Barreling Through the Sand
"Barreling Through the Sand" is the 10th session of Season 2.
The waystone circle is left behind as the party embarks on a road trip.
It was played on July 3, 2023.
The date in-game is the 9th day of Fall DST.
Synopsis
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Plot
- We are trying to figure out how to leave and trying to split some of the ointment between some extra jars
- Quill and Mist are attuning to the rings
- Aella tried to figure out how to carry a few bombs with us, she shoved one in her bag and no one else has one
- Mariana said she needed to sit down and that she was sure she would be fine, she sits down and immediately her eyes close and she falls over asleep
- Aella rushes over to check pulse, she wants to check her vitals and make sure she’s ok, her eyes rapidly move under her eyelids for a moment then she suddenly opens them, three seconds passed at most
- Aella asks if Mariana is ok, Mariana says she is fine, she said she felt something weighing on the back of her mind so she felt like she needed to sit down, saying it's like a very vivid dream where something wants to tell you something. Aella is checking for extra marks or anything, she rolled a nat 1, no extra marks
- Aella asked what she saw, Mariana told her some of it pertains to her, the Tempest Queen, it was odd, it was set into different scenes of a play but they were completely disconnected. She started off drowning, it was not a fun experience, then she was shifted over to seeing where the eye was looking at Aella, the eye we saw with the wings who had the same expression on her face as she did when she was the Tempest Queen. She said it was memories of sorts
- Dorian is taking the other ointment since he can run the fastest
- We are going to try to walk out in a sort of circle with a diameter of 40ft, Quill and Mist are across from eachother, Aella and Dorian are across from each other, and Mariana and Rey are across from each other
- Aella is going out first, Quill is going through a little behind her to try to cover her flank, the rest of the party follows
- Mist’s stuff fell through the sand but Aella made her a new thing
- We decided we want to bring the crabker barrel so Mist and Rey are in the Crabker barrel
- The barrel is taking the front
- There is no visible tree or bird or weird shape that Rey had seen, what does catch Aella’s eye is maybe 50 meters off east if the circle is south that looks vaguely purple, towards the north, northast, there is a dune that doesnt seem to be changing at all, it is oddly perfectly smooth, it is roughly 1 mileaway
- We are going to the purple thing first since its closer
- The purple thing looks like a large, purple petaled flower, about the size of your hand
- We see Mariana turn around and look at something behind us
- Mariana said she thinks the eye might be back, as Mariana is looking through her mirror, she passes over a spot of light before landing on the light that is where she expected the light to be, essentially meaning there is more than just one eye
- Quill cast protection from good and evil on Aella
- Mariana sees the eye in the mirror but can only see the light coming from it without the mirror
- Mariana asked a few questions, Aella walked over to Mariana and now Aella is trying to talk with the eye but Mariana is saying they should be more careful
- Aella finally hears something from the eye, she gets a bit angry and some lightning starts around her eyes but she gazes into her sisters eyes and it dissipates
- We walked towards the flower but once we walked to the spot we thought we originally saw it we notice it is still 50 meters ahead of us, Mariana is stopping to notice what is happening with the flower and with the party.
- Aella notices it isnt moving, its like a mountain range, about another hour in this direction we would be able to move it, she looks over at the dune, she can’t see it at this angle or its gone
- Mariana joins back up with the group
- The hour passes, about 40 mins in, Aella sees a darkening above us that seems like something that is going to slam in front of the barrel, it looked like the familiar sand imp thing, it gives a smile from half of its face then the wind catches it and it get torn apart
- We arrive at the flower, it is halfway up a dune as we arrive at the other side
- It is more so dinner plate size, it had 6 petals, it has a stem that grows into a root structure that grows into the dune it grows from, it has violet xylem that almost pulses like prismarine from minecraft, the flower itself emits a purplish light, only about 5ft
- Its center is almost like a sunflower, there is no distinct stamen or pistol, its like a softer sunflower, its concave
- Quill poked the flower with a stick then Mist joined in and they touch all six petals at once
- Quill poked it with his hand, he said he feels nice, Rey also touched it and felt better, Mist also poked it
- Aella is trying to check to see if there is anything coming
- Aella ritual casts detect magic, it is slightly magical, this doesn’t seem to have been worked, it is somewhere between several types of magic
- Aella is touching it
- Aella said that Mist’s magic is essentially a cousin to the magic of the flower, Mist tried talking in druidic to it but it didn't respond, it only glowed a bit
- Quill takes a bite of it and it drips a bit
- Mist cuts the petals off by the center and they don't drip, the one that had a bite taken out of it shriveled into itself, Mist gave the shriveled petal to Aster to put in their book, Mist took the other 5 petals and wrapped them in Dorian’s handkerchief and shoved that and the old ointment jar in her bag
- Aella said she doesn't know where we came from, we are lost. Mist and Rey mentioned that the crabker barrel could be used as a directional tool
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