Session Thirty-Seven Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 37, March 24 2021

Introduction

We continue at 5:00AM on the 24th of Tenrilden with the party having rested a second time in Malgrim's Silver Throne Embassy; the group still needs to wait until approximately 6PM to collect their "sunglasses" for Underdark party members and begin the journey to the surface. Then, using information from Jax and the stash of secret papers in the embassy, the party intends to pursue once again a solution to the magic crisis ...

Before leaving the /Silverthrone embassy Jax identifies the spider box and tells us that there is a portal at the mouth of the box. The box constrains the lid. If the box were to be desroyed, the portal would grow. There is space below the portal so something might be in there.

Lambertus casts Commune and asks 3 questions:

1.) Is Xen Khel the location of the Dragon Emperor's Secret Lab on this map we now have? - YES

2.) Did Jager the gnome illusionist leave anything at his tower that would help us figure out magic? - YES

3.) Is there something in the spider box below the portal that isn't spiders? - YES

Felix casts Commune and asks 3 questions:

1.) Can we use spiders from spider box to power magic? - YES

2.) Is the spider box portal connected to the portal in Velkin's pocket? - NO

3.) If we get the item out of there can we control what is under the spiders in the spider box? - YES

Lambertus casts Divination on the Mycelian village. We get indications that the relative strength of the creatures are weak, there is a rich treasure and no supernatural entities would be upset.

Felix casts Divination on Jager's Tower. Indications that the relative strength is very powerful, rich treasure, and a good change of some kind of powerful being being upset

Lambertus casts Continual Light on two coins for Kauri and Brendil.

Borthan tastes a bit of one of the mushrooms Lungmold grew on the bodies of Jax's hirelings. He has a ten minute psychedelic trip.

Kauri reads the two information cubes from the piece of the wrecked space station.

1.) List of animals augmented somehow, bestiary of the normal animals - comprehensive.

2.) Schedule - shipping schedule/manifest with incoming shipments, wish list of desired animals in order of priority (Dragon, Sahuagin, Devil Fish), Error message that delivery services interrupted indefinitely on this date of the Ancient Dwarven calendar: 6.035.06.15 and the earliest date is 6.033.xx.xx on the list of augmented animals.

Finally, Bili leads us down to the docks. On the way we overhear talk about the drow embassy from Vilgram is closed and the drow left.

On the way down the stairs a trio of gnomes try to interest us in investigating an old elvish tomb that is icy. We just keep walking.

We finally find the docks and meet up with Maggot.

He tells us that the drow paid him a bunch of money to put the person with a chest (the spider box) in a boat with a grey piece of cloth that is unfolded. Velkin took that cloth from Maggot.