Upon finishing their kalamari, the party runs through the weird purple portal, appearing in a sandy pocket dimension. After attempting to walk at through the forest in the white fog but making no progress at all, Bloo and Marcan climb a tree and hit what appears to be the ceiling of the dome that they are stuck in. Amoivada, Quill, and Skaga head back in the direction of the portal to investigate the weird shadow-y blob that they saw. Bloo successfully tosses a Cone of Stone at the dome ceiling and is able to crack it. Amoivada, Quill, and Skaga discover that the weird shadow-y blob is a samurai duck who was trapped in this pocket dimension. After some attempts by Bloo to break the dimension, the duck waddles off and stabs Bloo, almost killing them. At this point, the pocket dimension is unstable and everyone leaves through the portal. Shortly afterwards, the duck leaves.
Marcan Beakoup throw a rock at the light and just completely misses
Bloo Mage hand with Rock with Light spell extend down tunnel, the light is getting shinier and shinier, and reacting to the rock
Bloo throws the stone towards the light, it gets brighter and brighter and then it nyooms and then it’s just pink light again
Amoiváda walks closer, sees that the room opens up, sees giant elliptical purple ring, hear vvvvvvvv, nowhere in sight is the yellow stone
Other caves over there
Amoivada stretches her jelly arm into the purple light, you keep extending it, you can’t see it, but feel warm on other side, feel what feels like sand
Grabs a fistful and retracts hand, has a handful of sand + my stone
Plus a bit of white hair (lorge d20 nat 20)
It’s not hair, it’s bits of a feather, duck feather
Marcan enters the cave with the purple ring, but not through the portal, so around Amoivada
Note that there are 4 stalactites that are in view, look normal
My mage hand is out of range when it goes through the portal
Can’t see any more paths from the big round cave
Amoivada puts 2 blobs with rocks through portal, and neck
See lots of sand in one direction, feel fine
Seems to be evening, sun is setting (crack of dawn when we entered the cave) but don’t see sun anywhere
No sound goes thru portal
Marcan goes to check through the portal, and as go through, your head feels bleehhh, your eyes are adjusting (much brighter), but see just sand
Bloo sticks head through other side of portal, see sand and forest in distance, and hear rock clicking
Marcan and Bloo walk through, underestimate distance from ground
Bloo lands gracefully with wings flap
Marcan not as graceful + a combat roll
A lot harder to see in this environment
Quill sticks head through and quacks
Something moving in direction of where Marcan went through, narrow tall round blob shadow
Quill jumps through, flops on back in sand
Amoivada goes through, Skaga goes through holding on to Amoivada
Inchworming through with Skaga on Amoivada’s back
Pocket Dimension
We all feel strange, smth’s different, standing up feels weird, feels like less gravity
I got jump boost, I fall slowly
DUMMY T H I C K FOREST
Feel gust of wind
Trees are a little over 30 feet away
Moving towards it doesn’t increase distance seen, going towards the forest is just white fog in my face
Amoivada blobs elasti-girls into a bubble , it’s a blob umbrella, big pillar in the middle walking for stability, like a mushroom
Surrounding the squad
Shadow blob not following us
We continue marching forward, can’t see anything more, vision does not get extended
Feel like walking forward for ages, walk backwards 3 steps, nothing changes
Marcan drag halberd on ground to mark ground with smiley face
The ground is still sandy
We continue walking until we see the smiley face on the ground again
Bloo hugs a tree, and then acrobatics upwards with jump boost, 20 ft. up and cast light on a piece of bark
Marcan attempts to climb tree, jump up with halberd, and stab it into tree, the tree seems to be already dead, dried up tree, no tree rings but sturdy
Marcan: “Guys this tree is weird”
Bloo uses Mage Hand to give myself boost, but boost too hard and hit my head on smth rigid and crystalline, something is falling from the sky, granular, looks like glass but doesn’t act like glass, doesn’t behave like anything we know
Marcan wants to come up, I help him with Mage Hand, do the ladder thing up, not too graceful but made it
Both look up, see smth that doesn’t end, it looks like, there’s a tiny crack in the sky where I hit my head
During this time, Quill is digging and sees absolutely nothing
Bloo casts Prestidigitation to make pepper on the thing beside the crack, but color is weird, grainy psychedelic wavy pattern on pepper, it’s bending and waving
Bloo does cone of stone + rope + mage hand, cone of stone lodged in the sky, see blue ripples concave almost like a dome, seems cracked blue / black, hear weird fan/humming sound
Sky has weird cracks
See weird whooshing thing but trees beyond it, can see sand and purple portal,
Amoivada, Quill, and Skaga decide to walk back
Amoivada walks backwards
Skaga turns 180 and walks forwards
Quill walks sideways
They make it out of the trees, Bloo and Marcan can see them
Passed smiley face 4 times heading into the trees, observed it once heading out towards the portal
Amoivada, Quill, and Skaga head towards the weird shadow-y blob
See figure, no matter how close, only see silhouette but not moving, gets bigger as it gets closer
Face-to-face, looks like shadow, can’t discern its shape, shorter than a human
Quill: “Quack”
Blob: Quack
Quill sprints towards it and attempts to squish it, and in that attempt, the shadowy duck fwooshes back
Skaga gives bread, Quill offers bread, the shadows fade away, perfectly round duck waddles towards them, poke bread, stares at us
Quill attempts to pet it, but the duck waddles backward (this is Edwin)
Puts bread in cage
Duck walks backwards
Quill: “Be my friend”
Duck: turns around
Amoivada attempts to touch it, it allows her to pet it
Attempt to Beast Bond but nothing happens
Quill quacks “Why are you here?”
Duck: Quack “Do you have a reason to be here?”
Quill: “We just dropped in here”
Duck: “I recommend you go back”
Quill: “Why”
Duck: “You shouldn’t be here”
Quill: “Why”
Duck: “It’s not safe here”
Quill: “In what sense”
Duck: “Look in the sky” and gestures to cone of stone and pepper in sky, “I suggest you go thru the portal again”
Quil: “What happens if the sky breaks”
Duck: “You don’t want to be here to find out”
Duck: “This was once my home”
Quill: “What happened”
Duck looks longingly, sits cross-legged, feathers in his lap, reaches behind it and lays the katana down
Duck: “I saw you go to the forest, you couldn’t get out right? You had to come back, did you not? This pocket dimension sectioned off, and this land that was my home, has been reduced to this bubble, and it is not stable, and it appears more cracks have appeared”
Amoivada: “We should take the duck with us out of here”
Duck: “No, I still have unfinished business”
Amoivada: “What business”
Duck: “No, you see, it is beyond your comprehension, but the truth is, I just like it here, I wish to fix it”
Amoivada: “Can we help you”
Duck: “IDK if you can, but I surmise that you can find the original warlock who did this, might fix my problems”
Amoivada: “What warlock”
Duck: “Why would I know, no one can understand me except for you, I don’t even think I can understand them, how do you understand me”
Quill: I learned the language of ducks from a young age
Duck: There are more of them where you come from?
Quill: Well not really, my parents killed them
Duck: “WAS IT WARLOCK?”
Quill: “No”
Duck: “I’ve been trying to preserve this place, portals not open for much longer, portals opening and closing, only decided to show true form to ppl who come here, most ppl just see an ominous shadow and leave”
Quill: “When did you last see warlock?”
Duck: “Last time I was happy, I don’t have much in the way of passing time, as you can see you’ve been here for 2 hours by your time, the sun has not moved, we are in a pocket dimension, things might behave differently from the world you come from, in this plane, time does not pass”
Bloo pulls cone of stone out, while Marcan and Bloo holding on to the tree
Yank it out, flash of blue and white light
Massive fwoosh loud bright hum
Bloo is flashed, otherwise is fine
The crack is actually there, the dimension is bubble
Quill: “They’re pulling it out, we should go thru the portal”
Duck: Oh don’t worry about it, it’s just an illusion, this thing shrinks on its own, many have come here not knowing what to expect, trust me, I have seen this flash several times
Marcan jumps with halberd to try to scrape the corner, parabola jump to my tree, we fall, but mage hand grab us and boost out
Skaga was sent to get us, sees dangling feet of Marcan
Bloo pulls Marcan up
Quill: “Do you have a name”
Duck: “I was never given one, I feel like it is pointless, but…you can call me whatever you like”
Skaga is at the bottom of the tree, who saw the legs
Skaga: “Hey guys, have fun dying if you keep messing with the sky”
Bloo, out of spite, does it again
Toss rock through hole, sound continuing to crack, the lines are stiff and rigid, the pepper isn’t wavy but cracked now, Bloo tries to throw the rock again
Skaga turns away, takes off chainmail and hangs it, fly up through the trees and bodyslams Bloo
Bloo gets flashed, Marcan remembers and turns has his eyes closed, and Skaga bodyslams Bloo, we all fall by the smiley face
Bloo uses cone of stone with rope to try to grapple back up
Amoivada: “The sky is breaking”
Quill: “We gotta name the duck”
Duck: “Well that’s different”
Quill: “Good or bad difference?”
Duck: “Normally it flashed blue, but this time it was purple”
Quill: “What’s your opinion”
Duck going towards portal
Suddenly, Bloo feels warm sensation, but it’s also kinda cold and metal
Bloo got stabbed by the duck ouchie, can’t use silvery barbs on it :/
Duck: “Quack quack quack” looks angry and disappointed, anime sheaths it, just leaves
Sky flashes again, but it’s even darker purple, almost black
Duck just walks towards portal
Duck quacks and jumps through the portal
Quill hears “You guys should go”
Amoivada: “We should go”
Duck + Quill and Amoivada
Bloo isn’t bleeding, totally conscious
Skaga and Marcun yeet Blue through the portal
Duck: “this is such a shame, I once loved this place…”
Kenku YEETS through the portal
Duck: “Well, I guess you do care for your friend after all” and stands up, “I should get going, which plane of existence am I”
Quill: “The normal one”
Duck: “So the normal material plane”
Quill: “The one we came from”
Quill: asking for Amoivada “What other planes have you been to”
Duck: “Nothing but endless fire, oceans as far as the eyes can see, met several interesting characters of fae wild, been to underdark”
Amoivada: “How did you get there”
Duck: “Various portals came and went”
Quill: “You left”
Duck: “can’t get revenge if dead”
Quill: “I can help”
Marcan and Skaga go through the portal
Marcan throws branch, fades thru portal, portal still there, but it’s shrunk, no one can get through now, not even the duck
Duck slaps Bloo with feather, quack
“Tell the orange thing not to mess with interdimensional travel”
Duck quack hella loud, and says “listen, ever since that event that happened at Thalanrod, portals have been popping up everywhere, I would know, my land was once refuge for ppl from Thalanrod”
Amoivada: Are you not from this dimension
Duck takes its katana, “which way is the way out”
Quill: “Which way is out”
Duck: “Well, I will find a way out, I am stronger”
Quill: “do you not want to accompany me”
Duck: “I’d rather work alone, if I need your help I’ll come back to you”
Quill: “How will you come back”
Duck pats Quill on shoulder, see pristine white feather
Duck: “This will be the key, use this to contact me”