Seliph lets Sarah attempt to attune to the Sun Sword
Seliph hands Bloo an envelope to be opened when you can
Nim gets a magical bug bite
We talk to Gabriel, another aasimar
Then we are attacked by the previous owner of Ring of Unyielding Empathy, which Sarah returns, but they claim Sarah tainted the ring and attacks the ship with lightning, capsizing it
Nim’s sapphire protects us all
Only the captain survives otherwise, Seliph was sent to another island
There’s an obelisk on this island that the sapphire helps us enter, may have entered a temple of the elemental goddess of water
04.21.0347 Late afternoon | The Ship
Boarded ship in late afternoon
Ship of alistair wellspring
Sarah, after drinking at the bar, goes back to her room, and hears a knock
It’s seliph, who wants to talk about attuning to the blade
I prayed to Claurus, about passing on the sword, but he had a bit of apprehension, but he wants to test your, in his words, worthiness
I don’t think you have much to worry about it, should he approve, I’ll begin de-attuning to it, but if he doesn’t, welp
You’ll need to go thru his trial
Sarah agrees to try tonight
Seliph asks sarah to prioritize her own life over slaying the beast
Bloo is standing on the deck, seliph walks up
Bloo: no strawgurt :(
Seliph: pulls out a strawgurt jar, bought a couple, ate a couple
Seliph hands me an envelope, it clings, sounds like metal, open it when you can
Bloo: all the locations need more strawberry yogurt
Seliph: lol I can do that
Seliph: next time we see astrid she wanted to show you that dynamo is being preserved, she didn’t want to give it to anyone else
Patron starts calling everyone to dinner
Tall slender woodelf, chatting up the other patrons, a couple humans
A deep gnome, who’s twiddling his thumbs waiting to be served, looks a little nervous
Next to him see someone wearing elegantly crafted plate armor, the helmet has quite the striking design, made out of unique alloy, inside under the helmet, his eyes are a deep gray, it’s an aasimar, looks brooding, zoning out
Seliph is at head of table next to Captain Alistair, starts bringing out a large bone-in slab of meat
The deep gnome springs up, and runs over
Nim walks up to the deep gnome, who gets his meat, which is a human sized portion, for a small gnome
The deep gnome looks very wired, “I’m just heading home”
Nim: “where’s home”
Deep gnome looks at sarah, and now deep gnome looks more tense
Right behind Yul is the aasimar, who towers over her, who is on the high end of height
Yul bonks into the plate
Aasimar: oh sorry
Yul: you’re very tall
Aasimar: thank you
Yul: Sarah you’re short!!!!!!!
Sarah: Whaaattt?
Yul: Yipppeeee
Aasimar hears a rumor about a tiefling flaunting dismembered body parts and being stitched up
Aasimar: stay away from my food
Sarah: are you threatening me?
Seliph: you know he’s one of the squads that’s coming to take out the monster with us right
Aasimar: I’m gabriel, from thalum mercenary guild, sent by, well an envoy of the emperor
Gabriel: I heard about lapis and lazuli being beaten up by a paladin
Sarah: ehe lol
Gabriel: cassandra is a tough woman, and people yearn for that recognition, I find people get better when they stop giving a shit
Yul
Gabriel: that might be the evil I detected
Nim: what about bloo???
Walk to the deck
Deep gnome, wood elf tried to talk to it, deep gnome isn’t as scared, likely just scared of aasimars
Deep gnome walk to the bar, grabs a massive mug of ale, slowly sips the mug
Yul attempts to climb the mast, but is quickly stopped by patron, who looks over judgingly
Yul pulls out the rock, the rock has no judgement, because Patron is correct
Nim keeps studying
Yul follows and T-poses over Nim
Gabriel walks over to Sarah
“There’s more than just a visit home for you”
Sarah: “how do u know where I’m from”
Gabriel: “just a guess, don’t usually see aasimars”
Gabriel warns sarah against acting in revenge or acting too rashly
Hear footsteps outside Nim’s door, enter a door, but the only nearby door is Yul’s
Nim goes with Yul to make sure no one steals her corpse chunks
They run over, see Yul’s door is open
Nim sticks her head in
“Is the tiefling back”
Nim: “You shouldn’t walk randomly into people’s rooms”
Gabriel sits on the floor
Gabriel: have you figured out how this head works?
Yul: no
Gabriel: a bit of advice, tosses a can to Nim, bug spray is free, you might want to check your neck
Nim feels something crawling on his neck
Gabriel: I suggest you should be more observant, I thought academics should be more observant
Nim: only what we’re researching
Gabriel: I won’t interrupt your time staring at the corpse, if this is your way of training yourself, it’s a fool’s errand, in one word, describe this head
Yul: brain cell provider
Gabriel pats you on the shoulder as he walks out, “you best wise up, the enemy is stronger than you can imagine” and walks away
Something is whizzing around Nim, and when she swats at it it disappears
Nim goes to look for Sarah
Nim knocks on Sarah’s door, “I’ve got a magic bug on my neck”
Sarah: “that’s not really my specialty”
Sarah sees nothing
Nim investigates the bug spray, it’s normal bug spray
Nim notices a spot on her neck feels weird
There is a purple dot on Nim’s neck
Suddenly, Sarah smells and senses something, smells something sinister, there’s a sudden unnatural storm
Hear captain yell “we’re in a storm! Shite, everyone down into your decks, I’ll handle this”
Hear lightning, hear the captain say, “aww shite who are you”
Hear rain, the ship is rocking back and forth, hear a cackle
Random: “This ship has something of mine!!”
Nim sprays the bug bite with the bug spray and runs upstairs
Yul follows
See captain and seliph, “who here has my ring, that is mine”
Suddenly, she points “you, unholy paladin, give me back my ring” see, floating well above in the air, see a hunched wide framed figure, it has very long slender fingers that droop down, bony finger, pointing at Sarah, in her right hand is a slender rod, “give me back my ring”
Sarah: “What ring”
“I sense that someone here wore my ring without permission”
Sarah, gives the ring back
She snaps her finger and points her rod at it, it slips onto her bony left ring finger, “What did you do to my ring?? You tainted it, it was filled with my love”
She calls Sarah unholy, “you and your unholy gods, you shall be punished” she snaps with her left finger, lightning strikes the hull of the ship
She is shooting lightning out of her rod
“What did you do to my ring??”
Sarah: “All I did was wear it”
Thing: “if you jump off the ship, you can atone for it”
Sarah: “If I do will you leave everyone alone?”
She’s prepping to shoot a lightning bolt at the ship regardless
Nim shoots her
She points her staff straight at the ship, it starts to crackle lightning
250 feet away
Yul flips her off
Sarah flies up towards her
The lightning shoots straight down and pierces the ship
It charges up once more, something in Nim’s bag begins to glow blue
Hear a whisper in your bag “heed my call, gather your allies within a sword’s reach, brace for impact, I will protect you”
Nim: yells at everyone to come towards her, Sarah flies back
As the shadowy figure shoots another lightning bolt, the ship starts to capascize, a water ball forms around you, and starts to harden, “What!? It can’t be!” see her shoot another lightning bolt and it just streams around your protective sphere, and then she vanishes, and then all 3 of you feel a large shake
We all wake up on a deserted island, feel cold, water begins dripping down onto you, waking you up
You 3 are still in the water ball which pops
Your feet fall into the sand, it’s warm, see a tortle corpse sitting right next to you, and a jar of bloo in the palm tree
See a tall black pillar in the middle of the island
Yul feels different, the rock of judgement is in front of her, you remember, the joys of eating sand, as she sits in sand
Yul looks at the rock of judgement in the eye and starts eating sand
The rock floats up and puts itself in Yul’s pocket
Nim still has a glow in your pocket
A puddle of water that has shapeshifted into the sapphire you lodged in the previous ruins, it’s still glowing, it flows out amorphously into a stream and reshapes itself into a sapphire
It floats towards the black pillar
Nim pokes it, it feels like water
Bloo goes back to the tortle corpse
The sapphire says, “follow”
See the wreckage of the ship, see no bodies in the water
Make it to the pillar, the sapphire unstrands into water, begins to glow with blue accents, hear the sound of stone receding into the ground, it opened!
The sapphire: “Enter!” the voice is feminine
Go the ship, the wreckage looks bleak, a silver dragonborn is unconscious or dead, Patron :(
She’s not breathing
Hear someone coughing, it’s the captain
Do not see the seliph
Manage to yank the captain out, his legs are broken
Nim gives captain minor healing potion
Captain: “This is the worst incident, first time I’ve ever capsized”
Look through the wreckage, see some salty and bloody dismembered limbs
Still do not see Seliph
See, in the water, see something shiny
See gabriel’s helmet in the water
Sarah gets a weird sensation with the helmet, it feels sinister
Can’t identify what specifically, feels an evil imprint
Less of the helmet being crafted in an evil way
See a bottle with a piece of paper, sealed the cork
Nim feeds Yul the cork, then reads the message
“….it was unnatural. The way it contorted. Screamed. He saved me from the beast, but at what cost. He subdued it, enough time for me to get out. I wish I could thank him, but I don’t know if he made it. It’s still out there.”
No other living creatures on this island
Sarah puts Yul in her backpack
The captain sits up
Bloo casts Sending to Seliph
Seliph responds, “I might be somewhere else, glad to know you’re alive, I’m also on an island, idk how far away”
See nothing but water on the horizon
Nim: tells the captain to rest and then see if you can salvage anything
We all enter the obelisk, it closes, and then it’s lit up, and starts to glow blue, it begins to descend
We exit the elevator, notice an encapsulated bubble, it’s flowing back and forth, the walls are permeable, you can walk through them, but it takes you to salt water, on the ground, Nim recognizes the outer symbol, part of a sigil representing Azathoth, the inner represents water
Hear a voice, “Please, explore below and help me”
See fishies swimming around
Please, stand on the sigil, see for yourself
Nim and Bloo stand on the sigil, the floor begins to swirl, you all start sinking into the floor and start spinning into the spiral
We all get whirlpooled elsewhere, see a glowing spiral on the floor slowly fade away
The walls beside are stone, but in front it’s gelatinous, it’s water
You press on the water, and you can go inside
The spiral has faded
Sapphire: “enter the bubble”
The bubble is moving, we are stuck in place
The bubble carries us across, and then it’s floating in a giant room, and then the bubble pops
Start falling into this water pit
We all somewhat gracefully fall in
See light coming in from the right side
There is a hallway, see a frostladen floor, with a door
There’s a pit on the other side, about 20 feet wide
Misty step past the pit, see 2 buttons
Bloo presses the one on the right, nothing happens
Press one on left, the pit fills with water, hear water rushing to the left, Sarah is now submerged in water in the big room we landed in
Bloo tries to use rope to yank Sarah to the dry side but fails
Sarah tries to get out too, but can’t
Yul presses the left button again, does nothing
Yul presses the right button, see the pit draining
The hallway is frosty because there is something very cold on the other side of the wall
Sarah exits the big pit
Bloo swims to the bottom of the small pit, see an opaque blue, the pit took me 2 whole minutes to swim to the bottom of the water
Bloo swims to the top of the beeg pit, everyone follows
There’s another hallway at the top
Nim recognizes the symbol, elemental goddess of water