Saren

Can prepare spells a day

Rathmodar head of the red wizards of thay
Map to drakhorn, lair of old white cloud
orders for 10 wyverns
pin with his symbol inside purple cloak

Glazhail's Staff, was holding:
The Orb of Dragonkind - thing you can attune to (wild old magic, 1/5 orbs) blessed and cursed item. The five orbs were used to create to create a dragon genocide that stopped the dragons in the old war - in the surviving dragons required them destroyed - 3 definitely were destroyed
Saren keeps staff, gives orb to Kalista

Gem associations:
acid pearl
lightning citrine
necrotic jet
radiant topaz or diamond
fire garnet or ruby
sapphire force
emerald poison

Varram the Blue - borsker bridge
Drakhorn up north


Gloves of Missle Snaring - When a ranged weapon attack hits you while you're wearing them, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier, provided that you have a free hand. If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile if it is small enough for you to hold in that hand.

Cloak of the Assassin
8 bumps 2/8
pop 1 bump = regular invisibility 1 hr
pop 3 bumps and casts greater invisibility 1 min (still invisible after actions, you hold concentration)
can be used as a cunning action
if all charges are spent, roll d20 (on 1, cloak vanishes)
at dawn, cloak will recover 2d4 charges

dragon Arothetor

medium box with folding boat inside - 4 lbs
box 12*6*6 - 3 command words
1. unfold to boat 10*4*2 with 1 pair of oars, mast, sail, anchor, holds 4 medium creatures comfortably
2. unfold to ship 24*8*6, deck, rowing seat, 5 sets of oars, steering oar, sails, anchor, cabin etc..... 15 creatures comfortably
3. fold back into the box (no creatures) - any objects that fit inside of the box stay inside the box, others are safely left outside the box

backpack - heward's handy haversack
central pouch, two side pouchs - extra dimensional spaces
side pouches 20lbs 2 cubic feet
central pouch 80 lbs 8 cubic feet
backpack always weighs 5 pounds
item retrieval requires an action
if pierced or torn, sack is destroyed and contents lost forever
a breathing creature can survive for 10 minutes
warning: placing haversack inside extra dimensional space instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the astral plane

in Kalista's bag of holding:
200pp 10,000gp, 6000sp

saren finds:
weird eyeball ring - ring of xray vision
attunement - use action to speak command word and see through solid matter for one minute in 30 ft, solid objects don't prevent light from passing through
first use per day free, each use after using must succeed a dc 15 constitution saving throw or gain one level of exhaustion


bone devil gives us intel

find orcs who may have Rathmodar


Now we're on my boat going north

Melvant
Charlie the dockmaster

seal of Worsten Nanther - find his son
Renaer Neverember, hanging out with a son

Oriol - 1000 platinum and influence - missing 5 days ago

missing scions: argent bruil, calman leyraggen, elaint marsk, cara caladra
oriol has some ranger training but he's reckless, carefree and rebellious

dornik leyraggen enemy, lord of keys bruil enemy
probably aren't involved in the disappearance
throwing around the names might open OR close doors
leyraggens are new, calman is a drunk
leyraggens brought down the marsks and natalis and broke stalemate
despot huter marsk is running the city

bremen leyraggen is calman's older brother

spend his time with a weird dwarf named Dorn Crownshield near Rusty Bucket
leyraggen & co left via the north gate toward orc ruins

marsk&caladra in love, romeo and juliet
marsk son warrior, temple of ogma?

"DL" sent ppl to stop us from searching

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We went to hell and came back and now we're visiting Hraesvalgar in the hospital

Hraesvalgar wakes from his coma with Tara's potion, and says some stuff about Kei
"Kei. You have been alone all this time. I need you to know that there is somewhere special out there. There is somewhere you need to go, right now. Eizengarde calls to you. There is so much I want to tell you, but I will sleep again soon. Hraesvalgr takes several wheezing breaths. You come from the North, Kei. I knew you from when you were younger... Eizengarde was attacked. I don’t think you remember. Only with this curse was my mind awakened. Oh Gods, you were once named Kronos, you were the youngest Heavensward in the land. Everyone believed your parents were dead, but one lives. There is a secret in Eizengarde— one that is about to bring a darkness on the world if unsealed. It will be in the Truimvirannor... I hid it... "
Eizengarde, Heaven's Wing University, was attacked and destroyed by a group of dragons, betrayed by one of its heros, burned to the ground with no survivors... except maybe Kei
Small village by Eizengarde ruins - Heaven's Ward village by the Userbe mountain/volcano. 5 days dragon flight from the city.
Tara harvests rare flowers from there (for anti dragon potion) and points us on the map where to land a little ways away.

Eizengarde halfway up the mountain, antidragon flowers along the path up the mountain

Flowers give Saren 2 levels of exhaustion - Disadvantage on Ability Checks, Speed halved

Tavern - lady gives Saren a bubbly brew that disperses flower symptoms temporarily
Tells us about groups that visited recently:
--Tall man with long golden hair and group of gnomes
--Then Dmitri
--And then separately a group of dragon cultists

"When the sun shines through a white mirror and the darkness disperses, the way into the shadows will be revealed under the reflective curses"

Once we climb high enough, the levels of exhaustion go away, flower effect is dispersed.
The town is desolate and burned. One wall has a symbol - a dragon with a spear through it
Ground is covered with reflective dust in front of the wall

At night, the moonlight opens the way, and there's a bronze map at the start that we can copy.

First intersection - broken mirrors with old crusted blood. Written on the wall in blood - "Listen to the Children"

First big room - Large carving of a horned figure with glowing red eyes on the far wall of a room, and some ancient elvish inscription, can't quite read it - Saren notes down a copy, which others translate. Saren scales the figure to get the eyes - Fist-sized garnets. We fight oozes. Also find a chest containing 8 gp

"Created from Chaos, the son of darkness forged a Sword to rule the material plane. He arrived with others from a distant world, unknown called Earth. ****** (Scratched off runes) weapon will be sealed here forever. No one shall speak his name. Gods protect us from Nyx and her descendants."

Hraesvalgar seems to be Kei's dad and Alice is Kei's sister, based on a picture he found in the ruins outside

Room with a statue, man outstretched and face in agony, odd skull in his chest - On the wall near him, "Eladrin curse the unseen treasure of greed" and on another wall - carved, says "Stay Right", hissing seems to be coming from the statue (parseltongue whispery type sounds). necromancy. Stone cursed. We fight it, and we get a memory from him of hiding the treasure and then being attacked by a hooded figure.

treasure box hidden in the floor:
1900 cp
1100 sp
90 gp
a chalcendony worth 50gp
2 chrysoprase gems worth 50gp each
a moonstone that shines like a rainbox, 50gp
quartz, 50gp
sardonyx, 50gp
star rose quartz, 50gp
large zircon, 50gp

We encounter Dmitri, but he's weird. Black smoke and seems to be possessed by a grinning "Shadow". The invisible ghost children say "you can't save him" and stab him a bunch. We try to de-possess him but our efforts fail. We decapitate him and burn the body.

Fought some rust monsters that looks like scuttling cockroaches on the ceiling. Found a chest containing:
4 vials of dark red liquid with corks - greater potions of healing
a little bag of dust of dryness. 10 pinches of dust. Sprinkle a pinch over water, turns a 15 ft cube of water into a marble-sized pellet. Use an action to smash the pellet of water on a hard surface, so it will shatter and release all the 15ft cube of water
helmet made of metal (not rusted) - helm of teleportation
2 spell scrolls bunched up in a wad

Room with a pool with strange writing on the wall above it, and 3 emaciated teenage elven boys under a grate, dark raven hair. Metal iron chain chokers on their necks. Red amber eyes.
"This is the pool of beauty. Any whosoever drinks from this will become more beautiful, but only once"
Leatherbound journal (slave roll) and key in one of the side cabinets. The key releases them. They speak some odd old variant of Elvish, ancient high elves? They've been drinking the youthwater, they're ancient and cray

Put a pinch of drying dust in there and took the pool of beauty with us. The ancient teenagers mention The Crying Boy - the new friend of the children. We let them go and they run to leave ("we love you")

Next room has a big sludge pool. Use a pinch of dust on sludge pool. There's a golden medallion in the center. Concentric circles and a small emerald. Saren puts it on, something catches her eye in the corner - see a floating orb. (pendant of see invisibility) It's one of the "children" who greets us and giggles when I poke it.

Random Treasure: additional set of thieves tools and 14 electrum pieces

Room full of statues

Room with the glowing orbs and a hanging cage with Dmitri in it, only Saren can see him. The grandmaster of the cult of the dragons severed him from his shadow using a sword, some kind of all powerful stuff.
2 Chests, one is a mimic:
2500 cp
1300 sp
80 gp
a silver cloth talisman (25 gp)
a leather belt, set with obsidian (25 gp)
silver cloth hunter's cap (25gp)
feathered boots (25gp)
pewter armlet (25gp)

Random cask of ancient 800+yr-old ale. Saren taps and drinks it - 14 bonus HP (4d4+4)! Fills 2 winesacks with this ale

Ancient library with healing light. Book tells us about Erebus and the Darkblade

Find a room with a secret passage off to the side (and some instructions of which path to follow written in Dwarvish)
We take a key from the end, then trigger an Indiana Jones water trap. Kalista gets caught in it, but the glowing spheres help her by blasting out the door. When we come back in the room, she's on a feather bed surrounded by gnomes, and a fallen Aasimar-lookin guy is sitting at a game table. Introduces himself as Lucifer and asks if we want to play a game.


We play some games with Lucifer and his gnome friends
saren loses at fucking rock paper scissors, might be cursed
-10 hp
magical gnome roulette in my bag
01 - Dragon Chess (5 rolls of intelligence)
02 - Earth, Wind, Fire (Rock Paper Scissors)
03 - Strength Test (Push-Up Contest --- Either roll off (best 5 of 7) or vs DM)
04 - Darts (5 rolls of Dexterity)
05 - Monster Hunter (Who can hunt 3 Monsters and bring their heads first)
06 - Liar’s Dice (Like Pirates of Caribbean but 3-5 rolls of Deception)
07 - Water Works (Who can hold their breath longer -- either 5 rolls of constitution or VS DM)
08 - Pocket Monsters (Lions are revealed from pocket of Gnomes and 5 rolls of animal handling (WIS))

Kalista got knocked out in the water wave, but the children are carrying her for us

now have 1 level of exhaustion from the heat

Saren apparently cursed with my shadow being severed from me by the darkblade

We free Dmitri, the children lead him off, and agree to protect Kalista at the top of the stairs - we use the key to head downstairs

Dark sword in the ground
Alice was the grandmaster, did not have a shadow, we kill her, she gets sucked into the sword
Sword summons a portal, Tiamat sticks her face through portal - throw sludge pellet into dragon maw
Took damage from attempting to pull sword - black lightning and stuff, but Saren eventually got it out, it turned into a purple gem and a voice spoke
Tiamat knocked us out
Kalista shows up and wakes us. The dragon masks are now glowing (effects doubled)

Saren still has the gem.
Saren is still cursed with loss of shadow, sunlight will kill her.
Find a treasure chest with lots of stuff (Saren shoves whole chest into bag of holding), coded message, spellbook, and a map of Thundertree.
"The dragon usurpers have been absent. Lucifer says they're on their way to you. Poison for traitors is ready. Rath m."
Possibly to Alice, from Rathmodar.
We leave dungeon and go back to town.

Some dragon cultists check out, "The man with the gold hair already left", they go out into the sun, and fuckin turn to dust with screaming
We flew by night to Thundertree and slept by day, Dmitri (also cursed) tests the sun and can move under a parasol. Saren weaves a hat.

Thundertree is desolate and Severin's head is on a spike outside the town. O_O Been there for several*severin days. Dragons don't want to land there. "The place is covered in dragon's blood" .....aaaand there's a giant dragon body carcass - Grandymyre in the middle of town.

A "Tree" in the distance moves... and starts walking towards us. Raises its hands, lowers its hood. It's a Tbaxi (cat person). Tally. +Tico the white raven.

Rathmodar came and killed the druid, Severin, and Grandymyre (R had some little flying demons that killed and ate him). The druid Ruidoth left us something from Severin. Red dragon mask for Locke.

There seems to be some path to Rathmodar releasing Tiamat without the Cult of the Dragon, which someone had tried before in the past. The Ancient Diaries have some more details.

The purple gem is a shard of the darkblade. 1/3 Someone must earn the right to wield it by doing a task for the god. The God of Shadows, whose name was hidden to history. The history is, heros had to stop a terrible wizard from putting it together.
Since Saren was cursed before touching this gem, this means Lucifer must have a shard too.

Must meditate with the gem for a day, things will come after you, to try and contact a god - to be de-cursed. Saren and Dmitri do this, the rest of the group must fight. (Saren's player fights as Tally)

First spiders and blue devils. Next time... Vrocks. Flying demon somethings. Then giant ogre trolls.
Tally battle notes:
-6HP
used 1 4th lvl spell slot
used 6th level spell slot
-10 slashing damage
-20 godly damage
Used 1 5th level spell slot
-7 dmg
-22 poison dmg, are poisoned (disadv)
+12 healing
+7+8
=47 hp

Saren and Dmitri reach the God, Erebus
God of Shadows says we need the Mirror of Wills to capture back our shadows
Tally says if we see a murder of crows with emerald eyes they are from the emerald enclave
We head back to the city. Tally stays to purify Thundertree. Dmitri stays too.

Lighting Rail in the city? Something about Terris

As we approach the city, there's a storm, hail. Our security are locked out of our tower... Terris is in there.
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She had a letter. From Terris's dad, Iskander, is in the Cult but wants to betray them and help us to bring down the Cult. Says to come to meet him at Xanthal's Tower

We go to the tower, it has a giant hedge maze in the circle around it. But as we get closer it seems to get more overgrown, some weird magic.

Village seems chill and whatever.

Man on the tower waving a blue mask, presumably the dragon mask, he says he's going to leave it for us but it might be discovered - he's shouting across the whole maze after all. He fights off an attacker and disappears

We run into the maze, come across a sundial with one shadow pointing the wrong way
Reached a pool with a giant Garnet floating above (big as your head, 150 pp worth), Saren gets it, horrible claw monsters come out of the pool, Saren gets knocked into the next(?) area, back to the sundial but now two shadows, then into a new area.
Large field, vegetable garden, little hut, pond, sheep, two cyclops, kinda frozen-looking. Lawn bowling! We clear out a trench and bowl farther than them, their rock breaks open to reveal a large topaz, which Saren claims.
Sundial again, now three shadows
Now a field with flowers that have pearls in them, we hear voices, they attack us, we set them on fire, take some pearls.
Sundial again, now shadows are kinda moving, we go THROUGH the sundial
Lawn area with pond and pagoda, and a human in robes, makes suspicious tea, only Kalista drinks but we all start getting poisoned, stone walls appear - Kei smashes a wall, then Saren steals the pot and tosses it to Locke who was outside, who smashes it. The dude casts a stone pillar and we all bail out, some of us get poisoned further but survive. The pot had a jade dragon in it.
Back to the sundial. Shadows on all paths. We go THROUGH the bushes. We fall and appear at the base of Xanthal's Tower

Rogue
Assassin
Dragonborn


Leveling history:
Original rolls:
14,9,11,14,17,14
Dragonborn: str +2 ch +1
Rogue: Deception, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth selected
Outlander: Athletics, Survival
Lvl 1 Expertise: Deception and Stealth prof doubled
Selected Assassin at lvl 3
Added lvl 4 bonus to Charisma
Lvl 6 Expertise: prof double to Perception and Intimidation
Added lvl 8 bonus to Dex and Wis
Lvl 10 bonus to dex
Lvl 12 bonus to const