Heatmonth 14th 9:00 AM, 289 of the 29th age. We left some silver for the wolf spirit before making the decision to head back to the Crystal caves and look in the pools there. We traveled beyond the area of the Negeshi and then made our way east to the dug out slope area. We hit a few of us with a Delay Poison on the off chance any of the poison using figures showed back up. Eoghan was able to identify at least 3 different prints, barefoot, smaller than man, dwarf sized. It tracked with what we had thought.
On the other size we walked through the crystal chamber to the pool and looked. Showed some night sky. After 12 to 15 minutes, the sky changed to another night sky, this one with 3 moons. It changed again and again every interval, always looking straight up at some sky. At some point the decision was to place a few silver at the edge, and when we looked back, the silver had gone, and the border of the pool spread out. Weird, but ok, made sense – sort of.
We went to the other chamber and looked that one over. Pool there was on the south side of the chamber, up against the wall. Eventually at this one we saw an earth elemental looking down at us. It pantomimed waving and then held up a piece of silver, holding it near the surface. Darius did the same with a silver piece. They got closer and closer and then touched the 2 at the same point. Suddenly they could hear each other. Elemental’s name was “Four” and had been watching the pool for a few decades plus.
There is a prince somewhere. He doesn’t know where they are or how to get back and forth. We eventually let the communication die and talked about what to do. Nate tossed something on the surface of the pool and it sort of shuddered. Then 30 seconds later a blast shot out, blasting every bit of magic active as well as spell possibility in every character. All anti magiced. Fuck. Also, the Creeper had been regrown from the blast according to Nate’s Trident.
We left to leave the area and on the way back, noticed the Cree area had been knocked down and destroyed. Cree were gone. Goblin voices, lots of them, and mining sounds could be heard south of here. 15, 20 of them? Where were the Negashi. We were no longer invisible and had no magic so the thought was to hide for now. We opened the hut and positioned it near the wall, hoping to keep its door hidden.
We rang the Chime and then waited. Goblins, 15 or so, came by about 3ish, and then another group came back, some poting bags of silver ore. Another 2 to 3 hours the same thing happened again. Ok, more goblins in the area, and more fighting types showing up. We were going to have to move and soon.
We left some silver here and some prayers to the wolf spirit who showed up. The goblins were expanding their area. Queen Helen Back assumed we were part of the Native American issue she’s been having and it is now reaching up to this area. A goblin territory marking totem had been established here and they were clearing out fallen stones and gathering resources. Negeshi had escaped and were hiding by the water babies (singular). There are 3 heroes that wolf knows about – Stoneribs, Ghostbear, and Geronimo. They are hiding now due to the perma-death problem of Queen Helen Back’s sword. Possible way down? Make friends with the water baby and maybe it can ferry us one at a time to the aqueduct area in the Goblin City.
We left it some silver and would continue to do so each day for Wolf to provide trout and fish for the party’s animals.
After the 6:30 patrol went by, we left the area and made our way north. There was a purple fire burning in a brazier here – Hellfire. Getting too close would sap our magic. We went back to the Negeshi area, set up the hut and chime again and hid out as of 8:05 PM, resting until Heatmonth the 15th, 6 AM.
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