Session 41 - A Nightmare Among Dreams

General Summary

The Gauntlet continues;
Evening on 5th of Konelia (Blooming Month) Water Day. (The day of Bathing)
Our journey continues with (2) carts, (6) donkeys, and (18) Villagers.
Expedition supplies; (2) oil flasks, (14) torches remain.

A deal has been struck with Olwenna Mossveil to secure aid in this most dangerous portion of the gauntlet run. Can they Honor their agreement by entering the mind of the young squire Eadric the Red and escape before his nightmares consume them all?

Rewards Granted

• Experience (3 XP) (Completion of YGGception)
• Enchanted Spear Tip - (Single use; sleep/nightmare) Pockets
• Enchanted Dagger - (Single use; sleep/nightmare) Lief "That Thing Alone" Henrickson

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Single Use Items Found in the Dream

• Quill of Nightmares:

  Writes with ink that seems normal but causes readers to have nightmares.
  Pockets

• Scroll of Dreamwalking:

  Allows the user to walk in another's dreams for a short time.
  Raddel

• Crown of the Dream Sovereign:

  Grants the ability to rule over the domain of dreams.
  Osgar Cazyach

• Goblet of Shared Nightmares:

  Allows the user to project their nightmares into the dreams of others, or to share dream visions with another.
  Lief "That Thing Alone" Henrickson

Missions/Quests Completed

• Advanced: Running the Gauntlet
• Started and completed: YGGception. (Iggception)

Character(s) interacted with

• Olwenna Mossveil (Witch of the Darkforest)
• Eadric the Red (Squire to Ser Haldric)

Created Content

Locations

• Owlenna's Ritual Altar
• Eadric's Dreamscape

Spell Created

• Osgar's Achitecture

Events

• Owlenna's true form is revealed
• Dream ritual ready, missing a final key component
• Midnight Forget-me-nots needed, harvested at peak magical influence
• At witching hour, the flower absorbs potent twilight magic in a grove south of Owlenna's swamp hut
• Raddel secures Gloomfeather, a wise raven, as escort to Moonglade
• Forget-Me-Nots of Midnight visible on a mound in a waist-deep bog
• At witching hour, Darkwood Forest stirs with fear and emotion
• Pockets and Lief "That Thing Alone" Henrickson carefully navigate to the mound, harvest two flowers at peak bloom
• A dangerous swamp gator attacks, but they escape through teamwork and luck
• Returning to Olwenna Mossveil, she initiates the ritual to access the mind, invoking her patron of fear, the Willowman
• Willowman summoned to grant access to the dream, to venture into the nightmare
• Black candles of protection lit for one hour, urging haste into the dream

Yes! We succeeded in our goal without too badly ruining poor Edric. Olwenna had us collect an ingredient from the swamps at night, where we had a near-miss with a swamp gator. Then we entered Edric's dreams, found the source of his quest (a dream of impending doom related to a blood relic), destroyed his belief in St. Ygg, and then instilled in him the idea that the church can be used for good, even if you aren't a believer. Olwenna sent him on his way home.

— Tallweedian (Pockets)

Related Reports

Forget-Me-Nots of Midnight:

Rare and magical flowers that bloom only under the moon's fullest glow. Found in clearings where moonlight pierces the dense canopy, their essence is crucial for rituals of memory and forgetting.

Notes

Giant Swamp Gator

The Willowman

Report Date

23 Mar 2024

Primary Location

HEX - 0714

Secondary Location

Darkwood Forest

Related Plots

• Running the Gauntlet

Related Characters

• Lief "That Thing Alone" Henrickson
• Osgar Cazyach - "The Squirrl"
• Pockets
• RIP - Raddel