# Session 7 - 21JUL2024 ### Attendees - Tim ✅ - Walter ✅ - Erica ✅ - Jin ✅ - Nick ✅ - Alex ❌ Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌ ### Recap to Current Situation - We researched dragon necklaces, made friends with a single mom and kid, and ended up getting transported to a mysterious place from Erica's dreams... ### Session Notes - The figure in this room apologizes for the abrupt way in which we were summoned - He says that we can refer to him as "The Archivist," working for the Council of the Few - He was unaware of us until we started making inquiries into dragon artifacts - When he learned more about us, he was relieved to find out that we were not the other group of mercenaries, members of Red Omen - He asks if we want to do some work for him to work against the Red Omen - Red Omen info - order that existed >3000 years ago - thought not to exist any longer - if it was alive, but in hiding, then it is likely most well informed about artifacts - The Archivist is hoping that we can help go to the Grayogen Empire to ask the Empress (also known as the Oba), Lalali-puy, for cooperation against the Red Omen - He says to ask the Empress, "Are you aware that Rajat still exists?" - He can also help us get into the Empire - Currently the Empire is having trouble with rural villages having their population suddenly disappear - We hand The Archivist the amulet to examine and he says that the Cantrell family history about heroes is likely exaggerated - Upon inspection, he believes that the amulet belonged to Naezo, a dragon heroine that protected the weak with a fiery temper - Her residual magic resides in the amulet - The Archivist thinks that the hobgoblins were being attacked because the Red Omen wishes for hobgoblin extermination (as one of their goals) - We also ask The Archivist about "The One," previous owner of the VARDIS - He says that The One is an extra-dimensional being, history is full of them - Striking up bargains with warlocks to grant temporary power for some future cost - Most beings like this try to remain anonymous, so The One might be a bit different in that regard - In his youth, The Archivist ran across a similar being that The Archivist turned down - Jin asks The Archivist about the Graves family - Investigating birth records, Mrs. Graves is 35 years old, no father of the kids on record - Completely unremarkable -

Quest begin: Seek audience with the Empress and collaborate to thwart the Red Omen

- Next steps: - Go back to Wudu, say our goodbyes, fetch our VARDIS (and Porkchop) - Head outside of town, somewhere unseen, teleport away to the Grayogen Empire - Doing this, Jin inspects Osulf, the kid, and finds traces of magic on one of his shoes - Jin reads the scroll to use the teleportation scroll - He does a great job and we teleport right to where we were meant to, just inside the border of the Grayogen Empire - We are in a temperate rainforest (think Pacific NW), weather is a little windy with light mist - Our VARDIS is now located on the side of the road - There is some motion ahead of us on the road, with armored humans approaching us - Nick recognizes the banners as the colors of the Grayogen Empire - Walter and Erica are driving the VARDIS and greet the soldiers - We are welcomed by the soldiers due to our paperwork - They want us to help them out with some things and will offer us a payment of 100 gold - The captain's name is Adare Havsa - We are asked to investigate a village whose population recently disappeared - Villages have been disappearing since 5 months ago - New village disappears each three weeks like clockwork - Looks like people just literally disappeared - ~30 soldiers in the town - Upon investigating: - The captain says this happened ~3 weeks ago - However, nature has reclaimed too much to have just happened a couple weeks back - The recent growth in the forest show that the tree roots are all growing in one direction toward the town - We ask if there is a map of the empire with the town that have disappeared - The map shows that the towns closer to their border have been effected first, moving closer to the center of the empire - It is clear from arcana investigation that magic is influencing the natural growth here, possibly from a spirit of some kind - Detecting magic reveals that this is due to the effect of transmutation magic - We relay all this to the guards - Bordering countries: - Acium - Whisper of Revan - Cormendia - some other one I missed the name of - Our current plan: - This happens every three week - this village was the most recent one - it happened here ~3 weeks ago - Next village over is ~1 day from here - We are going to head over to the next village and get that village evacuated - We quickly make our way over to the next village over - We approach the city with the message that the villagers are in danger due to a rampaging nature spirit - We ask for volunteers from within the populace to help fight back - Erica tries to persuade the residents to help out, but fails - However, Jin lies to them about being helpful and is able to gather ~10 posse members to help out and get a couple families to skip town (~20 people) - That evening, the weather was remarkably average for that time of year and location... - Jin sets out members of his posse on patrol - After a couple patrol rounds, one of our patrol groups fails to return - The missing patrol last went to the North of the village - Investigating where the patrol went missing, we see drag marks heading into the forest - There is nothing unusual about the trees/roots - We ask the other posse members to rouse the town and gather in the center of town since there seems to be some kind of attack - The group goes deeper into the forest, looking for what caused the patrol to go missing - We are assaulted by a sweet smell and survive a charisma saving throw - We know enough to know that we just survived an attempt to put us to sleep - As Nick asks some nearby roots about what is going on, we are assaulted by some tree people (Blights X6) -

Roll Initiative

- We killed the blights and Nick is almost dead, but Erica is able to reluctantly save him -

Combat ends