Session 64: Fighting Pollution

Miscellaneous

  The Wild Cards Fight Pollution Dragons & Learn more about their ship

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Redfall 15, 2023 KC, morning

  Between Outding Refuge & Thornwinds   Recap   Barlo is on the broom coming back, the party are on the deck and two large Crystal dragons are coming at them. These dragons seem to be black on the outside, with reds, purples, blues, and greens under the and between the scales.           The captain asks if they should go back up... Barlo suggests some space between them and clouds.   The party investigates the dragons. Bastion uses his sage researcher feature. He recalls no lore on these. These are new, and so he has no idea if anyone has written about them. He is aware that magic sometimes creates a "pollution" or Living Spell or other effect. These clouds and dragons seem to be a by product of some unnusual magic.   AS it dies the Dragon becomes solid Crystal. The oily wings are also becoming solid. Shadow begins to take parts. As does Bastion. Some teeth.. 2 good ones. Spikes...   Calliope pokes it.   Nissa & Yggdra mediate   Arktos tries to get some more head scratches.   Calliope uses her glove feature. She learns it was born from the clouds, the clouds are by-products of the magic experiments at Outding Refuge... unnoticed as they are Invisible around the island but slowly form outside and they are full of chaos magic. Hence the chaos effects around the dragons. it is pollution from the magic experiments.   Calliope takes some souvenirs.   she investigates looking for any souvenir from the Unicorn. nothing.   Shadow compares the crystals from outding... they look similar in many ways. She wonders if such experiments caused the crystals that was there from some past experiments... asks bastion if it happened before. He also compares them.   Barlo wonders if there is a connection between the mindflayers and the forge.   The Professor Orb, Professor Meklan of Toril says he heard them talking and interjects. He says he knows a bit about what used to be Outding Refuge, the creatures known as Spellweavers which is rare since most knowledge of them has long been wiped out of existence. The orb is one of the very few that knows anything about them since he hid. They believe they created everything, in a way with a spell that they have long sought to reverse. Bastion asks if they had something to do with the forge, and the orb says they created the forges. They were once the mightiest of spell-casters. With their 6 arms they could cast multiple spells at the same time. It is believed by those who would know about them that they used to exist in many realms across the multiverse, and planned to recreate all of reality. They cast a mighty spell that destroyed all their settlements across the multiverse. These 5-sided pyramids known as Nodes. Captain Meklan hid this orb from Vecna who was the one trying to erase all knowledge of these creatures across all realms. This is why no one knows about them.   He doesn't know if the wild magic pollution occured there before, but he does know it used to be one of their nodes. These spellweavers were the first creators of the Black Obelisks.   Barlo asks if there was an older obelisk on Outding.. they bring up the new one they got the sword from. Bastion says the question is who created that one.   It seems the spellweavers had large furnaces in their nodes where they would destroy many magic items to gain their powers, and they had portals to anywhere in the multiverse. They were very advanced... All that magic energy was there...   Bastion wonders how this relates to the visions of the ladies -- they don't think it does. They wonder if they can contact Bast. Shadow suggests using Commune with Nature.   They also learn that the gnomes helped build the ship. Balabar Sprocket worked on weapons and even had other ideas they didn't get too... Dipple Sprocket worked on the Feywild room, and was surprised they hadn't added more locations. Bastion wants to learn more. They used knowledge from Gnomengraad where such ships do exist, but only locally.   They go to the bottom. Bastion starts to talk to them about their plans. They say they had plans to do Work elsewhere and wanted to leave Ursa. Bastion suggests they can help at their base. The brothers say they were thinking they could help outfit the party. He shows a Wood panel near the Feywild room. He says a word with his hand over the panel and the panel opens.   They see a pattern with sockets and one has a gemstone.     Shadow asks about their tuning forks. Turns out taking such a tuning fork to a place it is made for one can do a ritual to create a Gem that can be socketed here, now creating a spot they can Teleport to that spot in the room.   Transport Room Upgrade   He points out how they can craft some crates & barrels of holding, Ship Upgrades, as well as turning the Teleportation Circle into an outgoing that works 3x day. Can also turn bedrooms into extradimensional spaces...   Barlo asks about a cloak of Invisibility or other enchantments... they go upstairs, he shows how the Dynamo box can be upgraded. He says he can build a dedicated Mythallar to power the ship which is 15,000 gp but grants other magic items to be powered near the ship. like temporary items, cheaper but only Work at ship... Can also turn items into gemstones that will grant powers to the ship, 7 slots. There is a coin slot which also has a ritual to create coins of teleportation that will Teleport the ship to the location from which the coin comes from.   He gives them a book (The Sprocket Brothers Catalog that changes from time to time) and a stone (a talking stone works 3x day for a minute each time to converse back and forth).   Bastion asks if they can make personal items. They have some stuff and they are asked if they need anything. The brothers point out that the mast is a Living tree so a Transport via Plants spell will Work with it. The previous owners had a lot of things they had used with this ship for their adventures.   Barlo wants to talk to the weapon brother...   Bastion asks if they have spells he can from them... they have some scrolls and Gem items.    

 
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