From 5185f8d30d88c6c78848b3d8ba178ed26dd35fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Muszynski Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 08:15:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] episode 48, party goes back in time --- dnd/bit/solo-notes.md | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++ dnd/episode/pt4.md | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dnd/bit/solo-notes.md b/dnd/bit/solo-notes.md index 814bad4..c524f54 100644 --- a/dnd/bit/solo-notes.md +++ b/dnd/bit/solo-notes.md @@ -32,3 +32,52 @@ I mention that I am a survivor from the lost village Cache. He attempts to charm me by touch. I barely pass the check. His face distorts. Ky'Mytha speaks in my mind: Do not fall for his tricks. + +---- + +We begin chatting at a table as Noxx attends to the tavern. +We exchange our days experiences and Locke explains the gyroscope he found. + +Neil is putting forward a great performance knocking peoples socks off. + +I approach a half elven man alone at a table after we have a short mental conversation. + +Finest elven vintage the valerian vassal wine. +Eldric is the half elven man in disguised. + +He says the name Cache. +He speaks of it in a reminicing manner. +I helped build something incredible. +Apparently we were visionaries. + +Do you know how rare you are. +A survivor. Magic hums with the echo of something. +Cornerstone of a process that could change everything. +And yet the memories are scattered arent they. +Not quite gone but elusive like whispers in the dark. +Trauma can fray the edges of the mind especially when done by magical means. +Perhaps it was a mercy. + +The town didn't die.. it shifted. +Something went wrong yes, but wrong isn't always meaningless. +What happened in Cache was the first step to a brighter stronger future. +One that needs you. +He sets something on the table but does not reveal it. +As he lifts his hand he reveals a familiar piece of octagonal oracalcum he gave the king as tribute. +He has higher duties now, lots of secrts in his care. + +> Bit obtains a piece of octagonal oracalcum + +When I'm ready to remember -- just know I cannot undo what has already transpired. +A man will lose himself trying to correct the past. + +Should I ever want to return to a higher purpose, I need only to reach out. + +He pulls out a piece of scratch paper and writes something on it and gives it to me. +An encantation written in elvish: Zerith Varr +I know translates to: To find and seek + +You need not tangle yourself in the mistakes of your crew. + +Everything in my body feels dark, I feel like the memories are right there. +Information is certainly being withheld. diff --git a/dnd/episode/pt4.md b/dnd/episode/pt4.md index c4d505a..2215383 100644 --- a/dnd/episode/pt4.md +++ b/dnd/episode/pt4.md @@ -960,7 +960,106 @@ We all end up at Krueger Kreel's place. I purchase `Amulet of Health` and `Soverign Glue`. -We get a horse and carriage for 700 rental, 200 back on safe return. +We get a horse and carriage for 700 rental, 500 back on safe return. We win the frog race, and carry `Alfred` away. -# Episode 48 +## Episode 48: Familiar Forests + +We leave for the last known whereabouts of Waarad Were. + +The day is now: 14th of Manaros + +As we are traveling I am sitting in the back of the cart. +I then hear what sounds like; a channeling of magic. +It's off to the driver side back tire of the cart. + +Neil has the memory of what the noise is.. + +Shembulock, goes out and scouts the noise. +He sees something that looks really hot. + +Neil realizes that he has heard the noise before.. +These are the noises he heard before the opening of the rift, near his home. + +Neil's house in the thundercost backed up to a medow that backed up to a cliff. +Neil explains that this rift happened at his home. +Neil's mom investigated it for the next three weeks. +Neil read her notes: +She thought it was a magical disaster, or a fracture. +She didn't have much besides it being a magical disturbance. +He heard a loud bang one day and there was the iPod and a stream of smoke coming off the fracture. + +As we walk over to the fissure we hear the pulsing fizzling sounds clearly. + +We see about a five foot square in the forest that has this constant ebb of energy. +Rippling as if it were really hot. + +I throw a rock through it, it ends up on the other side. +We then hear a much lounder sound that startles the ripples. + +I throw Alfred... + +Noxx standing on the other end, notices something. +It passes through the threshold of the portal, he makes it half way in and then.. +A flashbang happens, we hear a louder magical boom. +Noxx sees for a moment, something that could be a hand wrap around the frog. +Once it rippled the area changed into the crack that Neil is familiar with. + +The hand had a yellowy white glow to it. +Alfred is is more than one place. +The message Bit attempts to send fails. + +Neil sets up the iPod in front of the crack and begins to play. +It starts with `Detroit Rock City`, and moved on to `Empire of Broken Dreams`. + +We are about to send Shembulock through the crack. + +We jump into the portal. +We feel as if we have hightend senses but have no physical form. +We feel ourselves losing a sense of where we are. + +Bit begins to hear a muffled whisper 'you fool', maybe Ky'Mytha + +We all begin to hear memorable whispers of characters in our lives. + +Locke hears voices of his mother and father. +Noxx his tavern and Ratjaw. +Bit hears a tender voice but strangely knowing as my former master gives commands that we are unable to decipher. + +All of sudden a warm sensation begins. + +Our bodies begin to feel as if they are being moved as if they are in a river. +A white blinding flash and then absolute darkness. +Our eyes open, and we look up to see the blue sky. +Clouds above, trees around. The crack is nowhere to be seen. + +Neil casts sending to his mother. Nothing. + +I reach out to Ky'Mytha. I make a connection. +I hear 'your skills are impressive to reach me at such lengths' +'you have gone somewhere beyone distance' + +We need to gather some information to help Ky'Mytha get to us. + +We meet a guy on the small path, he doesn't know what a year is. +He came from stonemarsh. Names Darvey. +Coin is stamped with Valerian Symbol. + +Valeria was the first kingdom, Telius segregated around 3,000 years ago when the veil was created. +Telius Diggum is the founder. + +Bit invades Darvey's mind and converts him to be a deciple of the Traveler. + +Fey realm time is 4x slower than normal time. + +Neil asks a member of Stonemarsh if there is a temple around. +Priest Babu is the spirtual leader around here. + +Stonemarsh is the largest city around. +The Capital is around 5 seasons away. + +The mayor's name is Keith. + +Neil contacts Taterthorn the timeless. + +He hears: 'Neil was it, that name tastes familiar''Come on Babu sees all.'