Pembroke 4: The Mysterious Story

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Operation Parameters

Date	1492 DR, 29 Nightal (19/12/2022)
Soldiers	Caelindriel, Sylvie, Ralla, Lark, Aujirgix
Status
Casualties	None

Objective

1 - Learn more about the mystery of Pembroke





2 - Try to identify where the Lehigh baby is, and potentially attack it.

Observations

The Lehigh baby that settled near Pembroke can create illusions. It can also forcibly teleport itself and others. It can influence your mind as well.





Pembroke: You can sleep without being cursed in Pembroke. Music is heard in Pembroke. it seems to be the music that was described in the dreams. Items purchased in Pembroke can leave Pembroke and remain real. People in Pembroke seems to have issues with their memories. They don't even know what drew them there. Roger's sermons happen every evening. The villagers are aware of Julius. Does Julius do something after each Sermon? Could Roger somehow be Julius?

Follow up

1. Listen to Roger's Sermon;

2. Sleep at Pembroke;

3. Try to find out how Julius is involved;

4. See how Pembroke is protected from the darkness;

5. Kill the Lehigh baby;

Preparation Details

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Operation Details

Briefed that CPT Tel was down south and to not bother her. Avoid the area she might be in. As we started at the Staging Grounds, we encountered a loud disturbance in the distance. We suspect it was whatever CPT Tel was up to. We made sure to avoid that area.





Went south to the area where the Lehigh baby is. Ralla and Caelindriel saw a massive fire that they were afraid of. They proceeded to end up discovering that there were two Shadar-Kai watching the area. We attacked them, but they got away using a faerie circle of mushrooms. Their notes were taken. We found an underground river that had a boat. The water flowed in the wrong direction, including a waterfall that traveled up against gravity. Ralla and Caelindriel were also hearing a voice that wanted them to not fight the creature. It warned them both that it could not help the group if we were to fight it.





Aujirgix, Lark, and Sylvie then went to enter and search the building. Caelindriel managed to overcome his fears to join the search. We found the creature inside the building. It has a trap door in the building that goes down to its lair underneath. The monster dominated the fight, and almost killed two people without much effort. We managed to get away and retreated to Pembroke.





We met a couple people from Pembroke on the road and they led us to Pembroke. We heard the music. We noticed they were selling us items and food that were not what they were seeing. For instance a soup to them looked like rocks and mud to us. A finely crafted weapon for them looked very rusted and old to us. We managed to avoid buying anything from their market.





We walked up and spoke a little to Lily(?) whom was sweeping the chapel steps. She told us to speak to Roger. We spoke to Roger learned about the old religions of the area. We learned of the three sisters and the story that they protected the area. He offered us a spot at his Sermon that was an every evening event, We were also encouraged to stay the night. We learned that most in town had been feeling very lost and scared and made it to Pembroke out of desperation. Roger claims that lily(?) is the longest resident of Pembroke. Lily claimed it was Roger.





After talking with them, we left that immediate area and noticed Lark's shadow was doing "other" things. It might have reported back observations. We did notice that when we were invisible, the moment we stepped somewhere where the villagers could have line of sight on us, they noticed us despite the fact we were invisible. It was while we were discussing Lark's Shadow that Ralla suddenly fell asleep, almost as if hit by a sleep spell. Aujirgix and Caelindriel worked to quickly awaken Ralla. It seems that something (Lily?) was trying to communicate with Ralla, and was attempting to use the dream to communicate with him. This seems like it may have been the only method available to this force. It is potentially the "Dragon" that was noticed at the end of the dream mission. Ralla reported it as being the voice he heard talking in his head from earlier.





After this experience, we left and started to head back to the Southern Staging Grounds. We made it back to the fort.