04.10.2020 - Thunder - Campfire talks and dreams

• We scout out the area, to find a safe place to rest
• T sees wagon tracks leading west
• Not super fresh
• S is talking to Pot
• She doesn't know why they were here before
• Only that Rockwater wanted a safe location not too close to the capitol
• A weeks travel by foot from here
• The buildings don't have roofs
• Seal!Coty goes fishing (in the bay of SHARKS), sees two dark shapes stalking her
• T finds more small ruins scattered into the forest
• T remembers stories about Bay of Sharks
• Very infested with sharks
• People still live here
• We're sitting around the fire, talking
• S didn't have access to a lot of food growing up
• Talking about his Forgemaster
• S tries to teach Arnini how to cook
• T initiates a talk
• She mentions the prophecy
• S says the Lady said something similar when knighting S and M
• Forest blossom
  Mother blossom

…

• Thinks it refers to the Goddess
• S asks Void who he is
• He doesn't usually reveal who he is
• Most of his memories are "not with him"
• First thing he remembers is waking up in a forest area, then travelled around a bit before 'infiltrating' the Green Eagles
• Is looking for two people
• Remembers that they were there, thinks they were his friends
• Don't have descriptions or name
• Takes off his right glove
• Shows this symbol:
• None of us has seen it before
• It glows when he uses certain magic
• Ferriz guesstimate that it has magical properties, has run into mentions of marks giving power
• A tries to Lesser Restoration Coty, no effect
• Void Dispels Magic on her (The magic he's trying to dispel is higher than 5th lvl…)
• Crit!!!
• The seal turns back into Coty
• She has a necklace with half-translucent crystals (ice cold)
• Not able to take it off (gets tighter if she tries)
• T inspects it
• Doesn't have any wear or tear, pristine condition
• If made by normal means, it would be brand new
• It flows the same way that the collar Pot is wearing, and the bracelet T has, yet not the same material
• T asks C to use magic, to check if it works -> it does
• She now has small 'svømmehud' between her fingers and her skin is slightly paler
• C Communes with nature, and notices influences from another plane of existence
• T mentions that it might be from the calamity in Yin, or because The Valley of a Thousand Lakes is connected to the feywild
• Shifts for the night:
• 1st: S and T (S asked T to take the shift with him)
• Pot is looking longingly towards the north
•  T finally convinces Pot to tell her name: Elinor
• Not able to get her to give last name
• T asks S what the name of Erivale's mother was
• He doesn't remember, but will ask tomorrow
• S makes sure everyone is asleep before asking why she stabbed him
• Reveals that she is the only one he is trying to trust
• But he can't seem to do it because of how she has been influenced by the magic of others
• He was also scared because he saw how obsessed she was, worrying that she was being too reckless
• T reveals that she thought Cloud was dead, and that she left her behind, in pain and fear, for all the years T's been travelled
• 2nd: A
• A tries to go through his inventions to take out things that might explode or dimension-stuff etc. and put them in another room
• While he is busy with this, Coty has an out of body experience
• her spirit is dragged across the continent until she gets to the icy terrain way north in the known world
• Hovers over a glacier, a sheer ice wall
• Something in the glacier is calling her (feeling), directing her gaze to an ornate harpoon sunk into the glacier.
• Feels a question: asking her to do something about this
• Feels that the necklace is a gift and a bargain
• A gift that can be taken away, and with it her life essence
• A promise of more generosity
• As she is dragged back to her body, she goes rigid and completely stiff
• A wakes up Void from a nightmare, so he can start his shift
• 3rd: Void
• Niels and Mats talk in a different channel…
• After whatever happens, Void notices that Coty isn't moving at all, not even breathing
• He is able to move her arm, but with difficulty
• He tries to wake her -> She wakes up, and the stiffness flows away
• 4th: Coty
• Coty doesn't feel cold anymore, even though it is cold outside
• She tries to follow the feeling she gets from the necklace, and turns into a baby seal
• She is able to change into normal form, and then back into the seal
• She predicts the weather -> there will probably be rain most of the day (though not necessarily in this location). It will be warm and dry around the coast
• Notices that Void seems to play with the handle of his sword in his sleep
• Right before S wakes up, he hears a comforting hammer-on-anvil-sound
• Three pieces of metal on the form, being bound together with three hammer strikes
• Two more pieces are sitting in the forge waiting, being warmed up
• S gives Thunder the Blessing of the Forge -> magical armour +1
• (This takes away from his own AC)
• Void's skin color is now blue, and his eyes are violet
• We question him about it, but he acts like it's a natural thing
• A has forgotten about the inventions in the corner, but T notices and reminds him
• He uses a thong to pick them up and toss them into the sea

• T asks Pot about her looking to the north
• Something from her past life, T tries to get her to talk about it but fails
• S asks T if maybe Pot should not come with us
• She really wants to stay with T
• S uses Sending to ask King Gillian about the queens name, and to keep our stuff in the inn safe
• The queens name is Elinor "I can still see her"
• Our stuff is safe
• He sends another message to the king
• "What do you mean you can see her??"
• Tells him that Rockwater is dead
• He sends a third message
• Explains that due to mind control Rockwaters body is unrecognizable
• Tells him that we are with Elinor
• Answer: "You better hope the body is unrecognizable"
• Wants us to ask Elinor something only she would know
• T asks if Pot is Elinor Clover
• She reacts to the name in a way someone who has that name does
•  T orders her to teleport to Tidehaven and present herself to the king, and do what he says
• She tries to protest, but T manages to convince her to have faith that T "Is powerful enough to keep <her> under control" (double crits for deception!!!)
•  S uses two other sending spells to coordinate with the king that she'll teleport to the Rockwater mansion in half an hour, and that they will meet her there
• We wait until she teleports. As she steps into the circle she turns around and whispers "Thank you".
• T takes off the bracelet, assuring S that she never used it.
• We head west
• Coty notices the wagon tracks follow a difficult to track path, that looks like it's not seen a lot of use.

Mother blossom
Defender of all our souls
Just look upon her bowls
He awaits her pillars