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• Its info time
  • The shards don't really exists in a space defined as ‘closer’ to a place
  • Most are reachable from the sand
  • There are 4 primary planes: earth, air, fire, water
  • Genies exist: elemental adjacent, particularly strong, purport to control each primary plane, each is in possession of one of the shards, they don’t work together (war is a constant)
  • Pick a plane: get that shard, doom it to destruction (unbalanced war and stuff)
  • No info on fifth one: has a guess to someone who might know: the lichsmith Mornum at the fountains of creation
    • The plane of magma; easier to get to, harder to be in
  • ‘Closest’ one is in plane of water
  • Behut is good for rock genie but probably don't
  • Probably cant take any of them without encouraging one of the four into an act of battle and get their support
  • Unsure about ramifications of destabilization; crypt has some record of it (when earth reigned supreme)
    • Air and fire never got their time in the sun
  • The genasi themselves never held power, they were born from this chaos
  • Each of them is arrogant in their own way
    • e.g. the dao’s shard is on display at the top of the spire of [??], you can literally grab it, but if you take anything from the crystal place even a pebble every dao in existence will know
    • Meanwhile if you get the shard in aqua you might be plunged into elemental chaos (do not recommend)
• We should figure out the consequences of destabilization and what it means for us
  • Divert the consequences? Maybe don't flood the celestial plane but limbo could take it
  • Lya is willing to put the feywild in the line of fire
• Questions
  • What caused the lichsmith’s imprisonment
    • Price, how about I keep your smith(Maeve)
      • nuh uh
    • Freebie: it probably made something
  • Can we get them out without going to the magma plane
    • No that would be weird
  • What is the consequence of the lichsmith’s freedom
    • Whatever the fifth one is doing, it’s equally important as the other four
    • Probably wouldn’t be good, it doesnt know for sure
  • Are there any forms of protection we can get for whatever plane we decide on
    • A lot of the border regions
    • Armide might have some, it doesn’t know how to get things, the Morkoth just gets things
  • Is there a plane that would easily recover from destabilization
    • Idk, they all exist and they didn’t all always exist
  • Which one is the most hospitable
    • Depends on context; if you randomly appeared somewhere: fire, earth, water, air is deadliest to safest
    • If you were prepared, fire is most survivable once we have its “prerequisite” with fire, if you are not fuel, it doesn’t care, then water, earth, air
    • There are pockets of other elements within the planes, like air bubbles in water
    • We need a way to breathe if we’re going to not-air
  • What is the current state of the conflict between the elements
    • Djinn is air, Merid is water, Dao(earth) have taken a reprieve
    • The air and fire as well as the air and water are currently on the warm side of war; air is being caught in the middle
    • Earth is sitting this one out (might explain advocatus)
  • What would happen to the eroding expanse upon destabilization of earth or air
    • Upon taking the crux, the plane is not inherently destroyed,but it would probably immediately destroy the city (except crystal citadel which is sustained mostly by slave labor)
    • The expanse itself would not suffer
    • If earth would stop existing it would as well, it being half of that equation
  • Did the shards get taken before
    • Right now we’re in the period of disarray
    • The shards were once whole
  • What was it like when the crux was whole
    • Sounds personal so no price, for the Morkoth personally quiet, from what it understands, people have describes it as stable, it likes to think its made a kind of quiet
    • ‘Maybe someday I’ll have all the pieces and everything will be whole’ under its breath
  • One of the secrets can let us know that air deciding it was its turn is what broke the crux, we are thinking that the lichsmith may be the thing that created the weapon that shattered the crux, maybe a lich that is also a smith
    • The harbormasters sword is a reforged shard of Reverliv
  • Feasible ways to travel to these other planes
    • The nice thing about the inner planes is that at absolute worst you can technically walk between them (each is infinite in size, time isn’t the question; we just found an edge)
    • The inner planes are all connected; feywild is an inner plane apparently
• We make our way out of the ear canal the way we came in and as we emerge out of the meatus, we can walk, we think the Morkoth is rotating the structure for us so we can 
• As we exit, we look out to a different sky than what we saw when we first came in, it is darkness, like deep under the ocean
• Ocean is a weather
• Mariana stops for a second or two, very briefly has a puzzled look on her face then a very concerned face then she keeps moving forward
  • Asking if we are safe or if there is danger, yes and no, its hard to say
  • She asked Aella what it feels like when the tempest queen appears, a storm in her chest and a presence appear
  • Mariana feels an undertow
  • Mariana picks up the pace a little
  • Maeve can also feel a little bit of something, she is under the ocean and she has always felt a call to the ocean, this is not her ocean, there is something else here, she can feel a lack of something that she has always know to be a part of the ocean replaced with something else
• All of us feel hopeful, not like we are anxiously awaiting something, its we have purpose, we have someone on our side
• We see Mariana lift off the ground, there is current that is wrapped around her and is pulling, mariana trusts this
  • Whatever is pulling her is giving her time
  • There is hope in the ocean
  • Mariana reaches a hand out to Aella, Aella runs and hug tackles her, the current wraps around them, as if it were joining in on the hug
  • The currents drags Aster into the hug and then Quill, the Daisy Daisy, Lyandra, Maeve, and it asks Meph(she says yes)
  • It lets go of all except Mariana and Aella, Mariana grabs Aellas hands and tells her it will be ok, as she lets go, she has sneakily removed one of her gloves and placed it in Aellas hands
  • Mariana says if she is ever in position to help she will
  • It lets go of Aella and Mariana floats away, Maeve can feel the presence fade as she fades but she will always feel that whenever she sees the ocean
• We are on the edge now, we can see the spires ahead
• We walk over to the portal
• Lya asks if Aella is ok
  • She says this is hard, it's hard to see her go, it'll be a transition
• The Morkoth never could have collected Mariana forever, it would have eventually let her go when she was called
• Gelvrever produces the orb, looks at it and rolls between the spires toward the Morkoth, Gelvrever says that if he doesn’t keep his end of the deal, it will roll back to Gelv
• The Morkoth tightly wraps its spires around the spire, it lets out a gasp of pain and blood starts pouring out of its eyes and flows to the spires,  the same orb of blood begins to grow between the spires and it expands into the portal, it cannot hold it forever
  • We dive into the blood, we are back!
  • There is one thing that is different this time, there is a light and it is approaching
  • The group slowly approaches and DD is trying to Drown
  • A few of the group, not Lya DD or Meph, see darkness below them, darkness below them that is approaching much faster than the light and then we are in the sand as DD drowns
• We enter sand to shushing, standing over the group and in front of the group is Clares trying to encourage us to be quiet, Clares says that the dreaming one is nearby
• When we got here, there was 1 skiff already here, there are now only the 2 that we brought, the other one is gone, it is only Clares here and the stretched out gray hunched and jagged form of the Dreaming One is 40 feet away, picking up one of the skiffs actively and examining it
  • Clares said the other two left and he chose to stay behind in case we came back
  • We watch as the Dreaming One starts tearing the sail off the skiff and deconstructing it
  • The other skiffs are closer to it
  • We were gone almost a day
  • The Dreaming One definitely can see us, you know when you pick up a leaf and start tearing it
    • It finishes taking the planking off and then snaps the main spine with its knee then starts drawings something in the sand
    • The piece it is drawing with becomes stone as it is using it
    • It seems to get frustrated and stands up suddenly and hurls the stone chunk at the spire
    • Aella, Maeve, Aster and Quill are in the range of fire, Lya tackles Aella to try to help her
    • The stone shatters before the bone does and its scatters across the group
    • Quill tackles Aellas javelin hand before she can attack the Dreaming One
    • It definitely know we are here now, initiative
• Quill is trying to distract DO so the rest of us can grab the skiffs and get out
  • He runs around to the side and shoots at DO, the bow does its best but they spark off the stone and ricochet into the sand
  • DO goes next, it doesn't even seem to acknowledge the arrows but it steps over the skiffs and strides towards the group, charisma save, Lya and Aella are charmed
  • It walks straight up to the group in giant strides and it reaches down and grabs Aella, she becomes stone and it just casually places her in its shoulder
  • Meph drags Lya and pulls her as they run through its legs, throws a bomb but it safely gets thrown between the legs and land in front of Maeve
  • Aster Meteor time!
  • Gelv “beware its footfalls, let's take this thing down!” we get an extra 1d4 to saving throws
  • Maeve flying now, she flies behind a spire
  • DD stands close enough to get the Gelv bonus and hammer time
  • Lya teleports out from under its legs next to one of the spires, its a feystep so wis save then she walks back to Meph
  • Clares takes his greatsword, winds back and slashes at the giants calf in front of him and as he does so, the sword itself blares with a bright light then attacks again and a third time, missing the second but hitting the third, it is clear the stone is cracking
  • No Aella
  • Quill runs close enough for Gelv’s blessing and shoots two arrows, only hitting one
  • The giant reaches down and grabs Lya and she turns to stone, she gets put into head, weiss is circling the head
  • Meph bombs and crossbows it, both hit
  • Aster, more meteors
  • Gelv leaps up, grabs what looks like the hilt of a sword and starts slashing farther up with his red sword then dives free of the form of the dreaming one
  • Meave did damage
  • Sunder won, trying to hit to get rid of our friends but misses and as it returns to DD’s hand it rips right through the Giant and all of us, who hadn’t ever heard Sunder before heard a raucous laugh
  • Our two people are still stone but land safely, there are others stone people as well, Henum and one other that are intact, there are others that are broken
  • There are 12 people we want to transport, 4 of which are stone