Heatmonth the 12th, 10:25 AM. We shared what we knew about the cosmology of the outerplanes, the inner planes, and the elemental planes. After making sure everyone had a good idea, we talked about where to go next. We did remember that in the past(future), Hiawatha had contacted Glooscap the Skinwalker in this chamber so we walked around trying to see if the shapeshifter was here as well and now. The answer was no.
Shim drew a picture for now and we headed back to the shaft heading back to the 1st floor. Being invisible helped as we walked past the stirges, and at the shaft, Shim and Connal went up, hoping to see if Coyote had come. It was 25 after 12 when they got to the top, using the 2nd Block and Tackle we had set up here. Keeping no light for now, they made their way to the shelf cave and climbed up there. Infravision showed the offerings were gone and the place looked like the shells had been moved around.
Eventually they took out the eternal torch and saw the place was covered…with dog crap. Everywhere. And Connal had inadvertently touched it and had it all over boots and cloak. No smell, but sticky dog crap. Coyote. They climbed down and thought they saw something running north at the end of infravision range. While they were talking about what it might be (Coyote?) there was some high pitched yapping and barking and then the roar of the irate and awakened cave bear.
Fucking hell. And the barking and bear were getting real close real fast.
They ran to the wall, took the block and tackle off, stepped off together and Shim activate Feather fall, the 2 friends escaping the coming bear and returning to the 2nd level with the group. We went back down the stirge slope, across the bridge, and the water falling room. It was here that Shim cast prestidigitation and the coyote shit was sent scattering in all directions, smelling but we were clean.
Talking for a bit, we wanted to get more arms from the cave fisher below. So we went back to the bridge and lowered 2 of the friends down. They were chopping and sawing at the legs, getting them off in pairs. But Eoghan thought he heard some drumming to the east, and came back and told us. We were getting the friends out of the pit when arrows flew out, hitting Captain Asher and the poison on it, knocked the captain out. Damn it! Darius tried to get close enough, shield blocking, and Wilhelm stepped up to slow poison on Asher when he too was struck and he too fell over knocked out. Drumming noise got louder and we dragged our friends to the south and through the cave entrance there.
We dragged our friends to the south and eventually the Cree Negashi. The made up a poultice for Wilhelm but had no interest in talking to any of us. We dragged them past here and to the corner room where we made a fire and rested, hoping to talk to wolf. Eventually Shim was lucky and the vicious spirit showed to him. He tried to get an answer but the wolf was not willing to answer some questions. When he showed the Desmondian Diamond, it tried to take it from him, violently biting his hand but the diamond did not move.
Got it to understand that we were hoping to get them all home and learned little more. But the wolf wanted silver and was willing to watch over us for now. The figures that attacked us? Followers of the black lord. They would be out for a day. We waited and eventually rested, noting our food stores were getting lower. Darius was talking about us maybe leaving and walking back to the Windshade if things didn’t change soon.
We slept, waking up on the 13th. We hung around until Asher and Wilhelm were able to move again. They had some fogginess in them, affecting their constitution and charisma. We fired off a pair of Lesser Restorations and then opted to rest again. We awoke the next day and healed, Heatmonth the 14th, shooting off another pair of Lesser Restorations, getting both of them pretty close to normal again. Shim shot off invisibility spells on the rest of us and it was time to decide where to go next.
We figured we’d go to the Mushroom chambers and the crystal Chambers there. The site through the crystal pool showed a different place. What if…what if it was maybe some of the elemental planes? Worth looking into. Heatmonth the 14th, 9 AM.
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