The Swamp (Mission)

Helo, and Be welcome.

The adventure runned this time back in the Becci Castle, the house of Becci. I lost track of the time, so I don't have the exact time to say here when it happened. All players were there. This is my adventure Log, so I hope you're enjoying the stay.

Previously

There are four Stolen Dreams to recover, he explains. Now everyone was moving around details from the dreams which were taken. The group was so solicit to accept the missions that a few words were enough to make it really clear they are there to help, but the choices are difficult.

1) A little girl, a popular (with no power or magic), that may be a future leader.

2) A bastard son of a cardeal from the Trapik empire, that now adopted his Mathematics as the only truth, logic against religion.

3) An archmage councelor for one of the Dukes of Realms of Ayanima, that is enforcing law and state, which under his guidance the Duke is becoming an important leading noble for that group of Dukedoms, and he became a frozen heart.

4) The granddaughter of the ruling Raja of Principia, that will become the future Raja, and as so she is the second in the succession line to Principia.

So, the group must chose which dream to rescue.

(One week later)

All the group got together at Daytel's small Castle.

First, they talked. Hadesh had made magic again, and Tack didn't approves that, as he is his master. Tack suggested they all knew well what everyone could do, and as they were fighting alongside for so long, the only one who he doesn't know well what he can do is Báech the djine.

Báech decides so to create an artifact and used a Wish to let Tack knows how his powers and Gifts work.

It worked, but what Tack understood was beyond explanations. Báech created a Bow, probably a Wondrous Item.

Wanting to try how the Bow works, they all went outside to test it. Hadesh took off a training arrow board and flung that up. When the arrow setted the board, it became a cloud of an orange substance, and suddenly started to rain over two trees.

The trees became alive, and were creatures now.

It all happened at the same time. They attacked the trees, and the trees attacked back.

During the attack of the tree creatures, Hadesh was almost killed by the trees, and as his last resort used a spell (that worked fine). It stoped when the magic operated over the trees, but Tack saw the Essence of Death looking to them from afar (he understood, as it were a wish, that the Essence of Death would need to talk to him later, and it was to be a very long talk).

Tack immediately said Hadesh was not his apprentice anymore.

Now, he could do magic whenever he wanted, but was to learn magic all by himself too, without Tack's help.

Flausin said that if Hadesh uses magic near him, he would erase all magic from his memories.

The time to the mission came.

All the group went to the Dreammaker's castle, the Temple of Ivory. Soon, Flausin has made the Ritual of Teleport.

They were all welcomed by the Sacerdot of Dream, at the enormous area in front of the Temple and entered once more the House of Dream.

During the meeting, the Dreammaker said this was a much more difficult task this time.

The Stolen Dream were at a Moving Swamp, and explained what is known about these swamps. They were first created by the last Mummi King, about two thousand years ago, to be the Lairs of his loyal Mummies.

Now, it's happening again.

They are lucky, because the actions of their group made the Mummi King exist without a kingdom (yet). It were probably to be the Báech Islands. Now, the Mummi is having a confront with the people from the Feudal Federation, because he's trying to dispute that empire.
They receive a magical Tent to complete the mission. It's invisible, and you have just to say softly to it open, or to it close and come back to your hands, and the princess took the Tent.

The Portal to the profane Swamp were opened, but Tack just came back to ask how the Urn looks like.

He receive a mental image, and was sent back to the Swamp.

(The Swamp)

The immediate problem now is that it's a big area, probably a twenty square measures Swamp. Seeing danger from down, everyone decide to fly. In the air, they're attacked by a strange type of bat. Trying to locate the Urn, they move to the centre of the Swamp.

So, they're attacked once more. Enormous, no, gigantic tentacles appear in the middle air, and try to catch them up. Doing some damage to it, the creature expeled a black substance, that made it impossible to see anything. In the dark, Hadesh is attacked and thrown off the black cloud.

Tack try to negate the cloud, but it's obviously non-magical and so that is not possible.

When Hadesh enters again the area, he cries to Daytel, who immediately make a very strong elemental Wind which takes the cloud away.

Everyone's attack hited at the same time, and same part.

They used all they could now, and only a coordinated attack would destroy such a creature.

They plan a all-attack combined move, and attack.

It worked. The creature's dead.

The only problem now is that they used too much power, and they're exhausted. Moving fast to the centre, they decide to rest and when they came to the centre, the princess asked to the Tent to set up for them to rest. The gigantic squid exhausted them as never before.

Day was coming, and now the group decide to stay at the Tent for the day.

They slept.

During the day they observed invisible assassins outside the Tent.

They also noted a Table inside the Tent, that shows everything outside, and a box for their residuums.

As planing, the djine uses a Wish to discover that the Urn was probably inside a much more gigantic creature on the top of the plane, like a transparent jellyfish.

The princess so ask to the Tent to close and come back to her hands.

Flausin create a sphere of telekinesis, and is soon helped by the rogue princess Lena.

Tack is attacked.

It looks like an invisible assassin was inside the sphere, maybe bacause it was at that same place when the sphere was made.

Daytel made a strong storm outside the sphere.

Hadesh attacks the invisible assassin, with magic, and it worked.

Enough to see it, so they throw off from the sphere the assassin, and it's eated by the gigantic jellyfish, or disrupted away by the storm. They don't know. All they can see is the storm, and that obviously awakened the jellyfish.

They were eaten.

Inside the gigantic jellyfish, the djine uses a Wish to know where the Urn with the Stolen Dream is, based on Tack's mental image.
The Professor is virtually dying, and Flausin almost kills him when trying to cure his wounds.

Ok, but then the sum of cure abilities made Tack stabilize.

They are trying to get the Urn, but the enormous number of items inside the creature confuse them. The sphere is not enough to keep them safe.
So, choosing the right words for a Wish, and with Tack's help, the djine could bring the Urn to inside the sphere.

Daytel open then a way out disrupting the jellyfish with the correct element.

Going through the smal tunnel, they use their powers to get some items from the inside of the jellyfish. A golden teeth, and a small box.

They got outside.

Báech the djine so uses his Bow to hit the gigantic jellyfish. It started to become another creature, almost immediately, and started to speak.
Tack located a Rune, the only magic energy in there.

The jellyfish so, started to talk.

- O', Trisebus, Lord of Hell, I invoke your presence.

The storm starts to change to aquire an insane fire collour, and the terrible face of the Lord Trisebus appears. They got to the Rune, and it's a Rune of Teleport, their unique chance.
Then, the gigantic storm that now has Trisebus face starts to turn to their direction.

Everyone got inside the area of teleport. There's no time to make a proper apportation ritual to get out o' there to a safeplace now. "I hope it's not a trap", thought the rogue princess. They have to use this one, even if they doesn't know where it takes to. So, Flausin activates the Rune and they're gone.

(At the Deep Forest)

All the group appeared at a strange setting.

There's Dark everywhere, with strange trees, very very old, and they listen to a chant in the distance, with a sinister song sound.
Tack casted a deatentive spell in everyone, making "Sshh.." after, sensing someone observing.

They see a dark skined, stealthy dark sidha coming. He's accompained with a beast, like a feline with spikes, dark spikes which sometimes change it's collous to silver and back to black.

Tack says to Christal to immediately arm the Tent.

The rogue princess did it.

In there, they see from inside the Tent that the dark elf came to the Rune, and saw the Rune was used.
It's obvious, at least to Tack, Flausin and the rogue princess, because the dark sidha is speaking a version of elfic Sidhari, but with a bit more strong endings for some words, and he was talking to someone who's answering at a distance, in whispers.

Soon, the area was full of dark elves.

The group planned a way to get out off there, with a circle of teleport directly to the Temple of Ivory. The only problem is that they'd have only one chance.
They know the moment they appear, they'd be spoted, and attacked.

Tack casted a more concentrated form of Invisibility at everyone, when Flausin finished the Ritual of Teleport, that was almost midnight now, and they listen to hoos of night birds of prey.
So, princess Lena asked the Tent to come back to her hands, and Flausin activated the Ritual.

All gone, but Flausin.

He got trapped at a place in a middle plane, but was still invisible. Everyone appeared at the open area in front of the Temple of Ivory, but Flausin didn't show up. Flausin, in despair, started to think about all he could do, but his options were only a few, and the moment he appears he'd be caught.

Suddenly, Hadesh started to run to the Temple. When he came to the doors, they opened to let pass the Essence of Death, and Hadesh said what was happening to her in few words, but she appeared to know already.

The Essence of Death stoped in front of the Ritual, and extended her hands to the Ritual.

Flausin, locked inside this prison probably made by the Rune magic, decided to pray to his Godess, Efemmera, the Godess of Death.

- My Godess, Efemmera. I come to call you in a moment of need. I'm your faithful servant. (pause) If I can't get off this prison, I'd probably meet you too soon. I want to meet you, and I hope the moment it happens, it might be at the right time. (pause) Well, I believe it's not the moment, and that I can searve Death much more still alive. (pause) This is a moment of need, in which only You, Death, my Godess, can do something to make me still be your servant. Please, Efemmera, my Godess, help me.

Everyone in front of the Temple of Ivory listened to that.
So, the Essence of Death smiled, and at that moment Flausin was drained to the Nothingness, and pulled to a direction.

Flausin appears at the Ritual, in front of the Temple of Ivory.

All the group together, they go indoors to meet the Senhor dos Sonhos, with the Urn with the Stolen Dreams of the archmage from Ayaname.

They entered the Temple and went to sit at the table.

Soon, the Dreammaker appeared, from inside the Dream Lake near the entrance.

He took the Urn, and opened. It was the right Urn. He smiled, and started to listen to everyone, for everyone was speaking at the same time.

- One at a time (said him, calmly).

Tack started.

- This was a much more difficult mission. We could not have been able to come back.
- But you did it, Tack - answered the Dreammaker.
- Ok, but we need more garanties that we'll be able to complete all the missions without dying in the process.
- I undertand your statement, Torian - said him - and I'm giving you that. The Tent, it was temporarily gifted by another entity, that's my friend. He said it was to save you, and by the sum of this all, it helped.

He looked to Lena.

- The Tent, princess.

The rogue princess immediately gave him the Tent.

- Now, things will be different. You'll have to wait, for the Stolen Dreams are being changed from their original position. I don't know how long it will take to detect the next Dream. So, I give you once more the right to sleep at the Temple of Ivory.

He looked to Tack.

- And your family's invited, Professor.

So, everyone started to eat and prepare to rest, to sleep at the most important Temple on the Plane of Dream.

Tack received his family. His wife was worried, but his daughter was proud, as her father's a heroe. She doesn't know. She just dream of that, in her innocent wishes. The tweens, well, they just love this when they're invited to the Home of Dream. The group understand now their friend's devotion to his family. Unfortunately, and the kids had not a clue, missions were getting more and more sinister with time. They were only careful enough this way not to talk about missions in front of the children.

(End of Session)

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