Thursday, January 30, 2025

Underdark 43

We look around and find a stream, seeming to be magical hydraulics that goes towards the North. Tsui takes a bath while I cautiously check out the water. We set up camp for the night. Aracockra does flyaround and comes back. Tsui is already asleep. I will take a long rest. We walk west and eventually hit upon a path, and we follow it west for seven days. We come upon a little hut, that is adjoined to a decent-sized farm growing a bunch of winter vegetables with a little pond attached to the hut as well. It is about to be noontime, there is smoke coming out of the chimney, a little glow from the windows.

A very old woman walks up with a big basket of vegetables towards her hut. Old woman invites us to eat. The old woman tries to tidy up, makes us comfortable, heads over to kitchen and starts preparing some teas and hands it to everyone. Her name is Marine and her daughter Selene who married Eric and has an Inn in Manderdeesa. I have two great children. 

Then people talk to each other that I know nothing about. Im dreamwalking and see Tsui and 1319 contemplating the stars, Pyro loses appetite and tells 1319 we need to go to Koham. Jimbo gives Creek some cloak. We come to a town with a solitary guard at madredisa. Wascerly Wabbit. Its a large town, bigger than Kohan, but not so populated. Pyro trips and falls down, but no one knows what caused Pyro to trip.

We go to the Wascally Wabbit, Selene and Mark seems to have forgotten about their kids. We see footsteps headed towards the tavern from the gate, six go one way, one goes towards the tavern. We map out the entire sewer system. We go back to the Wascally Wabbit and do an FBI style investigation of whole place. We find a place to hole up in and go through a series of horrible dreams. We wake up with five people in the room with a drawing of a mysterious figure in a sun-lit land. 

Saturday, January 25, 2025

DND Underdark Episode 42

 Back to the campaign after three years. 

We kill a dragon in a tower. Dragons on a hoard of gold. The floor is made of acid. The tower flushes us through. We have a hunger for gold. IT was a well banalnced fight with a staff that had weird effects, casting spells at max level, and killing the ability to cast that spell. We run away from some orcs after escaping the tower. 

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Old nightmare in new setting

When I first came to Delhi, I used to have frequent nightmares and even sleep paralysis because I was sleeping in a new place. I used to feel that the location is insecure, with one of the rooms having a wall or a door connected to another house, without my knowledge. This other house opened up into an apartment complex with a corridor full of flats. The lower floors of the apartment was full of commercial shops, with the buildings arranged in  ring, and a playground in the middle. The basement floors had an entire shopping mall kind of setup. I stopped seeing this place about six months after moving to Delhi. 

After a tox break, I saw this same setting again, but this time, it was not a nightmarish environment. I saw some old friends, as well as unknown people who were entirely imaginary old friends. They were all holed up in an apartment, and it was essentially a friend circle from Thane who formed a support group in Delhi to fend off social isolation. There was even a Nepali there who sort of resembled some dude I met at a party in the hills. I woke up thinking maybe refraining from smoking could improve my sleep further.