11.08.2020 - Thunder - Dimensional Tabaxi death-trap

• T runs ahead
• Finds a small statue, glittering in several? colors, as if half-translucent jade
• Looks like a small version of Cloud
• T touches the statue, and is immediately sucked into another plane
• A figure is standing on a pedestal close by, reading a book
• As this happens, one of Arnini's inventions start making sound
• He eventually finds it, and ethereal tentacles reach out of it and drags both Arnini and Sylword out of this dimension
• They appear on the floor in front of T
• The fog falls (still on floor) revealing a gnome, reading a book
• Almin the Scholar
• He's wearing a pendant of a compass, where the needle is a pen
• T has seen it before, in the captain's map she stole from the ship
• He's surprised that we're here, but continues reading
• Something is changing
• We shouldn't be here, we weren't here
• The book is full of map, but connecting lines etc. not landmasses
• It is changing as we watch
• He seems to know a bit about T, and her history, but not her name
• She gives him her name
• Based on this, he knows who the others are
•  "If you value Nakhum(?) you will listen", "If you value what it says on your buttons (???)"
• Asks S "What kind of follower of Moradin are you, if you don't know what your button spell out"
• T threatens to burn his book, if he doesn't help us
• He goes serious, "You can try" (But shouldn't (?))
• He will reveal her sister, if we help him figure out what's going on
• T realizes it might be possible to change the past, and save Cloud
• The others asks questions, but eventually agrees to help her
• Almin says whether it's possible or not depends on whether or not we succeed on 'this'
• Almin flips through the book, and sends us to another dimension
• We appear in a room, with a stream of blood running through it
• Still the same ethereal music
• T hears low, screechy discussion, coming from the west
• S tries to open the steel door
• A thunderous voice speaking in a language he doesn't understand, deafens S (no one else hears this)
• It opens up into a hallway, with a wooden door at the end
• We go to investigate the voices
• Leaving a trail of bloody footprints behind us
• A goblin peeks around the corner, before rushing back
• A stairway, worn into a half-circle, with a hole at the top
• A beartrap before one of the entrances
• T disarms it
• Something starts rumbling, moving from above
• One of the hallways are full of dead, squashed bodies
• Two more crushed tabaxi in the other hallway
• A barred archway, with dwarven and elvish
• T understands
• Until am I not, yet you me I flown (words missing)
• S notices that one of the corpses looks a lot like Thunder, starts pulling out a diamond (to Revivify)
• A casts Lesser Restoration on S (with a gross machine, crawling into his ear), to clear his deafened condition
• Then explains that T is further in
• The boulder magically turns to follow the path we've taken
• T finds an iron portcullis
• A swarm of insects fill the floor behind it
• Someone has written on the opposite wall: "The walls listen"
• a door opens on the other side of the portcullis
• T finally finds out that one of the corpses is her sister. Realizes that the other corpses is at least very similar
• T finds an empty room
• When she enters, banners(?) flow down. Covered in arcane runes
• S reads the archway writing: "Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown."
• As the boulder reaches the fork, where we split up, it duplicates into two boulders, to be able to go both ways
• T breaks through a door, and a goblin is fired from a catapult
• She dodges, and someone else starts stepping into it
• T runs up, sees 10 of them blocking the hallway
• She nopes, and runs back the way it came
• S gives up on the riddle and braces for impact
• The boulder passes right through him, disappearing when hitting the wall
• As Arnini enters the arcane room the walls turn to wood, and everything starts burning
• A notices that there is a missing part of the arcane pattern, as if someone has cut it out, and replaced it with something else
• Arnini thinks this interrupted path is what Almin was talking about
• T tries to open a door, but gets stuck to it (Crits cutting herself loose). She and A decides that taking on the goblins are the best bet
• T steps into the room first, getting shot with a flying goblin
• She stabs him, and drops him on the floor
• A casts fireball (with a flamethrower) and obliterates the rest of the goblins
• S manages to open the riddle door
• Inside is a large demon-like creature
• S nopes out of there, and runs towards the rest of us
• S (and the demon) reaches the arcane room
• A hits with three scorching rays
• T finds a stair up, finding a door at the top, with another Cloud corpse, this one indicating a trap when you touch the handle
• T manages to unlock it, but must still open it
• She uses a bone necklace to open it, avoiding the trap
• it opens to reveal fog
• T walks into it
• Arrives at the place with the gnome
------- Something is still missing
• The demon catches up to A, but he Expeditious Retreats
• Frustrated the demon speaks a word of power, stunning A
• The gnome tells T that they need to fix the pattern
• She starts walking back through the fog, yet can't find the way
• S reaches T, but A calls for help, so we decide to go back (T needs to go back anyway)
• S uses Life Transfer to heal T
• T deals some dmg, but it has resistance
• S casts Magical Weapon on T's rapier (magical, +1 to dmg and atk)
• We all massively fail wis saves, and has our minds affected (Confusion)
• S freaks out when T stabs him (because of the spell), even after all of us saves
• T crits the demon twice, killing him on the last one
• We go back to the arcane room
• It is brick walls again, with no sign of the fire
• T forges a new patch (forgery kit), with the help of A's Mending
• It works
• We decide to go check if the demon was guarding something
• This was probably the goblins' base before the demon
• Not a lot of valuables
• A is the only one looting
• The room slowly fills with fog, until we're standing by the gnome again
• He agrees that we fixed it
• he is confused by T saying she wants to change the past to save her sister
• She isn't dead!!!
• In a chamber surrounded by hooded figures doing a ritual.
• She is in agony. Eyes lit, arcane magic flowing
• T offers Alvyn's bow (she hasn't uncovered it's secrets, so it's valuable to her)
•  She is in the Tower of Forgiveness in Hugo-Sha
•  If T finds more items of great value, she can trade it with him for more help/info. (No need to contact him)
• S leaves behind his mess kit. No words
• The gnome tells us which way to go to get back, and we return in the hallway filled with Green Eagle stuff

Plan: Get to Hugo-Sha as soon as physically possible!

(Also, S might be careful around her, so be aware of that)

Check the captain's map (it had the same symbol)

Ask Arnini wether the wizards have teleportation to Hugo-Sha