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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boendal2" data-source="post: 8000404" data-attributes="member: 7015844">19th session:A friend of ours joined us again as "Cy".Day 217-236 (skipped)After ensuring that everybody in camp is healthy again the party continued on their search for Gravenhollow. After 10 more days the party found eight dead Kuo-Toas. They probably were killed by beasts/monsters/demons. The ring of Ghazrim started to shine brighter and the white light within now resembled a little star (which when observed points towards Gravenhollow). Tyus had the ring and was in charge of navigation (with mixed results).Day 237Athut heard some strange humming sounds coming from ahead. He told the others and scouted ahead. After a few minutes he found a singing/humming basilisk. He reported back to the party, which after a lengthy discussion decided to try and interact with the monster. Eyes down, hands on their weapons they approached. To everyone's surprise the basilisk talked with them in a friendly voice, knew who the PCs are and invited them to follow him to Gravenhollow. After initial hesitation the party with all their troops followed Veldyskar the basilisk. Outside of Gravenhollow he bid the troops to camp outside as only the PCs were expected by the librarians. Vanya told Eldeth to bring everybody back to Gauntlgrym and report to Bruenor Battlehammer if they will not be back within seven days.Inside Gravenhollow the party was greeted by Hourm, a friendly galeb duhr. He explained the PCs how to traverse in Gravenhollow, how to find their quarters and the three different libraries (as well as the librarians). The party split up immediately. Tyus was looking for information on his home town (which was attacked by pirates and his family was killed?) in the library of the past, Cy did the same but visited the library of the future. Athut went to the library of the present to find information in Blingdenstone. Vanya wanted to find information about Nelrindenvane, the kingdom of Prince Derendils family. Muumas looked for information about the drow wizard and how to break the spell on her collar in the library of the past.Cy brought some scrolls down to the guest quarters with him for the others to read. Muumas and Cy went to bed early, while Vanya stayed up all night researching. Athut transformed into a wererat at night, roaming through the corridors and halls of Gravenhollow. He eventually met Urmas, the librarian of the present, who was interested in him. After the semi-wild Athut hissed at him and tried to scratch his face a galeb duhr grappled Athut and brought him back into his quarter.Day 238Tyus, Cy and Muumas awoke. Together with the sleep deprived Athut they wanted to investigate further. They met Vanya coming down the stairs to the main hall.GM notes:I feel this campaign would be awesome for a (gloomstalker) ranger, especially now, finding a mystical library... definitely would have helped with the pathfinding checks! It does not really matter at the moment as we do not play the random encounters as suggested anymore. First off, it would take an eternity to get to Gravenhollow, secondly our sessions would be 90% battles with small mobs and no story progress. Also the party is accompanied by 16 guards/scouts/thugs, so probably not every monster would attack anyways.This was a short session, as I was not prepared enough for the very personal and backstory driven questions of the players. So we ended after 2,5hours and very mediocre GMing. I think they already suspect the library to contain mainly giant related books, but probably they are not sure about this at this point. So they will try again. I also fear the questions that will come with the Stonespeaker Crystals... So I asked everybody to send me their characters most likely questions for the library. That should help!</blockquote>

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