quartz/content/Journal/Day158.md
2024-07-22 20:37:33 -05:00

4.2 KiB

  • notice a cave which may have once been part of a structure
  • darkness is oppressive
  • Wrelen lights a torch which helps a bit
  • entrance is a steel angled masonry tunnel
  • place is pretty old but destroyed
  • surprised by 2 spiders
    • both bite Wrelen
    • Mo kills the spiders
    • poison keeps hurting Wrelen
    • becomes unconscious
    • Mo heals Wrelen
  • Mo takes the torch and opens the door
  • next room has 8 cells with dead skeletons
    • from long ago
    • not human, not animal either
    • horse skull nearby
  • Luca finds bag with 50G and a potion
    • contains a tiny heart that is still beating
    • potion of longevity
  • puddle of water in the next hallway
    • seems like its just water
  • ../Characters/Daimaan Imhosenef goes forward and 2 tentacles come out of the ceiling
    • come from shadows coalesced at the ceiling
    • lift him up 10 feet
    • ceiling is 15 feet high
    • tentacles lift Daimaan up to the ceiling
    • physical attacks and spells do nothing
    • maw feasts upon him
    • wrelen makes a flame sphere and it drops Daimaan
  • enter another room and encounter a "miasmic death"
    • infused chemicals
  • next room has a ../Creatures/meanlock
    • Mo kills one and then sees 2 more in the torchlight
  • find a gummy black substance
    • night hyacinth flower
    • affects magic users
    • could kill you
    • causes fearsome dreams
    • opens up your mind
    • psychadelic experience
    • some wizards increased spellcasting power
    • cost of their own body
    • over-channeling
  • next room has stone table
    • stone box sitting on top
    • made of elemental earth
    • it is magical - transmutation and conjuration
    • shaping earth may allow us to access interior
    • Wrelen uses dispel magic on the box
    • find an over-sized human hand made of stone
      • identify stone hand 2024-01-01
  • next room has chasm with precarious stone bridge
    • Wrelen tries to cross with rope tied to him
    • 4 shadows appear
    • Daimaan smites them
  • next room has a bunch of old maps
    • Mo finds a bone scroll case with a mithril cap
    • rolled metal sheet with squares in a random pattern
    • no idea what it is, we take it with us
  • In chasm room, Daimaan finds a glowing human tibia wrapped in animal hides
    • has evocation magic
    • Daimaan picks it up and animal hides decay
  • next room (9) has 11 normal and one green glowing casket/sarcophagus
    • Luca opens the glowing one
    • many hieroglyphs refer to rebirth
      • meaning is vague
    • Daimaan tries to put the tibia in there
      • nothing happens
    • Wrelen tries to put the stone hand in there
      • nothing happens
    • Luca opens up 4 of them
      • finds enough bones to make a skeleton
      • animates it
  • enter the next room
    • see a dog covered in shadow with blue, glowing eyes
    • Bayden approaches and sees a second dog and a shadow man
    • we defeat them
  • continue exploring
    • find a large 8x8' door
    • skelly tries to insert the card and it bends
    • Daimaan fixes the card and tries other orientations and it works
    • Mo holds a torch behind the card
    • skelly pushes in the illuminated squares
    • the door opens
  • large room has a big dark sphere at the far end
    • might contain the anti-lantern
  • skelly goes in and we hear the sound of bones clattering on the floor
  • Mo tosses a rock through the edge of the sphere
    • comes out and hits Bayden
  • Mo sweeps spear through the sphere
    • Skelly's skull rolls out
  • tentacles come out of the sphere
  • Shadow elemental appears
  • More tentacles keep coming out of the floor
  • Bayden defeats the shadow elemental
  • tentacles disappear
  • Wrelen gives Daimaan a healing potion
  • Wrelen sticks a finger into the sphere, that seems ok
    • Wrelen peeks in, that seems ok but can see nothing
  • Luca casts dispel magic
    • For a moment we see a black iron lantern with a blue flame
  • Bayden puts the lantern in his backpack
  • table that the lantern was sitting on is actually 5 stone chests
    • bunch of gems
    • copper and electrum
    • gold and platinum
    • bunch of trinkets
    • staff and a hat
  • Luca takes the hat
    • hat of Wizardry
  • Mo takes the staff
    • Staff of striking
      • +3 and charges add d6
  • Daimaan identifies bone staff
    • light
    • firebolt
    • daylight
  • gold +1684
  • xp to 19493

2023-11-17

  • head back towards ../People/Baba Yaga
  • don't hear any dragons
  • see some trees with upper branches snapped off