CLUMP talk:Current events
- Lore Tour Summaries*
- 20231111: Hello! It is I, Brisk!
To recap this week, we made it through everywhere we wanted to during the lore tour today and even some places we did not plan on.
The group did a very good job of staying alive and making other things less alive. The machines were charged in advance by Kalian the Tawny and Falinea's Blade, thank you for your efforts. The portal was moved in place to the Fountfell for easy access by an anonymous exile. We made good progress through the citadel to the ancient machinery with minimal horus checks. Once the water was reached we realized we were not as prepared with potions and amulets of breath but we made do with a little bit of downtime and a lot of uncomfortably close movement (seriously people, I need my personal space!). Under the water we found rubble had fallen from the ceiling and littered the area around the thrones. Many trips were spent checking for holes in the crumbled walkways and cleaning up the debris. We must get Pelaegia to return and check the upkeep of the citadel, lest we lose it completely to a cave-in not unlike the one that happened long ago to cut off the gates of the twin moons! After we reached the basement to check on the seal placed atop the shadow rend we heard a skittering noise like a sound of nails on a chalkboard. These weird insectoid like creatures came down from the walls and tried to separate our insides from our outsides. Luckily we had Gorvbot there to murder and a few blood mages that were more than comfortable bleeding a little bit to crack those carapaces. We could hear them on the other side of the rubble from the stairwell that crumbled. I suspect there may be many, many more in our future.
Phroon was carrying a page from the book of rend that started to chant and sing and was largely pleased to be in the area. When he was fumbling with the page it happened to open a rift into the shadowplane itself. We lost a few folks to his portal of doom and decided as a group to definitely go rescue them to leave no one behind and not because we wanted to know where the portal led to. We made a mad dash through the shadowplane, found a Lost Dreamer and guided it to its memory of puddleby and escaped in its wake. It might've been record time, it depends who you ask.
Either way, it answered some lingering questions but also opened a whole new line of questions for us to visit in the future.
soulhunter summary: citadel construction bad, new insects, great group today
