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• Door is opened, there is a ramp to a stage, like an entryway
• 6 columns, only 3 still stand
• 4 alcoves
• Its been past a minute
• Take a minute to look around the room
  • Feels like a king’s audience chamber
  • We went through a secret entrance but the main door collapsed into itself
• Keep going forward
• Daisy Daisy can’t get the door open at first
• No one can get the door open lol, it’s locked but no lock
• Its not a sliding door either
• It has a hole with 9x9” divots that needs something placed inside
• Aella investigates
• Alcove walls
  • Sun
    • Ok condition
  • Mountain
    • Big crack on surface
    • Lots of cracks through mural and pedestal
    • Image of great mountain range, front and center are 2 mountains
  • Great wave
    • Pretty destroyed
    • General damage, ceiling caved in, pinholes, etc
  • Swirling cyclone
    • Pretty destroyed
    • Large sword embedded
    • Half the mural is cracked away
• There is an air shaft well thing too small for shoulders
• Daisy Daisy throws a rock down, it takes 45 second to make a sound
• Aella ritual casts detect magic
• Daisy Daisy sticks an ear into the well, that’s where the breathing is coming from
• Mariana comprehended some languages
  • Sun translated to the spark/the inferno
  • Wave: the deep/the cradle
  • Cyclone: the reach
  • The stone: foundation
  • Door says “the crypt of [???] long may he reign”
• Choose one of the four to open the magic door with
• No magic in the breathing well
• 3 cyclone plates, 5 inferno plates, 4 foundation, 6 deep
  • There are also broken  + missing
    • 1 deep broken
• Identify foundation plate
  • Its magic, its a key, destination unknown
• The Debate ™
  • Inferno is chosen
  • Rebirth snake culture etc etc
  • Also its the only untouched one
• 1 out of 5 inferno plates inserted
• Door shakes, plate is shattered
• Gout of fire shoots from sun well, condenses into large humanoid shape with hands
  • Aella drops ten gallons of water on it
  • Mariana condenses steam to drop another 2 gallons
  • Aella mariana maeve and astraea are on fire, aster is in the fire
  • Dorian cast dissonant whispers, fire runs away (no one is in the fire anymore)
  • Maeve is extinguished by Daisy Daisy
  • Aster is extinguished by Glelvrever
  • Mariana eldritch blasts it and kills it, no one is on fire
• Aella looks for plates
  • 2 mountain plates
  • 1 cyclone plate
• Mariana lays padding with bedrolls so plates don't shatter on impact
• All 5 wave slots
• Everyone with good dex readies to catch the plates
• One panel stays, one breaks (Aella nat 1)
• Water guy
  • Quill shoots at it and misses
  • Astraea nat 20s a ray of frost again and now its got a layer of ice on top
  • Aella readies lightning tendril
  • Mariana’s eldritch blast misses
  • Dorian mocks the water for being ice now
  • Water reforms into humanoid and unfreezes
  • Quill shoots it
  • It’s ice again
  • Aella hits it with whip
  • Eldritch blast
  • Glelvrever launches javelin
  • Daisy Daisy hits it
  • Dorian whacks it and it shatters
• We are no longer guessing
• Puzzle time
• Proposed order: foundation, spark, deep, spark, reach
• Aella looks at murals in hallway again
  • Examining set of people
  • Does not seem relevant to puzzle
• Nevermind we’re guessing and prepping for the worst
• First try: all foundation
• Actions readied to either attack or catch
• Last one is foundation!
• Nothing is broken
• Elemental still spawns >:(
• Gem creacher esque
  • Reactions go off
    • Quill shoots, misses
    • Astraea freezes, 1 whole damage, it’s slow
    • Dorian insults the rock “And I thought Aella was hard-headed”
  • Daisy Daisy is at 4 hp
  • Javelin again
  • Another 1 cold damage
  • Aella does 24 thunder damage
  • Eldritch blast woo
  • Dorian insults it again “You flat-faced waffle iron”
  • Daisy Daisy takes no damage :)
  • Quill shoots it in the eye 20 damage
  • Daisy Daisy hits it with a sword
  • 7 cold damage
  • Aella tolls that dead
  • Maeve also tolls but fails
  • Eldritch blast :3
  • Dorian insults the rock “If I looked like you I would take my own life”; failure
  • Glelvrever rolls nat 1
  • Quill big damage arrow
  • Daisy Daisy stabs
  • Astraea breaks it apart via frost wedging
• Short rest time
• No one catches it because it doesn’t matter
• Readied actions
  • Aster: ray of frost
  • Aella + Maeve: toll the dead
  • Quill: pew pew
  • Glelvever: throw javelin
  • Mariana: eldritch blast
• All 3 wrong
• Air elementallll
  • Javelin deflected by wind
  • 11 cold damage, air is slow
  • Daisy Daisy stabs the wind, half damage
  • Quill shoots it
  • Mariana’s eldritch blast misses
  • Wis safe too high for death tolling
  • Wind flies all the way to doorway despite Aster’s best efforts
    • Opportunity attack for Daisy Daisy
  • Dorian unaffected
  • Everyone else at the door is fricked
  • Astraea + Maeve down
  • Glelvrever stabs wind right in the wind
  • Dorian insults wind “I’ve known some old windbags in my time but you take the cake”
  • Daisy Daisy fails at spear throwing
  • More arrows
  • Mariana hexes it + eldritch blast
  • Maeve healed
  • Aella tolls dead
  • Astraea healed
  • Maeve tolls dead
  • Astraea does a freeze
  • Dorian insults “I’ve experienced light breezes with better wind speed”
  • Daisy Daisy misses
  • Quill does blunt shot
  • Eldritch blast
  • Aella tolls dead, it works
• Short rest then open door
• Sun plates put in remaining slots
• 2 suns fall out
• The correct combination: sun, blank, wave, blank, mountain

• This session and the session before were played one after the other with a short break in between, in an event dubbed "12 hour D&D".