Session 73: Consequences Report
General Summary
12th of Deismir 1524 continued The group isn’t safe yet… but at least the Queen is dead. Immediately concerned, Xeldarix contacts Lily and discovers something is wrong, but for now that Lily has just been temporarily banished. Fargrim runs over to Raiarr and casts healing word on Lancion to get the man back up. Bailey walks over a bit closer to being under Emilia, and looks up, trying to figure out what’s got her held up. He asks the group if anyone has seen Karl lately. Lancion wakes up and freaks out at what is happening to Emilia. Karl, while still invisible, releases Emilia, letting her fall 30 feet to the ground. He then grabs Bailey and attempts to lift him up into the air. As Karl lets Emma fall and begins to crush him, Bailey utters an incantation and Emma’s fall is slowed so she gets set down safely. Emilia lands and turns to the stairs. She tells the group Karl was doing the same thing to the witches and casts Faerie Fire but misses Karl. Marabel is more focused on the fallen and tries to stabilise Raiarr. Khee knows banishment is going and Fargrim is rushing in for his brother. He backs off to keep up his banishment. Godwyn hurries over towards the rest of the group, avoiding the giant force ball with a golem still trapped in it. He clarifies that they are looking for Karl and should be able to help with that shortly. Fargrim heals Raiarr. Bailey focuses on restoring a small bit of spellcasting ability. Lancion swings wildly around himself. Meanwhile Xeldarix has contacted Karl and has learned the fact the group will soon be killed if no one stops him. She makes the call to risk teleporting in through the wards. Much to Uqaviel’s anger and frustration. Karl appears as a red streak flies from his hands and explodes in the center of the group, badly wounding most of the group as they start to bleed out. Only Fargrim and Khee are still up after that blast. There is a pop behind Karl as Xeldarix appears, glaring at what tries to come through with red eyes and nothing follows her. She grabs Karl and restrains him in a strange hold. She pleads for him to get ahold of himself. Khee backs up, worried what might happen if he is hit and Lily comes back with the group in such a state. His worry for his brother growing anxiously inside of him. Godwyn wakes up, his body forcing him back up as he clings to life. Godwyn heals himself up a bit and gets a little closer to the downed party members, keeping a watchful eye on Karl. Fargrim is starting to get nervous. This is reminding him too much of triage back on the front lines. He casts Mass Cure Wounds to get everyone back up. Bailey stands up and gets closer to Godwyn, then dodges in case Karl gets free. Lancion runs over to Karl to help Xeldarix after he wakes up. Karl is confused as Xeldarix had promised him help, though this isn’t what he meant as he struggles to breathe. Xeldarix demands everyone back away from her as she apologises to Karl. Marabel demands to know what Xeldarix is going to do as she explains he is possessed, but does back up. Emilia offers to cut the fairy out of Karl. Raiarr moves away and Khee keeps his distance. Godwyn frowns and calls a blessing on Xeldarix and Karl, and keeps his distance as requested. Fargrim looks around and hearing the instruction to get away, he runs toward a wall and dives to the prone. Bailey backs up a bit more, watching closely. Lancion backs off but lets it be known that he will not be happy if Karl dies. Xeldarix glows and goes off in a bright light and is amazed Karl is still standing. In fact… she realises her light didn’t hurt him at all which has her at a loss. Karl tries to misty step away but Godwyn counterspells his efforts and implores for Karl to fight the influence. Karl grunts in frustration before going limp in Xeldarix’s arms as a spirit crawls out of his mouth. Xeldarix continues to hold on tight to Karl, asking for a sign that Karl is Karl. Karl nods and Marabel confirms that the spirit climbing out of Karl’s mouth was what happened to Godwyn. Emilia sighs and walks toward the other golem which is now free of the bead of force. She throws Grimluck at it but misses. Khee will send eldritch blasts at the newly freed crystal. Godwyn dashes to engage the crystal. Fargrim retreats to the corner, crawling, keeping his eyes to the centre of the room. He looks panicked. Bailey sends a bolt of fire at the crystal which finishes it off. He calls for a plan to be able to deal with Lily. Lancion moves to where he thinks Lily will pop back, but is a little off. He declares he will knock her out. Karl realises his back is warm and wet during all this. He mentally asks Xeldarix about it and after confirming that Karl was himself again, Xeldarix admits something might have gone wrong when she broke through the wards. As a result Xeldarix's grip on Karl has loosen but she's still holding onto him. He can pull away if he wants to. Karl slowly raises his hands up on the air but doesn’t pull away. He apologises to the group and asks if anyone has any magic to help Lily when she returns. Xeldarix slowly let's go of Karl and limps towards Marabel, mentally directed by Karl to where Lily will reappear. She tells people she will take Lily away if they can’t help her. Most of the group prepares for Lily’s return. Fargrim continues to panic. Mentally Karl and Xeldarix discuss the issue. However he realises Xeldarix is still bleeding and tells her to leave. Xeldarix says once they have Lily under control she will and they start to plan for how to get Xeldarix out afterwards. Xeldarix puts a hand to her head before straightening up and readying herself to grab Lily as soon as she's back. Khee drops the banishment and Xeldarix grabs Lily. The hold isn’t as good as the one she had on Karl. Godwyn casts a blessing again, this time including Lily. The reappearance of lily seems to have triggered something in fargrim. He gets up and seems to be calming down. Bailey watches for something to go wrong. Lancion bonks lily on the head with the flat of his axe, which angers Xeldarix. Xeldarix heals herself a little before pleading with Lily to resist the possession. Karl takes control and directs Marabel and Lancion upstairs to start cutting themselves out of the tree. Marabel is annoyed with the instruction but head for the stairs, as she scolds Lancion for trying to beat up the boss. Emilia steps behind Lily and pulls out Grimluck. Raiarr looks back to khee, and they'll move out together to try and find an exit. Lily’s face looks conflicted as she tries to push Xeldarix’s arms off of herself. Xeldarix's grip hardens as Lily tries to get away. Lily’s eyes close tightly and suddenly she relaxes. She pleads with the group to get Xeldarix out. Khee suggests that she take them into his urn. Khee activates his urn, bringing him, Raiarr, Xeldarix and Lily in. Godwyn goes and picks up the urn before suggesting they get what they can from the queen. Inside the urn Lily, Xeldarix, Khee, Raiarr appear inside a stone circular room. The walls are carved with sculptures of Earth elementals with curtains hanging as a frame around some of the artwork. It's 20ft in diameter, 20 ft high. Cushions litter the group and are large enough to lay on. A coffee table sits in the centre. The temperature is comfortable here. Outside the urn Fargrim digs around in his bag and pulls out a tuning fork for this plane in case they need to planeshift. Bailey heads over to the witch’s body and gets ready to start to patting her down. Lancion frowns and looks at his axe before looking at Marabel as she goes. He runs past her and up the stairs. Karl follows Bailey and summons Aeryn again. Inside the urn Xeldarix gives Lily one last squeezing hug before letting go. She flops back onto one of the cushions. She is tired and gets comfortable for a nap. Raiarr and Lily ask Xeldarix if she is feeling better which Xeldarix indicates no. Lily sits next to Xeldarix and casts a spell to heal her. Lily asks her about the source of the pain. Khee flaps his wings and lays back on a cushion. Outside of the urn Marabel continues to run upstairs. Emilia is going to look through the remains of the golem to see if there was anything interesting. Emilia spots some crumbled crystals that look interesting and some strange ash. Godwyn looks over at the throne and instructs someone to look it over. He begins heading to the stairs with the urn. Fargrim goes over to look at the throne. It is a large throne made of fine quality gems. if it could broken up it would fetch a high price. Bailey grabs the staff, then searches the body. Bailey seeing the robes are important. She has a cool looking amulet. The crown looks expensive. She has a few nice rings. A nice cloak and a rod. And a pouch of gems. Bailey begins the process of getting all the items and Karl helps him gather everything as well as strip the body. Lancion reaches the top of the stairs. Inside the urn Xeldarix tries to explain the wards bit her when she broke through. Xeldarix touches her stomach under her shirt and brings it back out to show her golden blood. She feels no better in here but is comfortable, desiring a nap. Raiarr just stares and Khee looks worried but doesn't do anything. Lily examines the wound closely as she questions Lily trying to get a better idea of what Xeldarix is talking about. Xeldarix grumbles but doesn't stop Lily. Under her shirt, across her belly is an eye carved into her with a slash through it. In infernal it reads "I see you. I will be with you shortly. Just rest a while." Higher on her chest there is a cross over her heart with more infernal. "Aim here." Lily swears and grabs her speaking stone and sends a message to Karl, telling him Garguath is coming here for Xeldarix and that she is enchanted to sleep. Karl replies asking for more information. Outside the urn, Marabel continues to run after Lancion. Emilia gathers up what was interesting from the golem bits and goes to dig through the other golem. Godwyn heads for the stairs with the urn. Fargrom moves to Karl to ask him about some of the gems they found. With all the items collected Bailey also heads for the stairs. Upstairs Lancion makes it to where the door should be but instead there is just tree covering it now. Karl confirms that Bailey can planeshift and gives him a tuning fork to Arcadia with the idea of taking everyone. He calls Godwyn back since he has the urn. Inside the urn, Xeldarix starts to sleepily ramble as she curls up on the pillow. Lily immediately goes about keeping Xeldarix awake instead of letting her cave into sleep. Lily messages Karl again giving him more instructions about using planeshift to get Xeldarix off the plane with just Bailey and the urn. Khee and Raiarr watch on nervously. Outside the urn, Marabel realises people are stopping and turns to see what is going on. Emilia picks up that some of Lily’s messages have Karl on edge. Godwyn waits for more instructions. Fargrim digs out the fork for their home plane in case it is needed. Bailey has a quick chat with Karl to confirm he is taking the urn to Arcadia and is given both tuning forks before heading over to Godwyn to get the urn. Upstairs Lancion attacks the wall. Karl takes the staff from Bailey and everything else he picked up as he walks over with him to Gowyn. Inside the urn, Xeldarix complains about not being able to sleep. Raiarr screeches loudly to help Lily stop Xeldarix from sleeping. Khee sees this might be a curse and offers to try and remove it. The urn makes helps Khee to recover their magic quicker and after a short rest he will be able to try. Lily bandages up Xeldarix as well as she can. It is disheartening to Lily to see that Xeldarix is slowly weakening and declining. Outside the urn, Marabel runs up the stairs seeing that nothing much has changed for her plans. Emilia moves over to join Karl. Godwyn hands Bailey the urn and wishes him good luck. Fargrim is more focused on how they save the people in the crystals. Bailey takes the urn, holds up the tuning fork for Arcadia, and it rings out as he casts his spell. The note rings out as he disappears. With them gone, Karl tells Fargrim they can’t do much for the people in the crystals right now. They need to get back to Brechlen. Everyone heads upstairs to try and help Lancion make an exit. While the exit is being made Fargrim and Karl look around the tree to see if they missed anything. There are bones with runes on it. Jars of eyes, newts and a few things you aren't sure what it is. Hanging herbs to dry. A wind chime of teeth and ears. A bag of gems.
Now in Arcadia, Lily allows Xeldarix to fall asleep. She just curls up in a ball of feathers. Khee sends Raiarr outside of the urn to help Bailey find them asylum and healing. Lily can hear people speaking to those outside the urn but don't recognise the language. Some sounds like what Celaser speaks. While the Bailey and Raiarr try and communicate with the locals, Lily watches over Xeldarix. Her breathing evens out quickly, becoming shallow but after a few minutes she doesn't get any worse. She's pale and a bit clammy but sleeping peacefully. Seeing that Xeldarix has stabilised, Lily contacts Karl with the sending stone to let him know they got here safely and what they are trying to do. This is a great relief to Karl.
During this time Lancion and Marabel have started to make an opening. Fargrim takes anything that looks either valuable or possibly cursed. The one werebear the group had helped to become himself again approaches to quietly ask the group about leaving. Fargrim introduces himself and The Golden Flame to the werebear, Walter. After talking for a while and the plan to head to Poden conveyed, Uqaviel tears open the breech that Lancion and Marabel were making in a fit of rage. He demands to know where Xeldarix is. Karl is quick to try and calm Uqaviel by explaining what happened. Uqavial is not truly calmed by this, but he doesn’t continue to rage at the group, seeing it will not do him any good. He tells them they need to leave now. He does go up and down in mood as he finds out more things. They heal the werebears, which no longer seem to be enchanted with the witches dead and start getting everyone outside. They head off to meet the paladins.
Lily and Khee rest within the Urn. Khee keeps trying everything time their magic regenerates to break the curse on Xeldarix but to no luck. After some time, they can hear Bailey and Raiarr struggling to communicate with someone else. Sounds like they might be at an inn. Lily leaves Xeldarix in the care of Khee to head outside to help them. Lily feels a rush of air and suddenly she is standing next to Bailey and Raiarr at a bar in what looks like a tavern. Behind the bar is a hobgoblin that is very surprised at your appearance. The bar looks overtaking organised. Bottles are all the same size and shape. The tables are in a very distinct grid. Lily tries Elven and it seems the Hobgoblin does understand that. He had sent for a translator Modron but Bailey and Raiarr didn’t understand they had to wait. Explaining their situation Lily acts as a translator for the group and arranges for them to stay the night and to have a cleric sent for to look at Xeldarix. The Hobgoblin is named Reginald and a large room is arranged for the group to rest in and take meals. They are shown to their room upstairs. The room is well decorated with plants, bookshelves, and couches with a coffee table. There are four rooms coming off this main area. Two on each side. The doors are evenly spaced along the walls. As are the windows. They rest in the room and Bailey explains this seems to be a goblinoid city. Lily sends a bunch of messages to Karl updating on their situation. Karl tells Lily about Uqaviel’s reaction to the situation.
At 11am the assault group meets back up with the fallback group. They talk with Inden and arrange for the fisherman to come back to pick them up. He’s a few hours away and they start to walk towards the shore to the South. Karl also tells Inden about the werebears and immediately they work towards looking after the werebears. At the shore they build a big bonfire to be ready to signal the boat. While Emilia and Karl do that, Marabel and one of the werebears look over and evaluate the gems found.
- Alexandrite (300 gp)
- Black Star Sapphire (600 gp)
- Bloodstone (50 gp)
- Blue Quartz (12 gp)
- Freshwater Pearl (13 gp)
- Red Spinel (130 gp)
- Smoky Quartz (40 gp)
- Star Ruby (900 gp)
- Fire Opal (1000g)
- Amber (90 gp)
- Blue Quartz (11 gp)
- Chalcedony (40 gp)
- Coral (110 gp)
- Golden Yellow Topaz (300 gp)
- Peridot (60 gp)
- Tourmaline (130 gp)
- Fire Opal (1000gp)
- Star Ruby (1000gp)
- Staff of Striking
- Amulet of Planes
- Rod of Tentacles
- Cloak of Many Fashions
Lily and the group settles down to relax for a bit. Khee is directed by Lily to take Xeldarix’s sending stone so that way when Lily uses her stone Khee can reply. Khee cannot start a sending communication since he has not seen the sigils on Lily’s. After getting some requests, Lily heads down to see Reginald about lunch. He has sent for a cleric and arranges for meals to be sent up to the room for the group. Lily requests seeds or grubs for her feather friends, which might make their way into dinner but not lunch. Not long after that the meals are brought up to the room. Khee pops himself and Xeldarix out of the urn. They tuck Xeldarix into a bed to rest while they eat lunch.
At 1pm Karl goes to sit by the fire with his sister while waiting for the boat. Saryea and Inden tell them about what happened while the group was gone. A fey riding a water lily with reed legs attacked. Xeldarix battled with her while the group took care of the main minor defences. Everyone rests while waiting for the boat. Fargrim and Emilia look for local vegetation for the bears to eat since they look under fed.
After resting for a while, there is a knock at the inn door. Another Hobgoblin arrives and cast the Tongues spell to be able to speak with the group. This is Bonf. A cleric who has come to see those who require aid. Bond believes Lily to look familiar for some reason. However this is pushed aside while Xeldarix is examined. Lily explains what happened to give Bonf a better understanding of what is happening to Xeldarix. Bonf is unsure she will be able to remove the curse since it is extremely strong. They talk over a back up plan, but Bonf does try to remove it herself. However, in doing so and succeeding, the curse tried to rebound onto Bonf. Thankfully they were able to resist it but do lose consciousness. Meanwhile, Xeldarix cries out, weakly twisting and starting to fit in the bed as she coughs up golden blood. Bailey, Khee and Raiarr come to help, removing Bonf from the room so that way Lily focus on Xeldarix. After a few moments a sickly black and red blob comes out of Xeldarix's cough and her breathing gets easier. Xeldarix is weak, but confuse and is able to mentally communicate. Lily, while comforting Xeldarix, realises the blob is trying to stealthy crawl back towards Xeldarix. Lily quickly gets the thing in a vial, before leaving Xeldarix to rest and check on Bonf. The group finishes their lunches and have a nap while waiting for Bonf to wake up. When Bonf wakes up and aside from feeling a little weak, is okay. Bonf looks over Xeldarix again, who is doing much better. She will come back in the morning to check on Xeldarix again to be sure. Lily pays for the services today. Bonf takes the vial with the blob in it. At 2pm Lily goes down to see Reginald after Bonf leaves to ask about the town. Reginald writes down a note for Lily to show people if she gets lost. Lily goes to the park with a large clocktower in the middle of town.
At 2:30pm the boat arrives. Karl had used Skywrite and the bonfire to signal the boat to their location. They settle in for the ride back to the city. During while Fargrim tries to dump some rotten meat, but the fisherman tells him off.
At 3:30pm Lily returns to the inn. The group relaxes until dinner, where Lily goes down to order some to be sent up to the room. Then they eat and continue to relax.
At 8pm the boat arrives back at Poden. Karl and Fargrim discuss with Inden the situation with the werebears. They decide to have everyone spend the night in an inn. They stay at the Sculpted Flower Inn. Everyone pairs up for the night. Warm dinners are had and rest is gotten.
At 9pm Lily heads to bed, curling up in bed with Xeldarix. However, her sleep is plagued by nightmares. Often she wake to check on Xeldarix. She tries not to wake her but the second time Xeldarix is woken up by Lily. Her eyes don't open much. She mumbles and just tries to weakly pull Lily into the feather cocoon. 13th of Deismir 1524 At 5am Lily wakes up and Xeldarix continues to sleep peacefully. She wakes Xeldarix to check on her and Xeldarix is very resistant to the idea of waking up. She’s tired and in pain, and doesn’t really remember the previous day clearly. Lily fills in the blanks for her. Then Lily leaves her to rest so she can check on the others. Bailey is up early as well, but not the brothers. Lily heads downstairs to get everyone breakfast. There is a porridge bar where she gets a bowl for everyone with a little bit of everything. She tells Reginald that the healer will be by this morning and then they will most likely be leaving after that. Lily takes them upstairs. Everyone eats. Lily wakes Xeldarix up to eat. She is not interested in porridge but will eat some of the berries. Afterward, Lily tucks her in to rest while they wait for Bonf to return.
At 6am Fargrim and Karl are up. They head downstairs for breakfast where they get Marabel to look at the remaining items to be valued.
- Crown is worth 750g
- Rings worth 100g each (3 of them)
At 8am Bonf returns to the inn. Lily updates Bonf on how she has been since yesterday. Bonf tells Lily what she learned about the blob. This little creature is what would allow Gaugarth to scry and track someone, even when protected from such things, this would allow him to do so anyway. It is like a modified and infused Lemure that has been infused with demonic energy. Bonf will make sure the blob is destroyed, but she insists that Lily leaves town today. It seems the reason she looked familiar is that there is a wanted poster with her face up. However, the crimes happened before Lily arrived on the plane and lacked the tattoo. They are wanted for breaking the order of the law. So Bonf is confident in Lily’s innocence, but is aware the criminal process here takes years and does not wish to put an innocent person through that. They go to see Xeldarix, who is not happy to be woken up again. She grumbles through the examination. Xeldarix will need rest. Lily buys a potion of Vitality from Bonf, which restores Xeldarix but she is still mentally drained from her experience. Afterwards Lily will send a message to Karl to let him know they heading back soon and asking for a meeting location. Karl requests they meet at the adventurer’s guild.
When the shops open, Karl goes to sell the gems and other items they found to give everyone shares as Lily had desired. Inden goes with them to ensure things go smoothly and continue to work their connection back up in the city. At 9:15am Karl, Fargrim, the guild members and paladins teleport back to Brechlen. The Paladins all leave and the guild members also leave, as Karl and Fargrim stay to talk to the mage guild Masters. They almost go down to see Steve, but change their minds and head to see Sam and June. They see Trinity first though since she is on the way. She is happy to see them both. They update her on the witch situation. Trinity gives Karl a handmade knitted sweater with fire symbols. She also gives them two knitted caps for the dragon brothers. Karl is given homework with a report about the coven situation. Afterwards the pair continue on to see June and Sam. June is very excited about the staff and what needs to be done to get Master Shyr out. Fargrim shows off his sneakiness with the boots she made. They explain what happened at the grove. This includes the selling of petrified people as statues for gardens. Karl recommends they work with Poden on this matter, though Fargrim warns it might not be safe. They head for the adventurer’s guild afterwards.
Lily changes into her armour and packs everyone up to leave. Reginald gives Lily a Common Primer, since very few people know Elven in a Goblin city and they might not be so lucky in future. Bailey planeshifts the group back. They arrive back in Brechlen, in Northgate near the Town Hall. This gives the locals a bit of a scare. Xeldarix is very grumpy when she realises they are not heading back to the manor for chocolate croissants. Lily buys some chocolate for Xeldarix. They arrive as Fargrim and Karl arrive. Fargrim runs up to give Lily a big handshake. Lily, Fargrim, Xeldarix and Karl get 500 gold payment and 1000 gold goes to the guild. Lily fills the other two in when they head up to an office about what had happened with Xeldarix. Lily also tells them about the person that is wanted that looked like her. While they talk, Karl hears Uqaviel slap Xeldarix. He doesn’t want to get involved. They discuss looking into some of the members of the Unchained here either having detailed stone statues or having a part in selling them. After this chat Karl goes to find Tatiana, Lily goes to find Molly and Fargrim prays for Erin. Molly updates Lily on Tatiana’s work and Lily talks about payment and coin for the guild members who helped. Tatiana is found in the library in the manor, she updates Karl on his investigation through the books he provided. Karl tells her about the stone problem so she can look into that for him. As they head to the manor, Fargrim uses sending to tell Caramella they are coming and that chocolate croissants would be appreciated. He also sends a message to Emma in case the death of the Coven kicks something off for her in Blackgate. Karl tries to talk to Lily as they walk about what he discussed with Tatiana but she is quick to cover his mouth. When they arrive at the manor Xeldarix goes and sits in the kitchen to wait for croissants. Lily and Karl talk about timing for getting the Brother’s island. They’ll have an early dinner as a result. Fargrim heads out to go to the bank and get the things needed to cast Symbol on Caramella’s door. Karl goes to tell Caramella the plans for dinner and that it will need to be early. He suggests to Xeldarix that she go upstairs and has a nap while waiting for the croissants. Lily heads upstairs to relax and to write her oath before having a nap. Xeldarix joins Lily for the nap. Karl heads into the library to scribe. Fargrim casts the Symbol of Sleep on the door. It will be triggered if someone who is not the approved list moves the door. The approved list:
- Caramella
- Fargrim
- Karl
- Lily
- McGregor
- Simone
- Lyra
- Lila
- Abigail
- Xeldarix
- Uqaviel
At 2pm an early dinner is served. After at 3pm the group leaves. Lily leaves a note behind for Simone to do a reading for her, then heads for the flying boat. Lily steers the boat and takes them East for the leylines. Uqaviel is made to fly himself outside the boat as everyone else is in the boat. Fargrim grumbles about being the only one who can’t save himself if he falls. As they fly off towards the island Fargrim is named Grand Vizier to the Pirate King.
Notes
| Name | XP | XP Total | Level at end of Session |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fargrim | 375 | 173,331 | 15 |
| Karl | 375 | 173,331 | 15 |
| Lily | 375 | 173,331 | 15 |
