Session 19: Mystmore
Act 2: Session 5
General Summary
The characters set out into the Mystmore, but quickly become engulfed in the thick mist. Though Tyrvan feels the presence of something around them. Zips runs ahead, becoming lost and stumbles across a Night Horror, and unspeakable monster created from the twisted shape of an elk. The others, hot on her trail find their unease growing and Tyrvaan uses his magic to clear the mist, revealing the Night Horror and provoking a quick battle that sees the nightmare slain.
The corpse reveals secrets of dark magic and another soul gem falls from the severed head of the creature, prompting Zylnan Ceda to share their exploits in the Plains of Luren with Ellywick and Sanyeal. Meanwhile, Zips makes her to the coast and stumbles across the wreckage of a shattered ship, but finds no trace of survivors or crew, instead only hundreds of inactive soul gems. She continues her search, hopping across the wreckage like a playful sprite. Vines and seaweed have engulfed the ship's skeleton, but each seems to trace paths across the deck, as if they have taken special care to avoid the scattered soul gems, but something amongst them calls to the magic in Zips and she hurries through the wreckage, finding naught of a captain's quarters, but only a huge gem, about the size of her head, and emerald in colour instead of the gentle lilac of the inactive soul gems.
Zipz slings it into her bag, along with four other soul gems, gifts for her friends and hoists herself back up onto the main deck, finding an ancient bell that must have fallen during impact. It doesn't take long before she begins ringing it, and luckily her friends, who have been hot on her trail the whole time, turn up before a pack of Corpse Eaters. Twisted creatures with the essence of wolves and the mimicking cries of those they've killed. The battle is fierce but the party rid the world of this tainted stain without any casualties.
Zips shares her find, as well as her gifts, but it is Zylnan that notices the use of the crystal. A portal key. One that with its twin anchors two bi-directional portals for anything to pass through undetected. This news is troubling for Sanyeal and Ellywick who share their knowledge of the Obelisks of Kurilos with the party. Ancient stones that ring the Elyswer, granting the Feywild an anchor in the mortal plane and bestowing such powerful magics to those that can wield them as well as preventing those of evil intent to cross their threshold. This information makes it clear to Zylnan that whoever sent this ship on its way, meant for it to crash, so the portal key would land within the Elyswer and offer a beach-head for some invasion. And with the inactive soul gems scattered around and ready to possess those of fey magic, providing them with an army to command in the process.
The agents of summer both feel the weight of what was stopped here, but know now that this gambit by their foes has failed and their strike from the north will follow swiftly on this failure. Zylnan restores the diminished portal key, with the intent to travel through and stop those on the other side.
The corpse reveals secrets of dark magic and another soul gem falls from the severed head of the creature, prompting Zylnan Ceda to share their exploits in the Plains of Luren with Ellywick and Sanyeal. Meanwhile, Zips makes her to the coast and stumbles across the wreckage of a shattered ship, but finds no trace of survivors or crew, instead only hundreds of inactive soul gems. She continues her search, hopping across the wreckage like a playful sprite. Vines and seaweed have engulfed the ship's skeleton, but each seems to trace paths across the deck, as if they have taken special care to avoid the scattered soul gems, but something amongst them calls to the magic in Zips and she hurries through the wreckage, finding naught of a captain's quarters, but only a huge gem, about the size of her head, and emerald in colour instead of the gentle lilac of the inactive soul gems.
Zipz slings it into her bag, along with four other soul gems, gifts for her friends and hoists herself back up onto the main deck, finding an ancient bell that must have fallen during impact. It doesn't take long before she begins ringing it, and luckily her friends, who have been hot on her trail the whole time, turn up before a pack of Corpse Eaters. Twisted creatures with the essence of wolves and the mimicking cries of those they've killed. The battle is fierce but the party rid the world of this tainted stain without any casualties.
Zips shares her find, as well as her gifts, but it is Zylnan that notices the use of the crystal. A portal key. One that with its twin anchors two bi-directional portals for anything to pass through undetected. This news is troubling for Sanyeal and Ellywick who share their knowledge of the Obelisks of Kurilos with the party. Ancient stones that ring the Elyswer, granting the Feywild an anchor in the mortal plane and bestowing such powerful magics to those that can wield them as well as preventing those of evil intent to cross their threshold. This information makes it clear to Zylnan that whoever sent this ship on its way, meant for it to crash, so the portal key would land within the Elyswer and offer a beach-head for some invasion. And with the inactive soul gems scattered around and ready to possess those of fey magic, providing them with an army to command in the process.
The agents of summer both feel the weight of what was stopped here, but know now that this gambit by their foes has failed and their strike from the north will follow swiftly on this failure. Zylnan restores the diminished portal key, with the intent to travel through and stop those on the other side.
Rewards Granted
Experience:
500xp for discovering the gate key, the strange going ons in the mystmore and learning the purpose of the crashed ship.200xp (for Zylnan) for following the trail and learning the purpose of the crystals.
Items:
Portal KeyMissions/Quests Completed
Date
42nd of Jolgine, 2501 AC(By Elven calendars)
Misxibis Ithopios
Tyrvaan
Zylnan Ceda
chaotic neutral Half-Elf (Haunted One)
Warlock 5
Warlock 5
45 / 45 HP
STR
10
10
DEX
14
14
CON
16
16
INT
14
14
WIS
12
12
CHA
18
18
Zips
Report Date
27 May 2023
Primary Location
Secondary Location
Related Characters
NPCs
Ellywick RedleafArch-Feydruid Sanyeal
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