Kingdom on the Brink - Session 47
General Summary
The party start the morning, Del Varis and Uriel didn't rest the entire night and are exhausted, the group breaks camp and heads out. As the group moves further into Bralor they come across a guard dressed in Bralorian colors. The guard seems a little confused the party is coming from the direction of the ruins, and shortly thereafter says that it appears that their job is done and heads towards the ruins. As they are leaving, the party hears of voice from the guard (but doesn't see his mouth move) saying "call out to us and we will be there." The party continues to follow the shore of Shawgate lake, the rest of the day passes uneventfully, the sun sets and a bright moon rises (casting shadows on the sparse trees). As the party sets up camp they notice an Ice Devil in the distance and two Lunar Devils perched on a rock outcropping. Duromar sings his bladesong and casts haste and advances along with Uriel, The Lunar Devils cast greater invisibility, and they move forward. Rosemary runs towards the Ice Devil, but gets hit by a claw from a Lunar Devil, the party sees a figure become briefly visible as it moves from shadow to shadow on the north side of the battlefield. Rosemary casts light, Duromar casts firebolt on the Ice Devil but is unaffected, and then moves up and strikes with his rapier. One Lunar Devil moves to strike Merrigold, but she's dodging, which allows her to evade some of the attacks, Merrigold retaliates by landing a trip attack which prones one of the Lunar Devils. The Moon Nymph attempts to hit Merrigold from her invisible position using her moonbeam attacks, but they both miss. Uriel and Del Varis help Merrigold kill the Lunar Devil she proned, then Merrigold and Uriel close in on the other invisible Lunar Devil while Del Varis moves towards the Moon Nymph. Rosemary casts spirit guardians and moves into range of the Ice Devil, the 2nd Lunar Devil hurls two moonbeams at Rosemary, critically hitting her, but she manages to keep her concentration on Spirit guardians up. The Ice Devil uses wall of ice on Uriel, Del Varis, and Merrigold but only Uriel takes any cold damage, Duromar hurls several chill touches in melee against the Ice Devil and follows them up with a rapier strike. The Ice Devil fails it's save and takes damage from the spirit guardians, Merrigold proceeds to trip the 2nd Lunar Devil and strikes it several times. Uriel follows up with several smites on the Lunar Devil and kills it, The Moon Nymph hurls more moon light at Merrigold, landing a critical hit. The Ice Devil misses two attacks on Duromar but hits Rosemary with its tail, she goes unconscious and loses her spirit guardians and light. Duromar strikes the Ice Devil and moves to heal Rosemary, using his healing ointment, Rosemary starts to bleed out but Duromar gets to her in time. Del Varis attacks the Moon Nymph and the Moon Nymph responds by hitting him with her beguiling touch, which leaves him stunned, Rosemary stands up and casts mass cure wounds and goes into patient defense. Merrigold goes to flank the Moon Nymph and Uriel moves against the Ice Devil, the Moon Nymph uses its veil of nightmares ability which leaves Merrigold frightened and her and Del Varis greatly weakened from psychic damage. Duromar Lands a critical strike against the Ice Devil which almost kills it, Uriel follows it up and strikes it down. Rosemary uses step of the wind and strikes the Moon Nymph and Merrigold overcomes her fears and kills the Moon Nymph. The party moves off the road and sets up camp and long rests, the night goes by uneventfully.
The party gets ready for the day, Merrigold cooks' breakfast and the party realizes she's using food that couldn't be foraged from the immediate area, Merrigold reveals she has a chest of preservation which keeps food from spoiling. The party discusses what magic items they have and Uriel starts to attune to the gem of seeing he found. The group continues further into Bralor, along their path they come across a small observatory, Uriel and Duromar approach the bridge and see an arcane sign that changes languages that says, "keep out, do not enter." Duromar uses dimension door and takes Uriel with him across the bridge and just inside the first room of the facility, Merrigold uses misty step to do the same thing. Del Varis doesn't see what the big deal is and walks across the bridge, setting off a glyph of warding (taking some fire damage). Rosemary watches as Del Varis walks across the area several more times and decides to walk across the bridge, convinced it is safe. Duromar searches the room and realizes it's some sort of research facility, as he is doing that Uriel uses his gem of seeing which grants him truesight, he notices Merrigold standing in front of another magical glyph and tells her to back away. After some discussion on what to do with the glyphs Uriel starts to dispel what he comes across, emphasizing he can only do it three times. Uriel and Merrigold starts to clear out the facility, searching the rooms for traps and dispelling any glyphs. Del Varis and Rosemary split from the group and go done another hall; Del Varis approaches a torch which shoots fire at him (he gets partially hit). Del Varis decides he wants the torch and grabs it (getting hit again), he finds some draconic lettering on it and realizes it's a command word and says it (deactivating the torch). Between the two groups they find an assortment of valuable spellcasting components and gold. Rosemary and Del Varis start to head back towards the other group, before they get there Uriel starts to clear out the next part of the facility when he hears heavy thuds of footsteps nearby. He opens the door and is met by a humanoid that attempts to hit him, Merrigold moves up to help him and uses her shield to shove it away, looking inside they see 4 mindless looking humanoids. Hearing the commotion Del Varis, Duromar, and Rosemary go to help but they find the area is very cramped with little room to maneuver. Duromar uses steel wind strike and quickly kills the four mindless looking humanoids, this saddens Merrigold as she remarks she wanted to save them. The group sees some tentacles retract from the corpses and go underground and Duromar yells they should leave, a Mordant snare erupts from the ground and lashes out with its tentacles (managing to restrain Del Varis). Uriel starts to smite the Mordant Snare and Del Varis manages to break free and disengage out of the area, Duromar banished the Mordant Snare and the groups run out of the area. The group proceeds to the last area of the facility, Uriel finds another glyph, being unable to dispel it he simply walks over it to clear the way. Uriel and Merrigold find another dragon's breath torch and Merrigold runs across, activating it, she is able to deflect the fire with her shield. Uriel uses the distraction to flip up a table to provide full cover and starts to push it towards the torch, Del Varis uses it as cover and evades the dragon's breath torch as he gets a look at its command word and deactivates it.
The group searches the area, in one room Duromar finds a journal that references magical research for the creation of new creatures, in the other room there's a giant telescope pointed over the lake and two giant mounds of treasure on either side. Duromar says that this situation doesn't feel right, Merrigold disregards this and starts to divide the gold pile. Del Varis asks Uriel to keep an eye out while he investigates the telescope. As Merrigold starts sifting through the treasure she sees it start to move on its own and it forms into a Golem, the second pile does the same. Merrigold goads the closest Golem, causing it to chase her, Rosemary casts healing word on the group. Duromar and Uriel focus on the Golem that isn't goaded and, Uriel lands one strike with his sword and Duromar sings his bladesong and hastes himself and strikes it with his rapier. The Golem slams both Duromar and Uriel, cracking a few ribs in the process for both, though Uriel manages to intercept some of Duromar's damage. The goaded Golem attempts to strike Merrigold, but she dodges the first attack, but gets slammed by a follow up attack. Del Varis moves to flank with Merrigold and uses his ki-fueled ability to cause more damage on the Golem, Rosemary uses her channel divinity to heal the party and uses healing word to further heal them. Duromar uses his steelwind strike to attack both Golems and Uriel diverts his attention to the more damaged Golem, Merrigold and Del Varis work together and destroy one of the Golem's. The surviving Golem goes into a whirlwind and strikes everyone but Rosemary, Del Varis and Duromar manage to lose their Grimoire and Talons clasp to the whirlwind. Rosemary moves up to the whirlwind and hits it with her quarterstaff and follows it up with a flurry of blows, which destroys the second Golem. Merrigold starts to divide the piles of treasure and Del Varis starts to dig through to find the lost items, Duromar's patience is running out (saying that valuable time is being squandered when they delay their journey to Bronze Cliff) and leaves the facility. The party finds they have 100,000 GPs worth of treasure and put it into Merrigold's portable hole, they leave the facility and quickly heal as they continue on their journey.
The party gets ready for the day, Merrigold cooks' breakfast and the party realizes she's using food that couldn't be foraged from the immediate area, Merrigold reveals she has a chest of preservation which keeps food from spoiling. The party discusses what magic items they have and Uriel starts to attune to the gem of seeing he found. The group continues further into Bralor, along their path they come across a small observatory, Uriel and Duromar approach the bridge and see an arcane sign that changes languages that says, "keep out, do not enter." Duromar uses dimension door and takes Uriel with him across the bridge and just inside the first room of the facility, Merrigold uses misty step to do the same thing. Del Varis doesn't see what the big deal is and walks across the bridge, setting off a glyph of warding (taking some fire damage). Rosemary watches as Del Varis walks across the area several more times and decides to walk across the bridge, convinced it is safe. Duromar searches the room and realizes it's some sort of research facility, as he is doing that Uriel uses his gem of seeing which grants him truesight, he notices Merrigold standing in front of another magical glyph and tells her to back away. After some discussion on what to do with the glyphs Uriel starts to dispel what he comes across, emphasizing he can only do it three times. Uriel and Merrigold starts to clear out the facility, searching the rooms for traps and dispelling any glyphs. Del Varis and Rosemary split from the group and go done another hall; Del Varis approaches a torch which shoots fire at him (he gets partially hit). Del Varis decides he wants the torch and grabs it (getting hit again), he finds some draconic lettering on it and realizes it's a command word and says it (deactivating the torch). Between the two groups they find an assortment of valuable spellcasting components and gold. Rosemary and Del Varis start to head back towards the other group, before they get there Uriel starts to clear out the next part of the facility when he hears heavy thuds of footsteps nearby. He opens the door and is met by a humanoid that attempts to hit him, Merrigold moves up to help him and uses her shield to shove it away, looking inside they see 4 mindless looking humanoids. Hearing the commotion Del Varis, Duromar, and Rosemary go to help but they find the area is very cramped with little room to maneuver. Duromar uses steel wind strike and quickly kills the four mindless looking humanoids, this saddens Merrigold as she remarks she wanted to save them. The group sees some tentacles retract from the corpses and go underground and Duromar yells they should leave, a Mordant snare erupts from the ground and lashes out with its tentacles (managing to restrain Del Varis). Uriel starts to smite the Mordant Snare and Del Varis manages to break free and disengage out of the area, Duromar banished the Mordant Snare and the groups run out of the area. The group proceeds to the last area of the facility, Uriel finds another glyph, being unable to dispel it he simply walks over it to clear the way. Uriel and Merrigold find another dragon's breath torch and Merrigold runs across, activating it, she is able to deflect the fire with her shield. Uriel uses the distraction to flip up a table to provide full cover and starts to push it towards the torch, Del Varis uses it as cover and evades the dragon's breath torch as he gets a look at its command word and deactivates it.
The group searches the area, in one room Duromar finds a journal that references magical research for the creation of new creatures, in the other room there's a giant telescope pointed over the lake and two giant mounds of treasure on either side. Duromar says that this situation doesn't feel right, Merrigold disregards this and starts to divide the gold pile. Del Varis asks Uriel to keep an eye out while he investigates the telescope. As Merrigold starts sifting through the treasure she sees it start to move on its own and it forms into a Golem, the second pile does the same. Merrigold goads the closest Golem, causing it to chase her, Rosemary casts healing word on the group. Duromar and Uriel focus on the Golem that isn't goaded and, Uriel lands one strike with his sword and Duromar sings his bladesong and hastes himself and strikes it with his rapier. The Golem slams both Duromar and Uriel, cracking a few ribs in the process for both, though Uriel manages to intercept some of Duromar's damage. The goaded Golem attempts to strike Merrigold, but she dodges the first attack, but gets slammed by a follow up attack. Del Varis moves to flank with Merrigold and uses his ki-fueled ability to cause more damage on the Golem, Rosemary uses her channel divinity to heal the party and uses healing word to further heal them. Duromar uses his steelwind strike to attack both Golems and Uriel diverts his attention to the more damaged Golem, Merrigold and Del Varis work together and destroy one of the Golem's. The surviving Golem goes into a whirlwind and strikes everyone but Rosemary, Del Varis and Duromar manage to lose their Grimoire and Talons clasp to the whirlwind. Rosemary moves up to the whirlwind and hits it with her quarterstaff and follows it up with a flurry of blows, which destroys the second Golem. Merrigold starts to divide the piles of treasure and Del Varis starts to dig through to find the lost items, Duromar's patience is running out (saying that valuable time is being squandered when they delay their journey to Bronze Cliff) and leaves the facility. The party finds they have 100,000 GPs worth of treasure and put it into Merrigold's portable hole, they leave the facility and quickly heal as they continue on their journey.
It is mid afternoon on the 13th day of Leranth
Rewards Granted
100,000 GP of treasure
Missions/Quests Completed
Cleared out the Wizard research facility
Report Date
02 Dec 2023
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