of spiderlings. He dies. Thrai blows up the cave system, which we escape just barely. We name the ensuing depression as Rogo's Lake, after the Halfling. Percival teleports away, and the the rest of the Party begins the trek back to Quadroads. Among the loot is an ominous note messaging Majorie, Jerry's daughter.
Jul 24, 2021	The Forty-Ninth Session	The Party defeats the Flesh Weaver, and several spiders die as well. We take a long rest inside a Tiny Hut provided by the new bard, Percival, and discover a giant obsidian pumice stone surrounded by corpses.
Jul 10, 2021	The Forty-Eighth Session	The Party ventures into the spiders' caverns. They discover antimagic spiders, phase spiders, swarms of spiders, lair actions, and the dungeon boss: The Flesh Weaver, an Aberration of Drow and spider and tentacles. Much combat happens, downing Jerry and Vurguron, who are both revived.
Jun 26, 2021	The Forty-Seventh Session	Bugfood disappears to take care of Remmy the Squirrel. The Party leaves Quadroads with a send-off from the Ascendants, and with a small party of escorts for the trip. After many days' hike, and a battle through the spiderwebs, the Party enters a cave.
May 29, 2021	The Forty-Sixth Session	We seek out details and possible funders for a mission to kill the source of the spiders. Little did we realize that the Knights of the Summer Court had become renowned for their defense of the West Haven. The Ascendants, rulers of Quadroads, commission the Party to solve the spider menace, and furnish us with 10,000 gold and a Goliath guide named Razorleaf. She lost her entire scouting party to the spiders, but she knows where they come from.
May 15, 2021	The Forty-Fifth Session	Zelrathi elects to remain on the mountain until the eclipse, to stay with the Couatl known as Arye. The World Spire's fear-reading abilities cause the Party some trouble, until we fly off on Bugfood's giant eagles. We return to the mountain's foot, and then Quadroads, and then the Temple of Ioun.
May 1, 2021	The Forty-Fourth Session	Bugfood meets his doppleganger. Arye reappears. The Party tries not to think about pink elephants. And then we find the Gloom Grove.
Apr 17, 2021	The Forty-Third Session	Ryltar is lessened. Salris' backstory is revealed. Zelrathi learns how small his patron really is.And the veil between the planes grows thin.
Apr 3, 2021	The Forty-Second Session	Moon meets Lolth. Jerry meets a Yuan-ti. Ryltar meets Dirius. The climb continues.
Mar 20, 2021	The Forty-First Session	The Party begins to climb the World's Spire. Some leave their names at the bottom of the mountain. We take the right-hand path from the House of the Zenith, and encounter the mad man Samuel, a terrible goat, and Bahamut. The Party survives.
Mar 6, 2021	The Fortieth Session	The Party defeats some new spiders, chats with Eta'el, and departs Leen. In Quadroads the Party meets up with Zelrathi and rediscovers Moon.
Feb 20, 2021	The Thirty-Ninth Session	The Party goes shopping, and then teleports to Wint's Lair in the Lost City of Storm's Eye. Wint's Lair has been ransacked, so we head north. Leen is covered in webs, and the gang is trapped in a forge's chimney by spiders.
Feb 6, 2021	The Thirty-Eighth Session	The Party pushes through to the Woven Council, and gains access to Ren's personal Teleportation Circle. Ren explains the political problems of the Woven Council. Ryltar connects recent events to a prophecy.
Jan 23, 2021	The Thirty-Seventh Session	The Party travels from Sky Diamond Academy to the Great Banyo Tree, where they traverse an enchanted hedgerow maze, kill many monsters, and discover Kerjes' power. New quest: trap Eta'el.
Jan 9, 2021	The Thirty-Sixth Session	The Mummy Lord is bluffed, and we escape to Sky Diamond Academy. We tell the Deans about the Mummy, of the aberration spiders, of Moon's betrayal, of the Drow expedition to the Underdark. Moon is summoned to Sky Diamond Academy, and receives her sentance. We prepare for the expedition to Kerjes' Tree.
Nov 28, 2020	The Thirty-Fifth Session	Several days' travel later, we are woken in the night by the distant sounds of cultists sacrificing bodies to a Tree-mother. In the ensuing fight, Bugfood plants a bean. The cultists outclass us, though we manage to kill the reincarnated Jester, and the fight is ended by the bean's sprouting into a mummy's pyramid.
Nov 14, 2020	The Thirty-Fourth Session	We leave Zelrathi and Moon behind at the Temple of Ioun in Quadroads. Viroth Aiodon, a Blood Hunter, joins the Party. A night in a spiderwebbed village reveals giant spiders full of pink flesh and strange crystals.
Oct 17, 2020	The Thirty-Third Session	Having done such a good job defending Leen, we new escort its refugess to Quadroads, dragging a bound and gagged Moon along with us. We fight some trapdoor spiders and save the day. Zelrathi introduces us to the charming, crowded, con-artist-packed city of Quadroads.
Oct 3, 2020	The Thirty-Second Session	We prepare to leave Leen, but the spiders attack. And then we get a quest from a Firbolg, to save a magic Sky Staff from the home of a spidery woman named Kerjes who lives under a tree.
Sep 5, 2020	The Thirtieth Session	We discuss what to do next, and send a message to Guy with updates. Then we set off for Quadroads, in search of magical ingredients.
Aug 22, 2020	The Twenty-Ninth Session	We find ourselves on the shore of a giant lake, trade with the locals, and make our way to Malcolm's Wharf, where Rezzik Brazzik reappears.
Jul 25, 2020	The Twenty-Eighth Session	The Party escapes the Underdark, leaving behind untold treasures and exciting combats to steal away with the Ice Heart of Winter.
Jul 11, 2020	The Twenty-Seventh Session	A session that is 90% combat, with no big revelations and little progress through the Snow Caves of Hoth.
Jun 27, 2020	The Twenty-Sixth Session	With further exploration, and many dead ice rats, the Party makes it through the catacomb of the Ice Lord to a deeper tunnel. Zelrathi is pulled into a snow wall, and begins to suffocate.
May 30, 2020	The Twenty-Fifth Session	After a quick and painful battle with a giant shark, we enter the Lost City of Storm's Eye and find a pair of mysterious twins. The temple at the peak of the city is frozen solid and full of sleeping dwarves and stabby ice dwarves. The expedition's head Drow have disappeared into the city.
May 16, 2020	The Twenty-Fourth Session	After an exciting, firefly-lit evening, the expedition finally trudges into the Lost City of Storm's Eye.
May 2, 2020	The Twenty-Third Session	The expedition ventures into the Underdark, and surmounts many obstacles.
Apr 18, 2020	The Twenty-Second Session	The party spends a few days in Leen restocking and getting their fortunes told. Then the expedition rolls into town. We meet Vicar again, and he introduces many new faces to us. But is this expedition made of the baddies?
Apr 4, 2020	The Twenty-First Session	Spiders. Spiders? Spiders! The Party continues to the southwest, and finally arrives in Leen, where—
Mar 21, 2020	The Twentieth Session	On the road again! Would you like some tea while you travel, or perhaps a generous helping of vines?
Jan 25, 2020	The Seventeenth Session	Salris' contact Rezzik Brazzik is revealed as a Greater Demon. And at long last, the Party completes its journey to The Sky Diamond Academy, a school of magic-users that is apparently buried in extradimensional space beneath a mountain.
Jan 11, 2020	The Sixteenth Session	We bury Tula, and meet a new companion: a coffeelock named Zelrathi.
Nov 16, 2019	The Fifteenth Session	Fair is foul and foul is fair; we find an old lady in a cottage who lets us spend the night if we help her with her yardwork. Trade happens, and we end up helping a nearby town where her granddaughter, the daughter of Boris Highhelm, lives. Things don't go well.
Nov 2, 2019	The Fourteenth Session	The Party's weregild is forgiven, and the party makes bank. Minor shopping ensues. The Party departs West Haven for Sky Diamond Academy, on horses, and travels two nights.
Oct 5, 2019	The Thirteenth Session	The Party captures Kalina, kills an ice dragon, finds the elemental egg, reunites its halves, saves the frozen arena, and takes a well-deserved long rest. The Party reaches Level 5, and gains many new magical items.
Sep 21, 2019	The Twelfth Session	The arena is frozen over, and the VIPs are missing. The Party aids in the defense of the city by battling a number of goblins, and encounters a Jester. Thalia's last wishes equip Salris with a quest to imbue an elemental egg with her ashes. The Party enters an icy plane in search of the perpetrator Kalia and the egg she used.
Aug 10, 2019	The Eleventh Session	Might of the Magus ends with Ryltar's win. The Spell-Slinger Spectacle ends in a catastrophic explosion. Tula spends days meditating.
Jul 27, 2019	The Tenth Session	Time for the Battle of the Beasts.
Jun 29, 2019	The Ninth Session	The Party gets their stuff back from the impound lot, and talks with many important people. Plans are discussed for making a lot of gold quickly; it is suggested that they participate in the tournament. Tula rides Bugfood in the joust, and doesn't do well.
Jun 15, 2019	The Eighth Session	The gang spend a night in jail and receive visits from a number of people, including a mysterious figure that grants magical feathers. The trial is held; many things are learned, and the group is convicted. The Party must pay a heavy cost.
Jun 1, 2019	The Seventh Session	The party recaptures the West Haven Beastmaster's ogre and kuthrik, and spends a night at the inn owned by Jerry's former CO. With guards on the lookout for the Party, can they clear their names before being thrown in jail? No.
May 18, 2019	The Sixth Session	This is a shopping episode. Many social faux pas are made; in the Haven there are those who would seek to thwart the festivities of the solstice.
Apr 20, 2019	The Fifth Session	The party encounters ruffians on the road, and then victims of a goblin raid. Finally, we reach the West Haven.
Apr 6, 2019	The Fourth Session	The party escapes the Kobold Cave, and returns to the village of Hillthorpe. Having rescued Kan, the party is acquired by Kan's mother Valna, the mayor, to escort her to the West Haven for the equinox meeting of the Council.
Mar 23, 2019	The Third Session: Kobolds continued	The Party continues exploring the Kobold cave, and finally finds Kan, the child we had been looking for. Then we kill the big bad Kobold chieftan.
Mar 9, 2019	The Second Session	The Party continues to faff about in the Kobolds' cave.
Feb 9, 2019	The First Session	What business has a Drow, a Human, a Half-Orc, Dragonborn and two Tieflings, riding a stolen Kobold cart through the woods, pulled by two giant weasels?

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