Session 11: The Crimson Temple
Evening, 22th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party plus Remy continued their conversation about what to do next.
- Remy, Ekhart, and Revana talked about how they cast magic.
- Remy showed her magic focus, which was a small iron statue of the Goddess, Talena.
- Ekhart tried casting magic using the focus and it absorbed his spell when he channelled it through the statue.
- Revana tried to use the focus, but was unable to.
- Revana also explained that she gets her ability to wildshape from the moon, Lunos.
- Remy, Revana, and Sanglant went out to enjoy the festival. Ekhart stayed in Brother Isbeth's house.
- Remy found a carriage driver that was leaving
- They all ate and drank and enjoyed people celebrating.
- Eventually, at the finale of the festival, the effigy of the Demon King was burned in the statue of Talena's hands.
- They returned to Brother Isbeth's house where Ekhart had built a book fort.
Morning, 23th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party left south to travel to the Crimson Temple.
Morning, 24th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- After travelling through the Wayswen Bluffs for a day, the party left the caravan and continued southeast.
Afternoon, 24th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party arrived at the border of the Void.
- Revana tried to commune with Terra and realized that she was unresponsive.
- She also noticed that the world was dead around the void in the physical world.
- Ekhart entered the void in the physical world and his glamour faded.
- He quickly set it back up, but now has to maintain concentration on it.
- Sanglant tried to send his spirit into the Faerealm, but something pulled his body along with it.
- Inside, Sang came face to face with the Void which was a giant sphere of the faerealm which was missing.
- A strong gale was blowing into the void, sucking everything into the void.
- He poked his staff in, and it felt like it was grabbed and being pulled on by something.
- After that, several hand prints began pressing and clawing at the void as if there was many somethings inside.
- He then (FOR SOME REASON) decided to try and grab one of the hands, which turned out to be a bad idea.
- A hand grabbed at him and began trying to pull him into the void.
- Sanglant then returned to the physical world.
- The party continued walking towards the Crimson Temple.
Evening, 24th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party arrived outside the Crimson Temple.
- Revana turned into a squirrel and sneaked around the balcony of the temple.
- She couldn't find a way into the temple, but she did find a skylight looking into the main church hall.
- Inside, she could only see a single person, playing the organ.
- The party then entered the Temple, which reeked of blood and iron and flowers.
- They tried the door to the main hall, but it was locked, so they travelled to a side room.
- Inside there was a several dead dogs, a deranged priest, and one of the dogs that had turned into a Hell Hound.
- They began to fight.
- As they fought, the priest kept muttering.
- “Summoning him was merely a formality.”
- “The beast was already here.”