20.12.2020 - Thunder - Flow of magic

• T and C are heading back (?) to the inn
• On the way a middleaged female human grabs T
• Asks for help getting some 'nasty elf addicts' out from her basement
• T follows C to check it out
• No one wants to enter her shop, knowing that the elves are in her basement
• T knows about the rasism/isolating from magical races
• Also knows that some people gets addicted to magic
• Goes into the basement
• A cage in the corner the size of a big dog
• In it are two starving looking, dark blue-skinned elves
• T gives them food, and introduces heself as Bird
• They are Vulmar and Alea (male and female)
• Insight, they will most likely behave (maybe)
• T notices a hidden entrance in the basement
• They finally admitt that it goes to the sewers
• To bribe them to tells us more, C gives them more food and Ghost Ale, which apparently consists of magic
• They don't know if the sewers connect to the tower
• T notices their necklaces have crystals in them, which now glows
• Vulmar uses magic to open the cage
• We let them og, and he promises that he'll remember this
• T wants to find out if the sewers connect to the tower of Forgiveness
• The tower is to the west
• The corridor is going south to north, the elves are going north, so we decide to follow them for now
• T leaves ballbearings
• Suddenly we hear yelping, and several feet running
• We try to hide, but C is bad at it
• Three withered are running towards us
• Behave similarly to zombies, but more aware
• As T shoots the first one, C turns into a baby seal and swims over to the other bank
• As she backs of from the zombies, the cat from before is standing before her
• It is holding some ballbearings in it's mouth. Talks in T's head
• He jumps over to the other side, picks up Coty with his mouth, start running in the direction of the withered
• T doubles back, to use an intersection to get a long jump, and chase after the cat
• The withered tries to wade across, but we're too fast
• Void
• On the way back to S, with the elf leading him
• They come across a pack of 5 withered, but manage to sneak past them
• There are different architecture in different sections of the sewers.
• This one is much better craftmanship than the rest
• The elf doesn't recognize this place (?)
• (Niels said the name of the elf, but I didn't catch it)
• There's a screaming wind kind of noise from an opening (Door shaped awning)
• There's an arcane storm around a statue (?)
• The elf says this is not normal
• Explains that she's been researching the sewers
• The laylines are off, maybe this is connected
• V uses detect magic and relays the information: it's raw magic, not a specific school
• The elf thinks this means that it's a Heartseed
• It can potentially grow into a tree, which fruits could nourish them enough to make them less reliant on others magic
• They would have to feed it somehow, or bring it to a better location
• Asks if V would be able to move it
• He uses mage hand to grab it, the storm doesn't follow
• The seed starts to dim when moved further from the storm
• The elf thinks the seed is feeding of off the storm, must find another source of raw magic to feed it
• Should not move it out of the storm for long (??)
• They decide to keep going, and assume no one else will try to take the seed
• Arnini (and Sylword)
• Is tinkering, when he crates something like a black hole (??)
• Is teleported into the same force cage as Sylword
• The cage is floating above an empty well
• S is unconscious, floating in the air, and magic energy seems to be streaming from him into ___
• Some of the people around (elves and yuan ti, at least 10), seems to be casting something through their focuses
• They're all chanting the same thing
• Casts cure wounds on S, waking him up
• S promises that if they survive this, we're never splitting the party again
• They try, but can't cast spells through the force cage (but can cast spells inside it
• S tries to dispel magic, but realises he doesn't have any spell slots
• S gives A permission to make explosions
• A casts Fireball inside the cage, it does nothing but hurt them
• The onlookers are shocked though, and some of the chanting stops, stopping the drain of magic from S and A
• "Are they dead?", S and A immediately play dead (Badly)
• It's at this moment Void is escorted into the chamber by his guide
• She walks up to the leader (Glannin)
• V asks A what he's doing here, but A's just as confused
• V then goes over to try to convince the leader to let them go
• He doesn't believe her about the seed and fixing the laylines, but V backs up her story
• S mentions that he is strong. "Get my powers back and I definitely can"
• Insists that he needs all his power back to do it
• A pipes in that they will need his help as well
• Comes to a compromise, and gives S his 5th level slots back
• He dispels the force cage after moving it so they can land safely
• They meet up with T
• Seeing Coty hovering in the air, but not the cat holding her
• S notices faint eyes and a grin
• T asks, and realises no one else can see the cat
• We recap what they've done
• T gives S the butcher's knife
• V leads us back to the seed
• In the seed room
• 30X30 meter(?) room
• statue in the middle, elf
• Hole in it's chest, going straight through
• On the other side, solid metal door
• T notices there seems to be magic flowing to the statue from the hole in the wall
• Something glowing at the feet of the statue (seed)
• S wonders if the door leads to the tower of forgiveness
• The door is facing north-ish
• T is resonably certain they're not under the tower
• We og to investigate the hole
• It seems to be manmade
• Script and vines engraved (?)
• Can't see the end of the long narrow tunnel seen though the hole'
• S tries to jam his shield into the hole, it's very difficult and he only manages to cover it partly
• As it is partly covered, the storm lessens
• There seems to be magic flowing through the door
• S casts Animate Object on the statue
• He orders it to pick up the seed and walk towards us  (by the hole)
• The storm is brought with it
• (Niels described it in a way that makes me think of a water column being stopped by a rock. )
• Nvm, the magic goes through the hole in the statue (because it is now facing the hole)
• When we get the statue to turn slightly the magic goes into another hole in the opposite wall, not straight ahead and the magic has to bend slightly
• This stops the storm, but the current is still there
• Symbols on the wall glows (?) lighting up the door (?)
• Maybe unlocked
• The seed is being held in the stream. It remains fine
• Void tries to push open the door
• It's warm to the touch
• He's not strong enough (?) to open it (Or doing it wrong)
• The symbols are a type of ancient elvish, seeming to indicate that this is a vault door (We can't understand anything else)
• T looks through the other hole, it looks like it goes into another room
• V throws a pebble through after casting Light on it, it's about 5m to the other room
• The holes are about 1m in diameter, the flow of magic filling about half of it
• T goes into the hole, trying to avoid the magic, but not being able to avoid all of it as it tugs her along
• There's a 4m drop down to a tiled room
• A high celing that har flowing, glowing(?) scripts on it
• Mosaic on the walls
• Pictures of elves, same color as the one we've found
• An enourmous mountain
• A circle of stones in the center, maybe a well, not deep
• T climbs down
• The room opens up into something bigger
• There is a petrified plant in the well, a tree stump
• After T shouts to the party, she starts hearing metallic footprints
• T hides behind the well
• A large metallic being walks into view, dragging a greatsword(?)
• Searching with it's one eye
• It finds the glowing pebble, but dismisses it quickly
• It eventually walks back
• T tells the others to move the current to let her thorugh
• Hearing her, the footsteps return
• S and A redirect the beam with S's shield
• Able to cover most of the hole
• The door stops glowing
• Thunder gets out
• Different runes on the door glow when we say different elvish words

Plan:

Move the statue so the current is going through the hole in the statue, but into the wall, so the other hole is clear. Then investigate the tunnels/rooms

The current probably has to go through both holes to open the door, when we figure out the rest of how to do that.

A last ditch effort is to go through different elvish words and figuring out how to light up all the symbols, but I doubt that is the intended way to solve the riddle.

Might have to move the seed to the tree that I found