Chat Log - 2022 02 04 - Cosmological Quandaries - Cloak Check - Formatted - Story
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BOB Branwyn reads and learns, and throws things at the wall, and is impressed at how complete this book is, and how confusing the Planes are
BOB Branwyn now knows how to tune her Amulet to get to the top level of any of the Outer Planes
BOB and then return back home safely
BOB The key is she needs a piece of that Plane to tune the Amulet to reach that Plane
BOB What you have so far; Arvandor, the high forest. Arborea. You may have heard it refer to it as Arvanaith. That is the easy part. As for where... most the deities roam. Raelynn says Hanali is known to have a crystal palace, but I believe that is the minority. Sehanine Moonbow is the Goddess of Mysteries, Moonlight, and Long Journeys, including those on their journey to the next life. She is incredibly important, and it is a guess she may have a palace, but in truth, neither of us know.;
Lisa (Branwyn): then Arvanaith in Olympus correct?
Carissa (Carissa): Arborea or Arvador might be the more proper name
BOB Forest Overview
N'laea: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [SUCCESS by 7] [d20 = 5]
BOB you all see this path that leads down to a stream
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 10] [d20 = 4]
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger Tracking [2] [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 17) [SUCCESS by 7] [d20 = 10]
Craigh: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 14] [d20 = 1]
BOB You see a pleasant valley, the stream running through the center through a forest
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 13] [d20 = 1]
BOB The hills on your left
BOB You can tell that there are no settlements nearby
BOB at least none that you could think of from back home
BOB You have the path you are on
Craigh: Into the woods, or away?
N'laea: Into
Raelynn: Away
N'laea: rolls eyes
BOB As far as you can tell you are here on Olympus, perhaps this is Arborea
Bixi Fizzlebang: Into seems like a better bet for finding a goddess?
Bixi Fizzlebang: Don't elves like the woods?
Indigo: If you pray to Miss Moonbeam maybe she will show up?
Craigh: I'll have to take your word for that.
Raelynn: Mmm, not necessarily. Hanali has her palace. I don't know if it's in the woods, but Rillifane is and N'laea LOVES the woods...
N'laea: I see nothing from here. In the forest, we may find something to talk to on where to go.\
BOB SO you see the forest in front of you, your path extending behind you back up into the hills
BOB no tracks on the pathway
BOB you are moving through full trees
BOB Bixi can see that these are normal trees, much healthier than anything she has seen in The Mist, and that they are wild..... but also seem to have some maintenance done around here
BOB Low amounts of brush under the trees for example,
Bixi Fizzlebang: Hmmm... do elf lands not grow plants under the trees? Or is someone taking care of this area?
Bixi Fizzlebang: looks at the elves
N'laea: It is likely cared for.
N'laea: Or... respectfully taken from.
N'laea: No doubt all forests here are protected, but as for whose forest... we'd have to go in to potentially find out.
N'laea: But no hunting. Not until you know.
Craigh: I will put away the rabbit snares then.
Craigh: Sorry.
Bixi Fizzlebang: If this area belongs to someone we should ask first, obviously
N'laea: Please do. Rillifane frowns upon it unless the need is dire. It is bad enough it's done back home...
Craigh: That was a try at a joke, sorry. Not very good, I'm afraid.
N'laea: Oh.
N'laea: serious elf is serious
BOB Heading from the more open lands into the forest near the stream
BOB you enter the area and see that there is wildlife around, not totally frightened of you but not friendly
N'laea: May I ask whose forest this is?
N'laea: to the wildlife
BOB The simple beasts seem confused by the question
N'laea: Rillifane? Solonor? The Lone Wolf?
BOB Nothing seems to catch their attention
N'laea: signs and moves along
Craigh: Did we bring treats?
BOB as you move through the forest down towards the stream
Craigh: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 13]
Branwyn: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 19) [SUCCESS by 10] [d20 = 9]
N'laea: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [SUCCESS by 8] [d20 = 4]
BOB So as you get closer to the stream some of you notice a lack of activity
Branwyn: This forest certainly has an eerie sense of ... peacefulness?
Craigh: That's a new one.
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 12] [d20 = 2]
BOB Bixi points upstream
BOB to a thin dark smudge on the waters
BOB slowly drifting down the current
BOB spreading out and dissipating
Branwyn: looks
Branwyn: What is that?
Craigh: Anybody know what that is?
N'laea: No idea... but if there's nothing on the banks... it might be going after what gets near it....
BOB It is coming from the hills where the stream is coming from
Bixi Fizzlebang: Maybe it's soot from a forge or something...?
Craigh: In holy woods?
Bixi Fizzlebang: Maybe some elves like pretty armor?
Raelynn: Oh, they do! But not pollution...
N'laea: carefully trying to inch closer for a better look
Liliafane: Who chooses to enter our woods?
Craigh: watches around the group in case this is a distraction
N'laea: N'laea, Order of the Oakstaff.
N'laea: With allies.
Liliafane: It is wise to travel with friends
N'laea: Yes.
Indigo: looks around for who said that
Liliafane: Why do you venture into our lands?
N'laea: We seek an audience with the Goddess of Mysteries. We simply.... landed here.
Branwyn: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 19) [SUCCESS by 4] [d20 = 15]
Craigh: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 14] [d20 = 1]
Bixi Fizzlebang: [CHECK] Intelligence (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 5] [d20 = 10]
N'laea: [CHECK] Intelligence (vs. Target 12) [SUCCESS by 11] [d20 = 1]
Raelynn: [CHECK] Intelligence (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 8] [d20 = 5]
BOB Bixi knows this voice is speaking in Gnome
BOB Craigh knows this voice is speaking in Common
Indigo: [CHECK] Intelligence (vs. Target 11) [FAILURE by 3] [d20 = 14]
BOB Indigo hears the voice in Hin
BOB Branwyn knows this voice is speaking in Common, and understands that it is an Elf
Branwyn: Nice of her to speak common for us
Indigo: Uh-uh she was talking Hin
Indigo: waves at the elf and smiles
Craigh: Hunh. I heard common too
Bixi Fizzlebang: Um... it was Gnomish for me
Bixi Fizzlebang: glances at the others like they are crazy
N'laea: You understand her?
Indigo: Yes we did
Indigo: I did
Craigh: nods
N'laea: Interesting...
N'laea: May I ask your name?
Liliafane: I am Liliafane guardian of the western path
N'laea: A pleasure. Perhaps you can help point us to where to go? These are not lands we're familiar with.
Liliafane: You do not taste like you are from here
N'laea: Taste?
Craigh: whispers, Do we need to say why we want an audience?
Raelynn: whispers back, I'm sure many have reasons... it could be dangerous saying why....right?
N'laea: I have not encountered someone who could tell what another ....tastes like.
Liliafane: You have a strange moist taste to your essence
N'laea: frowns
Craigh: bites his tongue to stop a silly reply.
N'laea: Is this... something elves can commonly do here?
Liliafane: You cannot tell the essence of a person? how they look, sound, feel, smell, taste?
N'laea: No that is not... I'm not aware if that's possible where we're from.
Indigo: licks the back of his hand
Indigo: I can only taste me
N'laea: How the sound and look and feel, but taste is... different. Essence is not something most, or any perhaps, can detect.
Liliafane: You are strange, you are not from here, you have a .... cloying ..... taste,
N'laea: thinking about those dang cinnamon buns
Liliafane: Something you are dipped in
Indigo: whispers
N'laea: Ah. I have not yet... shed that, I suppose?
Indigo: Is she gonna eat us?
Bixi Fizzlebang: whispers; Maybe we can tell her or him we don't want to stay long?
Raelynn: Isn't cloying bad? I don't want to eat things cloying sweet or... something.
Liliafane: You do not seem the type of things to eat
Branwyn: Perhaps the Mist clings to us. What we are dipped in?
Bixi Fizzlebang: is visibly relieved to hear that
N'laea: I was wondering if it is more that we smell... alive?
Liliafane: What is the Mist you say clings to you?
Liliafane: Alive
Liliafane: You are still in your flesh
N'laea: Yes.
Liliafane: That is why your spirit tastes so
Craigh: ... chunky?
Raelynn: Oh good. I hope it's not because of the Mist. That'd be terrible.
N'laea: I am aware that we... I... am not supposed to be here yet, but we are trying to get an audience with the Goddess.
Liliafane: Which Goddess?
N'laea: The Goddess of Mysteries, Sehanine Moonbow.
Liliafane: Why do you wish an audience with her?
N'laea: We have something we believe she'd want returned.
Liliafane: That would be most unusual
N'laea: I am aware. Unusually enough that we traveled here, alive, to return it.
Liliafane: I can take you to a place where you can seek her
Liliafane: Are you able to keep up?
N'laea: At a cost?
N'laea: We will certainly try although some... have shorter legs.
N'laea: And less experience running in forests....
Liliafane: Perhaps then it is best if you wait here and I will return
N'laea: How will returning help versus showing us where to go?
Liliafane: I can show you where to go
N'laea: Please do.
Indigo: Ummm ... what's that stuff in the water please?
BOB and in N'laea's mind blooms a scene of a forest glen, with a small waterfall and a unicorn resting along the bank
N'laea: nods
Liliafane: The taint from the hills is growing
Raelynn: What is the taint?
Liliafane: I have been on watch
Liliafane: impure
BOB and suddenly her presence is gone
Indigo: Is she coming back?
N'laea: I don't think so. We have to find a forest glen, a small waterfall, a unicorn.... somewhere?
N'laea: She showed me where, but not.... how to get to where.
Bixi Fizzlebang: Well if it's a waterfall... we should go upstream?
Indigo: That makes sense
Indigo: unless the water runs down to a waterfall
Indigo: Does it do that too?
Bixi Fizzlebang: Probably?
N'laea: Or it is a different one but... we can try upstream first. Although we likely want to give... that distance.
Craigh: looks for a waterfall.
N'laea: A unicorn along the bank may be useful to look for, too.
Branwyn: Can you use your augury skills to see if it would be better to go up or down stream?
Raelynn: Ummm, maybe.
Raelynn: [CAST] Augury
Raelynn: If we go upstream from here, at this stream, will we find that place N'laea was shown by Liliafane?
BOB Many streams flow through the forest, this is not the one you seek
Raelynn: Mmm, nope! Not this stream.
Raelynn: But there are many through the forest so... one of those?
Indigo: So should we cross this stream and keep going up the path?
Indigo: points
Indigo: I dunno
N'laea: I don't think we have many other options. Behind us isn't forest, and this section is.... less forest.
Craigh: Maybe she was supposed to be able to teleport to it. I bet the vision was complete enough for her to do that.
Indigo: Maybe we'll find more people to ask. Now that you know what to ask for, it'll be better
N'laea: Yes, true. We have a destination... of sorts.
N'laea: Find a unicorn, a glen, a waterfall and then... somehow we should be able to commune with Moonbow. I think.
Indigo: Sure!
