Session 41: Escaping an ancient civilization. Rescuing Miners in Seg Raven.

It is Ravenqueensea the 30th. Roughly 9pm.
 
Lithil had just attempted to dispel the magic of one of the crystals and The grey elf stops her. He tells us that letting them out would be a mistake.
 
The grey elf then free Drogus, and she falls out of the crystal as a naked lady. We are very confused, because Drogus was a giant insect creature the last time. Apparently that's what happens if she gets too far away from the moon here.
 
This grey elf's name is Zim. we demand he release our friends. He says it's a bad idea, but he complies. They fall out of their crystals, naked and without any of their stuff.
 
Zim tells us about his city and says it was destroyed long ago. His city had survivors and slowly but surely were unable to produce children. Zim is the last alive. He's been here for 1000s of years. His life is sustained by the moon crystal. If he leaves then he dies.
 
Any elf, human or dwarf exposed to this moon crystal will turn to a monster if they try to leave. Lufere ets Zim to take him to the library so he can do some research on this place. Lyra stays back with Faenor and Leland.
 
Hazel and Tempest make their way to the entrance to see if they will be safe leaving.
 
Zim shows Lufere videos of kpop dancing elves. He understands them saying something like "they grabbed the tablets. AO said he would never let us put our hands on them, we would never let go, as above, so below. yeah 5th circle 6th circle 7th circle and so on until they get to 12th.
 
Lufere tells Zim to go back to the others and try to show them around the city so he can stay back and "study" Zim agrees. Lufere is really just excited to confiscate all of the shiny gems. As soon as Zim is gone, Lufere pulls up a bunch of light cables/crystals that start to hum and vibrate to a higher and higher pitch. then they dim out. Now he's kind of stuck in the library.
 
He grabs another gem and it causes him to see his entire life in a moment. It feels like a lucky crystal to him. He pulls it and there is a fiber optic cable attached that breaks.
 
Meanwhile....hazel arrives back to the entrance. She puts her hand through the shadow outside of the crystal moon light. Her hand looks normal.
 
As they start to walk out, Hazel started to turn into something else immediately. Tempest grabs her and pulls her back to safety.
 
They get back and let us all know. Meanwhile, Lufere is destroying the library unknowingly destroying all of their data. Lyra tries to decipher how to use a control panel here. She actually starts to trace out the cables and map everything so she can understand how everything works.
 
Tempest tries to decipher some of the data that hasnt been destroyed, but Zim doesn't seem to know how anything works around here.
 
He grabs a crystal and thinks about how to not turn into a bug when he leaves. He sees a humanoid in the crystal who kind of knows how to do this. He now has the knowledge.
 
He tells Zim and Zim makes him swear to secrecy. Tempest is like "yeahhhh. I won't tell anyone" sike.
 
Tempest tells Lyra we need a second glowing power crystal to get out of here safely. He flies up to the moon crystals to try and break some off.
 
He needs to melt it down. he is going to open a portal to the plane of fire. Lufere is able to successfully melt down a huge crystal in the plane of fire and put it in his bag of holding. little did anyone know, this kills Zim. As soon as the crystal is destroyed, Zim poofs away because he was so old.
 
Everyone else that is human, elf or dwarf turn into monsters. It takes about 15 days, but Tempest, Remish, Dura, Lyra and Lufere are able to catch everyone and inject them to cure them
 
It's CorellonEmber 17th like 1pm
 
Everyone that wasn't monsters get punished with ailments. Lufere needs a Greater Restoration to fix his limp now and moves slower. Lyra has a minor scar on her face now that Faenore caused when she was trying to save him.
 
Anuway, we finally get out of this cave after a couple of weeks. Drogus and all her friends are saved now.
 
We find that there are chimpanzees all over this island. Lyra is like, yeah, I'm not sleeping on this island to fix our boat if there are a bunch of chimpanzees on it.
 
Lufere talks to them and they lead him to their king in the temple. there is a an armored monkey with a crown sitting on a throne up there. Lufere offers him good berries and explains he just wanted to meet the strongest of them. The monkey king gives Lufere a seed and tells him to eat it and for the rest of the day he will be able to have a great advantage over his foes.
 
HE also tells Lufere of a bridge that goes over to the crescent isle of Chelonia that only he knows how to get to it. Turns out this monkey king is a god. Lufere comes back to get the rest of us and we head back up to the temple.
 
Turns out the temple is an abandoned temple of Poseidon. Actually the bridge is gone now. I guess it's deprecated now? I' don't really know.
 
Tempest talks about wanting to rebuild this 75 mile long bridge. The monkey king says it's fine. It's overrun by Tortles anyway.
 
We all end up using Lyra's folding boat to leave the island since we've already lost so much time. Tempest insists on sailing the whole way through with no rest. We arrive straight to Seg Raven. We find a place to sleep and get some rest.
 
It is correlonember the 19th 7am
 
We meet the mayor of this city during breakfast. His name is Alaron.
 
Alaron wants us to look into an issue with miners disappearing in a mine.
 
He takes us to meet the wife of a half orc that recently disappeared to see if we can scry him. WE go meet his wife. She's an agoraphobic tiefling.
 
We scry her husband and see that he is in a cacoon hanging from the ceiling. surrounded by several other cocoons. Lufere notices that htere is something abnormal about these cocoons. Tempest is able to tell that there is something demonic about these cocoons. Like maybe related to Lolth. These could be driders or someting.
 
This started 2 weeks ago. A blue dragon came to town to parlay. This dragon came to speak on behalf of Xantoine Jr. Alaron offers to get us the record for this. In the meantime we'll go check out the miners situation.
 
This is where we end.
 
It is CorellonEmber the 19th at around 9am.