Session 014: Mindflayer Colonies & Wizard Hideouts Report

General Summary

 

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Redfall 22, 2020KC

  Tharros Underdark Hideout "Near" Outding Refuge, The Underdark     The party investigates the rooms.   The runes look to be Abyssal or Infernal on the well. As the party went into the Right passageway, they saw that the walls were rough stone, not carved blocks as the previous rooms.   It looks to be a strange workplace of some kind.   • Team heard something moving…   The tables here look to have old bloodstains. A few Full Plate armor stands, and a glow is coming from the arcane structure in the North hallway. There are animal heads on the far wall.   In a southern nook is a private library with a desk and chair. The desk is full of notes and a book. There is a statue and an urn between the bookcases. On the West wall, there is a large Rock from floor to roof, and on both sides of it, Iron bars with a strange runic circle that goes around that Rock and under the bars. There are three large Crystal structures in the walls, two in the "cage" and one outside it.   Inside the cage is an elven woman; her name is "Vyerith," who claims she was taken and then put into this cell.  

• She was taken while walking on the Triboar Trail on the continent of Eushia. It was north of Philander and happened a few months ago.
 
• It was an Old Man (wizard) and his apprentice. They left weeks ago, and she has been alone.

  Concerning other details:  

• The bookshelves have tons of Books and pickled organs of various creatures.
 
• The desk has many maps and a book called "The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces"
• it is a treatise on the Magnificent Mansion spell and experiments were done to alter it. There was a highlighted note about "Scepter."
• The maps are of the island, the Trade Mar Route, Carrune sea, Eushia, Hulla-Putyor, and a close up of Eushia with a red mark and an X.
• The statue is a silvery Metal Imp statue.
• A few other Books the group noticed on the desk were the Journal of Tharros and Monster Hunting Guide.

      The party decided to let Vyerith out.   They then explored the arcane doorway. Looking through it, they could see a forested rocky hill area. (possibly on Eushia based on some of the vegetation, season, and time). It is also very particular to the Wizard, Tharros the Wanderer, that cast it.   When Shadow in the Snow went through the notes and Journal of Tharros, she saw the word Scepter, and she had said the word with then revealed a shimmering rectangle in the air, a door.   It disappeared after apx. 15 seconds. It also has its location based on where she was at the time; it seems—possibly attached to the book, The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces. They have the word to get in, but possibly not the same to get out.   Northernmost Room:   It extends into a long passageway that opens into a large cavern and continues. There is a tan/gray Rock and a passageway ahead and to the left. The left is smaller and has a muck pit.   Straight ahead leads to an Iron door with an intricate design and a face carved into it. Using the Mage Hand to touch the door, the face comes to life and speaks. The Mindflayers were last seen on the other side of the door, and it has been a very long time.   Talking Door of the Underdark He was cursed by a Wizard to become a door. Must do two truths and one lie to pass.   The party made it through  

Redfall 23, 2020KC

  The passageway opens up and continues.   Doorways to the sides are too narrow to go through.   Abandoned Mindflayer Colony Under Outding Refuge, The Underdark   Passageway Dead ends and extends up into a shaft.   Climbed up the shaft, and there is a hallway into a room. Dropped down a rope w/ rod for others…   Odd, alien architecture looks to be the colony. Many archways into rooms, Rooms w/ tubs of water, salty brine smell.   Main room - large pool mostly dry, glass-covered pods   Feel like it's a wild goose chase and head back to the "Hideout "Near" Outding Refuge."   Vyerith was gone.   Barlo steps through the portal but can't get back… has to be a way, but luckily shadow reached through and dragged him back through.   Perhaps a word or item to make it passable.   Bastion Bladesinger was studying the book to try and gain info.   Fistandia was the author and had all types of added handwritten notes to it...   Then Shadow in the Snow decides to put the Imp statue in the Bag of Holding, and the armor comes to life, and a flaming skull comes out of the dragonhead.     Threw the Flameskull through the portal. Found out the cloak was an Uncommon Glamerweave        

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Rewards Granted

 
 

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Missions/Quests Completed

• Get to Abandoned Mindflayer Colony Under Outding Refuge, found it on the 23rd…
• Solve Talking Door of the Underdark' riddle
• Where did Vyerith go or come from?
• The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces has a portal
 
• Abandoned Mindflayer Colony Under Outding Refuge appears empty, but they barely explored it...

   

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Character(s) interacted with

Characters

• Fistandia
• Mordenkainen
• Talking Door of the Underdark
• Tharros the Wanderer
• Vyerith

 

Creatures

• Animated Armor
• Flameskull
• Mindflayer

   

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Created Content

10 (Redfall)

 

• Redfall 22, 2020 KC - Redfall 23, 2020 KC, Early Morning

• The Menagerie Discover the Abandoned Mindflayer Colony

 

— Timeline of The Mighty Menagerie

   

Locations

• Abandoned Mindflayer Colony Under Outding Refuge
• Carrune
• Eushia
• Hideout "Near" Outding Refuge
• Hulla-Putyor
• Outding Refuge
• Philander
• Tharros Underdark Hideout "Near" Outding Refuge
• The Underdark
• Trade Mar Route
• Triboar Trail

 

Items of Note

• Bag of Holding
• Books
• Crystal
• Iron
• Journal of Tharros
• Metal
• Monster Hunting Guide
• Rock
• The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces
• Uncommon Glamerweave

 

Factions

• The Mighty Menagerie

 

Misc

• Abyssal
• Dead
• Hex
• Hunter's Mark
• Infernal
• Ray of Frost
• Redfall

   

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Notes

• The well.
• This hideout.
• Vyerith?
• The statue and book?
• The door.
• The colony.