quartz/content/Journal/Day156.md

2023-10-04

• ../Characters/Daimaan Imhosenef casts aid to give us 10 temp hit points
• happen upon ../Places/Baba Yaga's Hut
• put her skull back on top of the fence post where it was missing
• Wrelen knocks
• the door opens but no one is there
• it's cozy but a little worn
• brazier comes to life with fire
• the place cleans itself up
• we step inside the door and call out to ../People/Baba Yaga
• trap door opens and she climbs down the ladder
• she thanks us for bringing back the skull
• makes us tea magically
• would like us to retrieve a lantern
  • if we bring it back, she could bring ../Characters/Belorin Forechaser back to life
  • holds a seed of the shadowfell
    • the source of shadows
    • associated with death
  • says it would be dangerous for her outside her hut
  • but we shouldn't have a problem
  • she has enemies that would take advantage of her vulnerabilities
• she already knew of Belorin's death
• Luca asks about the ../Things/Forever Stone
  • ../People/Baba Yaga laughs and says that ../People/Larenkar has it
  • she doesn't know where he is
  • he probably hid the stone away underground somewhere
• ../People/Baba Yaga came here to run some magical experiments and got trapped
• Daimaan casts detect evil on Baba Yaga
  • she doesn't approve
• she conjures an image of the lantern
• it's 2-3 days' journey north
• she can't tell us what we might find there
• she offers to let us spend the night

2023-11-01

• many planes of existence
  • but all on material plane
  • adjacent non-material planes
    • shadowfell - dark
    • feywild - bright
    • not really good or evil
  • all souls go to another plane when they die
    • but not right now since the event
  • maybe the lantern can connect souls back to this realm
• ../People/Baba Yaga starts making a backup body for ../Characters/Luka Votsk
  • might be ready by the time we get back
• journey north to the lantern
• come across a peaceful grove (17)
  • rest for the night
  • during Wrelen's watch something large approaches
    • Wrelen quietly wakes up the others
    • hide in the trees
    • 3 large bears and a wolf approach the fire
    • one bear approaches us
    • after we try to distract him, he turns into a half-elf
• named Mirden
• believes that ../People/Baba Yaga is a foul thing
  • forest and animals retreat from her hut
• a green dragon stalks these woods
  • lives northwest of here in a cave
  • hunts in the forest but ranges widely
  • feels at home in the forest