18.05.2025 - Scribe-5 - 2D

• Void's Nondetection wears out during the long rest
• Void dreams of Grandmother
• "The wheel spins as the wheel wills, I really must go", and then she disappears
• The wheel spins, and gathers thread from all of us and the statue, and sends energy towards the exit
• The thread disappears
• When we wake up, the grandmother has left the room, but left behind some cookies and cocao, and a book
• Scribes just saw her disappear after turning into a celestial
• The sacrifices do not come back after a long rest, including spell slots
• In addition, Grandmother took something from us as a trade
• 25 spell slots in total for the party (or 2 ability points per 5 slots, or 1 core class feature)
• Thargnak gives up 2 points in int
• Sylword gives up Some spell slots
• Coty gives up a second lvl slot
• Scribes gives up 2 cha points
• Scribes gave up some of her humanity, and became more robotic/less of a person
• Bucket gives up a third lvl slot
• Void gives up str??
• We have a few hours left before the room opens again
• Scribes tries to crack the book encryption, however, she is too distracted by loosing some humanity (nat 1)
• She had finally started to come to terms with the fact that she might have emotions, and be a person. Now she realizes she is still mostly just a tool
• Bucket spends the time reading the picture book about devils that Scribes copied for him
• He reads about famous art pieces in one of the circles of hell
• Some of the statues seem to have sprouted celestial wings
• He thinks the book might not have been like that before
• Void looks at the book on the table
• It was the one Grandmother was reading out of for the bedtime story
• It has a bookmark in the shape of one of Erin's favourite flowers
• The book has stories about The Chosen One, and The Saviour needing assistance from The Chosen One
• It's quite vague
• There is always a mortal that is somehow involved in the battles between good and evil
• The book is a collection of myths and legends
• At the back of the book, there are scribbles of certain spells, like a makeshift spellbook (one could rip out the pages and use them as spell scrolls)
• Minor illusion
• Alter self
• Stoneshape
• Creation
• Leomunds tiny hut
• Bucket tries to talk to Vistrida Thorne's statue, asking her if she still wants to stay
• She doesn't want to stay anymore
• Grandma didn't turn her to stone; She gave up some mobiility in order to dance better...
• Sylword turns a 300gp revivify diamond from Bucket into diamond dust, casting Greater Restoration on the statue and giving the rest of the dust to Scribes
• It smells like bacon, as Sylword hits the statue lightly with his hammer
• The dwarf is now unstatued
• Bucket wants to check that she can still dance, so Scribes plays the infernal music of the piano with the music box
• Vistrida dances a mix of modern and a mystical trance (?)
• It's captivating to see
• As she dances, the base where she stood as a statue starts to flow around her, along with parts of the floor
• As she stops dancing, she has a look of satisfaction and awe on her face
• Bucket tells her to keep an eye on Thargnak and make sure he doesn't smack his head into anything
• Scribes casts Non-detection on Void again
• We go to the bookcase to see if it is a door
• Scribes notices that something seems to have shifted, and the paths are different now
• We spend some time going in circles, but eventually find the correct path leading to the wall of books
• Void tries to open the bookcase like a door
• We manage to talk Bucket down from smashing the bookcase, with the compromise that he can try to move it first
• It doesn't budge as he pushes it, but starts to open when he pulls it
• It is itself a massive book
• It describes (in common):
• Personal memories and skills
• Elvish grammar
• The doorway around it is engraved with more stories
• Bucket tries to tear through the page to go through the door
• We have to give up a personal memory, a tool proficiency or a language to pass through the door
• Bucket gives up his musical tool proficiency
• Sylword gives up the memory of why Thunder collects trinkets, and what they mean to them both
• Thunder collects memories
• Sylword polishes them to keep them pristine
• Scribes is getting really fed up with this place slowly stripping the party of their sense of self, she tries to hijack the portal
• Coty casts Guidance
• Void offers his power as a battery
• A necrotic component in the portal is there to grab any sacrifice and hold it
• There seems to be some interference with the original spell, a celestial touch lingering like the thread of fate
• Scribes pours some high level magic into the portal spell, to try to turn the toll of the magic towards the caster instead
• She is mostly certain that it works, and we are able to walk through the portal without sacrifice
• We arrive in a large gallery containing a massive painting depicting our party achieving victory
• There are hundreds of smaller paintings covering the walls
• Something feels off about the room
• As we step into it, each of us have a vision of devotion, familiy, kindness and goodness
• Bucket gets a vision of retribution and justice. He feels protected
• Void sees someone trying to convince him to trust them. He can't see the being, but can feel their presence
• They seem to radiate kindness and overwhelming goodness
• As we come to, the room seems to have been covered in rituals, all over the rooms
• These are symbols and rituals of The Saviour
• The painting is missing Void
• Void remembers that he was missing when he had a vision of this room when touching the loom
• There is a door beside the painting, but it doesn't budge when Bucket and Thargnak tries to smash it down
• Coty casts Guidance on Scribes and she tries to paint in Void and Erin standing together with the party, and looking happy and content
• As Scribes is painting Void, he sees a being materialize in front of him, beckoning him forwards
• Scribes notices the threads of fate, floating over the painting, and all over the room
• They gatheron her brush as she's painting
• Void starts getting erased from real life as he is painted
• Bucket tries to tie a rope around him, withthe help of Thargnak
• The being Void sees has celestial wings, and is trying to motion him towards the painting
• He doesn't resist
• The rope disappears, as the painting is finished. The rope lands on the floor
• The door opens
• In Void's perspective, he's in a 2D environment
• He can see the painting, and see the actual party standing outside debating what just happened
• The celestial is there comforting him
• Scribes draws a sending stone by Void, and one by herself in the painting
• Void gets a vision from the being about Erin fighting against E
• She sacrifices a piece of her soul to someone other than E in rebellion, then everything goes wrong in a burst of celestial magic
• The soul piece materializes something into existance, that creates this burst
• The sending stones work
• Void is not sure how to get out, he can't move to use somatic components
• The rest of us can see the celestial start to appear on the canvas
• It is gesturing towards the party's rare magic items
• As we're debating, E's face appears in the canvas, she's yelling at us to hurry up as it is absorbing(?) everything. She seems panicked
• At Bucket's suggestion, we start to paint a door on the wall, intending to paint another on the canvas
• Scribes fails a cha save (that the rest of the party succeeds), and sufferes the confusion spell
• A flickering shadow appears out of the canvas and attacks her

Plan

REMEMBER: Void has a new Non-detection for 8 hours. Scribes is affected by confusion, and her spellbook is summoned

Scribes is stiffer and more robotic because she lost some humanity (Cha points)

We must protect the silver dragon egg (it likes cold) - It has also been magically altered somehow

Void's sister is in E (Empusia)'s lair

Get the dwarves out of here safely (Bucket's honor depends on it)

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Scribes should decode the infernal books (contains spells) - She has as many as can fit in her backpack

Sylword can cast Locate Object on the knife that was left on the other side of the Lorladon portal.

Scribes want's to save the last familiar

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)

We should turn Custodian Auren over to the Path of Hill, claiming that we held him while we investigated his crime of impersonating the Emperor