January 6th, 2024
Plane Out of Time, Day 3 (Continued)
While we go talk to Stormrift, Nehu will leave and return tomorrow. We reveal our mythic power to him and he is intrigued. We talk at length about how we got this power and what led us here, then settle on finding and talking with Boomspark while Stormrift does some research.
Plane Out of Time, Day 4
Ralzer and Graynor do not wake up. Ty and Sigmund try all sorts of things to wake them– nothing works. We rule out disease and poison and eventually ask the caulborn to read their minds in exchange for some food.
Ralzer is dreaming of arcane tentacles coming out of a prismatic sky and engulfing the land, along with musing on his guns and our predicament. Graynor is enveloped in a bed of tentacles in a prismatic hue that Ty has seen before. He seems very content in his dream within a dream as he slays evil.
Ty uses empty body. The strange prismatic hue is present and tendril-like appendages are in the sky, as if around the plane, but nothing on Ralzer or Graynor. Inside the bar, there is no prismatic interference. After dragging both of them into the tavern, they wake up. We catch them up on what transpired and then head to the goblins.
Boomspark is still not in and has been gone for over three days now. Ralzer shows off some of his explosives and impresses the goblins. He will make them a gun in exchange for entry to their complex. For the rest of the day we try to find Boomspark, based on his last bearing according to the goblin guards. We travel for as long as we can before making camp.
Plane Out of Time, Day 5
During camp, four Kaajh’gor attack us. Ralzer recognizes this kind of creature; chaotic outsiders that are the creation of the outer gods. They hit pretty hard and have some magic defenses (mirror image); we kill all four.
In the morning we continue trying to track Boomspark’s group. Sigmund gets a sending from Stormrift, “Boomspark was seen entering a cave system about seven miles east and five miles north of the tavern. He was seen carrying a large object.” With these directions we are able to find the cave.
Inside the cave Ralzer feels a subtle unveiling effect. The goblins within will not let us past to see Boomspark. Sigmund attempts to negotiate, but the goblins will not budge. After a few minutes of non-lethal combat, we finally convince the conscious goblins to let us go see Boomspark.
Deep in the caverns we find Boomspark tinkering with a temporal anchor. Sigmund tells him that messing with that could destroy the plane and kill everyone; Boomspark is not concerned and says that won’t happen. Using a strange gauntlet he can draw energy from the anchor.
We detail our situation and desire to return home to him. He is not willing to engage in much conversation, but we do confirm that he is not from the same place as us. With his gauntlet he draws out some more energy and places it in a small metal sphere that he passes to Graynor, saying, “Give this to the dragon and tell him it’s from Ziggs.”
Soon after we get a very strong unveiling sensation. Ziggs, upon questioning, says he knows the feeling and refers to it as “the calling”. He also admits to having a mythic spark. Then, an enormous mass of tentacles erupts from the water. Ziggs recognizes them as arcane tentacles and begins using his gauntlets to siphon energy from the anchor and channel it into the big tentacles.
After about half a minute, three medium sized tentacles emerge and engage against us. One drops Ralzer, but Sigmund gets him up and we are victorious.
Eventually Ziggs says, “uh oh”, spikes the anchor, dimension doors to the center of the tentacle mass and then disappears with a blast of energy. The tentacles also disappear, but the unveiling feeling remains.
Sigmund uses stone shape to bury the anchor and we leave the cave without incident.