quartz/content/Journal/Day185.md

2023-12-27

• Daimaan casts water walk (lasts 1 hour)
• we pull the boat with ropes
• walk to the island
• after an hour tentacles attack us from below
  • we defeat tentacles
• Daimaan casts water walk as a ritual, takes 10 min
• we go through a couple more iterations, arrive at the island
• smoke coming from top of the cliff face
• cliff is 100ft up
• Daimaan uses clairvoyance to look at source of the smoke
• see 4 people dressed in leathers and carrying short blades and crossbows
  • sitting around a fire discussing getting off the island without getting killed by assassins
• take the boat with us to a place with a more gentle slope
• pull the mushroom boat onto shore
• up the slope we encounter a crevasse
• from 200ft away Daimaan hears voices
• we get 60ft away and hear nothing
• Bayden puts on ring of invisibility
• Wrelen makes the other 3 invisible (lasts 1 hour)
• Mo goes scouting
  • see 4 men with crossbows pointed at crevasse opening
  • making hand signals to each other
  • can't see Mo
  • they could climb out, are just using it for cover
  • we think these are the assassins
• we go along the crevasse and find a place to jump across
• climb slope for 20 min
• Bayden takes off ring and talks to the men
  • they are after Urtep for 5000G bounty
  • leader's name is Delane
  • has 3 others with him
  • they handle "acquisitions"
  • the assassins are Red Blades
• assassins climbed out of crevasse and are heading for our mushroom boat
  • they get there first
  • they head towards another island that we couldn't see from the original island
  • bounty hunters catch up to us and say "they're getting away"
    • where we're going, we don't need boats"
• we chase them across the water at a run
  • one of the bounty hunters collapses
• Bayden is still invisible and tries to flip the boat
  • boat tips over and they fall into the water
  • Wrelen recognizes the garb of the Red Blades
• assassins kill off the collapsed/unconscious bounty hunter
• bounty hunters kill 1 of the assassins
• after the last assassin dies, thieves turn on us
• we kill the thieves
• loot the corpses
  • 6 potions of healing
  • boots of speed - double movement as bonus action
  • 64G

2024-01-01

• ../Characters/Luka Votsk splashes down next to us
  • we grab the oars and start rowing
  • island is 30 miles away
• Luka screams "Help, Urtep"
• we pull one of the corpses into the boat
  • Luka creates a zombie from it named "Zombo"
• rowing to island takes 7 hours
• A mile away from the island
  • hear a voice "Turn back! Return to the big world or face the wrath of the citizens of Minzoa"
  • see a house 80ft above the water, 40 degree slope
  • we shout at Urtep, but he can't hear us
  • asks us to approach
• We talk to Urtep
  • he does not plan to stay forever
  • explains that Minzoa is a tiny world
  • he's been working on perfecting his pipes
  • Urtep plays a few notes and the water parts and exposes a creature with tentacles and suction cups
  • Luka offers 10K gold for the set of pipes
  • Urtep asks us to prepare to return
  • rolls a pair of dice and says "Get big, baby!"
• we re-appear in the room with the sextant
  • there's a halfling and 4 half-orcs
  • Julie-o broad toes
  • Luka says Urtep is in there
  • makes an illusion of bacterium
  • Fat Julie agrees not to tell "Mr D" (Duloth) there we're here in exchange for the info
• go to see ../People/Brelyar and ask about ../People/Baba Yaga and lantern
• he knows ../People/Baba Yaga is one of the most powerful fae on any plane
  • best not to make deals with hags
  • she is an ancient being with power beyond him
• Brelyar casts a spell on the table
  • blue flames come out of the surface
  • we put the lantern on the table
  • flames keep the darkness at bay
  • Brelyar spends 10 min casting a spell
  • lights incense, places 4 ivory strips around the lantern
  • identifies lantern as the ../Things/Darkling Lanthorn
  • doesn't know exactly how ../People/Baba Yaga planned to use it
    • when a body dies the soul travels elsewhere
    • lantern could allow her to control the flow of souls
    • lantern burns with black-blue light
• Brelyar offers some soup to take with us
  • it's delicious
  • hints of cumin and egg noodles
• head out on the road