10/2025

Sun is steady beating down on all of us. Hot air and smoke. People tending to wounded are starting to have heat exhaustion. Starting into heat stroke territory. Bunkers built into a canyon. City behind us is on fire. Next morning. Ildain is the destination. Where Vesperi grew up, that she remembers. Near Church region; protectorate. 7500 people. main export is a rare red marble granite. Only found in this area. Really pretty, and expensive. Guards are gathering people to get ready. They come up to ask if we need anything. Lumbo asks if there is anything we can do for them. Check make sure nothing from south and west. Krokhok finds people that can make water and turns it into ice. Nyx and Lumbo confer about the Sun not leaving her alone. Vesperi casts Darkness on Nyx and she puts on Lumbo's hat and duster and Nyx casts disguise self on herself. Scouting party back. Be 4 hours before next stop. Krokhok casts Divination: What dangers might we find on our travels? Not paying attention to clues that have been given to us; be open minded. Train is moving out in 15 minutes. Lumbo teaches Nyx how to move like a Bugbear. The heat from the South is getting hotter. The earth shakes and buckles. We see the mountain avalanching on itself with lava. Train takes off. Will gain speed quickly. Will cover a few hundred miles in 4 hours. Sun seems to be heading Northeast. We are heading West. Someone mentions Kadavaan. Krokhok and Vesperi both recognize that name. "Brace for full acceleration". As we relax, we have the moment again where we feel something isn't right. Krokhok can see the past about the avalache. Spreads it to us. See the cauldron and fm bloody bruised broken. with anvir. see large fire giant walk up and pick up fm in one hand. fm looks at him and says you betrayed us all Kael. giant pulls him in they were an abomination they betrayed the terms of the truce. people all pushed one by one into the cauldron to die. Anvar starts signing a song. The train starts signing it. "Stoke the bellows forge the ore." Anvir touches forge and screams in pain and stands up as a forge golum. the fm says the price will be paid igo machina. Our weapson flare and become bright hot. The runes Igo - I am (draconic runes) FM rips his own heart and throws it into the cauldron. A shape begins to emerge. A figure appears in a hole in space. Looks at them and says We is the criminal. Anvir has no idea. Marut. By your own rules you have broken the rules of the covenant. Kael says She's in th eChurch. It's where she's always been. FM dunks himself into the lava. The oxygen in the room disapears. Small dwarf shape missing in anvil. Anvir, the living forge. As long as i live, my people live. Fire Giant straps Anvir to the forge and starts beating him. As we're leaving Krokhok notices that Esh wasn't there. "Will she remember. Do you want her to? When she is older". Esh disapears is a cloud of spores.

Krokhok looks around after that scene and knows he's doing the right thing. Looks at all the refugees we're trying to protect. Someone has sparked up on the train. Vesperi recognizes the Marut as a big bad Demon that the Church would immediately want to know about. Marut is the Ringer of the Omega Toll. lUmbo asks if we need to reasses our alliances at some point. This world is seen as an abomination and without Yardantayl's protection, other beings might destroy it. Whirring and clicking noise from inside the train cabin. Lumbo investigates the noises. He notices the train itself is creating handrails, etc.  Last toll = the world ends. Krokhok casts sending to Yardantal "Marut seen in destroyed Cauldron". Vesperi hears a wood elf whisper to a dwarf "Comraich". She understands Comraich language. Similar to Undercommon; the common language of that continent. Train speed has stablized.

Lumbo goes to talke to Baedora U. "Yur trying to use it as a hammer. Try to use soggy end first" Use hammer end to counterweight the dagger end. Krokhok casts Legen Lore about Kadavaan. WE hear they don't want to go up to Kadavaan. He wild magic surges and casts Fireball. Vesperi takes most of the brunt of the fireball. 15 damage. Lumbo took the other side. Ferris redirected part of the blast out the window with the crystal. Vesperi's outfit is damaged and everyone can see her scars and birthmark. It's the CK from Comraich. An older wood elf touches the birthmark. V feels the wounds healing and burns subsideing a bit. Feel it coming up from earth circuit completed and back into the ground. Your with family child of Comraich. All the elder elves come by, they are talking about Krokhok and Vesperi. Krokhok shrinks in on himself. He goes into a corner to think about what he did. Krokhok shares that Kadavaan is cursed as shit. The entire Mountain range is curse. Dwarfed goes there can never smith again. Can't craft or make things. Can't relearn. Just can.t Trying to fit cube into the round hole. It's fucking cursed. Noboday like going there. Vesperi could never find out about Kadavaan. It has always been a high priority target for the Church. Can never get You will not investigate this. Had to take an oath that Vesperi would never investigate this. The wood elves say rumors are you can find your ancestors there. Sacred ground to Comraich. We don't go there becuase we don't want to meet our ancestors. Don't want them disappointed. Want to let them rest. Legend Lore tells us there are no settlements in this area. Vast wilderness. Rumors of things walking around can be seen from a far. Cryptids. Wendigo/Bigfoot/Sasquatch type of rumors. Strange roaming packs or individual cryptids.

Lunch time. Pass around rations. Have ice and water - inside air conditiong in the car. The brakes squeal to a halt. Very rapid decelirating. Giant rocks have smashed into two train cars up ahead. Lumbo falls out the window. They might be giants. Could be throwing rocks. Krokhok thinks they are Hill or Mountain Giants. About 180 feet away. They have the high ground. At least 90 feet up and in cover when not actively throwing. Lumbo hears them talk in Undercommon. "Kill them all. You have your orders." Lumbo tells us he thinks we might be food. Vesperi Shadow Steps 60 fett closer and casts Silence in the area that we hear the Undercommon (Faerun) coming from. The giants drop the rocks. "Throw?" Vesperi yells "Go" om Comraich. Krokhok casts Enemies Abound. The fire dwarves start curring the cart apart. Sounds like a Giant hit another giant with a rock. Nyx moves 60 feet up and casts Cloud Kill. The giants start gagging and coughing. They start gighting. "Breathe fire." We lose 5 cars. At least 100 dead bodies of ours. The track gets cleared. Lumbo is on top of the last car watching our six. Next stop is small town on edge of river. Should be there in the next hour or so. Krokhok grabs a couple of dead bodies, specifically children. 3 kids. Nyx and Vesperi make it back on the train. RaeLynn is okay. Lumbo walks in on krokhok and Swamp Aeiss and asks "What i going on". Krokhok says "Fuck off. I'm not making them zombies. I'm giving them their lives back." Lumbo gives him two diamonds. Ferris gives him another. Krokhok casts raise dead on them. In a car. Full of refugees. Krokhok feels the spell connect. The healing power of Greeba. The sould reach out to him. Something reach out and pull it back. A soul screaming in horror as it's yanked back into a red and black statue in a sea of them staring out. 

Seems more arcane than natural.

A brisk walk to Etienne's home. We go to his office. HHe has a bong with black like ooze. foul smelly smoke. Black smoke. Deaht comes for us all. Blue blood shot eyes. We tell him that Laelle tried to kill us. And knew what a necrohydra was. He throws the bong away. Seemed heavily processed. There's a secret society out to kill you. "So there organized now. Fantastic" And there's a group of like undead in it. Seemed easily infiltratied. "Fuck. No they're involved." SO that's the first thing. DT tries to trade the new spellbook to Etienne for his spellbook. The party gets upset. DT offers to give a letter. One that is used twice. DT says the book is Tarquin and he needs to give it back to him. E is used twice is DT's name. Etinenne pulls out DT's spellbook. It issub duesd looking. brown paper bag on outside. a little black book. DT is embarased by the look of his spellbook. Te second ting is the magically produced rain. "Not important right now." Laelle tried to kill us. Seemed like I'm going to get rid of Etinenne. "My hair looks great." He stops mid sentence. He says i'm runing out of time nMade ow. Laelle not as big of a threat. Hildegard is a rpoblem. Don't look for. POuff of magic and melts into a pile of snow. He left is magic draw open. Abel and DT dive for it. They both look at the cop. There is no second in command. For the time being, he's just gone. The tower seems quieter. Lots of background noise, ambient noise, is not there. A little buzzing of magics are now gone. Eerily quiet. In his chair looks like he was s nowman sitting here and melting for like 3 days. This was a simulacrin sper the spell. Made a copy of the caster but only has a limited amount of power. This was only a copy. IT occurs to use E is more powerful than we have really. thought. Dark grey smooth steel round stone. like  a skipping stone. now sharp edges. featureless. fits in palm of hand. DT casts identify. Abel looks a black tar like liquid. It seeps up your arm and touches a spider. both it and the spider explode. retract hand immediately. no touch.

Tana is looking at the bong stuff. Looks like molases stain. Not Elvish or Dwarvish or Common. Not Goblin. DT finds out that it was conjuration summoning a creature to nearest square, no charges, is it attached to a creatur or not, not specific spell. Stone that summons something to nearest square that can fit it. DT tells all ofus. Rowan does his telepathic things into the stone. HE detects an elf, one we knew from before. Aledore. The person we were escorting. Taught us some lessons. She's on th eother side of the stone. She's in this city. Note a pokeball. An immediate summons. Disgraced noble trying to get back into higher society. Abel doesn't recocgnize the language. It looks like weird symbols math. Algrabra, advanced calculus. Dense, proof like math. Abel tries to find Rowan's evil syntient sword. DT tries to find the key to Etienne's lab. He finds in 3rd layer of drawers. Little allen key. DT would like to bring Adeline over and show it to her and say we will need to go there at some point and use it but he's not a theif. She holds on to it. Abel grabs the rock and gives it to the wasps whom then start playing with it.

Abel's body is the world of SilkSong. There's a knock at the door. Abel brushes the snow under the desk. We open the door and see Laelle. She is suprised. "I don't know if Etienne is in." DT slams the door in her face. Mist comes under the door and reforms back into Laelle. "Tnat was impolite." DT and Abel are like, okay town up north. Yep. Tana and Cindora stop at their friends being held hostage. A specific book the Etienne has. NOt DT spellbook or Tarquin book. Abel has those weird language books. Laelle want s into Etienne's library. Which one? The lab library. The secret one. "Seems he didn't trust you as much as I though he would." Rowan sneaks and casts invisible on himself and gets behind Laelle. "Well this isn't going anywhere." Cindora thinks she's fast friends with Laelle. "I very much would like you to very much activate the stone that was in desk." Cindora throws a dagger that Laelle catches. DT says he has to use the bathroom and steps out. Abel says you either escape, you die or we die. DT comes back inside. "What did I miss?" He casts something into the sky. Now there are holes int he sky. High noon.

Rowan says we can make her disappear. Abel feels warmer. A little warmer. You feel small screams of terror and smoke from inside himself. DT throws something at her feat. Abel casts create water on himself and opens his hatches. He floods system. The books start to smoke. Rowan snatches the stone and cassts Misty Step. Laelle falls through the portal at her feet. We decide to go to Etienne's lab. No place is safer. Abel calls roll call and calls his horde back. One entrance to the lab is behind a bookshelf in this room. A door portal leads out and ina chute down. There's a hole in the sky around a message. The message is Etienne as been murdered by Laelle. Send helpt to the tower. Sunny behind the clouds. Lights up the sky everywhere. Giant clockwork sybol. Gold and red together. The symbol of Treehome is in the middle. Town to the north after safe place.

We go down the chute. Tana sends a message to Gina about her and Squantch coming to the tower. We no longer hear the rain. We can't hear anything else. A hallway. Doors at intervals. All look similar at a distance. Either end of hallway branches off into a T. There is something spacely strange with this area of the tower. Abel asks the wasps to scout ahead. Wasps and spiders go forward in all four directions. All come back and climb inside. Door has symbol in weird math language. On the end of the symbol there is an end. Smal symbol engraved into it. Looks like weird Sigma legs just extend and go vertically very long. Symbol on door not the same as key. Abel walks down the hallway and thinks about what door we need and turns the corner and can't see anyone anymore. And he thinks lab door. We need to match the symbol on the key to a symbol on the door. Walk around corner and leads to elbow that leads to T at junction of T there is a door with a slightly different symbol. Just wider at the bottom. This is a door related to the lab. He opens it and there is a hallway directly parrallel and directly opposite is a door that leads to the door. He calls out. No one hears him. Tana book "No one answering and why is the sky doing that." Tana responds OMW. We hear a noise from down the hall in the same direction as Abel. A whooshing noise. gust of wind.

Abel casts gust of wind back down the hall through the door he came through. Tries to project "I'm down here guys". As Tana goes through the Tower it is a ghost town. No workers. Occasional snow melted spot. Nothing. Get to door and find Gina and Squantch are there. "What's happening." Someone is making death threats and this is a safe space. Gina asks who it is. Tana deceives Gina saying she doesn't know there name. "Fine." Squantch asks and why am I here? Tana says Cindora's here. Abel sits down with his hand on the door.

Tana takes them to the office and notices the drug fog has returned. Tana opens a window and it starts raining inside. The smoke starts leaking out. Tana leads them down the chute. It smells like perservative fluid. The smoke starts trickling down from the office. We use rope to link together and go toward Abel. And then follow the spider. DT picks up the spider and helps speed it up. Much longer than Abel. Longer than the one Gerald took. Winds left, right, Ts crosses, five way intersections, up stairs, down stairs, escheresche. Through intersections you can see the smoke leak in from other ways. About ankle height right now. Over course of 10-15 minutes at hallway with hand on door knob. We have arrived at door with correct sigil. Adeline has the key. Doesn't seem to be a keyhole. No interface for key. She asks Abel if he knows anuything about locking/unlocking Etinenne's doors. Abel has not see inside the room but has been to the door before. He saw Etinenne walk up, open the door, and walks in. Abel asks Adeline for the key. Abel holds the key and the door opens and tries to close on him. DT scrambles over Abel to see what is in Etienne's lab. To the left is large clean laboratory. Chamber riddled with stainless steel tables and various equipment of all kind. Several removable rolling kind of walls. Corkboards on them. Schematics galore. String on some. Some just papers pinned up. To the right is an open arch passageway that reveals rows, columns of books that reach up far beyond what we can see. Directly inf ront of us across the space int he wal is a single solitary door that is featureless and not even a handle. We go in the room.

Only a wisp of smoke makes it trhough the doorway. Rest is otherside of the doorway. Abel starts looking at schematics. The olest ones seems very familiar. Another automaton as some sort. Similiar enough to Abel. Planetary Exploration Vames Automonus Nodes. Finds schematics for arms legs. Abel has put together that Beryl is his creator. He takes PEVAN schematic off the board and revertenly rolls up and puts it away on himself. Tana plans on speaking about Laelle to Gine. Rowan will rest and change his spells. Cindora will tell Squatnch what is going on. DT will look through the library. He will look through his spells. Adeline will investigate the lab and equipment. No one is looking at the blank door. 

Ildain. Church protectorate poulation 15000 granite marble red church adorned in it. main export. Church is having a religious schism. Vesperi's "hometown". In a valley. Train is going 5 to 10 mph as its getting ready to get up to speed. Triage for those injured. Lost 5 cars. Lumbo volunteers as a couch for kids. Red bearded dwarves are checking maintenance of the vehicle. The wood elves are spending their time healing, providing comfort. Krokhock is casting Raise Dead. Vesperi helps the wood elves. She helps a person who dislocated their leg. Works some with Baedora. Young female wood elf starring intently at Vesperi. "What's up?" She looks away and busies herself. Conductor comes on saying that we're about to give it gas. It lurches forward and some take damage and exhaustion. People are grumbling and groaning. Sun is not directly over us anymore. Lumbo uses his cold aura to try to cool it off in our car. The further we go from were we were, our scales start getting heavier. Like picking up a two pound weight. Vesperi loses her gun. One of the kids on Lumbo has it. Lumbo picks them up and grabs it and gets shocked by it. Lumbo hears a voice that he hasnt heard before, perhaps the hammer, "hey, what are you doing. the sum's right there and your never going to have change. got to make your own change. life's not predetermined." Unfamiliar with this voice and feeling. not forgemaster. Train picks up. Swamp Aeiss helps balance the car out. The Fungus Among Us. Train speeds up. The mountain range is starting to fade into backgreound. The scales feel heavier. Vesperi is sitting in chair with gun in lap. Tries to stand up but is unable. Lumbo hears the voice again and has a conversation. "Be who you are." "I wouldn't have chosen you if I thought you were just a passenger." "Who said anyone was going to fight the sun?" "I personally enjoyed it's warmth." Lumbo tells Nyx that there's a voice in his head telling him we should go see the sun. They discuss the disguise, etc. Lumbo takes his stuff back from Nyx. The sun moves back and it's getting hot. Almost at the river. Lumbo jumps off the train through the back door. Nyx then says she can teleport us off. "Okay we're slowing down folks." Krokhock finishes the spell. Seems like Gentle Repose effect. Body will not decompose. All physical damage has been repaired. No signs of life; very peaceful. Roots around train grow up around the kids, dries up, flakes off - clean skin. Seems to be divinely protected by Greeba herself.

Things start slowing down. The train is lurching. We hear the screeching. The sun is coming. Lumbo starts running toward the train. The train seems to be going toward a wooded area outside the town. Town seems average sized. River is about a mile wide. Small port. Collection of houses and a dock. Dwarves are getting out and flipping down panels. Krokhock grabs the dead kids and gets off the train along with Swamp Aeiss. SA takes all the kids. SA pushes the kids into himself. Vesperi sees this and it seems like "demon shit". Vesperi thinks it might be too hot. Krokhock seems a little "demon-y".

Lumbo has cold immunity and fire resistance.

Kalstan is the town we are coming up on. Krokhock waves to the sun. The sun dims slightly, like a blink. Krokhock has  a conversation with the sun. The train has stopped. We get off the train. The people are dispersening. The sun is directly over our train car. It is slowly heading back the direction we came from. There is a nice inn in the town. Only thing nice in the town. Mayor lives there. Kalstan's Inn - Mayor owns it. Lumbo faces plants. We go to the Inn to rest. RaeLynn grows up in Ildain. RaeLynn doesn't remember the Cauldron in the 15 th level campaign. We leave her with the Genasi. We take RaeLynn to the wood elf conclave. "She was traveling around with a goblin and the goblin has passed." Raelynn asks what a goblin is and where she is right now. Please take care of her or finds someone to take care of her. "I'm Baedora. What's your name?" "I'm RaeLynn. Where are we going?" RaeLynn protects the paper that came from Esh. Baedora makes a booklet to keep RaeLynn's paper in it safe.

We see a very well off dwarf intermingling with the refugees. Very well polished and pristine. A gift shop. Rooms are 5 gold each. Krokhock gets a room. There are apparently infinite rooms here. This guys feels like an Etinenne type. Replication magic. Sparse room. Krokhock goes to sleep. This seems to be a resort with a dock attached to it. Elven and Dwarven families playing on the beach. Obliviousy to the giant smoke ring to the west. Lumbo goes up stairs sense Krokhock paid a platinum so he doesn't pay. Lumbo goes into the same room as Krokhock. Only one bed. Ferris pays for Lumbo and he teleports to a different room. Ferris pays for Nyx and Vesperi as well. And herself. Habash opens a cart and it's just money. He pays for everyone. Swamp Aeiss uses the other platinum to pay for his own room.

The dwarf calls out to Vesperi "Holy Lady". "Are you here to bless teh town?" He has Skyfire Church trinkets and trinkets from most of the major cities. Vesperi says she decided she was going to take a break. "That's a thing?" "I decided it was."

There's a lu all going on the beach. A bunch of rich assholes are cheering themselves on being rich assholes. There's a bunch of food. The refugees keep starring at it. (it's all inclusive at this resort) Lumbo grabs some food. "I guess they'll just let anyone in here these days". Lumbo summons an earth elemental under their table to just knock their table over. A pasta dish flips over on the lady. The guy gets up to walk away. The elemental trips him. Lumbo stays there for a few hours. Then realizes he can just use room service so the workers can go home. There are artists drawing him and writing about him. Then Lumbo leaves. We get a long rest.

Swamp Aeiss and Ferris loses a point of exhaustion. The next morning Lumbo returns for breakfast. Ferris eats breakfast on the beach. The sun is close but is steady moving back towards the Kadavan mountains. Disposable bags of holding for the food last up to a week. The bag and everything inside of it disentigrates. Krokhock goes to the gift shop. Like a Disney shop. The town is now pristine. Was dirtier when we got there. Krokhock seems to think the mannequins are security. Kahlstan comes up and says hi, ready for the parade? "We love it here" All the people turn and say "We. Love. It. Here." The people seem to have bags under their eyes. Seems like they culd use a break. Magic is on these people effecting them. Enchantment magic on them. Illusion magic at play. Might be compelling them to keep working and push through the pain. Vesperi is charmed to go get waffles. Krokhock Dominates Person on Vesperi and telepathicly tell her to stay here.

still yourself remember who you are remember where your from we're here for you.

"But you just got here and we want you here."

Labratory: Central chamber. Cozy library. Small labratory. Small door, unobtrusive, almost ordianry wooden door no label. Gina and Squantch are here. Abel perusing blueprints. Tana talking to Gina. Rowan and DT made their way to library. Adeline investigating the lab. Cindora has a letter for Squantch. Gina asks Tana what is going on. Tana tells her about Laelle trying to get us to drown ourselves and threatening Gina and Squantch's lives. Gina defends Laelle. "Sometimes you have to break a couple of eggs." DT and Rowan in the library. Rowan is looking to change his spells and rest. DT has been here before. Part of deal that cost him his spellbook in the first place. Looking for one book. the Faerun book and make sure it's not part of the black books, the dead realms. (Rei's book black book on podium with infinity symbol). DT is not looking to touch the book; wants to make sure it's "alive". Found on a long table with tons of book piled up in rows. An arch of books is there. That is where Faerun book. It's open and being actively researched. (If open, the book is actively writing.) There is a wet spot on the chair (we assume E clone). DT takes a deep breath, relaxes and walks away. Rowan changes out his spells. Adeline finds three stations in the lab. Two puddles found in this room. One station there is a semi transparent glass box. Frosted glass. Large suitcase size. Resting on countertop. Inside looks like a terracotta pot and plant. Leafy plant. Other station has another box that is opaque. Much shorter than the other box. Long low pizza box shaped. Rectangular. Next to it on floor is large wooden chaest with what appears to be weapons sticking out of it. Has slots to stick hand in. Fume hood. Chemical mixed about and strange, bloody bones in the side of fume hood. Pulling fumes off smoking potions. Bones oozing blood. Like removing bones from a carcus. No skull or jawbone. Adeline pokes some of the bones. They roll around. Don't seem hollow. She finds a bonesaw. She saws a bone open and sees what seems to be living bone marrow. A bloody skeleton that is missing a head. Blood is going into a small drain from fume hood. Abel is going through the blueprints. Anatomy sketches of female elf. Like plato sketch of body. A mirroring sketch of similar elf but male. It is the same person. Delrik. Detailed notes about magical transistion. flesh to stone stone shape greater restoration unpetrification. none of the organs too disturbed. remove parts, add on parts. Co-Authors are Etieene and Hildegard Von Velbrach. Abel takes vime and pevan blueprints.

Abel finds bag of holding and takes it. Library has a small fireplace. Cindora and Squantch sit by fireplace and chat. Treasure chest and very long box in lab. Tana opens the chest and finds a musket with small bones on it (not bloody) and a rodent head attached to the end of barrel. Hand axe looks like it's ripped from a tree. Some sort of robs at the bottom of the chest. The longest handle seems to be a glaive, delicate dwarven runes along the blade. The other two handles appear to be spear and javelin. Spear seems ordinary long handle but near spear head are some wings detailed like bird wings. Javelin has a curved with teeth head. Two other weapons. Bracelet ring that looks like a mobius strip. A rapier that a guard loke a doornob. handle in shape of doornob. A set of pruning shears. nicked and dented. Looks like they could cut clean. Tana takes the robes out. She inspects theother box. Wooden box reinforced with metal of some kind. Cool design. why would he paint the metal. Two holes in side of box with holes with some kind of magical effect like a soap bubble. Lab has metal table. a few books laying around. Notes are sparse about bones. The plant is from group of adventures (Fist of Benevelence). Etienne was smoking this plant. Subject N is Rowan's old sword. E has been feeding other weapons to it. "Weapon to surpase the Omega Toll." Weapons not sucessfully eaten have been put in that chest. Penchant long swords and greatswords. DT wanders in. DT doesn't know what the Omega Toll is. (The tolling hadn't been heard yet.) Abel knows the Omega Toll is a bad thing and needs to tell Beryl if he finds anythign about it. E has been working on blends for: incapatictation (sleeping gas). Passifying tools. N is a sword. Notes imply it has a prefence of tast. NOt mindless hunger. Perks up at certain points that conicide with when the party is nearby E's castle. Abel takes screenshot and send to Beryl. It's Rowan's old sword. The sword starts moving when Rowan come into the lab. Rowan feels dread (not magically in duced). Rowan feels he's in a bad spot; not safe here. NO frost appearing on the box. Graatuin is lining the box, like E's desk. Magical barrier is some kind of bubble abjuration spell.

DT starts identifying the items in the ches. Pruning shears is the first item he identifies. Rowan casts detect thoughts on the sword. (hunger, master is here, MASTER IS HERE) The sword slams into the box. (weld me again master) Feels like it's screaming into the void. Rowan attempts to delve deeper to find origins. Feels ancient, forged billion million billion years ago. cosmic sword that goes on for eternity. carving out destiny. (my master is my slave) ideals are mystic and obtuse seems like eldar power or created by one. defies mortal lines of thought (origins due). bringing up the beast of hades (figurative). it needs a master; that is it's weakness. needs luck. must feed. hungry. only as strong as allows. must bend the master's mind. must make the master my slave. must be weak so the master will continue to use us. it attempts to deceive whoever welds it so that it can try to seduce them and making them a meat puppet.

Abel is in the library. He finds the black shelf of worlds long dead. Find book on Dark Sun (Beryl from there). Find book on Ebberon.  Athas. Finds spell books (books on research). Problem with books themselves (the pages are black - dead world; pages don't exist).  Finds a closed off restricted section.

DT finds that the shears are a weapon. When you hit a creature with them, the next hit on the creature of 19-20 is a crit (resets on long rest). Deals extra 1d6 force damage on hit. Dried blood on them.

Tana realizes that Gina is wearing gloves.

Rowan puts the box down. Box is groaning and slamming, moving towards him. "You are nothing to me you little black terror. I'm done using you at least. I'm going to keep you with me for now until I can find a way to make sure every last drop of magic is gone from your metallic veins."-R (Fuck you) "empty words from a souless object" (feed me) New quest: destroy this sword. Goes over to Friend.

Abel finds Faerun book but not Infinity book. Worlds Cal/Etienne came from. World Yardantyl came from. Goes toward Restricted Section. Small chain at waist height between two shelves. Thinks it's warded. Sends normal spider through. Spider curls up and dies. Didn't see anything happen to spider. Nothing audible happened. No additonal visual effect. Casts dispel magic; doesn't feel anything dissipate. Tries again. Fails. Tries again - feels something tough and slowly dissipate into ether. Abel steps over the chain. Inside is a nook surrounded by bookshelves. There is a pedalstool with a closed book with the infinity symbol on it. Note on book that says "Do not tounch". Just resting on top of it. Abel casts Conjure Animals to get 4 apes. Opens bag of holding "Put it in quickly and carefully". Ape picks up book and throws it. Misses and hits Abel with it.  Abel leans down and picks up the book. Abel thinks it's the real book and chunks it in the bag. Looks over on the shelf and sees a similar one. Takes it out and puts it back on the shelf.

Cindora hears the noise and makes her way with Squantch toward the Restricted Section.

Tana talks more with Gina. "I like your gloves" (thanks) "Where did you get them" (i made them) (leather) (poisonous plants spiders are horrible)

Rowan goes up to Friend. in frosted glass box. He lifts the box. (oh hello) " i would liek to apologize" (who are you again, i don't feel too good) "oh shit" leaves are droppy and wilted "i didn't know E was that kind of person" (water please) Rowan finds a faucet. (thank you that feels so nice) Rowan casts Identify on Friend. Gentle Repose on it. 

Mayor "Why would you want to leave" townfolks "stay" The outside gets dark. Lumbo becomes illuminated by an unseen spotlight. He can't see anything but a platform with a rope that goes out into nothingness. "Next up everyone, Lumbo for the highwire act." The party only sees Lumbo standing there. Lumbo carefully steps up and tests the ground/platform. He tries to look around to see what he can see. He can only see infront of himself. everything else is black. he can hear. sounds like everyone is os far away. Feels he would not survive this thing falling off. like instant death. Drumroll starts. Lumbo brandishes his weapon. Tries to use it as a counterweight to traverse the tripwire. Light behind himmoves up and he can't see anuything past the light. Low roar. The party hears nothing. He hears a soft cry. one he hasn't heard in a long time.

Vesperi. Can see clearly. suddenly there is a kiosk in front of her. Come on up take a shot, pick your prize. Figures, and dolls as prize. Generic, dwarves, elves, puppies, etc. trange reptillian figure in the back. (hit every shot, win a prize. lime green faded) eels like that is what she is here for. there is a little crossbow on the counter to use to shot. 3 shots per price. Vesperi backs up. Can still see the kiosk; is in a void. Starts to panic in the void. Feels she will get lost. Steps back toward Kiosk again.

Krokhock and Swamp Aeiss. Suddenly he is standing hot dog eating contest platform. Just him. Sees tons of plates (infinite row). Something on his plate with note that says "Eat Me". Looks like soup. All the plates have soup on them. The soup starts to go down on the other plates. Krokhock starts drinking the soup. He takes 3 points of damage and his stomach turns. Worst thing he's ever tasted. He's eating the stew from the Mushroom Festival without the extra Granny flavor. Will take a few turns to finish it. Other plates stop going down. Allegations of cheating from the crowd.

Ferris. As she goes to step forward she bumps into something. Steps back and it coalescense into a mirror. She's in a maze made of crystal. Realizes the options are tot he left or behind her. She turns around and goes behind. Then goes left. She starts to panic a little. Feels like she's in that crystal again. The air tastes different. She's breathing in smoke. She takes 4 points of smoke inhilation damage.

Nyx. Everything went black. Now there is a little frog lady sitting at t table plyaing with some cards. Nyx sits down. "what do you want to know; what do the divine secrets want you to know". Feels like Granny but it's not. Nyx pulls a card. The rest of the cards vanish. Lady asks if this is good or bad. never done this before. Nyx says maybe a bit of both. The Doomed Dreamer. Takes no damage. A feeling of absolute dread washes over her. Just doesn't stop. Suffers 1 point of exhaustion.

Lumbo. Hears soft whimpering. Sounds like his son. Lumbo dives toward the voice. Lumbo panics at this sound. HE rushes out into the void and he tumbles off into the void.

Vesperi. "Times running out". other people are winning. She pulls her gun and shoots the tiny crossbow. The girl gets this look of pure rage. "you can't cheat". She's getting angrier and angrier. The void is closing in on her. (we can't play when you break it) as the sphere gets smaller she hears teh shounds of the crowd gets louder.

Krokhock. As he keeps eating he sees a scoreboard. everyone is at zero. one person changes to one and there is cheering. that person isn't cheating but Krokhock is. No one would bet on him. He stops chewing the soup and just chugs the everyloving crap out of the soup. He tries to case Zone of Truth on himself. He can't speak for one minute. if he tries, bubbles come out. He finishes the bowl. Another bowl appears. He immediately starts on it.

Ferris. The feeling of being trapped is familiar. She retraces her steps. The air cools a little and she catches her breath. She goes left. She rechecks for any spots she might have missed. Finds a latch, pushes it. Turns into a mirror. Smiles at her and slides away. Another hallway.

Nyx. "Oh, bad luck. you want to do next one or me" you can. "with this magic we need intention. what do you want" How to come forward, next steps. "we need more case members" didn't apply "no one does" Nyx picks another card. Celestial Radiance. Frog looks at Nyx, looks at cards. blinks. "that was for me right" argues with Nyx. Starts feeling an itch that is driving her nuts. Takes off tunic and large angelic wings unfurl behind her. They start gold, dark, reddish, then turns silver, more pale, then beautiful platinum wings.  Puts cards away "I'm about to get fired". Made out of pure moonlight. looks solid. The tired feeling starts to ease up. INspired to keep moving. Starts hearing gasps and feeling things get closer. goes to black and comes back. sees everyone paralyzed going throuhg our own personal hell. Gains 30 ft fly speed for 10 minutes equal to proficiency bonus. It must be dark out to use it.

Hellish swarms (3 of 20 each) from a Beauty and the Beast type start coming for us.

Lumbo. Feels like he's falling for minutes. Battlefireld. muddy. trenches. wwii trenches. that type of dread. I'm falling i don't know where the bottom is. Wind blowing fur straight back as he's falling. Cutting through the wind he hears "let me go". Lumbo has a small tear from his eye and he lets go of the memory of his son. He thinks of the children of Lichen Morrells. Love for the people that he has (can't continue on destructive paths). He closes eyes and lets go "if this is where it ends, okay." starts hearing people again. Opens eyes, sees Nyx (who looks different now) and see what Nyx is seeing.

Vesperi. She shoots the green reptilian stuffy. Something behind it. She sees a clockwork symbol on a piece of paper that cam e out of the stuffy. "you haven't won that yet" Come and take it. "Time for my break anyway." the facade starts to drop.  fits a few of the people. Paper has Church of Skyfire seal on it.

Krokhock. new stuff on scoreboard. first to 3 wins. slowly ticks start changing. he's quickly loosing interest. (why am i doing this again). He goes to walk off the stage. I did this and I've done it before. I'm bored. Can't see past edge of stage. Takes out lighter and steps into the void. Tired of all the people back there. "Looks like someone tapping out early" Button comes up (Quit?) He just starts walking. The void keeps going but can see the stage. Come back and starts knocking the other bowls over. Finally sees a figure about 30 bowls down. 

Ferris. Could be 50 ft clear. Only looked different in the one that slid away. She uses her bag of tricks and gets a giant boar. Starts sniffing ground and moves forward. She follows. door slides away. She sees the party. Krokhock and Swamp Aiess are still catatonic. Bueller is mad about the giant boar now.

Nyx. Casts Destructive Wave. Fails the save. Radiant damage too. The mayor crumples and dies.

Lumbo. Seeing the problems are dealt with he will check to see if anyone needs medical attention. about 10 that need help. Saves one person this round. The person asks Lumbo to autograph the drawing of his feet byt that weird artist. "Sure, sure" He hears carnival music. It's coming from where the mayor's body is. The body unfurls and Rakdos, Lord of Chaos appears. he says "stay awhile"

Vesperi. Opens the sealed letter

Krokhock. "This is baby shit ain't no one can think of anything new." Sees giagantic figure eating this soup and having the time of it's life. SA. "Are you going to finish that" (You know we got to leave right) "only one, you or me." (your choice. someone has to win. Greeba needs you) SA hands the bowl to him. Krokhock sighs and downs the soup. "One more"

Ferris. Ot's all Demons and Crystals with this place. Readies an action for anything to come up on her. Darkness stops at the Demon but daylight behind him. Bubble of dark.

Nyx. Doesn't appear to be moving toward us. Just starring at something flapping his wings. Lookins at something he thinks is an anathama. not interested in challenging it yet. Demons hate Divine Power and Nature Power. Looks backed into a corner.

Lumbo. Feels like if he moves closer, it's go time. Demon doesn't seem to be able to go backwards. Lumbo tries to talk to the Demon in undercommon. "I never wanted to be here. i just wanted a nice place where pople could relax and exploit some people to make a few bucks" (problem with exploiting cheap labor but rest is agreeable) Has this trepidation look with all of us.

Vesperi. She gathers that divine power will kick the shit out of this Demon. Feels that magical weapson, silver, graatuin will wreck him. The scales we have are a big fucking problem. Puts letter away. Pulls gun and says "Clearly we're in a standoff. Listen to my firned, please"

Krokhock. SA tells him "Believe" it's Greeba speaking to him through SA. Takes some damage. CAn still drain the soup. SA catches the last bit and smiles and dissipates. He starts to yell and bubbles come out. Ater a few seconds it glows and reforms into SA. SA gives him thumbs up.

Ferris. Waiting.

Nyx. Prepare for issues.

Lumbo. "I have noticed you have all these people under your control and I believe you have genuine intentions, perhaps we could come to an agreement of no mind control and pay to keeping this place open." (Demon - Fair pay, sounds difficult) "Less work for you" (Perhaps I can find a hiring firm. Perhaps there are people that need jobs right now) "Certainly" (If I may, I require a new body) Starts magically fixing things.

Ferris says lets go.

As light moves away, Nyx's wing moves away.

The letter is Infernal from the Church. Every symbol means something on symbolic, spiritual, etc. level. Promis of eternal suffering.

Some people have in panic spirals.

Krokhock starts casting Legend Lore on the letter.

Mayor come back with a bunch of the same people and everyone seems oblivious. WE hear  a familiar "Click". Our train is ready to leave. Gives us free passes for a next time. He seems to enjoy watching people live enjoying their vices. Krokhock tell him that he could just up the taxes and get your money back. He says LM will always have a place here. "We're building a shrine"