## [[2023-12-13|2023-12-13]] - [[../Characters/Daimaan Imhosenef|Daimaan Imhosenef]] approaches the gate - soldiers seem to be paying more attention to each person - soldiers ask people to pull back hoods - see a picture of Lord Kyle's Boys - wanted 1000G each dead or alive for the murder of a magistrate - Luka disguises him/herself - Luka, Daimaan, and Mo enter [[../Places/Bard's Gate/index|Bard's Gate]] - Luka asks around about why Duloth is wanted - rumors make it sound like [[../People/Lord Kyle|Lord Kyle]]'s boys will murder anyone - Luka goes to [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Wizard's Guild|Wizard's Guild]] - to [[../People/Xum Mordias|Xum Mordias]]'s office - Luka tells about [[../People/Baba Yaga|Baba Yaga]] - one of the original hags - Fey from the Unseelie court - traveling planes - bad luck she ended up trapped here because of the event - if she wants something, she gets it - asks about dark lantern and what she could do with it - object from the shadowfell - shadow magic comes from the shadowfell - feywild and shadowfell sit opposite - adjacent to the astral plane - [[../People/Baba Yaga|Baba Yaga]] would have probably needed someone else to help with immortality - [[../People/Xum Mordias|Xum Mordias]] would be very interested in more info about [[../People/Baba Yaga|Baba Yaga]] ## [[2023-12-19|2023-12-19]] - Mo, Luka, and Daimaan go to [[Urtep's Tower|Urtep's Tower]] - tower not far from the King's bridge - 80ft high - guards patrolling - Luka approaches - guards warn him of many traps - Luka pretends that [[../People/Urtep|Urtep]] asked him to feed his cat - crosses bridge to front door - fresco of a tree has leaves eating other leaves - guards appear to be betting on whether Luka is going to die or not - Luka can tell the door is magically trapped - Luka begins attempting to dispel magic - guards are upset that he's using magic - Luka tries to persuade guards that using magic this once will reduce overall magic - has to bribe guards with 100G - tower entryway - fountain surrounded by 4 pillars - each has a candle of a different color - whole room seems to have a magical effect - Luka reads inscription - some flavor text followed by - match the hue of yon stair-top door - pillar to candle, candle to wick, hurry now and make it quick - for if water touches flame, your days are ended, down the drain - door is brown - pillars and candle colors: - red - blue - yellow - black pillar with white candle - placing yellow candle on red pillar turns the pillar orange - put blue candle on the orange pillar and pillar turns brown - put red and yellow candles on the blue pillar and it turns purple and then brown - put red and blue candles on yellow pillar and it turns brown - putting candles on the black pillar turns the candles white - try mixing the wax, but oddly there isn't any cause magic - Luka remembers that brown is 2 parts orange and one part green - figured it out - put yellow candle on blue pillar to turn it green - put red candle on yellow pillar to turn it orange - use white candle to make a second yellow candle - put white/yellow candle on red pillar to turn it orange - inside door, find some large crates - A: legs sticking out of the top, dried blood on floor - B: inner water sample - C: minzoa experiment 2 - graveyard dirt contagious - D: filled with bottles - labeled with locations of water samples - E: heavy - mechanical equipment including telescopes and cleaning gear (lenses/tubes) - door opens to labratory containing research books and equipment - lock picks on the floor - hear a gust of wind, and a splash below in the moat - Bayden and Wrelen approach - Bayden dives in and hunts for what made the splash - finds 3 bodies - one clawed - one singed - one clawed, bitten, and singed - Luka enters floor 4 - Urtep's living quarters - trashy paintings of nude humans and creatures - finds journal - describes how to get into Minzoa - use sextant to enter their world - pipes charm Minzoan creatures and allow them to enter our world - piped constructed by [[Gynnen|Gynnen]] - friend [[Faisal|Faisal]] visited but was weak-willed - Bayden finds something invisible and heavy - seems like a gnome sized body - Bayden and Wrelen take it inside - Wrelen uses dispel magic and body becomes visible for just a few seconds - Wrelen and Bayden find a ring of invisibility on his finger - body becomes visible when its removed - it's a halfling - fingertips on one hand are blackened and palm is blistered - feet are red and blistered - dead less than a day - floor 5 - Urtep's library - treatise "The Minzoa" has weird drawings - creatures are blobby with hooks - shown in water of liquid - sky appears bright and land is flat - plants are odd and alien - Luka reads Urtep's spell book - learns 2 level 3 spells - Tongues - Sending (Evocation, can't use) - learns 7 level 4 spells - Wall of Fire (Evocation, can't use) - Polymorph (Transmutation) - Phantasmal Killer (Illusion) - Evard's Black Tentacles (Conjuration, can't use) - trap door up - Daimaan opens - floor 6 - roof - chain and winch attached to iron ball trap - large figure runs towards Daimaan - it's a troll - troll beats up Daimaan really bad - Bayden and Mo defeat the troll - Bayden remembers to use file to keep it from regenerating - Luka revives Daimaan ## [[2023-12-27|2023-12-27]] - search the roof - find remains of 2 men there - no identification - lockpicks - scroll of dispel magic - gold ring set with ruby 60G - loose floorboard under one of the bodies - small treasure chest - Wrelen doesn't think its trapped - opens it - poison dart shoots out, but trap malfunctions and it hits one of the bodies - contains thousands of gold in debts - a pile of IOUs - gambling vouchers - [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Fortune's Fool|Fortune's Fool]] - [[Blazing Bones|Blazing Bones]] - troll could have dropped giant ball on bridge over moat - chain allowed hauling it back up to reset - back down to floor 5 - see another door with Wizard's mark above - says "It ain't the size of the boat ..." - Bayden says "It's the motion of the ocean, baby" - door unlocks - sextant is on the table - pointed at fine crystal dish full of fetid water - made of exquisite materials - magical - transmutation and conjuration - Bayden looks through sextant and disappears - Wrelen's curiosity gets the better of him and he looks through sextant and disappears - Daimaan casts aid on Mo - Mo looks through sextant - Daimaan stays to tend to his wounds - We're on a spongy island of massive fungal structures - There are 4 other islands - Bayden and Wrelen see some footprints - lead to a mushroom stalk - top has been cut off - we think it might have been used as a boat - One of the other islands has smoke rising from a mountain - find a large mushroom - we chop it down and make some oars - Daimaan writes a note and looks through the sextant and disappears - we get in the boat and paddle a bit - realize the other island is much further than we thought - go back to rest - come across a ruined campsite - find bounty poster with illusory likeness - man with thin mustache and goatee - hair was once stylish but has gone a little crazy - black eye and blood dripping from nostril - reward is 5000G - find 3 potions of healing and potion of invisibility