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Session 9 - 13OCT2024

Attendees

  • Tim ✅
  • Walter ✅
  • Erica ✅
  • Jin ✅
  • Nick ✅
  • Alex ❌

Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌

Recap to Current Situation

  •  We met the Empress. She is pretty sassy when we got her alone. She is going to commune with the forest to calm it down and thinks that the Red Omen is extinct and The Archivist is freaking out about nothing. We have been tasked with finding proof that the Red Omen is back and bring it back to her for her to take this more seriously.

Session Notes

  • We decide to poke around Gulg for a bit
  • The city might have heavily integrated with nature, but the amenities are pretty backwater
  • We decide to check out the local wandwright - a kind of unusual store
    • "Nichye & Odag's Wands"
    • wands in this context are preloaded with spells, so basically magic for the mundane man
  • Erica checks them out and finds that the wands are pretty dated in their magical design
    • After conversing with the shopkeeper, she figures out that this shopkeeper, Nichye, really does know what he is talking about
  • Erica decides to buy a wand with False Life (at 2nd level) (gives 1d4+9 temp HP that lasts 1 hr) that has a single charge for 80 gold (we all contribute 16 gold)
  • Nick decides to turn invisible to try to watch Nichye make the wand...but it doesn't work as the room is protected against invisibility

  • Weather report for Gulg: a little breezy, beautiful temperate weather

  • As we leave the shop, we see a royal page that tries to talk to us...but he is extremely nervous
  • Nick decides to loudly yell "Tell us what you know about the Red Omen"
  • This page asks to go somewhere more private
  • We head into "The Ugly Apple's Pub" to chat some more
  • The people in here are, true to their namesake, pretty ugly
  • After sitting down, this guy is named, Kaeso Crito
  • He explains...
    • He believes he has some useful information for us
    • ~2 days ride to the northeast, there is a set of ruins that has been reclaimed by the forest
    • He provides us a map/sketch showing the location and entrance
    • He is too scared of curses to go himself
    • He believes that this is related to the Red Omen due to it being kept secret for so long
    • He learned about it because he is a royal surveyor and had surveyed this area as part of his duties
    • Despite previous survey teams in this area, nobody had previously reported it...which scared him about reporting it himself
  • Before we leave the town, Nick picks up a freshly cut Gulgian Tulip (favorite flower of his dead wife) and sticks it behind his ear in her memory
  • We head to a small town between us and the ruins that Kaeso told us about and stop by a Council of the Few building
  • As we enter the building, we find ourselves in that cave again where we previously met The Archivist
  • We chat with him and he allows us to call him Nibenay if we want
  • We fill him in with our conversation with the Oba
  • The Archivist says that the Oba's relationship with the forest is something that she has been cultivating for some time
  • When we told The Archivist about the forest telling us about Bashuk Ushat...
    • he thinks it is concerning, but it could also just be a side effect of the forest's extremely long memory
    • Bashuk Ushat - archaic term that would now be translated something like black beast or black mist
    • Bashuk Ushat was trying to return the world to a more primitive or basic state, simplifying things through purging more complex things (like sentient life)
    • Thousands of years ago, the great dragons and followers were able to seal away Bashuk Ushat
    • These signs are indications that the seal on Bashuk Ushat may be weakening
    • Bashuk Ushat, during its reign, did have a soft spot for humanity and found them useful as tools and followers
  • We ask his opinion on the ruins that we were told about
    • He thinks it is a decent lead. The location matches up with the location of an ancient city named Gring.
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