2021/12/22: Investigating Time Fungus in Darkhome Part 2 Report
General Summary
Knight, Whittle, Rodger, Ril
There’s some sort of void beast thing tearing its way into the dream. Lots of tendrils formed partly of nightmare. Knight tried to cut a way out, and ended up being intercepted by the beast. It’s a giant vegetative thing with lots of tendrils and four giant scissor-worm appendages made of eyes.
The vegetable thing has mental attacks. It tried to connect with the minds of the party and do bad things to them. Its petal shields seem to be linked to the eye-worms, and killing a worm gets rid of a quarter of the shields.
A combination of Knight tearing apart an eye-worm, Rodger shredding its core through the opened path through the petals, and Ril causing the past few seconds’ damage to repeat was enough to kill the beast. Whittle, with magical aid from Ril and the sword Ratslayer, threw off the beast’s mental attack strongly enough (“Go away, go away, go away!”) that the beast was stunned and tried to retreat.
After the beast died, the area returned to formless grey fog from the corrupted void it had been. We returned to the place where the evil castle was, and it was in the process of being flattened by the freed army. They weren’t taking any chances with the void/hellfire tendrils and corruption.
There was an evil advisor to the demon king. Stony blue robe, light brown hair, early 20’s. Plant-themed staff with a black bird head on the top. Possibly an enemy of Ril named Ravenhollow.
We met Ril’s mom. Her name is Aridny. She’s powerful and has something to do with time. She told Knight not to eat more than one end table, more would give him a stomachache. She’s a giant temporal spider monster who’s currently in the shape of an elf.
Apparently there are temporal stalkers and other enforcers of causality that are annoyed at one of the party members, most likely Knight. Something about pulling souls that shouldn’t exist yet into being. Ril’s mom and their allies are in negotiations with time authorities about the details and solutions.
Taking Knight back to where he was in Cubit should solve the problems on his end. Ril suppressed Knight’s memories of the events of this adventure until they are no longer in danger of altering events.
Missions/Quests Completed
Handle the time fungus southeast of Darkhome.
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Report Date
22 Dec 2021
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