(Tales From the D&D Table) The Missing Mage Part Six

Yeah I know shut up.

• Put animals back except for spongedog because he too big for lil box so leave box open but close big door
  
• Go to cell with Darkness
• Tie each other together and go in
• Darkness is like 'help' and when we're like "hello" hear a lot of voices
• Darkness is consciousness of townsfolk?
• "Can we help?" 'let us show you'
• Can't see much but can see more than stairway Darkness
• Movement? getting nearer
• Arm offers hand
• Paladin takes hand
• Pulled into Darkness, whooooo rollercoaster
• Emerge into outside where everything is burning colour, arm continues on over horizon
• Follow arm
• 'So tired' arm bursts into silvery goo
• Follow silver goo trail
• Same as rock goo that covered Cletus and son but doesn't set
• Feels almost like a dream
• Halbarad's spell wears off
• Trail goes forever, sun doesn't move
• Short rest
• Nothing changes - weather, sun, etc
• Continue following goo trail
• Something appears in distance at end of trail
• Fairly large goo pool
• 'Enter the pool'
• Nick goes into pool "Two tugs is good three is get me out"
• Sees memories etc, Nick is ow
• Everyone goes into goo
• Paladin cannonballs, non-newtonian fluid
• Paladin and warlock are fine, rogue is big ow
• 'Sorry bout brain scan' "How help?"
• 'We are magic, but is tiring, esper stuff. Met Omega and was like 'ew scary' and threw him out but he came back and stole some of us.'
• "Can use you to turn people to stone?" 'if we leave this plane we panic and try to reach out to minds and enter stasis until we can come home'
• "We'll stop him. How do we find him?"
• 'Omega came thru portal he made, Darkness is portal. Is Wrong'
• Show it memories of Darkness trip 'well that's fucked up'
• Big stadium cave is separate demiplane
• 'Delta is borrowing magic, probably from Omega'
• "We either lure D out of demiplane or remove ring somehow"
• "Could trick him out by injuring important subordinate"
• Friend of Gug had portal whip, doesn't know much about it
• 'One day there were there then the next they weren't'
• "Maybe ooze could portal us there"
• 'Once. No more'
• "Take us to whip?" 'Can go to Gug's friends'
• "What do we call you?" 'IDK' "Oobleck"
• Portal to Gug's friends, another dark rip in reality
• Go thru portal
• As we leave portal we thump onto ground
• In foresty place at night, light a torch
• Nothing really to see but arguing in distance
• Go towards arguing
• Gug recognises voices, runs ahead, follow
• Voices are two of Gug's friends, the Half-Orc and the Tiefling
• Tiefling is ow
• "What happened?"
• 'Who tf are you?'
• "We need your help, especially with the whip"
• Paladin Lay on Hands on Tiefling
• 'Who tf are you?'
• Intro ourselves
• 'Elf friends are looking for food'
• "How'd you end up here"
• 'We got lost.'
• "Gug woke up and you were gone, what happened?"
• 'IDK it's been a while'
• "I think they deliberately left Gug behind."
• "We could try to reason with them, talk Warlock to Warlock while the rest of us distract the Half-Orc"
• Distract Half-Orc and ease them away from the Warlocks
• 'We were supposed to deliver some research stuff to a guy and got lost, Half-Orc deliberately left Gug behind, whip was a gift from my patron (whose whole thing is whips and shit)'
• Half-Orc is not nice - evil spectrum?
• "Where'd the rest of your friends go for food tho?" 'IDK been a while, they always come back'
• Return to Hal etc
• Half-Orc is being all friendy with Gug
• is sus
• Short rest
• Everyone back at 100%
• Being watched by an elf in a tree, only warlock notices
• 'Why yall here'
• "Were helping Gug find her friends"
• 'thanks'
• "Why did she wake up alone"
• 'IDK she slept late and we got lost'
• "How did Tief break ankle?"
• 'Fell outta tree'
• "Why was she in a tree? Why is there an elf in the tree?"
• 'Oh. huh. He's shy?'
• "So where's the other one?"
• Elf comes down, brings another with bag of stuff
• "Why was the Tief in a tree?"
• 'Wanted to see surrounds'
• "Why you avoid us?"
• 'Strangers'
• "Can help you find way out"
• 'Gug can help us find the way out' so why leave her behind
• "So how come you are all together?"
• 'Half-Orc hired elves and met Tief and Gug later on'
• Long rest with watch shifts
• Nothing happens during
• EVERYONE LEVEL UP WOOO