Session 94 - Operation Bottle - Hole - Chest

General Summary

Far, Eyre 13 (evening)
Aldritch moves Tyrosian-Baed's body out of the way, where "magic people" can harvest "magic things". Cian heals Shai and heads to bed. Aldritch casts dream on Faron so she can contact Twinkletoes and instruct him to open the chest that appears in front of him in the morning. She spends the rest of the dream narrating the fight with Tyrosian-Baed; Twinkletoes is impressed.

Sar, Eyre 14
Cian sendsto Phaedo to open chest in Last Chance in a couple days. The Scoops debate the book (portable) hole or dead body (portable) hole and decide on the book hole. They ship themselves once, and no one opens the chest, so Aldritch plane shifts them out, and they repeat - successful this time, faced with Kirris and her gnome crew, and Twinkletoes, practically a giant on Kirris's ship, Mirage Martime.
Tozi heads to the shulassakar ship, Fleet Feather, to reconnect with her people. Yaretzi and Mazatl assure her that her father is doing well, and that much of the island is focused on rebuilding.
Kirris is unwilling to sacrifice her ship (do you know how long this took to enchant?!), and the shulassakar are fine with the loss, as long as they are able to return home. They start attuning the bottle to Mirage Maritime, moving the shulassakar crew and supplies over, and construct decoy dummies. Faron spreads out star memorabilia to cast divination, and the council of moon dogs tells her that they should move as quickly as possible.

Everyone settles in with preparations and a long, tense wait for the bottle to attune. Cian prepares potions, Faron draws members of the crew. Morgan casts commune with nature, and finds there is practically nothing in the water within 3 miles of them. Aldritch turns into a dragon turtle and sets the other ship off as a decoy; he senses danger in the water, not an immediate danger, but closer than he'd like.
As night descends, the crews and the Scoops set up watches; nothing is amiss during the first three, and Faron asks Tozi if she would platonically marry Faron and Cian for that sweet, sweet AC bonus; Tozi is honored.

Sol, Eyre 15
At the end of the last watch, Aldritch and Vi notice shadows in the water, and noise from below, as if something is damaging the hull; he calls out an alarm, and once Kirris is on deck, she activates an enchantment to speed their travel, buying them a bit of time. Faron creates lights with her magic paints and glitter and floats them into the water as another distraction. With water walk cast on them, and enlarged, Cian and Faron help to push the ship to buy more time for the bottle to attune.

As the 24 hour mark approaches, they she shadows in the water. Cian and Faron keep pushing and Tozi casts wall of force to hold off the attack. A dim flash of light covers the ship, marking the attunement complete. Morgan casts water walk on the Scoops, they bottle up the ship and two crews, and Aldritch teleports everyone out of danger as tentacles begin to rise above the water.

That night, with Last Chance, Kirris and her crew, and the shulassakar safe, Faron hosts a Star Party for everyone. A does outfits for everyone with seeming. She invites Twinkletoes to dance; Tozi subtle casts sparkles around them. Morgan, with help from wing-man Faron, scouts out a nice-looking dragonborn, Cadmus. Tozi teaches Zihir to dance in a conga line. Faron passes out after just a couple drinks, and Twinkletoes winks at Aldritch and tells him he wishes he could draw, because this would be great blackmail material.

After the Star Party, Aldritch dreams Ananse. The aranea are willing to help, if they are not directly involved in battle, and it does sound like they have collected powerful allies; Stormreach was such a nice home. They have the light weaver as well; the Scoops would know her as Tyzian Far Davandi.

Morgan contacts the Queen and asks her to keep an eye on Stormreach and let them know of any developments.

Mol, Eyre 16
The Scoops walk to the bay and let out Mirage Maritime. At the end of the day, they plane shift to Syrania.
Zol, Eyre 17
Shopping day! Morgan trades for an arrow of fiend slaying, but is unable to find any fiend parts in the Immeasurable Marketplace. Cian and Aldritch look for essences, and are able to find Siberys dragonshards in the afternoon. The Librarian seems to have a lot of miscellaneous items!
The Scoops plane shift back to the area of Last Chance and travel through the night to get to the chicken hut, and begin attuning the bottle to The Big Dipper again.


Wir, Eyre 18
The Scoops sleep in the morning, ship themselves to Ananse, load up all the aranea - mostly in spider form - into the hut (they seem to like the greenhouse, and Anase promises she will not enter Aldritch's room), and ship themselves back to the ship. Everyone searches for herbs while the bottle and ship finish attuning; Cian is able to find one legendary herb that can be used to make a panacea.

Zor, Eyre 19
The Scoops teleport to Mirage Maritime and release The Big Dipper. They write their articles:

• Aldritch - Surviving Tyrosian-Baed
• C -
• F - Operation Bottle-Hole-Chest
• Morgan - Legends of Tentacle Creatures
• Tozi -
• Zihir -

...and Esme sends back the last scroll Zihir asked for.
The panacea and a supreme potion of healing are completed.
Faron finds Cian on this fine, sprinkling day, and asks Cian to stand up, and she kneels, as is proper. "Cian, you are my very first friend. And it meant a lot to me that you would come back every year for my birthday, even though I don't know exactly when I was born. So I feel there is only one person I would ask this high honor." She holds out the ramp-up ring. "Would you do the honor of PLATONICALLY marrying me in a sweet bonus of magical armor?" Cian checks in with Shai and Phaedo, and they assure him they've no problem sleeping with a "husband". Cian accepts!

Tozi is very excited to marry the best friends. Aldritch uses seeming to dress Cian in a white dress and Faron in a spandex tuxedo with a starry cape. Tozi pronounces them friends for life, and allows them to hug and do the two-pat maneuver -- NO MORE THAN THAT, IT'S IMPROPER!
Aldritch uses true polymorph to transform into a rakshasa and cuts off his tail for Morgan, who very quickly gets to work before it becomes goo. Aldrtich feels pain in his tail bone for a while after.
Tozi gives everyone one last inspiring speech before joining the shulassakar. The Scoops showed her she can step up to the plate and be a leader. GOOD LUCK.
T gives one last inspiring speech. The Scoops showed her she can step up to the plate and be a leader. GOOD LUCK.
Far, Eyre 20 - Sol, Eyre 22
Final planning between all parties and sailing to Stormreach. Land forces are dropped off about 20 miles from the port.

Report Date

04 Aug 2024