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Message: <blockquote data-quote="djotaku" data-source="post: 9806102" data-attributes="member: 7054471">Session 7<h3>The Adventure</h3>Before the group sets out Appeluna’s patron tells her that she’s doing a good job and grants her access to more power (meta: attains lvl 6).It’s a 3 day journey to Reywald. The first two days and nights were uneventful. On the third night Ariana’s on watch. She falls asleep for a second and when she awakens just a few minutes later the package from Aalthic Bellin, the sorcerer, is stolen. She wakes up the rest of the party and tells them what happened.Ariana leads the chase and is able to track the thieves to a clearing. There she sees a Dhampir standing near a kobold holding the box. Silently Ariana and Appeluna stealthily hide. Jackal charges into the clearing and scoops up the kobold.The Dhampir decides to fight. Jackal throws the kobold at him and the thieves decided to run away from these crazy adventurers. Appeluna investigates and finds their membership card to the thieves’ guild of Reywald.The next day as they walk through the town Appeluna keeps feeling like someone is following her, but doesn’t see anyone when she looks. First head to the Amorers. There a gnome named Felix Hexenburg greets the party. Ariana wants to buy mail, so he has his apprentice named Klaus do the fittings for Ariana. In 3 days Ariana’s Scale mail will be ready.The group heads to the Oaken Inn next. It’s run by a dwarf named Mario Lightfoot. They eat fried cheese logs, egg noodles with meat sauce, and fried fish.As they are eating someone comes with a cloak obscuring their face, looking furtively. When she reaches the table, it turns out to be Tonya, one of the servants from Appeluna’s family estates. Appeluna asks her to take her to see her family after dinner. They are taken to Appeluna’s father’s office. Her mother is more reasonable, asking her to save her sister, Orangeterra. Her father is still scandalized by her gaining patronage from demonic forces and stalks out angrily. Appeluna and her mother continue their discussion. Her mother suggests speaking with Bananastella who has become a cleric at the church of Yarila and Porevit. Upon questioning, her mother reveals that Orangeterra was kidnapped from the marketplace.Appeluna goes to The Twinned Cathedral and is told to come back at dusk.As Arianna is walking about the city someone attempts to attack her, but she is prepared for the attack and kicks him in the groin.Jackal hasn’t gone out with the other two. He was sitting in the room they got at the inn when he is shot by a blow dart tipped with a sedative.Apppeluna goes to Odengers. Appeluna asks the proprietor about Orangeterra’s kidnapping. She describes her sister as having brown hair with an orange streak in her hair. The owner recalls there was a vampire that entered the store on that day.When the focus returns to Arianna’s fight, she knocks him out and carries him to the inn. She says it’s her friend who had too much to drink to deceives the guards.Jackal wakes up tied to a chair with his snout tied shut. The kobold and Dhampir from the clearing are standing in front of him. The kobold is trying to unlock the box as Jackal tries to escape. Dhampir opens the box and light emanates from the inside. Suddenly the Dhampir grows old and dies as if the life was sucked out of him. The kobold freaks out, unties Jackal, apologizes, and escapes through a small exit sized just right for a kobold.Ariana gets to the inn and throws the guy onto bed without restraining him. The guy wakes up and jumps out the window. Ariana runs down the stairs in pursuit and Mario is going upstairs and they get into conversation about the noise he heard upstairs.Jackal comes upstairs from where he had been tied up and starts talking to first person he sees in the library to tell them he had been kidnapped and taken to the library’s basementcomes.Appeluna goes back to the church. Bananastella, blond, is waiting for Appeluna. Appeluna tells her about the Servants of Nighogg. Bananastella tells her to go to Zobeck to ask about the cult at the church of Rava.The team regroups at the inn and talks about their how their days went. They order flat noodles in a layers with meat and cheese, fish, and bread with sauce and cheese on top.Ariana dreams of her mother wearing a necklace consisting of a key with a symbol of a spider. She shouldn’t be able to have this memory as she was a baby when it happened.Day 2 in Reywald - Jackal patrols through town looking for kobolds; Ariana stays in the inn guarding the chest. Appaluna goes to childhood home and syncs with mom on what she learned in the evening.Day 3 - Ariana picks up her armor. On the way out of town they see an airship and take up an offer to work on the airship in exchange for free passage to Zobeck.Session 8<h3>Narrative</h3>The party has agreed to work on a dwarven airship in exchange for free passage to Zobeck. Razzit Greyborn (captain) shows them around and shows them where bunks are and introduces them to the crew. The night shift is currently sleeping in the bunks. One of those asleep is a tiefling. The adventurers are helping out by filling in so that the crew can work in shifts.At the navigation area, Appaluna helps them fly through misty conditions and they just barely miss a mountain.Ariana works on making a salad. She notices Thrardaed Ashbane acting weird. Ariana calls for security and Jackal comes and realizes Ashbane has poisoned the soup. Ashbane attacks because he is a fundamentalist who is mad the dwarves are trading with elves. Ariana and Jackal knock him out. After cooking up a new batch of soup, Ariana gives food to Appaluna and they go over what happened.Assirlum Coalbreaker relieves Jackal for security. Aradius (the tiefling) relieves Appaluna.Ariana’s dream: hears parents say “I hope one day our daughter becomes a leaf druid”.In the middle of the night everyone falls out of bed due to turbulence. They investigate a noise and the ship’s cat jumps out of the shadows. Ariana casts Speak with Animals. She asks the cat if it’s the source of the noises. It says to head towards the smoke and scrambles away. When the team investigates, there’s a fire cat in the hold setting things on fire.Appaluna gets to the wheelhouse. She finds Aradius slumped over the navigation table. The captain is bleeding from an arrow wound. Appeluna investigates and finds a metal toy. Turns out it’s a flitkith and it tries to stab her.Meanwhile Ariana and Jackal fight with the fire cat. The fire cat attacks with a smoky yowl and neither one is affected.Appeluna puts the flitkith in a glass goblet and puts her hand over it so that he can’t get out.Ariana kills the cat and Appeluna locks the flitkith in the trunk in her room.When they return to the wheelhouse, Aradiaus is awake; he wasn’t dead, he was just knocked out. Ariana heals the captain’s wounds.Appaluna interrogates the flitkith and finds out he was hired to bring down the ship and brought the firecat. He doesn’t know who his ultimate employer was as he always met with a go-between. Appeluna agrees not to turn him in to the ship’s captain and he decides to make her into an ally.They land in a field in the north of Zobeck.“Unlike Reywald, the city from which you departed 2 days ago, Zobeck is a cosmopolitan city. In an inversion from the Duchy of Dornig you seem to see every type of creature EXCEPT for Elves. Before you is a busy city full of humans, kobolds, ravenfolk, ratfolk, dwarves, dragonborn, and even aasimar and tieflings.”As they cross the bridge they meet a gearforged who explains the rules of the city.The team tries to complete their task and deliver the box from the sorcerer. As they approach the gates to the university, a gearforged tells them to come back in two weeks for the recipient, Mage Orlando, is not currently at the university.Session 9<h3>Gameplay</h3>In the 2 weeks that have passed, Appaluna did research trying to find a lead on her quest to find the Servants of Nidhogg and how to rescue her sister. She learned she should go to the temple of the Goddess Rava, patron of Zobeck.The team entered the university and made their way to Orlando’s study. Orlando was working on a gearforged body. They delivered the box which had a special brain gear for gearforged. They mentioned what happened to the thieves who tried to open the box before. Orlando explained that the effect on the box was a security mechanism that Aalthic (socerer that gave them the box) uses to make sure no one can open his packages.As the team left the university grounds, Black Eye the Kobold offered to take them on his ride to Rava’s Temple. The ladies decided to ride and he started driving them to Rava’s temple. The ride ended up in a traffic jam and vendors arrived to try and sell them stuff. When the ladies arrive at Rava’s temple Jackal is already there. (Perhaps Black Eye didn’t take the most direct route)Appaluna spoke to a priest in the Hall of the Patroness and told them about the Servants of Nighogg and her sister being abducted. The priest asked them to remain for a moment and returned with Lena Ravovik, head human priestess. She invited them to her sanctum. After hearing that the group helped clear out the Temple of Nargoth, she offered to open a portal to The Labyrinth, where the quest can continue, but doesn’t have a key to open up a portal. She mentioned checking with other religions. Ariana remembered her dreams about being given a key and they left to find the nuns of the church of Sabateus.A feral hunter attacked them as they left because she hates bestkins like Jackal. As the fight progressed, a kobold swiftblade tried to rob Jackal, but he was caught as he tried to get Jackal’s money. Jackal threw the kobold at the huntress. She was quite bloodied by this point and made her escape. The kobold escaped into the sewers.The team headed outside of the city and found the tent serving as the current local temple to Sabateus. Ariana asked about the orphanage and Appaluna helped clarify that they were looking for a key that she may have had when she was dropped off at the orphanage. After performing a ritual, the priest was able to retrieve her key from a bag of holding.Session 10<h3>Gameplay</h3>Now that Ariana has her parents’ key, the team returns to Rava’s temple and is escorted to the high priestess’ chambers. The high priestess introduces them to Griff the mechanist who examines the key. Unfortunately the key is spent, but the team is in luck as he explains he just made a new key to The Smithy yesterday. Griff explains that he is in a secretive organization called the Keeper of the Keys which is allied with the church of Rava. He puts his new key itno the air to open a portal.After everyone enters the portal, they are surrounded by squirrels who attack and push Griff out of the portal as he yells about betrayal. A fight ensues. The squirrel priest is just about to die as he casts a portal under the girls and the other squirrels (Ratatosks) throw Jackal, who is almost dead, into the portalThe adventurers fall to the ground and wake a few hours later, realizing they are in a clearing. Jackal climbs a tree to see where to go. He spots a village and they head in that directionThey see a lady selling hot pies and ask someone where they are. They are in the Tumbledowns. (meta: another D&D game we play from the dndadventure club setting)They meet another set of adventurers - Sasha, Grumpy. And Triss. (meta: the characters the play as in the dndadventure club setting) They discuss their situation a bit and mention being from another dimension.One of the local adventurers suggested speaking with Baba Yaga. On the way to Baba’s house, they have to fight a Lillium and 2 awakened trees.Once the team of six arrives at her house, Baba Yaga gives them healing tea. Ariana explains what’s happening. Baba Yaga opens a portal into another world.The team enters the portal and they land on a ship in Greenwold. (meta: It’s Captain Catapult’s ship)Session 11<h3>Gameplay</h3>The adventurers had landed on a ship when they fell out of a portal. Captain Catapult interrogated them about where they came from and what they wanted to do. The team is able to convince him that they are from another world and need help getting back. Captain Catapult knows a powerful priest who has happened to have given him a letter to summon his friends (meta: the characters from the <a href="https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/series/dungeon-in-a-box-recap/" target="_blank">Dungeon in a Box campaign</a>). The captain says she doesn’t know what they look like, only their reputation so he gives them the letter and sails them to the town of Bloom.They arrive to find the town in lock down. No one is allowed in or out, but with the letter from the priestess, Leeza, they are able to get into the town. From there they make their way to Leeza’s manor. The door is forced open and no one comes when they knock. They enter with trepidation.When they reach the study, they are attacked by 4 infernal zombies. They fight the zombies and investigate. They realize that 2 of the zombies were recently deceased and have a brooch from the order that Leeza belongs to. More investigations in the manor lead them to footprints and knowledge that a journal is missing.The town guard arrives because of the sounds of fighting. Things look suspicious, so they take the team to see the mayor. Ariana is able to convince the mayor they are there to help Leeza and are investigating. The mayor needs their help and allows them to go free, but maintains that they are not to leave the town until the murders are solved.They go to the graveyard and find sigils on tombstones and graves that were dug from within - the zombies were resurrected and dug their way out.From there they go to temple and convince the priest (a bullywug) to give them any information that might help. He tells them about a failed exorcism 30 years ago that led to the man’s death. Leeze was a neophyte at the time that she performed the exorcism and beats herself up for messing up and, therefore, being the cause of the death. The bullywug also confirms that the symbol they found at the grave site is the symbol of the fiend that was being exorcised.The group decides to visit the archives. On the way there they see a suspicious character and chase them. It turns out to be a banshee that they fight.They go to the archivist and Jackal is worried maybe the archivist isn’t who he says he is so he has Appaluna cast detect magic - there is no magic transforming the archivist. The archivist finds and hands them a newspaper article about the exorcism. They learn that the man who died had a child.They visit the orphanage where the child was raised and Appaluna concludes that he is trying to get revenge for his father’s death and might also be possessed by the same demon.They go back to the graveyard and investigate headstones and find a masonic crypt (the deceased father was a mason). Ariana investigates and finds out the door has recently been opened and that there was blood that has been cleaned off the crypt.Jackal decides to break down the crypt door. This attracts some zombies and spectors so they fight those while Jackal continues to try and break the door. They find the child inside (now grown) and Leeza about to be sacrificed. In a series of lucky moves they kill him in one round. The ghosts of father and son are reunited and the fiend’s ritual is not completed.The group asks Leeza to make a portal so they can get back to where they need to go. She spends a few days studying them to figure out where to send them to. She opens a portal and they end up just outside a city in the Labyrinth.(onto the next post to finish off the story)</blockquote>

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