# Session S31 ← `=this.prev` | **`=this.campaign`** | `=this.next` → > [!overview] > | **Session** | `=this.session` | > | --- | --- | > | **Session date** | `=this.date-session` | > | **Campaign date** | `=this.campaign-date` | > | **PCs** | `=this.pc` | > | **Active NPCs** | `=this.npc_active` | > | **Discussed NPCs** | `=this.npc_discussed` | > | **Active locations** | `=this.location-active` | > | **Discussed locations** | `=this.location-discussed` | > [!summary]- > To write. > %% > tldr:: To write. > %% %% ### Starting notes: - %% ## Notes - [[Ferias]] sends [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]], [[Cole Silversteel]] and [[Treya Oakhallow]] on up ahead, and then he comes back to journey with us to the mountain. - Astrid had another dream about the [[Daurgothoth]] "creeping doom" but it turns out he's actually nice? - A dracolich (undead dragon), very old and powerful, favoured by [[Mystra]] - Ferias looks somewhat horrified at the casual mention of Mystra - Astrid entered their dreamscape, uninvited - Daurgothoth could tell she was with [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Bahamut|Bahamut]] - The Cult had approached him; he said he was opposed to the [[Cult of the Dragon]] - Daurgothoth said he would contact Astrid again via a familiar - No ordinary person could walk into someone's mind. - Kassandra asks Ferias if people are able to enter dreams at will - There is a plane for dreams, but not typical magic on the Sword Coast - "[[Plane of Dreams]]" - Any intelligent creature in the Prime Material Plane dream (other than elves) - Some creatures have inate abilities, or the Dream or Sleep spell push people towards the Plane of Dreams, or Planeshift spell (not recommended) - Expects non-humanoid creatures may be more likely to go there… - Find information from Clerics for Gods related to Sleep - Ferias is wary of a creature like Daurgothoth - There's a reason he's considered a chosen of Mystra - As we walk, Ferias goes between extreme bouts of sullen silence to being very talkative (giving a lot of facts) - We get to the base of the mountain at the end of the first day, we have our choice of climbing the mountain in the dark, or camping at the base - Ferias gets to work creating a tiny tent - It's dry and warm within. - Ryk sets a small hunters trap outside - Night watch 1. Gomash - DM private chat 2. Ryk 3. Kassandra - Kept feeling like she was walking up in a prison cell, but not like ones she's been in before. Laying on a cot, bricked cell with bars. 4. Astrid - The spot they are looking for is not very high up. We make our way to the edge of a cave and look in. - We need to get across the water. Fantoccio carries Huxley, Hyra flies herself, and Ferias casts fly on Kassandra, Astrid, and Gomash - Kassandra seems almost childlike and happy while she flies - The ruined temple is very old - Kassandra finds a symbol of Bahamut at the top as she flies. - It's a little different than the one she's used to, but very obviously still Bahamut - The stone is in good condition, but the grown around it is black… no overgrown moss or anything. - The blackness comes off on our boots. It's soot and ash, as though the temple was burned. - Astrid is looking for a large rock with writing on it… that starts with "J" - The rock covers something in the ground, and has almost melted in some parts - We lift as a group. - It was covering a stairway - We head down the stairs - It's a tall mausoleum of some kind… It's massive, like you could fit 4 adult dragons - There's some gold pieces on the floor, a long sword, and a ring… - Perhaps where a dragon's hoard used to be kept? - In the middle of the room, there is a raised platform but whatever was there is now gone, as are the sconces - Compared to the tranquility from above, down here is more cold and forboding - Ryk picks up a coin to try and figure out how old it is… it's pretty old… a couple hundred years old… - Astrid walks towards the items but does not touch it. - Sword: Looks like made for royalty; hilt is purple leather with an amythest inlaid. The blade is a deep red. - Ring: Completely clear, made entirely out of chiselled diamond - Ferias picks up the ring in a cloth, and puts it in a side bag, putting it in a second bag, before putting it away - Kassandra flies up to look over the podium to see to the other side. - There's a smashed tablet and a cloak. - She comes back and tells the others, and then flies back over to investigate - Tablet: Looks like it was purposefully smashed, but now is hard to make out. It's written in draconic. This was a tomb of some kind, but most is out. "…hamut in the arms of…" - The platform, it looks like six things that were human sized was chiseled out - Gomash picks up the cloak. - Cloak is a deep forest green, almost shimmers upon touch. There's ornate gold filigree of people and animals, and as it moves, it feels like the images on the cape move. It smells like autumn leaves. - Kassandra casts detect magic and gracefully flies around the room - The cloak, ring, and sword are magical - Ferias and his cloak are magical - Ryk: A faint magic on their earring, a glow close to their chest, and the sword, and something in their bag - Astrid's journal is magic, as is her shield and sword and message tube - We return to the surface before the fly spell ends. - Ferias spends time identifying the items via ritual cast while we all poke around. - Kassandra is in Nancy Drew explore mode since she's in a burned temple of Bahamut. - She tries to get a feel of the temple, given how different it is with her own temple and experience growing up. - While the outside design is different, the feeling/atmopshere is very similar. Very calm, and tranquil. - This definitely feels in tune with a temple, but the connection to a deity feels weaker. - Ryk looks around and finds about 100 GP of ingredients for potions - Astrid wants to walk the path from her dream and find the broken pendant. - She finds the place she was paralyzed, and finds a spot where someone had dropped, walked away and then disappeared… humanoid foot prints. - Gomash can tell this place is not made by humanoids. It seems to be like one piece. A ring of mushrooms also surrounds this place… very fae. - Kassandra can tell the mushrooms are magical… - Gomash calls everyone over. Loot found, but not yet identified - [[Cloak of the May King]] - [[Spring of Purity]] (the ring) - [[Marching Order]] (the sword)