Session 007 - 01.16.26

Recap

We went into the sewers, for The Rat's Nest town. We met some people. We were asked to take out the rats and we did, we killed the Rat Prince.

Session

We are in an open room with a statue with a chip of delirium as the eye. A fine mist of haze is rolling down the face, to the floor. There are a pile of rats gnawing on another piece of delirium.

Taran opens the locked chest from Krampus: A six pack of healing potions. There is something that's the size of a chess piece; a small tower that has a small bastion at the bottom. It looks like a little fortress.

We are trying to figure out how to extract the unbroken delirium. Aerilon climbs up with a dagger and begins to work at the stone while the other 3 are trying to figure out what to do. It begins to wiggle. After 8 minutes he is able to dislodge the stone, it's about hand sized. He catches it in one of his pouches. While he handles it, it leaves behind little bits of glitter/dusting. The socket is glowing faintly. Being this close to the stone makes his hair stands up and it feels like when you cast magic; it feels good in a good way. He attaches the pouch to his hip and climbs back down.

Taran tells the fat rat to tell the others to leave. They have odd physical abnormalities. Probably from the leaking haze in the stones.

We decide to return to Rat's Nest to report back about killing the rat prince. Jin hangs back to watch the statue. He casts EB at the legs of the statue. It hits but doesn't do much. He turns and catches up with the group as we make our way back.

We notice the streets are completely empty, whereas before they were busy. Aerilon hears footsteps coming from an alleyway near the tavern. A man in a trench coat, the dude with the pickled rats. He walks towards us, I hear a whistle and blood shoots out his neck and he falls to the netting below. We can hear the blood trinkle into the water below. We see a shadow off in the distance.

Aerilon hears something getting upset from above. Thick fog starts roiling around us and we shuffle into the building as quickly as possible. The fog came from a cannister. An older woman tells us we need to go. We look around and we don't see Dura. We apologize and leave.

We attempt to get out of the fog. We can't see to the tavern. We are going to start to being blinded due to the fog.

From the fog, we hear someone call out, because Jin starts talking loudly. We see a shadow of a halfling with a mohawk. He punches Jin's in the gonads. We hear Jin throw up. Aerilon attempts to kick at the shadow, but it moves too quickly and he feels his leg be thrown up and he falls.

"BARRY YOU FUCK". Bari says we fucked over the queen. They begin to have a conversation about Tiamat. The other people begin to leave when Bari calls them off.

They fight about what happened. Tiamat is claiming the mantles of the other gods?!

He tells us we need to come along to see The Queen.

We go into the tavern to turn in our mission. There is a glow sitting in the tavern, it moves in a draconic form, a young wyrm's head, the spine goes down into a tail. Plate armor, wings wrapped around the body. We hear whirling. There is an orb in the center. It speaks to Jin in draconic telling us to leave.

We leave, go with Bari. We super face travel. We are at a gate, has a big latch. The gate opens and he says he'll send word we are here and disappears. We move in. It's a wide patch, but goes to an open circle. It has two planky stairways that go right and left. They also have gates. We see gated fences around; metal chain links netting almost to the ceiling with barbed wire wrapped within. A handful of people looking down, all seem armed and look like ruffians. They were colors similar to Dura's. Jin notices at least one symbol of Tiamat.

Above us a chandelier alights. This is like a stadium. "Welcome to my abode, my palace. I am the Queen of Thieves. I run this kingdom."

A cage rattles nearby, something scraping against the bars. She basically shakes us down. She offers us a job. Dura has sworn an oath to The Queen, who is willing to relieve Dura properly, if that's what she wants, to travel with us.

A puff of black smoke appears and swirls. It caws. Slowly starts to hover by the door, then lures us up to the right. Men start to undo the chains. We walk through and the gates are open. We are led through the tunnel. The raven leads us through various tunnels.

We are offered a rest. We are put in a cell with a bucket in the corner. We are talking and then Klune calls out for Jin from another cell. We go to sleep.

We go to sleep and time warps. This tall 7' tall man speaks to us. There is an ancient vault, he sent us to before. There is a beast made of pure magical energy. Defeating it will be no simple task. Defeating it will guarantee us what we would call a wish. You must destroy the guardian before we can be rewarded. Omelius. We agree. Time slows only Jin can see Omelius move, frame by frame. He speaks to him.

Time and space moves around us, we float through the walls, ethereal. Drifting. Finally we are in a massive sandstorm. We see ourselves. A large tree man. 3 doors pop out of the sand. We watch back what happened during the tournament.