The Forty-Ninth Session

July 24, 2021, Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

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.

Last session
Back into initiative
New Character, and a short rest.
Down the stairs, to the Big Cocoon
Morning underground
The Stone Room
Next Session

Last session

We met the Flesh Weaver, and she did a number on the Party before phasing out of existence. Ryltar's summoned Hound of Ill Omen has its only goal to attack her, but she's not here anymore.

Vurguron is at 1 HP.

The Flesh Weaver was Slowed by Ryltar back on Round 6, and is still slowed.

And the Psychic Fang Elite Spider is attacking us.

Back into initiative

Round 9:
1. (continued from last week)
2. Ryltar's Hound of Ill Omen, seeing its quarry vanish into a different plane, sniffs the air, looking around, trying to find something which is no longer on the plane.
Round 10:
1. Jerry moves around the PFES to where she can flank it, and attacks with her halberd, missing once and critting it once for a total of 25 damage.
2. The PFES attacks Jerry with two tentacles for 27 damage, bringing her to 3/92 health. Then it bites Salris, stunning him for 15 piercing and 15 psychic.
3. Vurguron chugs a Potion of Greater Healing for 14, then pops Second Wind for 13 health.
4. Ryltar casts Ray of Frost on the PFES, but missed.
5. Salris is stunned.
6. Salris' Undead Spirit attacks the PFES for 14 damage, frightening the PFES.
7. Thrai attacks twice with her maul, critting the first attack for 20 and hitting normally on the second for 7 bludgeoning.
8. The Hound is still
Round 11:
1. Jerry slashes the PFES twice, dealing 34 damage, and then backs out of range.
2. The PFES drops one tentacle against Thrai and one against Vurguron, and a bite against Salris. It's frightened, so it misses Thrai, hits Vurguron's Shield, and misses Salris.
3. Vurguron moves one step to the right, out of the antimagic field, and attacks with flanking advantage for 14 slashing and 4 radiant, and 14 slashing and 4 more radiant, splitting its eye in twain.

The PFES dies, withering, and its stones pulse with a small psychic explosion before they turn into dust.

We discuss what to do if the hound runs off, and Jerry moves her hunter's Mark onto it to better track him if it runs off. It's still sniffing around.

We look for a place to hide and heal, and go into the Flesh Weaver's workshop. The spider she was working on has disappeared, but there's a big cocoon, and Ryltar slits it open.

New Character, and a short rest.

It's Percival Byron, a half-elf son of a nobleman, who walks with a swagger (and he's poisoned). He saw us in the West Haven. We introduce ourselves.

At request, Thrai smashes the spider husks in the room.

Ryltar tells Percival that if the dog runs, we're chasing after it. Right now we're in need of healing, and lo and behold Percival can do some healing. Jerry and Vurguron are at single-HP.

We decide to take a short rest. The hour passes. The dog searches the room, looking down the stairs, and then just before it disappears, it locks on to the location of the Flesh Weaver, and runs towards the down stairs.

We heal up, aided by Percival's Song of Rest for an additional 1d8 of health. Some spiders peep at us around a corner, but retreat. Thrai heals Percival of his poisoning.

Thrai's banished spider half comes back: the spider half of the spider comes back, squeaking and then dies.

We decide to head down the stairs. Jerry, Salris, Ryltar, Vurguron, Percival, and Thrai.

Down the stairs, to the Big Cocoon

We come to a sprawling landscape of loose soil and rock, and the right-hand tunnel leads to a passage full of old webbing. The right-hand tunnel leads to another fork in the path. We head towards the webbing.

A massive cocoon, suspended in the middle of the room, with two Phase Spiders climbing over it, guarding it.

Round 1
1. The cocoon shudders. A pulse of webbing spatters out of the cocoon, covering the walls. Jerry, Percival and Vurguron fall to zero movement, and can only see 15 feet. They see the tunnel get filled with webs.
2. The Phase Spider disappears, blinking out.
3. The second Phase Spider approaches Jerry, and bites for 3 piercing and 9 piercing, but passes the constitution save. It then vanishes.
4. Ryltar shoots a Ray of Frost at the cocoon, hitting a wall of webs, for 9 cold damage, snapping the wall of webs. The webs are also slowed by 10 feet, as they fall from the wall. The cocoon shivers.
5. Jerry, blinded, prepares an attack if the Phase Spiders return.
6. Salris advances into the cocoon room. There's a path off to the left. Down it are three small swarms of spiders. He attacks the cocoon for 27 damage, cutting into it. It's like gelatin, the green sludge within the webbing. Then he cries.
7. Thrai moves to cover the left fork of the path.
8. Behind Salris, something within the cocoon turns. The ooze coagulates into a tentacle. "Yummy spider yolk!" says Will.
9. Percival uses Mage Hand to give spiders the middle finger. The webs around him dissipate into thin wisps of gossamer strands, drifting through the air. No one is bound by them now.
10. A Phase Spider reappears in front of Jerry, and her reaction triggers with two attacks against this monstrosity for 25 damage. It attacks her for 9 piercing and 9 poison.
11. A third Phase Spider reappears, and attacks Thrai. She had prepared an attack, and gets it quite dead.
Round 2.
1. Vurguron attacks the Phase Spider in front of Thrai, splatting it. Then he advances down the right fork of that left path at the bottom of the stairs. He sees that that path connects to the path by Salris.
2. One swarm moves towards Vurguron, and two more surround Salris.
3. Ryltar moves up next to Jerry, and casts Chilling Hands on Jerry's Phase Spider and one of Salris' swarms. They take 7 cold. The Phase Spider pops.
4. Jerry advances to attack the cocoon, dealing quite a bit with a crit of damage, and 12 slashing against the swarm with a Whirlwind attack.
5. Salris attacks the swarm surrounding him, dealing 42 magical slashing. It's down to 3 spiders left.
6. Thrai helps Vurguron against his swarm, with Sacred Flame.
7. The cocoon oozes from its multiple slashes. Out comes a spindly hand, which blindly lashes out against Salris. Ryltar recognizes the hand as the Flesh Weaver. Her Poison Touch is halved to 15 by his resistance to poison damage. He screams.
8. Percival throws his Storm Boomerang at the cocoon, for 6 bludgeoning and some other stuff. And then he throws a 5-second bagpipe solo to give Jerry a point of bardic inspiration.
9. The wisps of webs thrum as the Flesh Weaver Calls the Kindred, summoning two Phase Spiders from the left fork of the left path, near Vurguron and Thrai.
10. One disappears.
11. The second Phase Spider attacks Vurguron, misses, and phases out.
Round 3.
1. Vurguron moves 15 feet back to the Party, and prepares a firebolt for when he sees the Phase Spider reappear.
2. The swarms attack Salris, Jerry and Vurguron. Salris takes no damage; Jerry takes 5 piercing.
3. Ryltar Ray of Frosts the cocoon for 19 cold damage.
4. Jerry swaps her glaive's blade for a hammer head, and squashes the swarm. Her second attack cracks open the cocoon, letting forth a slightly-healed Flesh Weaver onto the field.
5. As a legendary action, the Flesh Weaver attacks Jerry, but stumbles and does not hit.
6. Salris Hexblade's Curses the Flesh Weaver, and then pops Shadow of Moil on himself for 2d8 necrotic on any attacker within 10 feet for any attack it makes.
7. Thrai lights up Vurguron's swarm with Sacred Flame, roasting it to a crisp.
8. The Flesh Weaver uses another legendary action, casting Eldritch Blast, two at Salris and one at Jerry, missing Salris and Jerry.
9. The Flesh Weaver then prepares to cast Enervation, but Ryltar Counterspells at fourth level. Then she Inspires Infection in the swarm nearest her,
10. Percival spies her. She succeeds against his Polymorph.
11. She does Unworldy Movement to move out of the corner room, away from the cocoon.
12. The thin webs webs scatter around wit Proliferate Pain appears again.
13. The Phase spiders reappear, flaking Vurguron and Thrai. Vurguron's prepared Firebolt goes off, missing his Phase Spider, but throwing off its attack. Both Phase Spiders fail their attack.
Round 4: The Flesh Weaver is paralyzed. And a Brute Spider appears.
1. Vurguron stabs his Phase Spider for 14 slashing 4 radiant
2. A three-spider tiny swarm engulfs Salris, attacking him. They are emboldened with green pimples, but still don't land any attacks.
3. Ryltar advances to where he can see the Flesh Weaver and casts Slow at fourth level, affecting her and the tiny swarm. Then Ryltar summons the Hound of Ill Omen once more, behind the Flesh Weaver.
4. Jerry pops Hunter's Mark on the Flesh Weaver, then attacks twice with her long maul for a decent amount of bludgeoning.
5. Salris kills the small swarm, then attacks the Flesh Weaver. She crits for 35 damage.
6. Thrai smashes the Phase Spider, then summons her Spiritual Weapon as a bonus action behind the Flesh Weaver.
7. The Flesh Weaver casts Dispel Magic, dispelling Ryltar's Slow and Jerry's Hunter's Mark.
8. Percival casts Hold Monster on her, and succeeds. She's paralyzed. He opens one of the hundred pockets on his vest, and pulls out two salted almonds, which he eats.
9. The lair once more Calls the Kindred, summoning a Brute Spider. Where its pseudopod ends on its body, there's another diamond-shaped rock on its tip.
10. The Hound bites, dealing 10 piercing.
Round 5:
1. Vurguron walks up to the paralyzed Flesh Weaver, casts Shadow Blade for two critical attacks, 4d8+7 = 24 psychic, 4d8+7 = 28 psychic, Action Surge for another 4d8+7=20 psychic, 4d8+7 = 30 psychic. Total 102 damage. The strikes aren't as effective as we expected, though.
2. The Brute Spider stings Percival for a little damage, failing the Constitution save. He's cursed with a corrupting energy; his muscles and bones extend and contract uncontrollably, halving his speed, disadvantage on strength/dex-based anything. Then it makes a tentacle leg attack against Thrai and Percival, missing Percival and hitting Thrai for a little damage.
3. Ryltar moves to a better line of sight on the Flesh Weaver, and Ray of Frosts her twice for 11 cold and reducing her speed to negative 10 speed.
4. Jerry advances to the paralyzed Flesh Weaver and attacks twice, doing 32 + 25 damage from two critical bludgeoning attacks.
5. Salris deals 68 slashing damage, climbing on top of her, decapitating her with the cruelpesh. He heals for quite a bit. A pulse rips forth from her body as she dies. An uncontrollable twitch spreads across her body, rejecting what it has become: a contradiction of ideas. Vurguron, Ryltar and Jerry fail the Charisma checks. Everyone has mental images the idea of entropy, of unlimited space, of no meaning — and then there is a pull. It draws you through a portal, condensing and shoving your self into a tiny structure, the first idea of form that you've ever had, drawn into the world, drawn to the ground: an impact! — The Party takes 42 psychic, halved on success. The head and torso fall apart.
6. Thrai is angry, and attacks the Brute.
7. Percival disengages from the Brute with Dimension Door, moving 60 feet away.
8. The room fills with lingering threads of wispy web from Proliferate Pain.
Round 6
1. Vurguron runs up to the Brute Spider and attacks, misses his first swing, misses his second, and is saddened.
2. The Brute makes a stinger attack against Vurguron, but is caught on his last Shield. Then it attacks Salris for 16 bludgeon, taking 10 necrotic damage from his Shadow of Moil. Then it attacks Thrai for 9 bludgeoning. Both are restrained.
3. Ryltar roots around in the Flesh Weaver's corpse. Where the bottom torso ripped itself apart, there's an 8-pointed obsidian pumice star. Ryltar grabs it. He feels that this stone is power, that what she did can be replicated. There's more that can be done with this stone.
4. Jerry frees Vurguron from the tentacle.
5. Salris makes some small attacks.
6. Thrai makes three melee attacks with her maul, maul, and spiritual weapon.
7. Percival heals himself for 20.
8. The webs appear again, catching Vurguron, Percival, and Salris.
Round 7.
1. Vurguron casts Protection from Good and Evil on himself, which saves him from a little damage, but he still takes a curse from its next attack.
2. Ryltar looks around a corner to see some upside-down, dead Phase Spiders. He continues exploring.
3. Jerry attacks the Brute for 14 smashing.
4. Salris is restrained and near-blinded by the webs, and misses his first attack. Thrai's Guided Strike helps him to hit.
5. Percival holds an action.
6. The lair switches over to Proliferate Pain.
Round 8
1. Vurguron hits the Brute for 15 slashing 4 radiant plus 12 slashing 4 radiant, and then backs off a bit.
2. The Brute makes a stinger attack against Jerry, taking 19 piercing (down to 7 HP) and taking on the curse. Then it tentacles Salris and Thrai, taking 14 necrotic and dealing 12 bludgeoning to Salris and 18 to Thrai, restraining them.
3. Ryltar comes around to where he can Ray of Frost the Brute in the butt, and does so, for 5 cold damage.
4. Jerry drinks a potion of superior healing for 8d8++8 = 26 health, then attacks for 8 smashing.
5. Salris struggles against the tentacles.
6. Percival throws his boomerang, which bounces off the spider and doesn't come back.
7. The webs come in again, and bind everyone but Ryltar and Thrai.
Round 8.
1. Vurguron can see the Brute, and so he firebolts for some.
2. The Brute downs Thrai, then attacks Salris and Jerry, taking 14 necrotic and dealing 17 to Salris and bludgeoning Jerry for 10. This is the third time that Jerry has shrugged off a critical attack thanks to her Hertkeeper Breastplate.
3. Ryltar casts Ray of Frost for 18 damage.
4. Jerry overcomes her curse to deal 25 slashing, through the webs.
5. Salris finally kills the Brute with Eldritch Blast, popping it.

The webs fade away.

Jerry does a Healer's Kit to stabilize Thrai. Salris uses the last of Jerry's potions of greater healing.

Thrai asks people to take a moment to breath, but it'll take 10 minutes to heal everyone. She casts Prayer of Healing for 10 HP.

Ryltar carves at the stinger with a dagger, retrieving the diamond-shaped stinger. This one feels drawn to the star, zipping towards it with a clang as he drops it into his bag.

We decide to take a long rest inside Percival's Tiny Hut. Salris first casts Remove Curse on Percival. And in the morning, if spiders are pounding on the walls of the hut, we'll take Ryltar's teleport to Ren's teleportation circle.

We eat and drink inside the Tiny Hut, and take our watches.

Nothing happens overnight.

Ryltar talks with Percival about his vest of a million pockets. Percival found it in a vest in his grandfather's house. Every so often he'll open a pocket and find out what's inside. An Advest Calendar, if you will.

Morning underground

The area is clear and silent.

Jerry and Vurguron make Constitution saves against the curse. Jerry shrugs it off; Vurguron uses Indomitable to shrug the curse off.

We wander through the caves, finding two more chambers. One is a bedchamber, full of equipment, like packs and bedrolls. Among all the normal detritus in the packs, we find a pair of goggles. They look like an owl's motif, so Jerry puts them in her bag. One corner of the tunnel has more tunnels leading up. Another room is a small chamber full of deceased Phase Spiders.

We find another tunnel, leading down to a large round room, with six entrances.

The Stone Room

In the middle is an obsidian pumice stone, carved and worked, ten feet tall, 25 feet across. A pile of maybe a dozen humanoid bodies surround the stone, but they're not the carvers. They were warriors. They all have shards of obsidian pumice lodged in each of their skulls.

Thrai recognizes one of the bodies. The Party raids the rest.

Ryltar tries to pull the shard from one, but fails.

Jerry looks for identifying information, but finds none.

In one adventurer's pack, we find a cubic-foot wooden box, each side with a different color and shape. Another adventurer wears a colorful patchwork robe. One Drow wears a black leather cloak that seems to have motifs of spiders. The box is an Abracadabrus. The robe is a Robe of Useful Items. And the cloak is the Cloak of Arachnida.

And 375 gold.

Next Session

We're fully rested (well, minus hit dice).

What do we do with the big stone?

There are five exits to this room that contains the big room.

Other stuff:

We know how to trap the Jester, with Magic Circle
What's going on with the stars? Are Ryltar's theories about colors and significant plot-relevant things' colors correct?
How can the Mummy Lord be defeated?
Determine how to resolve the Eta'el-Kerjes plot
Remember to un-petrify Ockoh in the Ice Lord Wint's Lair — if Dirius didn't shatter him. Grab the de-petrification potions from the Elven town.
Is Salris' brother also a bearer of the curse?

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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