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

I'm just gonna straight up post my session notes from now on; I just don't have the mojo to do a proper write up any more. Yay autism/probably ADHD too! 

• Everyone asleep except Pen who is on last watch
• Weird dreams about the pool and Delta finishing the thing and talking to someone
• Shift to forest, see selves asleep, feel doomy and see shadows that engulf us, wake up.
  
• "Well that was a thing."
• Other party asleep, one elf missing, female elf awake and is like 'shh.'
•  Sunriseish.
• Getting colder and darker, hear scary noise.
  
• Euraxia gets the feeling we're too late to stop The Thing.
• Blinding Darkness, only thing visible is fire.
• Penny uses Divine Sense, gets nothing, does sense undead.
• Hal sees approaching light, other's don't.
• Approach light.
• Light is other party, they're ready for shit. Boy elf still gone.
• "You good?"
• 'This your fault? We aint seen shit like this til you appear.'
• "Oh yeah like you're all on top of things."
• Half-orc draws big black cock sword.
• "Not even our warlock can do this what you on."
• 'You gonna help us then.'
• "Where'd the other elf go."
• 'Foraging.'
• Group up with defenses out, head toward ROAR
• Torchlight getting more useless, nearly collide with trees a few times.
• Penny: "Next tree we hit we burn."
• Bump into tree, take branches to make torch bigger, kinda works.
• Hal casts Summon Familiar, little bat (called Kevin) appears.
• Via bat, Hal sees big humanoid approaching, shedding smaller humanoid shapes.
• 'We gonna hafta fight.' Make fire bigger.
• Shadow flits in and out of light.
• "What was that?" 'IDK'
• Fight time!
• Everyone else sees big foot on edge of light.
• "HOLY FUCK THAT THING'S BIG."
• Other warlock gets out whip, asks what it is, whip says 'think thing.' Attacks with whip; no apparent effect.
• Euraxia shoots, misses.
• Nick attacks, miss.
• Penny uses 'sacred weapon' ability, glow makes it easier to see big shifty shape that is bigger than the trees
• Halbarad Eldritch Blasts, misses
• Other Half-Orc swaps out for a big bow, shoots, hits.
• Big Thing roars, everyone is big ow and stunned.
• 3 of the lil shadows attack other Half-Orc, latch on and drain strength.
• Last shadow attacks Nick, latches on and drains strength. More ow for Nick.
• No one can do anything, Big Thing continues forward.
• Gug attacks shadows on other Half-Orc, kills one.
• She-Elf's turn, attacks two shadows, kills one, big ow on other.
• Last two shadows miss despite being literally attached to targets.
• Other warlock withdraws whip into rod and uses it to open Gateway and fills area with horrors and gross noises.
• Euraxia attacks shadow on Nick's face, nearly kills it.
• Nick attacks shadow, kills it.
• Penny Lay Hands on Nick, heals a bit.
• Hal Eldritch Blasts, hits.
• Other Half-Orc is mad, misses last shadow.
• Big Thing fails to do pretty much anything, is slightly hurt by light.
• Gug attacks remaining shadow, kills it.
• Other warlock still channeling Gateway
• Euraxia shoots Big Thing, hits.
• Nick attacks Big Thing, hits.
• Penny attacks Big Thing, hits.
• Big Thing now has very sore foot.
• Hal Eldritch Blasts Big Thing, kills it.
• Big Thing topples and disperses, as does Darkness.
• Other warlock stops channeling, uses energy to douse burning tree.
• Big Thing dropped loot including lump of flesh for some reason.
• Also find random clothes and food and adventuring stuff and Bag of Holding, which goes to Halbarad.
• Bag has potions of healing, a scroll of Scry, a Lantern of Revealing and some gold.
• Share out the gold, leave the potions in the Bag, Penny claims the Lantern.
• Everyone glad we avoided TPK.

(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
  

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

 (Again, been a little while so just the notes)

•  Go down to Containment
• Open door 8 - sponge
• Full of sea sponge
• Open door 7 - fortune teller
• Scary weird lady inside
• Talk to them
• Rest of group enters room
• See tarot
•  Fighter pulls "Axe 3"
• "ooo violence"
• Fighter is like lol no (everyone else is like are you fcking stupid)
• Suddenly trio of axes swing at Fighter
• Minor owie
• Paladin sits, pulls card
• "Brain 9"
• Paladin carefully leaves room with chair still attached to butt, once out puts chair back in, room fills with water as door shuts
• "Hey no fair" from inside
• Door 6 - fox
• Inside is big fox, is all grrr
• Not like normal fox
• Close door
• Door 4
• Inside is 3 big metal box with barred window
• Animal noise from inside
• Peer inside leftmost
• Big green spherical frog
• Middle one is tiny flying octopus
• Rightmost is shark with legs
• Leave them for now
  
• Door 3 - darkness
• Darkness who fucking knew, same as at end of hall
  
• Door 2 - compass turtles
• Tortoise from inside immediately leaves cell, heads for stairs
• Paladin picks it up, is holding and petting tortoise
  
• Door 1 - duck?
• Inside is very big asthmatic duck
• Door 5 - do not open etc
• Inside is chained door
• Rogue picks locks inside is smaller safe
• Picks lock on chains around smaller safe, inside is tiny box that is taped shut
• Break tape
• From inside comes big sponge, turns into very happy pomeranian
• Return to door 7
• Lots of water comes out, FT unconscious
• Put various animal aquisitions back except for tortoise
• Follow tortoise to the stairs, carry it up
• Jeremy is trying to move stoned Cletus and kid
• Tortoise wants more up
• Follow it up to Hall
• Tortoise wants to leave
• Pick up tortoise, head back inside to go talk to Jeremy again
• "What's with the critters? We'll help with the thing."
• 'Dunno what's with the spongedog, Miguel made tortoise to try to go to Sophie.'
• 'OG Miguel was tryna make magic pets/gifts. Failed weirdly.'
• "Will you look after them for us."
• 'Um sure; Fortune Teller was New Miguel bs'
• Ask about darkness, want to maybe help it so is easier to get thru

(Tales from the D&D Table) The Missing Mage Part Four

(I'm just posting these notes as is because I can't be arsed after a few weeks to type it out lol)

• Since all rooms are empty Steve and Cletus runs downstairs
• Follow
• Gug goes back to cell
• Hear weird hum
• Processing guardpost now empty
• Cell 1 open, bright flashing light and noise from inside
• Paladin casts Divine Sense, same as before
• All doors on one side lead to one big room
• Big magic circle, hum is loud, in middle is humanoid thing, Cletus is trying to grab thing but is getting covered in stone?, Steve is tryna pull him out
• Penny tries to pull too, no avail
• Once Cletus fully enveloped light stops
• Oh noes
• Middle of circle is one of their kids
• Euraxia gives him hug
• See heap of stone lumps, all except fighter sees that one lump is not stone, is twitchy with Jeremy hiding behind
• Promise not to stab if he comes out peacefully
• Steve goes to twitchy boy "Luke!"
• Turns out Miguel is Big Cheese
• Cell Miguel is original, rest of Miguels are evil brain splits
• Robed Person is also Miguel
• "How to undo petrify?" 'Omega'
• "Who and where" 'IDK'
• What is going on 'no fucking clue bruh'
• Can brain split be undid 'yeah Omega has been trying to fix'
• Why use the townsfolk 'IDK'
• No celestial presence anymore
• Where was brain split "other side bruh"
• Gug has reappeared
• Open door to other side, inside is weird shit
• Find a thing like a goldfish bowl with runes and weird rock, possibly adamantium ore/space rock
• Bowl is glowing, is scanning the rock, put the adamantium in the bowl and the wall changes to match, take rock out illusion changes to water, hand in bowl turns to half-orc flesh
• Paper with 'Nerd' written on it turns wall into weirdness like paper
• Is bowl big enough for head - yes
• Nothing particulary clue-y
• Warlock and Gug go back to guardpost
• Penny dunks rogue into bowl like digestive in tea
• Penny and rogue join others
• Guard finds us, is like WHAT THE FUCK
• WHY WAS THE WALL YOUR FACE
• Fight time
• Hits Euraxia, is now at ~half health
• Euraxia hits
• Nick hits
• Warlock EB, hit
• Guard is now BIG OW
• Gug hits
• Guard legs it
• Penny lunges for him, grabs foot, tosses him at Jeremy at urging from Euraxia
• While guard is seizing, take guard up to holding
• Gug is like what, try to explain, fail
• Loot guard of p much everything
• Go back down to guardpost
• Search for useful stuff
• 'Even # - cocoon Odd # - cloning bay'
• Nothing to get past Darkness easy
• 'In case of accident contact Omega'
• 'Delta - need more cocoons'
• Rest finally clue into what the lumps are
• Rest, heal
• Share backstories - Penny's whole clan wiped out when spaceship crash landed on town; Halbarad is just Like That I Guess; Nick is ashamed of elven half because racist arseholes; Euraxia literally can't talk about her past as a spy because state secrets.