Thursday, May 18, 2023

DnD into the Netherdeep, vol 23

The rift has just been opened, I blinked out, everyone takes some psychic damage. We see a large ruidium corrupted shark swimming towards us followed by two smaller cute dolphins. Yazhi tries to trap the large shark in a hamster ball, but is not succsesful. Jazco teleports between the sharks and blinds two of them. Rangu hits them with lightning. I manage to freeze one of them. Woolf slows down the three sharks. 

The large shark is blinded and slowed. One of the smaller dolphins is slowed. We can see the shark rapidly patching its injuries with ruidium. Yazhi turns the big guy into a sea anemone that slowly starts drifting down. Jazco starts riding a shark and casts radiant damage on the shark that can see. We kill two sharks and discuss what to do with the anemone. Our idea is to make it die in air. 

After a lot of discussion, we carry the anemone to the top of the Maw, and drop it. Rangu blasts the anemone mid way. It splatters at the bottom of the Maw, which Alita goes down and confirms. The Orc guard is scooping up the remains with a shovel.

We head to Craiyon's house. Alakritos and Craiyon are having an argument on our account. Alakritos is angry at Craiyon for sending us to dangerous missions. Alakritos is shocked and relieved. He is happy to see us back and alive. 

We talk to Alakritos about Ruidium and corruption. Then we split up to look for Ayo and gang. Jazco goes to Suncut Bazaar. Rangu goes to the river district. I go to Alluvium district. Yazhi goes to the Sigil district. Woolf goes to the Sand Heral. Rara goes to the Circlet Walk, then the Guided district. Yazhi then goes to the Ridge. 

We don't find Ayo and company. Rangu asks the Inkeeper of the Harried Mongoose to find Ayo's company and 100 gold. He tells us they were last seen headed westward from Ayu's temple. We take a long rest. Next morning, Alakritos gives us a novel ruidium dagger made for research purposes and not for any personal or professional benefit. He also gives us a bag of holding, and asks us to get as much ruidium as possible as we can from beyond the rift. 

We give Gorthag the Orc some beer, which Rangu uses prestdigitsation to chill again. We go past the rift again. Rangu scries to see Ayo's party again. They are walking through a dark tunnel. Maggie is leading the party. Galsariad turns towards Ayo and casts a cantrip that lights up the space. All of them have ruidium corruption on them. 

Everyone except me see a vision. These are fragmented memories... running through the street, looks into a puddle, there is a teenage boy who starts running away. Torches and scones are lit here and there, and it is the dead of night. There is a village hunt going on. There is darkness everywhere except for a vermillion moon. Alyxian grabs a cloak from a bar, runs into the forest, and joins the hunt. 

There is a clearing in the forest, with the red streaks of moonlight filtering through the forest. There is a scent of blood, and shouts of frantic calls by the villagers. Beneath the trunks of one of the large trees, is a young drow named Sakini, lying on the ground, barely alive and coughing up blood. Villagers are panicking. There are deep gashes on the body. She is trying to say something, but only ends up coughing up blood. 

Two large owlbears are running away from the scene. The party hears in their minds, a very sorrowful voice, as Alyxian says, "The price of my selfishness. I just wanted to hunt with them... arrggh. She died that night."

Friday, May 05, 2023

DnD Into the Netherdeep 22

 We enter the rift. Rara goes and touches the rift with her Ruidium corrupted hand, while Yazhi takes a few steps back. Ripples appear on the barrier, but they bounce back, and shut the little area opened by Rara. Rara realises that ruidium is the secret to opening the rift. Rangu uses the ruidium shield, causing the barrier to collect into a pulsating ball. We all take 44 points of psychic damage. Rangu uses the shield to go through the rift. Rangu is in pitch dark cavern, and sees two enormous statues that have settled on the seafloor at awkward angles. Each statue is missing its head. One of the statues has a hand has a claw like hand like its reaching out to something. Both of the statues are covered in ruidiumy crystals that are pulsing. Rangu comes back out, tells us about the statues, then we all go in through the rift. 


We are attacked by two angler fish and a large scary eel. 


Bunch of us go down. Alita remembers that her mom was the head chef at a saloon and she had snuck up into the fancier looking rooms, and found a leather bound book, found a spell about vicious mockery and stole the book, and decided to become a bard. 


Rara goes to an elite library and goes to the restricted section and sees a really tattered book and sees Nerthix.


Yazhi remembers running into a bunch of other kids who faught with him, which was a three vs one fight. While they are kicking Yazhi when he was down, an older drow woman comes into the alley and uses graviturgy to push them away towards the wall and pin them, and scares them away. The woman lifts Yazhi up and takes him to a pub nearby, gives some food. This Drow woman becomes Yazhi's teacher. 


We kill the remaining creatures. 


Rara and Rangu investigate the cavern while the rest of us head out of the rift because of the pressure of the water. They are transported into some kind of room of a child. There's a rocking horse, a cradle and a teddy bear in the room. Everything is corrupted by ruidium. The rocking horse is caked with ruidium, ruidium is spiking out of the teddy bear. There are a couple being attacked by a group of people.