quartz/content/Journal/Day184.md
2024-07-22 20:37:33 -05:00

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2023-12-13

  • ../Characters/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
  • Luka asks around about why Duloth is wanted
  • rumors make it sound like ../People/Lord Kyle's boys will murder anyone
  • Luka goes to ../Places/Bard's Gate/Wizard's Guild
    • to ../People/Xum Mordias's office
    • Luka tells about ../People/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 would have probably needed someone else to help with immortality
      • ../People/Xum Mordias would be very interested in more info about ../People/Baba Yaga

2023-12-19

  • Mo, Luka, and Daimaan go to 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 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
    • friend 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

  • 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
    • 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