Session 24

POST RITUAL

• Everyone WOKE up, realized what they lost, but Bord is alive and awake and not maimed, though his GUITAR is gone
• Everyone sees Mak'Ti's scar on his chest, and he is still unconscious, unable to be awoken
• Da'ath finds the Pyxis-of-pandemonium (DC 17 to find)
• They put both MEDUSA heads into the Bag of Holding, one with its eyelids CLOSED
• One of them grabs the Blade-of-the-medusa

• Mak'Ti's consciousness knocked into Astral Projection and sucked through the PORTAL TO THE SHADOWFELL Shadowfell
• M.T. finds himself in his WERERAVEN ASTRAL FORM, speaking to a Wereraven named MOTHER LUBA "Call me Mother Lu" (shrouded in MISTS, speaks of being in hiding for a very long time, summoned back by the QUEEN), who uses a Tarokka deck while speaking to him. SHE NOTES that his CONNECTION (cord) linking him back to his body is gone, and that he should be dead. Surmises that his lycanthropy and magical connection is the only thing keeping him alive, though that may not last much longer. CARDS show her unnatural, POWERFUL magic combined with DIVINE will, that SPLIT HIS ASTRAL FORM. She sees his blue self in a skeletal tree, "guarded by shadow and serpent." If he DOES NOT MERGE WITH THAT FORM SOON, he will truly die.

SHADOWFELL

• Mak-Ti finds himself in his Hybrid-Raven form Astral Projected self on the Shadowfell Plane
• In front of him is a Wereraven named Mama Lu who is dealing Tarroka cards, saying she was summoned here to give him a reading from the Mists by the Raven Queen
• Tells Mak-Ti he has been split into 3 forms by the magics he wielded but could not control, two Astral Forms (Raven and Vedalken), and his physical body. Needs to unite the 3 within 24 hours or he will die. Cards say 2nd part of astral self being held within BONE TREE and is being hunted by a serpent and Shadows.
• Also tell him he is an EYE that is meant to convey information to important parties
• Warn him that TERUS is a PRISON PLANE the gods fear to visit
• Also that the cults are trying to resurrect a feared creature from the FAR REALM, which will summon its legions and spread its madness across the multiverse
• Also a card with a single feather hints that either Vrae, Mak'Ti, or Bord is of great importance
• Card with a picture of a vast black lake also hints at importance
• Mak'Ti sends Nuri to find gate back to Terus and tell friends to get here and help him (Nuri can travel quicker than he being a fey creature)
• Takes Mak'Ti 30 minutes to an hour to find the BONE TREE, in the real world its about 12-14 hours

OUTSIDE THE FOREST

• Da'ath finds and opens the Pyxis of Pandemonium, sends Narinn to a labyrinth maze for a 10-15 minutes
• They gather the Harengon and Aarakocra statues and put in the carriage for safekeeping (Narinn returns)
• Narinn using alchemy skills to use ROGUE DUST to make smelling salts to try to wake Mak'Ti, does not work
• They are visited by Nuri who gives them visions of Mak'Ti with the whole situaton
• They decide to LONG REST to gather strength and go through the portal in the morning
• During long rest VRAE calls retainers and fills in Philipe on what is happening, he is annoyed that she called in the middle of the night. Tells him about the broken Crown, she is still very upset
• Mark tries on his magic ring during his watch, nothing happens, but he put it on his THUMB and it is now stuck there, way too tight
• During watch, distantly to the south, music can be heard as dawn approaches

THROUGH THE PORTAL TO THE SHADOWFELL

• Find the portal, stone archway, notice colors are muted and drained around and through it
• They enter and discover the bone tree
• Da'ath carries Mak'Ti's body on his back, is instantly frozen by the strange noises made by the Jabberwock
• They see Mak'Ti's spectral form approaching the tree, but suddenly a JABBERWOCK flies down separating them, as well as two Shadows which confront Mak'Ti
• Mark falls prey to the gloom of the Shadowfell and gives in to despair (Mak'Ti will also once he regains his corporeal body)
• Battle ensues

BATTLE

• Shadows and Jabberwock's main focus at first is to stop Mak'Ti from united his forms, only go after him
• Mak'Ti climbs the Bone Tree to get his Vedalken spectral form, followed by Jabberwok after it smacks down Mark who takes a good amount of damage
• Shadows also follow Mak'Ti
• Da'ath teleports to the tree and unites the three parts of Mak'Ti successfully, but loses his balances and falls all the way to the ground, taking a lot of damage
• Group then races to get to the portal and out of the Shadowfell, feeling outmatched by the Jabberwok and the Shadows, preying Mak'Ti can close the powerful portal (DC 25 Dispel Magic to close)
• It is a harrowing escape and the group takes a lot of damage, but they manage to escape, and Mak'Ti easily manages to close the portal

AFTERMATH

• Happy and reunited, Mak'Ti fills in the group on Mama Lu's visions, and they discuss
• They also briefly discuss the revealed Dragonmark on Mak'Ti's chest
• They then settle in to take a long rest before the journey back to Warrenstone in the morning

• Mak'Ti needs to roll Addiction Counter next session for ROGUE DUST, CON SAV (DC 10), as long as he saves, not addicted