Part 10: The Obsidian Prison
Session 47: Back to Voltana
Evening 15th Low Summer, 498 CE
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- Much merriment and libation was had by all.
- Ekhart dropped his disguise for the evening and had fun with the monks and dwarves.
- Ekhart and Cid also talked about how his Sealing Spell works.
- The spell comes in two parts; one to be cast outside the area of the void, and one in the centre.
- The ritual would take about a minute in total.
- Sometime during the party, Laef returned from her scouting mission to the Loridael Forest.
- She explained that outside the Loridael, a human camp had been set up.
- She also explained that some of the elves had been teaching the humans to summon demon monsters, though she was unsure of how or why.
- The party decided to take a hard earned, long rest.
Morning 16th Low Summer, 498 CE
- In the morning, everyone discussed their next moves.
- Cid and Laef offered to either try and capture a demon from the Loridael, or return and reunite with Delrune.
- Ekhart said they would probably be better served reuniting with Delrune.
- Cid and Laef left for Mae Relian via the Summoing Circle of Tol'Enay
- With Cid's Sealing Spell in hand, the party decided to head back to Big Uun using Cid's Faestride ability.
- When they arrived, however, Big Uun was in the Fae version of Ambermoor.
- Big Uun mentioned that he was drawn here because of the conflict that was happening in the city.
- Apparently, people had been dying by the dozens in the city.
- With a little investigating, Sanglant was able to locate the demon that had been killing the residence of Ambermoor.
- After a little preparation, the Party was able to decimate the demon.
- With her animal sense, Revana smelled the priests responsible for summoning the demon, and tracked them to a home.
- Inside the home, the priests had captured a few of the residents and had been turning them into demons.
- They quickly killed the priests without hesitation.
Session 48: Invasion of the Crimson Temple: Part I
Morning 16th Low Summer, 498 CE
- Ekhart, Revana, Sanglant, and Remy left to head to Ambermoor Keep.
- After getting inside, they reconnected with Dame Ira Royn.
- They explained that the demons were being caused by Ortellian priests, and they dealt with them.
- Dame Ira said that they have been on lockdown because of the demons, that kept respawning.
- Also birds requesting help from Mae Relian were being killed by soliders outside the gates of the city.
- They also learned that Amelia Adir had a magical sickness on her.
- Gwendalyn Adir is the current Countess of the Amberlands.
- The party went to the castle to meet Gwendalyn, who greeted Sanglant with a hug.
- Revana cast “Greater Restoration” on Amelia, who retook control of the Amberlands.
- Countess Amelia ordered the lockdown be ended, and for the Ortellian soliders be captured.
- The Countess also said that she had been planning a counter-offensive against the siege on Naveria.
- The party then left for the Crimson Temple.
Evening 16th Low Summer, 498 CE
- Arriving outside the Void, Sanglant brought the party into the Faerealm.
- Using Cidmuir's spell, Ekhart cast the first half of the healing spell.
- Traveling back to the Physical World, the party found that the Temple had a few camps of Priests guarding it.
- Sneaking around the gully, the party managed to take out one camp sneakily.
Session 49: Invasion of the Crimson Temple: Part II
Evening 16th Low Summer, 498 CE
- Ekhart, Revana, Sanglant, and Remy continued their assault of the Crimson Temple.
- Sneaking around the back of the temple, they managed to neutralize the enemies on the balcony.
- While sneaking near the Gravedigger's hut, they heard one half of a conversation inside.
- Afterwards, they killed the other priests in the second camp.
- On the corpse of the priests, they found several Obsidian Crystals, similar to what they found in the Loridael.
- After a bit of planning, the party decided to raid the main chapel hall from the balcony.
- During the fight, multiple priests used their Obsidian Crystals to summon demons to enhabit the other priests to help them fight.
- Eventually, the party was victorious, Remy having banished one of the demons.
- Realizing the other demon summoned was still on the physical plane, the party used their elemental boons to banish it back to the darkness.
- The party also decided to neutralize the priest that was communicating with someone in the Gravedigger's hut.
- With no more enemies around, Ekhart set to casting the second half of Cidmuir's spell to fix the Void in the Faerealm.
- After a dazzling display of pure magic flowing through the air around them, the ritual was completed and the party was sucked into another plane.
- There, they met the voice of Terra, who thanked them for healing her.
- Revana asked Terra a few questions, which led Terra to explain that she was a Titan.
- Her kind travels the universe, which they call the Lonely Expanse, searching for planets to make habitable.
- During her journey, she met another titan named Solos.
- The two of them traveled together, making amazing planets with their powers combined.
- One of the planets they made was so amazing, it became a baby titan, Lunos.
- Both Terra and Solos recognized that this new Titan would be the strongest Titan ever created.
- Solos, seeing how much greater he could become with the power of the newly formed Titan, tried to take it's Heart.
- Lunos stopped Solos by killing both itself and Solos in the process.
- Terra, in her grief, took the Heart of Lunos and began to hibernate, pouring all excess Life into Lunos.
- One day, Lunos's Heart would be revived and they would be reunited.
- The party returned to the physical plane, now knowing that the planet they were on was the body of a sleeping Titan.
Morning 17th Low Summer, 498 CE
- After resting in the Crimson Temple, the party set off for Naveria, where they would try to find the prison of Lenna and the final Elemental.
Session 50: Praeya Del'na
Morning 18th Low Summer, 498 CE
- Ekhart, Sanglant, Revana, and Remy set out from the Crimson Temple, traveling toward Naveria.
- They traveled with Sang's Windwalk ability.
- On the way there, the party saw a large war camp to the north of the city.
- They appeared to be constructing large siege weapons in anticipation of a siege of Naveria.
Evening 18th Low Summer, 498 CE
- The party flew into the city, passed the large stone walls that seal the valley city of Naveria off.
- Finding a secluded alley way, they entered Delrune's Tiny Traveling Laboratory, and rested.
- Inside the Lab, Ekhart explained that he has a spell that can get them into the plane that Layna and the Fire Elemental are, but he needs some additional information to finish his spell.
- He'll need the written form of the true name of each of the elements.
- They remembered Delrune using some sort of spell to project Sanglant's soul onto the ceiling a while ago.
- Knowing that the true names of the elements were on their souls, the only element they didn't know was Fire.
Morning 19th Low Summer, 498 CE
- The next morning, the party left the Lab and entered the Faerealm.
- Inside they discovered that the Fae version of Naveria is a giant city named Praeya Del'na.
- The city was full of humanoid looking spirits, similar to the spirits they met on the The Meraverus.
- They traveled to a tavern, the Wayfarer's Rest.
- Behind the bar was Boan, the Earth Gnasi they met on the Meraverus.
- She explained she had traveled here after returning to the Faerealm.
- The people of Praeya Del'na are decendants of humans and spirits and gnasi.
- She gave the party a few lumens (the local currency) and said that they could make some in the Comic Bazaar, where they could sell human paraphernalia for lots of money.
- The party traveled to the Comic Bazaar, where they sold a few of their personal items for some Lumens.
- With their new money, Sanglant got his soul read by a fortune telling.
- There they got the symbols for Water, Shadow and Life, as they were all written on Sang's soul.
- Afterwards, the party traveled to the Aria Temple, where a temple dedicated to Lenna was built.
- The party met Sellalar of Roads, the curator of the temple.
- She said that Lenna the Human was beloved by the spirits from long ago, so they built this temple dedicated to her for saving the world.
- Sellalar also explained that there was a painting of the true name of element of Fire in the Muse Galleria.
- The party traveled to the Muse Galleria, to find the fire element.
- There, they met Strago Oon Elda, an artist who had traveled the Faerealm for years gathering information about Fire.
- He had completed his works, where he donated it to the Muse.
Session 51: The Battle Historia: Part I
Afternoon 19th Low Summer, 498 CE
- The party learned that the painting of the Fire Rune, by Strago Oon Elda, was donated to the Muse.
- The rune was going to be the prize for the next battle at the Colossus, the massive stone arena in the middle of Praeya Del'na.
- Heading over to the colossus, the party found someone who knew about the battle.
- They learned that the next battle was an important one, called the Battle Historia.
- It was an arena battle commemorating some important historical battle from the past.
- They learned that the battle being commemorated was the Relian Rebellion.
- They also learned that, among several combatants, Boan was going to be competeting.
- Deciding to see if they could join Boan's team, they headed back to the Wayfarer's Rest, to talk to her.
- She said that she enjoyed fighting but hasn't been able to make a career out of it.
- The party asked if they could join her team, to which she agreed.
- With some time before the battle, the party spent some time in town.
- Ekhart spent some time in the Stacks, watching plays and learning some info that he turned into useful magic research.
- Sanglant also watched some plays in the Stacks, and gained a greater appreciation for physical performances.
- Revana spent some time around the Colossus to see if she should figure out more about their competition.
- Revana learned about their competitors. There were:
- The Blehx Boys, representing Water
- Ashzer the Ash Drake, representing Fire
- Lord Larimar the Wraith Knight, representing Life
- Yen Elth of the Midsummer's Storm, representing Wind
- Fier and Ren, AKA the Mimmering Maw, representing, Shadow
- The Soul Monger, representing Light
- and Boan, on the Earth team.
- As the battle was beginning, the party met with Boan at the Colossus.
- Following an attendant of the stadium, they were led into a small waiting room and explained the rules.
- The battle they were participating in was the Relian Rebelion, where 7 kingdoms of different Elements battle against each other while the humans of Relia fought back against them.
- Each round, a particular elemental team would need to be “on top,” in the order of the Hymn of Terra, starting with fire.
- Boan explained that the Hymn of Terra was an old nursery rhyme for children;
- Fire creates Light
- Light beacons Shadow
- Shadow cools Water
- Water becomes Life
- Life binds Earth
- Earth summons Wind
- Wind feeds Fire
- The battle began.
Session 52: The Battle Historia: Part II
Afternoon 19th Low Summer, 498 CE
- The party managed to win the battle!
Session 53: The Prisoner
Evening 19th Low Summer, 498 CE
- Ekhart, Sanglant, Revana, Remy, and Boan had become the champions of the Battle Historia.
- The Head of the Collosus, Janus Allar, entered the arena.
- He congratulated the party, where they were presented with their prize; the Fire Rune painting by Strago Oon Elda.
- When asked what they would do with it, the party agreed to donate it to the Muse for everyone of Praeya Del'na to enjoy.
- They revealed the painting to the crowd, and Ekhart finally had the last rune, and can finish his spell.
- The party said their goodbye's and entered their Traveling Laboratory.
- Equipped with the last soul they needed, they just now needed the other runes inscribed on Ekhart and Revana's souls.
- Working through the night, Ekhart was able to develop the Read Soul spell to figure them out.
Morning 20th Low Summer, 498 CE
- Now eqipped with all the souls, the party is now able to travel to Lenna's prison.
- Ekhart casts the spells, and the party are transported to the Obsidian Prison.
- Remy confirmed they were in the right place, saying that the source of her magic was close by.
- After a long walk through a pitch black hallway made of obsidian glass, the party finally found Syndra, the Fire Elemental.
- Syndra had been transformed into a very human looking genasi, having merged with Lenna.
- She tells the party she has been bound in this hallway for a thousand years, merged with Lenna and the demon.
- The Obsidian Prison is a place Lenna build with three long hallways that lead to the other planes of existence.
- She hasn't seen a human for a long time, though she does remember coming through a few years ago.
- She also remembers a young boy coming to visit a while ago.
- The party asks what she wants, and she says that she is the last Fire Spirit, and if she dies fire will die forever.