April 2020

Party travels for two days. Encounters some zombie hordes. Easiliy taken care off.

Climbing plateau. Freezing cold.

Pass through three battlefields, centuries old. Helagu related. Investigate one site. 20,000 plus dead. Three sets of footprints. Recent, within 24 hours. Human. Prints appear in random patterns. Ribs of fallen chief snapped off recently - Prince Andari of the Babrana Kingdom, good battlefield commander - for Warlock magic

1) Speaking with the dead in question.

2) Used for summoning of a patron

3) Attempt to gain strength/abilities of the fallen.

Essen takes three ribs for himself.

Fog starts to rise out of the earth. Whispers in the fog. Common. "...number of power" "...or not see" "...first witch". Ophion remembers that Mama Tet would know the answers; she grew up with the Witch Queens in the shadow of the Sorceror King.

Glimpses of figures in the fog, still at war.

Ophion hears strong deep voice whispering from the future "...this wraith assembly she speak from behind the Unknown Vale, and anoints her succesor persons" Spoken by the wearer of the crown of a long destroyed undead boy-king - Kord Moebius - underground, surrounded by a throng "...anoints the First Witch of the Great Age, the Age of the Undefining".

• Essen hears, from the past, are the dead telling of what the three warlocks were saying (the dead were repeating phrases from the last 24 hours) ..."sharper than the horn of the god ...swifter than comets of green... 12 lost worlds looking for the lost 13th."

Spirits reach for party. Ophion and Gundaek back away. The other hear the three warlocks speaking in the past about the party "What does Tempest Viridae see(1), or not see(2), or not want to see(3)?" "Death has come to raise it's throne on this strange world."

Essen now lookin with human eyes (possessed by a Helegu warrior), looking to cast something on the party. Gimblenock paralyses Essen. Ophion exorcises the ghost.

Dwayne possessed by a Babrana warrior, as is Essen. The others can see an overlay of the ghost possessing them.

"The great Toreja braved the currents of the deep void, of force of will crossed the threshold."

Gimblenock tries to speak to the ghost. "Where is the great Khanja Mulka? Did we win? What about Brahnels' gate and Volk's Bridge?"

Ophion tries Hideous Laughter. Fails. Has a feeling of floating in a sea of bliss (Jari's daughter?), tries again. Fails.

Essen rejects the spirit. Dwayne attacks the party. Goes through Grundaek and into Gimblenock (the ghost despises gnomes).

Missing line = left behind this mortal world......the Great Beyond.

• Multiple people to become ONE person. Poessibly the party*

Ophion tempted with answers in return to restoring Mephistopheles to power and gaining intel on Vulerai. Denied.

Party rests.

Travelling agin. Dwayne notices the feet of a wicker man, ash scattered around. Burnet remains of three humans in protective circles. Investigate circles. Different set of three warlocks. NOT those from the future. Ophion and Essen note the symbolism of the "Coven of the Sun Child's Rage". The Sun God exists in the Wyrding. The Sun Child burnt them all rather than allow them to pledge to a witch.

Some in the party notice cigar smoke and evidence of Loa ritual near the Wicker Man. Size 13 footprint. Not Mama Tet.

Some in the party see black woman 6"4' passing by. Another warlock. Mohawk. Another walked between Ophion and Gimblenock, touching G. He did not feel anything.

Next day, more battles. Older. Sarpaedian. 700-800 years old. At night, Will-O-The-Wisps appear. Gimblenock, Essen and Dwayne dig for treasure. Each has to fight a creature on their own.

• Gimbleock fighting a Zombie Master (aspect of Baron Samedi). Destroyed with assist from Ophion. Gains Keoghtom's Ointment (d4+1 doses. Regains 2d8+2 hit points. Cures poison and disease.)
• Dwayne fights Skeleton Warlord. Demolishes Skeleton. Gains Scroll of Fire, Earth, Air and Water Serpents, gifted to Ophion.
• Essen fighting Undead Ilithid. Dwayne takes it out. Potion of Gaseous Form. Essen gains Wand of Secrets.Gundark gets Potion of Invisibility. Dwayne gets Staff of the Adder, command word is "DAWN", gifted to Essen.
• Ophion gets third level spell scroll (player choice). Gimbelnock gets Cap of Waterbreathing - command word "SEAWEED".

Four days of travel. Mist and fog are now permanent. Come across another ancient battlefield. Majority of bodies are non-human (dragonborn, orcs, goblins). This is at least 1,500 year old.

Keep climbing. More cigar ash. More Loa footprints. Appeared during rest. Nine sets of warlock footprints through the party's camp. Ophion and Gimbelnock notice ghosts walking through the camp and group.

Climbing up. The fog gets thicker. Dark fog, similar to a storm bank.

Dwayne on guard. A large, emerald green creature leaps out of the fog and lands in front of him. An emerald dragon, gargantuan in size and with timeless eyes that miss nothing. Dozens of two dimensional figures scatter in it's wake. Looks at the party individually.

The Dread Child makes an appearance. Spoke on behalf of the Starless Communion at the Palanquin Convention. Standing at a fire in front of acacia trees. The sky is moving in slow motion.

"There was a time when the people lived peacefully beneath the canopy of the deepest dark of the rainforest
Those among them who were talented in all things arcane were sent to the village of the shrines to hone their powers, before being sent out among the people to use their talents for the betterment of all.
For generations the people lived peacefully, living as their ancestors had lived before them.
But history comes and history goes, and history was visited upon the people.

The Semud, who lived beyond the rainforest of the people invaded in numbers too numerous for the people to resist With soldiers as numerous as fire ants on the rainforest floor, the Semud advanced slaughtering all who opposed them and enslaving all who submitted In desperation the Elders taught the children in the village of shrines the words that would destroy the Semud magicians in combat. Secretly each of the children another Word, one that when spoken would compel the children to obey. For the words that would destroy the Semud magicians when spoken by the children would consume them at the time of speaking, life for life The village teachers could not risk the children failing to speak the words or rebelling once they learnt of their fate. The most cunning of the children learned of the Word and their fate when speaking the words. Refusing to die for Elders who had betrayed them and the people who who had forsaken them the children planned A gift from the Loa, gave the children temporarily power to overcome their teachers Each teacher was assigned 2 children and to succeed all the teachers would need to be defeated at the same time A single living teacher could simply speak the Word and the children would be sent to their fate, regardless of how many teachers were taken by the Wyrding Among all the children, one teacher was charged with training the 2 youngest, the 2 weakest, the 2 most likely to lose heart and not act against their teachers It was decided that the youngest should use the Loa gift first and when they had succeeded to out a lit lantern in the doorway of their hutch This way if the youngest failed to act the hand of the other children would not be shown On the morning the shrines were to be honoured and the children would be awake and active before the teachers they acted so their movements would be unremarked When the Semud soldiers and their battle magicians reached the village of shrines in the days following, they found nothing but the charred remains of 13 adults, a 13 pointed holy sign left for the Loa and the cooling embers of the first and now last village of the people

Dwayne talks to Gundark about 'The Professor'. The Green Dragon was the Vizier of the King and Queen and they are waiting for us at the top of the plateau.

Party see a man/woman from the future. Sim Arclight, the first witch of the Age of the Undefining.

Gundark finds floating white crystals in the air. Very thick fog (<10 feet visibilty). Can constantly hear the undead. Thousands of them.

- Grundark sees visions. Ophion leads him on.

Keep travelliing. Near the top.