08.10.2022 - Scribe-5 - Planning and Shopping

• It is the afternoon when we arrive in the Forge
  • Desa wakes up when we get there
  • We talk a bit more about Scribe-5's vision
    • There were no one in the palace
    • Somewhere in the palace there were darkness, something that shouldn't be
    • She is not sure if the vision was future or present, just that it had intent
  • We decide that we will just take a short rest, then go invesitate the palace
  • Sylword asks Desa to go to the city and buy some components for him while we rest
  • She doesn't like shopping
  • Since everyone needs to rest, we go shopping first, then rest
• Go go shopping for Sylword's components
  • Coty heals S a bit, as he is bleeding everywhere
  • We notice that there are a lot of missing persons posters, with candles underneath from people praying that they return
  • Scribe-5 scans all of them to memorise them
  • People are begging us to help them find their missing person. In all the stories there's a cogwheel left behind
  • We go to a jeweller, attended by a female drow
    • The customer she is currently talking to respectfully backs up to let us cut in line
    • Sylword shows off all our money, and asks for 1000 gp worth of rubies
    • We buy the rubies, and he asks for someone to make them into fine ruby powder. She offers to do it for free, but Sylword insists on paying her 50 gp
    • As we're waiting, the elf who sent Bucket and Scribe-5 to look for Ruffles grabs Bucket and begs for updates
    • He says he will be here at the poster every day, and gives Bucket a poster. The missing woman is named Inyelyen
    • Bucket convinces him to pray to Rillifane every hour, to guide us in our search
    • The drow shopkeep points us in the direction of a shop selling insense
  • We head to a Rillifane worshipping site, a crystal cave with a tiny grove of trees
    • Sylword wants to asks the trees if the running water is holy water, and if we can take some
    • Coty ritually casts Commune With Nature. She dips the feet in the water, and tries to comminicate with the trees through the water, as it starts freezing around her
    • She find out that this tiny brook is holy around the roots
    • The tree also tells her about an influence from another plane of existance
    • We get some holy water and 100 gp of rare insence
• As we get back to the Veilhearth, we find Ruffles waiting for us at the gates
  • He grabs an acorn from Bucket and hides it somewhere amongst Scribe-5's posessions
  • While the doors open, Scribe-5 ritually casts Telepathic Bond on the party and Ruffles
  • Bucket and Sylword put the pedestal in the future vault (Ironbraid's room), and Sylword prepares to cast Forbiddance
  • Void looks into the liquid mirror, and chooses to fail the save
    • He feels something reach out for him and drags his soul/conciousness into the mirror
    • He hears a song of intent, revenge, violence and power
    • He hears gears and cogs, and thousands of voices
    • He tries his best, but he doesn't hear the specific voice he is looking for
    • The rest of us start to get anxious as he stands there for a long time. He doesn't hear our telepathic messages, but feels Sylword slap him
    • We discuss if we should break the mirror, but decide that that might trap Void's mind
    • Sylword quietly asks Bucket what a plane of existance is, as Coty and Scribe-5 keeps mentioning it
    • Scribe-5 casts Identify on the bowl of the mirror. It is an item that can mediate between planes, and it can (under the right circumstances) allow someone to enter a specific plane. There is strong divine magic infused in it, powering the device and guiding the travellers
    • Scribe-5 goes into the mirror to look for Void (and for science)
      • She intentionally fails the save, and hears the song
      • As the precence pulls her in, she feels calm, then when the song starts up she feels like the feelings are her own
      • Inventions are scattered around, and she sees a street that might look familiar
      • She is able to contact Void and he explains why he's here
      • This is not a reflection of Hugo-Sha
      • It reminds us of Tidehaven, just with some inconsistencies. F.eks. the castle Tidebreaker is not there, but the palace of Hugo-Sha is there
      • The streets are empty and silent except for the squeak of wheels and steam
      • As Scribe-5 is scanning the scenery she feels a precence calmly pushing her out. She tries to fight it, but fails
      • As she is pushed out, Void hears a change in the melody. He sees Malagnim doing a ritual, then looking directly at him while holding onto a magical item surrounded by visible magic
      • Void greets him, and then feels a precence gently tug him away. He lets it and starts being pulled away
      • Malagnim reaches out and visible music follows Void until he is out of the bowl (the music never reached him)
      • Despite knowing it was dangerous, he felt calm the whole time
    • The rest starts resting, while standing guard
      • Ironbraid speaks in Sylword's mind about our plans for the vault
      • We can do what we want with her tomb, but she needs it to operate
      • Sylword assures her that the vault might be in another room, but that the forge will most likely be our home
      • She will be temporarily gone if he casts Forbiddance on the room with her remains
    • Scribe-5 and Void come to, and notice their noses are bleeding and their heads are hurting
    • When Scribe-5 entered the bowl, a new layer was added to the music, calm
    • Sylword finishes casting Forbiddance on the room and the walls around it. He chooses the password: "Honey cookie jar", and makes it target all the allowed creature types
    • He tells Ironbraid the password
    • Coty enters the room without saying the password, to check if she is any of the forbidden creature types
    • She takes damage and Sylword immediately pulls her out
    • Sylword uses Turn Undead, but Coty doesn't get affected
    • Bucket uses Divine Sense, but Coty is neither celestial, fiend or undead
    • Desa comes and asks us if this place is safe
    • We tell her that Coty is not humanoid, and Desa tells us that Coty is an Aes Sidhe
    • Desa learns that Coty is Lorladon's adoptive daughter
    • She tells us that the Aes Sidhe often swaps their children with human children
    • Void knows someone that can help her find her real parents
    • He comes from a forest connected to the feywild
    • Whether or not they help will depend on if they find it amusing or interesting
    • We tell Desa that Lorladon's powers has been sealed away and that he is to stand trial
    • She doesn't understand why he should not just be killed
    • Void talks about how living without his powers is worse than death
    • Desa wants to make him suffer
    • Scribe-5 covers Coty's ears while they talk about how her father will suffer
    • Sylword confirms that Desa has the spell Morderkainen's Private Sanctum, and asks her to teach it to Scribe-5. Desa will cast it until it becomes permanent
    • Desa can cast Guards and Wards and Teleportation Circle if Scribe-5 teaches it to her
    • Desa goes into the room (saying the password) and lays the egg in there
    • We finally actually take a short rest

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