09.11.2024 - Scribe-5 - We're Going to Hell

• As sunrise arrives, Coty's dreams become warm. She's dreaming of having fun with her adopted siblings
  • It becomes warmer and warmer, to the point of hurting
  • She smells soot and sulfur from her dream-campfire, as it manifests a face and screams in her direction
  • She casts ice magic, and the campfire dissipates into steam
  • Ulutiu speaks: "The fire burns. The fire is danger. But also warmth and safety. This fire is more dangerous than many, but growth happens when facing difficulty. Remember the teachings in the face of evil."
  • She wakes up, and goes to wake up Bucket
    • She asks Bucket to keep her company
    • Bucket brought a picture book to not be bored in Hell
    • He casually elludes to the fact that the plants in his room might attack people. He also hopes that they will take care of things if a fire happens
    • Coty makes him suspicious that she will set fire to his plants
    • They discuss her dream
• We eat breakfast
  • Erline Thorne asks if we consider Sylword an invaluable member of our party
  • We all tell her that he is important to us
  • She says that when he is finished building the thing, we can call him to us using the power of Moradin
• Void finished the voodoo doll enchantements
• Sylword makes us some rations
• Erline Thorne gives us two greater and two superior healing potions
  • We decide that Erline has a superior, and Coty gets the other one.
  • Void and Scribes gets a greater each
• Desa will take care of the new reqruits
• We meet up with the Shrouded dwarves
  • We leave through the public exit through Hugo-Sha
  • People want autographs on their trading cards
  • There are more and more trading cards appearing, and the black market of trading cards is thriving
  • We arrive at the tavern. Even though it is early, there are people sleeping on tables
  • Mammon is curled up by the fireplace, as if he was still a cat
    • He has been been modifying his mask to be more catlike, and to include the current champion's catchphrase
• Varun greets us warmly, and offers us something to drink
• The dwarves show up, fully kitted out
  • One of them is wearing a warhammer, and has the symbol of one on his shield, along with craggy peaks. His hair is streaked with grey, and looks like he is tough as stone
  • Tharnur Stoneforge immediately adresses Bucket. He is pleased to be offered drinks
  • They are lvl 3
  • Another dwarf has a Moradin shield and amulett, Durlan Emberbrow. He casts Purify Food and Drink before drinking. The others look away in embarassment
  • A younger dwarf named Baldri Fleetfoot, introduces himself as a talented thief/rogue
  • The last one is Morig Ironhand. He is naked from waist up, and is covered in runes
  • We will send them a Sending at 8 in the evening every day, for a progress report and to check when they want extraction
  • Bucket agrees to pay them 300 gp total and share the findings 50/50, once the job is done
  • They have brought their own shovels
  • Scribes teleports them to the temple
• Mamon has awoken, and is watching us with interest
• We head to the university to pick up the tuning fork
  • Selmyn has not slept
  • Test 93 doesn't explode
  • It is a toaster that moves on its own
  • Test 94 happens, and Void is given a lever and is told to never let go
  • It is deemed a success. Then Void's lever releases, and an item pops up out of the toaster
  • Selmyn catches it, but throws it again, since it's hot
  • Void and Bucket catch it, but Bucket drops it, since it's hot
  • Scribes picks it up with her mage hand
  • We notice a vibrating tune emminating from it
  • Bucket gives her a piece of toast, and Scribes flavors it with Prestidigitation
  • Selmyn's new objective is to make a machine to make toast with that flavor
  • Selmyn talks with us for a bit, then hugs all of us and goes to sleep
• We head to Gloomwood Glade for the art school
  • It is a neglected, creepy mansion
  • On the way there, we're surrounded by fans again
    • The "spiritual leaders" in the crowd (from after the trial) helps us stop them from following
    • Their leader asks us if Sylword will be joining us. We say that he will come later
    • She tells us that most of the excursions into the gloom has come back successfully
    • Several of their art inclinded followers have ventured in there
    • She wants us to bring them back to their "bossom"
• It is a twisted, dark forest inside a cave
• The trees and flowers have purple crystals in them, that glow softly in the light
• There are metre tall frogs challenging each other for territory
• Bucket is offended that he isn't seen as a challenge to them
• There is light coming from inside the delapitated mansion
• An iron gate before the mansion looks out of place, as if it is a recent addition. It has two braziers with the same feeling
• Scribes sets up the telepathic bond
• Erline Thorne casts Death Ward on Bucket, he hears clanking of metal on metal in his mind as it is cast. He also hears rustling of leaves (which Erline didn't cause...)
• Vines cover the door, and they look partially singed
• Scribes activates her monocle to See Invisibility
• There is an invisible half-elf hanging upside down in the vines, staring at her
• She warns the others, and they have her move to the back as we pass under it
• It doesn't follow
• Right on the other side of the door is a classroom
  • It has marble pedestals holding partially completed sculptures of exotic animals
  • A large chalkboard has the day's assignement: "Capture motion in stillness"
  • Another plaque on the wall says "Art is patience, dicipline and sacrifice"
  • Bucket notices some shadows beconing us into the room, towards the nearly finished sculptures. Beckoning us to finish them
  • Void sees them as creatures with elongated faces and flowing limbs and long fingers. They seem to be silently screaming (He sees through darkness)
  • There is no other way out of this room
  • Scribes recalls that devils are strict about the rules, and wouldn't make you enter a deal without you knowing it. Cause they want to rub it in
  • She misread the task as "emotion", and plays a diary entry of her reaction to the book prank with the Bard-in-a-box.
  • Void subtly writes an "E" in front of "motion"
  • The sculpture Scribes was targetting breaks a bit, but it makes it look better. Like the original artist added too many details
  • She feels her fingers get stiffer for a moment, before softening again
  • Four stone constructs detach from the wall, and guide Void, Bucket, Coty and Erline Thorne towards unfinished scupltures
  • Bucket tries to make a squarian knight. The construct helps guide his hands, and whispers encouragement
  • It tenses as Bucket roughly smashes the statue to shape it, but it turns out fine
  • Erline Thorne approaches a sculpture of a muscular dwarf. Her hands start to stiffen, as if they've become stone. The construct is scolding her for not following the right form
  • She seems remarkably calm, and advices us to keep going. Maybe it will be fixed on its own
  • Void approaches a sculpture of an almirage (fey rabbit with a horn)
  • His sculpture puts on some ominous music for inspiration
  • Void casts Booming Blade on the chisel. He crit fails, shearing off the unicorn horn
  • The construct is appalled. "We don't have any more of this model. Everything has gone downhill since the last living female model died"
  • It admits to Void that it is just a student, and says that they won't get new models for a while. It want's Void to convince the other construct mentors that the amirage was just undercover, hiding it's horn
  • The constructs discuss, and let him pass
  • Erline's hands go back to normal, and she finishes her sculpture
  • A voice echoes in the room "You have captured something eternal", and a fissure opens in the wall, leading to a new room
• Bucket and Void get a sense that we're not the first people that came through here
• Bucket finds a small bowl at the entrance to the first room. It is a pet bowl with the letter M
• We enter the next room
  • Scribes sees 4 invisible statues, three of them finished. They all depict the same person
  • The finished ones look like a thin female figure with four horns, her hair tied up in a bun. With different gowns/jewellry. She is elegant
  • The fourth one is a completely different person. It doesn't have horns, and seems half-finished, so it is difficult to make out
  • The similar ones' hands seem exactly the same as E's hand
  • Scribes relies an image of the statues through the voice chat
  • The unfinished one looks like Void's sister, Erin

   

Plan

Bucket wants to Divine Sense the pet bowl.   Free Void's sister from the statue?   ---------------------------------   Sylword can cast Locate Object on the knife that was left on the other side of the Lorladon portal.   Scribes needs to read up on what pranks are, and think of one to prank Sylword and Bucket back. Since they told her to.   Learn the new spells: Aquired but unlearned spells   Scribes needs to talk to Coty about what happened with Lorladon (Coty wants to assemble her voodoo dolls first)   Coty can use her necklace to meld Custodian Auren, so he can be released. We could also give him to Path of Hill, claiming that we held him while we investigated his crime of impersonating the Emperor