Session 74: Viona Zarr Report

General Summary

13th of Deismir 1524 Continued     As the boat approaches the island. Lily can see the stream splits. One goes NWW and the other in NWN. The centre is a large mountain. From this angle you can see it has a volcano shape to it. Most of the coasts are sheer cliffs and there is a lake near the centre next to the volcano. Lily keeps following the stream until we get to the split, then looks around at the coasts to see if she can spot the Erin’s ship. However she can’t see any boats.   Karl contacts Erin with his stone and finds out there is a magically hidden cove that the dragon brothers had led her to. He then directs Lily to the Southern side of the island. As lily starts to bring it down and it's visible for a minute or so two bronze dragons fly out from an area to the south but the group isn't sure where from. They are flying towards the boat and then lead the group down to the hidden cove. Lily is thankfully able to see through the illusion that to everyone else looks like they would crash into rocks and a has a shallow coral reef. The brothers fly through and lily follows without issue. Inside is a cove that is protected by the mountain/volcano. Erin's boat is moared near the bank. There is jungle/ first around the edges. Lily takes the boat to set down on the bank. The time is 7pm.   Karl and lily see people rushing to the towing boats to start coming to shore but three people have jumped in the water with a bird flying above them. The dragon land nearby to talk with the group. They are presented with the sword and the hats. However, they don’t wish to take the hats Trinity made them until they know what they do. So for now they take the sword with the promise to be back in the morning after everyone has rested. Karl magically creates his mansion. Meanwhile Erin stumbles put off the water with cane in hand with Enna and wave a little ways behind her. Her eyes are flowing as Kai lands on her shoulder as she makes her way to the group.   Enna and Wave catch up to Erin, Enna annoyed that Erin had run off without them. Meanwhile Karl reprimands Kai for using mundane profanity and encourages him to be more creative when it comes to insulting people. Everyone, including the crew when they arrive, head inside the mansion. Spectral servants start walking around with trays of ale, win and rum. One of the servants searches out Xeldarix and places a plate of chocolate croissants and chocolate dipped strawberries in front of her. She had put herself in a corner away from people, but this does get a small smile from her. Xochitl joins her.   The group sits, chats and relaxes. Erin’s group didn’t have any issues getting to the cove. They came across some salvage but that was it. Karl fills them in on what happened since they last saw each other. Lily hangs out with them for a while before reading her common book and heading for bed. Fargrim will play cards with the crew before bed. Karl eats and drinks before heading to bed with Erin. They all head to bed at 10pm.   Just before bed Karl identifies the items.

• The sweater gives you resistance to cold damage and you don't need to make checks in cold weather
• The hats require attunement. While attuned you are under the effects of the mind blank spell.

14th of Deismir 1524   Everyone gets up at 6am with a 7am breakfast. They discuss scouting out a location today to prepare for the meeting tomorrow and what they want to set up for General Viona to meet them at. However, they relax while waiting for the dragon brothers to stop by as they said they would.   When Pemri and Brygo arrive, Karl explains what the hats do and they put the knitted caps on. They also draw the group a map and tell them about the area.     A is the hidden cove. B to C is a cave system that leads to the dragon lair. H leads to heart of volcano. P is top of volcano.   They recommend the river mouth from the South as a meeting point. It turns out that the dragons know Emma Trulacht. They describe how she has a vested interest deep inside the volcano and has asked the brother’s not to disturb it. After it being made clear that the guests that the group with will meet with tomorrow shouldn’t be taken here or to their lair, the dragons leave. Enna and Erin will go with the group to scout out the river. Xeldarix is staying in the mansion for the day.   The group leaves at 8am. Lily flies up on Ohtli to get her bearings before coming down to direct the group. However, with the issues between Uqaviel and Xeldarix right now, she finds herself really directed which means she does not take them on the most optimal path. They start to hear off and at first the trail seems good. Even path, can walk in pairs and overall it is very nice. However, rather quickly it becomes rocky, over growth and rather difficult for even the seeing members to traverse. Erin has to slow right down and use Kai's eyes to get through. In the end Lily gets Erin on Ohtli to help her.   It takes them 4 hours to reach the river. After a brief talk on plans they follow the river to the South to find the mouth of the river. This takes them another 2 hours. There they find a good place to have the meeting. With a few Polymorph spells, the group flies back over an hour to the cove. They arrive back at about 3pm.   When they get back Karl reaches out to Abigail and learns Simone has been unwell, but tried to contact Fargrim but he was in the mansion. Fargrim uses the ring to talk with Simone. She asks a lot for when the group will return. For now she is tired and left to rest. Karl also contacts June about the staff. She is currently still running tests.   Then they retire to the manor. Karl scribes while Erin drinks, Fargrim spends time with the crew, and Lily gathers a sea army before going to check on Xeldarix. When Lily goes to check on Xeldarix she finds she is similar to in the morning. Only talking mentally, tired and clearly very sad. This causes Lily to go and see Fargrim at 4pm. There she tells him Uqaviel has crossed a line. They agree Fargrim needs to talk to him as it didn’t seem to make an impact when Lily did it.   Fargrim heads off and convinces Uqaviel to have a private chat with him away from Xeldarix. Fargrim is quick to get to the facts and learns that if Uqaviel fails, he believes that he will suffer negative consequences if he fails though he has no proof for this. Fargrim and him talk over the issue, and he resolves to commune with Haelyn on the matter. Harsh punishments for someone who does not have to follow Uqaviel’s instruction is made known to be unacceptable. Fargrim also learns more about why Uqaviel is wearing silly clothes he hates.   Fargrim returns to talk with Xeldarix and is reluctantly allowed into the room. Fargrim tries to get Xeldarix to see about her position and to consider the power she has over people. When he comments the world would move on without him if the group died, her reply stuns him. In the end he continues to try and get her to see she was foolish in her actions with teleporting in. However, she argues and does not see things his way. She didn't consider the ward controlling her. She didn't think she would upset Uqaviel that much. She didn't think staying in Arcadia might have been the better idea instead of coming back here. She promises to know better next time. Fargrim doesn’t comment on the obvious comment and otherwise seems happy about this.   In the end Fargrim agrees to keep Uqaviel away for one night. He passes on information about his and Xeldarix’s conversation before meeting back up with Lily for 4:30pm to fill her in. Lily reads her book, Fargrim bakes cookies and Karl continues as he had been since they got back.   At 5:30pm Lily conjures a heroes’ feast for the necessary people in the meeting while Karl ensures the spectral servants feed everyone else. Even Xeldarix is coaxed out to partake. Afterwards Lily and Karl go back to their usual activities until 9pm.   Fargrim ritually communes with Haelyn though his answers aren’t as certain as he would like. Then he plays cards with the crew. At 9pm Lily heads to bed while Karl goes with Enna and Erin to the ship to look at salvage they found. The salvage included 3 diamonds worth 300 gold each. Karl buys them off Erin in case the group needs them. He also buys the paper from them.   Barrel loot Coins 76 gp, 17 sp   1. Rind of Cheese 4. three diamonds worth 300gp each 5. A large brass key. 6. Jerky   Trade Goods Cost Goods 1 cp 1 lb. of wheat 2 cp 1 lb. of flour 5 cp 1 lb. of salt 1 sp 1 sq. yd. of canvas 5 sp 1 lb. of copper 1 gp 1 lb. of ginger 2 gp 1 lb. of cinnamon 3 gp 1 lb. of cloves 5 gp 1 sq. yd. of linen 10 gp 1 sq. yd. of silk 15 gp 1 lb. of saffron 500 gp Quality paper   On the way back Karl contacts Simone with sending. At 10pm Karl returns. He gets Fargrim to contact Simone with the ring since she did the reading that Lily asked for.   Why was there a wanted poster that looked like Lily in Arcadia?   "Some would call it Karma for the disguises Lily has taken to hide herself, as someone takes on a face similar to Lily’s without realising that face would be by a few days later.     This individual is confident that every face they take is unique but in this one instance they have accidently taken on the face of Lily.     They change their face every new moon as they hop from plane to plane, leaving chaos in their wake.”   Afterwards everyone else now heads to bed.   15th of Deismir 1524   Lily is up early at 4:30am to prepare for the day. By 5:15 she is frustrated no one else is up. As soon as she gets Karl up he shoves the paper he wrote down the reading answer on at Lily. She is relieved to hear it was random and not an immediate threat. After getting Xeldarix up, Lily gets Fargrim up. Erin and Enna are getting the ship and crew organised. They will sail to the meeting point while the Forged plan to use their flying boat to get there.   At 6:15am the group lands where Lily intends to make her grove. On the ride over she was looking for ships but the lighting isn’t great yet. As she goes through the spell, a thick mist descends along the perimeter, creating a 10 foot high wall, leaving a 15 foot gap on the side of the area facing the coast. Through the gap, the others can see the ground being covered in vines, and 4 trees glow with soft golden runes as they begin to shift in place to turn towards Lily as she walks around the interior. As the spell completes, the fog suddenly fades, allowing those present to see through the walls of fog. Karl then takes the time to cast Private Sanctum once the grove is up.   Fargrim starts to set up a fire outside for breakfast but is quickly persuaded to do it inside the grove. Xeldarix leaves at this point to find a place nearby to hide. Lily goes to check on the Dolphin. The only thing they note is that water is strangely colder than usual. The Midnight Delight is on the way. While waiting Lily reads her book and Karl fills Lily in on some of the things she missed out in once she left the plane with Xeldarix. Fargrim cooks up some breakfast. Lily reads and Karl writes a report.   At 7:30am breakfast is ready. Fargrim makes a nice Brecht Breakfast with no abilities. They get back to talking about the witches and Karl identifies the bracelets the witches were wearing.   The crystal bracelet is a focus item that powers up the witches spells and means they are not reliant on being in a coven. The imprisoned individual, unless strong of will, is unaware of what is happening and is placed in a deep stasis sleep. They will not age or have regular needs as their magic is syphoned off to the person attuned to it. Also there is a tracking aspect. The makers will always know where it is (as long as they are on the same plane as it) and can use it to get through scrying protections.   Meanwhile Fargrim prays for Erin but without feeling heard. Lily goes up on Ohtli to see what ships around the island. Lily can see that the Midnight delight has weighed anchor and a ship from the NW heading towards the island with four ships trailing behind it. She then flies to Erin’s ship to give them the password for the grove.   Once Karl is finished his identifying the crystal he is quick to contact June to warn her about the tracking aspect. June swears at him in Rjuven before thanking him for the heads up. An hour passes while Karl starts to scribe a new spell, Lily reads and Fargrim relaxes.   At 9am Erin and Enna arrive, whispering the password as they enter. They also note the water was unusually cold as they swam from the boat to the shore. After talking about Erin goes back to the river to commune with the water. The group directs what questions she should ask. When she returns she confirms there are fiends in the area. Lily decides to go get Xeldarix to have her in the safety of the grove. Karl changes back into his Magi robes. The group takes a short rest.   At 10am Lily flies up to look again and sees the fire ships are now with the Midnight Delight. Lily goes over to see what is happening and arranges for Viona to head to shore. A row boat is lowered and heads for shore. In the boat there is a woman in her late 60s. Long silver hair. She looks Brecht. There is a Khinasi man with many scars on his face but a grin as well. A red skinned tiefling tunning a violin with long white hair in a long plate. There are also 4 large men rowing the oars.   Lily escorts them to the grove but Viona doesn’t enter straight away. Viona wants a hostage and selects Erin as her hostage. She is allowed to take Kai but that is all. She will be on Viona’s ship while Viona is in the grove. Viona’s two offsiders are Jarram Godskull, her Kinasi Quartermaster, and Zoe Gardener, her tiefling First Mate. Enna is very unhappy about all this.   The rope around Viona’s right arm snakes it’s way off Viona and onto Erin’s right arm. It is demonstrated to be like a bonded ward spell. They share damage as a result which means that Viona’s crew will keep Erin safe as the Forged are expected to keep Viona safe.   Viona enters the grove, seeming amused by the password. They start discussions. They discuss:

• What Karl is willing to give to gain allies and his boundaries.
• Karl wants to change the morals of pirates and be a figure head but leave the actual ruling to others.
• Slave trade
• Viona has worked under five kings.
• Viona wants to be able to retire without dying when she is done in about 50 years.
• Ranbur is a beast in every sense of the word. He sides with the ruthless. That doesn't match what Karl’s selling. Likely he will violently oppose Karl.
• Harek is a loose cannon. He might join Karl for the fun of it. That one is harder to guess. He's young, dumb and full of himself. Viona believes the two of them might get along.
• Xenophoros is hard to read. She enjoys her place as a general and doesn't play well with humans. An affliction Viona and Karl both have.
• Kegsteeler is obvious. He won't accept Karl. He is the biggest influence for the slave trade. If they take that away and he has no empire.
• Viona wants a warning before Karl does anything against any of the generals.
• Karl lists off his conquests (Shatterhull, slew a black dragon, the witches of willow, the Unchained in Brechlen, killing devils, wanted posters for the group regarding the death of a Belinik Paladin)
• Viona will now always call Karl Seabiscuit.
• The flying boat.
• The angelic weapons and where they came from.
• Albrecht was working with the Unchained and had forced the nation to work with them.
• They start planning how they will move forward. They will move against Ranbur first.

As they talk, everyone notices that the arm she was leaning on suddenly has a claw mark appear on it. Karl looks through the star but doesn’t see anything unusual. Lily quickly deduces something is attacking the ships. This is confirmed when Erin suddenly messages Karl about the attack and something bursts through the fog near Xeldarix. A large red devil comes through while 3 ice devils come through at other various points.   Fagrim tries to banish them as Viona fires her crossbow at them. Karl summons a terrifying dragon which damages two of the devils. One of the devils summons an ice wall which hurts Lily but she absorbs some of the damage. Enna rages and attacks. The awakened trees try to grapple the devils. Enna is speared by a devil and slowed as a result. Another devil attacks the trees tying to stop it from getting into the grove blindly. Meanwhile Uqaviel becomes visible and is knocked down by the red devil with the flaming greatsword. Xeldarix dodges out the way and gets her own attack in as it focuses on her.   Lily slashes at a devil and smites it. Fargrim goes over to heal Viona a little. Karl’s dragon breathes acid on the devils. One of the devils attacks Lily and Othli. The trees continue to try and grapple the devils. One of them is successfully grappled and another tries to knock the grappled devil prone but fails. This devil attacks and kills the tree grappling it. Enna kills one of the devils. The devil explodes, hitting Fargrim and Enna with fire and ice. Meanwhile Uqaviel gets off the ground, throwing his chakram as Xeldarix gets three good hits him, overwhelming the red devil for the moment.   Lily reminds the group to move away from the devils as they fall as she attacks the devil in front of her with Ohtli backing her up. Viona has more slashes appearing on her as she fires her crossbow. Fargrim runs over to Viona to give her a bit more healing. She dismisses the healing and orders Fargrim to focus on the threat giving him some extra movement. Karl will move to step in front of Viona as he sends out a wave of magic missiles out. The dragon moves and blasts a cone of acid onto the devil that Karl just hit. The devil near Lily attacks her and one of the trees. The tree holding that devil lifts it 10 ft up and drops it. The tree then moves away as that kills the devil. Enna runs from the grove and heads for the shoreline to go to her Captain. The red devil goes to cast a spell at the group, but Karl counterspells it. One of the trees attacks the remaining ice devil up. It attacks Fargrim and the tree in front of it. The red devil once again starts casting it’s spell but with no one left to counterspell, his fireball goes off without issue. It hits Karl, Aeyrn, Fargrim, Viona, one of the trees. This destroys Aeyrn and the tree. Meanwhile Xeldarix and Uqaviel are doing their best to keep the devil devil from continuing to cast at the mortals around them.   Lily rallies Karl and Viona to head for the ship while she stays with Xeldarix, Uqaviel and Fargrim to finish this off. She and Ohtli attack the remaining ice devi. The red devil once again throws another fireball on the group. This time it hits Karl, Lily, Fargrim, Ohtli and Viona. Viona has more scratches appear as Erin is being attacked on the boat, which causes her to start running after Enna. As she does so, she turns into a large guardian wolf creature. She howls loudly out towards the boats. As this happens, the devil throws yet another fireball at the group. This one hits Karl, Fargrim, Ohtli, and Lily. Ohtli is destroyed by this. Fargrim turns to stab at the last ice devil with two attacks. The red devil then throws out one last fireball which hits Karl, Fargrim and Lily which forces Karl to break his concentration. Karl runs for the flying boat and activates it. He starts to fly after Viona and Enna. The ice devil the tree dropped exploded but didn’t hit anyone. The trees move towards the red devil. Enna runs and jumps into the flying boat. The remaining devil attacks Lily and Fargrim. Lily absorbs part of the damage. Meanwhile the red devil teleports away and leaves behind two bone devils in its place. As the red devil leaves it says to Xeldarix “This is not over yet, Xeldarix. The Queen will have you yet.”   In the grove, Lily heals herself. Fargrim kills the last ice devil. The remaining trees attack the bone devils. Xeldarix attacks the bone devils and channels her divine self through the attack. One of the bone devils attacks Uqaviel, but barely scratches him. The other one attacks Xeldarix, but misses. The last ice devi explodes and only hits Lily. Uqaviel slashes at the bone devi, going through it’s resistances.   Outside the grove, the large wolf jumps into the boat which makes it bob up and down in the air. She sniffs at the boat and Karl. Two more slashes appear on her. Karl continues steering the boat.   In the grove, Lily creates an aura of vitality around herself. Fargrim brings flamestrike down on the two devils. Xeldarix attacks the bone devil right in front of her. The tree bonks the bone devil. One of the bone devils claw at Uqaviel. The one attacks Xeldarix and the tree that bonked it. Uqaviel destroys the bone devil in front of him as he turns them to ash.   Outside the grove, Viona gets another gash appear on her. This causes her to wince and whine. Karl drinks a potion as he steers the boat. He’s halfway to Viona’s ship. Enna tries to wait patiently.   Inside the grove, Lily tries to get the bone devil with a thorn whip but misses. She heals herself with her aura. Fargrim does a sacred flame on the remaining bone devil and kills it. The trees return to guard duty. Xeldarix goes and heals Lily, who tells her to carry Fargrim to Viona’s ship.   Outside the grove, Viona gets a few more gashes. Karl moves the boat to the ship and Enna jumps onto Viona’s ship.   For now one fight is done, but the battle rages on.

Notes

Name	XP	Running Total	Level at the end of session
Fargrim	4,130	177,461	15
Karl	4,130	177,461	15
Lily	4,130	177,461	15