Session 21

10th cycle, 1st day, year 5850
After a rough fight with the wraith, the Green Gems investigated the temple a bit more, and fought another wraith or two. After that, they decided to head out and get some rest, as some of them felt quite drained by the ordeal. 

10th cycle, 2nd day, year 5850
The next day, the Green Gems went downstairs, where they found a huge crypt complex, filled with rooms with sarcophaguses and other buried Yuan-ti. Each room seemed magically trapped, and often seemingly wandering wraiths attacked them. Progress was slow through the many rooms, as they often had to take a breather. They did stumble over various mosaics depicting the imprisonment of the Yuan-tis' serpent god(?) in a volcano to the west of the jungle. 

Session 20

9th cycle, 36th day, year 5850
Some days later, after discovering a wyvern's nest and killing a lot of Bakaris while following an ancient road of sorts, the Green Gems arrive at gates of the forgotten city. Hidden away in a deep ravine, protected by tall walls, it cuts an impressive figure.

At evening, they scale the 70' walls and after dealing with a couple of skeletons, they can see many lights, all over town, but only one that moves around.

They decide to have Bebe's imp scout the premises first. Aside from a lot of skeleton guard patrols, a temple which rebuffs entry for the demon and the fact that something kills the (poor) imp in the palace, not much info is gained. 

10th cycle, 1st day, year 5850
The next morning, they move down to ground level, where they deal with a skeleton guard crew. Quickly they sneak further into town, dodging patrols left and right. As they get near the temple, they decide to alter their plans and check it out. On their way in, they determine that the magic circle around the temple is a barrier set to block undead and demons.

The temple, which looks pretty much like a hollowed out pyramid, is full of mosaics, depicting the imprisonment of what must be the Yuan-ti god, or perhaps some powerful agent thereof. It seems to have been imprisoned somewhere to the west, in a volcano. Held there by five dragon statues fueled by the souls of countless of dragons. 

As they Green Gems approach the altar at the far end of the temple, a shivering scream of agony pierces their souls as the wraith of a Yuan-ti Abomination passes through the wall and attacks them.

Session 19

A few weeks later, the Green Gems are once again ready to leave the protective walls of Dorador. During their break, they have done various things. 

Ander has worked the gem-cutting community and befriended Josjen, the 3rd son of Mr Green, a gem-broker who primarily deals in emeralds. 

Bebe has held auditions and assembled a troupe, consisting of Ofarri (singer), Ashena and Napenor (jugglers)

Kelal has also started working on his mercenary band/private army, and after lengthy tests found one capable man called Deamoral. He has sent him to work at the Limping Ogre Inn as bouncer, to earn some cash.

9th cycle, 26th day, year 5850

The Green Gems leave Dorador to find the forgotten city with golden roofs that Yazir's ghost told them about. They have about 10 days trip into the jungle.

After a couple of hours, they realize they are followed. They confront the men following and it ends with bloodshed. The men were mercenaries sent by the Fire Knives to kill the Green Gems. Kimorik, the lone survivor, strikes a deal in order to save his skin, and Kelal, who was impressed by his skills, hires him for his private army. Kimorik's first job is to spy on Deamoral.

9th cycle, 29th day, year 5850

The Green Gems swing by the Cara tribe at the behest of Salazar. M'kono needs help, as the Great White is still at large, preying on the moon elves whenever they leave their village. And he is worried that continued failure to kill the beast will eventually cost him his spot as leader. And with the Cara tribe under pressure from other moon elf tribes which allegedly have allied themselves with returned Yuan-ti, that would be really bad for the people of Dorador.

After a few hours of "hunting", the Green Gems find the Great White, or rather it finds them. After a short but deadly battle, the dinosaur lies dead at their feet and they have the gratitude of a moon elf tribal leader.

Session 18

8th cycle, 34th day, year 5850

The Green Gems finish exploring the mines. They fight off a beaked horror which almost kills Kelal. In the cave where it lairs, Salazar spots a druid marker saying important info here. Buried beneath the rocks is a magical staff with druidic runes. Aside from being magical, it is also hollow and contains old magically preserved notes. 

The notes were a mixture of ramblings and comments, saying stuff like: Captured by tentacled horrors, experimenting on us, horrible deaths, agonizing screams, they seem to breed from us, planting something, then after days, a tentacle bursts out, highly intelligent, mind-control, managed to split his mind to stay sane, yet he can feel the walls being torn down by insanity, hive mind, across vast distances, but the hive mind has limits, see us as food, eat brains, mining to look for pink gems. 

After that the Green Gems decided to return home. 

9th cycle, 2nd day, year 5850

After the usual treck through the jungle, the Green Gems returned home to Dorador. Once there, they learned a tiefling girl was looking for them. On the way, Bebe had read the main points of the book from the Madness Dwarves. Inside was a lot of knowledge:

Of the humans, numbers needed for food, numbers in the area, how long they can sustain them, notes about needing the region to develop more, to increase it's population. 

Of the night wisps (made by enemy, magical race, servant race, pinnacle of magic, made in eggs, grown very quickly, from blue (newborn) to red (child) to green (ancient) to yellow (ancient) in less than 6 cycles (1 cycle = 36 days) very powerful, of the aboleth

Of the Dragons - colors, breath weapons, spells, relative power, how to bribe/deal with them

Of the Aboleth - eternal enemy, almost respect, first on Gemnos, dormant, will rise again, created madness dwarves, night wisps.

9th cycle, 9th day, year 5850

After having bought a house, the Green Gems finally meet with the tiefling girl. It turns out that she is none other that Yazir's grand-daughter. She needs something that belonged to him, as she wishes to communicate with him again. Bebe fesses up that he might have one of Yazir's plumes. 

9th cycle, 10th day, year 5850

At evening, during a thunderstorm, Yazirra swings by and summons her grand-father's spirit. He confirms what they already suspected, that he was killed by the tall odd fellow that tried to buy the tablets from he Green Gems, the same they suspect being a Night Wisp. Yazir also told them he had cracked the tablets and figured out where the golden city was. 

Session 17

8th cycle, 33rd day, year 5850

After decyphering the convergences, the Green Gems proceeded to investigate the complex. They found mysterious rooms where maybe experiments had taken place, odd alcoves where creatures had slept and a sort of temple, dominated by a large circular hole. They even found a weird sword, that they figured might no just be a sword, even though it showed no sign of being magic. They encountered weird magical creatures, some invisibible, some made of shadow and also some large brutes with tentacles for arms. Towards the end of the day, the Green Gems were searching through some mines discovered below the complex when disaster almost struck. They were jumped by a tentacled horror, which snapped Elizabeth's neck and tossed Kelal into a very deep hole. Salazar had to switch to giant spider form to get him, while Ander remained behind and dealt with the monster.

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Session 16

8th cycle, 32nd day, year 5850

Moving on from the Genesis-room, the Green Gems explored the alien-looking complex. They quickly encountered some dark, bald dwarves. After battling with the through several rooms, the Green Gems made a strategic withdrawal and struck a truce with the dwarves. In return of leaving them alone, they would get a book of lore the dwarves had found when they arrived and a peak around their part of the complex.

Tricking Elizabeth so that she remained oblivious to the finer details of the deal with the dwarves, Kelal and Salazar got a peak around the complex and saw the garden where the dwarves had found the book. An outside garden inside the hill, full of white lillies.

8th cycle, 33rd day, year 5850

With the book in hand, they decided to take a peak in behind the barred doors, even though the dwarves insisted they would block them again, once the Green Gems had gone through.

Entering beyond the barred doors, the Green Gems found a long corridor with large statues of Mindflayers. They fought a golem-like creature with tentacles for arms. Further down the corridor, they found a timeline(?) in Deep Speech that Bebe translated with magic.

Convergences

• 0 - Arrival
  
• 298 - Creation of the Gith
  
• 823 - Strategic Withdrawal
  
• 1227 - Creation Yuan-ti
  
• 1301 - Creation Karijhu
  
• 1397 - Creation Bakari
  
• 1789 - Yuan-ti united
  
• 3243 - Yuan-ti destroyed
  
• 5665 - Twins arrive
  
• 9338 - Republic begun
  
• 11000 - Zun created
  
• 11549 - Sons of the Phoenix
  
• 11580 - Green Gems
  
• 11581 - Tarrasque
  
• 11584 - Death of the "Gods"
  
• 11591 - Destruction of Nira
  
• 11976 - Domination
  
• 13000 - Departure
  

 

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Session 15

8th cycle 25th day, year 5850

After defeating the evil of the pyramid, the Green Gems return to Dorador.

8h cycle, 26th day, year 5850

The Green Gems are approached by Jonas of the Republic, who due to their strong ties to the Cara tribe want to hire the Green Gems to investigate another ancient complex. While meeting with Jonas, Salazar is shocked to discover that of of Jonas' disciples is none othet than Balthazar, his brother long presumed dead.

He appears to have no recollection of neither Salazar nor Elsa and wants to stay with the Republicans.

8th cycle, 27h day, year 5850

The Green Gems leave for the jungle, accompanied by Elizabeth, one of Jonas' disciples. On the way t

8th cycle, 31st day, year 5850

They arrive at he complex, near the triangular tower they had stumbled upon several times. The outer complex is inhabited by Karijhu and Bakari (some of which go hunting as the heroes arrive) and protected by a lightning fence.

Salazar brings down the magical fence temporarily, and the Green Gems manage to surprise the opposition by fireballing them in their sleep. Still, facing four moon elves and four Bakari, the Green Gems were hard pressed but finally managed to win.

8th cycle, 32nd day, year 5850

After taking a good night's rest, the Green Gems decided to enter the complex. Inside, in a sort of antechamber, they found mosaics indicating that the Karijhu and Bakari had been created by Mindflayers.

 

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