Session 29: Lyra commits genocide to save Faenore

We loot the place of the Oni and find a trap door under the hookah. Faenore sees something glinting in the cracks of the floor board. It's a fancy box with 12 healing potions, and a coiled up rope. Its a rope of entanglement

We decide to hang out here until we take a rest.
 
we hear some rumbling that sounds like it could be some kind of cave in. We run out and check it out. The tunnel where the kobolds were has caved in, and there are orcs of woe, and Remish running away being pursued by a red dragon wearing a weird necklace. We see that they are all being chased by a MUCH larger ancient red dragon. This is why there is a cave in.
 
We get ready to defend ourselves and save Remish.
 
During the chaos Tempest yells in Draconic to this dragon that we mean no harm, which causes everyone to kind of go quiet for a moment.
The ancient red dragon then looks at the red dragon and yells. at ti to give him back his necklace. Tempest then tells us he doesn't want us. He wants his necklace from the smaller dragon, and we should run.
 
The ancient dragon bites the head off the smaller dragon and takes his necklace back. We run away as the ancient dragon completely melts the orcs that were there.
 
We learn that this dragon is The Living Flame. It has that title, because it has a necklace that bears it to anyone that is in possession. The smaller red dragon was the Living Flame, but this larger dragon was recently released by Mammon as he was the ORIGINAL Living Flame. This guy then went and hunted down the smaller dragon to get his necklace back. This necklace was thrown into the Abolith Water by the other group somehow. So, the little dragon was able to escape the abolith somehow? Who knows.
 
We find 3 books on a dead orc. a couple of chronicles by John Harrison and a book on Morpheus Nightwood.
 
Faenore offers the Living Flame gifts if he will give us information. Faenore empties his bags and the dragon accepts the offer.
Faenore asks about the Fire plane and what it was like. He apparently never wishes to return to the City of Brass as it was his prison. He is on his way to Eldoria, his old home.
 
The Living Flame agrees to let us stay here and spread the word about him and he may come back eventually to challenge the dragons for this land. He also gives us directions on how to get to the City of Brass if we ever do make it to the plane of Fire.
 
Lufere teleports The Living Flame back to the other continent.
 
WE decide to keep heading to House Hunzr in to get cold iron chains. WE travel for a few hours. it's about 6pm. WE get to a point where we can decide to cut our trip in half if we go through a tunnel of Ropers, and we decide, Why Not? Let's do it.
 
WE decide to travel a bit and setup camp around 9:30pm
 
WE get some rest and we see some drow hanging out a couple of miles away. We read the books that we found from the dead orc. We learn about a secret entrance to the Runeforge at a black pyramid. The Magnus's believed if they could get ahold of THE GREATSPEAR they would be able to rule over all the kingdom of Greatspear. Legend says there will be a great conflict in the land, kings will vie for control of the land. Peace will only be restored when a descendent of the first King of greatspear that carries the ancient relic Turahte back into the kingdom with finally bring peace.
 
There is also a scroll that mentioned a story about a guy who had his heart turned to stone by a hag, and he makes a deal with Anubis, he god of death and judgement. to restore it. It was a harsh pact that would test his faith. The story was cut off. Anubis has something to do with the pyramid. We have an idea of where this is, as it describes an area of glowing green mushrooms. Soran knows this place. It's called the Fey-branchu- The Enchanted Glades.
 
We decided to continue to House Hunzrin. it's on the way anyway.
 
We find a very suspicious looking Stalagmite that looks like a bloody person was around. Stefan approaches it carefully while invisible and hacks at it with a hand axe....its is just a rock, but we find a bloody spell book on the ground.
 
We find that the roper is ACTUALLY above us. We quietly all attack it at the same time and kill it. It's roughly 11am the 27th of Azuthaire.
 
WE make it to House Hunzrin. Soran MOras offers to go inside and try to make the deal and have someone come to us, as it would be quite dangerous. He tells us if he doesn't come back within 1 hour it means he is dead. Lufere accompanies him as a flying snake.
 
He is successful. He learns that HOuse Draxon has slowed down the flow of lava here. He says if we offer to destroy the dam that is being made above, they may let us go. Either way, we have to meet with the mother matron. We agree.
 
Her name is Hildra Hunzrin. When we meet her, we must bow with hands and knees on the ground. She will also be duplicated into 5 copies of herself so nobody will know who the real one is. She's also missing a pinkie finger.
 
We speak to her and tell her what we want and offer her the Drow in our body bag and the tentacle rod. In return we would like cold iron chains. She ends up offering a slave that knows how to forge it. Also she wants us to destroy the dam slowing down the lava flow. We offered a future favor for that.
 
We are allowed to leave with the slave. Stefan stops by their weapons/armor shop. We buy/trade shit. It's roughly 6pm on the 27th of Azuthaire.
 
Sonaj is the name of the slave. Lyra thanks him for his help and we dress him. We tell him that once he helps us make cold iron, we will give him his freedom.
 
We head to the dam and Leland and Tempest are able to find a structural flaw in the dam.
 
Remish gives us a necklace of unstable fireball beads. Stefan uses Gunner to kamakazi himself into the dam with the beads. It works and we are able to bring the whole dam/bridge down. Many of the drow die.
 
It's 8pm.
 
We decide to take a long rest. It is successful.
 
We continue and fight some giant wasps and drow. We definitely kill someone important. Apparently we killed a priestess.
 
We get to the forest of green mushrooms. Some dryads try to trick us into dancing and protecting their mushrooms.
 
Lyra hears a voice in her head saying "I can help you with Faenore" It is able to tempt her into the forest. A fog comes in out of nowhere covering everything. This scares the dryads away.
 
The group start to look for her and cannot find Lyra.
 
Meanwhile, Lyra is walking into a hut with an old women. It's Babba Yagga. She tells Lyra that the drow house Feybrunch is trying infiltrate her. She wants us to give Thalia Feybrunch a poppy. Lyra convinces the rest of the group to go alongwith this, but she doesn't reveal that it was Babba Yagga that she made a deal with.
 
We decide to put together some gifts to give as tribute, the poppy flower being one.
 
We go back to house Feybrunch. They are kind of chill with us and don't allow their giant plants to eat us.
 
WE walk up to Thalia, and she is confused that we are not eaten. Just as she is about to have her venus fly traps eat us, we offer her the gifts. Lyra accidentally falls into the "thanks trap" and then gives Thalia the poppy. Thalia pricks her finger on it and then starts to turn to stone. Everything here starts to turn to stone. We are able to outrun it, but Osoris gets caught up and turned to stone. It's horrible.
 
After we escape, everyone is like What the Fuck Lyra!! Lyra then kisses Faenore and half of her heart goes into Faenore and half of Faenore's stone heart goes into Lyra. Everyone is just stunned, and Lyra is torn up with guilt and shame, She's worried that Faenore will hate her after what she's done.
 
As they are sitting, a black cat approaches Lufere, and tries to get him to follow it. We decide to follow it, and it leads us to a giant hole next to a mushroom. This seems to be where we may need to go to get to the pyramid.
 
Lufere offers the cat a piece of dragon heart as a thank you, and the cat turns into a beautiful woman. She has a mark on her cheek. She says "have a good journey" and walks away.
 
We start walking down into the hole. We see the pyramid. there is a hole dug in the ground that serves as an entrance.
 
There are hieroglyphics on the pyramid that talks about someone named Zozth and an ancient city named Kathera in an empire that no longer The Bandonallese Empire. HIs wife Akilla saved some kids that the pharaoh wanted to kill. the pharaoh ends up killing the kids and Akilla and Zozth. In his death, Zozth met Anubus, who struck a deal with Shar. Zozth came back and got revenge on all the pharaohs men. Sending plagues across the land. There was an ocean around Kathera. All of that water because cursed and turned to sand. All the sea creatures were turned.
 
The only way to cure this was for the people to rise up and kill the pharaoh, but the people did not do this. He left the pharaoh alive and sunk their city into the sands.
 
After this he begged Shar to release him, but she wouldn't acknowledge him. He was unable to die, so he threw himself from a cliff ending up in the fey wild. He met the queen of air and darkness and then realized his falactory was the black diamond. This made him want to destroy it.
 
He eventually mummified all the pharaoh's men in the temple and engineered the destruction of the black diamond, and that is what he's going to do....that's were this ends.
 
He was responsible for the Shards of the Sundering.
 
Lyra accidentally reveals that she worked with Babba Yaga, and she feels terrible about what she's done. Lufere gives her the book on Baba Yaga, and she realizes that the black cat was actually Ilgueve.
 
This is where we end. Just outside of the pyramid.
 
We talk about going back to grab Orsaris so we can bring him back somehow later.