8-21/22 The Void Report

General Summary

The abberation moves through the void as the group discusses plans, their next move, and tries to raise the mood for the new year. They test the dangerous outside of the abberation and see a strange ripple in space that they approach. Out of the ripple bursts an ephemera-infused Hydra that attacks the abberation. While fighting off the beast, another ripple appears out of which comes a ship bearing the dark elf crew of Waterdeep's Jarlaxle. The ship rams the abberation but they manage to manuvere above it and keep the attackers at bay while they slip into the portal that it came from. With half the party waking up in Trollskull Manor and the other half in the Yawning Portal they meet Ulkoria Stonemarrow, Volothamp Geddarm, and Raenar Neverember, finding out that their dream selves and all of the people from the city who had no waking lives were gone. They helped the Waterdeep citizens vanquish the shades in their path, who they themselves could not kill with their own power, to the mausoleum where they felt the exit was. The parties rejoined and managed to open the door to the vault, out of which poured a light that burned the citizens, but not the party. They had to leave them behind with the shadows approaching as Ulkoria insisted, against Zulex's statement, that while she didn't know what was real according to anyone's definition; but she was the reason they made it here and that was real. The party wakes up in the water outside of Mysdia along the shores of Fool's Rest.